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Weekly etymology magazine.
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The Word Detective (Popularity: )
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Words and language in a humorous vein. The online version of The Word Detective, a newspaper column answering readers' questions ...
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MooT (Popularity: )
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The game of grammar, semantics, and etymology. Play online the game that investigates the history and meaning of English words.
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Fun With Word Origins (Popularity: )
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Samples of the etymological books from word-lover Martha Barnette, author of "Ladyfingers & Nun's Tummies" and "A Garden of Words."
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Focusing on Words (Popularity: )
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An advanced Latin-Greek-English vocabulary source of etymologies with thematic units of roots, prefixes, and suffixes, and vocabulary quizzes.
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What's The Meaning of This? (Popularity: )
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The origins of quirky English words and phrases like "In like Flynn" and "blackmail."
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Origin of Phrases (Popularity: )
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Categorized etymologies of phrases.
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Etymologically Speaking (Popularity: )
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A list of some curious word origins.
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Nautical Expressions in the Vernacular (Popularity: )
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Myriad expressions in everyday English have nautical origins. This web page lists expressions and definitions mentioned by listswains, members of ...
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New Words In English (Popularity: )
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Neologisms and novel uses of words in English collected by members of the class Linguistics/English 215, Words in English: Structure, ...
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Oxford English Dictionary (Popularity: )
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Presents a word a day complete with pronunciation, spellings, etymology, quotations and date chart.
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A Word with You (Popularity: )
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A daily on-line column, featuring little known facts about well known words and phrases.
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Etymology (Popularity: )
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Word origins and links.
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Taiwan Teacher (Popularity: )
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A new word or phrase posted every week giving you the meaning, origin and an example of the usage of ...
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Roots of English (Popularity: )
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An etymological dictionary you can download by Prof. Eugene Cotter, Seton Hall University.
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Pandora's Word Box (Popularity: )
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Relates medical terminology to the humanities, offering a weekly overview with references to classical etymology.
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American Dialect Society (Popularity: )
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A scholarly association dedicated to the study of the English language in North America.
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Etymologic (Popularity: )
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The brain-twisting etymology game.
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Word and Phrase Origins (Popularity: )
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Directory. Part of the Internet Public Library. Describes books and web sites that might be helpful. Offers a hint on ...
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Words with Heathen Origins in the Scriptures (Popularity: )
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An etymological study of numerous words used in churches and Scriptures that have their origin in pagan religions.
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