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The Mavens' Word of the Day(27th April, 2005): Daily explanation about new words, word origins, and slang expressions from Jesse Sheidlower, a senior editor in Random House's Reference Division.
The Word Detective(27th April, 2005): Words and language in a humorous vein. The online version of The Word Detective, a newspaper column answering readers' questions about words and language. Written by Evan Morris.
MooT(27th April, 2005): The game of grammar, semantics, and etymology. Play online the game that investigates the history and meaning of English words.
Fun With Word Origins(27th April, 2005): Samples of the etymological books from word-lover Martha Barnette, author of "Ladyfingers & Nun's Tummies" and "A Garden of Words."
Top Sites - Main » Reference » Dictionaries » Etymology
The Mavens' Word of the Day (): Daily explanation about new words, word origins, and slang expressions from Jesse Sheidlower, a senior editor in Random House's Reference Division.
New Words In English (): Neologisms and novel uses of words in English collected by members of the class Linguistics/English 215, Words in English: Structure, History and Use, taught by Suzanne Kemmer at Rice University.
Focusing on Words (): An advanced Latin-Greek-English vocabulary source of etymologies with thematic units of roots, prefixes, and suffixes, and vocabulary quizzes.
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