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WordCounter (Popularity:  )
(Score: 12.28)
http://www.wordcounter.com
Ranks the most frequently used words in any given body of text. Filters out results to include or exclude small words, to use only root words or allow stemming, and to list 25, 50, or 100 words in order.
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Main\Computers\Internet\Web Design and Development\Authoring
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Word Spy (Popularity: )
(Score: 11.17)
http://www.wordspy.com/
Collection of recently coined words, existing words that have enjoyed a recent renaissance, and older words that are now being used in new ways.
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Main\Reference\Dictionaries\Etymology
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Compound Words Matching Game (Popularity: )
(Score: 11.14)
http://kidshub.org/kids/compound.cfm
Match up short words to make new, longer words.
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Main\Kids and Teens\Games\Online\Word Games
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Words, Ink (Popularity: )
(Score: 11.05)
http://www.words-ink.com
Words, Ink provides editing (copy and content creative), literary agency, and writing services. Affiliated with Words, Ink is a management and educational consulting segment.
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Main\Business\Business Services\Communications\Writing and Editing
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World Wide Words (Popularity: )
(Score: 10.43)
http://www.worldwidewords.org/
Michael Quinion writes about International English from a British viewpoint. Hundreds of pages on the history, origins, evolution and idiosyncrasies of English, with features on new words and words in the news.
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Main\Reference\Dictionaries\Etymology
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Words, Words, and More Words (Popularity: )
(Score: 10.40)
http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/words
Discussions and articles concerning words.
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Main\Arts\Writers Resources\Style Guides
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New Words In English (Popularity: )
(Score: 10.12)
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~ling215/NewWords/index.html
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.
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Main\Reference\Dictionaries\Etymology
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A Study of Some of the Most Commonly Misspelled Words (Popularity: )
(Score: 10.07)
http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/spell/error.html
An article by Cornell Kimball on the difficulties writers in English face in deciding the dictation of many common words in day-to-day usage. Also contains sources on 11 publications with lists of commonly misspelled words.
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Main\Science\Social Sciences\Linguistics\Languages
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A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.88)
http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words.html
Includes book of word records, palindromic words, pangrams, most beautiful and ugly words, Scrabble words, and Bible word trivia.
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Main\Recreation\Humor\Wordplay
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Foster City International Writer's Contest (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.68)
http://www.geocities.com/fostercity_writers
Seeks entries in four categories: short stories (limit: 3,000 words); poetry (limit: 2 pages); children's stories (limit: 2,000 words); humor or personal essay (2,000 words). Entry fee: $12. Total prize money: $1,500. Deadline: December 31.
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Main\Arts\Writers Resources\Contests
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The New Writer Magazine Annual Prose and Poetry Prizes (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.68)
http://www.thenewwriter.com
Offers prize money totalling 2,500 pounds for essays (maximum 2,000 words), short stories (maximum 4,000 words), serials or novellas (up to 20,000 words), and poetry (maximum 100 lines). Closes November 30. Modest entry fees.
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Main\Arts\Writers Resources\Contests
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Online Technical Writing: Spelling Problems (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.54)
http://www.io.com/~hcexres/tcm1603/acchtml/twspell.html
Homonyms, doubled internal consonants, internal syllables or letters, words ending in -ance and -able, words ending in -cede, -seed and -sede, the silent -e rule, doubling consonants, words ending in -ie, -ei and -y.
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Main\Science\Social Sciences\Linguistics\Languages
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Pleasant Words International (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.41)
http://www.pleasantwords.com/
Offers plaques with inspirational, warm words and scriptures.
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Main\Shopping\General Merchandise\P
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In His Own Words (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.41)
http://www.inhisownwords.org/
President Bush's own words, from 2003's State of the Union matched with imagery.
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Main\Society\History\By Region\North America
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Bible Word Association Tool (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.40)
http://www.bible-exposition.org/Bible_XRef.htm
Tables of which words 'turn up' with which other words in the KJV.
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Main\Society\Religion and Spirituality\Christianity\Bible
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Commonly Misused Words (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.40)
http://www.sourceaid.com/reference/pdf/misused-words.pdf
Explains the difference between similar words with different meanings.
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Main\Arts\Writers Resources\Style Guides\Grammar
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The Wordsmyth S.A.T. Dictionary (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.40)
http://www.lightlink.com/bobp/wedt/sat.htm
Includes 2000 words commonly appearing words on the S.A.T.
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Main\Reference\Education\Products and Services\Test Preparation
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Commonly Misused Words (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.39)
http://www.sourceaid.com/reference/pdf/misused-words.pdf
Explains the difference between similar words with different meanings. [Adobe PDF file.]
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Main\Kids and Teens\School Time\English\Grammar
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Dying Words of Famous People (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.39)
http://www.corsinet.com/braincandy/dying.html
Includes last words, execution statements, suicide notes.
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Main\Reference\Quotations\Death and Dying
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Words by William Whitaker (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.39)
http://www.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/words.exe
A Net interactive version of WORDS program at Notre Dame. About 30,000 entries.
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Main\Reference\Dictionaries\World Languages\L
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Kids Hub - Halloween Words (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.39)
http://kidshub.org/kids/halloween.cfm
Seasonal spelling words along with interactive drills and review game.
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Main\Kids and Teens\People and Society\Holidays and Special Days\Halloween
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AnsMe.com Dictionary (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.36)
http://dictionary.ansme.com/
Finds definitions, similar-sounding words, relations, words that rhyme, and translations.
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Main\Reference\Dictionaries\World Languages\E
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Word Spy (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.36)
http://www.wordspy.com/
Site dedicated to recently coined words and existing words revived into modern usage.
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Main\Reference\Dictionaries
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Glossary of Latin Words (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.36)
http://www.ipa.net/~magreyn2/recint1.htm
The words found in records and other English manuscripts, but not occurring in Classical authors.
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Main\Reference\Dictionaries\World Languages\L
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Words and Stuff (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.36)
http://www.kith.org/logos/words/words.html
An occasional column commenting on words and wordplay.
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Main\Recreation\Humor\Wordplay\Personalities and Commentaries
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Untruisms and One-Trick Words (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.36)
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~diab0011/ignore.html
Phrases that are only used when they are untrue, and words that can only be used within a cliche'.
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Main\Recreation\Humor\Wordplay
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Scrambled Words (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.32)
http://quizhub.com/quiz/f-scramble-4s.cfm
Offers the opportunity to test the knowledge of the English language. The aim of the quiz is to unscramble ten four-letter words.
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Main\Kids and Teens\Games\Online\Word Games
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New Memory Help (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.32)
http://www.memorize-words.info
Offers tips for remembering keywords, technical terms, foreign words, words in certain contexts; languages.
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Main\Reference\Knowledge Management\Information Assets\Memory Improvement
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WordCounter (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.27)
http://www.wordcounter.com
Ranks the most frequently used words in any given body of text. Use it to find keywords, or just to see what words you overuse. Free to use online, not a download.
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Main\Arts\Writers Resources\Software
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Words Can Heal (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.27)
http://www.wordscanheal.org/
National campaign to eliminate verbal violence, curb gossip and promote the healing power of words.
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Main\Society\Issues\Violence and Abuse\Anti-Violence
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Focusing on Words (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.27)
http://www.wordfocus.com/
Subscription-based site for vocabulary development, showcasing the Latin and Greek roots of English words.
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Main\Arts\Writers Resources\Style Guides
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Top Words for GRE (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.27)
http://www.graduateshotline.com/gre2.html
Features 10 words per week for GRE exam preparation.
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Main\Reference\Dictionaries\Vocabulary Lists\Word-a-day
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Hunt, Jerry (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.22)
http://www.jerryhunt.org/JerryHunt/
(1943-1993) Performance artist and composer. Words about the man, words by him, descriptions of his works, work list, and recordings.
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Main\Arts\Music\Composition\Composers
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Copywriting (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.16)
http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/copywriting
Learn the nuts-and-bolts of writing copy. From advertising to annual reports, words get your message across. Find out how to put together words in just the right way to get the response you desire.
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Main\Arts\Writers Resources\Non-Fiction\Copywriting
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Words Magazine (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.16)
http://www.wordsmag.com
Seeks original short stories for various themed contests throughout the year. Limit: 2,000 words. Accepts IRCs for entry fees.
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Main\Arts\Writers Resources\Contests\Short Stories
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The Wordsworth Compendium (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.16)
http://dictionary-thesaurus.com/
Program containing over 516,000 English words and phrases to solve word puzzles. Useful for the search and manipulation of words in all aspects of logological activities.
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Main\Reference\Dictionaries\World Languages\E
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Hantarto Widjaja's Home Page (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.16)
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/1999/
Includes an extensive (17,000 words) downloadable English-Indonesian dictionary, in .dbf format, focussed on less-common words.
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Main\Science\Social Sciences\Linguistics\Languages
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Words (in Canon Law) (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.16)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15704a.htm
Canonists give many rules for the exact acceptation of words, in order that decrees may be correctly understood and the extent of their obligation determined.
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Main\Society\Religion and Spirituality\Christianity\Denominations
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Dave's Fun Words (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.10)
http://uark.edu/~dbruce/list.html
Categorized list of words which are fun to say.
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Main\Recreation\Humor\Wordplay
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Ka-boom! - A Dictionary of Comicbook Words on Historical Principles (Popularity: )
(Score: 8.97)
http://collection.nlc-bnc.ca/100/200/300/ktaylor/kaboom/Kaboomhome.htm
An alphabetical list of all the words that are typical for comic books (onomatopaea, e.a.), with variants and locations. Compiled by Kevin Taylor.
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Main\Arts\Comics\Resources\Research and Academia
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