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Automatic Complaint Generator by Scott Pakin
Why repeat yourself all the time?

Automatic Memo Generator
Now you don't have to keep up with the latest buzzwords in the tech industry. If you need a memo, let us write it for you in the very latest in buzzologisms.

The Chaos
English is tough stuff: here is a poem essential to the understanding of English spelling.

Collective Nouns
This list contains many fanciful suggestions of varying quality most of which have never been published but nonetheless represent quite an amusement of words.

Country Song Generator
Now that you have that steel guitar, this is all you need to take Nashville by storm.

Crossword Puzzle Central
Find and play crossword puzzles in other languages.

Etymologic! The Toughest Word Game on the Web
Answer 10 questions on etymology and definitions to test your knowledge on randomly selected words.

Etymology of Names
Know what your name originally meant?

FunBrain.com Kids Center
The FunBrain website has many games for kids which help them learn words, spelling and usage.

Jennifer's Language Pages
Greetings, "Thank you," "How are you," "Who are you," and a dozen other words and phrases in hundreds of different languages!

The Klingon Language Institute
Weirder than the Bucknell Linguistics Program.

Letter to Santa Generator
Try this fun and easy to use Santa letter generator.

Mondegreens
These slips of the ear include all misanalyzed phrases and not just misunderstood Lyrics, as some websites claim. The arise from drawing the line between words in the wrong places.

National Spelling Bee
The website of the Scripps National Spelling bee where US kids compete at conquering one of the world's most exasperating orthographies.

The Numbers 1-10 in over 5000 Languages
At last, you will be able to count to ten in more languages than anyone on your block! You will be the international financial whiz-kid of the office, handling all transactions of up to 10 units of any currency in the world!

Online Games & Video Games
Get reviews, tips and cheats for online games, computer games and video games of all types.

The Origin of Language
A NPR Science Friday discussion with Ira Flatow and three (yes, three!) famous linguists. You will need the Real Audio plugin for your browser.

Palindromes
Words and phrases that are spelled the same way forwards or backwards.


The Phrontistery: House of Logorrhea

Here is the word list you have all been waiting for: words that have become obsolete for good reason. Still, they each have a small story about our history to tell.

The Pseudodictionary
A searchable list of concocted words, sniglets, blends that look remarkably like words—but aren't. Lots of fun and you can add your own if its good enough.

Shades of Meaning
Terry Light's witty exploration of the semantic shadings of phonologically similar words.

The Simplified Spelling Society
Tired worrying about spelling? Here's the organization for you!

Sniglets: Things for which there are no words.
Take Our Word for It
And now . . . a weekly word webzine, full of spanking good etymologies.

Tongue-Twisters from Around the World
Zungenbrecher, trabalenguas, skorogovorki, virelangues, scioglilingua, hayakuchi kotoba—tie up your tongue in 100+ different languages.

Where Do Languages Come From? by Merritt Ruhlen
An in-depth discussion of historical linguistics focussed on the origins of Indo-European languages.

Weird words and their definitions
Find words that are obscure, rare and old.

Word Games at east of the web
A website with many fun games to test your knowledge while working against the clock

World Wide Words
New words, weird words, phrases that glow in the dark–Michael Quinion has them all.

The Word Detective
A newspaper column by Edward Morris.

Word Off!

Words That Mean the Opposite of Themselves (Antagonyms?)
Richard Lederer may have already named these semantic oddities.

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