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Words and Wordplay
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100 Most Often Mispronounced Words and Phrases in English
includes several common errors that are the result of rapid speech, and advice to take your time speaking, correctly enunciating each word.
http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/mispron.html
Dave's List Of Words That Are Fun To Say
heebee jeebees, Zamboni, Lilliputian, chimichanga...
http://www.uark.edu/~dbruce/list.html
Discouraging Word, The
defends the English language from its abusers and misusers.
http://www.thediscouragingword.com/
Focusing on Words
experience the wonder of words and the English language.
http://www.wordfocus.com/
Forthright's Phrontistery
offers a dictionary of obscure and rare words, the International House of Logorrhea, topical word lists, and other English language resources.
http://www.phrontistery.50megs.com/
Fun With Words
celebration of the English language including contronyms, autograms, unusual word forms, commonly mispelt and confused words, and more.
http://www.rinkworks.com/words/
Goofinder's Jargon Drain
contains pieces of writing written in non-technical jargon. Slightly humourous, but not really.
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~bruin/jargon
Grammar Over Profits
homepage for fictitious group advocating democratic, grammatical reform.
http://members.aol.com/zapfrod/grammar/
Institution of Silly & Meaningless Sayings (ISMS)
the world's foremost authority on malapropisms, mixed metaphors, spoonerisms, attempts at using foreign phrases, but mostly just downright nonsense that sounds correct (if said with conviction).
http://www.isms.org.uk/
Martha Barnette's Funwords
offering linguistic fun featuring an archive and Wacky Word of the Week.
http://www.funwords.com/
Nautical Origins of Some Common Expressions
discover the true meaning of words and phrases such as scuttlebutt, cut of his jib, and no room to swing a cat.
http://www.fortogden.com/nauticalterms.html
Non-escalating Verbal Self-Defense
daily real world advice and repartee from taxi1010.com.
http://www.taxi1010.com/
Richard Lederer's Verbivore
the author of Anguished English and Get Thee To a Punnery hosts a site where lovers of language and humor can hang out with words.
http://pw1.netcom.com/~rlederer/
Richard Lederer's Verbivore
the author of Anguished English and Get Thee To a Punnery hosts a site where lovers of language and humor can hang out with words.
http://pw1.netcom.com/~rlederer/
Rude Place Names
find out what happens when bored morons get hold of a geographical database.
http://www.i-r-genius.com/rudeplaces.html
Uselessness of Language
how to say a given phrase in a zillion different languages.
http://www.go2net.com/internet/useless/useless/language.html
Web Directory: Word Play
sites that feature fun with words.
http://www.wolinskyweb.net/word.htm
Word Detective, The
online version of Words, Wit and Wisdom, a newspaper column that answers readers' questions about words and language.
http://www.word-detective.com/
Word Detective, The
online version of Words, Wit and Wisdom, a newspaper column that answers readers' questions about words and language.
http://www.word-detective.com/
Word Fugitives
America's 10 most wanted words, from Barbara Wallraff.
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/fugitives/index.htm

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