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'Oldest English words' identified

Some of the oldest words in English have been identified, scientists say.

Some of the oldest words in the English and other Indo-European languages have been identified, scientists believe.Reading University researchers say "I", "we", "two" and "three" are among the oldest in use and date back as much as 40,000 years.

8 Racist Words You Use Every Day. Happy MLK day! You're a racist!

Have you ever worried that, no matter how hard you try, you'll just never be racist enough? Well, you're in luck. As it turns out, you've been unconsciously using racial slurs your entire life! Slurs like...

red

I came across this list of “colorful” words while looking up adjectives. The list seems to go on forever with words like “primrose” and “xanthic” and their definitions.

"This list contains 168 definitions of obscure colour terms using combinations of 'normal' colours of the rainbow and descriptive adjectives; e.g. cardinal = deep scarlet red; russet = reddish brown. Note that most English speakers outside the U.S. spell colour with the added British 'u' rather than the American version color. Don't worry if the colours (or colors) in your universe don't match up with the definitions I've given for these words, though - I've been known to have skewed perceptions of reality ..."

miscellaneous vocabularies explained in nytimes context

"Each day, Schott's Vocab explores news sites around the world to find words and phrases that encapsulate the times in which we live or shed light on a story of note."

more schott on ny times

like scrabble but with a time limit and disappearing tiles

Points: 639 - Multiplier: 1.7x, bitches! http://deepleap.org/

Scrabble/boggle... word game

The Fast-Paced Time-Wasting Word Game

My First Dictionary

postcard

Quite funny, you call it black humour..

Learn new words and how to use them in day-to-day situations!

Mark Twain said the difference between the right word and the almost right word is “the difference between lightning and ...

Have you ever blurted out, "Wow, that guy is just so...so..." and then were left floundering with nothing to say? Well, it's not always your fault. English doesn't have words for every situation, or even the ones that happen every damned day. Fortunately, other languages usually do. And since we already borrow words from them (just recently we've taken "schadenfreude," the German word for pleasure in someone else's misfortune) here's a few that we need to pick up right away.

LyricWiki is a free site which is a source where anyone can go to get reliable lyrics for any song, from any artist, without being hammered by invasive ads.

Normal sounding words that actually have a funny look

Create a catchy name for your product, company or domain. The wordoids have to be random and should tend to look natural.

英語のアルファベットをランダムに並べてくれます。単純にランダムにするだけでなく、自然な形に見えるようにしてくれます。ドメイン探しに利用できるサイトで、ドメインが取得可能かも調べてくれます。

Word Mosaic

this will be good for my students!

Write a comment or poem in the shape of hearts or other symbols. Send a greeting or post to MySpace or your blog.

Create Images from Words

An ongoing project devoted to discovering all the words and everything about them

Show show words are used (both in terms of definitions and usage, including real-time)

avatartool

Photo blog. <3

humor life graphics; pith, graphics, satire, wisdom

People don't know what "louche" means?

"As you may know, highlighting a word or passage on the Times website calls up a question mark that users can click for a definition and other reference material. (Though the feature was recently improved, it remains a mild annoyance for myself and many others who nervously click and highlight text on webpages.) Anyway, it turns out the Times tracks usage of that feature, and yesterday, deputy news editor Philip Corbett, who oversees the Times style manual, offered reporters a fascinating glimpse into the 50 most frequently looked-up words on nytimes.com in 2009. We obtained the memo and accompanying chart, which offer a nice lesson in how news sites can improve their journalism by studying user behavior."

the 50 most frequently looked-up words on nytimes.com in 2009

The better way to build your vocabulary | Contextual Examples From the Daily News

最新のニュースや記事から単語を学ぶ。ライターが使う最新の単語やキーワードなどが学べる。こりゃすごいがああたしにはちょいとむずかし。

A cross between Boggle and Tetris

game

Цитаты, афоризмы, высказывания

To play, just use today’s word in context in one of your tweets. That’s it. Your tweet will appear here where people can tell you if they like it. You’ll get points if they like it or retweet it.

The twitter-based Word of the Day competition that helps clever people look clever and helps the rest of us learn new words. .To play, just use today’s word in context in one of your tweets. That’s it. Your tweet will appear here where people can tell you if they like it. You’ll get points if they like it or retweet it.

毎日、「今日の単語」が出題される。その単語を使って美しい文章を作り、Twitterでハッシュタグをつけて投稿すれば、他の人が評価してくれる、という仕組み。

Nice idea: 1. Know yourself, 2. Collect data, 3 Visualise

Grafitter is a personal informatics tool for collecting and exploring information about your habits and patterns. Use the Grafitter format on Twitter, IM, Delicious, and Blogger to collect data about yourself easily and quickly.

Grafitter is a way collecting information about your self over time while sending updates with Twitter, using IM, saving bookmarks on Delicious, and writing a post on Blogger. Grafitter visualizes the information you record in graphs.

Kongregate free online game Clockwords: Prelude - Clockwords is a hectic word game set in Victorian London. You are a genius inventor who discov.... Play Clockwords: Prelude

Scrabble dictionary - SOWPODS / TWL - free versions. Look up wordfinder for finding words in the official scrabble players dictionary. We offer multiple scrabble dictionaries including sowpods and twl.

A cut 'n' save special: Some of the phrases I see a lot that can easily be replaced with one word without losing meaning are: at all times: replace with always at the present time: replace with now or currently...

How to use one word instead of several.

Phrases that can be replaced with single words.

A cut 'n' save special: Some of the phrases I see a lot that can easily be replaced with one word without losing meaning.

"Some of the phrases I see a lot that can easily be replaced with one word without losing meaning…"

Via Winer; a nice list of longish phrases that can be replaced by a single word without loss of meaning. Useful for Twitter, or, indeed, for any writing.

cut 'n' save special: Some of the phrases I see a lot that can easily be replaced with one word without losing meaning.

A cut 'n' save special: Some of the phrases I see a lot that can easily be replaced with one word without losing meaning For use in twitter

A cut 'n' save special: Some of the phrases I see a lot that can easily be replaced with one word without losing meaning are

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いい言葉だ

Lexical Analysis of 2008 US Presidential and Vice-Presidiential Debates

wow - this is impressive. Lexical Analysis of Pres debates: http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/debates/ [from http://twitter.com/pollyrt/statuses/963468907]

David Foster Wallace

A complete list of words that David Foster Wallace circled in his American Heritage Dictionary.

visualizing words

maps with the actual names translated

Photo Gallery: An Etymologist's View of the World

The New York Times recently published a list of 50 fancy words that most frequently stump their readership. They are able to measure this data thanks to a nifty in-page lookup mechanism, which you can try here. Try double-clicking the word “epicenter”.

Learning and using new words can be one of the great pleasures of language. While university courses can help you to build your vocabulary, seeking out words, wordplay, and information is essential to becoming a true word nerd. These online tools can help you along, making it simple to learn new words, find out where they came from and just plain play with words.