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philosophyforchange.wordpress.com
Education
Meaning Is Use: Wittgenstein on the Limits of Language
A clear, friendly essay explaining Wittgenstein's shift from the picture theory of language to the idea that meaning is…
MPI BodyTalk
A Max Planck Institute research demo linking words like curvy or stocky to 3D body shapes, with sliders that morph a mal…
Netspeak
A search tool for finding the right words: type a phrase with wildcards and it shows which wordings people actually use…
No Vehicles In The Park
A short philosophy game of 27 questions about a simple park rule, where every answer tests where language and the rule i…
Nomenclature
A personal interactive Cantonese and Vietnamese dictionary that archives the anecdotes and stories behind words and sayi…
Not One-Off Britishisms
A blog by Ben Yagoda tracking British words and expressions that have become popular in American English, with reader co…
Notebook on Cities and Culture
The blog of Seoul-based essayist and broadcaster Colin Marshall, collecting notes and essays on cities, language, and cu…
Online Etymology Dictionary
A searchable dictionary that traces the origins and historical development of English words.
Portmanteaur
A portmanteau generator that blends two words into new ones, handy for naming things or just playing around with languag…
Possibly a Serious Possibility
Adam Kucharski explains how vague 'lurking weasel' phrases such as 'serious possibility' skewed Cold War intelligence as…
Pronounce Every Word in This English Poem
A famous poem of English spelling and pronunciation quirks that trips up native speakers, shared with the claim that rea…
Quote Investigator
Garson O'Toole traces who really said famous quotations, with carefully researched articles that follow a saying back th…
Reverse Dictionary
A reverse dictionary where you describe a concept in your own words and get back the words that best fit, handy for the…
savelost
A word puzzle where one character vanishes from each line of text, and you choose which letter to remove to either prese…
separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com
Education
Separated by a Common Language
A linguist's blog dissecting the differences between British and American English, one word or expression at a time, wit…
Shakespeare's Words
A glossary and concordance built from the complete plays and poems of Shakespeare, letting readers look up his often arc…
Silva Rhetoricae
A comprehensive online guide to classical and Renaissance rhetoric, cataloguing hundreds of rhetorical figures and devic…
Some of the Most Fun Cryptic Clues Ever Written
A collection of the cleverest, most devious and silliest cryptic crossword clues, each explained step by step so even ne…
Superlinguo
A blog about language and linguistics by Lauren Gawne, with accessible posts on how people talk, how words work and what…
Surprising Shared Word Etymologies
A tour of English words that turn out to be secret relatives, tracing pairs with wildly different meanings back to the s…
Take Our Word For It
A long-running weekly word-origin webzine with hundreds of issues on etymology, odd phrases and letters from readers, al…
The Atlas of Missing Feelings
An atlas of 234 words from 67 languages that name emotions English has no word for, arranged as a browsable wheel with m…
The Bureau of Linguistical Reality
An art project collecting newly invented words for feelings and experiences of the climate-changed present, like ennuipo…
The Canine In Conversation
An illustrated compendium of dog idioms and metaphors in English, from dog days to hangdog, exploring what each phrase r…
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