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The Ideophone
A language blog on ideophones, vivid sensory words, and iconicity, with posts on how sound and meaning connect across th…
The Radical Copyeditor's Style Guide for Writing About Transgender People
A clear, practical style guide from a genderqueer copyeditor on how to write about trans people with care, covering term…
The Semantic Brain Map
An interactive brain viewer from the Gallant Lab showing which patches of the human cortex respond to which word meaning…
The Send Off
Translator Emily Wilson explains why the hardest words to translate in Homer are often the ordinary ones, not the fancy…
The Snowclones Database
A collection of snowclones, the reusable phrase templates like X is the new Y or X considered harmful, each with its ori…
This is Not My Name
An interactive explorer showing how Chinese names collapse into the same Hanyu Pinyin spellings, letting you see how man…
This Word Does Not Exist
An AI language model that invents plausible-sounding English words complete with fake definitions and example sentences.
Tip of My Tongue
A word-finding tool by designer Chirag Mehta that helps you recover a forgotten word from clues like partial spelling, l…
Unparalleled Misalignments
A list of Unparalleled Misalignments, pairs of phrases whose words are each synonyms of each other yet whose meanings ar…
What Happened to Movie Taglines?
A naming expert looks at why movie taglines used to be memorable and quotable and how they became wordy, redundant and b…
WhatMoji
A tool for identifying emojis you cannot decipher: look up what an unfamiliar emoji means and how people actually use it…
WikiDiff
A reference site explaining the difference between words and concepts people mix up, with more than two million side-by-…
Word Association
A long-running word association game: you are shown a word and type the first word that comes to mind, building a giant…
Wordcount
An interactive presentation of the 86,800 most common English words laid out in order of frequency, so you can scroll th…
Wordorigins.org
A word-history site and forum dissecting the real etymology behind common English words and phrases, correcting popular…
World Wide Words
A meticulously researched site exploring the origins and byways of English words and phrases, written by a former dictio…
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