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[bnc] British National Corpus. English Encyclopedia. Bartleby.com: Great Books Online -- Quotes, Poems, Novels, Classics and hundreds more. Reference: Thesaurus, Usage, Quotations, and more. Bartleby.com. DICCIONARIOS. APRENDE. The Eggcorn Database » Browse eggcorns. The Archive of Funny Misheard Music Lyrics - KissThisGuy.com. A Primer on Malapropisms, Eggcorns, and Other Rogue Elements. Test Your Vocabulary. The Word Detective. Index of Previous Columns. A reader pointed out back in January 1997 that it would be nice to have an index to the columns arranged by the date on which they were originally posted, so that if one were not able to visit these pages for a week or two owing to serious illness or imprisonment in a foreign land (the only acceptable excuses, by the way, verified by a note from the relevant authority in either case, of course), one might be able to catch up all at once, rather than taxing one's noggin trying to remember which nuggets of deathless prose herein one had, as it were, already read.

Y'know, I really like that sentence. Anyway, it was a good idea. Unfortunately, after giving the matter some thought, I realized that it was impractical* for me to index batches of columns that had already been posted at that point. Just recently, however, an alert and industrious reader, Deven T. Corzine, took the time to write a script to index all those "lost" issues for us. . * Because I am lazy. Grandiloquent Dictionary. This is the result of an ongoing project to collect and distribute the most obscure and rare words in the English language.

It also contains a few words which do not have equivalent words in English. At present, the dictionary contains approximately 2700 words, though it is constantly growing. Following a large number of requests, pronounciations are now being (slowly) added to the listing, although it will be a long time before they are all added. After almost three years of work, the new Third Edition of the Grandiloquent Dictionary is now available as a PDF File. Including ~500 Words Not in the Online Version! In honour of ten years of the Grandiloquent Dictionary being available online, a special edition print version has been published! The Author's Webpage You are visitor since this counter was added. Donate0 Donate0 Experimental Search The authors intend to eventually add a search box for searching this dictionary, but for the present we rely on a more general google search.

The Phrontistery: Obscure Words and Vocabulary Resources. English vocabulary words derived from Latin and Greek prefixes, roots, and suffixes and other dictionary vocabulary information. World Wide Words. Word News.