Wordie: Make Lists of Words and Phrases

Wordie: Make Lists of Words and PhrasesWords in context, and as they say, Like Flikr without the pictures.

Redefine the dictionary - wordia

Redefine the dictionary - wordia Another kind of dictionary.

CORPORA: 100-385 million words each: free online access

CORPORA: 100-385 million words each: free online access A list of online English corpora.

Double-Tongued Dictionary

Double-Tongued Dictionary A lexicon of fringe English with the latest slang, jargon and new words.

Variety - Slanguage Dictionary

Variety - Slanguage Dictionary: "Almost from its launch in 1905, Variety has used its own, distinctive slanguage in headlines and stories, words like ankle, which refers to someone leaving (say, walking away from) a job, or whammo, which refers to something terrific, especially box office performance. In part it was a device to fit long words into small headlines, but it was also to create a clubby feel among the paper's entertainment industry readers."

WordChamp - Lecteur Web

WordChamp - Lecteur Web "Choose a website (or paste in some text) and see pop-up definitions just by pointing at words!"

We are what we eat

BBC - Food - Back to basics - Back to basics A great glossary on everything related to food.

Urban Dictionary: Define Your World

Urban Dictionary: Define Your World Super cool dictionary of neo-slang and acronyms. New words of the day every day, etc.

Language Tools

Language ToolsA nice page where you have various dictionaries, a thesarus, a crossword solver and a Scrabble unscrambler...

OfficeSlang.com - Funny Office Slang

OfficeSlang.com - Funny Office Slang

Grand dictionnaire terminologique

Grand dictionnaire terminologique

The Official Quebec translation dictionary for everything under the sun.

Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus

Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus

A mindmap-like thesaurus to visually connect words into a spiderweb of language. A heavy explanation, but it's really very cool. Check it out.

Word Spy

Home | Word Spy

This is a Web site devoted to "lexpionage," the sleuthing of new words and phrases.

"As a society, we're compelled to create new words to name and describe our new inventions and ideas and institutions." "We use these words in everyday conversation, whether spoken or written, so it only makes sense to make it easier for avid texters to send a quick SMS on the puggle they just saw or the vlog entry they posted this morning."
To help us all better communicate, these and other words have been added to a special T9 predictive text input dictionary for users to tap into when texting on their mobile phones. The top ten "buzz words" to be added to the T9® dictionary (that used for SMS messagesfor 2005 include:
* Lifehack - a tool or technique that makes some aspect of one's life easier or more efficient
* Mashup - new information created by combining data from two different sources
* Placeshift - to redirect a TV signal so the viewer can watch a show on a device other than his or her television
* Playlistism - judging a person based on what songs are on the playlist of his or her digital music player
* Podjack - to plug the cord of one's digital music player into the jack of another person's player to hear what the person is listening to
* Puggle - a dog bred from a pug and a beagle
* Sideload - to transfer music or other content to a cell phone using the cell phone provider's network
* Vlog - a blog that contains mostly video content
* Vodcast - a video podcast
* Ubersexual - a heterosexual man who is masculine, confident, compassionate and stylish

AIM Acronyms

BTW, here's a list of lots of Acronyms you might find useful for email and more.
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