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.

Double-Tongued Dictionary

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

Farai Sevenzo

Farai Sevenzo The blog of the Zim writer, Farai Sevenzo, whose great insights are worth keeping up with.

FreeRice

FreeRiceA fun vocabulary game that lets you practise language and donate rice to the hungry at the same time.

Get A Google Poem: by Leevi Lehto

Get A Google Poem: by Leevi Lehto A nice way to play with words and make poetry from even impossibly dry text.

Spell with flickr

Spell with flickrGet names or sayings spelled out in photos from Flickr--soooo cool!

Language tracking?

WORDCOUNT / Tracking the Way We Use Language
WordCount presents the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonness. Each word is scaled to reflect its frequency relative to the words that precede and follow it, giving a visual barometer of relevance. The larger the word, the more we use it. The smaller the word, the more uncommon it is.

WordCount was designed with a minimalist aesthetic, to let the information speak for itself. The interface is clean, basic and intuitive. The goal is for the user to feel embedded in the language, sifting through words like an archaeologist through sand, awaiting the unexpected find. Observing closely ranked words tells us a great deal about our culture. For instance, “God” is one word from “began”, two words from “start”, and six words from “war”. Another sequence is "america ensure oil opportunity". Conspiracists unite! As ever, the more one explores, the more is revealed.
And, of course, Querycount tracks the use of WordCount... Ourobouros?

Modern Mythology/Astronomy

Universe / by Jonathan Harris Cyber constellations defining the signs of the times: a game, a reflection, another universe?

From Love to Hate

LOVELINES : From Love to Hate, in Words and PicturesLovelines presents a stark white screen, bounded on the bottom by a slider running from “Love” to “Hate”, with a draggable heart that becomes scratched out to the point of illegibility as the heart approaches “Hate”. As the slider is pulled through Love, Like, Want, Indifference, Dislike, and Hate, words and pictures appear above to represent the chosen state of desire or despair.

Lovelines is structured around three movements: “Words”, “Pictures”, and “Superlatives”. Words and Pictures iteratively present individual examples of human desire, while Superlatives provides a daily zeitgeist of the most loved, wanted, liked, and hated things. Interactive timelines represent the changing magnitude of love and hate over time, and allow navigation into the past.

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.

Speech Accent Archive

Speech Accent Archive
Like the "I Say Tomato" project, this archive is used by people who wish to compare and analyze the accents of different English speakers.

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.

Favorite Poem Project: The Videos

Favorite Poem Project: The Videos
Tooo coooolllll!!! Short videos of people talking about their favorite poems and reading them.

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.