• American grammar : Diagraming sentences in the 19th Century
  “Once you really know how to diagram a sentence really know it, you know practically all you have to know about English grammar”, Gertrude Stein once claimed.
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• Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books : A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology
  "The succinct definitions and explanations, as well as the biographical vignettes, contained in this dictionary will be a boon to those who seek this kind of information."
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• Bookselling terms [Ash Rare Books]
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• Dictionary of the Scots Language
  The two major historical dictionaries of the Scots language: Scottish National Dictionary (SND) for Modern Scots (after 1700) and Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (DOST) for older Scots (before 1700)
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• Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue : A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit and Pickpocket Eloquence.
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• Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
  "Reprint of [...] Lexicon balatronicum : A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence (and now considerably altered and enlarged, with the modern changes and improvements, by a member of the whip club)". Francis Grose, London, 1811
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• Drivel Defence
  "We are pleased to announce Drivel Defence, a software package that will help you to check the use of plain English!"
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• English As She Is Spoke : How a Portuguese-to-English phrasebook became a cult comedy sensation
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• Football gobbledygook generator
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• Free online English to Latin translator
  
  Translate text and web pages between English and Latin online for free!
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• From inboxing to thought showers : How business bullshit took over
  "Vacuous management-speak is easily laughed off – but is there a real cost to talking rubbish?"
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• Glossary [Daniel Crouch Rare Books]
  "Glossary of terms for collectors of rare maps, atlases, books, globes and other related scientific objects."
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• Gobbledygook generator
  "Have you ever wanted to use meaningless, empty phrases that make it look like you know what you are talking about? Simply click on the button below this paragraph and a random piece of business jargon will appear in the box."
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• Homerisms
  Figures of speech from "The Simpsons".
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• How do you decode a hapax? (Also, What’s a hapax?)
  "It’s a word that only appears once in a work, author’s oeuvre, or an entire language’s written record."
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• KissThisGuy.com
  The archive of funny misheard lyrics (a.k.a. mondegreens)
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• Latin Phrases
  "Latin-Phrases.co.uk was created to provide a comprehensive dictionary of Latin sayings, Latin quotes and Latin mottoes on various topics."
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• List of Latin phrases
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• Naming of the shrew : What's in a scientific name?
  Latin binomials and the 'Inocybe eutheles' mushroom.
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• OpenStreetMap Haiku : Using OSM and Overpass for generative poetry
  "Looking at every aspect of the surroundings of a point, we can generate a poem about any place in the world. The result is sometimes fun, often weird, most of the time pretty terrible."
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