• 7 grammar myths you learned in school
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• Are there more than 26 letters in the English alphabet?
  "All English speakers learn their ABCs at an early age, and remain quite confident that they know all 26 letters of the English alphabet. However, Old English had a few extra letters that tend to get left out nowadays..."
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• Bookselling terms at Ash Rare Books
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• Canting Dictionary
  thieving slang
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• Dictionary of the Scots Language
  Comprises the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue and the Scottish National Dictionary. DOST contains words in use from the 12th to the end of the 17th centuries (Older Scots) and SND contains information about words in use from 1700 to the 1970s (modern Scots).
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• Different from? Different than? Different to?
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• Do you know your -ibles from your -ables?
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• Drivel Defence
  Plain English Campaign. "...a software package that will help you to check the use of Plain English! [includes] Drivel Defence for Text [and] Drivel Defence for Web. [...] Both programs can give you a detailed report on your use of Plain English [...] Use them to keep drivel at bay..."
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• English As She Is Spoke : How a Portuguese-to-English phrasebook became a cult comedy sensation
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• English to Latin
  
  Translate text and web pages between English and Latin online for free!
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• English words of Yiddish origin : schmoozing, kvetching, and keeping schtum
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• From inboxing to thought showers : how business bullshit took over
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• Glossary : Daniel Crouch Rare Books
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• Gobbledygook generator
  Plain English Campaign
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• Grose's Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue
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• Homerisms
  Figures of speech from "The Simpsons".
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• How did the chemical elements get their names?
  OxfordWords blog
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• How do you decode 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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• It's only a theory – deciphering the language of science
  "...Let’s take a look at some words that mean one thing to us but might mean something very different to scientists: hypothesis, law and theory..."
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• Jazz : an unlikely, but true, American journey
  The origins of the term 'jazz'.
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