• Quote Investigator
  "Exploring the origins of quotations"
  in Public bookmarks with language-and-literature by 2 users
• Shuffle
  Frequentatives (verbs that happen frequently), e.g. spark/sparkle, crack/crackle, etc.
  in Public bookmarks with language-and-literature
• T. S. Eliot
  in Public bookmarks with language-and-literature
• Terminological inexactitudes
  "Handy translations of Whitehall jargon"
  in Public bookmarks with language-and-literature
• Text Analyzer
  "Free software utility which allows you to find the most frequent phrases and frequencies of words. Non-English language texts are supported. It also counts number of words, characters, sentences and syllables. Also calculates lexical density."
  in Public bookmarks with cataloguing-and-metadata language-and-literature
• The Ridiculous Business Jargon Dictionary
  in Public bookmarks with humour language-and-literature
• The royal order of adjectives [and ablaut reduplication]
  "It’s funny how native speakers of English have that sense of what sounds right and what doesn’t. Even though we can’t always explain why, we often know when there’s something wrong with the way a piece of text is written."
  in Public bookmarks with language-and-literature
• Thou eunuch of language
  "...riled by a recent review that criticised a supposed abundance of 'obscure language' and 'imperfect grammar' in his poetry, celebrated Scottish poet Robert Burns channelled his anger and wrote the following magnificent letter to the critic responsible."
  in Public bookmarks with language-and-literature
• Typography cheatsheet : A comprehensive guide to smart quotes, dashes & other typographic characters
  "A comprehensive guide to using proper typographic characters, including correct grammatical usage."
  in Public bookmarks with language-and-literature typography
• Visuwords
  "Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate."
  Visuwords Dictionary and Thesaurus - Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. This is my latest project still in development. More to follow shortly.
  adjective adverb american antonym australian british definition dictionary english lang noun synonym thesaurus verb visual word
  in Public bookmarks with cataloguing-and-metadata language-and-literature
• Why this court decision hinged on the Oxford comma
  "...the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled [...] in a case that hinged on an (unused) Oxford comma."
  in Public bookmarks with language-and-literature

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