• 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."
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• Typography cheatsheet : a comprehensive guide to smart quotes, dashes & other typographic characters
  A comprehensive guide to using proper typographic characters, including correct grammatical usage.
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• Visuwords online graphical dictionary
  "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
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• What do you call a group of ...?
  Oxford Dictionaries Online list of collective nouns
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• What is the strangest change in meaning that any word has undergone?
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• What’s wrong with you? The history of a pronoun
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• Why do some words have two opposite meanings?
  "Single words that have two contradictory meanings are known as contronyms. The number of contronyms in English is small, but they are significant..."
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• 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."
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• Wikiquote
  "Welcome to Wikiquote, a free online compendium of quotations from notable people and creative works in every language, including sources (where known), translations of non-English quotes, and links to Wikipedia for further information!"
  ability albert anonymous aristotle art avner babylon blackadder buffy cities einstein main page strauss tale the two vampire
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• Words coined by Sir Thomas Urquhart [1]
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• Words coined by Sir Thomas Urquhart [2]
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