BENJAMIN K. SHISLER
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"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the
difference between lightning and a lightning bug." --Mark Twain
"What's another word for Thesaurus?" --Steve Wright (answer: synonymicon)
"Verbosity leads unclear inarticulate things." --Dan Quayle

Local English Word Resources

Dictionary of English phonesthemes

The Influence of Phonesthesia on the English Language (a paper)

Interesting scrabble words

words contraining two letter q's

English Word Resources on the Web

Look-up forms

Webster's Dictionary	Roget's Thesaurus	One-Touch Interface to WordNet	MIT's Interface to WordNet	Princeton's Interface to WordNet
Casey's Reverse Dictionary	A simple rhyming dictionary	OneLook Dictionary	Phrase Finder	The WWW Anagram Generator

Downloadable word data

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary	Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases	Unabr.dict.words.Z	Roget.words.Z
rec.puzzles Archive (language, part 1)	rec.puzzles Archive (language, part 2)	rec.puzzles Archive (language, part 3)	The Jargon File\|
Shakespearean Glossary	SOWPODS Homepage	Scopists' Word List Reference Area	John J. Chew's Word Lists	V-Fridge Wordlists

A Word a Day Sites

A.Word.A.Day	Cool Word of the Day	Jesse's Word of the Day	OED Word of the Day
OED New Word of the Day	DSAE Word of the Day	Pinto's "Words of the Day"

A Word a Week Sites

The Good Word

Preposterous Word of the Week

Higher Vocabulary Sites

Webwords	Scrabble FAQ	The Word Wizard	Richard Lederer's Verbivore Page
Word puzzles from syndicate.com	WordWatch: Cobuilder's weekly commentary on current English	Focusing on Words	The Word Detective
World Wide Words	Word for Word	JavaScript Word Games	Word Play
OED demo pages	Lienhard's Wordlist	Xah's Wordlists	matty's words
Dictionary Game: Archive	skb list o' nifty words	Addicted to words	Lucifer Loathes Lucidity
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedalians	Obscure Words	Word Origins

English Grammar Sites

Edunet Grammar Clinic	Keith Ivey's English Usage Page	Usage Experts Change Their Minds, Too	How to write English
The Copyediting-l Style FAQ	common errors	The Broken Rules Page

Local English Word Resources

English Word Resources on the Web

Look-up forms

Downloadable word data

A Word a Day Sites

A Word a Week Sites

Higher Vocabulary Sites

Classics

Random Grandiloquence

Specific Words

English Etymology Sites

English Grammar Sites