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Quotations

Other References


Updated:  02/20/05

Language References
  • Desktop References (University of Toronto) - featuring...
    • Acronym Search
    • Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
    • Canadian Resources
    • Internet Glossaries & Dictionaries
    • Quick Facts & Look-ups
    • Roget's Thesaurus
    • Science 
  • Dictionary.com - includes Thesaurus, Writing Resources, and more, plus a Word of the Day free email subscription.
  • Grammar Gremlins & Word Trippers
  • Language Info Zone 
  • The Visual Thesaurus - an exploration of sense relationships within the English language. By clicking on words, you follow a thread of meaning, creating a spatial map of linguistic associations.
  • The Word Spy - A web site for word lovers.
  • Your Dictionary.com - some incredibly cool language tools, including...
    • Nyms & such
    • Grammar Guides
    • Specialty Dictionaries (from A, Accounting, to W, Wine.  There's even a Chocolate Dictionary!)
    • Multilingual Dictionaries
    • Language Dictionaries (in 260 Languages)
    • Translation Dictionaries
  • Word of the Day Resource
  • Wordsmith.org (home of A.Word.A.Day, Internet Anagram Server, The Wordserver, Listat)
Quotations
Other References
  • Library of Congress - for books in print
  • RefDesk.com - proclaiming the single "best source" for fact on the Net.
  • RensSearch - a few links on this site are to subscription databases, but there is a lot that does not. Some of the reference room features...
    • Abbreviations & Acronyms
    • Almanacs
    • Books Reviews
    • Encyclopedias
    • Hot Topics in the News
    • Maps
    • Newspapers
    • Statistics and Data

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