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   Jargon Scout
Do you find yourself in meetings wondering what your coworkers mean when they say "reverse egosurfing" and "innocent by-sender"? Don't worry, you're not alone. Most of us can't seem to keep up with all the buzzwords out there. Thanks to Jargon Scout, you can finally decode what everyone's spouting off about.
URL: http://www.tbtf.com/jargon-scout.html
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   Dictionay of American Regional English
Mappings of various American English dialects.
URL: http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/dare/dare.html
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   Voice of America pronunciation guide
Pronunciation of mostly foreign names for use on VOA.
URL: http://www.voa.gov/pronunciations/
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   Basic Greek Elements that all English Speakers should know
The 102 basic Greek elements every English speaker, writer, and reader should know for an adequate understanding of thousands of English words.
URL: http://www.lexfiles.com/basic-grk-m-z.html
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   World Wide Words -- Exploring the English Language
Investigating international English from a British viewpoint.
URL: http://www.worldwidewords.org/
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   The Phrontistery
noun, a thinking-place. List of unusual words in english, such as: kainotophobia fear of change; kaiserin wife of a kaiser; kakidrosis body odour; kakistocracy government by the worst; kakorrhaphiophobia fear of failure; kalamkari fabric coloured by repeated dyeing; kaleidophone instrument for demonstrating sound waves by lines of light; kalology study of beauty; kalon beauty that is more than skin deep; kalpis a water jar; kalyptra veil worn by Greek women; kame steep irregular ridge; kraken legendary sea monster
URL: http://phrontistery.info/k.html
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   Brown Corpus
The Brown University Standard Corpus of Present-Day American English (or just Brown Corpus) was compiled in the 1960s by Henry Kucera and W. Nelson Francis at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island as a general corpus (text collection) in the field of corpus linguistics.
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Corpus
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   One syllable words from the Brown Corpus
About 6100 one-syllable words (in English).
URL: http://www.one-syllable-words.com/

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