| 1. |
-
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
|
| 2. |
-
Dictionay of American Regional English
- Mappings of various American English dialects.
URL: http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/dare/dare.html
|
| 3. |
-
Voice of America pronunciation guide
- Pronunciation of mostly foreign names for use on VOA.
URL: http://www.voa.gov/pronunciations/
|
| 4. |
-
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
|
| 5. |
-
World Wide Words -- Exploring the English Language
- Investigating international English from a British viewpoint.
URL: http://www.worldwidewords.org/
|
| 6. |
-
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
|
| 7. |
-
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
|
| 8. |
-
One syllable words from the Brown Corpus
- About 6100 one-syllable words (in English).
URL: http://www.one-syllable-words.com/
|
