Links For the Love of Words...
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Behind the Name the etymology and
history of first names |
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Online Etymology Dictionary
Explanations of what our words meant 600 or 2,000 years ago |
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American Sign Language (ASL)
browser video of thousands of ASL signs... |
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Do You Speak American? Words that
shouldn't be, and more... |
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Esperanto the international language,
with an on-line course at Languages
Made Clear |
Spelling / Pronunciation / Grammar
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Scripps-Howard Spelling Bee including
word lists and local competitions |
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Antagonyms a
single word that has meanings that contradict each other |
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My Encounter with Iktho
Greek & Latin words in English....a story and some quizzes |
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Vocabulary Web
Games Improve your vocabulary... |
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Word Images
- illustrated approaches to a bigger and better vocabulary |
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Internet Anagram Server a.k.a.
I, Rearrangement Servant... anagram anything! Part of Wordsmith.org |
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Palindrome Connection Lists,
links and anagrams too! |
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WordCount the 86,800 most frequently used
English words, ranked in order of commonality |
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Writing
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Writing
Resources and Links for kids and adults alike, great resources... |
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Young Writers' Clubhouse tips
on getting started, getting published, more. Good starting place for aspiring
writers |
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Young Writers Workshop for
really young writers, writing prompts with pictures... |