Ambigrams

• Ambigram.Matic

    Anagrams

• Anagram Genius
• Aug 21 -Anagram Solver ...Find one word Anagrams with your letters
• Anagrammy Awards
• Anagrams...ma gas ran ??
• Andy's Anagram Solver
• Business Anagram
• Everyday Vocabulary Anagrams
• Sep 20 -UnscrambleX ...Unscramble all words & letters

    Antagonyms

• Antagonyms

    Aphorisms

• Aphorisms Galore

    Apostrophe

• It's not Its ...Its It's
• The Apostrophe Protection Society
• Unnecessary Quotes ...Examples of when not to use quotation marks

    Autoantonyms

• Autoantonyms

    Books/Authors/Literature

• a.k.a....pseudonyms etc
• Agatha Christie Fansite

    Metaphors

• Mixed Metaphors
• The Mind is a Metaphor ...14,000 metaphorical pieces

    Mnemonics

• Mnemonics
• Mnemonics

    Oxymorons

• Oxymoron List ...The Biggest Little List of Oxymorons Online
• Oxymorons

    Palindromes

• Jim Kalb's Palindrome Connection
• Neil/Freds Gigantic List of Palindromes
• Palindrome List
• The Palindromist

    Poetry

• Australian Bush Poetry, Verse & Music
• Australian Poem of the Month
• Bartleby Verse
• Burns Country
• Byron
• Cybernetic Poet
• Every Poet
• Famous Poets and Poems
• Fiction and Poetry
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• John Keats
• Modern American Poetry
• Neurotic Poets

    Books/Authors/Literature (cont)

• Agatha Christie
• All Hemingway
• Author Booknotes...American
• Author Webpages
• Author's Den
• Bartleby Library...Books & Verse
• Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
• Booklist...lots of Book reviews
• Caxton's Chaucer
• Charles Dickens
• Classic Christian Books
• Complete Works of Charles Darwin
• Daily Lit ...read a bit each day
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Electronic Literature Directory
• English Literature ...Short author biographies, summaries of stories, novels and poems, and outlines of various genres in literature
• Litscape ...Free Classic Literature
• Geoffrey Chaucer
• Gnooks World of Literature
• Hemingway Resource Center
• Interesting Literature ...Uncovering little-known interesting facts about the world of books
• Isaac Asimov Home Page
• Jane Austen Information Page
• Lewis Carroll
• LitCharts ...The world's best literature guides, created by the original editors of SparkNotes
• Literacy Education Online
• Literary Resources on the Net
• Literary Traveler
• Literature Collection
• Literature Map ...Interactive mapping system that will show you similar authors
• Mark Twain in His Times
• Middle English Literature
• New York Review of Books
• Online Literature Network
• Penguin Classics
• Philosophy & Literature
• Ralph Waldo Emerson Society
• Robert Louis Stevenson ...The site celebrates Stevenson's life and works, encouraging users to discover his many faces
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Internet Classics Archives...400 Classic texts
• The Literature Network
• The Reading Matrix
• The Republic of Pemberley...Jane Austen
• The Tolkien Archives
• Timeless Hemingway
• Today in Literature
• 19th Century Schoolbooks

    Braille

• Braille Bug

    Calligraphy

• Arab Calligraphy

    Cliches/Buzzwords

• Banned for Life ...hackneyed
• BuzzWhack
• Cliche Finder
• Cliche Finder
• The Sports Cliche List

    Dictionaries

• AllWords English Dictionary
• Alpha Dictionary ...meta search
• An English Homophone Dictionary
• ansme ...dictionary
• Bibliomania
• Cambridge International Dictionaries
• Chinese-English Dictionary
• Dictionaries & Translators
• Dictionarist ...Dictionary for 20 languages
• Dictionary of Military Terms
• Dictionary of Philosophical Terms
• Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
• Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
• Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
• Dictionary of Spanish
• Dictionary.com
• Forvo ...Online dictionary of pronunciation
• FreeDict
• French-English Dictionary
• Heenan's Universal Dictionary
• Hepster's Dictionary
• Language Dictionaries
• Legal Dictionaries
• Learner's Dictionary
• Legal Explanations
• Legal Lexicon's Lyceum
• Lexicool...Translation Dictionaries
• LookWayUp...dictionary & search tool
• Macquarie Australian Dictionary
• Merriam-Webster Online
• My Hebrew Dictionary
• Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary
• ObjectGraph: Dictionary ...auto-completes words
• Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form
• OneLook Dictionaries
• OneLook Reverse Dictionary
• Online Dictionaries
• Online Dictionaries
• Online Dictionary Query
• Online Etymology Dictionary
• Online Rhyming Dictionary
• Oxford English Dictionary News
• Quaternary Dictionary
• Rhyme Zone
• Scrabble Dictionary ...Is Your Word An Official Scrabble One?
• Specialist Online Dictionary Links
• Specialty Dictionaries
• Strange & Unusual Dictionaries
• Swahili Dictionary
• The Climbing Dictionary
• The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary
• The Devil's Dictionary
• The Free Dictionary
• The Infinite Teen Slang Dictionary
• The Internet Picture Dictionary
• The Sage ...English Dictionary and Thesaurus
• The Septics Companion ...English-to-American Dictionary
• Unofficial Dictionary for Marines
• Urban Dictionary
• Virology and Microbiology Dictionaries
• Visual Dictionary
• Visual Dictionary
• Wordlustitude ...A growing dictionary of ephemeral words, also known as nonce or stunt words
• Your Dictionary
• 1000 Dictionaries
• 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

    Encyclopedia/Education

• Connected: An Internet Encyclopedia
• Encyclopedia
• Frommer's Encyclopedia of Travel
• Household Cyclopedia
• The Catholic Encyclopedia
• The Encyclopedia of Arda...Tolkien
• The Literary Encyclopedia
• Web English Teacher

    Grammar

• Blue Book of Grammar & Punctuation
• Daily Grammar
• English Grammar
• EnglishGrammar.org ...Grammar lessons, exercises, and rules for everyday use
• English Grammar Lessons
• English Page
• (The) Farlex Grammar Book ...Your complete guide to the English language
• Grammar and Language Reference
• Grammar and Literacy Glossary
• Grammar Bytes! ...Grammar Instruction with Attitude
• Grammar Gang
• Grammar Now!
• Grammarphobia ...Grammar, etymology, usage, and more
• Guide to Grammar and Style
• National Grammar Day ...Speak well, write well, and help others do the same
• Punctuation ...Interested in improving your punctuation?
• Punctuation Marks
• The Chicago Manual of Style
• Webgrammar's Place
• Writing Explained: Grammar Made Easy ...Free Educational articles on writing and AP Style

    Heteronyms

• Heteronyms

    Homophones/Homonyms

• An English Homophone Dictionary
• Oronyms and Homophones

    Idioms

• Idiom Dictionary
• Idiom Site
• Idioms
• Hot Idioms ...Meanings and origins

    Language(s)

• American Dialect Society
• Ask a Linguist
• Atlas of Endangered Alphabets ...Indigenous and minority writing systems, and the people who are trying to save them
• Changing Language ...Explores the way that the language has developed over hundreds of years
• Conversational Mandarin Chinese Online
• English Language & Usage Stack Exchange ...Question and answer site for linguists, etymologists, and serious English language enthusiasts
• English Plus
• English Pronunciation
• English to Japanese Name ...Kanji for Tattoos
• English Zone Exercises
• ESL Lab
• Esperanto
• Fonetiks
• Foreign Languages for Travelers
• FreeLang
• French Language Course
• French Language
• French
• From Language to Language
• Global Language Monitor
• Google Language Tools
• History of the English Language
• I Love Languages
• Inky Fool ...History and evolution of the English language
• inogolo ...Devoted to the English pronunciation of the names of people, places, and miscellaneous stuff
• InterTran
• Japanese-Online Lesson Index
• Kanji Alive
• Language and Culture Pages
• Language Guide ...A collaborative project to develop interactive, sound-integrated language learning resources
• Language Links
• Language Log
• Language Museum
• Language Tools
• Language Tools
• Languages
• Languages of the World
• Languages Quick Fix ...Essential phrases in 36 languages
• Learn Languages On Your Own ...Without spending any money and from the comfort of your home
• Learn Spanish with Pictures
• Learning English ...Website from the BBC aiding people to learn English
• Lingthusiasm ...A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics
• Linguist List
• Linguistics Resources on the Internet
• Modern Language Association Style
• Native Languages of the Americas ...compendium of materials about more than 800 indigenous languages of the Western Hemisphere and the people that speak them
• Nihongo Master ...Learn Japanese Online
• OnLine English Editing Service
• Optimnem...language learning
• Phonetics, Linguistics
• Plain English Campaign
• Separated by a Common Language
• Speech Accent Archive ...Presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds
• Superlinguo ...A blog about language and linguistics
• Tatoeba ...Database of example sentences translated into several languages
• The English Zone
• The Allusionist ...A Podcast About Language
• The King's English
• The Linguistic Fun Page!
• The Name Engine ...Provides audio name pronunciations of athletes, entertainers, politicians, newsmakers, and more
• The Routes of English
• Using English
• Verbatim
• Vocabulix ...Vocab and Conjugation Trainer
• Where do Languages come from?
• World Language Resources
• 1-language.com...ESL Site

    Latin

• Labyrinth Latin Bookcase
• Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid
• Latin Wordstock
• Latin Zone
• Quasillum ...Quasillum hosts the Latin & Greek Study Groups
• Quick Latin
• The Latin Library

    Limericks/Jingles

• Edward Lear's Nonsense Works ...limericks
• How to Write a Limerick ...Before long you'll be addicted to coming up with these witty, whimsical rhymes
• Portmanteau & Rhyme Generator ...Input two words and produce weird coinages

    Poetry (cont)

• People Interested in Zippy and ZAny Zcribbling
• Poem Hunter ...The site also provides a database of quotations, song lyrics, information on music artists and bands etc
• Poem of the Day
• Poetry Daily
• Poetry Foundation
• Poetry International
• Poets & Writers
• Poets Corner
• T. S. Eliot ...Not just a poet, but also a dramatist, critic, editor and publisher
• The Poetry Archive
• The Poetry Archives
• The Poetry Zone ...How To Write Poems
• The Works of Banjo Paterson

    Proverbs

• De Proverbio
• Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages ...The 20,500 selections in this classic reference work comprise an encyclopedic scope of English proverbs as well as translations from every major language

    Puns

• Bad Puns
• Pun Me ...Funny Puns
• Pundemonium
• Puns Galore
• Save the Pun

    Quotations

    Sign Language

• American Sign Language
• American Sign Language
• HandSpeak ...Sign Language Dictionary
• Sign Language Dictionary ...Provides a short video with each word definition showing how to create it with sign language
• SignWritingSite
• The Noun Project ...Collects, organizes and adds to the highly recognizable symbols that form the world's visual language

    Slang

• A Dictionary of Slang
• Acronym and Internet Slang ...Comprehensive Dictionary of Acronyms, Slang, Abbreviations
• Dictionary of UK Slang
• Kiwi - Words & Phrases ...Words and expressions commonly used in New Zealand
• Silicon Valley Slang
• Slang City
• Slanguages
• The College Slang Page
• Twists, Slugs and Roscoes...Glossary of Hardboiled Slang
• 60's Slang

    Sonnets

• Sonnet Central
• Shakespeare's Sonnets
• Shakespeares Sonnets

    Speaking

• AchieveMax .,..motivational speakers
• Figures of Speech Served Fresh ...Rips the innards out of things people say and reveals the rhetorical tricks and pratfalls
• Speech Accent Archive

    Spelling

• All About Spelling
• Commonly Misspelled Words
• English Spelling Society ...Has the aim of raising awareness of the problems caused by the irregularity of English spelling and to promote remedies to improve literacy
• Free Online Spell & Grammar Checker ...Not only detects spelling mistakes, but also run-on sentences, dangling modifiers, misplaced commas, and embarrassing typos
• Online Spell Check & Grammar Check ...Immediate feedback & free to use
• Simplified Spelling Society
• Spell Checker
• Spelling Bee ...National Spelling Bee
• Spelljax ...instantly spell check your text online

    Thesaurus

• Free Thesaurus ...Synonyms, Antonyms, and Related Words
• Getty Vocabularies
• Historical Thesaurus of English ...Pinpoint the range of meanings of a word throughout its history, their synonyms etc
• Roget's Thesaurus
• Roget’s International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
• Thsrs ...Enter a long word and receive shorter synonyms
• Thesaurus
• Visual Thesaurus
• WordNet-Online ...Free dictionary and thesaurus of English
• WordWeb Windows Thesaurus

    Tongue Twisters

• Collection of Tongue Twisters
• Tongue Twisters

    Translation

• Babbel ...Learn words and phrases in foreign languages
• Babilon Online Translator ...Free online translation service with 75 languages
• Babylon...translator
• Bing Translator
• Free Translation
• Google Translate
• Reverso Translations
• Systran Translator
• The Translation Guide
• Translation Wizard

    Typography

• abc Typography

    Words

• A Way with Words ...Language examined through history, culture, and family
• ADR Word of the Year 2006
• American Rhetoric
• Artwiculate ...The twitter-based Word of the Day competition that helps clever people look clever and helps the rest of us learn new words
• Authentic American Pronunciation
• Big Huge Thesaurus ...Synonyms, antonyms, and rhymes
• Conjugation ...English verb conjugation
• Cool Words
• Crossinary ...Simple dictionary tool for Windows™ to help both creating and solving crosswords and other word puzzles
• Culturally significant Words and Phrases from The Simpsons
• Curious Words and Phrases
• Describing Words ...Helps you find adjectives for things that you're trying to describe
• Educational Jargon Generator ...Finely crafted phrases of educational nonsense
• Elements of Style...William Strunk, Jr.
• English Tests and Quizzes
• Aug 10 -Eunoia ...Words That Don't Translate
• Famous Last Words
• Fun with Words
• Fun with Words
• Good Word
• Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
• Index of Commonly Confused Words ...More than 200 sets of commonly confused words--with links to definitions
• Kevin's Spell Checker Oriented Word Lists ...Scowl
• Knoword ...Game of quick thinking, smart decisions and great words
• Last Words
• Latest new entries in OED ...words
• Lexipedia ...Where words have meaning
• Lexitecture ...Source of random etymology from a pair of language geeks
• List of Banished Words ...The current year's list
• List of Banished Words from 1979
• Literal Answers to Rhetorical Questions
• Meta Glossary ...meanings of terms and phrases
• Merriam-Webster's New Words
• Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year 2005
• Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year 2007
• Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year 2008
• Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year 2009
• Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year 2010
• Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year 2012
• Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year 2013
• Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year 2014
• Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year 2015
• Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year 2016
• Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year 2017
• Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year 2018
• Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year 2019
• Mispronounced Words and Phrases
• Misused Words ...Write clear, correct English
• More Words ...Dictionary words for crossword puzzles, code words and word games like Scrabble
• NYT Word of the Day
• Oxford Dictionary Latest Updates
• Phrase Finder
• Phrontistery!
• Pronunciation Guide
• Spelling, Vocabulary, and Confusing Words ...Many words in English sound or look alike, frequently causing confusion
• Strategies for Reducing Wordiness
• Synonym Dictionary ...Resource for English synonyms, antonyms, and definitions
• Synonyms ...Discover and rediscover a variety of words and expressions to enrich your vocabulary
• Test Your Vocab ...How many words do you know?
• The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
• The Eggcorn Database...words
• The Forest of Rhetoric
• The Hot Word ...The origins of words and phrases currently in the public eye
• The Meaning of Liff ...spare words which spend their time doing nothing but loafing about
• The Word Detective
• The Word Police
• The Word Spy
• The Word Wizard
• Tiny Words...haiku
• UnWords
• Vocabulary University
• Word Buff ...A Word Lover's Guide to Word Games
• Word By Letter ...English word and Crossword word finder
• Word Central
• Word Count
• Word Counter
• Word Finder ...Scrabble Word Finder and Words With Friends cheat dictionary
• Word Fugitives
• Word Myths by David Wilton ...etymology
• Word Net
• Word of the Day
• Word of the Day
• Word Plays ...Tools to help solve popular word puzzles
• Word Reference
• Word Search Tool ...Find all words contained in the letters that you specify
• Word Ways ...Dedicated to word play of all kinds: puzzles, novel poems, palindromes, games, magic, unusual lists, etc.
• Wordnik ...lists of words, practical lists, words you love, words you hate
• Wordle ...A toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide
• Worldlingo
• Wordlingo Translator
• Wordmall ...english language blog
• Words of the Week ...weird, wonderful and slang
• Words of 2001
• Words Without Borders
• WordThink
• 100 Most Often Misspelled Words in English ...100 words most often misspelled ('misspell' is one of them)
• 100 Words to Know
• 1062 Vocabulary Words
• 327 King James Words

    Writing/Texts

• After the Deadline ...Get feedback on your writing, check spelling errors, get grammar or style suggestions
• Basic Guide to Essay Writing ...If you follow a few simple steps, you will find that the essay almost writes itself
• Boggles World
• Daily Writing Tips ...Writing skills are essential to your success
• Evolution of Alphabets
• George Orwell’s 5 Rules for Effective Writing ...Distinguish yourself from competitors and clearly communicate your ideas
• Grammar Girl ...tips for better writing
• Guide to Grammar and Writing
• History of English & American Literature
• History of Writing ...when it became necessary to count ones property
• How to Write an Essay
• KU Writing Center ...help you brainstorm, draft or edit your writing
• Omniglot...Encyclopedia of writing systems and languages
• Online Resources for Writers ...Divided into thematic headings such as "Preparing to Write", "Thesis and Argument", etc
• Purdue Writing Lab
• The Greek Alphabet
• The Writer ...Magazine for authors
• The Writer's Almanac
• University of Victoria Writer's Guide
• Words to Time ...How long will it take to read a speech or presentation?
• Write Habit
• Writer's Digest
• Writer's Web ...Writer's Web is a free, public-access handbook
• Writers on the Net
• Writing a Basic Essay
• Writing Links & Links for Writers
• Writing World