A Capital Idea Is a copy editing blog covering grammar and newspapers.
Acronym Finder is a searchable database containing common acronyms and abbreviations about all subjects, with a focus on computers, technology, telecommunications, and the military.
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Automatic Complaint Letter Generator If you're too lazy to write a complaint letter about a person or company ... this will do the dirty work for you.
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is a collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature.
Buzzomatic Memo Writer Why waste your time keeping up with the latest terminology in the ever-changing world of technology? Just click four buttons and this page will apply the latest buzzology to whip out a stunning memo for you in seconds.
Copy-Editing Corner Is a place for copy editors to gather and discuss topics.
Editorial Freelancers Association Is a national nonprofit professional organization of self employed workers in the publishing and communications industries. Members include editors, writers, indexers, proofreaders, researchers, desktop publishers, and translators.
Haiku Generator This program generates either haiku or tanka. The poems normally adhere strictly to the syllabic contraints of those forms, though occasionally the program will determine that its creativity cannot be so fettered, and it will produce a poem that breaks the rules.
New Words In English contains neologisms and novel uses of words in English were collected by members of the class Linguistics/English 215, Words in English: Structure, History and Use, taught by Suzanne Kemmer at Rice University. The words on this page give a good picture of the creative aspects of word formation and use in present day English.
On-Line English Grammar has been put on-line by Anthony Hughes and is available free of charge for anyone to use.
OneLook Dictionaries There are a number of good dictionaries on the Internet. However, a person sometimes needs to look at several before finding the word they seek and the definitions in that dictionary may not give them quite what they need so they go on to look for the word in other dictionaries as well. This page is intended to make the above process quick and painless.
Specialty Dictionaries This page has links to specialty dictionaries ranging from agriculture to witchcraft, in many categories.
The Word Detective is the online version of The Word Detective, a newspaper column answering readers' questions about words and language.
Thesaurus.com of English Words and Phrases, Classified and Arranged so as to Facilitate the Expression of Ideas and Assist in Literary Composition.
Visual Thesaurus is 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.
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