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  • Take Our Word for It

    Weekly etymology magazine.

    www.takeourword.com

  • The Word Detective

    Words and language in a humorous vein. The online version of The Word Detective, a newspaper column answering readers' questions about words and language. Written by Evan Morris.

    www.word-detective.com

  • MooT

    The game of grammar, semantics, and etymology. Play online the game that investigates the history and meaning of English words.

    www.mootgame.com

  • Focusing on Words

    An advanced Latin-Greek-English vocabulary source of etymologies with thematic units of roots, prefixes, and suffixes, and vocabulary quizzes.

    www.wordfocus.com

  • What's The Meaning of This?

    The origins of quirky English words and phrases like "In like Flynn" and "blackmail."

    www.rootsweb.com

  • Origin of Phrases

    Categorized etymologies of phrases.

    members.aol.com

  • Etymologically Speaking

    A list of some curious word origins.

    www.westegg.com

  • Nautical Expressions in the Vernacular

    Myriad expressions in everyday English have nautical origins. This web page lists expressions and definitions mentioned by listswains, members of the Patrick O'Brian Mailing List, also known as the Gunroom.

    www.io.com

  • New Words In English

    Neologisms and novel uses of words in English collected by members of the class Linguistics/English 215, Words in English: Structure, History and Use, taught by Suzanne Kemmer at Rice University.

    www.owlnet.rice.edu

  • Oxford English Dictionary

    Presents a word a day complete with pronunciation, spellings, etymology, quotations and date chart.

    oed.com

  • Etymology

    Word origins and links.

    members.tripod.com

  • New York State Facts

    The origins of New York State's county names.

    www.dos.state.ny.us

  • Taiwan Teacher

    A new word or phrase posted every week giving you the meaning, origin and an example of the usage of the word or phrase.

    www.geocities.com

  • Roots of English

    An etymological dictionary you can download by Prof. Eugene Cotter, Seton Hall University.

    ablemedia.com

  • Word Origins

    This regularly updated page, provided by The Writer's Place, focuses on a word and its spelling, pronunciation, and derivation.

    www.thewritersplace.com

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