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Harvard Classics Digitized

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List of common NetSpeak words/ Phrases

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Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. this data is currently not publicly accessible. 10,000 of the Most Difficult Words in the American Heritage Collegiate Dictionary These vocabulary words and their definitions are an outgrowth of my efforts to learn the 10,100 words in the American Heritage Collegiate Dictionary that I either didn't know or didn't know well enough. I hope that you will feel free to download them and use them. An expansion of the thesaurus. Hopefully, I'll be able to find time to effect these improvements. Because this dictionary is so large when downloading from the Internet, I have alphabetized it into a chapter for each word.

Unusual Words. Web crawl data from Common Crawl.

Unusual Words

Unusual Words A by no means exhaustive list of rare, obscure, strange and sometimes funny words and their meanings that only seem to crop up in crosswords and dictionaries. Words that are used so seldom, you wonder who invented them and why. Home ~ The Stories ~ Diversions ~ Links ~ Contact. English Only. Vocab. So2000 lederer. Writer Creates “Color Thesaurus” To Help You Correctly Name Any Color Imaginable. Ingrid Sundberg, a writer and children’s book illustrator, created a very useful infographic chart for anyone struggling with color names.

Writer Creates “Color Thesaurus” To Help You Correctly Name Any Color Imaginable

The writer says that she loves to collect words that can help give her stories variety and depth. Show Full Text “I’ve learned that we all have different associations with color words,” Sundberg told Bored Panda. “For example the color sapphire is a light blue to me (since that’s the color of the sapphire on my engagement ring), but a sapphire can also be a very dark blue. I doubt there can be an ‘official color guide,’ as color is so subjective.” Read on to see all of these colors’ names as well as Sundberg’s interview with Bored Panda.

More info: ingridsnotes.wordpress.com | sundbergstudio.com | Facebook (h/t: lustik) “There was no official color guide,” Sundberg told Bored Panda. “I use it all the time when I write. The Color Thesaurus. I love to collect words.

The Color Thesaurus

Making word lists can help to find the voice of my story, dig into the emotion of a scene, or create variety. One of my on-going word collections is of colors. I love to stop in the paint section of a hardware store and find new names for red or white or yellow. Having a variety of color names at my fingertips helps me to create specificity in my writing. I can paint a more evocative image in my reader’s mind if I describe a character’s hair as the color of rust or carrot-squash, rather than red. So for fun, I created this color thesaurus for your reference. 12 Letters That Didn't Make the Alphabet. You know the alphabet. It’s one of the first things you’re taught in school. But did you know that they’re not teaching you all of the alphabet? There are quite a few letters we tossed aside as our language grew, and you probably never even knew they existed. 1.

Thorn Have you ever seen a place that calls itself “ye olde whatever”? Free English to Greek Dictionary - Greek Dictionary. 19 amazing English words we've totally forgotten about. 1.

19 amazing English words we've totally forgotten about

Twirlblast A tornado, according to people in the 1700s. Why we switched to tornado, I’ll never understand. 2. Glossary of traditional and archaic words, by Kim Farnell. List of Greek words with English derivatives. List of German expressions in English. List of English words of Spanish origin. It is a list of English language words whose origin can be traced to the Spanish language as "Spanish loan words".

List of English words of Spanish origin

Many of them are identical in other Romance languages (mainly Portuguese or Italian), but their passage into English is believed to be through Spanish. Most these words came to English from Castilian and American Spanish dialects, which in turn got them from various sources including English ("turista"). However many of the words contained in the list are not used by native English speakers today. For example native English speakers use the term 'goodbye' rather than 'adios' as incorrectly stated below.

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Cide Words (killing)

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