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| | Student Resources at JLHS Media Center--Links to citing sources, literature,
dictionaries, encyclopedias, SAT review, and colleges and careers.
http://milforded.org/schools/jlaw/media/jlmediahomeall.htm
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| | Explore the exciting world of optical illusions.
http://www.sandlotscience.com
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| | Magic Eye puzzles.
http://www.magiceye.com/3dfun/stwkdisp.shtml
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| | Magic Eye--how to see 3D pictures.
http://www.vision3d.com/
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| | Acronym Finder--the world's largest comprehensive dictionary of acronyms,
abbreviations, and initialisms.
http://www.acronymfinder.com/
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| | Find rhyming words at Rhyme Zone.
http://www.rhymezone.com
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| | Rhyming Dictionary
http://www.rhymer.com
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| | Write Express Online Rhyming Dictionary
http://www.writeexpress.com/online.html
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| | Suring for Slang: The World's Cool Slang Link Bank
http://www.spraakservice.net/slangportal/
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| | Commonly Used American Slang
http://www.manythings.org/slang/
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| | Yahoo Slang Dictionaries
http://dir.yahoo.com/Reference/Dictionaries/slang
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| | English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/index.htm
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| | Wilton's Word and Phrase Origins. Word Origins is devoted to studying the
origins of words and prases.
http://www.wordorigins.org/
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| | Wordsmith's Word of the Day site.
http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/
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| | Merriam Webster Online Dictionary: Word of the Day, Word Games, Crossword
Puzzles, and online dictionary.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/
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| | Merriam Webster Word Game
http://www.merriam-webster.com/game/index.htm
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| | New York Times Learning Center--Word of the Day and Test Prep Question of
the Day.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning
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| | Kevin's Word Lists Page--for links to many web sites devoted to words.
http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/
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| | Cool Quiz! The world's largest trivia site!
http://www.coolquiz.com/trivia/?id=uk
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| | So You Wanna? Teaches you how to do anything!
http://www.soyouwanna.com
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| | Cool Quiz! Make up your own cool quiz!
http://www.coolquiz.com/
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| | The Word Play web site--amazing quirks and peculiarities about the English
language.
http://www.fun-with-words.com
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| | Word Wizard--an interesting web site for lovers of the English language.
Gives origins of English words and phrases.
http://www.wordwizard.com
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| | The Etymology and History of First Names
http://www.behindthename.com
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| | Funny Name! A team of researchers has spent f hours looking up thousands of
funny, interesting, and strange names in phone books from all over the New
York tri-state area.
http://www.funnyname.com
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| | Funny Names! Look at funny names, people, things, and websites.
http://www.funnynames.com
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| | Surnames. Enter a surname (last name) into the web site and you'll get a
map of the United States showing the distribution of people with this
surname within the 50 United States.
http://www.hamrick.com/names/index.html
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| | Sniglets* Words that don't appear in the dictionary, but should.
http://bertc.com/subfour/truth/sniglets.htm
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| | More sniglets!
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci506044,00.html
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| | And even more sniglets!
http://www.dbooth.net/internerd/sniglet.cfm
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| | Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Writing--learn about the ancient writing form
here.
http://www.discoveringegypt.com/hiero1.htm
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| | Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Alphabet Translator--write your name in the
ancient script.
http://www.discoveringegypt.com/e-name.htm
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| | Online Hieroglyphics Translator--Enter the name, word, or phrase you want
translated into hieroglyphics.
http://www.quizland.com/hiero.htm
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| | World Languages and Culture--all about learning the world's many languages.
http://www.vistawide.com/languages/languages.htm
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| | Write like a Babylonian: Go to this site and follow the directions to write
your name in cuneiform.
http://www.upennmuseum.com/cuneiform.cgi
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| | Write like an Egyptian: Go to this site and follow the directions tow rite
your name in hieroglyphics.
http://www.upennmuseum.com/hieroglyphsreal.cgi
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| | Hieroglyphics and Egyptian Symbols
This site provides an informative and illustrative approach to hieroglyphics
an ancient form of writing used by the Egyptians.
http://www.uponreflection.co.uk/hieroglyphics/
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| | Go to this site to listen to a reading of Beowulf, an Old English poem.
Click on Wave to hear a reading of the Prologue.
http://faculty.virginia.edu/OldEnglish/Beowulf.Readings/Prologue.html
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| | Oxford English Dictionary-the most complete English language dictionary.
http://www.oed.com
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| | Oxford Dictionaries--passionate about language.
http://www.askoxford.com
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| | Ask Oxford--New Words: How Do They Get In the Oxford English Dictionary?
http://www.askoxford.com/worldofwords/newwords/newwordsdict/?view=uk
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| | The Word Detective: Words and Language in a Humorous Vein on the Web since
1995.
http://www.word-detective.com/
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| | Online Slang Dictionary at
http://onlineslangdictionary.com/
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| | Dictionary of American Regional English
http://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/americanvarieties/DARE/wordpower/dare.html
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| | The Book of Cliches
http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/sybev/cliche/cliche.htm
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| | Cliche Finder: Have you been searching for just the right cliché to use?
Are you searching for a cliché using the word "cat" or "day" but haven't
been able to come up with one? Just enter any words in the box on this
website and the search engine will return any clichés which use that phrase.
http://www.westegg.com/cliche/
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| | Snopes.com Rumor has it! Is your story fact, fiction, or urban legend?
http://www.snopes.com/
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| | Urban Legends Is your story fact, fiction, or urban legend?
http://www.urbanlegends.com/
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| | TruthOrFiction.com...your Email Reality Check
Get the truth about rumors, inspirational stories, virus warnings, hoaxes,
scams, humorous tales, pleas for help, urban legends, prayer requests, calls
to action, and other forwarded emails.
http://www.truthorfiction.com/
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| | Aphorisms Galore!
http://beta.aphorismsgalore.com/
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| | Idiom Dictionary
http://www.idiomsite.com/
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| | Cool Quiz Trivia!
http://www.coolquiz.com/trivia/?id=uk
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| | Annabelle's Quotation Guide: The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of
ages, may be preserved by quotations.
http://www.annabelle.net
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| | Quoteland.com All the right words!
http://www.quoteland.com
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| | Wisdom Quotes: Quotes to inspire and challenge.
http://www.wisdomquotes.com
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| | Word Wizard At Wordwizard we're interested in English, in particular the
origins of English words or phrases, and English usage
http://www.wordwizard.com
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| | One Look Dictionary Search
http://www.onelook.com
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| | Word Detective Links to language web sites.
http://www.word-detective.com/links.html
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| | Dictionary.com A great online dictionary resource.
http://www.dictionary.com
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| | Allwords.com Online Dictionary, Language Guide, Foreign Language and
Etymology and Links for Word Lovers.
http://www.allwords.com
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| | Merriam Webster Online
http://www.merriam-webster.com/game/index.htm
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| | OneLook's reverse dictionary lets you describe a concept and retrieve a list
of words and phrases related to that concept.
http://www.onelook.com/reverse-dictionary.shtml
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