Other Authors:
Ali Katz Ali's new book, His Brother's Keeper, released on August 3. Passion in Spades Monthly Drawing is back! Stop by her website, read an excerpt, and sign her guestbook to win a copy.
Florida Panhandle Romance Writers
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Here are some of my favorite playgrounds:
The new Kid! Wordnik!
READING, WRITING, AND RESEARCHGrammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips.
English/German translation -- including metaphors and idiom!
Take Our Word For It (not active, but a great archive) Great news! As of January 2010, TOWFI is active again!
Etymology of Medical Terms and Body Parts
The Phrontistery: International House of Logorrhea (and more)
YourDictionary Library (link library--word-geek treasure trove!)
Linguistic Atlas Project (Dictionary of American Regional English)
Chiasmus (the art of turning words back on themselves)
The Power of Words (lessons on writing well)
Classic Errors (and help avoiding them)
History On-Line, 13th century links
History On-Line, 14th century links
History On-Line, 19th century links
Popular Science archives (complete with advertisements)
1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
Southwest School of Botanical Medicine (library of herb images and uses)
Project Gutenberg (free online library)
How To Do (just about) Anything
Sunrise, Sunset: times by location
In Ferro Veritas, exploring the martial art of incurable romantics
Regency information linksMilitary Theory library of links
a list of names with reasonably good meanings
GAMES
Vulgar Grammar Video Ignore "loading" message. Video plays when arrow turns white for your cursor.
WORD OF THE DAY sites
National SCRABBLE(r) Association
(often impolite) words at Urban Dictionary
DATA RESCUE TOOLS and COMPUTER FORENSICS
Some of these frequently go down, but if it looks interesting, keep checking. The link should either work or disappear pretty shortly.
