December 04, 2004

yourDictionary.com ?Language Library

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yourDictionary.com ?Language Library

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Keep in mind that we are adding pieces all the time, so check by often. What better place to kick up your feet, relax, and nourish your mind?

Linguistic Wonders Series


This section of our library is devoted to short pieces about language written by the visionary scientists of yourDictionary.com's Advisory Council of Experts (ACE).

Counterterrorism Glossaries


The Indo-European Language Room



Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans by Calvert Watkins
Table of Indo-Eurpean Languages
Glossary of Proto-Indo-European Roots


Frequently Asked Questions



Frequently Asked Questions
100 Most Often Mispronounced Words in English
100 Most Often Misspelled Words in English

yourDictionary Word Lists



Top Ten Word Lists of 2003
Top Ten Word Lists of 2002
Top Ten Word Lists of 2001
Top Ten Word Lists of 2000
The 2003 Guide to the SuperBowl
The 2002 Guide to the Superbowl
The Non-Thinking Man's (and Woman's) Guide to the 2002 Oscars
Mother's Day Guide to Motherly Words
Father's Day Guide to Fatherly Words
2002 March Madness Glossary

Dr. Language



A Language is a Dialect with an Army
Warspeak: Linguistic Collateral Damage
A History of an Historical Quirk
Yall (Youse, Yuns) Should Read This
Do you Suffer the Embarrassment of LVS?
How Many Words are in English?
"Ain't" Isn't a Four-Letter Word
Are You and I You and Me?
Will I be Arrested if I End a Sentence with a Preposition?
Words: Where do They Come From?


The WordMan



The Tangles of Time
A Brief History of Chess
The Dustbin of History
or How the Infinity Symbol Came into Existence
Steppingstone to the Stars
How the Zero was Discovered
The Lament
The Last Words of the Last Speaker of Proto-Indo-European
An Interview With the Inventor of Words
The Final Farewell: The Official End to the 20th Century
Presidential Debate Analysis



Presidential Debates Mirror Long-term School Decline


Thoughts of Dr. Audra Himes



How We Have Changed (9/11)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (Fourth of July)
A Linguistic Potpourri



How to Use Dictionaries
Linguists See Internet Lingo as Cultural Catalyst
The Impassioned Fight to Save Dying Languages
The Chaos by Gerald Nolst Trenite
The Third English Word Ending on "gry"
The World's Longest Place Name
The Impact of 9/11 on the English Language
A Plethora of Terms: Playing The Veneral Game by Dr. Seth Haber
One Symbol for Every Sound by Wenkai Tay
A Prompt for Finding Essay Topic Ideas by Sheila Bender.
The Collected Works of the Phantom Linguist



How is a Hippo Like a Feather?
How to Pronounce "Ghoti" and Why
But There are no Such Things as Words!
Why We Have to Pay Syntax
Can Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously?
Slithy Toves of Chimpanzees
Mama Teached Me Talk!

Words on Word History by Phil Baldi



Words on Word History: Introduction
If It's Fragile, It will Break (Naturally)
Latin in English (Part I)
Latin in English (Part II)
Homosexuals and Homo Sapiens: A Formal Confusion
Heads of Cattle, a Capital Idea
Shabby Seedlings and Tennis Rankings



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