Dictionaries

• International Collection of Tongue TwistersalphaDictionary's own collection of tongue-twisters in 40 different languages with English translations.
• 1000 popular first names and names in Chinese Popular firstnames and names in Chinese characters. Firstnames Quebec, Canada, France, Switzerland, Unites States, Belgium.
• A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia
• A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia
• A Little Etymology A few tables to help make sense of compound words by looking at the etymology, Greek and Latin roots and the prefixes and affixes.
• Ambigram.Com: Amazing Wordplay Ambigrams are words or phrases written so that they can be read right side up or upside down! Visit this site to find out more about this amazing form of wordplay!
• Antagonyms (Words That Mean the Opposite of Themselves)
• Bzzzpeek : Animal Sounds Around The World. is presenting a collection of 'onomatopoeia' from around the worldusing sound recordings from native speakers imitating the sounds of mainly animals and vehicles.
• Chinese Names for English Given Names
• Country Western Song Generator Generate random country western songs --highly amusing and great break from life.
• Find Your Hawaiian Name! The internet's FIRST Hawaiian Dictionary online! An Internet Island EXCLUSIVE!
• Get a Chinese Name Get your own Chinese name based on your English name. Providesa pronounciation guide and meaning of the name and your Chinese astrological sign.
• How to Write Your Name In Mayan Glyphs
• Jennifer's Language Page At this site you can learn how to say hello, welcome, thank you, and other useful words and phrases in hundreds of languages from around the world.
• Les noms des nombres dans plus que 4000 langages At last, you will be able to count to ten in more languages than anyone on your block! You will be the international financial whiz-kid of the office, handling all transactions of up to 10 units of any currency in the world!
• Martha Barnette's Funwords.com Martha Barnette is a new logophiliac with a hatful of words with surprising histories. If you love our Word of the Day, you will love this website, too.
• Merriam-Webster Word Game of the Day Merriam-Webster provides a free, on-line dictionary (with audio pronunciations), thesaurus, Word of the Day, word games, and other English language resources.
• Neil and Fred's Gigantic List of Palindromes
• Numbers 1-10 in Over 4000 Languages At last, you will be able to count to ten in more languages than anyone on your block! You will be the international financial whiz-kid of the office, handling all transactions of up to 10 units of any currency in the world!
• Palindromes in German A short list of German palindromes.
• Palindromes Page I am BOB Palindrome host. Welcome to Palindromes Galore.
• Pseudodictionary - The dictionary for words that wouldn't make it into dictionaries A searchable list of concocted words, sniglets, blends that look remarkably like words—but aren't. Lots of fun and you can add your own if its good enough.
• Shades of Meaning Terry Light's witty exploration of the semantic shadings of phonologically similar words.
• Shoecabbages Here is yet another pleasure brought to us by language. We all speak a little of another language without knowing it. For example, did you know that every time you say "shoe" in English, you say "cabbage" in French? Find out more here.
• Take Our Word For It - Etymology Webzine The Web's only weekly etymology webzine
• The Awful German Language by Mark Twain
• The Collective Noun Page This list contains many fanciful suggestions of varying quality most of which have never been published but nonetheless represent quite an amusement of words.
• The Etymology and History of First Names The meaning and history of first names.
• The Klingon Language Institute
• The Origins of Language A NPR Science Friday discussion with Ira Flatow and three (yes, three!) famous linguists. You will need the Real Audio plugin for your browser.
• The Simplified Spelling Society
• The Third English Word in -gry
• The Word Detective by Edward Morris
• Unwords
• Where Do Languages Come From? by Merritt Ruhlen
• Word Play
• World Wide Words World Wide Words. More than 1300 pages on the origins, history, evolution and idiosyncrasies of the English language worldwide. New words and words in the news are regularly featured. /
• World's Longest Place Name
• Write in Inuit (Eskimo) Write with Inuit (Eskimo) characters automatically
• Write Like a Babylonian
• Write Your Name in Viking Runes
• Your Name in Egyptian Hieroglyphics (French)