- Banished Words List - Lake Superior State University presents annual lists of "Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-Use, Over-Use or General Uselessness." From the edgy to the totally unique. (featured in Feb 2002)
- BBC Online: Routes of English - Radio 4 series discovering the state of local dialects at the beginning of the new millennium. (featured in Dec 2000)
- BBC: Languages - Learn Spanish, French, German, Italian, and other languages through online lessons. (featured in Feb 2004)
- Bzzzpeek - Presents a collection of onomatopoeia from around the world using recordings from native speakers imitating the sounds of animals and vehicles. (featured in Feb 2003)
- ClicheSite.com - Offers a searchable collection of cliches, phrases, and sayings with definitions and explanations. (featured in Dec 2000)
- Collect Britain: Accents & Dialects - British Library sound archive examining the peculiarities and differences of regional English accents throughout the 20th century. (featured in Sep 2005)
- Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia - Useless trivia such as the longest words, words with the most or fewest vowels, and longest words which can be typed on each row of keys of a typewriter. (featured in Aug 2002)
- English Mnemonics - Extensive list of common and not-so-common mnemonics used in every day English. (featured in May 2006)
- HumanSpellCheck.com - Outlining common typos and bad use of grammar in the media and on the Web. (featured in Feb 2001)
- Idiom Site - Learn how common phrases and sayings originated. (featured in Aug 2002)
- International Collection of Tongue Twisters, The - Database of tongue twisters in more than 40 languages with English translations. (featured in Jan 2001)
- Lost in Translation - Retrieve humorous translations by typing in a phrase, which is then translated 10 times to other languages and back into English. Illustrates the sometimes painful inadequacy of online translation tools. (featured in Oct 2002)
- Luciferous Logolepsy - Collection of over 9,000 obscure and archaic English words. (featured in July 2003)
- Modern Language Association Language Map - Maps over thirty different languages and U.S. regions where those languages are spoken. (featured in July 2004)
- My Favorite Word - Everyone has a favorite word. What's yours? Submit your favorite word with a brief explanation of why it's your favorite or browse others' favorites. (featured in Sep 2005)
- Prognosticate - Supply key missing words for headlines taken from current news articles. (featured in Feb 2005)
- Rosetta Project, The - Nonprofit project offering a growing publically accessible collection of descriptions, texts, analytical materials, and audio files for many world languages. The goal of the Rosetta Project is to document all human languages. (featured in Sep 2001)
- Slang City - Online guide to American slang, including explanations of popular songs and movies, bad words, body parts, and more. (featured in Nov 2002)
- Speech Accent Archive - Examines the accented speech of speakers from many different language backgrounds reading the same sample paragraph. (featured in July 2003)
- Visual Dictionary, The - Photographic exploration of words in the real world. (featured in Apr 2007)
- Wordcount - Interactive presentation of the 86,800 most frequently used English words. (featured in July 2004)
- Words of a Man's Mouth - An abandoned journal from a Hong Kong shop presents page after page of writing in Chinese characters. Help to unlock the book's mysteries by offering a hand in translation. (featured in Jan 2007)
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