Languages and Words 3

In search of the world’s hardest language

100 Quotes Every Geek Should Know

Teenagers 'only use 800 different words a day'

A Map of Languages in the United States

The History of the Ampersand

Handwriting Is History

Top 10 Famous Last Words and Quotes

How 9 Words Were Coined (and how one wasn’t)

The Secret History of Typography in the Oxford English Dictionary

Top 50 Oxymorons...

Is the Adverb Dying?

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year

Local dad spoke only Klingon to child for three years

10 Annoying Phrases That Serve No Purpose

29 Cool Anagrams

10 Most Used Imagined Languages

20 Wonderful Words Which Shouldn’t be Allowed to Wither

Amusingly Mistranslated Signs From Around the World

The world's largest collection of tongue twisters

My First Dictionary

2009 List of Banished Words

How To Use An Apostrophe - The Oatmeal

English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

'Fat ladies' banned at bingo hall

A blog about unfortunate acronyms and initialisms

Irish accent beats French as world's sexiest

How To Use An Apostrophe

11 Gorgeously Ironic Misspellings In Protest Signs

Babies Cry With an Accent, Study Finds

Word ‘meep’ banned from US school

Italian town wins fight to use strange nicknames

BuzzWhack: The Buzzword Compliant Dictionary

7 False Acronyms

The Nautical Roots of 9 Common Phrases

22 Misspelled Political Signs

The 10 silliest things ever said by politicians

The Flapper's Dictionary

5 Grammar Mistakes that Make You Sound Like a Chimp

Swedish parents emerge victorious in bid to name son 'Q'

50 office-speak phrases you love to hate

Can a Woman "Prong" a Man? WARNING: This piece contains vulgar language.

"Whatever" Reigns As Most Annoying Phrase

Scott Allen 11 Celebrities Who Overcame Dyslexia

List of 886 Palindromes

The death of language?

Accents and Dialects of the UK Here is as close as you will get to mine Byker.

The History of Insults and Insulting Names

Caroline Tagg has become the first person in Britain to get a degree in text messaging

Using big words needlessly makes you seem stupider

Why English is so Hard to Learn

Germans get 5,000 new words to shout

'Punctuation hero' branded a vandal for painting apostrophes on street signs

11 Best Photos of Spelling Mistakes

Quangos blackball ... oops, sorry ... veto ‘racist’ everyday phrases

ATM 'speaks' in Cockney rhyming slang

“Tom Swifties” are curious puns that monkey with the description of reported speech for comic effect. More here

Amazing sentence

Fart: Danish for speed

N.Y. Times mines its data to identify words that readers find abstruse

Schools to rethink 'i before e'

100 most beautiful words in English

4 Common Latin Abbreviations Finally Explained

Words That Changed Their Meanings

Frenemy, webisode among new words in Webster's

Monkeys Recognize Poor Grammar

3 Tips for Quick and Free Translation Between Languages

29 Free Websites To Learn A New Language

10 of the Most Irritating Phrases in the English Language

My interests include cooking dogs - how grammatical errors see CVs binned

How to Swear 100 Ways in 20 Different Foreign Languages

7 Interesting Typo Tales

The death of 100%

15 Funny Sports Quotes

'Noob' could be the millionth English word

Comprehensive Blog Glossary

15 Words You Won’t Believe They Added to the Dictionary

Wordnik. An ongoing project devoted to discovering all the words and everything about them.

Who Can Name the Bigger Number?

The best of Sign Language

Old-school word nerds meet the digital age

Sometimes it's just that much funnier when the pronunciation is spelled out for you...

Chinese fakeaway: After that copycat Roller, the products that got lost in translation

Secret Codes You Aren’t Meant To Know

Internet Anagram Server

The 10 Most Bizarre Names In The World: To Helen Back With Jo King

The origin of 9 popular Web buzzwords

Webster lake with 45-letter name has spelling errors

The Grammar Cheat Sheet

Learning Chinese languages makes you musical, claim scientists

English Word-Origins Pie Chart [pic]

Bottom of class for Morrisons as it stocks spelling blocks that say 'U is for Umberlla'

Worldwide Words: Michael Quinion investigating International English from a British Viewpoint

Western Slang, Lingo, & Phrases

Top 10 Endangered Languages in the World

A handy little guide to small talk in the Stone Age

Health and Fitness Slang

A third of the world's languages are at risk

Dictionary of American Regional English

Rudest names from the Middle Ages are dying from embarrassment

Nihongodict: Free Online English - Japanese Dictionary

10 Misconceptions About Common Sayings

10 Fascinating Fictional Languages

Ten Simple Things We Should All Say More Often

List of English words of Dutch origin

Britons 'swear 14 times a day on average'

8 Racist Words You Use Every Day

The 25 Most Commonly Misspelled Words Quiz

10 Extinct Languages of the U.S.

Common Errors in English

Top 50 dumb blonde quotes

Apostrophes abolished by council

Save The Words

Spanglish

Fastidious spelling snobs pushed over the edge

The 100 Most Beautiful Words in English

Words give brain handle on feelings: U.S. researcher

Congo word 'most untranslatable'

Calculator Words

20 of the best time quotes (of all time)

100+ Language Learning Websites

'Most unfortunate names' revealed

Wrong Translation

'Oldest English words' identified

Stone Age phrasebook developed by scientists studying oldest words

World's Hardest Languages to Learn

Ancient Language of Universal Symbols Discovered

The slow death of handwriting

Words associated with Christianity and British history taken out of children's dictionary

The Science Behind Some Popular Phrases

The 10 Most Devastating Insults of All Time

Clichés: Avoid Them Like the Plague

List of 19 New Words for 2007 , 2008 and 2009 …?

The Buzzwords of 2008

What are the origins of the English Language?

List of collective nouns

My favourite word

Do you speak 2009?

8 People Who Inspired Words (For Embarrassing Reasons)

The Origins of 10 Curious Phrases

The origins of 'Net shorthand

'Meh' - the really boring buzz word

Jail warders learn gangsta rap to keep up with cons running crime from cells

Foreign Accent Syndrome Gives Sufferers an International Sound

"Goodbye" in over 450 languages

Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year: ‘hypermiling’

Top 60 popular Japanese words/phrases of 2008

Fictionary and a pseudodictionary(of made up words)

Diner slang

A-Z of English words with surprising origins

The History of Some of Today's Most Common Phrases

20 More Great Quotes of Mark Twain

Top 10 Most Outrageous Opening Lines in Literature

E-mail error ends up on road sign

Welcome to the... excuse me

You know! It's a thingummy... Whatjermercallit... The everyday items with the forgotten names

Councils ban use of Latin terms

Top 10 Greatest Phrases To Ever Come Out Of A Video Game Character's Mouth

Oxford Researchers List Top 10 Most Annoying Phrases

Witty aphorisms in a delightfully rich ambiance!

9 Words That Don’t Mean What You Think

Prison Slang 101

A list of words the Collins English Dictionary wants to discard to make room for up to 2,000 new entries

Stop Saying These Phrases

Real names that sound like a joke

Hotel introduces English-Hull translation

Goodbye, schadenfreude; hello, fail

Ten Most Difficult Words to Translate

The man who reads dictionaries

Evolution of Alphabets

Longest Words

Italians vote for ugliest English words

100 words most often misspelled

Phwoar, look at that fit stud muffin, says OED

20 Weird English Words

10 Misquotations of Real People

10 Overused Words in Writing

The World’s Most Expensive Typos

Carny Lingo - the Ultimate List

How you can help to save some cherished words from oblivion

AskOxford: Language Facts

12 Greek Words You Should Know

Thsrs - The Shorter Thesaurus