Michelle Thompson's List: Writing - Reference Sites

Another names listing at parents connect

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The entymology and history of first names

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Search for baby names, or the most popular

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If you can get through the popups and floating buttons, there are a lot of names on here.

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Writing quotations

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The most wellknown online encyclopedia of the lot. User-generated information.

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The Urban Legends Reference Pages will confirm - or more probably deny all those pieces of information you often get via email. Good research site.

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The Sage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus is a downloadable free dictionary program. The dictionary repository is also available online.

www.sequencepublishing.com/thesage.html - Preview

dictionary freeware reference software on 2009-02-16 and saved by 30 people

Large list of general resources.

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A large list of descriptive words listed by category.

www.msgarrettonline.com/descripwords.html - Preview

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The style guide for reporters at The Economist - includes lots of good information on vocabulary, grammar, often mispelt words, and abbreviations.

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ThinkExist.com is one of the better known quotation sites. Look up famous quotes.

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32 misused words

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