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A long list of phrases and words that Shakespeare invented, like "dead as a doornail" and "unreal." For many English-speakers, the following phrases are familiar enough to be considered common expressions, proverbs, and/or clichés.

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The site integrates the full text of the plays and poems with the entire Glossary database, allowing you to search for any word or phrase in Shakespeare's works, and in particular to find all instances of all words that can pose a difficulty to the modern reader.

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A facinating site on 'Words' (British. It offers more than 2100 pages on the origins, history, evolution and idiosyncrasies of the English language worldwide. .

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A simple, but useful application - develop students understanding of vocabulary and grammar. It allows a teacher to generate a "mini-quiz" for any level.

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Single Word images - good for use in storytelling

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An ongoing project devoted to discovering all the words and everything about them. Wordnik wants to be a place for all the words, and everything known about them

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"A poetry explication is a relatively short analysis which describes the possible meanings and relationships of the words, images, and other small units that make up a poem. Writing an explication is an effective way for a reader to connect a poem's plot and conflicts with its structural features. This handout reviews some of the important techniques of approaching and writing a poetry explication, and includes parts of two sample explications"

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This Web site is devoted to lexpionage, the sleuthing of new words and phrases. These aren't "stunt words" or "sniglets," but new terms that have appeared multiple times in newspapers, magazines, books, Web sites, and other
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This format of this " photographic dictionary is dedicated to defining words through the literal, figurative, and personal meanings found in each paragraph" has great potential. Illustrated by Flickr, with clean design and vivid imagery.

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A large collection of words that are troublesome to readers and writers. Words are grouped according to the way they are most often confused or misused.

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An online graphical dictionary and thesaurus to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts.

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Double-Tongued Dictionary: A growing lexicon of fringe English, focusing on slang, jargon, new words, and more. A good resource if studying urban language but the site does contain advertisements that woud not be suitable for most schools.

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Confusing Words is a collection of 3210 words that are troublesome to readers and writers. Words are grouped according to the way they are most often confused or misused.

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Forvo: word pronunciation dictionary. All the words in all the languages pronounced by native speakers

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