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Visuwords™ is an online graphical dictionary, it looks up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts and produces diagrams reminiscent of a neural net to show how words associate. You can enter words into the search box to look them up or double-click a node to expand the tree. Click and drag the background to pan around and use the mouse wheel to zoom. Hover over nodes to see the definition and click and drag individual nodes to move them around to help clarify connections. To use the applet you only need to type a word into the search query at the top of the page and press 'Enter'. A network of nodes or 'synsets' will spring out from the word that you entered. A synset is essentially a single concept that is represented by a number of terms or synonyms, synonyms are words with different spellings that convey the same idea.

VoyCabulary makes the words on any webpage into links so you can look them up in a dictionary or other word-reference-site of your choice, by simply clicking on the words. Anytime you find yourself reading a webpage with words you wish to look-up, try running the page through VoyCabulary and just click on the words

Use PDF-to-Word Online Converter to create Word doc that is the easiest to edit. No waiting for email; just wait on the page - and it's free!

Free Word works at the meeting point of literature, literacy and free expression as a catalyst for collaborations, nationally and internationally, that explore the transformative power of the word. At London hub the Free Word Centre, runs a programme of events and exhibitions, and provide a home to seven resident organisations and over 25 associates, working across literature, literacy and free expression.

In the eighteenth century, a linguistic big bang spun off a new etymological universe: the language of sensibility. "Sensibility" and its related terms either appeared for the first time, took on meanings unique to the period, or gained enriched connotations. The denotations of these new linguistic planets have proved as elusive as the rings of Saturn, however. This hypertext offers a new approach to understanding the language of sensibility, one that accounts for the multiple possibilities of meaning. Rather than attempting hard-line definitions, this project offers the tools for recognizing the multivalent connotations of such sensibilious words as "virtue," "sense," and "benevolence." Our hypertext groups excerpts from major words of sensibility according to 24 primary words; we imagine the sensibilious reader exploring these passages to glean a new understanding of the vocabulary and the literature of the period.

a site dedicated to African American women who have gifted, shaken up, and disturbed the theatre world with their powerful words. It is a testament to their courage and perseverance. Hopefully, this site will encourage other sister storytellers to make their words heard.

The Visual Thesaurus is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words. Its innovative display encourages exploration and learning. You'll understand language in a powerful new way.

This website is an excellent, monolingual Portuguese dictionary. It holds over 95,000 entries and numerous other features that will assist the student of Portuguese. These include: the conjugation of over 13,000 verbs; a good guide to the essentials of Portuguese grammar; an automatic spell-checker; and the incorporation of reflexive forms within search results. The dictionary is easy to use, and simple or detailed searches for words may be conducted. The user may either request a simple definition, or more detailed information regarding the thematic context of a word, geographic variations, register and etymology. The site offers users help with searching, examples of how to search and the possible results, and definitions of all the abbreviations used within the dictionary. This is a great online resource for students at any level.

The Dictionary of the Scots Language (DSL) comprises electronic editions of the two major historical dictionaries of the Scots language: the 12-volume Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (DOST) and the 10-volume Scottish National Dictionary (SND). DOST contains information about Scots words in use from the twelfth to the end of the seventeenth centuries (Older Scots); and SND contains information about Scots words in use from 1700 to the 1970s (modern Scots). Together these 22 volumes provide a comprehensive history of Scots, and a New Supplement now (2005) brings the record of the language up to date.

English synonyms, antonyms, and definitions. Type in a word and the synonym finder will come up with a list of synonyms. Check out the most popular online synonym searches to find the right word for any occasion. Use the antonym tool to find find antonyms and check out the definitions feature to read the definition.

"Words to good effect" is a translation and web-editing blog and also a blog about writing, web content, usability, accessibility, language, business and books.

Words without Borders translates, publishes, and promotes the finest contemporary international literature and opens doors for readers of English around the world to the multiplicity of viewpoints, richness of experience, and literary perspective on world events offered by writers in other languages

Rewordify.com is powerful, free, online reading comprehension software. It helps people understand difficult English faster, and helps them learn words in new ways.

a great tool for developing pronunciation, just search for any word or phrase and YouGlish will find an example in a YouTube video and take you directly to the part of the video where the phrase appears. You can then listen to the phrase in context and see the sentence that it appears in.

English Accent Coach is an online tool for developing English pronunciation skills focusing on vowels and consonants. English Accent Coach allows you to learn English vowels and consonants using an interactive game approach. During play, you will hear syllables or words with English sounds and you must click on the symbol for the sound you hear.

The International Corpus of English (ICE) website presents a corpus compilation project that aims to provide comparable corpora of English from different English-speaking regions around the world. Each corpus will contain one million words of spoken and written language, taken from a wide range of sources and situations

a web site devoted to translations and parodies of Lewis Carroll's popular poem, 'The Jabberwocky', first published in 'Through the Looking Glass, and what Alice Found There'. The original poem, renowned for its inventive use of portmanteau and suggestive nonce words, has been translated into almost 30 different languages. This site hosts 58 separate translations, into languages including Afrikaans, Choctaw, Czech, Esperanto, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Klingon (incomplete), Latin, Russian, Spanish, Welsh, and Yiddish. In addition to the translations there are 23 parodies on the site. A more useful section consists of extracts from Carroll's original text, including Humpty Dumpty's exegesis. Carroll's own interpretative suggestions and pronunciation guides (from his correspondence) are also reproduced on the site, as are a few short notes on the origins of the poem, and comments on the difficulties facing its translators.

EUSTACE is the Edinburgh University Speech Timing Archive and Corpus of English. The EUSTACE corpus comprises 4608 spoken sentences recorded at the department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics of Edinburgh University. These sentences, spoken by six speakers of British English, were designed to examine a number of durational effects in speech and are controlled for length and phonetic content. Subconstituents of key words in each sentence have been identified by labels in xlabel (ESPS) format and notes have been made about the prosodic realisation of the sentences. It is hoped that these recordings will be useful for phonetics researchers and speech technologists working on synthesis and recognition.