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A website, developed by the makers of the Oxford English Dictionary, devoted to saving words that are rarely used and therefore risk losing a place in the dictionary.

This fun site, one vision of a social media-enabled dictionary, offers not just definitions of words (from a variety of sources), but also contextual references, and the ability to tag and/or build a community around a given word. It's quite hard to describe; I recommend clicking through a few words as they float by on the home page.

This website collects user-contributed definitions of today's slang.

By Malcolm X and Alex Haley, published by Penguin, 2007, copyright 1965.

Mentioned in Choice Event: Imitation (RA). "...Malcolm X's language learning based on reading and copying the dictionary while in prison."