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Statistical techniques can give us a good estimate of how many words Shakespeare knew based on how many he used.

Word reference site.

Create word clouds out of texts into a variety of shapes. Requires Microsoft Silverlight.

"A Muse of Fire" from the BBC/PBS documentary The Story of English examines the number of words coined by Shakespeare.

Spell with flickr is a neat app that allows you to create banners or other text with flickr images. Perfect for embedding in wikis or using on blogs or other Web sites.

Plagiarism presentation with tips on paraphrasing and discussion of structure, words, ideas.

Shakespeare coined a lot of phrases and words we still commonly use today.

If you have an iPod Touch or iPhone and are looking for app to help you practice your SAT vocabulary words, you might want to check out SAT Vocab Challenge.

The English language, which arose from humble Anglo-Saxon roots to become the lingua franca of 600 million people worldwide and the dominant lexicon of international discourse, is dead. It succumbed last month at the age of 1,617 after a long illness. It is survived by an ignominiously diminished form of itself.

Anglo-Saxon poems translated and read out loud by folks like Seamus Heaney and Billy Collins.

We just don't have a good gender-neutral pronoun in English -- one of my frustrations with the language.