Hey all…
With all the grammar geeks and useless trivia freaks hanging out here, I was wondering if anyone knew of any killer eytmology sites? I thought I knew of one or two, but I was mistaken. Any URLs are much appreciated.
Danke!
–Milt
Here’s one: http://bay1.bjt.net/~melanie//take.html
There’s a good copy-editing site with links at http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/cas/jpc/copy.html
These are pretty good:
http://www.word-detective.com/ http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/text/faq/usenet/alt-usage-english-faq/faq.html
These are pretty good: http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/text/faq/usenet/alt-usage-english-faq/faq.html http://www.word-detective.com
Flora said:
Did you copyread your link? It didn’t work.
I clicked on the link to find out what would be on a copy-editing site anyhow. Pages and pages of text to search for spelling a grammar errors? Layout sheets? Rubber cement comparisons? Headline counting techniques? What, I ask you, What!
“Owls will deafen us with their incessant hooting!” W. Smithers
http://www.randomhouse.com/jesse/
‘They couldn’t hit an Elephant from this dist…!’
Last words of General John Sedgwick
Phrase origins:
http://members.aol.com/MorelandC/Phrases.htm
The World Wide Words page: http://quinion.com/words/
Grammar Clinic: http://forums.educhat.com:8080/~grammar/ .
Oh joy! Oh bliss! Thanks to all who responded to my posting. I now have enough websites to guarantee hours of ignored work. Woooo!
Thanks, y’all. =D
Jennifer
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“Malt does more than Milton can/ To justify God’s ways to Man”