Multilingual palindrome list
Collective Nouns
This list contains many fanciful suggestions of varying quality most of which have never been published but nonetheless represent quite an amusement of words.
House of Logorrhea (11,387 arcane words)
Here is the word list you have all been waiting for: words that have become obsolete for good reason. Still, they each have a small story about our history to tell.
The Numbers 1-10 in over 4500 Languages • En français
At last, you will be able to count to ten in more languages than anyone on your block! You will be the international financial whiz-kid of the office, handling all transactions of up to 10 units of any currency in the world!
The Collected Works of the Phantom Linguist
The Phantom Linguist haunted the halls of Bucknell University for a quarter century, posting free knowledge about every aspect of language in short, amusing essays to every public message board. yourDictionary.com has now collected all of those essays so you can reap the benefits from them. It is free knowledge! Enjoy!
Tongue-Twisters from Around the World
Zungenbrecher, trabalenguas, skorogovorki, virelangues, scioglilingua, hayakuchi kotoba—tie up your tongue in 87 different languages.
A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia
Palindromes, long words, short words, sentences with the entire alphabet in them, plus scads of other verbal oddities.
Jennifer's Language Pages
Greetings, "Thank you," "How are you," "Who are you," and a dozen other words and phrases in hundreds of different languages!
The Origin of Language
A NPR Science Friday discussion with Ira Flatow and three (yes, three!) famous linguists. You will need the Real Audio plugin for your browser.
(Possibly) the Longest Place Name in the World
. . . with a picture that (maybe) proves it.
The Linguistic Olympics are Here!
Try the linguistic mind-twisters at the bottom of the page.
The Third English Word Ending on -gry
A bad riddle run amok.
World Wide Words
New words, weird words, phrases that glow in the dark–Michael Quinion has them all.
Take Our Word for It
And now . . . a weekly word webzine, full of spanking good etymologies.
The Awful German Language by Mark Twain
Mark Twain wrote this essay while waiting for a German verb.
Language Miniatures
Mini-essays by W. Z. Williams about human language in its endless kaleidoscope of aspects, such as the social, the mental, the historical, the structural.
The Chaos
English is tough stuff: here is a poem essential to the understanding of English spelling.
A Little Etymology
Hardly enough to whet the appetite.
Etymology of Names
Know what your name originally meant?
The Klingon Language Institute
Weirder than the Bucknell Linguistics Program.
Shades of Meaning
Terry Light's witty exploration of the semantic shadings of phonologically similar words.
The Simplified Spelling Society
Tired worrying about spelling? Here's the organization for you!
Sniglets: Things for which there are no words.
Where Do Languages Come From? by Merritt Ruhlen
An in-depth discussion of historical linguistics focussed on the origins of Indo-European languages.
The Word Detective a newspaper column by Edward Morris.
Word Oddities and Trivia
Everything you every wanted to know about words--and then some!
WordPlay
Lots more links to fun with words.
Words That Mean the Opposite of Themselves (Antagonyms?)
Richard Lederer may have already named these semantic oddities.
