4 Excellent Tools to Improve English Grammar

"Thankfully, these days you don't have to hire a tutor to teach you the basics of grammar. The web is there with its 24×7 helpline. Just try out these four excellent tools to improve your English grammar and note the difference."

http://www.guidingtech.com/12450/excellent-tools-improve-english-grammar/

Hobson-Jobson: The words English owes to India

"In 1872 two men began work on a lexicon of words of Asian origin used by the British in India. Since its publication the 1,000-page dictionary has never been out of print and a new edition is due out early next year. What accounts for its enduring appeal?"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18796493

• Flora: "While having tiffin on the veranda of my bungalow I spilled kedgeree on my dungarees and had to go to the gymkhana in my pyjamas looking like a coolie."

Move to rescue obscure words

"(1) Oncethmus - The loud and hard cry of a donkey (2) Suffarcinate - Pack tightly (3) Weesquashing - Spearing of fish or eels by torchlight from canoes. (4) Archigrapher - Principal or head secretary or clerk (5) Lugent - Sobbing or grieving (6) Philargyrist - Someone who loves money (7) Homerkin - Liquid measure for beer (8) [buffoonery] Not a rare word as such, but the collective noun for orangutans, which is weird enough to warrant a footnote (9) Jobler - One who does small jobs (10) Sturionic - Pertaining to the sturgeon. (11) Eternitarian - One who believes in the eternity of the soul (12) Quadrimular - Something lasting four years - unlike a tattoo! (13) Modernicide - The killing of modern people. (14) Welmish - Of a pale or sickly colour (15) Aeipathy - A continued passion; an unyielding disease"


http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/nov/07/rescuing-obscure-words


http://savethewords.org/

English Tibetan Dictionary

http://www.eng-tib.com/

Synonym Finder

"Have you ever found yourself writing and continually using the same words over and over again, struggling to find a different way to say the same thing? Then Synonym Finder is for you. It is a free, quick and simple service to find synonym's. It also has antonyms and definitions for words, a daily word (great for learning new words) and a list of most viewed words (makes you feel better that you aren't the only one using those words)."

http://educationaltechnologyguy.blogspot.com/2011/03/synonym-finder-find-some-new-words-so.html

http://www.synonym-finder.com/

David Cameron says that immigrants should learn English

"So real integration takes time. That's why, when there have been significant numbers of new people arriving in neighbourhoods, perhaps not able to speak the same language as those living there, on occasions not really wanting or even willing to integrate, that has created a kind of discomfort and disjointedness in some neighbourhoods. This has been the experience for many people in our country – and I believe it is untruthful and unfair not to speak about it and address it."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/apr/14/david-cameron-immigrants-learn-english

"Looking forward to English people learning Welsh and not voting against Welsh Language schools when they saturate an area as immigrants"

(from the comments)

Cliche Finder

"Have you been searching for just the right cliché to use? Are you searching for a cliché using the word "cat" or "day" but haven't been able to come up with one?"

http://www.westegg.com/cliche/

What is "Begging the Question?"

""Begging the question" is a form of logical fallacy in which a statement or claim is assumed to be true without evidence other than the statement or claim itself. When one begs the question, the initial assumption of a statement is treated as already proven without any logic to show why the statement is true in the first place."


http://begthequestion.info/

Subsidizing English

"Some of the reaction to this news has been to point to it as an example of how much Welsh costs; but in fact the service only exists for the benefit of those who do not understand Welsh. Those who do understand it have no need of it. And the money is being spent not on Welsh, but on those who do not understand it. It is an example of the amount of money that is being spent on subsidizing English."

http://syniadau--buildinganindependentwales.blogspot.com/2010/08/subsidizing-english.html

"If people can't speak Welsh in Wales, it is not Welsh speakers who are to blame. If others cannot understand what they say in public meetings of this sort, it is up to the Council to provide a service that will enable them to understand ... and if any who cannot speak Welsh object to the cost, they should be politely but firmly reminded that the service exists entirely for their benefit."

The International Dialects of English Archive

"IDEA was created in 1997 as a free, online archive of primary source dialect and accent recordings for the performing arts. Its founder and director is Paul Meier, author of the best-selling Accents and Dialects for Stage and Screen, and a leading dialect coach for theatre and film."

http://web.ku.edu/~idea/

(Bron) Popeth (ar y we) yn Gymraeg

"Hyd yn hyn, dw i wedi sôn am beiriant cyfieithu Google mewn termau eitha cul, Cymraeg/Saesneg. Ond mae ochr arall i’r ceiniog, sef bod (bron) holl gynnwys y we erbyn hyn ar gael i ni yn ein hiaith ein hunain, os ydyn ni’n fodlon rhoi tipyn bach o waith i mewn."

Translates to

"So far, I've mentioned the Google translation engine in fairly narrow terms, welsh / english.  But there is another side to the penny, that (almost) all the content online is now available to us in our language ourselves, if we are willing to work in a small amount."

Courtesy of Google


http://morfablog.com/2009/09/25/bron-popeth-ar-y-we-yn-gymraeg/

The Phrontistery

"This list contains 168 definitions of obscure colour terms using combinations of 'normal' colours of the rainbow and descriptive adjectives; e.g. cardinal = deep scarlet red; russet = reddish brown. Note that most English speakers outside the U.S. spell colour with the added British 'u' rather than the American version color. "

 http://phrontistery.info/colours.html

English to Tibetan Online Dictionary

"This is the first online dictionary to translate English to Tibetan. Many wonderful dictionaries currently exist to search for Tibetan words and find their English equivalent (and a good argument could be made as to why this function may be more important), however in order for any sort of true information exchange you must have two way communication.

The focus of this website will be on modern spoken (colloquial) Tibetan. A few key Buddhist words will likely be included (again, a case could be made for a dictionary that takes a term like "correct view" and gives you the Tibetan "yang dag pa'i lta ba", but that is beyond the scope of this dictionary)."

http://eng-tib.zanwat.org/

Welsh to English Lexicon

"There are 24662 unique entries in this lexicon, of which 1581 are phrases, 951 are cross-references, and 63 are considered to be obsolete in the modern language. There are 6181 entries that do not have definitions or cross-references yet. "

http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/fun/welsh/LexiconWE_main.html

Anagram Times - all the news that's fit to anagram

"The Anagram Times, the only daily newspaper of its kind, is a publication of Wordsmith.org. We publish all the news that's fit to anagram."

http://anagramtimes.blogs.wordsmith.org/

Children of the Code

http://er.soup.io/post/13935457/Video

Letterwhiz.com -- Free Letter Templates

"Letterwhiz.com offers a multitude of free, fully customizable letter templates for all occasions"

http://www.letterwhiz.com/

Letterwhiz.com -- Free Letter Templates

"Letterwhiz.com offers a multitude of free, fully customizable letter templates for all occasions"

Geiriaduron Cymraeg / Welsh Dictionaries - http://www.geiriadurcymraeg.co.uk/

http://www.geiriadurcymraeg.co.uk/

Welsh / English Dictionary - http://www.geiriadur.net/

http://www.geiriadur.net/