Expanding Your English Vocabulary!

Below is a selection of websites that you may find useful for expanding your English vocabulary. Of course, there are many others as well.

ã Garner''s Usage Tip of the Day Bryan Garner, author of A Dictionary of Modern American Usage (Oxford University Press), offers this invaluable, free, daily e-mail service. Subscription is easy. http://www.oup-usa.org/mailman/listinfo/us-usage-l.
ã Vocab Vitamins (formerly "MyWordaDay"): Colin O''Malley maintains this Website, a treasure for people who know that developing an adequate vocabulary is not a short-term project. Users can visit the Website or have the WordaDay e-mailed to them. Words are arranged in meaningful groups and defined in painstaking and useful detail, with plenty of examples. http://www.vocabvitamins.com/.
ã WORDSMITH: *****bscribe or unsubscribe to A.Word.A.Day, send a message to wsmith@wordsmith.org with the "Subject:" line as "subscribe " or "unsubscribe." The Wordsmith has thousands of subscribers. It does a great job of discovering interesting themes and sources of words and then exploring those wordsõ?"a word a dayõ?"for a week or so and then goes off to another theme and series of words.
ã Word of the Day: Maintained by Merriam Webster, Inc., the dictionary people. Go to the online WWWebster Dictionary and click on Word of the Day. From there, you can either subscribe to their free daily service or explore their archives. The guides for pronunciation are easier to follow than Wordsmith''s and the examples are well founded and even fun. The Merriam-Webster people also provide a neat link directly to their word database so that you can highlight a word on a Web-page, click on their icon in your personal toolbar and get an instant and authoritative definition for that word.


"The first Deicide record and the Once Upon the Cross, those two are just ****ing awesome!" - Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison (a.k.a #1)

The following may be useful as well, if you''re to effectively expand your vocabulary!
ã Word of the Day from the OED: Although the online version of the esteemed Oxford English Dictionary is not available without a hefty price tag, you can get a free Word of the Day from the OED. You will find more information there about each word presented than you could ever imagine existed.
ã The New York Times Word of the Day: every weekday, a word chosen from the archives of the New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/wordofday/.
ã Michael Quinion''s "World Wide Words": investigating the use and creation of English words, from a British point of view. Fun to read, always something new.http://www.worldwidewords.org/index.htm.
ã The Atlantic section on Language: from the Atlantic Monthly''s online journal. Select from "Word Court," "Word Fugitive," and "Word Police." http://www.theatlantic.com/language/.
ã Word Safari challenges web surfers'' knowledge of vocabulary, and then sends them off on expe***ions to see the chosen word used in context on the web. Aiming her Web site at building academic vocabulary skills, Ruth Pettis adds new vocabulary words every week. http://home.earthlink.net/~ruthpett/safari/index.htm.
ã The Maven''s Word for the Day was maintained by the Reference division of Random House. It went belly-up in December 2001, but the archives are still available online. http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/.
"The first Deicide record and the Once Upon the Cross, those two are just ****ing awesome!" - Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison (a.k.a #1)

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