"Fun with Words"
Bob Cunningham
about the English language. It's called "Fun with Words", and it's at
<http://rinkworks.com/words/>. The best way to summarize what it has
is to show the table of contents, so here it is:
Letters
Letter Frequencies - How often does each letter of the
alphabet appear in English?
Letter Groupings - What are some of the different ways
letters of the alphabet can be classified?
Words
Collective Nouns - What is the correct term for a group of
foxes, bears, or hawks?
Proprietary Eponyms - Trademarks that have fallen into
common, generic use.
Contronyms - Words that serve as their own antonyms.
Heteronyms - Words that are spelled the same but differ in
meaning and pronunciation.
Unusual Word Forms - Strange ways certain words are
pluralized or are changed from one gender to the other.
Negatives Without Positives - Negative words, such as
dismayed and inept that have no positive form.
Numbers - A collection of fun facts about numbers, as
written out in English.
Word Oddities - A collection of miscellaneous fun facts
about words.
Commonly Misspelled Words - Which is spelled correctly:
Indispensable or indispensible?
Commonly Mispronounced Words - Which is pronounced
correctly: Lam-BAST or lam-BASTE?
Commonly Confused Words - What's the difference between
founder and flounder? Effective and effectual?
Phone Number Words - What words does your phone number make?
Word Frequencies - What are the most commonly used words
in the English language?
Sentences
Palindromes - Sentences that read the same backward as
they do forward.
Pangrams - Sentences that contain every letter of the
alphabet.
Autograms - Sentences that self-document their letter
content.
Grammar Foibles - Sometimes errors in grammar can produce
humorous results.
Conflicting Proverbs - Pairs of wise sayings that
contradict each other.
Glossaries
Commonly Looked Up Words - What words are most frequently
looked up in dictionaries, and what do they mean?
Glossary of Linguistics and Rhetoric - What do euphemism,
hendiadys, cacophony, and procatalepsis mean?
Glossary of Fun Words - What word means to throw out of a
window? To dance a child on one's knees?
Maria Conlon
Bob Cunningham wrote in message ...
>I've come across a Web site that seems to be a treasure trove of stuff
>about the English language. It's called "Fun with Words", and it's at
><http://rinkworks.com/words/>. The best way to summarize what it has
>is to show the table of contents, so here it is:
[snipped]
Thanks, Bob. When I first started reading the list (TofC), I thought,
"But we've discussed these topics repeatedly." The more I read, though,
the more I spotted new things for us to explore.
I'll definitely take a look. (I've already bookmarked it.)
Maria (Tootsie)
Bob Cunningham
<mcon...@sprynet.com> said:
>Bob Cunningham wrote in message ...
>>I've come across a Web site that seems to be a treasure trove of stuff
>>about the English language. It's called "Fun with Words", and it's at
>><http://rinkworks.com/words/>. The best way to summarize what it has
>>is to show the table of contents, so here it is:
>[snipped]
>Thanks, Bob. When I first started reading the list (TofC), I thought,
>"But we've discussed these topics repeatedly."
But that's good. It's like having ready-made FAQ entries. When we
get inquiries about the topics we've discussed, it will be a good
place to refer people to, just as we might do with our own FAQ
entries.
I've added links to the site in the "Resources" section of the AUE Web
site, including a link to a local echo of the table of contents. When
people use "Site Search", they'll get hits on that table of contents,
which will guide them to the discussions at RinkWorks. This is
another way it will serve as a supplement to the local FAQ documents.
Also, even though we recently discussed recently words like, for
example, "inept" that may or may not have a corresponding "ept",
there's a list of them at RinkWorks that may have some we didn't think
about. It's under "Negatives Without Positives". People who followed
that thread should find it interesting to look at the list to see if
it adds anything to what we discussed.
Incidentally, "inept" isn't a good example: "ept" is in _The New
Shorter Oxford_.
a1a5...@sprint.ca
<exw...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>Incidentally, "inept" isn't a good example: "ept" is in _The New
>Shorter Oxford_.
>
That's to boost sales in the Antipodes. Ignore it.
Pierce Pavonine
beaucoup, Bob!
-- Pavonine
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In article <lcjfots4sc5gt2uqk...@4ax.com>, Bob Cunningham
Mark Wallace
"Bob Cunningham" <exw...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> Incidentally, "inept" isn't a good example: "ept" is in _The New
> Shorter Oxford_.
A good list of such opposites can be found at
http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/johnward/english/opposites.html
--
Mark Wallace
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Ever been stuck on a word, or a point of grammar?
You need to visit the APIHNA World Dictionary
http://pure.as/apihna
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John Holmes
<a1a5...@sprint.ca> wrote in message
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That would be fit only for New Zealanders.
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Regards
John
Mark Wallace
"John Holmes" <hol...@smart.net.au> wrote in message
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Maybe, but, so far as New Zealanders are concerned, they don't live in
the antipodes; we do.