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Unparalleled Misalignments

#english #wordplays #words | This is a list of Unparalleled Misalignments, pairs of non-synonymous phrases where the words in one phrase are each synonyms of the words in the other. I've maintained this list since 2018; attributions (when known) can be seen on hover.

6 months ago | View Shared by victor
The Universe of Discourse : Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more

#english #names #patronyms #shortening | From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus

9 months ago | View Shared by victor
Poor writing, not specialized concepts, drives processing difficulty in legal language — University of Edinburgh Research Explorer

#english #ignobel_prize #legal #study #writing

1 year ago | View Shared by victor
Green’s Dictionary of Slang

#dictionary #english #language #reference

1 year ago | View Shared by victor
Hacking the President’s DNA - The Atlantic

#DNA #english #security

2 years ago | View Shared by victor
Lose the Very

#english #fun #grammar #language #tool #via:popular #writing

3 years ago | View Shared by victor
feelings english doesn't have — Are.na

#english #language | <blockquote>Words, expressions, and sayings to declare feelings with no translation in the English language. </blockquote>

4 years ago | View Shared by victor
Guess my word

#daily #english #game #game_design #language

5 years ago | View Shared by victor
Federal plain language guidelines | plainlanguage.gov

#accessibility #english #guidelines #plain_language #reference #writing | <blockquote>The official writing guidelines for the Plain Writing Act of 2010.</blockquote>

6 years ago | View Shared by victor
English as a lingua franca - Wikipedia

#english #languages #linguistics #world

6 years ago | View Shared by victor
Power Thesaurus

#dictionary #english #lexicon #reference #tools #writing | <blockquote>Power Thesaurus is a free, fast, comprehensive and easy-to-follow online thesaurus for writers.</blockquote>

6 years ago | View Shared by victor
Common Names for Gatherings of Birds

#birds #dictionary #english #flock #funny #language #names

8 years ago | View Shared by victor
Please Learn to Write – Rands in Repose

#english #programming #writing | <blockquote>I fret about whether I’ll be able to hold your attention, which is precisely the wrong thing to worry about. What I should be worried about is, “Have I written something worthy of your attention?”</blockquote>

8 years ago | View Shared by victor
Y’all, You’uns, Yinz, Youse: How Regional Dialects Are Fixing Standard English | Atlas Obscura

#dialects #english #fix #history #language #linguistics #old_english #scots

9 years ago | View Shared by victor
Communicating globally — their English isn’t your English. — Source Institute — Medium

#communication #culture #english #language #words | <blockquote>Will long and complex words make you look smarter? Meet the people who think that short words will make us dumb</blockquote>

9 years ago | View Shared by victor
proselint

#english #grammar_checking #tool #writing | <blockquote>A linter for prose.</blockquote>

9 years ago | View Shared by victor
Why is English so weirdly different from other langu...

#english #history #language #linguistics #toread

10 years ago | View Shared by victor
VICE Style Guide

#english #funny #style_guide #writing

10 years ago | View Shared by victor
Conjunctions in Finnish

#Finnish #english #funny #german #humour #linguistics #swedish

10 years ago | View Shared by victor
Wir Ain Leed - Scottish Standard English

#differences #english #linguistics #pronunciation #scottish #sse

10 years ago | View Shared by victor
SCOTS - Scottish Corpus Of Texts & Speech

#accent #corpus #english #language #linguistics #reference #scotland #scottish_standard_english

10 years ago | View Shared by victor
Punctuation Tips — Medium

#english #language #orthography #punctuation #tips #typography #usage #writing

11 years ago | View Shared by victor
Hypercorrection - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

#english #grammar #language #linguistics #rules #writing

11 years ago | View Shared by victor

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