{"id":195,"date":"2015-09-23T08:20:49","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T15:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/?page_id=195"},"modified":"2020-11-29T22:25:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T06:25:50","slug":"word-pals","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/?page_id=195","title":{"rendered":"Word Pals"},"content":{"rendered":"

These\u00a0are friends of words. Seek them out. <\/strong>If you’re intimidated by language, they will welcome you in. If you’re already a fan, these links can be your playgrounds.<\/p>\n

TOOLS<\/strong>
\nASL<\/a>\u00a0(American Sign Language) Alphabet
\nDescribing Words<\/a>\u00a0Adjective Engine
\nGoogle Books Ngram Viewer<\/a><\/strong>
\nHangul<\/a>\u00a0(Korean) Keyboard
\nInternet Anagram Server<\/a>
\nInternet Archive<\/a><\/strong>
\nIPA<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0(International Phonetic Alphabet) Keyboard
\nLinguist List<\/a>
\nPlain Language<\/a>\u00a0Writing Helper
\nProject Gutenberg
\n<\/a>The Rosetta Project<\/a><\/p>\n

SOCIETIES & CONFERENCES<\/strong>
\nACES<\/a><\/strong> (American Copy Editors Society)
\nADS<\/a> (American Dialect Society)
\nANS<\/a> (American Name Society)
\nDSNA<\/a> <\/strong>(Dictionary Society of North America)
\nICEHL<\/a> (International Conference on English Historical Linguistics)
\nLSA<\/a> (Linguistic Society of America)
\nNWAV<\/a> (an annual sociolinguistics conference)
\nSHEL<\/a> (Studies in the History of the English Language)<\/p>\n

DIGITAL REFERENCE WORKS<\/strong>
\nDARE<\/a><\/strong> (Dictionary of American Regional English)
\nDictionary.com<\/a>
\nEtymonline<\/a>
\nGreen’s Dictionary of Slang<\/a><\/strong>
\nHistorical Thesaurus<\/a>\u00a0of English
\nOED<\/a> (Oxford English Dictionary)
\nOneLook.com<\/a>
\nM-W<\/a> (Merriam-Webster)
\nWordnik<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

PODCASTS<\/strong>
\nA Way With Words<\/a>
\nThe Allusionist<\/a><\/strong>
\nCliffNotes CramCasts<\/a>
\nFiat Lex<\/a>
\nGreat Speeches in History<\/a>
\nLingua Franca<\/a>
\nMembean Word Root of the Day<\/a>
\nNPR Sunday Puzzle<\/a>
\nPoetry Off the Shelf<\/a><\/strong>
\nSlate Presents Lexicon Valley<\/a>
\nSpeculative Grammarian<\/a>
\nStephen Fry’s Podgrams<\/a>
\nThe Vocal Fries<\/a>
\nWord Gang<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

FRIENDLY LANGUAGE WRITING<\/strong>
\nAnatoly Liberman<\/a><\/strong> (Oxford Etymologist)
\nBen Zimmer<\/a>
\nBeyond Wordplay<\/strong><\/a>
\nDictionary Stories
\n<\/a>Jesse Shiedlower<\/a>
\nJonathon Green<\/a>\u00a0(Mister Slang)
\nLanguage Log<\/a>
\nLynne Murphy<\/a> (Separated by a Common Language)
\nPaul Anthony Jones<\/a> <\/strong>(Haggard Hawks)
\nThe Snowclone Database<\/a>
\nStrong Language<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These\u00a0are friends of words. Seek them out. If you’re intimidated by language, they will welcome you in. If you’re already a fan, these links can be your playgrounds. TOOLS ASL\u00a0(American Sign Language) Alphabet Describing Words\u00a0Adjective Engine Google Books Ngram Viewer Hangul\u00a0(Korean) Keyboard Internet Anagram Server Internet Archive IPA\u00a0\u00a0(International Phonetic Alphabet) Keyboard Linguist List Plain Language\u00a0Writing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-195","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","cat-31-id","cat-30-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P4SNLB-39","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":688,"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/195\/revisions\/688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}