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A Celebration of the English Language

  • Letter Frequencies - How often does each letter of the alphabet appear in English?
  • Word Oddities - A collection of miscellaneous fun facts about words. [New!]
  • Palindromes - Sentences that read the same backward as they do forward. [New!]
  • Pangrams - Sentences that contain every letter of the alphabet. [New!]
  • Autograms - Sentences that self-document their letter content.
  • Conflicting Proverbs - Pairs of wise sayings that contradict each other. [New!]
  • 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? [New!]
  • Contronyms - Words that serve as their own antonyms. [New!]
  • Unusual Word Forms - Strange ways certain words are pluralized or are changed from one gender to the other.