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| Acronym Finder |
| Tells you what all those TLAs mean - asap! |
| Babel Fish |
| Remember the Babel Fish from the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Well here's a website that 'decodes the brainwave patterns'. OK, so that probably isn't how they do it, but it's amazing anyway. Probably no computer translation will ever be perfect, but this will at least help to give you an idea of what a foreign text means. |
| Bartleby's reference |
| An enormous selection of searchable reference works available from one site. |
| Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation |
| Brush up on your grammar and punctuation skills. |
| Grammar Book |
| More useful grammar information. |
| Merriam-Webster On-Line |
| All writers should have a dictionary and thesaurus to hand. Here you have both on one site, and they won't clutter up your physical desktop. Includes some neat word games, too! |
| Rhyming Dictionary |
| Trying to write a poem, but you're stuck for a rhyme? You'll find the words and phrases you need here, sorted by syllables or number of letters. |
| Snopes Urban Legends Reference Pages |
| How often do you get e-mail chain letters and wonder whether there's any truth behind them? Here you can check up on the veracity before sending them on to all the people in your address book. |
| The Electric Eclectic |
| Lots of usefully documented links about 'all kinds of everything'. |
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Only connect! E. M. Forster |
Nothing links man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash. W. R. Sickert |
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