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1. CanadaInfo
Craig Marlatt has a wonderful site on all manner of things Canadian, including my books.
Want to buy a reconditioned locomotive from a man who plays superb clarinet? Then Larry Paikin's site is the only place to go!
This lively online journal of word studies and stories features a column regularly by Bill Casselman on the etymology of words. Vocabula does cost approximately nine dollars USD for an annual subscription. Naturally, I think Vocabula is a rare bargain! Click on the name or the symbol to visit Vocabula.
Australian word columnist Terry O'Connor explains the origins of unusual words and phrases. Intelligent and spirited discussion of words and their meanings highlights a useful forum. There are well-chosen links lists for writers, word nuts, and all manner of lingo lunatics.
The
Word for Word language forum started as a column on the origins of words in
The Courier-Mail newspaper in Brisbane, which Terry O'Connor wrote daily for
two years until exhaustion set in.
When the print version ended, the Internet version kept going. O'Connor kept
answering readers' queries until it too became too much for him to handle.
That's when he had a bright idea. "Cut out the middleman," he said,
"answer your own questions." Thus the forum was born. Terry O 'Connor
has had two books published: Hold the Front Page: Writing for Newspapers
and A Pictorial History of Queensland.
3. A.WORD.A.DAY
Anu Garg operates perhaps the best word-of-the-day site in English. 550,000 subscribers are not wrong. Check out his fascinating word site.
Mark Peters has written about word-related subjects for Verbatim: The Language Quarterly and The Vocabula Review. This blog is a growing dictionary of ephemeral words, which are sometimes known as "nonce" or "stunt" words. Though most of these terms have been used more than once, none have caught on significantly. Unlike pious, sniffy-nosed, sphincter-challenged, schoolmarmish word bloggers, Mark makes me laugh. Check him out at http://wordlust.blogspot.com
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