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The Sports Cliche List
A large, searchable collection of sports cliches, lingo, and jargon.

The Tongue Untied
Grammar, punctuation and style for journalists.

The Visual Thesaurus
An exploration of sense relationships within the English language. By clicking on words, you follow a thread of meaning, creating a spatial map of linguistic associations.

The Wonderful Writing Skills Unhandbook
An interactive site that uses the writing process to teach writing skills.

The Word Centre
Consulting firm dedicated to training businesses to use plain English. Free newsletter and professional editing services.

Top20Composition.com
Online directory for grammar, spelling, puncuation, research, creative writing, and proofreading resources.

Verbage
If you are looking for just the right word, you may find it here. If not, you can suggest your own.

Verbivore
Richard Lederer's page, with contact information and a handful of his language-loving articles.

What is Good Hypertext Writing?
There is more to writing than putting words next to each other, and there is more to writing hypertext than throwing together a bunch of links. By Julia Degener.

Wired Style
Notes on the emerging language of technology. Reference and discussion tool. Last updated 1997.

Word Fugitives
An interactive column by The Atlantic's Barbara Wallraff. Discovers needs in our language and recommends new words to fill them.

Word Lab
A message board where you can request and brainstorm unique words, names, titles, coinages, puns, phrases, slogans and slang.

Word Quests
Word lists that provide thematic units of English words derived from Latin and Greek sources.

Wordiness
A list of words and phrases to purge from your writing.

Words, Words, and More Words
Discussions and articles concerning words.

WordWizard
Portal for word lovers. Learn about word meanings, slang, quotations, insults, and famous authors. Wordwizard offers a round trip across the English language.

World Wide Words
Explores the history, evolution byways, quirks, and curiosities of the English language. New and recent words and phrases are often featured, as are books on aspects of English. A weekly newsletter is sent by e-mail and RSS.

Writing For Multimedia
Style guide for multimedia.

Yale Style Manual
For the design of Web pages and Web sites. Covers graphic and information design, page layout, Web graphics, site organization, navigation, and Web multimedia content.

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