It Seemed Unstemmable, But Stem It They Did.

The winners of the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.

Stop At The Read Light

A Book Town is a small rural town or village in which second-hand and antiquarian bookshops are concentrated.

As A General Rule

Muphry's law
Muphry's law
Finagle's law
Godwin's law
Hanlon's razor
Callahan's Principle
Parkinson's law
Segal's law
Brooks's law
Clark's Law

BRB ROTFL L8t3rz

English to kids text message translator

Babble On

Languages of the World - Information about the language families of the world and their most important and populous members.

IMNSHO

How to Understand Chat Acronyms - Can't understand the "IM Language" or "chat slang" the kids are typing?

"Neat" Idea

The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks

Are You Lactating?

Top 13 Worst Slogan Translations Ever

Alchemical Key

The Voynich manuscript is a five hundred year-old relic discovered in 1912 at a library in Rome, consisting of 240 pages of illustrations and writing in a language not known to anyone. Deciphering the text has eluded even the best cryptographers and some have even dismissed the book an entertaining but lengthy hoax. But a statistical analysis of the writing shows that the manuscript does seem to follow the basic structure and laws of a working language.

Pet Sounds

In different languages what do we say to mimic animal sounds? The world's biggest multilingual list

May I Have A Word

Oxford English Dictionary Updates - New entries from across the alphabet

Speaking Of Which

inogolo - Devoted to the English pronunciation of the names of people and places. The site contains a searchable database of names with both phonetic and audio pronunciations in English.

The Universal Language

Numbers from 1 to 10 in Over 5,000 Languages.

Not Literally Literary

Literally, A Web Log - An English language grammar blog tracking abuse of the word “literally”.

I Can't Hear You

American Sign Language 'Dictionary' in Animated GIF.