Lexophilia is defined as "the love of words." It is a neologism, a newly invented word. It comes from two Greek words – Lexis (meaning words) and Philia (meaning love).
You will find authors, readers, Lexophiles, and each research a wealth of free information on the Internet. Here are ten pages that will help you find just about everything you need to search.
1. Rhymezone.com is my dictionary of choice. It is a quick and easy way to find words, but it is so much more. Here, you will find synonyms anonymous, and meanings. Use it to write poems. It will return words, with your rhyme. The term that would like to see in a famous quote - no problem. It will return with your word pictures, documents and multimedia related. And you can choose it by default to your most frequently used functions adjust.
(2) Bartleby.com is one of the most extensive references on the Web. Here you will find everything from encyclopedias, first addresses of the President of the United States. Bartleby has search for quotes, more than 87,000 contemporary and classic quotations. The elements of style, the Columbia Gazetteer of North America, the Holy Bible, old and New Testaments, are only a small part of what is offered.
(3) Urbandictionary.com is a slang dictionary with a words relating to urban cultures and street slang. More than 3,000,000 definitions submitted since 1999
(4) Acronymfinder.com is the world's largest and most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms and abbreviations. She have uncut for ten years and her sister online website acronymattic.com has a further three million acronyms and abbreviations.
(5) itools.com offers quick access to some of the best Internet Tools. Search tools help you to find something on the Web. Look up or translate words with language tools. Use the research tools to find information about each subject. Driving directions are financial instruments which convert currency and map tools.
(6) Gutenberg.org is the site of Project Gutenberg, a library of electronically stored books that are freely available. It was started in 1971 by Michael Hart and drawn by hundreds of volunteers. There are over 25,000 free books in the online catalogue. There is also an offline catalog, which can be downloaded.
(7) Refdesk.com is a portal to much of what the World Wide Web offers. Listed a wide range of informative and educational websites. Desktop resources include area codes, zip codes, calculator, old farmers Almanac, newspapers, lottery results, sports, tax prep Guide and more.
(8) effingpot.com/index.shtml is an American Guide to the British speak. Seven sections - slang, people, driving a car, clothes around the House, food and drink and odds and sods - contain more than a thousand words and expressions, the differences between the United States and the United Kingdom.
(9) Cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/ offers free Cliff notes to literature, writing, mathematics, science, test prep, and information about college scholarships and grants.
10. And non-verbal gestures, signs and body language I recommend ChangingMinds.org.
Gail writes romance, Paranormal, and otherwise as Gale Stanley.
Call of the wild - now at Amazon & Bookstrand available
Silent KNIGHTS - coming October 2010 - silver publishing
Mating CALL - coming November 2010 - siren Bookstrand
Point of beginning - coming January 2011 - silver publishing
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