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My name is Steve Dodson; I'm a retired copyeditor currently living in western Massachusetts after many years in New York City.

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Songdog

Kaleidoscope

The Daily Growler †

wood s lot †

MetaFilter

an eudæmonist

Avva (Russian)

Naked Translations

No-sword

The Cassandra Pages

Transblawg

Haquelebac

Far Outliers

paperpools

Lizok's Bookshelf

A Bad Guide

Poemas del río Wang

The Flaxen Wave

ТЕТРАДКИ: Что о нас думают в Европе?

Russian Dinosaur

XIX век

Wuthering Expectations

Boris Dralyuk

Laudator Temporis Acti

The Untranslated

The Millions

OpenSpace.ru (Russian cultural links)

The Calvert Journal ("a daily briefing on the culture and creativity of modern Russia")



Linguablogs:

Language Log

Christopher Culver’s Linguistics Weblog

Anggarrgoon

Jabal al-Lughat

Dick & Garlick

bulbulovo

Ἡλληνιστεύκοντος (in English)

Word Routes

Sentence first

Balashon

Separated by a common language

Ozwords (a blog from the Australian National Dictionary Centre)

The *Bʰlog ("A blog devoted to all matters Indo-European")

Strong Language ("a sweary blog about swearing")



Language resources:

Arnold Zwicky's list of blogs and resources

Multitran

American Heritage Dictionary

Green's Dictionary of Slang

Wiktionary

bab.la

TypeIt (IPA keyboards, language character sets)

Ethnologue

Wordorigins

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Language

Language Miniatures

Language References and Links

The sci.lang FAQ

Omniglot

ScriptSource

BibleOnline

Jewish Lexicon Project

Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms

TITUS: Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien

American Heritage Dictionary Indo-European Roots Appendix

Andras Rajki's Etymological Dictionary of Arabic

Germanic Lexicon Project

Dictionary of the Scots Language

Das Deutsche Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm

Wortschatz Deutsch

DWDS (Der deutsche Wortschatz von 1600 bis heute)

etymologiebank.nl (Dutch etymology)

Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid

Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (Open Access PDF version of volumes A - M and O - P)

Trésor de la langue française informatisé

Dictionnaire de l’Académie francaise

Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales

Lexilogos (French)

Dictionnaires d'autrefois

Real Academia dictionary (Spanish)

Diccionari català

Vocabolario Etimologico della Lingua Italiana

RAI Dizionario d’Ortografia e di Pronunzia (includes proper names)

Dizy: Il dizionario pratico con curiosità e informazioni utili

Dicționare ale limbii române

electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

MacBain's Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (1911 edition)

Cornish dictionary online

Arak-29 (Armenian links)

Verb Conjugator

World Wide Words

Online Etymology Dictionary

Tower of Babel etymological database

Perseus Digital Library 4.0

Logeion (Greek-to-English and Latin-to-English dictionary search)

Greek language and linguistics

Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Modern Greek Dictionary] (comprehensive; includes etymologies)

LBG (Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität = Lexicon of Byzantine Greek)

Orbis Latinus

dic.academic.ru (Russian dictionary search)

ПоискСлов (Russian dictionary search)

etymolog.ruslang.ru (Russian etymology and word history links)

Philology.ru

Philolog.ru

Slavenitsa (converts from modern Russian to pre-reform orthography)

Minority Languages of Russia

Ru_slang (Russian)

Vasmer's etymological dictionary(Russian)

Russian language links

Russian literature online

Национальный корпус русского языка (Corpus of the Russian Language)

Большой толково-фразеологический словарь Михельсона (1896-1912)

Словарь русских народных говоров [Russian dialect dictionary]

Старославянский словарь [Old Church Slavic dictionary]

Russian Word of the Day

Chinese Character Dictionary

Zhongwen.com

The Kanji Site

Mongolian/English dictionary

Digital Dictionaries of South Asia

Monier-Williams Sanskrit Dictionary

Nişanyan's Turkish Etymological Dictionary

An ka taa (resources and lessons for Bambara, Dioula, Malinké, and Mandinka)

Movies listed by language at IMDB

Languages online

Speculative Grammarian

Word Oddities

Jan Freeman's Boston Globe column

Character converter



Mailing list

Hattics mailing list



Visual pleasures

Nick Jainschigg

Nick Jainschigg's blog

Citrus Moon

Ramage

Barry Guy

Conscientious



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