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Odd, Interesting and Unusual References
Some of these are great fun!
- Directory of Scholarly Electronic Writing Conferences.
- Shakespearean Insults.
- The Word Wizard. Insults, quotes, Fancy Word parties, competitions for writers.
- List of Most-Banned Books.
- Plurals of Greek- and Latin-Derived Nouns.
- Diogenes' Links to the Ancient World A collection of links to numerous Internet sites containing information on the Ancient world--Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and Jewish, among others.
- Gender-neutral references. A politically correct (and humorous) listing of gender-neutral references.
- Reverse Dictionary Type a phrase and let it suggest the word.
- Cursing in Swedish
- Separated at Verse. Poetry trivia game.
- The Cyrano Server. Let Cyrano write a love letter for you.
- 100 Random Tag Lines. Bizarre and opinionated, but clever. Check the "twisted" links.
- Welcome to America Reading List. One person's insights and apparently a personal agenda, but some good titles.
- Comic Relief page.
- People Lists.
- Trahison des Clercs (Betray Your Intellect) An eclectic posting of snappy and witty writing by corporate writers on weird and unusual topics.
- Malapropisms.
- Whales in Literature.
- Word Watch. Weekly commentary on current English usage.
- One Book. A place to register the one book that has most influenced your life and see what others have said.
- Surrealist Compliment Generator Randomly generated "compliments".
- The ETEXT Archives A collection of offbeat electronic texts from small-press or independent publications and organizations.
- UNCAT Database. An extensive listing of uncatalogued, business and self-published documents.
- Kingswood Kranium Ad agency online magazine--parody of business brochure, humor, etc.
- Mythopoeia A photographer's vision of mythology. Beautiful.
- Spunk Press Anarchist and political writing with good bibliography.
- The Victory Page . Nice motivational page for writers.
- Fiction Therapy Group. An online, interactive work of fiction that you can add to.
- Tribal Voice Guides to Native American issues and spirituality.
- American Memory of the Library of Congress Pointers to American cultural and historical materials.
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