Editing tips for designers : Cennydd Bowles
Good writing advice from Cennydd.
Tags: english
shitty portmanteaux
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse than “webinar.”
“When It’s Not Your Turn”: The Quintessentially Victorian Vision of Ogden’s “The Wire” « The Hooded Utilitarian
What if the Wire were a serialised Dickensian story? …which, let’s face it, it kinda is.
My Father’s Final Gift « Aza on Design
The beautifully-written and moving story of a father’s last gift to his son. The father is Jef Raskin; the son is Aza Raskin.
The Universal magazine - Google Books
A proto-wikipedia from January 1749.
Fillerati - Faux Latin is a Dead Language
The best alternative to lorem ipsum yet.
Damn You Auto Correct! - Funny iPhone Fails and Autocorrect Horror Stories
What a difference an autocorrect makes.
Comma quirk irks Rogers - The Globe and Mail
Punctuation matters.
Telescopic Text © Joe Davis 2008
A wonderful experiment in expanding hypertext.
All Sorts - a linguistic experiment
Collective nouns, collected.
Garfield: Lost in Translation
Garfield, translated into Japanese and then translated back into English.
List of Words it is NOT ok to ever say.
Glad to see "webinar" on this list. Shame about "lifestream."
Lyttony
Past winners of the Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest, "where WWW means Wretched Writers Welcome."
this is a working library
I love the design of this site almost as much as I love the content.
Austenbook
Pride and Prejudice told through Facebook.
Addictionary :: What's your word?
It's The Meaning Of Liff all over again. Creating and rating neologisms.
The Septic's Companion - A mercifully brief guide to British culture and slang
British English slang dictionary with translations into American English.
‘Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours’
Joe's new book will be ready soon. I expect nothing less than the finest wittertainment.
Douchespeak
Ridiculing the empty language of the corporate world one putrid word at a time.
Science Fiction Citations for OED
Put all those years of reading science fiction to use. Help track down first usage of sci-fi terms.
D-E-F-I-N-I-T-E-L-Y
Really; it's not that difficult.
Why a Tittle?
A blog dedicated entirely to documenting inappropriate dotting of "I"s in otherwise capitalised words.
What the F***?
I saw Steven Pinker give a talk recently and he spent a fair amount of time talking about swearing. He has written up that part of the talk into an article for the New Republic.
Words to the Wise: Language and the Journal Sentinel
A language blog from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
GrammarBlog: My biggest "US English" peeve.
Yes, yes, a thousand times, yes. I'm glad it's not just me.
defective yeti: Cliche Rotation Project, Round II
It's time roll out some new clichés. I like "reporting from the green zone" as a substitute for "seeing the world through rose-coloured glasses."
Anguish Languish
Tired of using "lorem ipsum dolor..." for placeholder copy? Use real English words that, while apparently non-sensical, transform into stories when spoken aloud.
The Snowclones Database
A blog dedicated to cataloguing snowclones. Brilliant!
Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog - books: Punctuation is no place for zero tolerance
One of my 43 Things is to eliminate the grocer's apostrophe. Still... this is a well-reasoned argument in its defence.
Poetry reading - WordRidden
Jessica's English translation of a 19th Century German poem in the public domain – possibly the only English translation of this poem in existence.
Buzzword Hell
Am I buzzword or not?
Incisive.nu: Strong Language
The verb form of “leverage,” like all forms of Cheetos®, is composed mainly of hot air surrounded by a shell of creepily artificial substance.