A website devoted to the preservation and revival of very obscure English words. http://www.savethewords.org/
All posts tagged Word lists
Save the Words
Posted by acilius on April 15, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/04/15/save-the-word/
Words with nonpejorative technical uses and nontechnical pejorative uses
There are some words which have both a technical meaning in some field of study and a pejorative meaning that is more widely known. A notorious example is “Negro,” which now tends to be used as a slur in colloquial English but which physical anthropologists still use because none of the alternatives captures the meaning they need [...]
Posted by acilius on December 29, 2008
http://losthunderlads.com/2008/12/29/words-with-nonpejorative-technical-uses-and-nontechnical-pejorative-uses/
The 86,800 Commonest English Words
Are these, apparently.
Posted by acilius on October 23, 2008
http://losthunderlads.com/2008/10/23/the-86800-commonest-english-words/
Words ending in “ism”
Here‘s an attractively designed webpage listing a few words that end in “ism.” I’m not sure what the guiding principle is behind his selection of words- there are just a couple of hundred here, out of thousands to choose from. Even a onelook search limited to “*ism:belief” brongs brings up 280 entries.
Posted by acilius on October 23, 2008
http://losthunderlads.com/2008/10/23/words-ending-in-ism/
A couple of word lists
Words ending in -phobia. http://phobialist.com/ Contronyms, that is to say, words with two directly opposite meanings (such as “dust,” to remove dust from a surface, and “dust,” to spread dust over a surface). http://www.rinkworks.com/words/contronyms.shtml http://www.askoxford.com/wordgames/wordchallenge/contronyms/ http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/cntrnmys.htm I once read somewhere that the philosopher Hegel believed that all words are contronyms. I’ve never gotten around to [...]
Posted by acilius on April 15, 2008
http://losthunderlads.com/2008/04/15/a-couple-of-word-lists/
Slow Start
So the blog is off to a slow start. I haven’t had much time lately for the sort of wide-ranging reading that would support a lot of postings, and I know you guys have a lot going on as well. But I think that email would be at a lull right now as well, for the [...]
Posted by acilius on July 18, 2007
http://losthunderlads.com/2007/07/18/slow-start/
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