Friday, October 16, 2009

Happy Birthday Webster!

So you probably don't know, but today (OCT 16 1758) is Noah Webster's birthday. His first dictionary was published in 1828. So in honor of this I am posting a few really awesome websites that are all about words!

Most importantly the dictionary itself!
http://dictionary.reference.com

Second a really awesome list of common errors in the English language. Can't remember which to you want? Can never remember which its gets the apostrophe? Here is your friend.
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html#errors

A similar site, but this one specializes in words like effect and affect.
http://www.confusingwords.com/

This one talks about grammatical problems that are regularly seen in today's published works.
http://www.jpschoemer.com/MostCommonErrors.html

Since today's theme seems to be all about writing I will give a special link! This one isn't for words or grammar or anything like that. It's just a good resource if you are just starting out writing (or have been for years!).
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/fifty-50-tools-which-can-help-you-in-writing.html

I hope this list is really useful to you. I has been for me. I've looked up effect and affect a ridiculous amount of times. It took a friend of mine, who is a 6th grade teacher, explaining it to me like he does for his kids for me to finally get it.

Edit: Due to some problems I am unable to get the hyper-link to work so just copy and past the link into your browser. Sorry for the inconvenience I hope to fix this in the future.

Edit2: Hyper-links online! Yay!

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