Archive for the ‘ Words ’ Category

Have you ever walked into a room and seen your child in an IM or text conversation, typing some kind of internet shorthand to his or her friends? Kids these days often used abbreviations to hide

There are games online where a computer program scrambles the letters in a phrase or sentence and you must unscramble the words to win the game. In fact, there are a variety of sentence unscramble

Another way to approach a “Word of the Day” routine is to use an “interesting words” site. After marveling over the Weird Words websites I found yesterday, I ended up

The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English by Henry Hitchings is a look at the evolution of the English language throughs the events and disasters of past ages. You can tell a lot about

For people who are interested in the subject of “words”, I can’t imagine a better book to read than Words Words Words by David Crystal. Mr. Crystal looks at the word from just

There are a few more words that start with “Z” in the English language than words that start with “X”, but I thought I would follow up my X-words post with a Z-words post.