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Self-help writing guide and writer tips for students of the English language who want to communicate more effectively. For business writers, students, authors, YOU. Twelve sections, including grammar, cliches, jargon, spelling, quotations, redundancies, writing resources. Extensive links to reference sites.

A WWW interface to several freely available on-line dictionaries, including Webster's 1913, the Jargon File, the US Gazetteer, and Easton's Bible Dictionary.

Each weekday, a new and insanely interesting word or phrase. We specialize in new and recently coined words.

Obscure, abstruse and/or recondite word, especially one not falling into medical terms, foreign monetary units, foreign units of measure, legal terms, or professional jargon of any type.

Science for People -- news from the lab without a lot of jargon.

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing is a searchable dictionary of terms from computing and related fields.

NetLingo.com contains thousands of definitions about the online world of business, technology & communication :-) Includes text messaging, acronyms and smileys!

Maledicta specializes in offensive and negatively-valued words and expressions from all languages and cultures, past and present. Its main areas of interest are the origin, etymology, meaning, use, and influence of verbal aggression and verbal abuse of any kind, as well as language usually considered vulgar, obscene, or blasphemous.

Plain English Campaign is an independent group fighting for plain English in public communication. We oppose gobbledygook, jargon and legalese. We fund ourselves through offering plain English editing, plain English training and the Crystal Mark Scheme.