Top 5 websites for word nerds
In Daphne‘s recent newsletter, she lists five of the best websites for word nerds and writing geeks. As a word nerd, a writing geek AND a list freak, I’m all over this. Here they are:
- Website grader allows you to enter your url to get a literary grading on your website (yet to try this myself)
- Then there’s the WordCounter which does a tally of words you use most frequently used words (useful if you have a habit of over using words such as “literally” as in “I literally died” and “like” – shame we can’t come with a tool like this for casual speech)
- Fun with Words: more palindromes, collective nouns and common pispronounciations than you ever thought existed!
- I’ve written about Visual Thesaurus before but if you haven’t checked out this feat of web wizadry go check it out now (go straight to the “look it up” text field).
- A bit off-road this one, but if your own mail server doesn’t cut it with large file sizes or distribution lists, YouSendIt is worth a look.
Shame she didn’t include the Urban Dictionary and I probably ought to alert her to Word Association from Nameless.
If you’re hungry for more “common errors in English”, try this.
Categories: English
