Billingsgate Autoschediasm Scrofula Pyknic Spaghettification Quire Afflatus Logomachy Calumny Abecedary Quincunx Tantivy Picaresque Anagrams Pip Popinjay Smaragdine Squint Soigné Scorigami Coxcomb Oulipo High-Muck-A-Muck Eurhythmic Grok Cicerone Apricity Tautonym
Billingsgate Autoschediasm Scrofula Pyknic Spaghettification Quire Afflatus Logomachy Calumny Abecedary Quincunx Tantivy Picaresque Anagrams Pip Popinjay Smaragdine Squint Soigné Scorigami Coxcomb Oulipo High-Muck-A-Muck Eurhythmic Grok Cicerone Apricity Tautonym
Resources
We cover a lot of information on the show, and we think being transparent about our sources is important to our listeners who may want engage with that information more fruitfully.
So here are a bunch of the sources our hosts use to research the words they cover on the podcast.
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
American Heritage Dictionary | Biology Online | Cambridge Dictionary | The Century Dictionary Online | Collins Online Dictionary | Dictionary.com | Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue | Free Dictionary | The Free Dictionary | Infoplease | LookWAYUp | Luciferous Logolepsy | Merriam-Webster Dictionary | Merriam-Webster Time Traveler | Mnemonic Dictionary | OneLook | OneLook Thesaurus | Online Etymology Dictionary | The Online Plain Text English Dictionary | Oxford English Dictionary | The Phrase Finder | The Phrontistery | PsychWeb | RhymeZone | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy | Thesaurus.com | Urban Dictionary | Vocabulary.com | Webster-dictionary.org | Webster’s Dictionary 1828 | Wiktionary | Wordcraft Dictionary | Wordnik | WordReference.com | WordSense Dictionary | Wordsmyth | YourDictionaryNon-Modern English and Other Language Dictionaries
Middle English DictionaryBlogs, Forums, and Word Lists
Luciferous Logolepsy | The Phrontistery | WordcraftDigital Collections and Reference
Artstor | arXiv | Audio BNC | Bartleby | bookworm: HathiTrust | British National Corpus | Credo Reference | Digital Collections at the Beinecke Library | Digital Public Library of America | Dimensions | Directory of Open Access Books | Directory of Open Access Journals | Electronic Journals Library | English Corpora, including British National Corpus (BNC) • The Coronavirus Corpus • Corpus of American Soap Operas • Corpus of Canadian English (Strathy) • Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) • Corpus of Global Web-Based English (GloWbE) • Corpus of Historical American English (COHA) • Corpus of Online Registers of English (CORE) • Corpus of US Supreme Court Opinions • Early English Books Online • Google Books • iWeb: The 14 Billion Word Web Corpus • The Movie Corpus • NOW Corpus (News on the Web) • TIME Magazine Corpus • The TV Corpus • The Wikipedia Corpus | Explore Smithsonian | FOBO | Google Books | Google Books Ngram Viewer | Google Scholar | Google Trends | Hathitrust Digital Library | The Henry Ford Digital Collections | Internet Archive | JSTOR | JURN | Library Guides at University of Washington Libraries | The Luminist League | MERLOT | OpenDOAR | Open Library | Open Library of Humanities | Open Research Library | Paperity | Phrases in English | PLOS | Project Gutenberg | ROAD | SocArXiv | SSRN | U-M Library Digital Collections, including, but not limited to: British Manuscripts Project • British Women Romantic Poets • The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson • Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse • Digital General Collection • Early English Books Online Collections • Eighteenth Century Collections Online • Evans Early American Imprint Collection • Faber Poetry Library • A Glossarial DataBase of Middle English • Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English • Michigan Early Modern English Materials • Middle English Compendium (Dictionary, Bibliography, and Quotations) • Poetry Here and Then | Websites on Religion - Libguides at AtlaPronunciation Guides
General Forvo | Slightly Geeky Guides to Pronouncing Various Languages | YouGlish | YouTube, AccentBase | YouTube, American Pronunciation Guide Chinese Slightly Geeky Guide to Pronouncing Romanized Mandarin | Slightly Geeky Guide to Pronouncing Romanized Taiwanese Hokkien Constructed Languages Slightly Geeky Guide to Pronouncing Esperanto Ancient and Modern Englishes Middle English Basic Pronunciation and Grammar Other extinct languages Sounds of the Akkadian Language Germanic languages Slightly Geeky Guide to Pronouncing Icelandic Ancient and Modern Greek Attic Greek Pronunciation Guide | Professor John Wells IPA transcription of Ancient Greek | Slightly Geeky Guide to Pronouncing Ancient Greek | Wikipedia, Ancient Greek Phonology | Wikipedia, Greek diacritics | Wikipedia, Pronunciation of Ancient Greek in teaching Indo-Aryan languages Slightly Geeky Guide to Pronouncing Sanskrit & Other South Asian Languages Japanese An Overview of Pronouncing Japanese & Introduction to Japanese Syllabaries Latin Slightly Geeky Guide to Pronouncing Latin Modern Romance languages Slightly Geeky Guide to Pronouncing Italian Semitic languages The Complete Arabic Pronunciation Guide | Forvo, Hebrew pronunciation | Slightly Geeky Guide to Pronouncing Near Eastern Languages Slavic languages Slightly Geeky Guide to Pronouncing Croatian Turkic languages Slightly Geeky Guide to Pronouncing Turkish Uto-Aztecan languages Slightly Geeky Guide to Pronouncing Classical Nahuatl