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Sockpuppet
Sockpuppet n. A puppet made from a sock or similar garment. n. (Internet) An alternate identity used by someone in order to appear as if they are someone else. v. To maintain one or more such alternate identities.
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Anagram Artist
(Requires email registration) A text editor for composing anagrams.
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NYC's Urban Textscape
What if you could search every visible word on New York City’s streets?
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An Incident
Early 15c., “something which occurs casually in connection with something else,” from Old French incident (13c.), and directly from Latin incidentem (nominative incidens), present participle of incidere “to fall in, fall, find the way; light upon, fall in with; fall upon, occur; happen, befall” –…
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cleartext-mac
A text editor that only allows the 1,000 most common words in English.
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Welcome to Wordorigins.org
Detail of Bayeux Tapestry: Norman cavalry attacking an English fort. Image by Myrabella, 2013, licensed under Creative Commons. And we’re on Bluesky and Mastodon too. You can also follow the site on Mastodon and on Bluesky. I am no longer posting on the site formerly known as Twitter. Latest posts:…
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An open-source app for IELTS preparation
IELTS Prep (BandReady) — free, open-source, offline-first IELTS practice desktop app. Speaking, writing, reading and listening with a live AI voice examiner and band-descriptor scoring, running on ...
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Andrea Corinti
Homepage of Andrea Corinti (Xab), freelance content & e-learning platform coordinator and Italian Web World citizen.
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Jennifer Daniel previews the new emoji coming in Unicode 18.0
You’re not going crazy
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Philip Sidney and the Extreme (Dis)graces of the Parenthesis
Erasmus called them “little moons” and George Puttenham praised them as “figures of tolerable disorder” (if used not too often “nor too thick”). For Philip Sidney, they were simply indispensable. Florence Hazrat introduces us to the uncontested early modern king of brackets and to his romance…
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ludwig wittgenstein's 'language-game', as a game
From Explorable Explanations
RainbowSay – Learn, teach, research languages live with shows you love
RainbowSay is a Mac app for learning or teaching a language from the shows, movies, videos and podcasts you already love — sentence by sentence, with AI translation, vocabulary, grammar, speaking practice and live subtitles. Free to start.
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Glyph Generator
A generator of glyphs for use in games, world building or for fun.
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Talk to Transformer
Chat with a GPT2 text AI model, perhaps useful in generating that next line when you’ve got writer’s block.
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Wordnik
The world’s largest online dictionary with definitions from multiple sources, example sentences, rhymes, conceptual links, and related words.
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Orca
An esoteric language, usable as a live coding environment that can send and create MIDI, OSC & UDP signals.
From Tiny Tools Directory
Text Fixer
Misc online text tools, including word to html, remove line breaks, random nouns, more.
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Unicode Text Converter
Convert plain text to obscure characters from Unicode.
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Wordoid
Random word generator with toggles for language, quality, patterns, length, and domain availability.
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That's this stretch.
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