Scientists at London's Times newspaper have put together a fun gizmo to help you kill a little time online. Book Scraper lets you search the complete texts of 126 classic British works. You can search by word and see a graph of all the instances that, say, "abrupt" has appeared in the books. Or you … Continue reading More Time-Wasting

I could waste a lot of time on the website savethewords.org. It's a nifty page, dedicated to saving English's disappearing terms such as:jecorary--related to the liverlambition--the act of lickingpessundate--to cast downagonyclite--a member of a heretical sect that stood rather than kneeledThe truly dedicated can adopt a word, sign up for a new word a day, … Continue reading Nubivigant

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