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Wordnik.com - Users may look up the definitions of any work, along with examples, pronunciations, etymologies, related items, and statistics.

Rosetta Project: This site archives language samples for preservation across millennia. Each language is documented according to seven components deemed useful for future linguistic archaeologists.

World Wide Words: This site is dedicated to the history, quirks, curiosities, and evolution of the English language.

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