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Obscure & Fun
Words For Things You Didn't Know Have Names, Vol. 3
When thingummy and whatsit won't do
Great Big List of Beautiful and Useless Words, Vol. 3
Lovely, pointless, or both?
17 of the Finest Words for Drinking
Try these out at your next happy hour
Top 12 Sophisticated Compliments
'Urbane,' 'incisive,' and other good things to be
Great Big List of Beautiful and Useless Words, Vol. 1
Some may be more useful than others.
7 Words for Bad Endings and Rough Situations
When it doesn't go as planned
Fan Favorites: Your Most Liked Words of the Day 2023
This is a list of the top ten Words of the Day that made you learn, laugh, and look up words a little more in 2023
Great Big List of Beautiful and Useless Words, Vol. 2
More great words, many quite pointless.
13 Unusually Long English Words
Pulchritudinous and many more
9 Irregular and Unpredictable Words
Get your pencil ready
Words For Things You Didn't Know Have Names, Vol. 4
Sitzmarks! Jarkmen!! Pronking!!!
8 Words for Witchcraft and Black Magic
Witchcraft, dark magic, and more
What Is an Eggcorn?
And how did it get that name?
Words That are Their Own Opposites
Do I contradict myself?
12 Underrated Words That Deserve More Love
These are some good words
And So It Begins: 9 Words for Beginnings
Let's take it from the top.
The Longest Long Words List
21 words with 21 letters or more
'Cattywampus' and Other Funny-Sounding Words
Feeling 'bumfuzzled' or have the 'collywobbles'?
9 Weird Words in Moby-Dick
All are great; one is offal
Ahoy! Ten Words for Talking Like a Pirate
Whether on International Talk Like a Pirate Day or any day!
From Auto-Tune to Zipper: Eight Products that Became Words
Va-va-vuvuzela
Even More Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't
Get off your plum duff and check these out
9 More Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't
How to tell your butoxy from your hawsehole
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