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Obscure & Fun
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
Galaxy Brain: 10 Words for Deep Thoughts
What's (another word for) the big idea?
Your Favorite Band is in the Dictionary
10 bands you can look up and queue up
30 Ways to Tell the Future
Let us know if any of these work for you
12 Words from the Wrong Side of the Law
Crime doesn't pay, but vocabulary might
Words For Things You Didn't Know Have Names, Vol. 4
Sitzmarks! Jarkmen!! Pronking!!!
Nine Obscure Beer-Related Words
Crack open a cold (or warm and eggy) one and enjoy
Ahoy! Ten Words for Talking Like a Pirate
Whether on International Talk Like a Pirate Day or any day!
Words That are Their Own Opposites
Do I contradict myself?
Another Ten Ways to Improve Your Vocabulary
Simple But Intelligent Word Choices, Vol. 3
A Wicked Awesome List of New England Words
Things you may overhear when you park your car at Harvard Yard
9 Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't
Get your mind into the gutter
10 Uncommon Emotional Words
Once more with (obscure) feeling
11 Bookish Words for Book Lovers
You'll enjoy these words more than a bibliotaph in a bookery.
9 More Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't
How to tell your butoxy from your hawsehole
Even More Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't
Get off your plum duff and check these out
From Auto-Tune to Zipper: Eight Products that Became Words
Va-va-vuvuzela
9 Weird Words in Moby-Dick
All are great; one is offal
'Cattywampus' and Other Funny-Sounding Words
Feeling 'bumfuzzled' or have the 'collywobbles'?
12 Underrated Words That Deserve More Love
These are some good words
Winning Scrabble Words for Everyday People
You don't have to be a pro to play these words.
What Is an Eggcorn?
And how did it get that name?
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