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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
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
12 Words from the Wrong Side of the Law
Crime doesn't pay, but vocabulary might
What Is an Eggcorn?
And how did it get that name?
Words That are Their Own Opposites
Do I contradict myself?
Winning Scrabble Words for Everyday People
You don't have to be a pro to play these words.
12 Underrated Words That Deserve More Love
These are some good words
'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
11 Bookish Words for Book Lovers
You'll enjoy these words more than a bibliotaph in a bookery.
10 Uncommon Emotional Words
Once more with (obscure) feeling
9 Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't
Get your mind into the gutter
A Wicked Awesome List of New England Words
Things you may overhear when you park your car at Harvard Yard
Another Ten Ways to Improve Your Vocabulary
Simple But Intelligent Word Choices, Vol. 3
30 Ways to Tell the Future
Let us know if any of these work for you
Your Favorite Band is in the Dictionary
10 bands you can look up and queue up
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