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Wilton's Etymology Page. (12/21/2000 07:50 EST) Here's another interesting site for any wordsmiths out there.

From the site: "Etymology is the study of word origins. It is not the study of insects; that is entomology. Where words come from is a fascinating subject, full of folklore and historical lessons. Often, popular tales of a word's origin arise. Sometimes these are true; more often they are not. While it often seems disappointing when a neat little tale turns out to be untrue, almost invariably the true origin is just as interesting. "

** JD **    7:54:49 AM

A great new language website - YourDictionary.com. (12/21/2000 07:24 EST) I just stumbled across a great reference site that you wordsmiths might like to know about.

From their web site: "... the web's most comprehensive and authoritative language portal with more than 1800 dictionaries in more than 230 languages! "

"It has incredibly cool language tools, word games that help you discover the complexities and nuances of language, a rich assortment of crossword puzzles, translation tools, hundreds of specialty dictionaries (law, medicine, finance, sports, sciences, and more), articles by the world's leading linguistic authorities, its own Word of the Day (that can be e-mailed to you daily), plus language courses and grammars galore. It even has a "lookup button" that lets you search their dictionary for any word on any website, right from your browser. You can even have a very special Word of the Day sent directly to your desktop every day. You'll get the story behind the story about that word including pronunciation, definition, usage and etymology, and more! "

** JD **   7:30:51 AM

FREE WebPosition Gold Software. (12/21/2000 02:11 EST) WebPosition Gold - Invaluable tool to save you time and to help build traffic to your web site. WebPosition Gold reports your site's search positions and then helps you improve them.

This software is getting rave reviews and number 1 ratings from a variety of sources. You can read them for yourself on the Reviews page at their site. Then download the free trial version and see for yourself.

This software runs on Windows and acceptable emulators.

** JD **   2:29:49 AM


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