world wide words
Michael Quinion's world wide words is best explained by Mr Quinion himself. "The English language is forever changing. New words appear; old ones fall out of use or change their meanings. World Wide Words tries to record at least some part of this shifting wordscape by featuring new words, word histories, the background to words in the news, and the curiosities of native English speech."
This is a fascinating reference site that is likely to be of interest to teachers of English and advanced level students. The web site is a collection of the articles Michael has written for his free weekly e-magazine. The e-magazine articles are later published on the web site. If you wish to subscribe to the e-magazine it can be received in three ways;
The site can be found at:
http://www.worldwidewords.org/index.htm
- by joining the mailing list to receive them by e-mail
- by RSS, using your browser or an online service such as Google
- through Twitter
The site covers a wide range of vocabulary related topics such as prefixes and suffixes, topical words and weird words. It is also possible to send a word based question to Michael. So, if you want to find out what Spanish practices are or why the word McJob caused such a fuss this is the place for you.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/index.htm
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