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Dictionaries are such common tools we rarely give them much thought. Anyone who is addicted to crossword puzzles or word games, however, will appreciate the "Strange and Unusual Dictionaries" site by Craig Conley.
For your reading pleasure, he has compiled:
- The Dictionary of All-Consonant Words
- The Dictionary of All-Vowel Words
- The White Queen's Dictionary of One Letter Words (a play on Through the Looking Glass)
With over 700 entries in the one-letter dictionary alone, it's too bad there is no search engine. But the dictionaries are easily browsed by letter of the alphabet, and they are so charming you won't mind. You, too, can explore the difference between whrr and whhhrrr, the three uses of oo, and the shades of difference between ooo, oooo, ooooo and oooooo.
The author includes links to almost a dozen other online dictionaries and word-play resources, as well.
JEFFSelects, JEFFLINE's virtual reference collection, provides all types of dictionaries and writing tools for serious work (as well as play), including English and foreign language dictionaries, thesauri, medical dictionaries, symbols and quotations.
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