The origin of everyday punctuation marks. Interesting.
A list of overused Fantasy cliches, which led me to wonder which stories they were from. … Of course I recognized Tasha Yar of Star Trek TNG.
Very cool online graphical dictionary and thesaurus
Alphabet Evolution, not complete, but interesting.
Question about original fairy tales being incredibly violent.
Big Huge Thesaurus for rhymes, sounds like, etc.
Website on Hans Christian Andersen’s tales.
Anagram Hall of Fame, The morse cold = here come dots
Weird and wonderful foreign phrases, including tartle which is Scottish for hesitating when introducing someone whose name you can’t remember
Speech funnies, “She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and forgot to say when. P. G. Wodehouse”
Crazy Facts, origin of “rule of thumb” and “sleep tight”