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| Bartleby.com: Great Books Online -- Encyclopedia, Dictionary, Thesaurus and hundreds more |
The preeminent publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge. |
bartleby.com |
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| Idiomsite.com - Idioms and Sayings |
Part of bored.com |
idiomsite.com |
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| Meanings and origins of sayings and phrases | List of sayings | English sayings | Idiom definitions | Idiom examples | Idiom origins | List of idioms | Idiom dictionary | Meaning of idioms |
The meanings and origins of over 1,200 English sayings, phrases and idioms. |
phrases.org.uk |
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| Nursery Rhymes lyrics, origins and history |
The origins of most nursery rhymes reflect events in history and where available we have included both the meanings and origins of everyone's favourite nursery rhymes. |
rhymes.org.uk |
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| Origin of Phrases - Home |
You probably know what these phrases mean, you may use them yourself. But why do they mean what they do? Phrases usually have meaning that goes beyond the words in the phrase. This page investigates how common phrases came to be. |
members.aol.com |
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| The Quotations Page - Your Source for Famous Quotes |
You've reached the oldest quotation site on the Web, established 1994. We have over 25,000 quotations online from over 3,000 authors, and more are added daily. |
quotationspage.com |
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| Quotations, Famous Quotes at Quote World |
Over 15,000 quotations and famous quotes. |
quoteworld.org |
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| Take Our Word For It, the weekly word-origin webzine |
Melanie started this page in 1994, and at that time it was known as The Logical World of Etymology. She met Mike through their mutual interest in etymology, and now they collaborate on the site, which they renamed Take Our Word For It in 1997, and which is now an endeavor of the Institute for Etymological Research and Education. |
takeourword.com |
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| The Word Detective |
Words and Language in a Humorous Vein
on the Web Since 1995 |
word-detective.com |
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| Wordorigins.org |
Wordorigins.org is devoted to the origins of words and phrases, or as a linguist would put it, to etymology. |
wordorigins.org |
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