When you need the code for a special character.

Backwards dictionary, wildcards, and other useful tools.

"a grammatically correct sentence used as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated constructs."

A very short essay on how to write well.

Update (24/07/2006): Replaced the links with archive.org. Roy Peter Clark from Poynter Institute has posted up 50 tools that can help you when you do any

"This site contains an ever-growing set of study guides and tutorials for both serious students and casual enthusiasts of the language of the sagas. I add new lessons periodically."

Interesting pages on type design, cursive handwriting, teaching handwriting, etc.

"10,000 entry dictionary for beginning/intermediate students."

From the Capital Community College Foundation.

"A guide to written language (alphabets, hieroglyphs, Chinese characters, etc)." Excellent.

"A 'beck' is a silent signal, such as a nod of the head or a motion with the forefinger." "In summoning a servant one might have to resort to a 'call' as well as a 'beck' if the servant did not see the beck or failed to respond to it."

"a distinct group of related Japanese dialects found in the Kansai region of Japan."

"Translations, parodies, and other variants of Lewis Carroll's 'Jabberwocky.'"

Yes and no.

"Life would be much simpler if there was a single, universal encoding that covered all of the characters in all of the writing systems in use." Enter Unicode.

Regarding the bulge in Bush's shirt during the debate.

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

"Why did we go into Iraq without a peace plan? Without properly equipping our troops? Without our allies?" Brilliance.

"Why? The simple answer is because there is no earthly reason to capitalize any of these words."

"This is a list composed primarily of acronyms. It was originally compiled for the computer industry, but you know how creeping featurism can be."

"Why did the Iraqi Chicken cross the road?" -- Detailing the problems of translation in Iraq.

"Advocates of E-Prime, for reasons I'll come to, favor the elimination in English of every form of the verb "to be"."

"Here we’re concerned only with deviations from the standard use of English as judged by sophisticated users such as professional writers, editors, teachers, and literate executives and personnel officers."

"The study of crooked thinking is, however, an essential preliminary to this problem of judging the soundness of an argued case."