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The Bloghorn
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Top ELL Sites
About.com
Australia Network - Learning English
BBC Learning English
Start here
Bell English Online
British Council - LearnEnglish
EnglishCentral
EnglishClub.com
Lyrics Training
Learn English through songs
Newsy
Multi-source online video news
Road to Grammar
Excellent resource for teachers and students
VOA News Learning English: The Classroom
ELL Blogs
100 Fantastic Blogs for Language Lovers
Arnold Zwicky's list of blogs & resources
Blog EFL Web 2.0
Daily English Activities
Delta Development Blog
A blog for ELT teachers led by leading experts in the field.
Dialect Blog | Accents and Dialects of English
EFL Classroom 2.0 - Teacher Talk
"When one teaches, two learn“.
EFLBlogs
EFL/ESL Teacher Blog Directory
EFLGeek
English Blog
English life and culture.
English Raven
englishonthe.net
ESL Lesson Plan
ESL-to-go
Free ESL Materials
Big list of blogs
jamiekeddie.com
Lesson plans and ideas
Kalinago English
Teaching Speaking, Using Technology
Kenneth's ESL Blog
Kenneth Beare from About.com
Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day
Learning technology teacher development blog for ELT
Lexiophiles
Blog in 5 languages
Macmillan Dictionary Blog
Onestopblogs
English Language blog aggregator from Macmillan
Quick Shout
Rolls off the Tongue
Cartoon idioms
Six Things
ELT miscellany
Tech ELT Blog
TEFLtastic
The Island Weekly
An American in Germany
The Linguist on Language
Top 100 Language Blogs
From Lexiophiles
Wil's World of Words
ELL Podcasts
A Way with Words
Hour-long shows about the English language.
Better at English
Business English Pod
Business Spotlight Podcast
Culips
Podcast from Montreal
EnglishPod
Probably the best of all the English learning podcasts.
ESLPod
Grammar Girl
Short, friendly tips to improve your writing.
Grammar Grater
Weekly podcast about English words, grammar and usage.
Learn English Podcasts
From The British Council
Listen to English
Podcasts in English
Podictionary
A root word every day.
Speaking English Podcast
Pronunciation videos
TeflTecher
Tasks, Videos and Opinions for Tefl Teachers
For Teachers
Conversation Questions for the ESL/EFL Classroom
TEFL.net
Online resources for teachers of English
Learning English | guardian.co.uk
Excellent classroom materials
Teacher Training Videos
Using screencasts as a teaching tool
Blogroll
Tabloid Watch
Blog about bad journalism
Daryl Cagle's Political Cartoonists Index
Tons of topical cartoons
The Connexion
France's English-language newspaper
Frogsmoke
What makes France such an endearing and infuriating country at the same time?
The Bloghorn
UK Professional Cartoonists' Organisation
This French Life
Interesting nuggets of information about France
Sunday 29 May 2011
26 Weird English Words from A to Z
Weird English Words from A to Z
Theresa Dold on 03/3/11
Have you ever worn winklepickers or salopettes? Is the saying about French women and their oxters true? Do your friends complain that you bibble too much? Have you ever experienced zoanthropy and been convinced you were an elephant?
If you’re confused as to how to answer any – or all – of these questions, never fear! We’ve created this confusion, and we’re here to clear it up with this alphabetical list of 26 weird English words and their meanings.
Do you have a favorite weird word in English or any other language? Drop us the word and definition in the comments section below!
agastopia
n. – admiration of a particular part of someone’s body
bibble
v. – to drink often; to eat and/or drink noisily
cabotage
n. – coastal navigation; the exclusive right of a country to control the air traffic within its borders
NOT: v. – to sabotage with cabbage and/or Vermont Cabot Cheese
doodle sack
n. – old English word for bagpipe
erinaceous
adj. – of, pertaining to, or resembling a hedgehog
Although she won’t know what it means, never, ever tell your date Erin that she is “looking quite erinaceous this evening.”
firman
n. – in Turkey and some other Oriental countries, a decree or mandate issued by the sovereign
gabelle
n. – a tax on salt
halfpace
n. – a platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight
impignorate
v. – to pawn or mortgage something
NOT: v. – to impregnate a pig
jentacular
adj. – pertaining to breakfast
kakorrhaphiophobia
n. – fear of failure
This is the last word that someone with kakorrhaphiophobia would want to encounter in a spelling bee.
lamprophony
n. – loudness and clarity of enunciation
macrosmatic
adj. – having a good sense of smell
nudiustertian
n. – the day before yesterday
NOT: n. – a martian nudist
oxter
n. – outdated word meaning “armpit”
NOT: n. – a creature that is half ox, half otter
pauciloquent
adj. – uttering few words; brief in speech
If you had to figure out how to use this word in context, you probably wouldn’t say much either.
quire
n. – two dozen sheets of paper
ratoon
n. – small shoot growing from the root of a plant
NOT: n. – the offspring of interbreeding rats and raccoons
salopettes
n. – high-waisted skiing pants with shoulder straps
tittynope
n. – a small quantity of something left over
Undoubtedly the biggest eyebrow-raiser on this list!
ulotrichous
adj. – having wooly or crispy hair
First time you’ve heard this word? It’s probably a good indication that you don’t have wooly or crispy hair. Or that you do, and nobody uses this word anymore.
valetudinarian
n. – a sickly or weak person, especially one who is constantly and morbidly concerned with his or her health
Think – “the valedictorian of hypochondriacs”
winklepicker
n. – style of shoe or boot in the 1950s with a sharp and long pointed toe
A close second to “tittynope” in the eyebrow-raiser category
xertz
v. – to gulp down quickly and greedily
yarborough
n. – hand of cards containing no card above a nine
zoanthropy
n. – delusion of a person who believes himself changed into an animal
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Theresa Dold on 03/3/11
Have you ever worn winklepickers or salopettes? Is the saying about French women and their oxters true? Do your friends complain that you bibble too much? Have you ever experienced zoanthropy and been convinced you were an elephant?
If you’re confused as to how to answer any – or all – of these questions, never fear! We’ve created this confusion, and we’re here to clear it up with this alphabetical list of 26 weird English words and their meanings.
Do you have a favorite weird word in English or any other language? Drop us the word and definition in the comments section below!
agastopia
n. – admiration of a particular part of someone’s body
bibble
v. – to drink often; to eat and/or drink noisily
cabotage
n. – coastal navigation; the exclusive right of a country to control the air traffic within its borders
NOT: v. – to sabotage with cabbage and/or Vermont Cabot Cheese
doodle sack
n. – old English word for bagpipe
erinaceous
adj. – of, pertaining to, or resembling a hedgehog
Although she won’t know what it means, never, ever tell your date Erin that she is “looking quite erinaceous this evening.”
firman
n. – in Turkey and some other Oriental countries, a decree or mandate issued by the sovereign
gabelle
n. – a tax on salt
halfpace
n. – a platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight
impignorate
v. – to pawn or mortgage something
NOT: v. – to impregnate a pig
jentacular
adj. – pertaining to breakfast
kakorrhaphiophobia
n. – fear of failure
This is the last word that someone with kakorrhaphiophobia would want to encounter in a spelling bee.
lamprophony
n. – loudness and clarity of enunciation
macrosmatic
adj. – having a good sense of smell
nudiustertian
n. – the day before yesterday
NOT: n. – a martian nudist
oxter
n. – outdated word meaning “armpit”
NOT: n. – a creature that is half ox, half otter
pauciloquent
adj. – uttering few words; brief in speech
If you had to figure out how to use this word in context, you probably wouldn’t say much either.
quire
n. – two dozen sheets of paper
ratoon
n. – small shoot growing from the root of a plant
NOT: n. – the offspring of interbreeding rats and raccoons
salopettes
n. – high-waisted skiing pants with shoulder straps
tittynope
n. – a small quantity of something left over
Undoubtedly the biggest eyebrow-raiser on this list!
ulotrichous
adj. – having wooly or crispy hair
First time you’ve heard this word? It’s probably a good indication that you don’t have wooly or crispy hair. Or that you do, and nobody uses this word anymore.
valetudinarian
n. – a sickly or weak person, especially one who is constantly and morbidly concerned with his or her health
Think – “the valedictorian of hypochondriacs”
winklepicker
n. – style of shoe or boot in the 1950s with a sharp and long pointed toe
A close second to “tittynope” in the eyebrow-raiser category
xertz
v. – to gulp down quickly and greedily
yarborough
n. – hand of cards containing no card above a nine
zoanthropy
n. – delusion of a person who believes himself changed into an animal
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1.25 Comical Quotes About the Confusing English Language2.Brain Learns New Words in Less Than 15 Minutes3.Globish: The New Way to Communicate in English?4.No More English – or “Chinglish” – in China5.Planet English [INFOGRAPHIC]Like
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