International House of Logorrhea

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The International House of Logorrhea, a free online dictionary of weird and unusual words to help enhance your vocabulary.


The International House of Logorrhea is the sort of site I love, but don't really use effectively as intended - I'm not really good at looking for an alternate word in the midst of writing; it breaks my flow.

I do play with Thesaurus style reference while editing, but I'm still more likely to beat myself about the brain than to actually look words up.

But I am the kind of logophile who loves to read this type of reference.( I was a great dictionary reader starting as a kid. I really don't understand people who can just look up a single word without being led down a never ending path.) If I can cram them into my brain, I can use them that way.

Anyway, I thought I'd share this link, in case you are one of any category of word reference users.

It includes interesting glossary groupings, which I am hoping I might use during the my process, and it is a component of The Phrontistery, which has many other free word lists and unusual word related resources.

Comments

[semyaza.livejournal.com]

That's very useful. Not so much as a thesaurus but as a way to find information about different kinds of cloth, names for colours, and so forth. Now I'll have to work zinnober into a hobbit conversation.

[http://users.livejournal.com/fileg_/]

Some of them sound so opulent! I want there to be some sort of fabric and color word rap song.

[radbooks.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's an interesting site, thanks for sharing it. It's fascinating to browse through it. I'll use it if only for the one section on colors... thinking beyond red, light blue, pale green, etc., is more than I want to do most of the time. I know there are wonderful words to describe colors but I'm just not big on tracking some down, especially words that fit the stories I'm writing and don't sound like Crayola Crayons. :)

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I am finding the categories the most interesting, too, though I am always afraid to use words that sound too archaic/foreign in my stories. I'm always afraid I sound archaic enough on my I own.

[leemoyer.livejournal.com]

Hola! I'm mostly AFK these days of travel, but it's great to see you virtually. :)

THis is a great link that I hope to explore.
Things are good but crazy here at Chez Kaluta, and I'm so excited that I get to come see you soon!

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We're looking forward to seeing you!

I thought this link might have scrabble potential...

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

I just wanted to respond to the parenthetical aside with a ME TOO.
How on earth can people just look up one word?

I actually had a college professor sternly tell the two others in my small class that I wasn't to be left alone with the big dictionary again because there was no telling what trouble I'd get into next!
I was twenty-two.
(It was a class in medieval Welsh, to be fair, and the dictionary in question was a formidable and incomplete work of horrendousness, but still.)