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Wordie: Like Flickr without the photos
by Ryan Carter Dec 10th 2006 at 12:29PM
Oh my gosh! I looooove wordie. I love it, because I love words. This site lets you make lists of words easily, play with words, and even break out an RSS feed or two of your words for daily consumption at your leisure. You know how everyone says "use your words" in corporate-speak when they really mean to call you stupid in every day language? Well, Wordie lets you not only "use your freakin words" but also SAVE in lists them for later use. I imagine I will make a list of zingers, so I can yell at telemarketers effectively, but hey, you can make lists of words for anything you want. A feature I like a lot is the list of reference links after every word you type in, so if you love or hate a word, and need to find out what it actually is or means, you can via these tools. The reference tools include ninjawords, tfd, etymonline, dictionary, M-W, UD, Wikipedia, Google. The site is very heavy on the AJAX, which is also something I like, not to mention one of the best tag lines ever, "Like Flickr, but without the photos." Pure genius. Other than that, there really is not much else to this service, except playing with words, and making lists of them. If you are a word buff, a writer, blogger, or just a language nut, you'll love doing this stupid activity till you're blue in the face. Happy wordie-ing...wait, is that a word?
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Anita said 2:53PM on 12-10-2006
This is one of those sites that seem dumb at first, but can get rather addictive.
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George said 1:55PM on 12-12-2006
Don't really get the point of this site...but I did like the list of sources it uses. I think that with time this can be an interesting source of information about the English language. I'd also like to see wordie add more sites to their list of sources such as- http://www.acrnoymfinder.com , http://www.abbreviationz.com and http://www.metaglossary.com .
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