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Unusual Dictionaries of English

Here at Up in Ontario central we have a keen interest in how people use the English language. Two sites have come to our attention in the past week and it's our editorial decision to share them.

First, the 100 Most Often Mispronounced Words. Read through the list and laugh at the mistakes people make, calm and assured in your own superiority of diction. Then oops! one word makes the list and you find yourself saying, "So there's only one r in sherbet."

Second, the Dictionary of the Non Verbal focuses on the messages we send and receive every day without words. Make sure to look into the Existential Crunch, the Big Mac, the Barbie Doll and especially the Love Signal.

Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order. — John Ralston Saul, The Doubter's Companion, 1994