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Concise guide to some of the most frequently violated rules of writing, punctuation, and grammar.

The music and magic of words. This is the website for the mailing list A.Word.A.Day (AWAD), which sends a vocabulary word and its definition to the subscribers every day.

For questions on English grammar, spelling, and usage. Search a dictionary of words, names or quotations.

For use in English courses in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature. It aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style.

Kenneth G. Wilson's handbook includes descriptive and prescriptive examples with hyperlinked cross-references.

A process and system for helping people become better writers. Includes exercises, examples, and information about descriptive writing and metaphors.

An in-depth look at the words we use from CBC News.

List of 2000 English cliches with some statistical and literary notes on their use.

Special tool word-searches 3,300 cliches.

Clichés, sayings or phrases listed with definitions and explanations. Clichés are organized by subject and alphabetically and you can use the search function.

Thousands of cliches. Fully searchable and interactive. Formerly Steve's Cliche List. Since 1995.

Catalogue of writing or speaking mistakes and easily confusable words, with corrections.

A brief guide to correct English punctuation.

Tests of usage, built interactively.

A look at word usage in popular culture. The Dictionary of Concision is a complete manual of several thousand wordy phrases.