The most common method of thinking in the Western world is verbal thinking. Although we have a range of intelligences including numerical, musical, spatial, emotional, verbal and kinaesthetic intelligences, it is verbal intelligence that we depend on most. We tend to think and express ourselves in words. It can be argued that mastery of the…
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100 Most Often Misspelled Words
Over at yourDictionary.com, it has a good reference on the top 100 often misspelled words for English. On top of the word list, it also describes the reason of why it is easy to misspell. Examples such as: changeable: The verb “change” keeps its [e] here to indicate that the [g] is soft, not hard. (That…
Finding related words and phrases
OneLook Dictionary Search is a cool service that able you to search a list of related words or phrases from a word and concept: OneLook’s reverse dictionary lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept. Your description can be a few words, a sentence, a question…