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(Potentially) Useful Stuff for Writers



N.B. The listing of a web site on this page does not imply endorsement by The Porcupine's Quill, Inc.



This category contains links to pages that provide specific tools 
which may be of use to writers. 

  • AltaVista Translations 
  • Anagram Generator 
  • Ask Jeeves and he'll do his best to point you in the right direction. 
  • Baby Names and their meanings 
  • Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (searchable) 
  • Botany Databases
  • Looney Labs' Calendar Event of the Week
  • CARpark UK, a list of links to computer-assisted research and reporting

  • resources for journalism
  • Book of Cliches
  • Dictionaries Online (over 200 languages)
  • Links to the current web sites of Federal Government of Canada departments and organizations. 
  • Federal Court of Canada
  • Find-a-Grave (burial sites of famous people) 
  • Links to Foreign Language Dictionaries (includes links to finger spelling and Braille guides)  or try A Web of On-Line Dictionaries
  • File Formats
  • French-English Dictionary (ARTFL Project, searchable) 
  • French verb conjugation 
  • Geneaology reference site. 
  • Glossary of Literary Terms and a Handbook of Rhetorical Devices (searchable) 
  • Hey Martha! Soft stories in the News
  • Hieroglyphic translator from the Royal Ontario Museum
  • Homonyms and Homophones 
  • Human Anatomy Online
  • InksLinks electronic magazine for editors and publishers
  • Interactive Atlas (locate street addresses around the world) 
  • The Internet Movie Database 
  • Journalism resources
  • Language Sites on the Internet from Richard Lederer's Verbivore Page
  • LexPLORE - Canada's Online Law Resource
  • Virtual Canadian Law Library 
  • US Library of Congress (searchable)
  • Literary Resources on the Net 
  • Living Almanac of Disasters
  • Megasources (from Ryerson)
  • Essentials of Music
  • Nasa Photo Gallery
  • National Atlas of Canada 
  • Netiquette
  • News Headlines: Moreover and Headlinez
  • NewsWatch Canada
  • List of Nobel Prize Winners 
  • Public Domain Opera Libretti and Other Vocal Texts 
  • Perpetual Calendar 
  • Periodic Table of the Elements 
  • Convert Phone Numbers to Words in several languages 
  • Canada Post's Postal Code Look-Up 
  • Research-It! (multi-purpose research tool) 
  • The Semantic Rhyming Dictionary
  • Robert's Rules of Order
  • Roget's Thesaurus (ARTFL Project, searchable)
  • Romantic Chronology
  • Searchable satellite images of Earth (free to view, cost involved to download--hey, it's Microsoft!--but can you find your house?)
  • SOAR: Searchable Online Archive of Recipes. 
  • Song lyrics search engine
  • MANDATORY for all writers: Strunk's The Elements of Style 
  • Supreme Court of Canada
  • Symbols: An Encyclopedia of Western Signs and Ideograms
  • Today's Date in History 
  • Is it a true story or an Urban Legend? This is the home of the alt.folklore.urban usenet group.
  • Voycabulary: web page-based word translator/dictionary
  • What Do You Want To Know Today is a one-stop-shopping search facility for literature, with emphasis on Classics. A bit uneven in its execution, and some of the links are broken.
  • World Population Counter 
  • W.A.T.C.H. Writers, Artists and Their Copyright Holders 
  • Webster's Dictionary (ARTFL Project, searchable) 
  • Wedding Anniversaries and their associated traditional and modern gifts
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