A simple shared dictionary to be enhanced with flash-like cards (maybe we can write something using HTML and JavaScript, like this HTML editor).
I collect words and expressions from multiple written sources, including:
- Tons of printed newspapers: USA Today, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, International New York Times (and The New York Times International Edition), The Japan Times, International Herald Tribune, New York Post, San Francisco Chronicle, The Denver Post, Austin American-Statesman, The Salt Lake Tribune, The Moscow News, The Moscow Times, Town Topics(R) (Princeton's Weekly Community Newspaper Since 1946), The News-Gazette (Champaign-Urbana, Danville and East Central Illinois), Metro (The world's most popular free newspaper), (London) Evening Standard, The Bristol Cable, etc.
- The YUNiversity | @The_YUNiversity | Tumblr 🔍 | Instagram
- Green’s Dictionary of Slang
- Learning from American Tabloid (1995), by James Ellroy
- Learning from Widespread Panic (2021), by James Ellroy
- Posts by Susan Rooks (The Grammar Goddess)
- Posts by Sara Rosinsky
- The Free Dictionary, which includes nice stuff like Nominalization (Creating Nouns)
- I also gather interesting stuff from a myriad of podcasts.
- I use to watch tons of performances by comedians,
- stuff from comedy YouTube channels,
- stuff from non-comedy YouTube channels, and
- other video resources.
Meaning of the emojis used in the dictionary:
- ✏️ Interesting or funny spelling
- 📣 Interesting or funny pronunciation
- 🔇 Silent letter
- 😲 Interesting or funny for any other reason
- 🔨 Undefined word
- 🎯 Try to learn this particular one!
- 🎗️ Trick aimed at remembering the meaning
- 📜 Etymology
- 😈 Shady-related word, or terms with pejorative connotations
- 🇪🇸 Translation into Spanish
Note: For help editing with Markdown in GitHub, you can visit writing on github pages, and for emojis, visit the emojipedia or the emoji cheat sheet. By the way, the word emoji comes from Japanese e (絵, "picture") + moji (文字, "character").