Calling all betas: please share your online reference links with me?
Yesterday's rantlet about phase/faze prompted poshcat to start a very lively (more than 100 comments!) discussion on grammatical angst -- check it out!
I was searching for reference sources yesterday, and I found a list of 650 homonym sets -- I'm tempted to send writers a link to it when they commit homonym abuse. I also found some fabulous sources on itsabigrock's "The Adventures of Captain Peroxide and Deadboy" site. Here's her Essays page, which includes such gems as "Fanfic Terms for the Newbie" and "The Beta Reader's Bible," and her Writer's Resources page, which has links to things like a British slang dictionary and "Nineteenth Century Scientific America Online."
I'd like to compile a list of online reference sources for this sort of thing, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel. So:
Calling all betas: won't you share your favorite online reference sources with me?
I was searching for reference sources yesterday, and I found a list of 650 homonym sets -- I'm tempted to send writers a link to it when they commit homonym abuse. I also found some fabulous sources on itsabigrock's "The Adventures of Captain Peroxide and Deadboy" site. Here's her Essays page, which includes such gems as "Fanfic Terms for the Newbie" and "The Beta Reader's Bible," and her Writer's Resources page, which has links to things like a British slang dictionary and "Nineteenth Century Scientific America Online."
I'd like to compile a list of online reference sources for this sort of thing, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel. So:
Calling all betas: won't you share your favorite online reference sources with me?