Sticks and stone may break my bones, but words are just a pain

Ah, the joys and mysteries of the English language! Here are but a few links that caught my eye today:

yourDictionary.com has a feature article on the 100 Most Mispronounced Words and Phrases in English (via zannah at #!/usr/bin/grl) and the 100 Most Often Mispelled Misspelled Words in English. Hey, maybe we can joyn the fite to chanje English spelling at the Simplified Spelling Society, which paradoxically, spells its organization's name with no simplification.

Also at yourDictionary.com is the Word of the Day (today's is Blarney, natch... Happy St. Patrick's!) while their Gameroom sports a cubic buttload of links such as Antagonyms (words that mean two contradictory things), and how to count to ten in over 4,500 languages.

And whether you're happy as a clam or hell-bent for leather, the origins of 400+ words and phrases can be found at Wordorigins.org.

A tip of the toque to my northerly neighbours (see how I put that 'u' in there, eh?) with this column on CBC called Words: Woe and Wonder