There’s no other social media in this world that makes you more aware of the importance of individual words than Twitter does. So let’s celebrate the frustrating limitations of the 140-character tweet by taking a look at the six best accounts that focus on one word at a time!
Our personal favorite, this account focuses on the weird and silly. Slang, Old English, and obscurity are the name of the game here!
Oxford University Press, publisher of Oxford Dictionaries, runs this site. Here, they focus on links to fun word articles, and have a word-of-the-day. Plus, they sometimes get a bit cheeky with pop culture:
For those of you who are interested in how language changes–and in keeping up your slang–this is the handle for you! Language is a living, breathing thing, and this account is dedicated to all the new slang words.
This academic-run account is aimed at the curious layperson and the casual linguist. Babel answers your burning linguistics questions as well as collects linguistic news and articles from around the web.
- @InterestingLit
A fun little handle about words and quotations by and about those that are famous for using them.
- @OED
The Oxford English Dictionary is the king of kings, the ultimate resource and authority on language and word usage. The best part of this account is that a membership to access the OED is very expensive, but links to the OED on here can be accessed by anyone, so you can still get your word-origin fix!
Readers, what are your favorite places to go online to revel in language?
