Karen Chung is a regular contributor of useful links to LINGUIST. Here is her latest posting:

I expect lots of us are subscribed to Anu Garg's 'A Word A Day' - considering his circulation of over 300,000. I've been aware for some time, though, that there are other 'Word of the Day' sites and services, and thought I'd do a Google search and put some of the links on my site for my students, to add some interactivity.

I was a bit amazed to find just how many 'Word of the Day's there are out there, and the sheer variety! There are 'Word of the Day's for all different levels of English proficiency for one thing - but even more intriguing were the non-English ones I found. There are the more pedestrian 'Wort des Tages' and 'Mot du Jour' and ones for other well-studied European languages, to be sure, but also daily words in numerous native American languages, with Alaska and Hawaii especially well represented! Many include sound files. There are also a 'medical' word of the day, and a bilingual one for Chinese civil law! I'm not sure how conscientious each Webmaster is about updating their material, but I did choose what looked like the best of the sites I visited.

The 21 'Word of the Day' links are available at: http://ccms.ntu.edu ..tw/~karchung/Extras.htm

- just click on 'Words of the Day' in the index at the top of the page.

Please write and tell me if you know of other 'Word of the Day' sites you think should be included.

Also of possible interest are the 'Language and Linguistics' links at: http://ccms.nt u.edu.tw/~karchung/linguistics.htm

Karen Steffen Chung, karchung@ccms.ntu.edu.tw

I told her about wordlog. Do you know of any others?

B-)