There’s an ever-growing selection of online editing resources these days (The Chicago Manual of Style Online and Merriam-Webster Online are two of my favorites), but the number of available options—as well as the amount of information they provide—can be a bit overwhelming.
So I was very intrigued when a regular—and Web-savvy—reader sent me this article about Wordnik, a new online uber-dictionary of sorts that brings together information from multiple sources: Web pages, books, magazines, newspapers—even you (think Wikipedia for words).
For example, a search for “grammar” turns up not only definitions but also contextual examples, statistics about how often the word is used (apparently grammar was quite hot in 1980), and some pretty funny pictures from Flickr.
Thanks to Scott for keeping me technologically trendy.
