These words are from the website "World Wide Words" http://www.worldwidewords.org/index.htm
Each of these words links to an article on that website.
In November 2006, Visual Thesaurus did an interview with the creator of the website (Michael Quinion) - Words, Words, Words http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/dictionary/419/.
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