A searchable database of more than 166,000 common acronyms about all subjects, with a focus on computers, technology, telecommunications, and the military. 
 

The American Heritage Book of English Usage :  http://www.bartleby.com/64/

Subtitled "A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English", this was originally published in 1996 by Houghton Mifflin and is now brought to the Web by Bartleby.com.

Bartleby Quotations :  http://www.bartleby.com/quotations

Combines the full-text of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Simpson's Contemporary Quotations, the Columbia World of Quotations, and Respectfully Quoted: a dictionary of quotations.  Searchable by keyword. 
 

Cliché Finder :  http://www.westegg.com/cliche

Anyone looking for "a metaphor characterized by its overuse" will be sure to enjoy this site.  Clichés of all sorts may be found here.  Users may search by keyword, ask for a random 10 clichés at a time, or check the links to other sites. 
 

Foreignword.com :  http://www.foreignword.com

Use foreignword.com to translate individual words or phrases into over 56 different languages. 
 

FreeTranslation.com :  http://www.freetranslation.com

This online machine translation service attempts to translate entire phrases rather than word-for-word.  Although this makes for a more accurate translation, the results should not be taken literally.  They are meant to provide a very basic comprehension of text or Web pages.  Currently this site translates Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and German into English, and English into French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Norwegian. 
 

                Try also:  AltaVista BabelFish :  http://world.altavista.com
                           (offers more language options) 
 

Karla's Guide to Citation Style Guides :  http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/journalism/cite.html

A nicely annotated page of links to various styles for citing electronic and other sources.  Includes MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian, Lexis-Nexis, legal citation, etc. 
 

Lexical FreeNet Connected Thesaurus :  http://www.lexfn.com

This database searches relationships between words, concepts, and people.  It is a combination thesaurus, rhyming dictionary, pun generator, and concept navigator. 
 

Quoteland :  http://www.quoteland.com

Includes quotations by topic and by author, literary quotations, humorous quotations, random quotations, how to identify a quote, frequently asked questions, discussion groups, and other Internet resources.  Searchable by keyword.

Roget's II:  The New Thesaurus :  http://www.bartleby.com/62/

This is the searchable online version of the third edition, 1995, of the print reference work of the same name. 
 

Speech Accent Archive :  http://classweb.gmu.edu/accent/

This site contains speech samples of individuals from different language backgrounds reading the same English language paragraph.  A useful site to examine foreign or U.S. regional accents.
 

Wordsmyth :  http://www.wordsmyth.net

An online American English dictionary with an integrated thesaurus. 
 

yourDictionary.com :  http://www.yourdictionary.com

Provides a quick look-up of English language words and provides an index to online dictionaries, thesauruses, and grammars for many languages.  Also provides links to multilingual dictionaries, and subject specialty dictionaries.