schlimmbesserung

These user-created lists contain the word ‘schlimmbesserung’.

• sionnach's Words

  contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...

• book titles unexpurgated

  I'm interested in the particular words that are changed when (mostly children's) books are published for the American market. What are the publishers saying about these words or concepts? More impo...

  philosopher's stone, northern lights, ark, schlimmbesserung

• 2008 Wordlist

  Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
  
  All words spotted in 2008...

  longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...

• Metaflip

  Blasted binaries, background pattern inversions, and subtlety awareness.

  apophenia, fissiparous, doppelganger, intertextuality, presque vu, unsung, dittology, enantiodromia, pareidolia, silhouette, rorschach, galanty and 151 more...

• rememberers

  prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3250 more...

• rwkasten's Words

  antibody, ossify, oeuvre, emotive, oblong, ululate, amoeba, aeon, outre, perfidy, venal, verity and 55 more...

• words in foreign languages

  weltanschauung, saudade, bokeh, caoutchouc, pamplemousse, citrouille, nocturne, kaddish, matryoshka, tournesol, weltschmerz, duende and 56 more...

• Sprechen Sie Deutsch?

  Loanwords of German origin, so-called 'untranslatable' words, compound words, slang, and words which I (dis)like immensely.

  verarschen, blitz, rucksack, hinterland, kindergarten, weltanschauung, treppenwitz, drachenfutter, torschlusspanik, katzenjammer, gedankenexperiment, frauenzimmer and 66 more...

• frindley's ark

  I'll describe it once it begins to take shape. But I'll explain the name: it's a reversal of what happened when the Americans changed the name of Thomas Keneally's novel to Schindler's List.

  mediæval, encyclopædia, archipelago, grateful, typography, paraph, pilcrow, colophon, grandiloquent, alinea, bailiwick, sagbutt and 88 more...