Ganked from
shoiryu, mostly for my own perusal, but might be interesting to other language-curious people and writers...
Lies about knife-fighting
Rasta/patois dictionary
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_English_words_not_used_in_British_English
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_strange_units_of_measurement
List of slang links
How swearing works
The magician's hidden library
Victorian slang
Slang of the 1920s
Lies about knife-fighting
Rasta/patois dictionary
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_English_words_not_used_in_British_English
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_strange_units_of_measurement
List of slang links
How swearing works
The magician's hidden library
Victorian slang
Slang of the 1920s