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Ancient Web: Gernot Katzer's Spice Pages Index 10,000 Spice Names in Dozens of Languages

Gernot Katzer's Spice Pages document 117 spice plants with culinary use, history, chemistry, etymology, photographs, geography, botany, and more than 10,000 names across dozens of languages.

Ancient Web: Zompist Tried to Prove English Spelling Has Rules

Mark Rosenfelder's 2000 Zompist spelling page treats English orthography as a system that can be analyzed, modeled, and partly predicted instead of dismissed as random chaos.

Ancient Web: Mímir Made Icelandic Grammar Navigable by Hyperlink

Mímir is a surviving hypertext Icelandic grammar notebook that turns parts of speech, examples, and cross-references into a compact old-Web language tool.

Ancient Web: StarLing DB Built a CGI Laboratory for Comparing Languages

StarLing's database server preserves searchable etymological, typological and lexicostatistical datasets through a dense CGI interface built for comparative and historical linguistics.

Ancient Web: The First International Collection Packed 3,660 Tongue Twisters Into 118 Languages

Tongue-Twister.net preserves 3,660 tongue twisters across 118 languages, a hand-built multilingual collection compiled from 1996 through 2018.