Even logophiles can better their vocabularies by surveil these Twitter accounts .
1. DARE Words
It was tough to pick just one tweet from the Dictionary of American Regional Slang ’s delightful provender , but here ’s the one that came out on top :
2. Haggard Hawks Words
This Twitter account is bringing old words back . Use them to spice up your lexicon !
3. A Word A Day
Unusual word and their origins from the multitude atWordsmith.org .
4. Ben Zimmer
You ’ll learn a lot by following thisWall Street Journalcolumnist and linguist .
5. Wordnik
Jason English , MentalFloss.com ’s fearless leader , is a fan of this Twitter feed .
6. Grammar YUNiversity
We love these emoji - laden tweet ( which you might only be able to see while on Twitter ):
7. PowerVocabTweet
UPDATE : As a commenter pointed out , these words arerandomly generate . But they ’re still fun and as " fiercely plausible " as the tagline claims .
8. OED
If you have sex words , you kind of have to conform to the OED .
9. Mitch Fraas
Our staff author Hannah Keyser recommends trace Fraas , curator at Kislak Center for Rare Books , Manuscripts and Special Collections at UPenn , for a healthy serving of rarefied book noesis with some word stuff thrown in .
10. American Dialect Society
If you want to know what ’s going on with the English words in North America , this is the Twitter feed for you .
11. VocabularyCom
Our resident linguistArika Okrentloves this feed .
12. GrammarGirl
Not just words , but the ripe way to utilize them !
13. Klingon Word of the Day
Just do n’t ask me how to judge any of it .
14. Language Bandit
Language facts !
15. Bryan A. Garner
Our deputy editor program Nick Greene urge following Garner , the editor in chief ofBlack ’s Law Dictionaryand source ofGarner ’s Modern American Usage .
16. WordSpy
require the definition of Holy Scripture like toebestity , attention minute , and hellstew ? Look no further than this template to young words .
