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WordHoard introduces you to words, idioms, etymologies, Latin phrases, eponyms, untranslatables and maxims. Each one carries its pronunciation, a plain meaning, an example of real use, and where it came from. The whole collection ships inside the app, so it reads offline. Entries come back for review shortly before you would forget them.
Words, idioms, etymology, Latin and maxims — with meaning and origin.
WordHoard is a daily reading habit for people who like language. It holds 1,320 entries across seven kinds, and every one of them is already inside the app. Words (400) — uncommon but usable English. Idioms and Phrases (200) — figurative English, with the origin attached. Etymology (200) — ordinary words with a stranger history than you expect. Latin Phrases (211) — the Latin that still lives inside English, tags and sayings alike. Maxims (89) — aphorisms and proverbs, in plain English. Named After (120) — words that were once a person or a place. Untranslatables (100) — what other languages have and English has to borrow. Switch on the kinds you want. A morning of nothing but words reads differently from a morning of Latin and untranslatables, and both are allowed. THE DAILY SET Each day the app sets out a small handful of new entries, drawn from the kinds you chose. Four by default, or one if that is all the time you have. Read them with a coffee and close the app, or follow the links and stay an hour. WHAT EVERY ENTRY CARRIES - Pronunciation, written in IPA and read aloud by your device - A plain meaning, written to be understood on first reading - An example of the word doing real work in a sentence - Where it came from, and how it reached English KEEPING THEM Entries you have read come back for review shortly before you are likely to forget them: days later, then weeks, then months. There are short multiple-choice quizzes if you would rather be asked than told, and a streak if you want one, with freezes for the days that get away from you. No feed. No league table. Read four, or read forty. THE REST OF IT - The whole corpus, browsable A to Z, and search across all of it - Filter a list down to the entries you have already marked as known - Save anything, and keep it in lists of your own naming - A private note on any entry, up to 500 characters - Export your saved entries and notes to a file whenever you want them elsewhere - A home-screen widget carrying the day's entry - Share cards, for when a word is worth passing on - One daily reminder, at a time you set, with quiet hours — or none at all - Light and dark, adjustable text size, and a choice of reading typefaces