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WORDS OF WONDER UPDATE
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As a verb, wonder means “think about” or “marvel at.” It can also be a noun that refers to a feeling of amazement (or something that inspires such a feeling).

Wander is usually a verb and can mean either “walk aimlessly” or “go astray.” As a noun, it can also refer to an aimless walk.

These two words sound similar, but they have different meanings: However you use it, though, this word is always spelled “wonder.” Summary: Wander or Wonder? It was surely the eighth wonder of the world. The other is to refer to person or thing that inspires such a feeling: One is to refer to a feeling of amazement:Īs they looked at the Taj Mahal, they were filled with wonder. Or it can mean “be amazed or surprised by something”: Thank you for subscribing to our newsletter!ĭon’t you ever wonder why the sky is blue? Here, we draw on the sense of aimlessness set out above, but we apply it to things other than walking (e.g., letting your mind or eyes drift aimlessly).Īs a noun, moreover, it always refers to an aimless or relaxed walk:Īnd whether you use it as a verb or a noun, the correct spelling is “wander.” Wonder (Think About or Be Amazed By)Īs a verb, “wonder” can mean “think about or question something”: He couldn’t concentrate, so his gaze wandered around the room. I was so bored my mind started to wander. More figuratively, we can use it to mean “go astray.” For instance: He likes to wander around the garden after lunch. I feel like wandering along the seafront. “Wander” is usually a verb meaning “walk aimlessly or without purpose”:

To make sure you can avoid errors in your writing, then, check out our guide below. However, they differ completely in meaning. They’re also very close in spelling, with only one letter different.

WORDS OF WONDER UPDATE

I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).The words “wander” and “wonder” sound similar.

WORDS OF WONDER CODE

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), and express.js.Ĭurrently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.įinally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia.

And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words.