Tongue-tied Sites to help you loosen up

Savio DSouza | TNN

So you checked.You dont suffer from halitosis,body odour or bad looks.But you ju
st cant break the ice at social gatherings.Why Its probably because youre bad at
conversation and end up nursing a drink on the periphery of a party.But these s
even websites could change that,making you seem more intelligent.Up to a point

www.thefreedictionary.com:
One of the best places in Cyberia for any information of any sort.Besides dictio
naries in English and 13 other languages,it boasts a thesaurus,has sections for
abbreviations,idioms,an encyclopaedia,as well as a literature reference library
all supported by a nifty search engine.Regulars can expect a word of the day,quo
te of the day,article of the day,this day in history,etc.Theres also a word game
section,which includes Hangman and Spelling Bee.

www.acronymfinder.com:
Every now and then,someone might appear smarter by using an acronym or abbreviat
ion you dont know.Bookmark Acronym Finder;it can help.It has more than 750,000 h
uman-edited definitions,abbreviations and acronyms about computers,technology,te
lecommunications and the military.So bookmark that ASAP before people start ROTF
L at your ignorance.

www.etymonline.com:
Itll turn you into a decent wordsmith by helping you understand the origins,deve
lopment and the true sense of a word.Heck,it even covers supercalifragilisticexp
ialidocious.You might want to look that one up.

w w w.b i o g r a - phy.com:
Great minds discuss ideas,average minds discuss events,small minds discuss peopl
e.But how will you ever discuss people if you know nothing about them Make haste
to this resource.Whether its Pope John Paul II,Martin Luther King,Adolf Hitler,
Winston Churchill,Genghis Khan,Alexander the Great or Princess Diana,youll find
their biographies here,complete with photographs,videos snippets,etc.

wolframalpha.com:
A search engine with a difference.Enter your birth date as a search parameter,an
d itll throw up details like the number of years,months and days you have spent
on this planet;famous personalities born on the same day;the phase of the moon o
n that day,etc.Enter a colour and it will throw up its RGB value,its hexadecimal
code,complementary colours and the like.Go type in Mumbai and Tokyo and see wha
t you get.Useless facts and statistics can be a great conversation opener.

www.brainyquote.com:
So youve tried a few Siddhuisms and got a few guffaws.Now its time for BrainyQuo
te,a repository of quotations from humorists,
playwrights,presidents,authors,humanitarians
and practically everybody who is anybody.Like someone famous said: Next to being
witty,the best thing is being able to quote anothers wit.Who said that Check th
e site.
www.pantheon.org & and www.theoi.com:
Mythology has always been a good subject for conversations.Theoj only covers Gre
cian divinity but Pantheon includes mythological characters from across the glob
e: From Ganesha to Zeus,Jupiter to the Nordic Freya,from the Egyptian Anubis to
the Aztec Quetzalcoatl.So if the exploits of the gods have always been your Achi
lles heel,then this site is your river Styx.Take a dip.