via Maureen’s Blog.
You know how sometimes you take one line somebody says out of context, and it’s really funny?
Wordle is a very cool Java applet that produces beautiful word clouds out of huge amounts of text. Here’s one for the full text of my first novel, Knave, at around 94K words:
I was down for a day, now I’m back up, after losing millions of dollars an hour the whole time I was down. Oh, the pain!
What am I going to do now?
At least my Kindle works…but the store doesn’t.
Oh thou lovely resource on medieval writing and language?
On the web, of course.
http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/guide/hand.shtml
Links from there to the following:
NetSERF is amazing.
http://www.netserf.org/Glossary/
Internet archive, looks like a scan of a copy of a medieval census.
Real medieval names, thousands of them!
Real medieval place names, thousands of them!
