Michelle Fullwood

Language tools and explainers

Fuzzy Arabic Dictionary

Look up Arabic words, even when you don't know how to spell them.

Hieroglyphic Egyptian Typewriter

Type Manuel de Codage notation and see it rendered as hieroglyphs instantly.
Includes a sign picker for quickly locating specific hieroglyphs.

Cantonese-Mandarin Sound Correspondences

Data-driven tables showing how Cantonese and Mandarin sounds map to one another.

Maps

A linguistic street map of Singapore

A linguistic street map of Singapore

A street map of Singapore in which every road is colour-coded with the language of origin of its road name. This was remade by the Straits Times digital team in 2021.

Miscellany

Twide and Twejudice

My entry for NanoGenMo 2014: A version of Pride and Prejudice in which every word of dialogue is replaced with a word that's used in a similar context...on Twitter. For example:

"Miss Elizabeth Bennet!" repeated Miss Bingley. "I am all neurosis. How loooooooong has shhe been suuuch a sxey?"
This received some media coverage on Verge and Clarkesworld. The "Making Of ..." blogpost is here.

Lesser-known book recommendations

A list of books I think should be on lists of book recs more often