About The Blog

My first blog, Equator Gringos, tells of the adventures of Joy and Luke moving from Austin, Texas to live and work in Ecuador, South America, beginning in August, 2007. I started The Word Page as a single page in Equator Gringos as a place to talk about my fascination with language, comparisons between English and Spanish, and language-related web content I found. I decided I needed to be able to separate entries, post from external tools, etc., so I decided to start this separate Blog. Glad the name wasn’t taken!

[The following is how the original page began]

I need a place to talk about words. English words, Spanish words, the fascinating interplay of the two, and perhaps most of all the origins of words. First, my two favorite word websites are:

WordReference.com which allows you to look up English definitions (with links to Dictionary.com and Merriam Webster online) as well as all of the following:

• English to Spanish
• Spanish to English
• Spanish monolingual
• Spanish synonyms
• And many more.

Dictionary.com is English only, but draws from multiple dictionaries including an etymological dictionary, American heritage dictionary which often discusses word origins in a chattier way than just the hyperconcentrated parenthetical etymologies of normal dictionaries.

More to come.