The Visual Dictionary

Thanks once again to Ben Terrett's Noisy Decent Graphics blog, I was introduced to the splendid Visual Dictionary this month.

This is an archive of photographs of words, contributed by hundreds of people. Right now, there are almost 6,000 images of nearly 3,500 words. It's a lovely idea, and one of those 'what the internet was made for' projects.

(Of course, it's my professional duty to point out that it's not a dictionary at all, as there are no meanings, etymologies or whathaveyou provided for the words. 'The Visual Lexicon' might have been a more accurate name. Ah, it's a lonely furrow that I plough.)