http://www.timesonline.co.uk/section/0,,10349,00.html
Update: Now behind a paywall
A ‘Who’s who’ for the UK and although it is not as extensive as I would like these lists are up to date.
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Dictionary of Difficult Words
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficultwords/
Update: Site no longer functions – no way back machine link as it wasn’t good anyway
Pretty sure this site quietly died. So in it’s place I’d recommend the Oxford Dictionary of Difficult words.
Available (of course) from Amazon:
The original site I reviewed on StumbleUpon wasn’t that good as it didn’t have disestablishmentarianism or antidisestablishmentarianism.
The Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den
http://www.fa-kuan.muc.de/SHISHI.RXML
A way of showing the difficulties representing Chinese using the roman alphabet. There are so many homophones that a poem can be written in Chinese employing just one phoneme.
You can listen to the poem in Mandarin and Cantonese using real player which opens outside your browser.