Hearkening back to the Periodic Table of Videos post, and thinking about the ever expanding world of video on the Internet, I was overjoyed to come across Wordia today in my travels.  Wordia is a video dictionary, in the spirit of Wikipedia and the origin of dictionaries in general - Normal people talk about what words mean.  The videos are all very short - a few seconds to around a minute.  Some of them are very “dictionary-like” in that they have their word and a definition and that’s about it.  Others are more conversational, some are illustrative.

The video for “fermata” is illustrative,

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX37UoEgklg[/youtube]

whereas the video for “philosophy” is part definition, part history,

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCwUL-RZZJ4[/youtube]

and the definition of “plumber” is just, well, what it is.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXnCyq3fI3o[/youtube]