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Free to read. Free of ads. Kept open by its visitors.

The Journey has no advertisements, no paywall, and no investor waiting on returns. It is a small museum on the open web, and like most small museums it runs on modest costs and the goodwill of the people who walk through.

$100

Monthly cost to run

0

Ads, now or ever

9,082

Word histories, all free

Why we ask

Running the site costs about $100 a month — the servers, the database that holds every word's history, the maps that trace each migration. That is the whole budget. There is no staff and no office. The words are researched and written because the work is worth doing.

If a hundred readers gave a dollar a month, the museum would pay for itself. We would rather have that than a single banner ad.

Where it goes

  • Hosting & deployment. The servers that render every page and keep the site fast around the world.

  • The database. Where every word's history, journey, and pronunciation lives.

  • Maps & domains. The migration maps that trace each word across continents, and the address you typed to get here.

What your support does not buy

No perks. There are no tiers, no badges, no members-only wing — everything here is free for everyone, and it stays that way whether or not you give. The only thing a contribution buys is the site's continued existence. That is the point of it.

If you'd like to help

Any amount, once or monthly. Contributions go through PayPal.

Contribute via PayPal

Other ways to help: share a word with a friend, or report an error you found. Both matter more than you would think.