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North American Dialect Links
Includes American, Canadian, Native American and Bermudan.
http://www.evolpub.com/Americandialects/Am...
Database of American Proprietary Eponyms
List of American brand names in general use today.
http://www.prairienet.org/~rkrause/brands....
WordNet
A lexical database and reference system for the English language from Princeton University.
http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/
World Wide Words
Michael Quinion writes about International English from a British viewpoint. Hundreds of pages on the history, origins, evolution and idiosyncrasies of English, with features on new words and words in the news.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/
English Words from Sanskrit
Depicts 300+ English words related to this ancient Hindu language.
http://geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/sanskr...
A Study of the Formants of the Pure Vowels of British English
MA Thesis (1960) of Prof. J.C. Wells of the University of London concerning the pronunciation of vowels in "Received Pronunciation".
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/forma...
List of Banished Words
Annual list published by Lake Superior State University of words that should be banished from the English language for misuse, overuse, and just general uselessness.
http://www.lssu.edu/banished/
The Great Vowel Shift
Brief treatment of the systematic sound shifts involving Middle English stressed vowels that changed the pronunciation of English beyond recognition.
http://icg.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/vowels...
Varieties of English
Linguistic analysis (phonology, morphology, syntax, vocabulary) of different varieties of English spoken in the US, Canada and Britain.
http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~lsp/
English Grammar Gone Awry
Collection of common errors made by native English speakers.
http://www.grammarerrors.com/
New Words In English
Neologisms and new uses of words in English.
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~ling215/NewWor...
Hindu Linguistical Influence in English
Suggests that some Sanskrit-related words entered English from 1200-1600 a.d.
http://geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/influe...
Speechskript: The Alternative Spelling System
Complete instructions for learning to read and write in Speechskript.
http://www.speechskript.com/speechsk.htm
English Contrasted
Native and non-native English-language accents are demonstrated from around the world, through the use of downloadable sound files.
http://www.geocities.com/mafjrcall/
Online Technical Writing: Common Grammar, Usage, and Spelling Problems
Advice on common problems in the use of spellings, punctuation, and grammar.
http://www.io.com/~hcexres/tcm1603/acchtml...
Web Frequency Indexer
Contains a script that shows the frequency of a word in some text that is entered. Allows list to be sorted by the least to most, most to least or alphabetically.
http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/webtools/w...
The Armchair Grammarian
Studies in English grammar, punctuation, and composition. Includes a discussion of the methodology involving the creative writing process as it relates to fiction and theories of characterization.
http://community-2.webtv.net/SOLIS-BOO/Gra...
The Vocabula Review
A free, monthly journal about the state of the English language, dedicated to supporting its clear and expressive usage.
http://vocabula.com/index.asp
Alan Cooper's Homonyms
Extensive list of homonyms/homophones in American English from various sources, along with links.
http://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym.html
International Dialects of English Archive
Collection of freely downloadable recordings of real people speaking English in their own native accents and dialects. Nearly 300 4-minute MP3 samples available.
http://www.ku.edu/~idea/
The Be/Have paradigm with intransitive verbs during the Restoration period
A Master's thesis from the University of Uppsala, dealing with the development of be and have as auxiliaries with the perfect tense of intransitive verbs in the second half of the 17th century.
http://www.update.uu.se/~nea/uppsats/D_upp...
Lexicopoeia. A Lexicon of Neologisms
Contains the explanation of "lexicopoeia" as a genre of word creation on the crossroads of poetry and lexicography, plus an occasionally-expanding list of neologisms coined by Professor Mikhail Epstein.
http://www.emory.edu/INTELNET/lexicopoeia....
Alt.Usage.English FAQ
Newsgroup discussing English usage, maintained by Mark Israel.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/alt-usage-english...
The Nautical Origins for Some Common Expressions
Explaining the seafaring origins of some common words, figures of speech, and everyday expressions, like "toe the line" and "scuttlebutt".
http://www.fortogden.com/nauticalterms.htm...
Survey of English Usage
University College (London) researchers focusing on grammar and linguistics, plus world-wide usage. Includes the "Internet Grammar of English".
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/
Loosely Speaking
Requests that the reader take a quick, 5-question survey to determine usage in various geographical locations.
http://looselyspeaking.tripod.com
The Xtag Project
Aims to develop a wide-coverage grammar of the English language, using a lexicalized tree adjoining grammar formalism. The current version of Xtag, as well as general resources for tree adjoining grammars.
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~xtag/
The Discouraging Word
Defends the English language from its abusers and misusers. Polls and a custom dictionary.
http://www.thediscouragingword.com/
Language Sites on the Internet
Word mavens may browse etymology, dictionary, thesaurus links, links to anagrams, oxymorons,palindromes, puns, idioms, banished words and expressions, city-by-city slanguage, mondegreens, logophilia, heteronyms, chiasmus, common punctuation errors.
http://www.verbivore.com/rllink.htm
HEL
History of the English Language. Also has a mailing list.
http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/hel/hel.html
Triplehom.com
Updated collection of triple homonyms in English.
http://www.triplehom.com
Infernal English: Usage Experts Change Their Minds Too
Anne H. Soukhanov, lexicographer, shows that grammatical rules are not necessarily set in concrete.
http://www.eeicommunications.com/eye/usage...
The American Language by H.L. Mencken
Online publication of the full text of a classic book on the history and nature of American English, with particular attention paid to the discrepancies between British and American English.
http://www.bartleby.com/185/
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