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Varieties of English Varieties of English: Linguistic analysis (phonology, morphology, syntax, vocabulary) of different varieties of English spoken in the US, Canada and Britain. (English) http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~lsp/ Loosely Speaking Loosely Speaking: Requests that the reader take a quick, 5-question survey to determine usage in various geographical locations. (English) http://looselyspeaking.tripod.com WordNet WordNet: A lexical database and reference system for the English language from Princeton University. (English) http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/ Alt.Usage.English FAQ Alt.Usage.English FAQ: Newsgroup discussing English usage, maintained by Mark Israel. (English) http://www.faqs.org/faqs/alt-usage-english-faq/ English Contrasted English Contrasted: Native and non-native English-language accents are demonstrated from around the world, through the use of downloadable sound files. (English) http://www.geocities.com/mafjrcall/ The American Language by H.L. Mencken 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. (English) http://www.bartleby.com/185/ The American Dialect Homepage The American Dialect Homepage: Resource for both linguistic and literary scholars about regional varieties of English in the United States and Canada. Includes maps, annotated link directory, and dialectology bibliography. (English) http://www.evolpub.com/Americandialects/AmDialhome.html History of the English Language History of the English Language: Collection of links maintained at University of Vermont. (English) http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/hel/hel.html The Nautical Origins of Some Common Expressions The Nautical Origins of Some Common Expressions: Explaining the marine origins of some common words, figures of speech, and everyday expressions. (English) http://www.fortogden.com/nauticalterms.html English Words from Sanskrit English Words from Sanskrit: Depicts 300+ English words related to this ancient Hindu language. (English) http://geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/sanskrit.html The Discouraging Word The Discouraging Word: Defends the English language from its abusers and misusers. Polls and a custom dictionary. (English) http://www.thediscouragingword.com/ Online Technical Writing: Common Grammar, Usage, and Spelling Problems Online Technical Writing: Common Grammar, Usage, and Spelling Problems: Commas, colons, semicolons, apostrophes, hyphens, comma splices and run-ons, fragments, problem modifiers, parallelism, subject-verb agreement, pronoun references, pronoun case (who, whom), capitalization, when to use numbers versus words, symbols, and ab (English) http://www.io.com/~hcexres/tcm1603/acchtml/gramov.html Infernal English: Usage Experts Change Their Minds Too Infernal English: Usage Experts Change Their Minds Too: Anne H. Soukhanov, lexicographer, shows that grammatical rules are not necessarily set in concrete. (English) http://www.eeicommunications.com/eye/usage.html The Vocabula Review The Vocabula Review: A free, monthly journal about the state of the English language, dedicated to supporting its clear and expressive usage. (English) http://vocabula.com/index.asp International Dialects of English Archive 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. (English) http://www.ukans.edu/~idea/ The Xtag Project The Xtag Project: Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) project, a geometric method for analysing English grammar. (English) http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~xtag/ Database of American Proprietary Eponyms Database of American Proprietary Eponyms: List of American brand names in general use today. (English) http://www.prairienet.org/~rkrause/brands.html World Wide Words World Wide Words: More than 1400 pages which explore the history, evolution, byways, quirks, and curiosities of the English language. A weekly newsletter is sent by e-mail and RSS. (English) http://www.worldwidewords.org/ Language Sites on the Internet 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 erro (English) http://pw1.netcom.com/~rlederer/rllink.htm Canadian English Canadian English: Survey of the main characteristics of Canadian English, with emphasis on what distinguishes it from American English. Web still under construction. (English) http://www.jkcc.com/english/ English Grammar Gone Awry English Grammar Gone Awry: Collection of common errors made by native English speakers. (English) http://www.grammarerrors.com/ The Great Vowel Shift The Great Vowel Shift: Brief treatment of the systematic sound shifts involving Middle English stressed vowels that changed the pronunciation of English beyond recognition. (English) http://icg.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/vowels.html Survey of English Usage Survey of English Usage: University College (London) researchers focusing on grammar and linguistics, plus world-wide usage. Includes the "Internet Grammar of English". (English) http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/ A Study of the Formants of the Pure Vowels of British English 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". (English) http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/formants/index.htm Hindu Linguistical Influence in English Hindu Linguistical Influence in English: Suggests that some Sanskrit-related words entered English from 1200-1600 a.d. (English) http://geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/influence.html Common Errors in English Common Errors in English: Clear and concise explanation of the difference between correct and incorrect usage in American English spelling, grammar and idiom, with entertaining examples. (English) http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/ Speechskript: The Alternative Spelling System Speechskript: The Alternative Spelling System: Complete instructions for learning to read and write in Speechskript. (English) http://www.speechskript.com/speechsk.htm Lexicopoeia. A Lexicon of Neologisms 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. (English) http://www.emory.edu/INTELNET/lexicopoeia.html New Words in English New Words in English: Neologisms and novel uses of words in English collected by members of a Linguistics class at Rice University. (English) http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~ling215/NewWords/ The Be/Have paradigm with intransitive verbs during the Restoration period 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. (English) http://www.update.uu.se/~nea/uppsats/D_uppsats.html Real English Real English: Reference and practical material connected with the use of English as it is actually used in everyday life. (English) http://www.vtr.net/~webclass Triplehom.com Triplehom.com: Updated collection of triple homonyms in English. (English) http://www.triplehom.com Web Frequency Indexer 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. (English) http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/webtools/web_freqs.html British National Corpus (BNC) British National Corpus (BNC): Description of and guide to a database containing a 100-million word collection of written and spoken language samples from a wide range of sources, designed to represent a wide cross-section of current British English. The database itself is available on (English) http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/BNC/ The Armchair Grammarian 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. (English) http://community-2.webtv.net/SOLIS-BOO/Grammar1/ List of Banished Words 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. (English) http://www.lssu.edu/banished/ Alan Cooper's Homonyms Alan Cooper's Homonyms: Extensive list of homonyms/homophones in American English from various sources, along with links. (English) http://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym.html