| History of the English Language - A considerable collection of online materials related to the history of English: texts, publications, fonts and course syllabuses. Includes Pre-History, Old English, Middle English, early Modern English and the spread of English beyond the British Isles.
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| The Xtag Project - Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) project, a geometric method for analysing English grammar.
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| 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.
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| Alt.Usage.English FAQ - Newsgroup discussing English usage, maintained by Mark Israel.
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| World Wide Words - Explores the history, evolution byways, quirks, and curiosities of the English language. New and recent words and phrases are often featured, as are books on aspects of English. A weekly newsletter is sent by e-mail and RSS.
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| Alan Cooper's Homonyms - Extensive list of homonyms/homophones in American English from various sources, along with links.
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| Survey of English Usage - University College (London) researchers focusing on grammar and linguistics, plus world-wide usage. Includes the "Internet Grammar of English".
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| English Contrasted - Native and non-native English-language accents are demonstrated from around the world, through the use of downloadable sound files.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| The Discouraging Word - Defends the English language from its abusers and misusers. Polls and a custom dictionary.
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| Common Errors in English - Catalogue of writing or speaking mistakes and easily confusable words, with corrections.
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| The Great Vowel Shift - Brief treatment of the systematic sound shifts involving Middle English stressed vowels that changed the pronunciation of English beyond recognition.
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| Infernal English: Usage Experts Change Their Minds Too - Anne H. Soukhanov, lexicographer, shows that grammatical rules are not necessarily set in concrete.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Canadian English - Survey of the main characteristics of Canadian English, with emphasis on what distinguishes it from American English. Web still under construction.
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| New Words in English - Neologisms and novel uses of words in English collected by members of a Linguistics class at Rice University.
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| 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 abbreviations.
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| Real English - Reference and practical material connected with the use of English as it is actually used in everyday life.
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| 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".
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| English Words from Sanskrit - Depicts 300+ English words related to this ancient Hindu language.
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| Hindu Linguistical Influence in English - Suggests that some Sanskrit-related words entered English from 1200-1600 a.d.
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| Database of American Proprietary Eponyms - List of American brand names in general use today.
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| The Nautical Origins of Some Common Expressions - Explaining the marine origins of some common words, figures of speech, and everyday expressions.
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| The Vocabula Review - A free, monthly journal about the state of the English language, dedicated to supporting its clear and expressive usage.
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| WordNet - An on-line lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory
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| 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.
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| Speechskript: The Alternative Spelling System - Complete instructions for learning to read and write in Speechskript.
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| 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.
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| Loosely Speaking - Requests that the reader take a quick, 5-question survey to determine usage in various geographical locations.
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| 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.
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| Triplehom.com - Updated collection of triple homonyms in English.
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| English Grammar Gone Awry - Collection of common errors made by native English speakers.
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| Varieties of English - Linguistic analysis (phonology, morphology, syntax, vocabulary) of different varieties of English spoken in the US, Canada and Britain.
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| 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.
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