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American Dialects (13) Old English (23) Slang (34)
British vs American Dialects (9) Organizations (3) Spelling Reform (38)

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English Grammar Gone Awry
Collection of common errors made by native English speakers.
http://www.grammarerrors.com/
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Triplehom.com
Updated collection of triple homonyms in English.
http://www.triplehom.com
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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.

http://www.emory.edu/INTELNET/lexicopoeia.html
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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.

http://www.ukans.edu/~idea/
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Loosely Speaking
Requests that the reader take a quick, 5-question survey to determine usage in various geographical
locations.

http://looselyspeaking.tripod.com
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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.

http://www.update.uu.se/~nea/uppsats/D_uppsats.html
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Speechskript: The Alternative Spelling System
Complete instructions for learning to read and write in Speechskript.
http://www.speechskript.com/speechsk.htm
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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.

http://pw1.netcom.com/~rlederer/rllink.htm
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WordNet
A lexical database and reference system for the English language from Princeton University.
http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/
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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.

http://vocabula.com/index.asp
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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.
http://www.fortogden.com/nauticalterms.html
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Database of American Proprietary Eponyms
List of American brand names in general use today.
http://www.prairienet.org/~rkrause/brands.html
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Hindu Linguistical Influence in English
Suggests that some Sanskrit-related words entered English from 1200-1600 a.d.
http://geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/influence.html
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English Words from Sanskrit
Depicts 300+ English words related to this ancient Hindu language.
http://geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/sanskrit.html
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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".

http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/formants/index.htm
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Real English
Reference and practical material connected with the use of English as it is actually used in
everyday life.

http://www.vtr.net/~webclass
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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.

http://www.io.com/~hcexres/tcm1603/acchtml/gramov.html
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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.

http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~ling215/NewWords/
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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.

http://www.jkcc.com/english/
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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.

http://community-2.webtv.net/SOLIS-BOO/Grammar1/
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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.

http://www.evolpub.com/Americandialects/AmDialhome.html
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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.
http://www.eeicommunications.com/eye/usage.html
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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.

http://icg.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/vowels.html
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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.

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/
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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 a CD-ROM that must be purchased.

http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/BNC/
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The Discouraging Word
Defends the English language from its abusers and misusers. Polls and a custom dictionary.
http://www.thediscouragingword.com/
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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.

http://www.lssu.edu/banished/
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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.

http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/webtools/web_freqs.html
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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.

http://www.geocities.com/mafjrcall/
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Coined by Shakespeare
Sales pitch for a book published by Merriam-Webster. The site provides a sample of words created by
Shakespeare, together with the passage they occur in.

http://www.m-w.com/lighter/shak/
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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".

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/
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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
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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.

http://www.worldwidewords.org/
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Alt.Usage.English FAQ
Newsgroup discussing English usage, maintained by Mark Israel.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/alt-usage-english-faq/
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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.

http://www.bartleby.com/185/
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The Xtag Project
Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) project, a geometric method for analysing English grammar.
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~xtag/
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History of the English Language
Collection of links maintained at University of Vermont.
http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/hel/hel.html
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