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- Alan Cooper's Homonyms - Extensive list of homonyms in US English (actually, homophones, i.e. words pronounced the same but spelled differently) from various sources. Links.
www.cooper.com/alan/homonym.html
- alt.usage.english FAQ - Newsgroup discussing English usage, maintained by Mark Israel (last updated: 29 September, 1997).
www.faqs.org/faqs/alt-usage-english-faq
- An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology - English words (including personal names and tradenames) with origins in Greek and Roman mythology. Author: Elizabeth Wallis Kraemer, Assistant Professor at Oakland University in Rochester, MI, USA.
www.kl.oakland.edu/kraemer/edcm
- Aussie Hypocoristics - A searchable database of hypocoristic words (= affectionately based on proper nouns), mostly from Australian English.
www.sultry.arts.usyd.edu.au/slee
- 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.
www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/BNC
- Canadian English - Survey of the main characteristics of Canadian English, with emphasis on what distinguishes it from American English. Web still under construction.
www.jkcc.com/english
- Canadianisms A to Z - A glossary of Canadian English, explained in terms of American English.
home.istar.ca/~awright/WORDS1.HTM
- CoBuildDirect - Description of an online commercial service that provides a very large corpus of current British English usage for the purpose of helping people with the learning and teaching of the language.
titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk
- 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.
www.m-w.com/lighter/shak
- English Contrasted - Native and non-native English-language accents are demonstrated from around the world, through the use of downloadable sound files.
www.geocities.com/mafjrcall
- English Grammar Gone Awry: A Guide to Some of the Most Common Errors in the English Language - Collection of common errors made by native English speakers with real-life examples of errors on public signs.
grammarguide.port5.com
- GRRRRR...I mean -gry - Website dedicated to a question frequently asked of reference librarians, word mavens and the like: "There are three words in the English language that end in -gry. One is hungry and one is angry; what is the third?"
www.geocities.com/loisnotlane/gry.html
- History of the English Language - Collection of links maintained at University of Vermont.
ebbs.english.vt.edu/hel/hel.html
- Infernal English: Usage Experts Change Their Minds, Too - Anne H. Soukhanov, lexicographer, shows that grammatical rules are not necessarily set in concrete.
www.eeicommunications.com/eye/usage.html
- 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.
www.lssu.edu/banished
- New Words in English - Neologisms and novel uses of words in English collected by members of a Linguistics class at Rice University.
www.owlnet.rice.edu/~ling215/NewWords
- 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.
www.io.com/~hcexres/tcm1603/acchtml/gramov.html
- Real English - Reference and practical material connected with the use of English as it is actually used in everyday life.
www.vtr.net/~webclass
- Society for the Preservation of English Language and Literature (SPELL) - An organization of people determined to resist the abuse and misuse of English in the news media and elsewhere.
www.mindspring.com/~spellorg
- Survey of English Usage - University College (London) researchers focusing on grammar and linguistics, plus world-wide usage. Includes the "Internet Grammar of English".
www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage
- Talk Tidy. The Language of South Wales as an Art Form. - A humorous dictionary of the English dialect used in and around the valleys of South Wales.
talktidy.com
- 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.
www.evolpub.com/Americandialects/AmDialhome.html
- The American Language, by H.L. Mencken (18801956) - Online publication of the full text of a classic book (originally published in 1919) on the history and nature of American English, with particular attention paid to the discrepancies between British and American English.
www.bartleby.com/185
- 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.
community-2.webtv.net/SOLIS-BOO/Grammar1
- The Discouraging Word - The Discouraging Word defends the English language from its abusers and misusers. Frequent updates, polls and a custom dictionary.
www.thediscouragingword.com
- The Great Vowel Shift - Brief treatment of the systematic sound shifts involving Middle English stressed vowels that changed the pronunciation of English beyond recognition.
icg.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/vowels.html
- The Xtag Project - Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) project, a geometric method for analysing English grammar.
www.cis.upenn.edu/~xtag
- Triplehoms - Collection of homonyms with three or more spellings, e.g. "to, too, two."
www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~ndauber/triplehom
- 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.
www.georgetown.edu/cball/webtools/web_freqs.html
- World Wide Words - History, origins, evolution and idiosyncrasies of International English, from a British viewpoint. New words and words in the news are regularly featured.
www.worldwidewords.org
- 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.
www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors
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