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- American English Vis-à-vis British English An overview of the differences between American English and British English compiled from various sources online.
- Canadian English Asserts Canadian English emerged independent of American and British dialects. Historical linguistic profile, spelling and grammatical conventions, bibliography.
- History of the English Language Site maintained at University of Vermont
- Alan Cooper's Page on Homonyms Extensive list of homonyms from various sources. Links.
- British-American Dictionary An easy to read, humorous translation of British English to American English
- Voice and Vaach Details how the English word "voice" comes from Latin "vox", Sanskrit "vaach" and is related to Japanese, Hawaiian and North American words
- World Wide Words History, origins, evolution and idiosyncrasies of English. New words and words in the news regularly featured.
- The Society for the Preservation of English Language and Literature An organization of people determined to resist the abuse and misuse of English in the news media and elsewhere.
- Talk Tidy. The Language of South Wales as an Art Form. An indexed dictionary describing, in humorous fashion, the English dialect used in and around the Valleys of South Wales.
- Greek as the Basis for 350+ English words Translated from Greek, helico-pter means "spiral-wing"; epi-taph is "upon-tomb"; rhino-ceros is "nose-horn".
- The Xtag Project Lexicalized tree adjoining grammar project.
- Bartleby.com - H.L. Mencken Online publication of H.L. Mencken's "The American Language," written to look at the discrepancies between British and American English and to define the distinguishing characteristics of American English.
- Student Papers on American English From the Dept. of Translation Studies, Univ. of Tampere, Finland. Topics: Differences Between American and British English; 'Black English' (AAVE, or 'Ebonics'); Yiddish and Ethnic-Jewish Influences; Historical and Loan Word Influence; Regional and Social Variation; Slang; General Topics.
- Usage Experts Change Their Minds, Too Anne H. Soukhanov, lexicographer, shows that abstract usage rules are not set in concrete.
- Yahoo! English Category Contains several valid URL's about English not listed in Open Directory Project. Go for it.
- An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology English words with origins in Greek and Roman mythology.
- CoBuildDirect An on-line service for accessing a corpus of the modern English language from a sub-component of the Bank of English. Particularly of interest to linguists and lexicographers.
- The Best of British. British American Dictionary. The American's guide to speaking British. Covers subjects like food, slang, people, motoring and clothes. Has a discussion board and links.
- New Words in English Neologisms and novel uses of words in English collected by members of a Linguistics class at Rice University.
- English Words Derived from Sanskrit Etymologies of 250+ English words from Sanskrit. Intermediary languages are included to better explain any word-transitions.
- alt.usage.english FAQ FAQ file by Mark Israel as of 29 September, 1997.
- British National Corpus Searchable database of British English usage.
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