American Dialects
American Dialect Society, English Dialectology, Heptune's Guide to Cheesy American English Us, Lexicon of Bawlamarese, North American Dialect Links, Organization of Dialect Diversity in North America, Pittsburghese.com, Pop vs. Soda Page, Student Papers on American English, The Dialect Survey
British vs American Dialects
American Dialect Society List Archives, British-American Dictionary, English Usage in the UK and USA, Holiday Inn UK - I Say Tomato, The American-British - British-American Dictionary, The Best of British: The American's Guide to , United Kingdom English for the American Novice, WWlib - Notes on American English
Old English
About Old English, Basic Grammar: a Review, Building Blocks of Old English Poetry, Case in Old English, Englisc Composition Listserv, Junicode Font Download Page, Meter in Old English Poetry, Old English Alphabet, Old English Compared to Modern English, Old English Graphotactics
Organizations
Society for the Preservation of English Language a, The English-Speaking Union, The English-Speaking Union of the United States
Slang
Idioms, Quizzes, 'Strine Decoded: Dictionary of Australian Eng, A Dictionary of Slang Phrases, A Guide to Irish Slang, American Slang, American Slanguages, Australian Slang Dictionary, Australian Slang Quiz 1, Berkeley Slang, BuzzWhack, Civil War Slang
Spelling Reform
Articles, Directories, Fanetiks, Organizations, Problems in Traditional Spelling, Shavian, Spel Riet, Web Rings, A Reformed Orthography for the English Language, Brasseur Universal Code, BTRSPL, English Simplified Spelling, Introduction to Newspelling, Mapping of Alternate Notations Onto IPA Phonemes, Phonetic Alphabet for English, Phonetic English, Spelling Reform, Spelling Reform: Site by John J. Reilly
A Study of the Formants of the Pure Vowels of Brit
MA Thesis (1960) of Prof. J.C. Wells of the University of London concerning the pronunciation of vowels in "Received Pronunciation".
Alan Cooper's Homonyms
Extensive list of homonyms/homophones in American English from various sources, along with links.
Alt.Usage.English FAQ
Newsgroup discussing English usage, maintained by Mark Israel.
Canadian English
Survey of the main characteristics of Canadian English, with emphasis on what distinguishes it from American English. Web still under construction.
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.
Database of American Proprietary Eponyms
List of American brand names in general use today.
English Contrasted
Native and non-native English-language accents are demonstrated from around the world, through the use of downloadable sound files.
English Grammar Gone Awry
Collection of common errors made by native English speakers.
English Words from Sanskrit
Depicts 300+ English words related to this ancient Hindu language.
Hindu Linguistical Influence in English
Suggests that some Sanskrit-related words entered English from 1200-1600 a.d.
History of the English Language
Collection of links maintained at University of Vermont.
Infernal English: Usage Experts Change Their Minds
Anne H. Soukhanov, lexicographer, shows that grammatical rules are not necessarily set in concrete.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Loosely Speaking
Requests that the reader take a quick, 5-question survey to determine usage in various geographical locations.
New Words in English
Neologisms and novel uses of words in English collected by members of a Linguistics class at Rice University.
Online Technical Writing: Common Grammar, Usage, a
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.
Real English
Reference and practical material connected with the use of English as it is actually used in everyday life.
Speechskript: The Alternative Spelling System
Complete instructions for learning to read and write in Speechskript.
Survey of English Usage
University College (London) researchers focusing on grammar and linguistics, plus world-wide usage. Includes the "Internet Grammar of English".
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.
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.
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.
The Be/Have paradigm with intransitive verbs durin
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.
The Discouraging Word
Defends the English language from its abusers and misusers. Polls and a custom dictionary.
The Great Vowel Shift
Brief treatment of the systematic sound shifts involving Middle English stressed vowels that changed the pronunciation of English beyond recognition.
The Nautical Origins of Some Common Expressions
Explaining the marine origins of some common words, figures of speech, and everyday expressions.
The Vocabula Review
A free, monthly journal about the state of the English language, dedicated to supporting its clear and expressive usage.
The Xtag Project
Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) project, a geometric method for analysing English grammar.
Varieties of English
Linguistic analysis (phonology, morphology, syntax, vocabulary) of different varieties of English spoken in the US, Canada and Britain.
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.
WordNet
A lexical database and reference system for the English language from Princeton University.
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.