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• - 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.
  
• - 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.
  
• - A lexical database and reference system for the English language from Princeton University.
  
• - Defends the English language from its abusers and misusers. Polls and a custom dictionary.
  
• - Suggests that some Sanskrit-related words entered English from 1200-1600 a.d.
  
• - Neologisms and novel uses of words in English collected by members of a Linguistics class at Rice University.
  
• - Updated collection of triple homonyms in English.
  
• - Collection of common errors made by native English speakers.
  
• - Anne H. Soukhanov, lexicographer, shows that grammatical rules are not necessarily set in concrete.
  
• - Depicts 300+ English words related to this ancient Hindu language.
  
• - Collection of links maintained at University of Vermont.
  
• - MA Thesis (1960) of Prof. J.C. Wells of the University of London concerning the pronunciation of vowels in "Received Pronunciation".
  
• - Native and non-native English-language accents are demonstrated from around the world, through the use of downloadable sound files.
  
• - Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) project, a geometric method for analysing English grammar.
  
• - Linguistic analysis (phonology, morphology, syntax, vocabulary) of different varieties of English spoken in the US, Canada and Britain.
  
• - 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 erro
  
• - 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.
  
• - Survey of the main characteristics of Canadian English, with emphasis on what distinguishes it from American English. Web still under construction.
  
• - Reference and practical material connected with the use of English as it is actually used in everyday life.
  
• - Complete instructions for learning to read and write in Speechskript.
  
• - 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.
  
• - University College (London) researchers focusing on grammar and linguistics, plus world-wide usage. Includes the "Internet Grammar of English".
  
• - Brief treatment of the systematic sound shifts involving Middle English stressed vowels that changed the pronunciation of English beyond recognition.
  
• - A free, monthly journal about the state of the English language, dedicated to supporting its clear and expressive usage.
  
• - 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 ab
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Collection of freely downloadable recordings of real people speaking English in their own native accents and dialects. Nearly 300 4-minute MP3 samples available.
  
• - Newsgroup discussing English usage, maintained by Mark Israel.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Requests that the reader take a quick, 5-question survey to determine usage in various geographical locations.
  
• - Extensive list of homonyms/homophones in American English from various sources, along with links.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Explaining the marine origins of some common words, figures of speech, and everyday expressions.
  
• - List of American brand names in general use today.