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English is a West-Germanic member of the Indo-European language family spoken by 341 million people as a first language and more that 508 million in at least 104 countries.

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Resources in This Category

• A Study of the Formants of the Pure Vowels of British English

  http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/formants/index.htm
  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

  http://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym.html
  Extensive list of homonyms/homophones in American English from various sources, along with links.

• American Proprietary Eponyms

  http://www.searstower.org/rkrause/brands.html
  Database of American brand names in general use today.

• Common Errors in English

  http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/
  Clear and concise explanation of the difference between correct and incorrect usage in American English spelling, grammar and idiom, with entertaining examples.

• International Dialects of English Archive

  http://www.dialectsarchive.com/
  Extensive collection of freely downloadable recordings of real people speaking English in their own native accents and dialects.

• Language Sites on the Internet

  http://www.verbivore.com/rllink.htm
  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.

• List of Banished Words

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

  http://looselyspeaking.tripod.com/
  Requests that the reader take a quick, 5-question survey to determine usage in various geographical locations.

• Neologism Cliche Aphorism and Novel Language Pattern

  http://www.angelfire.com/nd/danscorpio/word4.html
  Extensive list of new sayings, cliches, aphorisms, and neologisms. Has additional pages on related language matters.

• Survey of English Usage

  http://www.ucl.ac.uk/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

  http://www.evolpub.com/Americandialects/AmDialhome.html
  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

  http://www.bartleby.com/185/
  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 Be/Have Paradigm with Intransitive Verbs During the Restoration Period

  http://www.update.uu.se/~nea/uppsats/D_uppsats.html
  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 Nautical Origins of Some Common Expressions

  http://www.fortogden.com/nauticalterms.html
  Explaining the marine origins of some common words, figures of speech, and everyday expressions.

• The Xtag Project

  http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~xtag/
  Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) project, a geometric method for analysing English grammar.

• World Wide Words

  http://www.worldwidewords.org/
  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.

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