Search The Directory The Web for Home > Science > Social Sciences > Language and Linguistics > Natural Languages > Germanic Languages > English New! Submit a site   Categories: Resources (43) Spelling Reform (42)     whatUseek Collection Sites (submit a site ):   Give your site great placement in this category in as little as two business days!     whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Alan Cooper's Page on Homonyms - Extensive list of homonyms from various sources. Links.   American English Vis-à-vis British English - An overview of the differences between American English and British English compiled from various sources online.   An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology - English words with origins in Greek and Roman mythology.   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.   British National Corpus - A balanced synchronic text corpus containing 100 million words with morphosyntactic annotation.   Canadian English - Asserts Canadian English emerged independent of American and British dialects. Historical linguistic profile, spelling and grammatical conventions, bibliography.   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.   Coined by Shakespeare - Supplies some words created by the Bard himself and the literary passages from which they came.   English Words Derived from Sanskrit - Etymologies of 250+ English words from Sanskrit. Intermediary languages are included to better explain any word-transitions.   English Contrasted - This site compares English-language variation and accents throughout English-speaking world and includes sound files so students can hear differences in native-speaker speech patterns.   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".   History of the English Language - Site maintained at University of Vermont   New Words in English - Neologisms and novel uses of words in English collected by members of a Linguistics class at Rice University.   Society for the Preservation of English Language and Literature - Bimonthly publication, SPELL/Binder, contains articles on grammar, usage, word origins, and other subjects of interest to language lovers.   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.   Survey of English Usage - University College (London) researchers focusing on grammar and linguistics, plus world-wide usage.   Talk Tidy - An indexed dictionary describing, in humorous fashion, the English dialect used in and around the Valleys of South Wales.   The Xtag Project - Lexicalized tree adjoining grammar project.   Usage Experts Change Their Minds, Too - Anne H. Soukhanov, lexicographer, shows that abstract usage rules are not set in concrete.   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     [ 1 2 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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