Language Resources (Mostly)
This file has been adapted from the Language Resources
list in Markus Laker's AUE Resources package.
I've partitioned the list into categories. To make it easier
to find things, some links are included in more than one category,
and you will find some items in the category list that point to
the same category. For example, "Usage guides", "Style guides",
and "Grammar guides" all point to the category "Usage, grammar,
and style guides". Within each category all links have been
alphabetized, with leading 'a's and 'the's being ignored. Some
language-related links have been left uncategorized, either
because they
seemed too difficult to categorize or because I haven't yet made
a determined effort to categorize them. Some links that Markus
described as having 'nothing to do
with language' have been left as a group. There is one implementation note that pertains to
Markus's full AUE Resources package. The rest of the items
on Markus's list -- and the items that I've added -- have been
assigned to the following categories:
Click on any occurrence of a blue arrow (
) -- except this one -- to return to the
categories index.
Click on any heading to bring that heading to the top of the
page.
[Top]
- Analytical
Q's list of color guides
- BBC Web
Guide
"Whether you are new to the Web or a veteran surfer, our Web
Guide aims to help you find what you are looking for quickly and
easily. BBC subject specialists have surfed the Internet to
bring you some of the best and most reliable Web sites."
- Brian Kelk's list of word
lists
- Sarah Kelash's British English Links
The URL previously given here no longer works. Tried Googling
on "briteng" and "Sarah Kelash". No luck.
- Bun Mui's
Information Website
- Dogpile. An impressive
collection of links. I want to spend more time exploring
it and learning to understand it.
- Editors'
Association of Canada Among other things, links to grammar
and style guides
- ENGLISH online E. L. Easton
Materials for Teaching & Learning. A wealth of links to resources
on many aspects of English.
- Garbl's
Writing Resources On Line Dozens of good links here
-
Megalist of Word Links
- NIU English
Department Grammar Links
- NY Times Editorial Room
Search Index
-
On-line dictionaries An extensive list of on-line
dictionaries, including slang, technical, and foreign
-
Onelook at <http://onelook.com/more.shtml> has a list
of links to dictionaries and to lists of links to
dictionaries.
- The Online Writing
Lab at Purdue University
Resources for writers and teachers, links to search engines
- 2005 01 10, Randy's Links,
"http://home.earthlink.net/~randyburns2/mirror/"
returned "404 Not Found". Unable to find new URL.
-
refdesk.com
- Towson
University resources on the Internet
- A Web of On-line
Dictionaries
Links to dictionaries in many different languages.
- Worthless
Word for Today (Has a list of links.)
-
Yahoo's etymology links
-
Yahoo's grammar, usage, and style links
- The Zuzu's Petals
Literary Resource (See note 2)
Note: A Google search on "color chart" returns "about 838,000" hits.
- 216 cross-platform,
compatible colors.
- Analytical
Q's list of color guides
- Color
saturations Various saturations, with hex codes, of primary
and complementary colors.
-
Colors for web pages
See 140 named colors that are acceptable to HTML web browsers, displayed
against 140 background colors. Or, see 4096 colors, identified by
number.
- 2005 Jan 10 Replaced the "Easy to Use Color Chart that was at
http://members.tripod.com/~Graphics4Webbers/EasyColorChart.html , which
now returns "404 Not Found", with
"Complete HTML True Color Chart"
-
Lynda's browser-safe colors
The Browser-Safe Palette only contains 216 colors out of a
possible 256. That is because
the remaining 40 colors vary on Macs and PCs. By eliminating the
40 variable colors,
this palette is optimized for cross-platform use.
- Super Color Chart
Click on one color to get the text color, another color to get the
background color. You'll see sample text displayed with the chosen
combination of colors. You can also choose a font size and a font face
for the sample-text display. (2005 Jan 10)
-
American Heritage Dictionary, Fourth Edition, from
Bartleby.com.
-
British-American dictionary compiled by Mark Glicksman
-
British-American dictionary
- Cambridge
International Dictionary of English
This may be the only available source for American pronunciations
using the International Phonetic Alphabet. It's apparently a
relatively elementary student's dictionary; don't look in it for
"paronomasia", "syllepsis", "zeugma", or "allophone".
- The Century Dictionary
"An encyclopedic dictionary of English considered by many to be
the finest ever produced in the US." -- Oxford Companion to the
English Language
- dictionary.com
This source provides definitions from a number of different
dictionaries. In particular, it apparently accesses the complete
contents of _The American Heritage Dictionary Third Edition_,
including the discussions of Indo European roots that may be
unique to that dictionary. You can go directly to the dictionary
lookup, as illustrated by the following example, which will find
definitions for 'enclitic':
http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=enclitic
- History
of Webster's Dictionary, from Noah Webster's 1828 first edition through
the controversy over Webster's Third New International.
- Hypertext Webster Gateway -- Online dictionary
The URL previously given here no longer works. There's a URL for
"Hypertext Webster Gateway" at UCSD:
<http://smac.ucsd.edu/cgi-bin/http_webster> .
- Information
Please dictionary and encyclopedia
- Latin
dictionary online
Copyright (C)1997 The University of British Columbia Mathematics
Department
Individual pages and projects are Copyright by their respective
creators, as noted.
Java-based interactive version:
<http://sunsite.ubc.ca/LatinDictionary/>
-
Macquarie Dictionary on line
- Merriam-Webster Online
- Onelook
automatically searches many dictionaries for the word you
enter.
-
Onelook at <http://onelook.com/more.shtml> has a list
of links to dictionaries and to lists of links to
dictionaries.
-
2105 Jan 10 - The Random House Webster's College Dictionary
that was at
<...lycos...guide> now returns "404 (not found)".
The Infoplease Dictionary>
is apparently the 1997 Random House Unabridged
Dictionary with etymologies and usage notes removed.
- A Web of
On-line Dictionaries
Links to dictionaries in many different languages.
- Webster's 1828 dictionary
Christian Technologies, Inc.
-
2105 01 10 - The Webster's New World College Dictionary that was
at http://www.mgr.com/websters/search/search.html now returns
"404 (not found)".
-
Wordnet 1.6 Vocabulary Helper
In addition to definitions, this site gives
'Synonyms/Hypernyms' and 'Coordinate Terms'.
- The Official misc.writing
Web Site
misc.writing ("mw") is a UseNet newsgroup that provides a forum
for discussion of writing in all its forms - scholarly,
technical, journalistic, artistic and mere day-to-day
communication. It is a venue for professional writers, would-be
professionals and all those who write to communicate.
- The sci.lang
FAQ (See note 6) What is sci.lang for?
Discussion of the scientific or historical study of human
language(s). Note the "sci." prefix. The main concern here is
with facts and theories accounting for them.
-
Unmoderated linguistics list
An unmoderated mailing list for discussing all aspects of
linguistics. So if you want to talk about language acquistion,
philosophise about the nature of linguistics or just get your own
particular pet peeve about language off your chest, this is the
place.
- The Word Wizard
If you're fascinated by anything to do with words, then join our
club, use our (FREE) services and have fun with other like-minded
people.
-
Britannica
(<http://www.britannica.com/>)
1 August 2001: Britannica is no longer free online. The URL that formerly provided the free access now
offers a paid subscription.
- Electric
Library presents Encyclopedia.com
- Encarta
Concise Free Encyclopedia
Your gateway to 16,000 abridged reference articles and our world
atlas
- Funk &
Wagnalls Multimedia Encyclopedia
Select 'Reference Room', then 'Research Center', then
'Encyclopedia'.
- Information
Please dictionary and encyclopedia
- Bushisms - 2005 Jan 10 - The "Bushisms" page that was at
http://slate.msn.com/Features/bushisms/bushisms.asp now returns
"404 (not found).
There's a site that's devoted to sayings
by George W. Bush at http://www.bushisms.com/.
- Comedy Central
- 2105 Jan 10 - Previous link superseded.
- Dave's ESL
Cafe for people learning or teaching English as a second
language
Various courses for pay.
- ELT Web, English Language Teaching, a variety of resources.
- Irregular English Verbs with French explanations.
-
Language help Up-to-date and very extensive language help
from Ruth Vilmi in Helsinki
- Taiwan
Teacher
'This page has a great set of EFL, ESL teaching and learning
links all neatly organised and categorised to make the choosing
easy.'
- Accents in the UK
- Anglo-Saxon
language and culture
"Welcome to the home of Ða Engliscan Gesiþas... ...the
society for people interested in all aspects of Anglo-Saxon
language and culture."
-
The Canterbury Tales with hypertext glossary
-
Chaucer's Pronunciation, Grammar and Vocabulary with sound
files
- French vowel chart,
Positions of French vowels in the vowel quadrilateral.
- Language
translation
Translations to and from any of
several languages.
-
Liverpool accents, comments about Scouse from The Guardian.
- The Metaverse, by Mark
Rosenfelder (See note 9)
- Oxford English
Dictionary Home Page
- Phonological Atlas of
North America
The Phonological Atlas of North America is created by the Telsur
Project at the Linguistics Laboratory at the University of
Pennsylvania. Telsur is a telephone survey of the major urbanized
areas of the U.S. and Canada, supported by the National Science
Foundation and the National Endowment for the
Humanities.
- The Plain English
Campaign
Plain English Campaign is an independent UK-based organisation
which fights to promote the use of plain English and to stamp out
all forms of gobbledygook - legalese, small print and
bureaucratic language. The Campaign is funded by its professional
services. These include editing, writing, design and training in
plain English for many of the UK's largest companies, as well as
government departments and local authorities.
-
refdesk.com
- Ruth
Vilmi's Home Page at Helsinki University
- The
Scots Language
This site is essentially an introduction to written non-regional
Traditional Scots.
-
Scouse, comments from the Guardian about Liverpool accents.
- Yet another English Language FAQ.
- Active
Buyer's Guide Methodically helps you buy just about
anything
- ActiveState Programmer Network. (Perl, among other things.)
- Anglo-Saxon
language and culture
"Welcome to the home of ða Engliscan Gesiþas... ...the
society for people interested in all aspects of Anglo-Saxon
language and culture."
-
<http://www.anywho.com/> Phone numbers and addresses
for millions of people.
- AtomTime98
Set your system time to agree with the atomic clock in Boulder,
Colorado.
- British newspapers online,
numerous, some free, some for pay.
- CIA World
Factbook
- Country codes
with links to flags, based on International Standard ISO 3166
Codes
Hosted by 'Network Startup Resource Center at the University of
Oregon' -- Last-modified: 1999/11/16
-
CSUN Library Catalogs - updated 2005 Jan 11
Catalogs of the Oviatt Library at California State University,
Northridge
-
Dilbert
- Ebert Movie
Files The Ebert Archives contain Roger Ebert's movie reviews
since 1985.
-
e-mail safety rules
- Eric's
Treasure Trove quick answers to math questions, especially
ones of definition and history.
I found here detailed step-by-step instructions for solving a
polynomial equation using Horner's Method. Now (010703)
all I find is a notice to the effect that the site has been discontinued because of a
copyright lawsuit.
- Exchange rates.
-
Geographic Names Information System - Updated 2005 Jan 10
- GNIS Query
United States and Territories - Updated 2005 Jan 10
- The Internet Movie
Database.
- Internet FAQ
Consortium
Select 'FAQ Authors' in the left-hand frame for help on writing a
FAQ and getting it installed at news.answers. Select 'Search
FAQs' in the left-hand frame to search the contents of thousands
of FAQs for any string.
- The LLNL List of Lists
The URL no longer works. Lawrence Livermore National Labs has a
Web site at
<http://www.llnl.gov/llnl/001index/08pub-index.html>,
but so far I've found nothing
there about a "list of lists". Google finds hits on "list of lists".
- Liszt the mailing list
directory
- Learn2
- Los Angeles Public Library
Catalog
- Mapquest Maps and much more.
- News of the
Weird
- Perl for
Win32 Page Maintained by Robin Chatterjee from
Calcutta,India
- Play Go Online -- The premier Web page for playing Go online, with all
ranks of players represented. 'At any given time, there are something like
100 to 300 people logged on, with many (if not most) players at the new
and beginning levels.' -- DLS
That URL no longer works. Google finds a number of URLs for
playing Go on the Internet. One of them is
<http://www.pandanet.co.jp/English/guide/intro.htm>
- Private Eye
- The Retrocomputing Museum with INTERCAL (See
note 10)
- Search Engine
Watch
- Simtel Shareware
(Update 2005 Jan 11) Free downloads of the best computer
software freeware and shareware. (Noted with interest:
"Simtel is a registered trademark of Digital River, Inc. |
Simtel.Net is a service mark of Digital River, Inc.")
- Teletext News - 2005 Jan 11 - Returning "404 (not found). Removed.
There's a guide to numerous online British newspapers, some free and some for-pay, at
http://www.wrx.zen.co.uk/alltnews.htm
- Universal Postal
Union
- Virus catalog
by Symantec.
- Virus hoaxes
listed by Symantec.
- Web
Gallery of Art
The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable
database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic,
Renaissance and Baroque periods (1150-1750), currently con over
6,000 reproductions.
- What people are searching for on Magellan
The URL previously provided here offered a way to watch what web surfers
were currently searching for (hence "voyeur"). It updated every
ten seconds and gave you a list of inquiries at that time.
That URL no longer works, but there's a discussion of voyeur sites at
<http://www.timguest.net/mt-archives/000036.html>.
One URL it gives is <http://www.metaspy.com>.
That site updates every 15 seconds. It gives you the option of
blocking out naughty inquiries.
- White House web site --
Full texts of speeches and radio addresses.
- The World Clock
Current local times around the world (Standard
version)
- The world's newspapers and magazines on-line.
The URL previously provided no longer works, but you can link to
a great many newspapers and magazines around the world from
<http://newsdirectory.com/>
- Anagram
Genius
Give it a string and your e-mail address; it e-mails an anagram
of the string to you.
- Ask a
Linguist
Ask-A-Linguist is a service provided by The LINGUIST List, an
Internet network for professional linguists. Although the list
itself is restricted to messages relating to linguistic research,
many LINGUIST List members are interested in language-related
questions of all kinds; and a number of these have volunteered to
staff this page. Ask-A-Linguist is designed to be a place where
anyone interested in language or linguistics can ask a question
and get the response of a panel of professional linguists.
- Lydbury English
Centre - On Line Grammar Home Page
- Text
analyser Enter text; it analyzes it
- Wordsmith.Org Various
word-related services by e-mail
- For a thorough discussion of 'chiasmus' and
comparisons of 'chiasmus' with related terms, see <http://chiasmus.com/>,
'A Web Site for Word, Languge, and Quotation Lovers, Created by
Dr. Mardy Grothe'.
-
Figures of Speech Used in the Bible, E.W. Bullinger, London,
1898
- For a really long list of terms, with definitions,
see Flowers
of Rhetoric from BYU.
(C) 1996-98, Gideon O. Burton, Brigham Young University.
'Please cite "Silva Rhetoricae"
<http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/silva.htm>.'
If you don't like frames, you can get frameless displays at the
following URLs:
<http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/trees.htm>.
<http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Figures/FLOWERS.HTM>.
<http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Figures/FIGURES-OVERVIEW.HTM>.
- A
Glossary of Literary Terms
and A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices including an Introduction
and a Self Test by Robert
Harris, Professor of English at Vanguard University of Southern California in
Costa Mesa, California
- An Introduction to
Rhetorical Style Robert N. Gaines (C) 1998. All rights
reserved.
- Linguistic Phenomena/Devices,
www.csi.uottawa.ca/~kbarker/
-
The site that was previously referenced here is no longer available, but
you can go to Rhetoric
at the
AUE Web site, and look for "Rhetorical Toolbox" and the link "email the author".
- Rhetoric vocabulary with definitions from
www.uky.edu, a site created by Ross Scaife
-
Rhetorical tropes with definitions, from Kristen Furman at
Georgia Institute of Technology.
- skb list o' nifty
words, with definitions, from S. Baum Dept. of Oceanography
TAMU.
- Technical Terms: What Are They For?
This was a page that was linked to from 'Home Page for Greek 701
at CUNY' Copyright (c) 1999 Hardy Hansen
Efforts to find a replacement URL have failed.
- WordNet
- a Lexical Database for English.
The word "thesaurus" only begins to connote the sort of work that WordNet is.
To fully appreciate it, you need to spend some time with it.
External
Links to Grammar and Style Guides
- A bit about words
by Julian Burnside (Click on "Language Page", then "Articles about words and language".)
- 'Chiasmus', an
exhaustive discussion
-
Forthright's Phrontistery
Welcome to the Phrontistery! I'm Forthright, your host as you
search this site, which is academic in appearance and focus but
which, I think, has lots of stuff for anyone generally interested
in historical and linguistic topics, English language words and
word-lists, etymology, prehistory, or social issues in
general.
- John
Lawler's discussions of frequently asked AUE questions
-
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
- OED
Word of the Day.
On 9 September 2001, we have learned that the OED
Word of the Day is no longer free. It's now available only to
subscribers to the Online OED.
- Random
House's Maven's Word of the Day
- Vocabula
- A Word a Day Anu
Garg's 'A.Word.A.Day'
- Word
Detective by Evan Morris
- Word Spy
-
WordWatch 2005 Jan 11 - The "wordwatch" function is now
included in Collins's "word exchange". Among other things,
you can submit new words for possible inclusion
in future Collins dictionaries.
- Word with You
<http://www.wordwithyou.com/> '"Britannica
Internet Guide Award" has selected Word With You as one of the
best sites on the Internet when reviewed for quality, accuracy of
content, presentation and usability.'
- World
Wide Words by Michael B. Quinion
- Worthless
Word for Today (Has a list of links.)
- Yet another English Language FAQ <http://www.yaelf.com>.
The implementation note is no longer considered relevant, so it has been deleted.
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1. Igor Merfert's
audio archives are now resident at this Web site.
2. The URL in the original list now
returns 'Netscape is unable to locate the server
www.lehigh.net'. The
link 'The Zuzu's Petals Literary Resource' now refers to
an apparently related URL that has the heading:
Zuzu's Petals Literary Links: Resources for
Poets and Writers
A large and well-maintained collection of links on every
aspect of writing. Look here to find style guides,
copyright laws, and much more.
3. The URL
<http://www.mathcs.carleton.edu/faculty/skennedy/nonsense.html>
returned 'The requested
URL /faculty/skennedy/nonsense.html was not found on
this server.'
There are other collections of collective nouns. For example:
http://www.ojohaven.com/collectives/.
Google gives hundreds of hits on "collective nouns".
4. The previous URL at the link 'The
Jargon file' (<http://www.fwi.uva.nl/~mes/jargon/>) brought
up
a version of the Jargon File dated 24 July 1996. That
link now refers to a 'Jargon lexicon' that is dated
17 June 1999. A file containing links to a variety of
files relevant to the Jargon File, some dated as late
as June 1999, is at
<http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/>.
5. The link corresponding to this
note was removed 7 November 2000.
6. The sci.lang link previously shown
now returns '404 error. Document not available.'
7. Mark Israel's Web site at Scripps
apparently no longer exists; however there
is a Web site that apparently has the same content,
including his collection of
Tom Swifties. The Web site is at
<http://www.ccp14.ac.uk/ccp/web-mirrors/xtalview-mcree/pub/dem-web/misrael/>.
To see the Tom Swifties, click on
'TomSwifties.html'.
There are a number of sources of Tom Swifties on the
Web, but probably none approach
the 900 that Mark has. A source of 101 Tom Switfties
is:
http://www.webcom.com/~wutka/html/swifties.html.
8. The link pointing to this note
was removed 7 November 2000.
9. The original URL,
<http://huitzilo.tezcat.com/~markrose/default.html>,
returned
'The document you have requested is' either
'non-existent', 'non-readable',
or 'misplaced'. Mark Rosenfelder has a lot of material
that seems to
be related to something called 'metaverse' at http://www.zompist.com/.
That URL has been substituted for the one that was
previously linked to by
'The Metaverse, by Mark Rosenfelder'.
10. 'The requested URL
/retro/retromuseum.html was not found on this server.'
A Google search on the string 'retrocomputing' yields
many links.
Some apparently related links:
The Virtual Museum of Computing (VMoC)
This virtual museum includes an eclectic collection of
World Wide Web (WWW) hyperlinks
connected with the history of computing and on-line
computer-based exhibits available
both locally and around the world.
The
Retrocomputing Museum
-- Bob Cunningham
Last revision of this file 22 January 2004 13:11 GMT.