English language and linguistics: A selection of links
Blog
The English section's
germ@namur blog
Writing for the
germ@namur blog: Practical pointers
Grammar
The Internet
Grammar of English
GRAMLINK
(UCL)
e-anglais.com
God save the
subjunctive!
Oxford
Learner's Grammar Student's Site
Oxford
Practice Grammar online
Vocabulary
The Oxford 3000
Phrases and sayings
Cambridge dictionaries
online (including Advanced Learner's, Phrasal verbs, Idioms,
French-English)
Oxford
Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Macmillan Online
Dictionary
BBC & OED Wordhunt:
Balderdash and Piffle
Merriam-Webster
Roget's thesaurus
The free
dictionary
OneLook
Free online dictionaries
DICT.org
Wordsmyth
Academic
Word List
Wordsmith.Org
World Wide
Words
The Word Spy
Latin words,
abbreviations, phrases and sayings in English
Urban Dictionary: Define
your world
WordReference.com
Usage
Englishpage.com
Online
writing lab
The European Language
Portfolio
BBC
World service: Learning English
Common
errors in English
Using English
Free translation
Sentence sense
Guide to grammar
and writing
English for techies
(and non-techies, too) (intended for native speakers of French)
Phonetics and phonology
English Accents and Dialects
The speech accent archive
Millennium Memory Bank
AUE: The
Audio Archive
Gabriele
Azzaro - Worldwide Accents of English
Unicode
Phonetic transcription
UCL Phonetics
& Linguistics - Internet Shopping
E. L. Easton - English
Around the World
IDEA - The
International Dialects Of English Archive
Voice & Speech
Source
BBC Voices
Estuary
English
Corpus tools / the internet as corpus?
Background
A Crash Course in
Corpus Linguistics
Gateway to Corpus Linguistics
on the Internet
Corpora
and corpus linguistics
'Real' corpora with free samplers or free access
British
National Corpus with sampler
Cobuild Bank
of English corpus with concordance
and collocation sampler
The British
Component of the International Corpus of English with sample
corpus
Michigan Corpus of
Academic Spoken English
Internet corpora
Use of internet
data
Google
it! (using, of course, Google)
British
National Corpus (BYU-BNC)
The Corpus of Contemporary American
English (COCA)
WebCorp: The Web as
Corpus
Encyclopedias
Wikipedia
The LoveToKnow free
online encyclopedia
Fact index
Bartleby
Reading about (and listening to and watching) the news,
films, music,...
BBC
iPlayer
News and current affairs
BBC
BBC
- Newsnight
BBC Four
Interviews
BBC Newsnight Interviews
BBC
Radio Podcasts
BBC
News Video and Audio
Number 10 TV
Youtube channel BBC
Worldwide
CNN
Guardian Unlimited
Times online
The Telegraph
The Mirror
The New York Times
Language, Culture and the Arts
Language Log
Arts & Letters Daily
Icons - A portrait of
England
BBC Collective - The
interactive culture magazine
Stephen
Fry podcasts
Music
Allmusic
Pitchfork
The Wire: Adventures in modern
music
Film
The Internet Movie Database
Greatest films
Allmovie
Fun stuff
Dilbert
Garfield
The Quotations Page
More links
DMOZ open directory: English as a second language (student
resources)
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