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English

  1. American Heritage Book of English Usage :: http://www.bartleby.com/64/

  2. Book of Cliches :: http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/sybev/cliche/ 

  3. (British) English Translated for Americans :: http://www.uta.fi/FAST/US1/REF/engtran.html 

  4. ClicheSite.com :: http://www.clichesite.com/index.asp 

  5. Columbia Guide to Standard American English :: http://www.bartleby.com/68/ 

  6. Common Errors in English :: http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/ 

  7. English Grammar FAQ :: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/aue.html 

  8. Grammar and Style Notes :: http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/ 

  9. Internet Anagram Server (I, Rearrangement Servant) :: http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/index.html. A form-based resource which will create anagrams ("a word or phrase made by transposing the letters of another word or phrase").  

  10. Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun :: http://vocabulary.co.il/ 

  11. Middle English Compendium :: http://www.hti.umich.edu/mec/ 

  12. Middle English Search :: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/mideng.browse.html 

  13. Origin of Phrases :: http://members.aol.com/MorelandC/Phrases.htm 

  14. Phrase Finder :: http://www.phrases.org.uk/ 

  15. Repeat After Us :: http://www.repeatafterus.com/ Online language lab with a library of English language text and audio clips intended to help people with their language skills. 

  16. Strange & Unusual Dictionaries :: http://www.blueray.com/dictionary/ Features three unique dictionaries: The White Queen's Dictionary of One Letter Words; Dictionary of All-Consonant Words; The Dictionary of All-Vowel Words.  

  17. Take Our Word for It :: http://www.takeourword.com/ This weekly web-zine provides origins to words and phrases. Back issues are searchable. 

  18. Traditional Grammatical Terminology :: http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/language/Grammar.htm 

  19. Vocabulary Training :: http://www.vokabel.com/ Use this site to help you learn words in French, Spanish, or German.  

  20. Word Detective :: http://www.word-detective.com/ Weekly column on the origin of words and phrases based on questions e-mailed from the public. An archive of old columns is also available. 

  21. Word Wizard :: http://www.wordwizard.com News about words and writing, contributions from well-known writers about aspects of the English language, information about word or phrase origins, a selection of coinages, quotes, as well as our Slang Street, Public Scribe and other areas where you can participate. 

  22. WordCount :: http://www.wordcount.org/main.php 86,800 most frequently used English words and ranks them in order of commonality. 

  23. WordNet :: http://wordnet.princeton.edu/ On-line lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept.  

  24. World Wide Words :: http://www.worldwidewords.org/ 1400 pages on this site to talk about English words and phrases: "what they mean, where they come from, how they evolved, and the ways in which people sometimes misuse them. World Wide Words is a free newsletter, updated weekly, on words, origins, and meanings. The author considers himself a "researcher of English Language"
   

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