History of the English Language  
   Collection of links maintained at University of Vermont.
   http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/hel/hel.html

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

The American Language by H.L. Mencken  
   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.
   http://www.bartleby.com/185/

Alt.Usage.English FAQ  
   Newsgroup discussing English usage, maintained by Mark Israel.
   http://www.faqs.org/faqs/alt-usage-english-faq/

World Wide Words  
   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.
   http://www.worldwidewords.org/

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

Survey of English Usage  
   University College (London) researchers focusing on grammar and linguistics, plus world-wide usage. Includes the "Internet Grammar of English".
   http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/

English Contrasted  
   Native and non-native English-language accents are demonstrated from around the world, through the use of downloadable sound files.
   http://www.geocities.com/mafjrcall/

Web Frequency Indexer  
   Contains a script that shows the frequency of a word in some text that is entered. Allows list to be sorted by the least to most, most to least or alphabetically.
   http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/webtools/web_freqs.html

List of Banished Words  
   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.
   http://www.lssu.edu/banished/

The Discouraging Word  
   Defends the English language from its abusers and misusers. Polls and a custom dictionary.
   http://www.thediscouragingword.com/

The Great Vowel Shift  
   Brief treatment of the systematic sound shifts involving Middle English stressed vowels that changed the pronunciation of English beyond recognition.
   http://icg.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/vowels.html

Infernal English: Usage Experts Change Their Minds Too  
   Anne H. Soukhanov, lexicographer, shows that grammatical rules are not necessarily set in concrete.
   http://www.eeicommunications.com/eye/usage.html

The American Dialect Homepage  
   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.
   http://www.evolpub.com/Americandialects/AmDialhome.html

The Armchair Grammarian  
   Studies in English grammar, punctuation, and composition. Includes a discussion of the methodology involving the creative writing process as it relates to fiction and theories of characterization.
   http://community-2.webtv.net/SOLIS-BOO/Grammar1/

Canadian English  
   Survey of the main characteristics of Canadian English, with emphasis on what distinguishes it from American English. Web still under construction.
   http://www.jkcc.com/english/

New Words in English  
   Neologisms and novel uses of words in English collected by members of a Linguistics class at Rice University.
   http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~ling215/NewWords/

Online Technical Writing: Common Grammar, Usage, and Spelling Problems  
   Commas, colons, semicolons, apostrophes, hyphens, comma splices and run-ons, fragments, problem modifiers, parallelism, subject-verb agreement, pronoun references, pronoun case (who, whom), capitalization, when to use numbers versus words, symbols, and ab
   http://www.io.com/~hcexres/tcm1603/acchtml/gramov.html

Real English  
   Reference and practical material connected with the use of English as it is actually used in everyday life.
   http://www.vtr.net/~webclass

A Study of the Formants of the Pure Vowels of British English  
   MA Thesis (1960) of Prof. J.C. Wells of the University of London concerning the pronunciation of vowels in "Received Pronunciation".
   http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/formants/index.htm

English Words from Sanskrit  
   Depicts 300+ English words related to this ancient Hindu language.
   http://geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/sanskrit.html

Hindu Linguistical Influence in English  
   Suggests that some Sanskrit-related words entered English from 1200-1600 a.d.
   http://geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/influence.html

Database of American Proprietary Eponyms  
   List of American brand names in general use today.
   http://www.prairienet.org/~rkrause/brands.html

The Nautical Origins of Some Common Expressions  
   Explaining the marine origins of some common words, figures of speech, and everyday expressions.
   http://www.fortogden.com/nauticalterms.html

The Vocabula Review  
   A free, monthly journal about the state of the English language, dedicated to supporting its clear and expressive usage.
   http://vocabula.com/index.asp

WordNet  
   A lexical database and reference system for the English language from Princeton University.
   http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/

Language Sites on the Internet  
   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 erro
   http://pw1.netcom.com/~rlederer/rllink.htm

Speechskript: The Alternative Spelling System  
   Complete instructions for learning to read and write in Speechskript.
   http://www.speechskript.com/speechsk.htm

The Be/Have paradigm with intransitive verbs during the Restoration period  
   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.
   http://www.update.uu.se/~nea/uppsats/D_uppsats.html

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

Lexicopoeia. A Lexicon of Neologisms  
   Contains the explanation of "lexicopoeia" as a genre of word creation on the crossroads of poetry and lexicography, plus an occasionally-expanding list of neologisms coined by Professor Mikhail Epstein.
   http://www.emory.edu/INTELNET/lexicopoeia.html

Triplehom.com  
   Updated collection of triple homonyms in English.
   http://www.triplehom.com

English Grammar Gone Awry  
   Collection of common errors made by native English speakers.
   http://www.grammarerrors.com/

Varieties of English  
   Linguistic analysis (phonology, morphology, syntax, vocabulary) of different varieties of English spoken in the US, Canada and Britain.
   http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~lsp/

International Dialects of English Archive  
   Collection of freely downloadable recordings of real people speaking English in their own native accents and dialects. Nearly 300 4-minute MP3 samples available.
   http://www.ku.edu/~idea/