INTRODUCTION

HISTORY

TIMELINE

LANGUAGE ISSUES

GLOSSARY OF TERMS

SOURCES & LINKS

SOURCES AND LINKS   Books | Television Series | Websites - Basic | Websites - More Detailed | Just For Fun   Books Back to Top “The Adventure of English” by Melvin Bragg (Sceptre, 2003) “Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language” by David Crystal (Cambridge University Press, 1995) “English as a Global Language” by David Crystal (Cambridge University Press, 1997) “Mother Tongue” by Bill Bryson (Penguin Books, 1990)   Television Series Back to Top “The Adventure of English" (ITV, 2003) “The Story of English” (PBS/BBC, 1986)   Websites - Basic Back to Top A Brief History of the English Language (Anglik.net): http://www.anglik.net/englishlanguagehistory.htm A Brief History of the English Language (Study English Today): http://www.studyenglishtoday.net/english-language-history.html A History of the English Language (Random History): http://www.randomhistory.com/1-50/023english.html A (Very) Brief History of the English Language (Word Origins): http://www.wordorigins.org/index.php/site/comments/a_very_brief_history_of_the_english_language3/ Borrowed Words In English (Dan Short): http://www.danshort.com/ie/borrowedwords.htm Brief History of English (Jeremy Smith): http://members.peak.org/~jeremy/dictionaryclassic/chapters/history.php English Language History (English Language Guide): http://www.englishlanguageguide.com/english/facts/history/ Global English: A Paradigm Shift (Google Knol): http://knol.google.com/k/global-english-a-paradigm-shift History of the English Language (English Club): http://www.englishclub.com/english-language-history.htm History of the English Language (Soon Magazine): http://soon.org.uk/page18.htm Language Timeline (British Library Board): http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/changlang/across/languagetimeline.html The Great Vowel Shift (Geoffrey Chaucer Page): http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/vowels.html The History of English (Oxford Dictionaries): http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/page/thehistoryofenglish/ The Origin and History of the English language (KryssTal): http://www.krysstal.com/english.html What Are the Origins of the English Language (Merriam Webster): http://www.merriam-webster.com/help/faq/history.htm   Websites - More Detailed Back to Top English History and Its Language Development (English Word Information): http://wordinfo.info/unit/4218?letter=E&spage=4 History of English (IELanguages): http://www.ielanguages.com/enghist.html History of the English Language (Wikipedia) (and other links from there): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_English_language History of the English Language (University of Hawaii): http://emedia.leeward.hawaii.edu/hurley/Ling102web/mod6_world/6mod6.2._historyofenglish.htm History of the English Language (University of Toronto): http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~cpercy/hell/ History of the English Language Links (University of Toronto): http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~cpercy/helhome.htm Studying the History of English (Raymond Hickey): http://www.uni-due.de/SHE/index.html Words In English (Rice University): http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~kemmer/Words04/     Just For Fun Back to Top Alan Cooper's Homonym List (an alphabetical listing of homonyms): http://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym_list.html Anagram Hall of Fame (some of the best, and longest, anagrams in English): http://wordsmith.org/anagram/hof.html Anagram Server (generate anagrams for any word or phrase you like): http://wordsmith.org/anagram/ Bartleby.com (complete texts of classic works of literature, reference, Bibles, quotations, etc): http://www.bartleby.com/) Canadian, British and American Spelling (differences between British and American spelling, and the Canadian hybrid of the two): http://www.lukemastin.com/testing/spelling/ Common Errors in English Usage (online version of Paul Brian's book on the most common vocabulary errors of native speakers): http://www.wsu.edu/%7Ebrians/errors/errors.html Complete "Anguish Languish" Site (Howard L. Chace's homophonic transliteration of popular fairy tales): http://www.justanyone.com/allanguish.html (there is a version of the most popular of these, "Ladle Rat Rotten Hut", with side-by-side translation, at http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/sensen/part2/ten/final_ed_fun_ans.html). Concise History of the English Language (a rather jaundiced, humorous look at the development of English by Owen Alun and Brendan O’Corraidhe): http://www.danshort.com/ie/ConciseHistory.htm Dictionary of Difficult Words (some of the more obscure entries in the English lexicon): http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficultwords/ Foreign Phrases Commonly Used in English (words and phrases of foreign origin which are more or less commonly used in English): http://www.lukemastin.com/testing/phrases/ Literature Network (complete texts of almost 7,000 classic books, short stories and poems by over 250 authors): http://www.online-literature.com/ (ReadPrint is another similar site: http://www.readprint.com/) Lost Beauties of the English Language (dictionary of obsolete and archaic English words): http://www.archive.org/texts/flipbook/flippy.php?id=lostbeautieseng00mackgoog Modern English to Old English Vocabulary (dictionary of translations from Modern English to Old English): http://www.mun.ca/Ansaxdat/vocab/wordlist.html Phrase Finder (meanings and origins of English phrases, sayings, idioms and expressions): http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/ RhymeZone (dictionary of rhymes, homophone, synonyms and antonyms): http://www.rhymezone.com/ SMS Dictionary (dictionary of cellphone shorthand abbreviations): http://www.smsfun.com.au/sms_dictionary.php Thesaurus.com (online thesaurus of synonyms and antonyms): http://www.thesaurus.com/ Urban Dictionary (dictionary of current street slang and neologisms and their usage): http://www.urbandictionary.com/ SmartWritingService.com (Professional English essay writing help for students): https://smartwritingservice.com/english-essay.html

INTRODUCTION

HISTORY

TIMELINE

LANGUAGE ISSUES

GLOSSARY OF TERMS

SOURCES & LINKS

 
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