Surf these sites: An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology -- English words with origins in Greek and Roman mythology. British National Corpus -- Searchable database of British English usage. HEL -- History of the English Language. Also has a mailing list. New Words in English -- Neologisms and novel uses of words in English collected by members of a Linguistics class at Rice University. Society for the Preservation of English Language and Literature -- SPELL, an organization of people who love our language and are determined to resist its abuse and misuse in the news media and elsewhere. Student Papers on American English -- From the Dept. of Translation Studies, Univ. of Tampere, Finland. Topics: Differences Between American and British English; ''Black English'' (AAVE, or ''Ebonics''); Yiddish and Ethnic-Jewish Influences; Historical and Loan Word Influence; Regional and Social Variation; Slang; General Topics. The Xtag Project -- Lexicalized tree adjoining grammar project. Usage Experts Change Their Minds, Too -- Anne H. Soukhanov, lexicographer, shows that abstract usage rules are not set in concrete.
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