Language and Linguistics

General Resources

Stay on top of Calvin's linguistics with Inflections, a faculty group blog. Check out our Mixed Metaphors Page, compiled by friends and survivors of the English department.

• Linguist List: comprehensive site for linguists
• Language Study on the Web
• The Internet Grammar of English
• American Dialect Society
• Canadian English Page
• Edo Nyland's homepage: new theories on the origin of languages
• Ethnologue: "a catalogue of more than 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries ..."
• Language Debates by Diana Hacker
• Lexicon of Linguistics (Utrecht U, Netherlands)
• History and Development of Prose Style: a reader by John F. Tinkler
• Resources for Studying Human Speech
• Gender-Free Pronouns FAQ 
• Old English Pages

Online Journals and Newsletters

• AAALetter: newsletter of the American Assoc. for Applied Linguistics
• Vocabula Review: "battles nonstandard, careless English and embraces clear, expressive English"
• Verbatim: The Language Quarterly: the only magazine of language and linguistics for the layperson
• Take Our Word For It: online etymology magazine
• Word for Word: articles on words and phrases
• Language Miniatures: mini-essays about the social, mental, historical, and structural nature of language

Fun with language

• Word Play
• Linguistic Funland
• Linguistic Fun Page 
• Interactive Word Games
• Ask Oxford: word games
• The Word Wizard
• A.Word.A.Day Home Page
• The Word Spy: recently coined words and phrases and old words used in new ways
• The Word Detective: words, wit, and wisdom 
• Rhyming Dictionary
• Shakespearean Insults
• Oxymorons
• Main Sanitary Nag: Anagram Insanity
• The Ants Are My Friends.... mondegreens, of course
• The Etymology of First Names
• First Lines A Sort of Literary Test