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Alan Cooper's All About Homonyms
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| Go to The List About the List When I was in the second grade, my teacher introduced me to homonyms, those words, like caret and carrot that are pronounced the same, but are spelled differently, and that have different meanings. The concept intrigued me, and for months, I maintained a dog-eared pad of yellow paper with an ever-growing list of homonyms. I eventually lost that yellow pad, but never ... |
| http://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym.html |
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Alt.usage.english FAQ
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| Alt.usage.english FAQ From: misrael@scripps.edu (Mark Israel) Newsgroups: alt.usage.english,alt.answers,news.answers Subject: alt.usage.english FAQ Followup-To: poster Date: 30 Sep 1997 00:45:52 GMT Organization: The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA Expires: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 00:00:00 GMT Message-ID: 60pi40$hn8$1@hermes.scripps.edu Archive-name: alt-usage-english-faq ... |
| http://www.faqs.org/faqs/alt-usage-english-faq/ |
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An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology
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| Salve! Welcome to my home, a site dedicated to the study of word origins. Specifically, I am focusing on those modern English words whose origins reach far back into Ancient Greek and Roman mythology. Take me to the Dictionary! Elizabeth Wallis Kraemer is an Assistant Professor in the Library at Oakland University in Rochester, MI. She received her Master's degree in Library and Information ... |
| http://www.kl.oakland.edu/kraemer/edcm/ |
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Banished Words List: Lake Superior State University
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| Banished Words 2002 Compiled Lists History of Banishment Unicorn Hunters Media Coverage Message Board Submit a Word For Banishment Lake Superior State University Issues List of Banished Words 2002 SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. - Every New Year s Day since 1976 the University has issued an annual List of Words Banished from the Queen s English for Mis-Use, Over-Use or General Uselessness compiled from ... |
| http://www.lssu.edu/banished/ |
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Common Errors in English
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| Common Errors in English Go to list of errors. What is an error in English The concept of language errors is a fuzzy one. I'll leave to linguists the technical definitions. Here we're concerned only with deviations from the standard use of English as judged by sophisticated users such as professional writers, editors, teachers, and literate executives and personnel officers. The aim of this ... |
| http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/ |
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EnglishContrasted
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| EnglishContrasted An Online Comparison of Varieties of Spoken English ... |
| http://www.geocities.com/mafjrcall/ |
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HEL Website
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| D.W. Mosser H E L D.W. Mosser History of the English Language Links updated 4/11/02 Welcome to the History of the English Language (HEL) Home Page. To subscribe to our discussion list (HEL-L), click on the following |
| http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/hel/hel.html |
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Linguistic Phenomena/Devices
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| Linguistic Phenomena/Devices This is a list of some of the lesser known linguistic phenomena and devices used in English writing. You actually know what most of these are, you just didn't know what they were called. The list doesn't include the well-known devices (like synonym or metaphor). I've also left out extremely rare or poetic devices (like hypallage) and terms referring to common ... |
| http://www.csi.uottawa.ca/~kbarker/ling-devices.html |
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Mencken, H.L. 1921. The American Language
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| Mencken, H.L. 1921. The American Language ... |
| http://www.bartleby.com/185/ |
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New Words In English: Index
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| Contents: Introduction A - E F - N O - Z LING 215 Web Page Linguistics Department Rice University Links: Word Play Word A Day Word Detective World Wide Words Introduction The following neologisms and novel uses of words in English were collected by members of the class Linguistics/English 215, Words in English: Structure, History and Use, taught by Suzanne Kemmer at Rice University. Over the ... |
| http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~ling215/NewWords/ |
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Online Technical Writing: Common Grammar, Usage, and Spelling Problems
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| Online Technical Writing: Common Grammar, Usage, and Spelling Problems This appendix covers only those grammar, punctuation, usage, and spelling problems that give people the biggest headaches. Commas Colons Semicolons Apostrophes Hyphens Comma splices and run-ons Fragments Problem modifiers Parallelism Subject-verb agreement Pronoun reference Pronoun case (who, whom) Capitalization Numbers vs. |
| http://www.io.com/~hcexres/tcm1603/acchtml/gramov.html |
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Pandora Chernobyl and Birth Defects
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| Birth Defects Pandora ... |
| http://members.aol.com/genfir1/pandbd.htm |
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Survey of English Usage
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| THE SURVEY OF ENGLISH USAGE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON The Survey of English Usage (SEU) is an English Language research unit, based in the Department of English Language and Literature at University College London. This department was rated 'excellent' in the Teaching Quality Assessment, and was awarded a 5* in the 1996 and 2001 UK Research Assessment Exercises. Research and resources ICE The ... |
| http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/ |
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The American Dialect Homepage
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| Welcome to the American Dialect homepage, an effort to bridge the gap between the scholarly and literary worlds of dialectology. |
| http://www.evolpub.com/Americandialects/AmDialhome.html |
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THE ENGLISH SPEAKING UNION OF THE UNITED STATES
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| The English-Speaking Union of the United States is a non-profit, non-political, educational organization whose mission is to promote scholarship and the advancement of knowledge through the effective use of English in an expanding global community. The ESU operates through a network of 77 Branches throughout the United States and shares a common mission with about 50 international ESUs. Members ... |
| http://www.english-speakingunion.org/ |
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The Vocabula Review - May 2002 - Table of Contents
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| The Vocabula Review (TVR) is a free, monthly journal about the state of the English language. TVR battles nonstandard, careless English and embraces clear, expressive English. We hope we can encourage our readers to do as much. Vocabula Communications Company, founded in 1986, offers editing and writing services to business, industry, and government, as well as to publishers, packagers, and ... |
| http://www.vocabula.com/ |
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The Word Detective
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| Words and Language in a Humorous Vein Since 1995 The Word Detective on the Web is the online version of The Word Detective, a newspaper column answering readers' questions about words and language. The Word Detective is written by Evan Morris and appears in finer newspapers in the U.S., Mexico and Japan. It's here at last! A hardback collection of The Word Detective columns. Here's a delightful ... |
| http://www.word-detective.com/ |
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The Xtag Project
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| The XTAG Project XTAG is an on-going project to develop a wide-coverage grammar for English using a lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) formalism. XTAG also serves as an system for the development of TAGs and consists of a parser, an X-windows grammar development interface and a morphological analyzer. CONTENTS English Grammar The most recent release of the XTAG English grammar. Download ... |
| http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~xtag/ |
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Usage Experts Change Their Minds, Too
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| Infernal English Usage Experts Change Their Minds, Too by Anne H. Soukhanov If you enjoy this article, why not try a subscription to the printed newsletter The Editorial Eye Every month you'll get news and analysis of publications standards, trends, and practices. Call 800-683-8380 or use our secure online order form. Note: The author was the executive editor of The American Heritage Dictionary ... |
| http://www.eeicommunications.com/eye/usage.html |
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World Wide Words
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| World Wide Words. More than 1000 pages on the history, origins, evolution and idiosyncrasies of English. New words and words in the news regularly featured. |
| http://www.worldwidewords.org/ |
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