Common Errors in English
"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 site is to help you avoid low grades, lost employment opportunities, lost business, and titters of amusement at the way you write or speak."
A. Reference Desk:
English -
German : practical vocabulary list by Dr. Carl Bolte
Dictionaries etc.--Searchable
WordNet
a lexical database for the English language
"About WordNet
WordNet® is a large lexical database of English, developed under the direction of George A. Miller. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets), each expressing a distinct concept. Synsets are interlinked by means of conceptual-semantic and lexical relations. The resulting network of meaningfully related words and concepts can be navigated with the browser. WordNet is also freely and publicly available for download. WordNet's structure makes it a useful tool for computational linguistics and natural language processing."
1.Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (of 1901)
2.Search an updated 1911 Roget's Thesaurus
3.Hypertext Webster's Dictionary
Literary References--Searchable
A. Topics, Genres, etc.
1.Bible searcher
2.Myths and Legends
3.Greek Mythology
4.English Poetry - Searchable Index
B. Searchable Authors:
1.Search Milton's Paradise Lost
Literary Research Links
English Server
On-Line Literary Research Tools
VoS English Literature: English Literature Page
LitLinks, University of Alberta
Michael Hancher: Some useful sites on the Web
VOICE OF THE SHUTTLE HOME PAGE
The EnglishWeb
Representative English Poetry Index
Oscar Wilde: Poems
VoS English Literature: English Literature Page
C. Rhetoric
Rhetorical Resources
http://eserver.org/rhetoric/
D. Drama
Drama Resources
Drama
Voice of the Shuttle (VoS) English Literature: English Literature By Genre--Drama
Joe Geigel's favorite Theatre Related Resources
Medieval Drama Links
Drama Texts
NINETEENTH CENTURY
Goethe, Johann (1749-1832): Faust
Ibsen, Henrik (1828-1906): Peer Gynt
E. Writing
Resources for Research
Style
F. PROSE
Prepared and Compiled by JOHN F. TINKLER
Literature
The Nibelungenlied - translation by Daniel Bussier Shumway, 1909 - link submitted by "Tron",
Bremen, Germany
A Digitized Library of Southern Literature: Beginnings to 1920
Something new under the Southern sun, this compilation began in 1995 when the late Dr. Robert Bain wrote to some fifty scholars
throughout the United States to get their nominations for the ten most important works of Southern literature published before 1920. From
that he compiled the core list of 100 texts for this project. In this brand new repository, texts are digitized and often accompanied by original
illustrations. This is no dusty site for specialists. We find all the verses of The Star-Spangled Banner, works of Edgar Allan Poe, and
Booker T. Washington -- and are reintroduced to many once popular writers who have been forgotten by the general reader. Wrote Samuel
Henry Dickson:
I SIGH for the land of the cypress and pine
Where the jessmine blooms, and the gay woodbine;
Where the moss droops low from the green oak tree, -
Oh, that sun-bright land is the land for me!
The Complete Works of Robert Frost through 1920
Three on-line volumes of the works of Robert Frost, one of America’s
greatest Poet Laureates. Includes audio files where you can hear the
poems recited.
PROJECT BARTLEBY (EST. 1994) ARCHIVE
 Project GUTENBERG : http://www.gutenberg.net/
I love books - http://ilx.wh3rd.net/newquestions.php?board=54 - Summarize a novel in 25
words
Lingustics
Languages of the World
The most comprehensive listing of
information about the currently-known languages of the world:
http://www.ethnologue.com/web.asp
Link Grammar and the Carnegie Mellon interactive parser
English Department techies are redefining grammar with parsing technology.
Their work is explained and put into practice in this Website. Cyber
grammarians can experiment here with the online parser, and study sample
sentences. You may enter a sentence, submit it, and study the diagram which
results. You may also email to request feedback. In an average Wall Street
Journal article, the parser finds complete and correct parses for 70-75% of
sentences. Good luck.
Reading Linguist
The Linguist List (Eastern Michigan University)
The Human Language Page
Search the Pronouncing Dictionary
Neue deutsche Rechtschreibung. Das amtliche Regelwerk
The Ethnologue, a catalogue of more than 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries
Tools
Dr. Thomas M. Paikeday's THE USER'S® WEBSTER DICTIONARY”
Fonts:
"SIL has developed more than 60 pieces of software which it
offers to the public through this on-line catalog; most are available for free
download." http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/show_software_catalog.asp?by=cat&name=Font
slang dictionaries: Dr. Murrey looking for hootchie coochie man (June 2004)
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wrader/slang/c.html
(at least contains hootchie)
http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/
[does not contain hootchie cootchie]
http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/
http://www.koalanet.com.au/australian-slang.html
http://www.pseudodictionary.com/
http://www.miskatonic.org/slang.html
http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/slang.htm -- got hootchie
cootchie man - that says it all - highly recommended!
Miscellaneous
http://www.bushisms.com/index1a.html#List
More
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary -- http://www.m-w.com/
English as a Second Language (ESL) (non native speakers)
or English as a Foreign Language (EFL)
Dave Sperling Presents The.... ESL Quiz Center http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/quiz/#grammar
Interesting Things for ESL Students http://www.manythings.org/
A fun study site for students of English as a Second Language
Word games, puzzles, quizzes, exercises, slang, proverbs and much more.
Web Site Description
This web site is for people studying English as a Second Language (ESL) or English as a Foreign Language (EFL). There are quizzes, word games, word puzzles, proverbs, slang expressions, anagrams, a random-sentence generator and other computer assisted language learning activities. Even though the primary focus is for ESL, native English speakers may also find some interesting things on this site. This site is non-commercial and has no advertising.
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