Language Links
Subcategories: Dictionaries · Fun · Grammar · Linguistics · Reference · Translation · Quotes
Dictionaries
- A Web of On-line Dictionaries
- Online Slang Dictionary
- Oxford English Dictionary—(MIT only)
- Roget’s Thesaurus
- Sign Language Dictionary
- Webster
Fun With Words
- A Word A Day—mailing list
- Jargon File
- Phrase Finder—find phrases related to a word you enter
- TMRC Dictionary—beginnings of the Jargon File
- World Wide Words—investigating international English from a British viewpoint
Grammar and Style
- Chicago Manual of Style FAQ
- Elements of Style
- Grammar Lady Online
- Mayfield Handbook—for scientific and technical writing
- Beyond the MLA Handbook
- On-Line English Grammar
- TidBITS Style Guide
- Worst Technical Writing
- Writing Resources on the World Wide Web
- Yale Manual of Style
Linguistics
- WordNet—Lexical Database for English
- Linguistics Meta-index—lots of Linguistics links
- Syntax at UPenn— lucid course notes
- Syntax Student's Companion— Java tree-drawing program that’s awkward
- Trees—Macintosh tree-drawing program that I couldn’t figure out
Other Reference
- Britannica Online—Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Funk and Wagnalls
- Internet Classics Archive
Translation and NLP
- Babelfish—for those without a real fish in their ear
- Bell Labs Text-to-Speech
- Postmodernism Generator
Quotes
- All-Wright Site—Frank Lloyd Wright Quotations
- World’s Greatest Truisms