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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