Links

Online Presentations in and about Lowlands Languages

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English

• The American Dialect Homepage Regional Varieties of English in the United States of America and Canada

• American dialects (an email discussion list)

• American Dialect Society

• The American Dialect Homepage: Regional varieties of English in the United States of America and Canada

• American English Resources

• The American Language: An inquiry into the development of English in the United States (by H. L. Mencken)

• American in the Mid-Atlantic: A Resource Guide to the American Language as spoken in the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland

• American Slanguages

• AmeriSpeak: Expressions of our American ancestors (early American English)

• American Tongues

• A-prefixing in Appalachian English (Data from Walt Wolfram and Donna Christian)

• The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (frames version)

• The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Java version)

• Anglo-Saxon England: A guide to online resources

• Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records (has links to important Old English texts)

• Anthology of Middle English Texts (1350-1485)

• Apollonius of Tyre: A Hypertext Edition (Old English with Modern English translation)

• Appalachian Dialect

• AppLit Resources on Appalachian Dialects

• Australian English Resources

• Lexicon of Bawlamarese (Baltimore dialect)

• Basic English Resources

• A Beginners' Guide to Offline Language Materials: Pre-Modern English

• Beowulf Resources

• The Best of British: The American's guide to speaking British

• A Brief History of the English Language by Douglas F. Hasty, M.L.S.

• British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions

• Canadianisms

• Charva Text Specification (a language form of England's Newcastle area)

• The Complete Corpus of Old English: from the Dictionary of Old English Project, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto

• Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse Bibliography (Sorry ... They have now restricted access to folks at the University of Virginia)

• Cornerstone's Canadian English Page

• Circolwyrde Wordhord (Old English computer terminology ...)

• Ða Engliscan Gesiþas: The society for people interested in all aspects of Anglo-Saxon language and culture (with links to Modern English translations of Old English works)

• English Dialects and Sociolects

• Everyday English and Slang in Ireland

• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (A database at The Tech)

• The Early Modern English Dictionaries Database (EMEDD)

• Eh up! Aa'll tell thee summat! (an introduction to Yorkshire dialect)

• Electronic Beowulf (manuscript facsimiles)

• The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia (has links to important English texts)

• The Englisc List (an email discussion list)

• English, as She is Spoke at McMurdo (Antarctic English)

• English and Its History

• English/Cockney Rhyming Slang Dictionary

• English Dialect Links

• The English to Geordie Translator

• First Steps in Old English

• Geordie Origins: Geordie dialect and what is Geordie? (a useful introduction to a group Northeastern English [Tyneside] language varieties)

• The Historical Grammar of the Old English Language by Cyril Babaev

• History of the English Language (Home page of the HEL-L mailing list; contains useful links)

• The Historical Grammar of the Old English Language

• Hwæt! Old English in Context

• Internet y la lingüística histórica inglesa [The Internet and Historical English Linguistics] (a categorized list of links from the Universitat d'Alacant / Universidad de Alicante, Spain; in Spanish; Tends to download slowly)

• Jabez and North Staffordshire Dialect

• Labyrinth Anglo-Saxon Culture

• Labyrinth Library: Old English Poetry

• Labyrinth Library: Old English literature

• Labyrinth Library: Middle English literature

• Lakeland Dialect Society

• The Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern English Tracts (a collection of texts on various subject matter published between 1640 and 1740)

• The language of the Potteries .. or "Ar ter toke crate"

• Learning Old English (a course guide)

• Linguistic Atlas Project (USA, includes Gullah and African American varieties)

• Maaori Words in New Zealand English

• Map of Anglo-Saxon England

• Michigan Early Modern English Materials (a searchable collection of electronic text versions)

• Middle English (an introduction) [1]

• Middle English (an introduction) [2]

• The Middle English Collection at the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia

• Middle English Compendium (a very useful site, including a dictionary and text search facilities)

• Middle English Dictionary

• The Modern English Collection (a heterogenous collection containing fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts and illustrations from 1500 to the present)

• Modern English to Old English Vocabulary

• Test Your Knowledge of Some Newfoundland Words!

• A National Map of the Regional Dialects of American English

• NC State University Sociolinguist Tracing Roots of Lumbee Language (an Appalachian-based Native American language variety)

• The New York City Dialect

• N.Z. English to U.S. English Dictionary (a guide to New Zealand English expression)

• Norfolk: Language and Languages

• The Norfolk Dialect

• An On-Line English Grammar

• Old English Aerobics (an introduction to the language)

• Old English Aloud (Old English texts with Modern English translations)

• The Old English Bible

• Old English, Its People and Traditions

• Old English at the University of Virginia (a useful resource page, with downloadable Old English fonts)

• The Online Medieval & Classical Library (contains Old English and Old Norse works)

• The Organization of Dialect Diversity in North America

• The Origin and History of the English Language

• Phonological Atlas of North America

• The Philadelphia Dialect

• The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive

• Pittsburghese

• Ranulph Higden's Polychronicon in John Trevisa’s 1385 Middle English translation (about linguistic diversity in Britain)

• Pronouncing American English

• Proper Elizabethan Accents: Meant for the faire worker, but suitable for the scholar...  (an introduction to "snooty" English, pronunciation drill and all -- uses audio files)

• Readings of Old English Poetry (with audio files)

• Representative Poetry Online (with texts from various ages)

• The Ruin (an Old English poem with Modern English translation)

• The Sounds of Old English (Robert D. Stevick's book A Firstbook of Old English online in excerpt form with PDF files! Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader, a free program.)

• Strine and Aussie Slang (an introduction to Australian English)

• Steve McCaffery's Geordie Page (with audio files)

• Telsur Project (American English)

• The Trouble at' Mill Guide to Lancashire Dialect: A gradely read for gradely folk

• True-Blue Aussie Slang Source

• Talking Country ... The way they talk here in our Anglo/French/Yankee towns scattered along the border between Vermont and Quebec

• Texas Talk: Excerpts from an Armadillo-Watch Strand

• Weblinks for English as a Foreign Language (presented by the Oxford University Language Center)

• Verb Movement in Old and Middle English: Dialect Variation and Language Contact, by Anthony Kroch and Ann Taylor

• A (Very) Brief History of the English Language

• West Virginia Dialect Project

• Yamada Language Guide to English

• Yat-Speak: A Lexicon of New Orleans Terminology and Speech

• Yorkshire Dialect Society's Homepage

• Yorkshire Dialect Verse (East Riding)