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Linguistics Links

American Dialect Society: http://www.americandialect.org/

The Linguist List. http://linguistlist.org/index.cfm

Enduring Voices: National Geographic Society's Endangered Languages Website.

http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/enduring-voices/

 

Michael Montogomery (Professor at USC), Website on Appalachian English. http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/dictionary

Linguistic Atlas Projects, United States. http://us.english.uga.edu/

Peter Baker (UVA), Old English Resources. http://faculty.virginia.edu/OldEnglish/

Do You Speak American? PBS Website. http://www.pbs.org/speak/

American Dialects Survey, Harvard University. http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/index.html

Linguistics Resources, Stanford University. http://nlp.stanford.edu/links/linguistics.html

Grammar Links

Grammar Girl. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/

Motivated Grammar Blog --In the words of the graduate student in computational psycholinguists who writes the blog, "prescriptivism must die!" http://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com/

National Grammar Day. http://nationalgrammarday.com/

Grammar Rock Videos:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=grammar+rocks+songs&search_type&aq=f

Grammar Bytes. http://www.chompchomp.com/menu.htm

New York Times, Grammar Tips Blog.

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/04/5-easy-ways-to-learn-grammar-with-the-new-york-times/

Grammar Blog. Mocking Poor Grammar. http://www.grammarblog.co.uk/  

Dictionaries

Word Orignins is devoted to the origins of words and phrases, or as a linguist would put it, to etymology. http://www.wordorigins.org/

Historical Dictionary of American Slang. http://www.alphadictionary.com/slang/

The Online Slang Dictionary. http://onlineslangdictionary.com/

Urban Dictionary. http://www.urbandictionary.com/

SlangSite. http://www.slangsite.com/

Blogs:

Language Log. http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/

Goodword's Langurage Blog. http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/

Metrolingua. http://blog.metrolingua.com/

Separated by a Common Language. http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/

Articles and Other Random Links:

Recent Study Suggests that Babies Cry with an Accent: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/newborns-cry-accent-studyfinds/story?id=9006266

New Language Found in Remote Area of India:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/10/101005-lost-language-india-science/