English
Language and Linguistics

• Ask a Linguist--post your questions here about grammar, language, linguistics, and have it answered, or view past questions and answers.
• Bilingual Education (now called English Language Learners)-- includes full-text articles and other information on  the pros and cons of bilingual education
• A Brief Background In Old English Manuscripts and also the great site Old English Pages--electronic texts and translations, art, history, language resources.
• British Academy Portal: Linguistics and Philology -- scholarly...
• Center for Applied Linguistics -- includes research reports, information on upcoming events
• Common Errors in English -- explains errors and confusion between words and how it affects their meaning 
• Dialects
• Ebonics Information Page -- full-text articles and other links on Ebonics
• ESL Resources
• Etymology Dictionary -- "Etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago. The dates beside a word indicate the earliest year for which there is a surviving written record of that word (in English, unless otherwise indicated)."
• History of the English Language-- Includes bibliography, e-texts of Anglo-Saxon documents, runic inscriptions, Old English and Middle English texts, American-English, and more.
• Humbul Humanities Online Journals -- online, freely available, peer-reviewed electronic journals in Linguistics
• Language and the Law -- Selected Court Cases Related to Language
• Omniglot -- a guide to writing systems, alphabetic and otherwise.
• Oxford English Dictionary -- restricted to St. Ambrose Students on-campus.
• Phrase Finder -- Meanings and origins of over 2,000 English sayings, phrases and idioms. In addition to explaining things like "wet behind the ears" and "baker's dozen," it also allows you to browse through euphemisms, popular but incorrect phrase origins, proverbs, misheard lyrics (known as "mondegreens") and other categories.
• Plain Language -- improving communication from the Federal Government to the Public. Many tips on how to avoid confusion in intent.
• Rhetoric and Composition -- "developing an extensive collaboration here, within a modern web publishing system that will allow our volunteers to spend as much or as little time as they choose, and will allow us to offer any state-of-the-art web technologies (e.g. blogs, threaded discussion boards, database-driven content pages, streaming media, etc.) we believe useful to the site."