Questions tagged [online-resources]
Questions related to reference material found on the internet.
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What resources do I need to consult before asking a question?
Many Stack Exchange sites require that users do some research before asking a question. Does English Language & Usage have such a policy? If yes, what resources should users consult before asking ...
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Looking for an online tool which provides a frequency of usage of any search phrase/sentence provided using large corpus of online text
I am looking for an online service which provides the frequency of a search phrase across all the literature in English that there is. Hopefully billions of lines of text. For example, if the phrase ...
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Platform for online group classes
I'd like to attend some group classes online to improve my speaking. My goal is to take a test like IELTS or TOEFL. Do you guys know any platform that offers online group classes with a well ...
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Need English Grammar Refresher Book, College Level, not ESL text
I am looking for a U.S. college-level English grammar text, one with answers to end-of-chapter exercises. I was born in the U.S. and have only spoken and written in English. I had a good English ...
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COCA corpus: Is it possible to display a list search result as parts of speech?
I want to know what parts of speech (and in what frequency) follow a word or phrase. If I do a list search, for example "for the purpose of *", the result is a list of the actual words in ...
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How does one assess the authoritativeness of a dictionary?
I am trying to find the most authoritative English dictionary that is both online and freely accessible. The OED is (controversially?) considered by many to be the most authoritative of the (British) ...
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English tense reporting tool online
Is there any online tool available that just reports the tense of the English sentence. I'm just checking the scope of the project.I've seen lot of online tool that they are correcting and rewriting ...
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Finding synonymous alliterations
Any recommendations on an online alliteration generator that searches through synonyms of two (or more) given words? That seems to have been how Something of something alliteration generator worked, ...
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Online collocations search engine? [duplicate]
What's the best collocations search website you've used?
I recall there being one associated with Oxford but can no longer find it. It returned results from classical and modern English sources, ...
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Would a question about a specific English language tool be on topic?
Can language tools (typically, but not exclusively, software tools) be asked about on English SE?
I have a question about how I can work out where a term is used. It's along the lines of:
A common ...
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Website for lexical resources assessment?
Is there any website that assesses how rare or common are the words I used in my essay? Something like this picture below:
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What's the preferred way to cite The Chicago Manual of Style?
I'm wondering if there are guidelines or common practices for citations to style guides that I haven't been able to find searching meta-ELU. Perhaps it's a non-issue and I've only thought about it ...
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What are the free resources to learn english online? [closed]
My wife wants to improve her English.
It's a paid site to learn english
https://id.engbreaking.com/
I wonder if there is any like that that is free?
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Resources for finding early uses of words?
I have a strangely deep admiration for archaic language and its usage and find that when working on period-piece writings, sources (catalogs of old books) for researching words used in the period (And ...
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Is it possible to get publication dates from the BNC?
I was looking up some things in the British National Corpus, and was trying to find the earliest occurrence of a word pattern. Unfortunately I couldn't find any way of seeing publication dates of the ...
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Is there a service to find out if my phrase is used online like corpora, but not exactly?
I work as a copywriter. Sometimes I have several options of a phrase and I want to check which one is more widespread and more commonly used. Surely, I can google it, but google will search ...
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Using internet search engines (Google/Yahoo) 'News' results to count frequency of a word
I'm trying to find a way to export the results/ count the frequency of a specific word 'homeless' in News articles in my country over the past 10 years.
I am aware of Google Books NGram viewer for ...
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Resource for grammatical rules pertaining to mid-17th century English
Salutations to all during this tragic time where all feels quite, quite down,
Firstly I hope all are well.
Now, onward to my question: I have, for the past half-year or so writ a play based in London ...
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For any word, see constituent roots; for any root, see composite words
Definition lookup in Google will show the origin or etymology of a word, usually based on root. Is there an application, web or otherwise, that returns composite words for any given root?
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What is a good resource for how American women talked in the 1940s?
You can find some pretty good diaries for men, from the war. But I'm not sure what a reliable source is for female American vernacular of the '40s.
Movies of the time sanitize conversations, and use ...
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Usage of computer terms?
What resource do you use to research usage of computer terms, such as "checkbox" versus "check box"?
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Is there a free online Canadian English Dictionary? [duplicate]
All Canadian English dictionaries appear to be under a paywall model.
Can anybody help?
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How should the new Lexico-hosted Oxford dictionary be cited?
I noticed that not long ago (in June) Oxford University Press changed the server that hosted what they used to call "Oxford Living Dictionaries". I used Oxford Living Dictionaries a bit in the past. ...
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How can you search pronunciations of words on Youtube?
I'm not sure this is on-topic, but I'm giving it a shot because it's a useful tool in hearing how different people pronounce words.
There was a site I used to use where I could type in a word into a ...
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Is this Folk-Etymology Dictionary a reliable source?
I’ve come across the Revd A Smythe Palmer's Folk Etymology (first published 1882) which defines itself as a
Dictionary of verbal corruption or word perverted in form or meaning by false derivation ...
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Is there a tool that provides/suggests words that come before or after a word?
Are there any tools/APIs that provide this service?
Example:
(After) Free
Free beer
Free pizza
Free stuff
(Before) Beer
Craft Beer
Draft Beer
Free Beer
Cheap Beer
Thanks.
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Resourses for reviewing writings
I am looking for sites or communities where I can post my writings for reviews free of charge. Is there any?
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A service that delivers common vocabulary daily?
I have subscribed to Merriam Webster, dictionary.com, and a few other online dictionaries to send me words daily, but frankly, they send me vocabulary that I have never come across in my life and ...
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Where does it say that resources are off-topic on main?
It's been assumed that questions about resources are off-topic because they aren't questions about the language per se.
Here's an example:
Main - I'm looking for a tool for comparing the meaning ...
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How was an OED page made available free of charge?
I have access to OED through the public library system of the UK and I am aware that others without subscriptions cannot verify my citations.
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Where can I find an English dictionary that I can search by number of syllables, transitive/intransitive, and other grammatical markers?
I need to find lists of English words that meet certain criteria, such as having a certain number of syllables, or being intransitive verbs. Is there an online English dictionary that will allow me to ...
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Best online slang dictionary for old slang
I'm looking for slang words that would have been in use around 1910 in New York. Anyone know of an online resource that might work?
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Any online English dictionaries listing the previous pronunciation of words?
I am interested to know the pronunciation of words in the past fifty years or so. Does anyone know any online dictionaries which list the former pronunciation of words in English language?
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Online pronunciation dictionary for conversational version of phrases
Is there any online pronunciation dictionary which shows conversational version of phrases e.g.
/ə ˈkʌpə tiː/
instead of
/ˈə ˈkʌp ˈəv ˈtiː/ ?
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Dictionary that provides all correct usages of words
I have been reading "Dictionary of American idioms" and I was impressed by the way phrasal verbs are explained. For example, the phrasal verbs associated with the word abide are defined in the ...
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Where can I find a list of English words sorted by popularity, together with their pronunciations?
I'd like to have a list of English words sorted by popularity together with their pronunciations. I need it to learn the words I can't pronounce in popularity order. Is there anything like that I can ...
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Is there a place i can send my English writing so they can correct it for me? [duplicate]
I want to create content for my website but I am not a native English speaker, so I will have a lot of errors for sure. I am wondering if there's a place I can send my writings to be checked and ...
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How to find uncommon synonyms
I am currently writing a FanFiction. However, given that it has long chapters, repitition of certain words makes certain parts tedious to read.
I recently saw xkcd's Simple Writer, which helps us to ...
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Internet resources to research frequency of usage of a word
I am curious about how often the word gaslighting (in the contemporary sense of "a form of manipulation through persistent denial, misdirection, contradiction, and lying in an attempt to destabilize ...
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What sort of resource request questions do we accept on meta?
We often migrate resource request questions to meta, and there's no denying that some resources are very useful to the users of this community.
Here's my attempt at broadly categorising these ...
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How useful are Ngrams in exploring English? (The case of “fit down”) [duplicate]
I've noticed that Ngrams feature quite often in threads I've been involved with (I've used it myself) but, allowing that the Ngram program can be useful, how cautious should we be in using it?
An ...
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Is there an online speech comparison programme
I work as an Assistant Language Teacher in Japan. There is a language sample for the textbook- the school (and nearly every teacher) is super boring about using the textbook. They'd like me to sound ...
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How do I avoid asking about mondegreens?
In https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/337601/what-does-stacked-mean-in-the-eminem-song-lose-yourself , I asked about the meaning-in-context of a misheard word. However, it wasn't just ...
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Where can I ask for free proofreading?
I know that proofreading is prohibited in this site. However, I'd like to ask if there are free online websites to do that.
I remember once there was a website where I can help people in Spanish/...
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Is Urban Dictionary an acceptable source?
The reason I ask this is because an answer I gave to a question quoted an Urban Dictionary definition and received 2 downvotes without any explanation as to why. Could anyone please tell me what (if ...
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Dubious value of internet searches for frequency of word usage [duplicate]
Respondents often post data pertaining to how often a particular word is "hit" when an internet search is done to find out how many times it has actually been used. I have two concerns about this: 1. ...
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List of most useful NLP resources and tools
We already have lists of general-reference resources, one on meta and a larger one on main. For the most part, these are things like dictionaries and thesauri, not actual tools related to natural ...
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Resources to determine pseudo-anglicisms
What resources can I use to determine if a given phrase is a pseudo-anglicism?
For example, "top page" is not a common English expression, but a native speaker of Japanese who's learning English may ...
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Common accepted online resources [duplicate]
What would be well-known, and in a certain measure reliable, online resources that should be checked before asking a question, or that could help with answering questions?
I've got a few listed that ...