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What dictionaries can help translate the Wycliffe bible?
I am unsure what dictionary nowadays has translations of Middle English. As of my research, the language has changed rapidly in that time as of settlement and like migrations from other countries in ...
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Daily writings or forums written by native english speakers
I am searching for some kind of forums or Q/A sites, written by native English speakers.
I want to learn the daily speech, not the grammar or something else.
Everything can be discussed on that site. ...
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Book recommendation about languages from the linguist's perspective
Not sure if book recommendations are allowed, but I'm looking for a reference book that contains details about a wide variety of languages, written for linguists. For example, let's say I wanted to ...
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English Grammar book on 'Voice Change' and 'Narration Change'
I want to know the name of some English Grammar books, in which :
(1) The Voice Change (Active to Passive and vice-versa)
(2) The Narration Change
have been discussed in details with examples.
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List of English word research tools [duplicate]
I once discovered a post on this site that had a very comprehensive list of English word research tools, but I am having difficulties finding it again. Apologies for a potentially off-topic or ...
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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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Are there any resources to find which prepositions are appropriate for a given verb/adjective and how they change the meaning?
Sometimes I'm unsure about which prepositions can be used with a verb or adjective and how they change the meaning.
Are there any resources to help me with this?
A few examples of tricky preposition I'...
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Are there any resources for 18th and 19th Century English Grammar?
I recently asked a question regarding archaic English grammar and one of the comments recommended that I make a resource request here on the Meta.
I'm looking for any books or websites that ...
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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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Criteria specific dictionaries use to decide on ordering of different senses of a given headword
It's fairly common knowledge that OED lists senses of a given headword in the chronological order research has found printed evidence for: it is a historical dictionary.
Equally conveniently, the ...
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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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As a single-word enthusiast, what links/blogs should I follow?
I am looking for resources to follow online for language and single-word hobbyists as myself. Do you have any good suggestions? Mailing list subscriptions, twitter feeds, etc?
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Are requests for analyses restricted to single sources (eg McCawley, CGEL) acceptable on ELU?
Are requests for analyses, interpretations, restricted to single sources (eg McCawley, CGEL) acceptable on ELU?
Most of McCawley, and all of Huddleston and Pullum, for instance, are not available to ...
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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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Search engine for English idioms?
I am looking for a resources which can provide related English idioms/phrases. For instance, if I were looking up 'to help out', I would find 'to pitch in', etc. Does any such resources exist online (...
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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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English Morphology
Please refer to me the seminal or the most popular book for practicing Morphological word structures (English) with tree diagrams.
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glossary of grammar terminology
I'm looking for a comprehensive reference book that includes definitions and examples of the terms used in grammar analysis.
So this would have 'adverb' and 'verb' and their various types, the ...
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Does Lexico have dictionary entries in American English?
My recollection is that the old Oxford Dictionaries site had entries in both American English and "British & World English", which could be accessed through different urls.
Lexico has British &...
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RIP Oxford “living” Dictionaries
Don't know when this happened, but Oxford Living Dictionaries is no more. It is now called Lexico (powered by Oxford) whatever that means…
Tsk! You'd think they'd have the decency to consult us ...
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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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Where can I find the word link of a word?
With eJoy pages, I can see the word's word link information like this:
This info really helped me memorize vocabulary. Do any dictionary sites provide this information?
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Website to see frequency of use of words together
Once, an English teacher shared with me a website where you can see how certain words are used with others. For instance, you would see the type of words with which "mandatory" and "compulsory" are ...
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Finding resources within the site guidelines
I know questions about finding resources are off-topic on the main site, however, this puts users like me in a bind. Frequently, questions are flagged as easily answerable with the right resource (...
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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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Top 10,000 English Verbs (Open Source List)
Wondering if there is an open data "verb list" of all (or many) of the English verbs. A search reveals many "Top 100 English Verbs" or "List of Irregular English Verbs" and related content, but I'm ...
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Are there any proper guidelines to write an answer?
I am looking for SE or SE ELU answer writing guide. Recently, my (accepted) answer was edited – screenshots removed – with this comment.
Some of the information contained in this post requires ...
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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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Historical explanation of relationship between graphemes and phonemes
I'm looking for a more historical perspective on how we ended up with the orthography we have today and why it differs from pronunciation. E.g., the letter "t" does the sound originally symbolized by ...
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dictionary of collocations [duplicate]
I need a good dictionary of collocations. On Amazon I found these two:
MacMillan Collocations Dictionary
Oxford Collocations Dictionary for students of English
Which is better?
Do you know any ...
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As a native English speaker, what source should I use to teach non-native speakers writing?
They ask me about the grammar and I don't know how to explain. So I need a book to teach me how to teach them how to write and why I make the changes I tell them to make.
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Best book for vocabulary building through etymology
Could you hint the best etymology book?
I'd like to learn new words via their origin.
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Where are lists of hyponyms and their superordinates?
I've been working on natural language processing/understanding for a great many years and sometimes get hung up on trying to figure what superordinate a word belongs to, such as a hammer being a type ...
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Verbs most commonly used with particular words
Can anyone advise on resource that would list verbs most commonly associated with particular words/nouns? I found a website for descriptive words, but haven’t been successful with verbs.
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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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Are there any dictionaries for AAE?
Are there any dictionaries for African-American English with definitions and pronunciation? I couldn't seem to find any on the internet.
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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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Resource request on use of comma
May I request (I think I may?) an exhaustive resource on the use of commas in the English language, for someone whose first language is English. A book resource would be fine, especially if it covers ...
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List of nouns by category
I would like to find a dictionary book which classifies nouns by category: animals, food, part of body, location, etc.
I found lists on Internet, but they are too small and the number of categories ...
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Book to learn Old English
Is there a grammar book similar to Wheelock's Latin, but for Old English?
And also, is there an equivalent of Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata?
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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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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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Good resources for collocations [duplicate]
Can you please point me to a good online resource for verb collocations, for American English? Preferably, something with a lot of examples.
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Comparison/contrast dictionaries of synonyms
Is there any dictionary or similar for comparing and contrasting related/synonym words, such as for ex. "swing" vs "sway", or "ask" vs "inquire"?
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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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Advice for a book for English Syntax
I want a book for English Syntax, I want you to know that I am an elementary student of English Language and I have finished the book "Essential Grammar in Use (A self study reference and practice ...
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What is the point of migrating all resource requests to Meta?
There are a couple of resource requests that were recently migrated to ELU Meta (e.g Is there an online speech comparison programme, What are some good and authoritative reference/data source for ...
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Resources to help with answers to regional difference type questions
Here are three recent question examples, including one asked by me:
What do you call the space where you park a car? Parking spot, space, bay or what?
This baby-walking device is called a ([prefix]-)[...
