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Sources for Scots pronunciation in the Eighteenth Century
Reverse-engineering C18 Scots pronunciation from English grammarians complaining about it. There's a surprising amount of information there.
to english history language pronunciation scots ... on 29 June 2020
Tips on writing technical documentation (specifically, for Debian) for people who've learned English as a second language. This has a nice list of common pitfalls for translators, and some notes on English grammar rules you might have been taught that don't actually match real usage.
to ag0700 debian documentation english i18n language technical translation writing ... on 28 August 2014
Language Log ยป English is a Dialect of Germanic; or, The Traitors to Our Common Heritage
Describing the relationship between Mandarin and Cantonese, using English and German as an analogy. Very neat.
to cantonese chinese english german language linguistics mandarin ... on 08 September 2013
The Elements of Style by William Strunk - Project Gutenberg
The original version, before White's (more prescriptive) amendments.
Paul Robinson, The Philosophy of Punctuation
to amusements english writing ... on 13 August 2006
A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia
Extremely random.
to amusements english language ... on 13 August 2006
A rather neat open English-German dictionary.
to dictionary english german ... on 12 June 2006
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