ENGLISH LANGUAGE RESOURCES

HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, etc.

• University of Toronto version
• Word Origins
• English at a Glance

LITERACY

• Lawyers for Literacy
• The Science of Word Recognition
  (or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bouma)

HOMONYMS

• Homonyms, a quickie list

WHY WE THINK ABOUT CONTEXT AND PUNCTUATION

• When Good Newspaper Headlines Fail...

UM'S and AH'S (the bane of a reporter's existence)

• The Science of Throwaway Words
• The Non-Verbal Dictionary of Gestural Language

• Cows as computer programmers
• Bovine linguistics
• Odd word facts
• How they made Mr. Ed talk
• Bulwer Lytton Contest - because don't you just love seeing bad words in print?