Modern Grammar

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Syllabus
OED (login required)
nGram Viewer
Corpus of Contemporary American English
Exercise 1: Practice Etymology
Exercise 2: Sound Analysis
Ye Olde English Multiplex
The Old English Wikipedia
The Lord's Prayer in Old English
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
The opening of the Canterbury Tales
Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe
Hoccleve: the Dangers of the Bible in English
Speech Accent Archive
Word classes
Unlearning a Queens Accent
Bill Santiago on Spanglish
Andrei Codrescu on Arizona Accent Ban
Sneaked v.s Snuck
Timeline of English Borrowings
The Inky Fool Blog

About Me

Russell Potter: Russell Potter is Professor of English and Media Studies at Rhode Island College. He's written about Hip-hop (Spectacular Vernaculars, 1995) and the history of polar exploration (Arctic Spectacles, 2007), as well as a novel, PYG: The Memoirs of Toby, the Learned Pig. His newest book, Finding Franklin: The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search, has just been published by McGill-Queen's University Press.

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