linguistics- or word-related stuff
The Language Log - A pretty addictive blog with
postings from some of the nation's premier linguists.
Unicode Entity Codes for the IPA - Finally! All in one place!
The Ethnologue - The authority on language distribution.
When you need to know how many Tamil speakers there
are in Sri Lanka, right quick...
The Word Spy - Neologisms defined, sourced, and grouped
by subject. Its mission? Lexpionage.
The Lexicon of Linguistics - You shouldn't be expected to
always know where the cricoid is. (Here's a hint: below
Wernicke's area, but above the geneckteckessoink.)
The Rutgers OT Archive - Officially 'ROA,' but 'ROTA'
doesn't violate *HIATUS.
What's 'honey' in Turkish? - The world's best online English-
Turkish dictionary, demek dünyada en iyi Türkçe-İngilizce
sözlüğüdür.
Paul Postal's brief rumination on language's seemingly
inexhaustible complexity should buck up any discouraged
student.
SIL's glossary of linguistics terms - What is meaning?
The Speculative Grammarian - 'The premier scholarly
journal featuring research in the neglected field of satirical
linguistics.' If you find stuff like this and this even mildly
funny, this site's for you!
The Linguist List - Email directory, calls for papers, job
postings, conference announcements, everything.
The Department of Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz - My alma
mater.
non-linguistics stuff
Wikipedia's baseball portal - The Mendoza Line isn't the same kind of
thing as the La Spezia-Rimini Line, you know.
Readability checker - Calculate exactly how gassy your prose is
using the Flesch-Kincaid and the Gunning-Fog Indices.
The San Bernardino County Sun - News from the Inland Empire.
A nice intro to Graham Greene's work - 'The world was in her heart
already, like the small spot of decay in a fruit.'
Battleship - No-brow sterno-rock (whatever that means) from Oaktown.
Hooray for Trudeau!
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