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Below are some links to sites dealing with language that might be of interest.

I have a language blog where I discuss matters related with language in general and the English language in particular. Among recent posts:

Oats, peas, beans and barley grow, says the song - but which of these is the odd one out linguistically speaking? The survival of the fittest is a phrase that everyone knows, but who coined it and exactly what does it mean? What can be said about the use of may to express permission at a time when can seems to be increasingly used for that purpose? When homophone problems seem to plague British newspapers, I find one from a surprising source. The Times has a quiz about English grammar and reveals its ignorance of the subject, I discuss adverbs and prepositions with relation to phrasal verbs, and the semicolon makes an appearance.

The King's English The complete text of H. W. Fowler's famous 1908 work on English usage. NB This is not Fowler's Modern English Usage, excellently updated by Robert Burchfield and commonly referred to as Fowler.

Ask Oxford. Oxford dictionaries are among the most influential in the English-speaking world.

Chambers Dictionary A monolingual English dictionary. The official dictionary for Scrabble.

WordReference is a translating dictionary for Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian to and from English.

LEO is a bilingual German-English dictionary.