Week 2: Good sites for teachers

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Dictionary of Difficult Words
This commercial site offers a searchable dictionary of thousands of difficult words.
http://www.lineone.net/dictionaryof/difficultwords/index.html
Figures of Speech
This privately maintained site provides definitions of various figures of speech along with examples from English literature.
http://www.nipissingu.ca/faculty/williams/figofspe.htm
 
AskOxford.com
The Oxford University Press offers tips for better writing, information on the origin of words, and word games and puzzles.
http://www.askoxford.com/

World Wide Words: Exploring the English Language
This privately maintained site offers weekly columns on the history of words and the development of new words and phrases; reviews of dictionaries and links to related resources are also provided.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/
Guide to Grammar and Writing
This privately maintained site offers writing tips and guidelines, answers to grammar-related questions, online grammar quizzes, and other resources.
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
 
Daily Grammar
This commercial site offers free, daily e-mail messages containing writing lessons and quizzes; the site contains an archive of past lessons and a glossary.
http://www.dailygrammar.com/

American Dialect Society
The American Dialect Society, a scholarly association dedicated to the study of the English language in North America, offers news, a discussion forum, and many other resources.
http://www.americandialect.org/
Readings of Old English Poetry
This site contains the text of selected Old English poems, with audio versions in the original language and translations in modern English.
http://www.kami.demon.co.uk/gesithas/readings/readings.html  
The Word Spy
This site features recently coined words, existing words that have enjoyed a recent renaissance, and older words that are being used in new ways; each weekday it presents a new word, its definition, and a citation that illustrates how people are using it.
http://www.wordspy.com/  
The Word Detective
This is an online version of The Word Detective, a newspaper column about words and language; it includes an archive of columns, special features, and links to other language resources on the Web.
http://www.word-detective.com/
 
Routes of English
The online companion to a BBC radio show, this site offers information about the history of the English language, an interactive world map tracing its spread, and games and features about accents, puns, and bad language.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/routesofenglish/

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