Information about the Barnhart Dictionary companion, the Barnhart New-Words Concordance and Class Presentations on the American Language. Detroit News story regarding 1997 Word of the Year winner. Papers available online by John R. Rickford. This ongoing, massive chronicling of American speech could hardly be presented in complete form on the Internet, but current information on the interesting project is available. Dictionary editor Jesse Sheidlower discusses novel and interesting words at Jesse's Word of the Day .
Page includes full audio, and the complete first chapter of the book.
Word Detective, a newspaper column answering people's questions about words and language. Includes a mailing list. Symbols for American English vowel sounds, including sound clips. Linguistic Survey of American Pronunciation Home page of James Crawford, including information concerned with language policy, English-only initiatives, bilingual education, endangered languages and his three books Sound samples and short bibliography on Canadian raising . American Slanguages .