English

 

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English from BBC

English language material from BBC World Service

 

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News for Students

Regular news summary with Vocabulary and Geography aids (New York Times)

 

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World News

From BBC in London. Also "World Summary" as a RealAudio clip

 

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On-line Dictionary

Cambridge Dictionaries Online. See also:  Wordsmyth Educational Dictionary

 

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Wikipedia

Free encyclopedia. Articles also in French, German, Spanish and Italian

 

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A Word A Day

Vocabulary builder from Wordserver at wordsmith.org

 

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Shades-of-Meaning

Check out a couple of synonyms, or homophones, every day (Terry Light)

 

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Word Detective

Regular columns on the origin of colloquial words and phrases (Evan Morris)

 

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Project Bartleby

Prose, Poetry, and works of Reference (Columbia University, New York)

 

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Literature Library

Online Library, works of various authors (literature.org)

 

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Phrase Search

Search the classics for specific words/phrases (Perseus Project, Tufts University, MA)

 

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Shakespeare

Collected works of the Bard, at University of Sydney

 

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Baker Street Connection

For fans of Sherlock Holmes everywhere

 

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E-Mail Abbreviations

Standard e-mail abbreviations, and emoticons (Oxford University Press)