An interactive digital disctionary documenting regional vocabulary, expressions, and pronunciations across the United States. Search for a term or browse by geographic region.
Offers comprehensive descriptions of languages from around the world. This Online Reference Work provides access to full individual grammars and also makes these available together, allowing for cross-language research of several grammars simultaneously. No new content included after 2021.
Provides a comprehensive reference work that catalogs all the known living languages in the world today. It has been an active research project for more than 60 years. Thousands of linguists and other researchers all over the world rely on and have contributed to the Ethnologue
A growing scholarly reference work offering over 10,000 articles on world literatures in English, written and edited by academic specialists. Content includes biographical profiles, critical analyses of literary works, and essays on historical, cultural, and theoretical contexts. Coverage spans English, American, European, Classical, and postcolonial literatures, with growing representation of Hispanic, Japanese, South Asian, and Nordic writing.
Offers expert-curated research guides combining annotated bibliographies with encyclopedic entries. This resource includes collections in Atlantic History, British and Irish Literature, Philosophy, Renaissance and Reformation, and Victorian Literature, directing users to key scholarship and essential readings.
Widely regarded as the authoritative dictionary of the English Language, the OED traces the development, meaning, and usage of words from their earliest records to the present. Based on over 2.5 million quotations from diverse English-language sources, it reflects the evolution of English across time, regions, and contexts.
Provides access to over 2 million entries from Oxford University Press’s dictionaries, language and subject reference works. Covers 22 subject areas with content ranging from quick definitions to in-depth articles from encyclopedias and companions.
Dating from Jan 2020 to Dec 2022, this archive is designed to be a record of the social, cultural, and economic impact of COVID-19, allowing you to see the daily frequency of words and phrases compared between 20 countries.
The most widely used collection of English corpora (highly searchable collections of texts). These 19 discrete corpora represent language use in different contexts and dialects. Allows users up to 20 searches a day.