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BACKGROUND INFORMATION ^

Etymology Sites
What is etymology? H. Rex Hartson
What is etymology? fun-with-words
Where do languages come from? Merritt Ruhlen
Language Contact:  Terms Eva Easton
Vocabulary H.W. Fowler
Word Formation Take Our Word
Linguistics Course Sharon Clampitt
Linguistics Overview William Harris
Etymological Dictionary Eugene Cotter
Language Families Ethnologue
Indo-European Languages Jack Lynch
Indo-European Languages TITUS / Univ. of Franfurt
Germanic Languages softrat.home.mindspring.com
Language Identifier Doug Beeferman

HISTORY of the ENGLISH LANGUAGE ^

Who speaks English?
Time Span of English
History of English Kryss Katsiavriades
History of English Soon
History of English Douglas F. Hasty
History of English Edwin Duncan
History of English Peter Erdmann, See-Young Cho
History of English infoplease
History of English Carol Jamison
History of English Suzanne Kemmer
History of English Pétur Knútsson
History of English Tim Morris
History of English Daniel W. Mosser
History of English Carol Percy
History of English Random History

Old English incl. audio
American English
British English
Phonological Atlas of North America Univ. of Pennsylvania
The Structure of English Words Univ. of Oregon
English Lexicography Technical University of Berlin
English Word Origins C.A.E. Luschnig
Politics & the English Language: George Orwell

INFLUENCE of other languages on English^

Words:  Where do they come from?
Anglo-Saxon Words ibiblio.org
Loanwords ruf.rice.edu/~kemmerl / Suzanne Kemmer
Foreign Words in English Infoplease
Foreign Words in English Ashvital
Foreign Words in English:  Greek & Latin
Foreign Influence on English: Romance Languages Zdravko Batzarov

Amerindian zompist.com
Arabic al-bab.com
Chinese Richard Heli
French Jane M. Rauschenberg
French Jane M. Rauschenberg
French Jane M. Rauschenberg
French globegate.utm.edu
French faux amis / Marc Van Campenhoudt
Gaelic
German Jennifer Bjornstad
German Dolores J. Hoyt
German Christine M. Goulding
German Robert Shea
Did German almost become the language of the U.S.? Willi Paul Adams
Greek:  Math Andrew Wilson
Greek:  Phobias phobialist
Greek & Latin
Greek, Roman, Norse Mythology Carla Beard
Indian wmich.edu / Iranga Fernando
Japanese www1.harenet.ne.jp/~waring
Latin
Old Norse angelfire.com/tn
Portuguese false cognates
Romance Languages Zdravko Batzarov
Russian- English Lexis language contact, borrowing, loan words, foreign words, neologisms, false cognates
Russian
Spanish cognates

NEOLOGISMS ^

What is a neologism?
What is a neologism? Using English
What is a neologism? Wikipedia
The need for neologisms Ingar Roggen
Neologisms:  Origin H.W. Fowler
Neologisms Jennifer Stewart
Neologisms involution.org/neologisms
Neologisms Incompetech
Neologisms Richard Leverage
Neologisms tribuneindia.com
Neologisms "Gulliver's Travels" / Lee Jaffe
Neologisms Japanese-English / cjk.org
Neologisms Shakespeare
Neologisms interpreting / Helga Niska
Neologisms Spanish, French, Portuguese

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Papers on Various Linguistic Influences on English
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