Here are some other sites that deal with plain English, plain language or other language-related topics. We aim to add more information as we hear about it.
Do you know enough about any subject to be able to write a 'tips booklet'? You probably do, and could join an ever-growing band of people who are making money from booklets on all kinds of subjects. To see how it's done go to Paulette Ensign's excellent site.
Language
Michael Quinion's World Wide Words site is devoted to the English language - its history, quirks, curiosities and evolution. It explains the origins of many unusual phrases and sayings. There is also a weekly newsletter you can subscribe to.
Grammar Grabbers is a light-hearted guide to English grammar, but is full of valuable advice.
Here's a great guide to common errors in English. . .
. . . and a list of usages that are not errors - although many people think they are.
Here is a list of commonly confused words from the publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary:
Merriam Webster's online dictionary and thesaurus.
Here you will find dictionaries and glossaries of specialised words in the English language, covering almost every profession you can think of.
A history of English. This is a large index of sites tracing the evolution of the English language. Starting with the Latin, Greek and Indo-European languages, it then covers Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English (including Shakespeare) through to modern times. A great resource.
'Get Fluent Fast' is a tips booklets from Positive Partnerships Limited. It gives you 61 tips to learn any foreign language more easily by applying the latest tools of memory science, psychology and linguistics. What impressed us about the booklet is that there are so many ways to make learning a language much easier. A far cry from the days of doing nothing but memorising verb tables and learning vocabulary lists!
Fun
This is a 'mission statement generator', part of the hilarious 'Dilbert' site. It produces mission statements that are so like the real thing that, sooner or later, you are sure to find your company's own mission statement staring out at you!
This amazing site will take a web page (URL) that you enter, and 'translate' it into a dialect that you select! At the moment you can pick from 'redneck', 'jive', 'cockney', 'Swedish Chef' and even 'Elmer Fudd'. To see it is to believe it: http://www.rinkworks.com/dialect/
This site has lots of 'things people said', those unintentionally funny 'slips of the tongue' or misunderstandings of language that make the rest of us fall about laughing. This site is from RinkWorks, who also host the 'dialectizer' site above.
A word quiz with a difference. Here you have to answer multiple-choice questions on the origins of modern words and expressions. They call it 'the toughest word game on the web' - are you ready?
