Anu Garg’s word each weekday, sent by email since 1994.
Word Hoard
Websites for the study of words: dictionaries, word origins, grammar, Greek and Latin, linguistics, podcasts, translation and a word of the day. Listed alphabetically; select an image or name to visit a site. Part of Word Study.
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The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, with usage notes and word histories.
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American Heritage Indo-European Roots Appendix
Calvert Watkins’s appendix tracing English words back to their Indo-European roots.
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American Literary Translators Association
ALTA, with news, prizes and resources for literary translators.
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Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary
The standard Old English dictionary, searchable online from Charles University in Prague.
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British Centre for Literary Translation
The University of East Anglia’s center for literary translation, with its summer school.
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Cambridge University Press’s dictionaries of English, with British and American pronunciations.
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Center for the Art of Translation
Publisher of Two Lines Press and home of translation programs in San Francisco.
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A journal of poetry in translation that prints each poem in its original language beside the English.
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Collins’s English dictionary and thesaurus, built from its corpus of current usage.
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Dictionaries of the Scots Language
The two great historical dictionaries of Scots, from the twelfth century to the present.
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Dictionary of American Regional English
DARE, the dictionary of words and phrases that differ from region to region across the United States.
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Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation
The University of Iowa’s journal of literary translation.
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Jonathon Green’s historical dictionary of English slang, with dated citations.
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Historical Thesaurus of English
The University of Glasgow’s thesaurus of English words arranged by meaning across their history.
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The History of English Podcast
Kevin Stroud tells the story of English from its Indo-European roots onward.
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The University of Texas’s lexicon of Indo-European roots and their descendants.
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International Dialects of English Archive
Recordings of English spoken in dialects and accents from around the world.
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International Phonetic Association
Home of the International Phonetic Alphabet and its chart of the sounds of speech.
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Samuel Johnson’s 1755 and 1773 Dictionary of the English Language, page by page.
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Klein’s Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
Ernest Klein’s etymological dictionary of 1966, to read at the Internet Archive.
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Daniel W. Hieber’s newsletter and resources on linguistics and language revitalization.
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Linguistic Discovery: Linguistics Podcasts
A searchable list of more than 60 podcasts about language and linguistics.
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The society of American linguists, with an introduction to the field for readers.
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LSJ: Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
The Liddell–Scott–Jones Greek–English Lexicon, searchable online from the TLG.
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Definitions, a thesaurus and word histories from America’s oldest dictionary publisher.
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Merriam-Webster Word of the Day
Merriam-Webster’s daily word, with its meaning, examples and history.
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The University of Michigan’s Middle English Dictionary, with its texts and bibliography.
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NYT Learning Network: Word of the Day
The New York Times Learning Network’s daily word, shown in a recent Times article.
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An Old English word at a time, with its meaning, roots and examples from the literature.
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The historical dictionary of English, tracing each word’s meanings through dated quotations.
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The CNRS’s open archive of recordings in endangered and little-documented languages.
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Tufts University’s library of Greek and Latin texts, translations and lexica.
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The Schmooze: Obambulate and Shpatzir
Marjorie Gottlieb Wolfe on the English word obambulate and the Yiddish shpatzir.
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The Bavarian Academy’s great Latin dictionary, free to read in its published volumes.
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Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett’s call-in show about words, slang and family expressions.
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World Atlas of Language Structures
WALS, maps of grammatical and sound features across the world’s languages.
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The archive of The World’s podcast about languages and the people who speak them.
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Yale Grammatical Diversity Project
Surveys and maps of grammatical variation in English across North America.
