The Atlantic

A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English Language, From the Norman Conquest. With Numerous Specimens

THIS is a thorough and an exhaustive work, having for its subject that which must be of perpetual and increasing interest to all Englishmen and Americans, and to all those colonists who, in different ...
Justdial on MSN

American vs British English: How one language learned to speak twice

Explore the real differences between American vs British English, from spelling and pronunciation to grammar and everyday ...
The New York Times

NEW PUBLICATIONS.; THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE And of the Early Literature it Embodies. By GEORGE P. MARSH. New-York;CHARLES SCRIBNER.

The works which have been preserved from the semi-Saxon period, the "Chronicle of Brutus," the Ancrea Rivoli and the Ormulum, he discusses at considerable length, as they well deserve, from the light ...
Hyperallergic

Tracing the 500-Year History of the English Dictionary

Clarence Major, Dictionary of Afro-American Slang (1970), The Queen's Vernacular: A Gay Lexicon, San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books (1972), and Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler with Ann Russo, A ...
Time

A Brief History of English Spelling Reform

Spellers compete in The Denver Post 72nd Annual Colorado State Spelling Bee at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver on Mar. 10, 2012. This post is in partnership with History Today. The article ...