General portal and most important mailing list

The Linguist List: www.linguistlist.org/

Electronic dictionaries

portal: www.yourdictionary.com
GB: Oxford English Dictionary: www.oed.com
US: American Heritage Dictionary: www.bartleby.com/61/

Text-data bases and corpora

ICAME (= International Computer Archive of Modern/Medieval English): http://icame.uib.no/
BNC (= British National Corpus): www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk
LDC (= Linguistic Data Consortium): www.ldc.upenn.edu
Project Gutenberg: http://promo.net/pg/
E-Text Center at the University of Virginia: http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/etext/index.html
University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative: http://www.hti.umich.edu
David Lee's Bookmarks for corpus-based linguistics: http://devoted.to/corpora
Gateway to Corpus Linguistics: http://www.corpus-linguistics.de/
Wordsmith Tools versions 3, 4, and 5: http://www.lexically.net/wordsmith/
Antconc Concordancer: http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/

Sound samples of varieties of English

BBC Voices: http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices
British Library Sound Archive: http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/collections/dialects/
IDEA (= The International Dialects of English Archive): http://web.ku.edu/idea/

Other web-based sites of interest to linguists

Stanford University: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/linguist/ling.html; http://www-nlp.stanford.edu/links/linguistics.html
SIL International (formerly the Summer Institute of Linguistics): www.sil.org
SIL Ethnologue: www.sil.org/ethnologue
Word2Word – Free online language courses and other language related resources: http://www.word2word.com/coursead.html#top
iLoveLanguages: http://www.ilovelanguages.com/

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