Die erste Buchdruckerei in Italien (und zugleich die erste Druckerei außerhalb Deutschlands) wurde von den beiden deutschen Benediktinern Konrad Sweynheim († 1477) und Arnold Pannartz 1464 in dem Benediktinerkloster Santa Scolastica bei Subiaco in der Nähe von Rom eingerichtet, die 1467 nach Rom verlegt wurde. (Beide Drucker trennten sich 1473; Pannartz druckte noch bis 1476, Sweynheim starb 1477 über dem Druck einer Ptolemäusausgabe.)
Konrad Benedikt Vollmann
Deutsch und Latein in der spätmittelalterlichen Naturkunde
Regional Englishes
Documents and links at University College, London.
Dictionary of American Regional English
A major dictionary project, now on its last volume.
An introduction to the spoken and written Scots language.
Slang
Slang from a British perspective. Updated monthly.
A learned discussion of multilingual insults, including obscenities. Not for the faint-hearted or rigid of mind.
A large selection, mainly user-contributed.
A compilation of a hundred or so slang expressions, like lasagna syndrome, nerd bird and code 18 derived from the California computer industry.
Dictionaries
Online look up in any of five dictionaries.
Dictionary centres
Australian National Dictionary Centre
Compilers of the Australian National Dictionary and other works.
Scottish National Dictionary Association
Publishers of the standard dictionary of modern Scots.
Linguistics/phonetics
An online questions and answers service.
By Professor John Lawler.
Lesser known linguistic devices.
From the University of Oregon.
At University College, London.
Mailing lists
A daily mailing.
Regular Web columns
A monthly magazine on language.
General interest
A vast archive of material from this very active Usenet newsgroup.
The Second Edition of H L Mencken’s classic is online at Bartleby.com.
The language page for the Word Court, Word Fugitives, Puzzler, and language articles.
A British site for copyeditors, “mainly aimed at helping and supporting e-editors and non-news editing staff everywhere”.
English-to-American dictionary
A large collection of words in British English that are likely to confuse Americans in particular. Includes slang and colloquialisms.
Particularly the Latin and Greek elements used in English. Mailing list.
Daniel Austin's wordplay site, including word puzzles and games. The Funny Signs gallery is worth a visit alone.
Many links, especially to British sources and to educational and linguistics sites.
History of the English Language
Large collection of material and links.
A online style guide with information designed originally for business writers.
A collection of over 9,000 obscure English words.
Jon Carroll on creative mishearings of lyrics.
Forthright, aka Steve Chrisomalis, runs this site devoted to the enjoyment of English words and wordplay.
Richard Lederer’s Verbivore Page
The web site woven for wordaholics, logolepts, and verbivores. He says “ours is the only language in which you drive in a parkway and park in a driveway”. He speaks, of course, of American English.
In which many etymological myths are demolished.
Jed Hartman’s language columns, on a great variety of subjects.
Your questions answered, a selection of new words provided, plus “snappy quotes and elegant insults”, competitions, Fancy Word Parties and Lexicographer’s Club.