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Hi everybody.
I've been finding a lot fantastic websites recently and I thought it wouldn't be cool to keep them for myself, so here they are:
The meanings and origins of sayings and phrases | Phrasefinder
Online Etymology Dictionary
Dictionary of English slang and colloquialisms of the UK
Welcome to the digital edition of the Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary | Bosworth
Dictionary of the Scots Language
Scots-Online - Pittin the Mither Tongue on the Wab!
Wordorigins.org
Shetland ForWirds - Promoting and Celebrating the Shetland Dialect
Historical Thesaurus of the OED - Online Products & Publishing - Oxford University Press (this is actually not a fantastic site a an ad of something fantastic)
Home :: Institute for Name Studies
Origins of Canada's Geographical Names
home+search (Scottish toponyms)
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/freefun/didyouknow/placenames/docs/welsh_guide.pdf (Welsh toponyms)
Gullah New Testament
Please, add anything about the history of words, place names, idioms or dialects.
I've been finding a lot fantastic websites recently and I thought it wouldn't be cool to keep them for myself, so here they are:
The meanings and origins of sayings and phrases | Phrasefinder
Online Etymology Dictionary
Dictionary of English slang and colloquialisms of the UK
Welcome to the digital edition of the Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary | Bosworth
Dictionary of the Scots Language
Scots-Online - Pittin the Mither Tongue on the Wab!
Wordorigins.org
Shetland ForWirds - Promoting and Celebrating the Shetland Dialect
Historical Thesaurus of the OED - Online Products & Publishing - Oxford University Press (this is actually not a fantastic site a an ad of something fantastic)
Home :: Institute for Name Studies
Origins of Canada's Geographical Names
home+search (Scottish toponyms)
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/freefun/didyouknow/placenames/docs/welsh_guide.pdf (Welsh toponyms)
Gullah New Testament
Please, add anything about the history of words, place names, idioms or dialects.