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ENGLISH
around the World

VARIETIES of ENGLISH
American English
Australian English (“Oz”)
British English
Canadian English
Irish (Hiberno) English
New Zealander
Scottish English / Scots
Welsh English

Caribbean English
Indian English
Nigerian English
Filipino English
Singaporean English
South African English
American / British Sign Languagse / Braille

Business English
English for Speakers of ...
Etymology
History of English
Listen to English
Pronunciation
Quizzes & Tests
Teaching English: Materials
Teaching English: Methods
Test Your English
Vocabulary

English-Speaking Countries Kryss Katsiavriades
English-Speaking Countries Vicenç Plantada Secondary
English-Speaking Countries Barbara Dieu
How many people speak English?  English-Speaking Union
How many people speak English?  British Council
How many people speak English? Jeremy Smith
Who speaks English? Business Week

Etymology of the English Language
History of the English Language

English around the World wire.ap.org
International Ass. for World Englishes
International Conference on World Englishes Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
M.A. in English Language & World Englishes The School of English at Leeds
World Englishes ... & Career Opportunities Amarjit Singh

VARIETIES of ENGLISH

English around the World course  / Bert Vaux
English around the World Ask Oxford
English around the World Annika Hohenthal
English around the World Johannes Reese
English around the World courses.nus.edu.sg
English around the World uni-saarland.de/fak4/norrick
English around the World Ryuko Kubota & Lori Ward
English around the World Univ. of Auckland
English around the World Martin Kich
English around the World writing.berkeley.edu/tesl-ej
English around the World UNE
English around the World Devi Sarinjeive
English around the World Barbara Wallraff
English around the World fccl.ksu.ru/winter.99/lang_typ

Audio Samples Igor Merfert
Audio Samples Timothy Bowyer
Audio Samples Univ. of Arizona
Audio Samples Tele-talent
Audio Samples International Dialects of English / Paul Meier
Audio Samples foreign accents / George Mason Univ.
Audio Samples braintracksaudio.com

Listen to English audio
Pronunciation audio
...
Bibliography Mario Saraceni
Bibliography Craig Packard
Bibliography uni-saarland.de/fak4/norrick

CARIBBEAN ENGLISH ^

Caribbean English history / Alfred Jean Baptiste
Caribbean English kaleidoscope.caribseek.com
Caribbean English audio / bbc.co.uk/radio4
Caribbean English tu-chemnitz.de/phil
Caribbean English scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow
Caribbean English oed.com/public/news/9701
Caribbean English wright.edu/~martin.kich
Caribbean English tu-chemnitz.de
Caribbean English: Anguilla Bob Green
Caribbean English: Anguilla anguillahomepage.ai
Caribbean English: Montserrat phon.ucl.ac.uk

Radio BBC World Service
News Cana News
News Caribbean Week
Newspapers

Literature
Literature VoS
Literature Kate Lin
Literature wsu.edu:8000/~brians
Literature Russ Filman
Literature library.marist.edu
Literature scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow

NIGERIAN ENGLISH ^

Nigerian English Babawilly
Nigerian English audio / bottom of page / uni-saarland.de
Nigerian English Ulrike Gut
Nigerian English Ulrike Gut + Jan-Torsten Milde
Nigerian English Dominique Bediako
Nigerian English Martin Holland
Nigerian English Hans-Georg Wolf
Nigerian English bibliography / 2.rz.hu-berlin.de/angl/wolf
Nigerian English wire.ap.org
Nigerian English scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow
Nigerian English ethnologue.com
Nigerian English ogunyemi.net
Nigerian English

Language Education in Nigeria
Literature scholars.nus.edu.sg/post
Literature Dominique Bediako
News allafrica.com/nigeria
Newspapers onlinenewspapers.com
Newspapers
Newspaper Guardian / guardiannewsngr.com
Newspaper Guardian / ngrguardiannews.com
Scam Letters home.rica.net/alphae/419coal
Universal Declaration of Human Rights unhchr.ch

Links U.S. Embassy
Links Vanguard

ENGLISH in the PHILIPPINES ^

Philippine English: History Rey Jude P. Agana
Philippine English everlastinglove.com
Philippine English collegedictionary.net
Philippine English Jesse Grace U. Rubrico
Philippine English filipino.com.au
Philippine English geocities.com/icasocot
Philippine Languages chanrobles.com
...
Literature 3.cerritos.edu/vasiddao

SINGAPOREAN ENGLISH ^

Singapore English Anthea Fraser Gupta
Singapore English leeds.ac.uk
Singlish Ah Beng
Singlish Ah Kow
Singlish talkingcock
Singlish Tim Richardson
SInglish une.edu.au/langnet
SInglish Wei-Chieh
Singlish home1.pacific.net.sg/~kuolern
Singlish geocities.com/Colosseum/Park/1999
Singlish-Gay Dictionary geocities.com/WestHollywood/Village/3652
Newspapers

SOUTH AFRICAN ENGLISH ^

English Univ. of Auckland
English Johannes Reese
English Rodrik Wade
English biltongbox.com
English David H. Gough
English Josef Schmied
English British Council
English stanford.edu/~mbax
English wright.edu/~martin.kich
English southafrica.narod.ru/engels
English: Armed Forces und.ac.za
English: English Teachers ETONSA
Black South African English Rodrik Wade
Black South African English joensuu.fi/fld/methodsxi
Pronunciation geocities.com/Athens/7734
Pronunciation samint.co.za/entrail

Country Study
Famous South Africans Insane Tree
Newspaper: Sunday Times
Newspapers
Songs polity.org.za

Audio
Channel Africa
Radio & Audio online

WELSH / ENGLISH ^

Wales George Borrow
Wales BBC

Dylan Thomas audio / "Do not go gentle..." / poets.org
Dylan Thomas audio / Salon
Dylan Thomas audio / Leon Malinofsky
Dylan Thomas audio / Harper Audio
Dylan Thomas English-Italian / Ercole Guidi

Dictionary freelang.net
Literature Chris Grooms
Literature GoBritannia!
Writers & Publishers Welsh Books Council
Welsh ESL School Meirionnydd Languages

Names names2be.com
Names korrnet.org
Names sca.org/heraldry/laurel
Names 20000-names.com
Names users.on.net/proformat
Names behindthename.com
Newspapers

Choirs choir.demon.co.uk
Songs Laura´s Midi Heaven
Songs ingeb.org
Songs Richard Kopp
Songs bbc.co.uk/wales
Songs rootsweb.com/%7Eswlmcc/maerdy
Songs Taylor´s Traditional Tunebook
Songs myweb.tiscali.co.uk/nrhenllys
National Anthem

SIGN LANGUAGE ^

American Sign Language course / William Vikars
Deaf History Gallaudet College
Deaf History Jim Kyle
...
Alphabet
Dictionary masterstech-home.com
Dictionary 200 signs
Dictionary Randy Stine
Dictionary:  Video Michigan State Univ.
Fingerspelling Scott Gaertner
Numbers & Money
Sign Writing:  Lessons DAC
Sign Writing:  Stories "Cinderella" - "Humpty Dumpty" etc.
...
Britain foot-print.demon.co.uk
Britain britishsignlanguage.com
Britain RAD
Germany Thomas Hanke
Ireland
Multilingual James
..
Fonts YLC
Links Deaf Resource Library
Mail Lists YLC
...
Fingerspelling Boggle iwaynet.net/~ggwiz
Test funbrain

BRAILLE ^

Braille E-Texts

MORSE CODE ^

Morse Code Translator soton.ac.uk/~scp93ch
Morse Code & Phonetic Alphabets Alpha, Bravo, Charlie / soton.ac.uk/~scp93ch

MORE Info? ... ^

History of the English Language ntu.edu.sg/home/mdamodaran
Etymology of the English Language
...
South Asian Writers writing in English
Indian, African, Caribbean English Literature
West Indies www-nw.uni-regensburg.de
...
Corpus Linguistics ruf.rice.edu/~barlow

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