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English Language -- History
The following sources are recommended by a professor whose research specialty is the history of the English language.

Six Superlative Sources

· Baugh, Albert C., and Thomas Cable. A History of the English Language. 4th ed. Prentice Hall, 1993.

· Blake, Norman F. A History of the English Language. New York University Press, 1998.

· Crystal, David. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. Cambridge University Press, 1995.

· Knowles, Gerald. A Cultural History of the English Language. Edward Arnold, 1997.

· Millward, Celia M. Biography of the English Language. 2nd ed. Harcourt Brace, 1996.

· Pyles, Thomas, and John C. Algeo. The Origins and Development of the English Language. Harcourt Brace, 1993.

Other Excellent Sources

· History of the English Language (HEL). http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/hel/hel.html

· Indo-European and the Comparative Method. http://www.utexas.edu/depts/classics/documents/PIE.html

· Celtic Ogham. http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/ogham/

· Altman, Rochelle. Aspects of Older Writing Systems: With Focus on the DSS. http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il/orion/programs/Altman/Altman99.shtml

· Earliest Writing Found. An article from the May 4, 1999, edition of BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/334517.stm

· Quinion, Michael. World Wide Words: Investigating International English from a British Viewpoint. http://www.worldwidewords.org/

· Odlin, Terence. English 774: History of the English Language, a syllabus at Ohio State University. http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/odlin1/courses/774/774home.htm

· Awritan on Englisc: English List Website -- A Forum for Composition in Old English. Maintained by Sarah Higley from the University of Rochester. http://www.rochester.edu/englisc/

· Modern English to Old English Vocabulary. http://www.mun.ca/Ansaxdat/vocab/wordlist.html

· Old English at the University of Virginia. http://www.engl.virginia.edu/OE/

· Readings from A Guide to Old English. http://faculty.virginia.edu/OldEnglish/Guide.Readings/Guide.Readings.html

· The ORB: On-Line Reference Book for Medieval Studies. http://www.the-orb.net/

· The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry. http://world.std.com/obi/Anglo-Saxon/aspr/contents.html

· Anglo-Saxon Sources: Medieval Studies. http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/medieval/oes.html

· Yamada Language Center: Old English. Maintained by the University of Oregon. http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/guides/oldenglish.html

· Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland (TOEBI). http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/toebi/

· TOEBI: Electronic Texts and Publishers. http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/toebi/ele.html

· TOEBI: WWW Resources. http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/toebi/www.html

· Glossary from Bright's Anglo-Saxon Reader. http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/germanic/oe_bright_glossary.html

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