English language resources on the world-wide web

Web links

• Moby project (hosted at Sheffield University)

  This is a collection of pronunciation dictionary, hyphenation dictionary, and thesaurus, as well as works of Shakespeare.

  The hyphenation dictionary is encoded using the "Mac Roman" encoding.

  This is now an archive copy since it is not hosted at Sheffield University any more.

• CMUDict

  This is a dictionary of English pronunciations. The link goes to the download directory at sourceforge.

• Moby project (hosted at gutenberg.org)

  See above.

• Scowl

  SCOWL (Spell Checker Oriented Word Lists) and Friends is a database of information on English words useful for creating high-quality word lists suitable for use in spell checkers of most dialects of English.