Notes on language topics

Everybody who would be a philologist must have done mathematics, or be capable of doing mathematics. - Joseph Wright (1855-1930), quoted in The life of Joseph Wright, page 74, by E. M. Wright (Oxford University Press, 1932).

• Beowulf - pdf edition
• critique of P Forster et al Evolution of English basic vocabulary ...
• Oddities of US English
• spellometer
• The famous Trajan column inscription compared to a truetype trajan font
• UK English phoneme pair frequency table
• etymology of the word `network'
• Shakespeare's contributions to mathematics
• Bright's Anglo-Saxon Reader, with the glossary typeset by me
• my pdf edition of the Rigveda (2.2Mb)
• English and Latin text trigram frequencies

See also notes on place-name topics.