Portal:English language

Old English

 * Bright's Anglo-Saxon Reader 1913 by James Wilson Bright

Early Modern English

 * A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue, 1712 by Jonathan Swift
 * The Place of English in the Higher Education by A. B. Stark as it appeared in the November 1878 Popular Science Monthly
 * Manual of English Grammar and Composition, 1898 by John Collinson Nesfield
 * The Grammar of English Grammars, 19th century by Goold Brown

Modern English

 * The Evolution of English Lexicography, 1900 by James Augustus Henry Murray
 * The King's English, 1906 by Henry Watson Fowler
 * English for Teachers, 1974 by Daniel D. Holt

Dialects

 * A glossary of words used in the neighbourhood of Sheffield, 1888 by Sidney Oldall Addy
 * A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant, 1889 by Albert Barrère and Charles Godfrey Leland
 * English as we speak it in Ireland, 1910 by Patrick Weston Joyce
 * The American Language, 1919 by Henry Louis Mencken
 * A Dictionary of Australian Words and Terms, 1924 by Gilbert H. Lawson
 * The American Language, 1919 by Henry Louis Mencken
 * A Dictionary of Australian Words and Terms, 1924 by Gilbert H. Lawson
 * A Dictionary of Australian Words and Terms, 1924 by Gilbert H. Lawson

Dictionaries

 * A Dictionary of the English Language, 1755 by Samuel Johnson
 * A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, 1806 by Noah Webster
 * The Century Dictionary, 1889-1909 by William Dwight Whitney