Middle English

• "Sumer is icumen in" - manuscript image (London, British Library, Harley MS 978, f. 11v); RealAudio recording (Elly van Gelderen's audio page)
• "Alysoun" manuscript image (London, British Library, Harley MS 2253, f. 63v)
• Chaucer's General Prologue (Edwin Duncan) - text, translations, RealAudio readings, manuscript images, bibliographies
• Chaucer's Language, Pronunciation, and Vocabulary (Elizabeth Rehfeld) - explanations, charts, sound recordings of phonemes and texts, grammar of Middle English
• The English Language in the Fourteenth Century (Larry Benson) - explanation with links to French and Latin borrowings, bibliography, other useful information
• The Middle English Compendium (U. of Michigan) - the MED (Middle English Dictionary), searchable library of Middle English works, and more
• Thomas Usk's Testament of Love (R. Allen Shoaf) - text, manuscript images, audio recording
• Elly van Gelderen's Audio Page - links to RealAudio recordings of readings in Old and Middle English
• Library of On-Line Middle English Texts (Labyrinth) - texts without translations
• TU Chaucer Course Home Page (Edwin Duncan) - texts, audio, links

Early Modern English

• The Great Vowel Shift (Melinda Menzer) vowel sounds (requires Java plug-in) - useful, informative
• The Great Vowel Shift (Larry Benson) - explanation, charts, vowel sounds
• Renascence Editions (Richard Bear) - English works printed 1477-1799
• The Complete Works of Shakespeare (James Matthew Farrow)
• The King James Version of the Bible (U. of Michigan)

Modern English

• Yankee or Dixie Quiz (Harvard Computer Society) - take a short quiz to learn how much of your speech is Yankee and how much Dixie
• Dialect Survey of the U.S. (Harvard Computer Society)
• The Best of British: the American's Guide to Speaking British (Mike Etherington)
• The American Dialect Society Home Page
• American Dialect Links (Claudio Salvucci) - extensive set of links to various regional dialects, many informal and fun
• A Phonological Atlas of North America (U. of Pennsylvania) - descriptions, maps, links
• Language Varieties (U. of New England [Australia]) - AAVE (African-American Vernacular English), other world pidgins and creoles
• Speech Accent Archive (George Mason U.) - sound recordings of various language speakers reading an English paragraph
• MLA Language Map (Modern Language Association) - county-by-county breakdown of over 300 languages spoken in the U. S. A.
• The Voices Recordings (BBC) - sound recordings of dialects in dozens of locations in Great Britain