Need public-domain texts for linguistic studies? See Kevin Savetz' list of sites, . For freeware (as opposed to public-domain), try the 2,588 anonymous-FTP sites listed on . And for new commercial works on the net, see . [Internet-on-a-Disk, 12/95.]

Kurzweil AI often advertises for computational linguists. Their home site is , with product info and links to other speech recognition sites. See for references on computational linguistics, compiled by language modeler Jeff Adams . [comp.ai, 10/24/95. Ken Barker.]

Words, Wit and Wisdom on the Web echoes a biweekly newspaper column about words, word origins, and language (since 1953). . [, net-hap, 12/1/95.]

Gakusei-L, for beginning romanized-Japanese conversation, has moved. Send a "subscribe gakusei-l your name" message to . Gakusei2-L is for intermediate learners and Gakusei3-L for advanced learners. Bunpou-L is for English-language discussion of Japanese grammar. [Laura Kimoto , NEW-LIST, 12/9/95.] (Contact the list owner if your address contains any of "= % _ -".)

BritSpeak offers a tongue-in-cheek look at British English, plus a British-American English dictionary. . [, net-hap, 12/21/95.]

GHOSTLETTERS is a discussion list for people pretending to be fictional or historical characters, animals, mythical beings, etc. Send a "subscribe GHOSTLETTERS your-character's-name" (e.g., "King Henry VIII") message to . Personae must be unique, but can be changed later. . [Nan Hawthorne , NEW-LIST, 2/2/96.]