VERBS OF AMERICAN ENGLISH
I have collected here all of the American English verbs I could find*. If you know
a verb I've neglected, drop me a line at 
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ACCESSING THE VERBS
The verbs are organized in five sets, which are accessible through the links at the top of this page.
The main collection contains all simple, idiomatic and prepositional verbs
I've found to date. Simple verbs (like track and hammer),
idiomatic verbs (such as bell the cat and clear the air), and
prepositional verbs (put on and line up) are collected separately
for ease of study. I've also compiled a list of irregular verb conjugations. Note that free
plain-text versions of the lists are available for download.
DICTIONARY PROJECT
I am now in the process of constructing a dictionary based around these verbs and whatever nouns, adjectives,
adverbs, &tc., I find necessary to define them. I won't be ready to start defining for quite some time (five years,
104 days and 4 hours, by my most recent calculation)— one of the first steps in building a dictionary is
procuring or compiling a corpus. A corpus is essentially a sizeable, varied collection of written and spoken words that can be studied to
determine how words are actually used. I've decided to compile my corpus from scratch. Six million words is the goal;
hence the lengthy delay.
I don't expect to finish the dictionary before I turn 40 (early 2023, in case you were curious) but it is quite likely
I will finish the corpus sometime soon. If this is your sort of thing, check back. Right now the corpus stands at 871878 words;
I'll start posting what I've got after I reach three million (around 23 September 2009).
