Universal Declaration of Human rights
UDHR: Plain Language Version

The Earth Summit's Agenda for Change
a plain language version

http://www.plainenglishwriting.com/

Mindfulness in plain english

www.onelook.com

a Dictionary portal

writing for results
- neat links page

US Govt site for plain language with good links
http://www.plainlanguage.gov/

A singular use of THEY - how to overcome the he and she problem

A plain language bookshelf

Saywhatyoumean.com | Ron Scheer, PhD -- content developer, information design advisor, plain language expert, Web writer, copy editor

Ananova - Clare Short's resignation letter praised by Plain English Campaign

Cheryl Stephens on Plain Language -- Plain Language Association International
good stuff - pkain and authoritative

Say What You Mean Report #19, 30 books of quotations and proverbs

Say What You Mean on the Web | Make yourself understood

ED284273 1987-00-00 The Plain English Movement. ERIC Digest.

"The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics'. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer."

George Orwell from "Politics and the English Language", about four pages from the end.

Common Talk
Sarah Margetts et al - breakaway e-group

Garbl's Guide to Concise Writing

Quotes about brevity in writing

Below the Beltway (washingtonpost.com)
about easy speak

HOW TO WRITE
By Flesch himself