In this talk we introduce the new interactive Grammar of English App, present the App’s functionality and discuss some of the challenges involved in creating it.

The talk will be particularly relevant to people interested in developing course materials as Apps for mobile devices.

This paper analyses the semantics of one high-frequency, polysemous verb, make, across three varieties of English: Singapore English, Hong Kong English, and British English. Data for the corpus-based study is derived from the International Corpus of English. Discussion will revolve around variations in the semantics and usage of make in each variety, and the implications of these variations for overarching theories of World Englishes. In addition, I will suggest a new role for lexical semantics in describing the development of English varieties worldwide, based on innovative and conservative historical trends and on semantic diversity.