Why link directly to the index instead of the home page, which at least spares some words to describe what this is, including in the page title?

> Over the past 30 years, World Wide Words has chronicled the shifting English wordscape

I know, 30 years ago it was probably very tempting to have a website with a name that could be shortened to WWW, but still, it's a bit strange that a site with such a name only focuses on English?

The site appears to have been maintained by a single man from the UK. It's not strange.