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Concordance index for 'a' onwards
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- AWWY: A Battle-Ax to Grind; Battle-Ax to Grind, A; cut above, a; cut below, a; old battle-ax: 2
- AWWY: A Bull Story; bois de vache (booshwah); Bull Story, A; cow; Great Chicago Fire, the; moot: 2
- AWWY: A Dog's Life...Three Dog Night; dog's life; dogs, going to; dying like a dog; going to the dogs; night, three dog; three dog night: 1
- AWWY: A Dog's Life...Three Dog Night: 1
- AWWY: A Doggone Fool; doghouse, in the: 1
- AWWY: A Fly on the Wall at the Flea Market; Fly on the Wall at the Flea Market, A; ear, putting a flea in my; flea in my ear, putting a; flea market (marché aux puces); flies on you, there are no; marché aux puces (flea market); market, flea (Parisian origins of); wall, fly on the: 2
- AWWY: A Hog on Ice; bag, letting the cat out of the; buy a pig in a poke; cat out of the bag, letting the; hog on ice; ice, hog on; pig in a poke, buy a; poke, buy a pig in a: 1
- AWWY: A Little Birdie Told Me...Birdbrain; birdbrain, the anomaly; birdies, talkative; brains of a bird, a compliment really; Mohammed's counselor (birdies); Solomon's messenger (birdies); soothsayers inspiration, birds: 1
- AWWY: A Star's Itinerary,; erratic; erred; itinerary; planets; Star's Itinerary, A: 2
- AWWY: A as in Apple; Big Apple, The; manzana (apple?); smart apples: 1
- AWWY: Abe Lincoln's beard; bearding; Close Shave, A; Grace Bedell's suggestion; hairbreadth; make beard, meaning of; shave, a close: 1
- AWWY: Albatross around one's neck; accumulate; pennies, pretty; Penny For Your Thoughts, A; pretty penny; slush fund: 1
- AWWY: Dope and A Drug on the Market; drogues and drugs; inside dope; straight dope: 1
- AWWY: Old Kinderhook (A-O.K.); Americanism - O.K.; Buren, Martin Van (O.K.); Martin Van Buren (O.K.); O.k. by me; okey dokey; Old Kinderhook (O.K.): 1
- AWWY: act, a class; class act, a; classes; classical; classics; classified; Touch of Class, A; working class: 1
- AWWY: adverse; advertising; conversation; criminal conversation; divert; perverse; Turn for the Verse, A; version; versus: 1
- AWWY: bees in bonnet; bonnet, bees in; bug off; Bugs and Pests; buzzes and hints (putting bugs in peoples' ears); delusive notions (maggots in the head); Dorgan, T.A. (father of the hot dog); driving each other bugs; ears, putting bugs in peoples; fantasies (maggots in the head); head, maggots in the; hints and buzzes (putting bugs in peoples' ears); peoples' ears, putting bugs in; pests: 1
- AWWY: bra; brassiere; breast supporter; Brief but Uplifting Tale, A; burn the bra movement; embrace; Maidenform bra: 1
- AWWY: courage, screwing up; different tack; fighting tooth and nail; head, hitting the nail on the; hitting the nail on the head; loose screws; nailing things down; Nails and Screws...A Different Tack; pigs tails and screws; screwed up; tacks, different; tooth and nail, fighting: 1
- AWWY: desultory; faith, leap of; gun, jumping the; jump the gun; Jumping Off Point, A; leap of faith; leap, quantum; quantum leap; resilient; results; salient; sally: 1
- AWWY: elixir; panacea; placebo; Sure Cure, A: 1
- AWWY: exhibitionism; habit; inhibitions; Klinger, Corporal Maxwell Q. (of M*A*S*H fame); M*A*S*H Habit, The; nun's habit; prohibited; rehabilitating: 2
- Lynch: A or An .: 1
- Morris: Cock A Snook: 1
- Morris: Horse Apiece, A: 1
- Morris: Nutshell, In A: 1
- Morris: Snook, Cock A: 1
- Quinion: Speak: A Short History of Languages: 1
- RH WotD: f*cking A: 1
- Wilton: Break A Leg: 1
- Wilton: Coin A Phrase: 1
- Wilton: Rope-A-Dope: 1
- Yaelf: 'A Is for American': The Republic of Letters (book review): 1
- Yaelf: A Big List of Non-Standard Theatrical Terms: 1
- Yaelf: A Glossary for Medieval English Towns: 1
- Yaelf: A Glossary of European Noble, Princely, Royal, and Imperial Titles.: 1
- Yaelf: A Glossary of the Low Life: 1
- Yaelf: A Prisoner's Dictionary: 1
- Yaelf: A Tale of Two Languages: 1
- Yaelf: A brilliant set of pages on the early history of human languages: 1
- Yaelf: A collection of Naval slang, abbreviations, legends and historical tit-bits which was originally compiled by Commander A. Covey-Crump, RN, a former Naval Assistant to the Chief of Naval Information: 2
- Yaelf: A day in the life of the zeitgeist: 1
- Yaelf: A dictionary of non-existent words: 1
- Yaelf: A glossary of palace terms: 1
- Yaelf: A large collection of glossaries: 1
- Yaelf: A monster online dictionary of the rich colourful language we call slang... all from a British perspective, with new slang added every month.: 1
- Yaelf: Grammar, Punctuation, and Capitalization: A Handbook for Technical Writers and Editors: 1
- Yaelf: The Difference Between Saving A Buck Or Two And Blowing $20 Is Spelling COLLECT Right: 1
:a'mi :a's :A-bomb :A-erial :a-gapin :a-takin :a-wooing :A-Z :A0A0FF :A0FFA0 :A0FFFF :A1
- AWWY: A1; ankles, the eel's; The Cat's Pajamas and the Bees Knees; bees knees, the; cat's meow, the; Cat's Pajamas and the Bees Knees, The; diamonds of the first water; eel's ankles, the; elephant's instep, the; first water, of the; galoshes, the cat's; gnu's shoes, the; instep, the elephant's; knees, the bees; meow, the cat's; pajamas, the cat's; pig's wings, the; roller skates, the cat's; sardine's whiskers, the; shoes, the gnu's; tonsils, the cat's; water, of the first; whiskers, the cat's; whiskers, the sardine's; wings, the pigs: 1
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- Cunningham: Individual poster histories - alt.usage.english: 1
:A8FFA8 :Aaa :Aaaa :Aae :AAEV :AAron
- Lawler: Vowels Before R: 2
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- Cunningham: Individual poster histories - alt.usage.english: 2
- Lawler: Vowels Before R: 3
- Yaelf: AUE Contributors John Lawler and Aaron Dinkin provide an *excellent* reference for Latin sources for grammatical terms.: 1
- AUE Gallery: Aaron Dinkin: 2
- The AUE Photo Gallery: 1
:aaronland :Aarp :AAVE :Aave :Aba :abacinate :aback :abaft :abandon :abandoning :Abba :Abbas :abbey :abbeyxx :abbot-landholders :Abbott :abbreviated :abbreviating :abbreviation :abbreviations :ABC
- Yaelf: Political success is as easy as ABC...: 1
:Abc :Abcd :Abce :abduct :abducted :Abe :ABECEDARIUM :Abel :Abercrombie :aberrant :aberrations :Aberystwyth :abhor :abide :abides :abiding :ability :abject :ablaut :able :ably :Abner :abnormally :abode :abolished :aboon :aboriginal :abound :abounded :abounding :about
- AUE Logo: The Totally Official alt.usage.english Logo: 1
- AWWY: Grinding It Out; grind, the old; grist for the mill; mill, grist for the; milling about; mills of the gods grind slowly...; millstone around his neck; neck, millstone around his; old grind, the; run of the mill: 1
- AWWY: Something to Crow About; bone to pick or crow to pluck?; crow about; crow flies, as the; crow's nest; eating crow; feet, crow's; flies, as the crow; nest, crow's; pluck with you, have a crow: 2
- AWWY: The Nose Knows; iniquity, odor of; joint, nose out of; Marcellus in Hamlet (something is rotten in the state of Denmark); Nose Knows, the; nose out of joint; odor of sanctity/iniquity; rotten in the state of Denmark, something is (The Nose Knows); smell a rat; stunk to high heaven; what's the stink really all about?: 1
- AWWY: bolt, shooting ones; Shake, Rattle, and Roll; bone up on; bones about it, make no; cutting to the bone; shooting ones bolt; skeletons in closet: 1
- Abbreviations:
Unedited list of search results
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- Audio:
I teach Ferdinand
: 1
- Brians: about: 1
- Cunningham: Note C:: 1
- FX: "Break a leg!": 1
- FX: "Go figure": 1
- FX: "God rest you merry, gentlemen": 1
- FX: "O.K.": 1
- FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 1
- FX: "You have another think coming": 1
- FX: "all ... not": 1
- FX: "bloody": 1
- FX: "blue moon": 2
- FX: "catch-22": 1
- FX: "could care less": 1
- FX: "could of": 1
- FX: "cut to the chase": 1
- FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 3
- FX: "go to hell in a handbasket": 1
- FX: "hopefully", "thankfully": 1
- FX: "jerry-built"/"jury-rigged": 1
- FX: "kangaroo": 1
- FX: "merkin": 2
- FX: "mind your p's and q's": 1
- FX: "ollie ollie oxen free": 1
- FX: "put in one's two cents' worth": 1
- FX: "quality": 1
- FX: "rule of thumb": 2
- FX: "spoonerism": 1
- FX: "that" vs "which": 1
- FX: "the bee's knees": 1
- FX: "the whole nine yards": 2
- FX: Biblical sense of "to know": 1
- FX: Commonest words: 1
- FX: Does the next millennium begin in 2000 or 2001?: 1
- FX: English is Tough Stuff: 1
- FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 4
- FX: Gender-neutral pronouns: 3
- FX: Guidelines for posting: 1
- FX: How did "Truly" become a personal name?: 2
- FX: How do you spell "e-mail"?: 1
- FX: Joke about step-by-step spelling reform: 2
- FX: Online dictionaries: 3
- FX: Online language columns: 1
- FX: Online usage guides: 2
- FX: Postfix "not": 1
- FX: Preposition at end: 3
- FX: Related newsgroups: 8
- FX: Repeated words after abbreviations: 2
- FX: Spaces between sentences: 1
- FX: Split infinitive: 1
- FX: Subjunctive: 1
- FX: WELCOME TO ALT.USAGE.ENGLISH!: 1
- FX: What is "ghoti"?: 1
- FX: Why is "I" capitalized?: 3
- FX: Wicca: 1
- FX: Words ending in "-gry": 1
- FX: Words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 1
- FX: Words without vowels: 1
- Fast FAQ:
[Prefatory remarks]
: 1
- Fast FAQ: The fast-access FAQ
: 1
- Garbl: about , around: 1
- Garbl: at about: 1
- Home: The alt.usage.english Home Page: 5
- I before E:
Excerpt, with minor editing, from the 1996 posting:
: 1
- IPA II:
About this document:
: 1
- IPA II:
Main Index:
: 1
- IPA II:
The sounds in the column headed 'IPA sounds' have been copied with permission
: 1
- IPA II: The reference to 'Chicago pop' first appeared in Mark Israel's
: 1
- IPA I:
About the sound files
: 2
- IPA I:
About the sound files
: 2
- IPA I:
Writing ASCII IPA
: 1
- IPA I:
Writing ASCII IPA
: 1
- IPA I:
Writing ASCII IPA
: 1
- IPA I:
About the sound files
: 2
- IPA I:
Consonants and vowels
: 1
- IPA I:
Credits
: 1
- IPA I:
Credits
: 1
- IPA I:
Speakers
: 1
- IPA I: AUE: ASCII IPA: a way to represent speech using a computer keyboard: 1
- IPA I: AUE: ASCII IPA: a way to represent speech using a computer keyboard: 1
- IPA I: AUE: ASCII IPA: a way to represent speech using a computer keyboard: 1
- IPA I: Note 2: The reference to 'Chicago pop' first appeared in Mark Israel's AUE FAQ, and I [Bob Cunningham] believe it was copied from there by Markus Laker for inclusion in his
: 1
- IPA I: Note 6: The reference to 'Chicago pop' first appeared in Mark Israel's AUE FAQ, and I [Bob Cunningham] believe it was copied from there by Markus Laker for inclusion in his
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- IPA I: Note 6: The reference to 'Chicago pop' first appeared in Mark Israel's AUE FAQ, and I [Bob Cunningham] believe it was copied from there by Markus Laker for inclusion in his
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- Intro A:
Dealing with unwanted postings
: 1
- Intro A:
WELCOME TO alt.usage.english!
: 1
- Intro B:
Historical English, and English Literature
: 1
- Intro B:
Where to learn about ASCII IPA
: 1
- Intro B:
Writing and Grammar Guides On Line
: 1
- Intro B: AUE Intro B: Useful Web Sites for AUE Participants: 1
- Intro C:
"full monty"
: 1
- Intro C:
"obaue" or "ObAUE"
: 1
- Intro C:
"whole nine yards"
: 1
- Intro D:
"Gotten"
: 1
- Intro D:
"It's me" -v- "It is I"
: 1
- Intro E:
Humorous poems about spelling
: 1
- Intro E:
Joke about step-by-step spelling reform
: 1
- Intro E: AUE Intro E: Mini-FAQ on Spelling: 2
- Intro F: AUE Intro F: Contents of AUE FAQ and FAQ Supplement: 1
- Intro G: AUE Intro G: Where is the FAQ?: 1
- Isles:
BRITAIN. The informal name for the United
: 1
- Isles:
BRITISH is the formal designation of the nationality of citizens
: 1
- Lawler: --- Followup --: 2
- Lawler: >> For instance: English has only one phoneme, but it has: 1
- Lawler: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 5
- Lawler: >>> The facts of the matter are these:: 4
- Lawler: >Past tenses:: 5
- Lawler: >Your example of English and Caxton print shop goes a long way to convince: 1
- Lawler: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 3
- Lawler: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 10
- Lawler: I suspect much of the rancor that greets spellings of had've is: 1
- Lawler: Since you ask, here's a moderately complete list of polarity items,: 1
- Lawler: The intonation curve is (roughly) up-down-back.up, graphically something: 3
- Lawler: You may have noticed the Sapir quotation in my .sig.: 1
- Lawler: "Correctness": 2
- Lawler: "It" in "It's raining": 5
- Lawler: "Quote, Unquote": 3
- Lawler: "amn't": 2
- Lawler: "equally" and comparatives: 1
- Lawler: "only": 1
- Lawler: Alumin(i)um: 1
- Lawler: As far as ... goes/is concerned: 1
- Lawler: Aural and Oral, Boy and Buoy: 1
- Lawler: Books on English, Language, and Linguistics: 2
- Lawler: Bring vs Take: 2
- Lawler: Can't Help (But) ...: 6
- Lawler: Canadian and American Raising: 1
- Lawler: Commas again: 3
- Lawler: Commas: 3
- Lawler: English L sounds: 1
- Lawler: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 3
- Lawler: English Modals: 1
- Lawler: English and Infinity: 2
- Lawler: Extraposition, plus Selected Short Subjects: 3
- Lawler: Give a Damn: 10
- Lawler: Gotten vs. Got: 2
- Lawler: He, she, they?: 11
- Lawler: Headline grammar: 3
- Lawler: Henry Lee Smith: 1
- Lawler: Hyphens: 5
- Lawler: Indian English: 1
- Lawler: Literacy: 2
- Lawler: Negative Polarity Items: 4
- Lawler: Object Complements: 5
- Lawler: Phrasal Verbs: 1
- Lawler: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 10
- Lawler: Reams: 4
- Lawler: Ross Constraints: 1
- Lawler: Schwa and Central Vowels: 1
- Lawler: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1
- Lawler: The Academy: 1
- Lawler: Toward(s) and Beside(s): 1
- Lawler: Usage of "the hell": 3
- Lawler: Verbing Nouns: 1
- Lawler: Vowels Before R: 2
- Lawler: anymore: 2
- Lawler: gonna: 2
- Lawler: striddly: 1
- Links:
Almanacs
: 1
- Links: Discussion groups, Usenet group Websites
: 3
- Links: Guides: Usage, Grammar, and Style
: 1
- Links: Miscellaneous, language related
: 2
- Links: Miscellaneous, not language related
: 1
- Links: Web search engines
: 1
- Links: Web-design utilities
: 1
- Links: Words about words
: 3
- Quinion: See a man about a dog: 1
- Quinion: Words about elections: 1
- Supp: AUE FAQ Supplement: 1
- Symposium II: AUE: The Christmas symposium, London, December 1998: 1
- UCLE02: The history of ucle: 1
- UCLE03: Judith
: 2
- UCLE03: Lindsay
: 5
- UCLE05: John Davies's commentary
: 1
- UCLE05: What’s
: 1
- UCLE06: Rhetorical vocabulary: 2
- UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,
: 2
- UCLE08: Mother Goose
: 1
- UCLE08: The “Fat Lady”
: 1
- UCLE09: “Bloody”
: 1
- UCLE09: “Pop
: 2
- UCLE09: Rivers
: 2
- UCLE12: News
: 2
- UCLE13: "Rearranging deck chairs
: 1
- UCLE13: Waterloo
: 1
- UCLE15:
The Tooth Fairy
: 1
- UCLE15: Gossip
: 2
- Usenet Docs: AUE: Links to Official Usenet Documents: 6
- What's new?:
6 December 2001
: 2
- What's new?:
2 September 2001:
: 6
- Where FAQ?: Fast-access FAQ:
: 1
- Where FAQ?: AUE: Places to find Mark Israel's FAQ: 1
- Yaelf: (IPL) What about some words that end in -gry?: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) Can you enlighten me about the origins of "mad as a hatter"?: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) I am looking into how the expression "on the fritz" came about. Please help.: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) I've heard the expression brand spanking new many times and am curious about its origin. Any ideas?: 1
- Yaelf: Is there anything special about the name of Harry Potter's owl?: 1
- Yaelf: What about spam?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "to make no bones about"?: 1
- 1. England
: 2
- 11. The Commonwealth
: 2
- A ucle resource page: 1
- A ucle resource page: 1
- AUE Gallery: Stephen Toogood's paddle: 1
- AUE Gallery: Stephen Toogood: 1
- AUE: "Chaos" Spelling Error: 1
- AUE: "anymore" and "any more": 1
- AUE: About Autism and Daniel McGrath: 2
- AUE: About the alt.usage.english newsgroup: 6
- AUE: Additional comments about deja.com: 2
- AUE: Arthur the Rat: 1
- AUE: Audio recording technique - some suggestions: 5
- AUE: Books About Words: 2
- AUE: Comments on a Proposal for Reformed English Spelling: 2
- AUE: Contact: 2
- AUE: Differing opinion about Tyburn River: 3
- AUE: Georgia speaker comments: 2
- AUE: Is 'people' the plural of 'person'?: 1
- AUE: London Millennium Boink, December 1999: 1
- AUE: London Symposium Boink, September 1998: 5
- AUE: Showing variation of formants of [i:] with context: 1
- AUE: Showing variation of formants of [i:] with context: 1
- AUE: Summer Boink, London, June 1999: 2
- AUE: The North Wind and The Sun: 1
- AUE: The Rainbow Passage: 1
- AUE: Totally Officially Unknown People: 1
- AUE: What is prescriptivism?: 1
- AUE: What is the UK? Is it the same as Britain, Great Britain or England?: 1
- Cambodunum
: 3
- Fieldfares
: 1
- Fun with words TOC: 2
- Preface
: 1
- Suggestions: How To Form Your Reply
: 1
- The Poetry of F. W. Moorman: 2
:above
- AWWY: A Battle-Ax to Grind; Battle-Ax to Grind, A; cut above, a; cut below, a; old battle-ax: 1
- Abbreviations:
Unedited list of search results
: 2
- FX: ", vs ,": 1
- FX: "cut the mustard": 1
- FX: "hopefully", "thankfully": 1
- FX: "like" vs "such as": 1
- FX: "rule of thumb": 1
- FX: "sirloin"/"baron of beef": 1
- FX: Commonest words: 1
- FX: Foreign plurals => English singulars: 1
- FX: I before E except after C: 1
- FX: Origin of the dollar sign: 1
- FX: Subjunctive: 1
- FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1
- FX: Words pronounced differently according to context: 1
- IPA II:
The Details:
: 1
- IPA II:
The [O] sound requires rounded lips, but lips making a
: 1
- IPA I:
Help to complete this page!
: 1
- IPA I:
Help to complete this page!
: 1
- IPA I:
Help to complete this page!
: 1
- Intro A:
Responding
: 1
- Intro B:
Acronyms and abbreviations
: 1
- Intro D:
Gender-neutral pronouns: "he/she" -v- "they"
: 1
- Intro D:
Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms
: 1
- Intro G: AUE Intro G: Where is the FAQ?: 1
- Lawler: -- more followup:: 1
- Lawler: >>> The facts of the matter are these:: 1
- Lawler: >Past tenses:: 1
- Lawler: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 1
- Lawler: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 1
- Lawler: The intonation curve is (roughly) up-down-back.up, graphically something: 1
- Lawler: There are at least 11 phonemically distinct vowels in standard American: 2
- Lawler: "only": 3
- Lawler: Alumin(i)um: 1
- Lawler: Can't Help (But) ...: 1
- Lawler: Canadian and American Raising: 2
- Lawler: Commas again: 1
- Lawler: Commas: 1
- Lawler: English Modals: 1
- Lawler: Gotten vs. Got: 1
- Lawler: Hyphens: 2
- Lawler: Indian English: 1
- Lawler: Negative Polarity Items: 1
- Lawler: News Item: 2
- Lawler: Object Complements: 1
- Lawler: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 2
- Lawler: Reams: 1
- Lawler: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1
- Lawler: anymore: 1
- Lynch: The Above, The Following.: 1
- RH WotD: a cut above (and high on the hog): 1
- UCLE05: John Davies's commentary
: 1
- UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,
: 1
- UCLE08: Mother Goose
: 1
- UCLE16: Kibosh
: 1
- 11. The Commonwealth
: 1
- 7. The Common Travel Area
: 1
- AUE: Comments on a Proposal for Reformed English Spelling: 5
- AUE: Formants in three pronunciations of "stone cold": 1
- AUE: Search Information: 2
- AUE: Speech Examples: 1
- AUE: The Rainbow Passage: 1
- Cambodunum
: 1
- Preface
: 1
- Suggestions: How To Form Your Reply
: 1
- The AUE Photo Gallery: 1
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- Cunningham: Individual poster histories - alt.usage.english: 1
:Abs :absconded :Abso-bloody-lutely :absolute :absolutely :Abson :absorbing :absorbtion :Absp :abstain :abstract :absurd :absurdities :absurdity :abundance :abundant :abundantly :Abusage :abuse :abused :abuses :abusive :Abut :abutting :Abv
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