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- Cunningham: Individual poster histories - alt.usage.english: 1
:Anna :annals :Anne :Annie :anniversary :anno :annotated :announce :announced :announcement :announcer :annoy :annoyed :annoying :annoys :annual :annul :anointed :anomaly :anon :anonymity :anonymous :anonymously :Anonymuncule :Anorak :Anorakish :another
- AWWY: arriving; creek, up a; deriving; estuary, up the fecal (euphemism for up the creek); fecal estuary, up the (euphemism for up the creek); paddle, up the creek without a; rivals; river, selling one another down the; selling one another down the river; Up the Creek: 2
- AWWY: cigarillos and cigarettes; Coffin Nails and Compunction; compunction; expunge; nail in my coffin, putting another; punctual; punctuated; pungent: 1
- Abbreviations:
Unedited list of search results
: 1
- Abbreviations: AUE: Initialisms Commonly Used in alt.usage.english: 1
- Brians: you've got another thing coming: 1
- Cunningham: Multiple IDs: : 1
- FX: "It's me" vs "It is I": 1
- FX: "You have another think coming": 4
- FX: "catch-22": 1
- FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 1
- FX: "go to hell in a handbasket": 1
- FX: "impact"="to affect": 1
- FX: "like" vs "as": 1
- FX: "love"="zero": 1
- FX: "merkin": 1
- FX: "portmanteau word": 1
- FX: "quality": 2
- FX: "rule of thumb": 1
- FX: "spoonerism": 1
- FX: "to call a spade a spade": 1
- FX: Books on Britishisms, Canadianisms, etc.: 1
- FX: Commonest words: 1
- FX: English is Tough Stuff: 1
- FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 1
- FX: How reliable are dictionaries?: 2
- FX: Names of "&", "@", and "#": 1
- FX: Postfix "not": 1
- FX: When to use "the": 1
- FX: Words pronounced differently according to context: 1
- FX: Words without vowels: 1
- Fast FAQ:
[Prefatory remarks]
: 1
- Garbl: each other , one another: 1
- Home: The alt.usage.english Home Page: 2
- IPA II: Slashes or square brackets?
: 1
- IPA I:
Reading ASCII IPA
: 1
- IPA I:
Reading ASCII IPA
: 1
- IPA I:
Writing ASCII IPA
: 1
- IPA I:
Writing ASCII IPA
: 1
- IPA I:
Writing ASCII IPA
: 1
- IPA I:
Slashes or square brackets?
: 1
- IPA I:
Slashes or square brackets?
: 1
- IPA I:
Slashes or square brackets?
: 1
- IPA I:
Reading ASCII IPA
: 1
- Intro B:
Historical English, and English Literature
: 1
- Intro B:
On-line dictionaries: general
: 1
- Intro C:
"whole nine yards"
: 1
- Intro E:
Humorous poems about spelling
: 1
- Intro E:
Joke about step-by-step spelling reform
: 1
- Lawler: As to this discussion, the usual oppositions are those between: 1
- Lawler: The canonical paraphrase for will is be going to, idiosyncratically: 1
- Lawler: There is also another opposition among the formal auxiliaries, between: 2
- Lawler: --- Followup --: 1
- Lawler: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 2
- Lawler: >>> The facts of the matter are these:: 2
- Lawler: >Just one question: Where does the past perfect ("have gone", "have sung"): 1
- Lawler: >Past tenses:: 3
- 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: 2
- Lawler: The intonation curve is (roughly) up-down-back.up, graphically something: 1
- Lawler: "Correctness": 1
- Lawler: "It" in "It's raining": 1
- Lawler: "amn't": 2
- Lawler: "only": 1
- Lawler: English L sounds: 1
- Lawler: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 1
- Lawler: English Modals: 1
- Lawler: English and Infinity: 1
- Lawler: Extraposition, plus Selected Short Subjects: 1
- Lawler: Gotten vs. Got: 1
- Lawler: He, she, they?: 1
- Lawler: Hyphens: 1
- Lawler: Indian English: 1
- Lawler: Negative Polarity Items: 1
- Lawler: News Item: 1
- Lawler: Phrasal Verbs: 1
- Lawler: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 3
- Lawler: Reams: 1
- Lawler: Ross Constraints: 2
- Lawler: Schwa and Central Vowels: 1
- Lawler: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1
- Lawler: There are also two kinds of relative clauses:: 4
- Lawler: Toward(s) and Beside(s): 1
- Lawler: Usage of "the hell": 2
- Lawler: Vowels Before R: 1
- Lawler: anymore: 1
- Lawler: gonna: 1
- Lawler: striddly: 1
- Links: Miscellaneous, language related
: 1
- Links: Phonetic alphabets
: 1
- Links: Words about words
: 1
- Quinion: One another: 1
- RH WotD: horse of a different (or another) color: 1
- RH WotD: take another tack: 1
- Subjunctive?: AUE: Does English Have a Subjunctive Mood?: 1
- Symposium I: AUE: London Symposium, March 1998: 1
- UCLE05: What’s
: 1
- UCLE06: Rhetorical vocabulary: 1
- UCLE09: “Pop
: 1
- UCLE14: Literary characters who became
: 1
- UCLE15: Gossip
: 1
- UCLE15: Sockdolager
: 2
- UCLE16: Hooligan
: 1
- What's new?:
6 December 2001
: 1
-
AUE people
: 2
- 6. The British Isles
: 1
- AUE: About the alt.usage.english newsgroup: 1
- AUE: Dublin Boink, 27 April 2002: 1
- AUE: London Boink, December 2001: 1
- AUE: Perlfect Search: 1
- AUE: What is prescriptivism?: 1
- Cambodunum
: 1
:Ansaxdat :ANSAXNET :Ansel :ANSI :Ansi :Ansible :Anson :Anster :answer :answered :answering :answers :AnswerSleuth :Ant :antagonist :antagonists :Antarctic :antecedent :antedates :Antenorides :anthem :anthimeria :anthology :Anthony :anthos :Anthrax :anthropocentric :anthropological :anthropologist :anti :anti-climax :anti-grammar :anticipate
- Garbl: anticipate, expect: 1
- Lawler: Extraposition, plus Selected Short Subjects: 1
- Lynch: Anticipate.: 1
:anticipated :anticipatory
- Lawler: Extraposition, plus Selected Short Subjects: 2
:antidisestablishmentarianism :antidote :Antigua :Antilles :Antin :Antioch :antiparticle :antiphrasis :antipyrine :antiseptic :antisthecon :antitoxin :Antje :Antoine :Antoinette :Anton
- Cunningham: Individual poster histories - alt.usage.english: 1
:Antonius :antonomasia :Antony :antonym :antonyms :antsy :Anu :anxious :ANY :any
- AUE Logo: The Totally Official alt.usage.english Logo: 1
- Abbreviations:
Explanation of Search Criteria
: 2
- Abbreviations:
Unedited list of search results
: 2
- Brians: any more: 1
- Cunningham: Explanations of column headings: : 1
- Cunningham: Note B:: 1
- Emphasis quotes: AUE: Use of Quotation Marks for Emphasis: 1
- FX: "Caesarean section": 2
- FX: "Elementary, my dear Watson!": 1
- FX: "Go figure": 1
- FX: "It's me" vs "It is I": 2
- FX: "SOS": 1
- FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 1
- FX: "bloody": 1
- FX: "by hook or by crook": 1
- FX: "canola": 1
- FX: "done"="finished": 2
- FX: "hopefully", "thankfully": 1
- FX: "jerry-built"/"jury-rigged": 1
- FX: "love"="zero": 1
- FX: "pie-shaped": 2
- FX: "scot-free": 1
- FX: "son of a gun": 1
- FX: "spoonerism": 1
- FX: "suck"="be very unsatisfying": 2
- FX: Books on usage: 1
- FX: Commonest words: 1
- FX: Dictionaries: 1
- FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 2
- FX: Gender-neutral pronouns: 1
- FX: How reliable are dictionaries?: 3
- FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 1
- FX: I before E except after C: 2
- FX: Names of "&", "@", and "#": 1
- FX: Online dictionaries: 3
- FX: Origin of the dollar sign: 1
- FX: Preposition at end: 1
- FX: Rhotic vs non-rhotic, intrusive "r": 1
- FX: Spaces between sentences: 1
- FX: Split infinitive: 2
- FX: Typo: 1
- FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 2
- FX: Words without vowels: 1
- Garbl: all, any, most, some: 1
- Garbl: anybody , any body, anyone, any one: 2
- Garbl: anymore, any more: 1
- Genitive: AUE: Genitive is Not Always Possessive: 1
- I before E:
Examples of exceptions to the rule:
: 1
- I before E:
Extensions to the rule that have been suggested:
: 1
- IPA II:
The [O] sound requires rounded lips, but lips making a
: 1
- IPA II:
The sounds in the column headed 'IPA sounds' have been copied with permission
: 2
- IPA II: ASCII IPA: a way to represent speech using a computer keyboard (American only): 1
- IPA II: Slashes or square brackets?
: 1
- IPA II: The reference to 'Chicago pop' first appeared in Mark Israel's
: 2
- IPA I:
Slashes or square brackets?
: 1
- IPA I:
Slashes or square brackets?
: 1
- IPA I:
Slashes or square brackets?
: 1
- IPA I:
Credits
: 2
- IPA I:
Credits
: 4
- IPA I:
Credits
: 4
- IPA I:
Speakers
: 2
- IPA I: Note 1: The remarks concerning the pronunciation of [O] were taken verbatim from Mark Israel's AUE FAQ. Some AUE contributors have expressed the opinion
: 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
: 2
- IPA I: Note 5: The remarks concerning the pronunciation of [O] were taken verbatim from Mark Israel's AUE FAQ. Some AUE contributors have expressed the opinion
: 1
- IPA I: Note 5: The remarks concerning the pronunciation of [O] were taken verbatim from Mark Israel's AUE FAQ. Some AUE contributors have expressed the opinion
: 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
: 2
- 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
: 2
- Intro A:
Newcomers to the Net
: 1
- Intro B:
Writing and Grammar Guides On Line
: 1
- Intro C:
American
: 1
- Intro D:
"Gotten"
: 1
- Intro D:
Gender-neutral pronouns: "he/she" -v- "they"
: 1
- Intro E:
I before E except after C
: 1
- Intro E:
Isn't spelling reform a good idea?
: 1
- Intro E:
Joke about step-by-step spelling reform
: 1
- Isles:
BRITISH ISLES. A geographical term referring to the islands
: 1
- Lawler: >> For instance: English has only one phoneme, but it has: 1
- Lawler: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 1
- Lawler: >>> The facts of the matter are these:: 1
- Lawler: >Past tenses:: 2
- Lawler: >Your example of English and Caxton print shop goes a long way to convince: 2
- 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: 9
- 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,: 4
- Lawler: Where I grew up (in DeKalb, IL, 100 km W of Chicago) Mary,: 1
- Lawler: "Correctness": 1
- Lawler: "It" in "It's raining": 2
- Lawler: "Quote, Unquote": 4
- Lawler: A or An Historical Novel?: 1
- Lawler: Alumin(i)um: 1
- Lawler: Aural and Oral, Boy and Buoy: 2
- Lawler: Books on English, Language, and Linguistics: 4
- Lawler: Can't Help (But) ...: 5
- Lawler: Canadian and American Raising: 1
- Lawler: Commas again: 2
- Lawler: Commas: 3
- Lawler: English L sounds: 1
- Lawler: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 2
- Lawler: English Modals: 2
- Lawler: English and Infinity: 1
- Lawler: Give a Damn: 1
- Lawler: Gotten vs. Got: 3
- Lawler: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 3
- Lawler: He, she, they?: 1
- Lawler: Hyphens: 3
- Lawler: Literacy: 1
- Lawler: Negative Polarity Items: 7
- Lawler: News Item: 5
- Lawler: Object Complements: 4
- Lawler: Phrasal Verbs: 2
- Lawler: Phrasal Verbs: 3
- Lawler: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 7
- Lawler: Reams: 2
- Lawler: Schwa and Central Vowels: 1
- Lawler: Tense and related topics: 5
- Lawler: Toward(s) and Beside(s): 3
- Lawler: Usage of "the hell": 1
- Lawler: Verbing Nouns: 1
- Lawler: Vowels Before R: 1
- Lawler: anymore: 10
- Lawler: gonna: 3
- Lawler: hadn't've: 2
- Lawler: zilch: 1
- Links: Collections of Web links
: 1
- Links: Color charts
: 1
- Links: Miscellaneous, language related
: 1
- Links: Miscellaneous, not language related
: 2
- Lynch: Any Way, Shape, or Form.: 1
- Supp: AUE FAQ Supplement: 1
- UCLE03: A uk.culture.language.english
: 2
- UCLE06: Rhetorical vocabulary: 2
- UCLE08: A Litany of notable
: 1
- UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,
: 1
- UCLE09: “It went pear-shaped”
: 1
- UCLE09: Colours
: 1
- UCLE09: Daring
: 1
- UCLE09: Food
: 2
- UCLE10: "Bite the bullet"
: 1
- UCLE12: News
: 4
- UCLE13: Custer's last stand
: 1
- UCLE13: Waterloo
: 1
- UCLE14: Literary characters who became
: 1
- UCLE15:
The Tooth Fairy
: 1
- UCLE15: Bonfire
: 1
- What's new?:
2 September 2001:
: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) Any ideas on the origins of the expression "nitty-gritty"? I heard today a rather horrible suggestion that it referred to the debris left in the bottom of slave ships after their voyages, once the slaves remaining alive had been removed.: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) Any thoughts on the origin of bog-standard, as in bog-standard comprehensive?: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) During an Internet dialogue, the question came up - why do people say Jesus H Christ? It never seems to be any other letter. It sounds American, but what does it stand for and where did it originate? Holy seems to be a strong candidate, or could it: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) I have heard an American friend of mine use the phrase kitty corner to describe things that are diagonally opposed, as for example: 'The drugstore is kitty corner to the ice-cream parlor'. Have you heard this phrase before and do you have any clue a: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) I've heard the expression brand spanking new many times and am curious about its origin. Any ideas?: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) The other day, I used the expression brass monkey weather and was asked to explain. Any ideas?: 1
- Yaelf: People commonly ask empty rhetorical questions that rarely receive any sort of sensible answer. When you have had your surfeit of poetical whimsy and are ready for some good, hard facts, come here to be set straight.: 1
- e-mail vs email: AUE: Preferences, "e-mail" vs "email": 2
- 11. The Commonwealth
: 5
- 9. The European Union
: 1
- AUE: "Pear-shaped", supplementary comments: 2
- AUE: "SOS": 1
- AUE: "anymore" and "any more": 11
- AUE: Audio recording technique - some suggestions: 3
- AUE: Comments on a Proposal for Reformed English Spelling: 1
- AUE: Does Mark Barratt's recording of "catamaran" have a plosive "t"?: 1
- AUE: Georgia speaker comments: 1
- AUE: Grammar Books: 1
- AUE: London Millennium Boink, December 1999: 1
- AUE: London Symposium Boink, September 1998: 2
- AUE: Perlfect Search: 1
- Improvements
: 1
- Yet to come: 1
:anybody :anybody's :anyhow :anymore :ANYONE :anyone :anyone's :ANYTHING :anything
- Abbreviations:
Unedited list of search results
: 1
- FX: "A.D.": 1
- FX: "Go figure": 1
- FX: "SOS": 1
- FX: "catch-22": 1
- FX: "could care less": 1
- FX: "cut the mustard": 1
- FX: "fuck": 1
- FX: "merkin": 1
- FX: "more than you can shake a stick at": 2
- FX: "quality": 1
- FX: "titsling"/"brassiere": 1
- FX: Books on "bias-free"/"politically correct" language: 1
- FX: How did "Truly" become a personal name?: 1
- FX: How reliable are dictionaries?: 1
- FX: Words ending in "-gry": 1
- Intro A:
Responding
: 1
- Intro G: AUE Intro G: Where is the FAQ?: 1
- Lawler: ---: 1
- Lawler: >> For instance: English has only one phoneme, but it has: 1
- Lawler: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 3
- Lawler: >Past tenses:: 1
- Lawler: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 6
- Lawler: Since you ask, here's a moderately complete list of polarity items,: 1
- Lawler: That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 1
- Lawler: You may have noticed the Sapir quotation in my .sig.: 1
- Lawler: "It" in "It's raining": 2
- Lawler: "equally" and comparatives: 1
- Lawler: "only": 1
- Lawler: A or An Historical Novel?: 2
- Lawler: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 2
- Lawler: Extraposition, plus Selected Short Subjects: 1
- Lawler: Gotten vs. Got: 1
- Lawler: He, she, they?: 1
- Lawler: Hyphens: 1
- Lawler: Negative Polarity Items: 2
- Lawler: Phrasal Verbs: 1
- Lawler: Phrasal Verbs: 3
- Lawler: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 1
- Lawler: Reams: 1
- Lawler: Schwa and Central Vowels: 1
- Lawler: Tense and related topics: 1
- Links: Discussion groups, Usenet group Websites
: 1
- Links: Miscellaneous, not language related
: 1
- UCLE03: Lindsay
: 1
- UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,
: 1
- UCLE09: Literary
: 1
- Yaelf: Is there anything special about the name of Harry Potter's owl?: 1
- 11. The Commonwealth
: 2
- AUE Gallery: Padraig Breathnach: 1
- AUE: "miss not having": 1
- AUE: About the alt.usage.english newsgroup: 1
- AUE: Audio recording technique - some suggestions: 1
- AUE: Comments on a Proposal for Reformed English Spelling: 2
- AUE: Search Information: 1
- AUE: What is the UK? Is it the same as Britain, Great Britain or England?: 1
:anytime :anyway :anyways :anywhere :AnyWho :Anzac :AOL :Aol :Aor :aorist
- Lawler: Tense and related topics: 1
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