Concordance index for 'des' onwards

:des

• FX: "billion": a U.K. view: 1
• FX: What is the phone number of the Grammar Hotline?: 1

:descendant

• AWWY: ascendant; ascent; Thank Your Lucky Stars; descendant; descent, in the; hitch our wagon to a star (Emerson); ill-starred; star, hitch our wagon to (Emerson); Thank Your Luck Stars; wagon to a star, hitch our (Emerson): 1
• Lawler: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 1
• Yaelf: What word means "an undistinguished descendant of an illustrious person"?: 1

:descendants

• FX: "Caesarean section": 2
• FX: "nimrod": 1

:descended

• FX: "catch-22": 1

:descendents

• UCLE07: Some significant numbers from literature and literary criticism: 1

:descending

• Cunningham: Explanations of column headings: : 1
• AUE: Comments on a Proposal for Reformed English Spelling: 2

:descent

• AWWY: ascendant; ascent; Thank Your Lucky Stars; descendant; descent, in the; hitch our wagon to a star (Emerson); ill-starred; star, hitch our wagon to (Emerson); Thank Your Luck Stars; wagon to a star, hitch our (Emerson): 1
• FX: "Scotch": 1
• FX: "done"="finished": 1
• Isles: SCOTCH. The following is extracted from Mark Israel's FAQ : 1

:Desconocidos

• What's new?: 2 September 2001: : 1

:describe

• Isles: BRITISH is the formal designation of the nationality of citizens : 1
• Isles: NORTHERN IRELAND This is not the place to go into : 1
• Isles: AUE: (heading): 1
• Lawler: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 1
• Lawler: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 1
• Lawler: "Quote, Unquote": 1
• Lawler: striddly: 2
• UCLE09: “Bloody” : 1
• UCLE09: “It went pear-shaped” : 1
• UCLE09: Anorak : 1
• UCLE09: Rivers : 1
• UCLE09: Serendipity : 1
• UCLE13: "On the fritz" : 2
• UCLE14: Eponymous London Shopkeepers : 1
• UCLE14: Literary characters who became : 3
• UCLE15: Round-Robin and : 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: What word can be used to describe a habitual liar?: 1
• Yaelf: What word can be used to describe something that is outstandingly poor?: 1
• 11. The Commonwealth : 1
• AUE Gallery: Padraig Breathnach: 1
• Preface : 1

:described

• FX: "done"="finished": 1
• FX: "push the envelope": 1
• FX: Plurals of Latin/Greek words: 1
• FX: Related newsgroups: 1
• FX: Words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 1
• IPA I: Help to complete this page! : 1
• IPA I: Reading ASCII IPA : 1
• Links: Notes : 1
• AUE: Worldwide Distribution of English Speakers: 1

:describes

• Audio: Received pronunciation : 1
• FX: Online usage guides: 1
• Lawler: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 1
• Lawler: "Correctness": 1
• Lawler: Canadian and American Raising: 1
• Lawler: Verbing Nouns: 1
• UCLE08: Britannia: Her history, : 1
• UCLE09: “Bloody” : 1
• UCLE14: Cripplegate and Crutched : 1
• UCLE14: Literary characters who became : 3
• Yaelf: What word describes a person who blathers (talks nonsense)?: 1
• Yaelf: What word describes a person who is unfailingly boring?: 1
• Yaelf: What word describes poor handwriting or bad spelling?: 1
• Yaelf: What word describes redundancies like "PIN number"? "Advanced planning"?: 1
• Yaelf: What word describes the "shimmering" illusion one sees over swimming pools and small ponds?: 1
• Yaelf: What word describes the act of removing the inserts (advertisements, etc) from a Sunday newspaper?: 1

:describing

• FX: "nimrod": 1
• FX: "titsling"/"brassiere": 1
• FX: "whole cloth": 1
• Lawler: >Past tenses:: 1
• Lawler: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 1
• Lawler: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 1
• Lawler: Schwa and Central Vowels: 1
• UCLE10: The : 1
• Preface : 1
• The Poetry of F. W. Moorman: 1

:description

• Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results : 1
• FX: "Take the prisoner downstairs", said Tom condescendingly.: 1
• FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 1
• FX: Spelling reform: 1
• FX: WELCOME TO ALT.USAGE.ENGLISH!: 1
• IPA II: Consonants and Vowels: : 1
• IPA I: What is this? : 1
• IPA I: Focus on vowel sounds : 1
• Intro A: WELCOME TO alt.usage.english! : 1
• Lawler: "Quote, Unquote": 2
• Lawler: A or An Historical Novel?: 1
• Lawler: Negative Polarity Items: 2
• UCLE09: “It went pear-shaped” : 2
• UCLE15: The Tooth Fairy : 1
• AUE: What is prescriptivism?: 1
• AUE: What is the UK? Is it the same as Britain, Great Britain or England?: 1

:descriptions

• IPA II: Here is a key to the abbreviations used under 'Articulatory descriptions': : 1
• IPA I: What is this? : 1
• IPA I: <+> : 1
• Lawler: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 2
• Lawler: "It" in "It's raining": 1
• Lawler: Literacy: 1

:descriptive

• FX: "bloody": 1
• FX: Words ending in "-gry": 1
• Genitive: AUE: Genitive is Not Always Possessive: 2
• Intro B: Writing and Grammar Guides On Line : 1
• Links: Rhetoric vocabulary : 1
• Lynch: Prescriptive versus Descriptive Grammars.: 1

:Descriptivism

• AUE: What is prescriptivism?: 1

:descriptivist

• Lawler: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 10

:descriptivists

• FX: WELCOME TO ALT.USAGE.ENGLISH!: 1
• Intro A: WELCOME TO alt.usage.english! : 1

:descriptors

• UCLE06: Rhetorical vocabulary: 1

:deselected

• Lawler: Negative Polarity Items: 1

:desert

• AWWY: desert; Deserving...Desserts & Just Desserts; desserts, just; meriting just desserts; vindication (just desserts): 1
• Brians: desert/dessert: 1
• FX: "Santa Ana": 1
• Garbl: desert, dessert: 1
• RH WotD: desert(s), dessert: 1

:deserted

• UCLE11: The : 1

:desertion

• AWWY: bug out, slang for desertion; comfort, changes in meaning of; contained and content; Contented & Comfortable Bugs in a Rug; fortitude and comfort; rug, snug as a bug in a; snug as a bug in a rug: 1

:deservedly

• Lawler: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 1

:deserving

• AWWY: desert; Deserving...Desserts & Just Desserts; desserts, just; meriting just desserts; vindication (just desserts): 1
• FX: "put in one's two cents' worth": 1
• AUE people : 1

:Desh

• Lawler: Indian English: 1

:Desiderata

• FX: "Go placidly amid the noise and the haste" (Desiderata): 4
• Fast FAQ: [Prefatory remarks] : 1

:desiderative

• Lawler: gonna: 1

:design

• AWWY: design; gradually; mark; progress; Scholarship; significant; stigma: 1
• FX: "crap": 1
• FX: "impact"="to affect": 1
• Lawler: Hyphens: 5
• Links: Miscellaneous, language related : 1
• UCLE02: The history of ucle: 1
• UCLE03: A uk.culture.language.english : 1
• UCLE08: Britannia: Her history, : 1
• Yaelf: The Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus is an exploration of sense relationships within the English language. By clicking on words, you follow a thread of meaning, creating a spatial map of linguistic associations.: 1

:designate

• FX: "merkin": 1
• Garbl: designate: 1
• Lawler: The Academy: 1

:designated

• FX: "acronym": 1
• Intro D: Acronyms and other abbreviations using initial letters : 1
• UCLE09: Holidays : 2
• AUE: London Symposium Boink, September 1998: 1

:designation

• FX: "Eskimo": 1
• Isles: BRITISH is the formal designation of the nationality of citizens : 1

:designations

• Garbl: highway designations: 1

:designed

• FX: "functionality": 2
• FX: "merkin": 1
• FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 1
• FX: Troll: 1
• Lawler: Henry Lee Smith: 1
• Links: Online services : 1
• Links: Web-design utilities : 1
• UCLE03: Judith : 1
• UCLE08: Britannia: Her history, : 1

:designer

• FX: "canola": 1
• FX: "titsling"/"brassiere": 2
• AUE: Comments on a Proposal for Reformed English Spelling: 1

:designers

• AUE Logo: The Totally Official alt.usage.english Logo: 1

:designing

• AUE: Plural Formation: 1

:designs

• FX: "quality": 1

:desirability

• FX: "Illegitimis non carborundum": 1

:desirable

• FX: Subjunctive: 1
• Garbl: desirable: 1
• UCLE03: Lindsay : 1
• Yaelf: (WD) The bee's knees informally means the best, the most desirable. How did the saying originate?: 1

:desire

• AWWY: asterisk; astronomical; Star Wars,; consideration; desire; disastrous; sputnik, meaning of; Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI): 1
• FX: "push the envelope": 1
• Garbl: desire: 1
• Isles: NORTHERN IRELAND This is not the place to go into : 1
• Lawler: >Your example of English and Caxton print shop goes a long way to convince: 1
• UCLE05: John Davies's commentary : 1

:desired

• FX: "-ize" vs "-ise": 1
• Intro G: AUE Intro G: Where is the FAQ?: 1

:desires

• Fieldfares : 1

:desirous

• Garbl: desirous of: 1

:desist

• Garbl: desist: 1

:desk

• FX: "like" vs "such as": 1
• FX: "push the envelope": 1
• FX: Online usage guides: 1

:desking

• Quinion: Hot desking: 1

:desktop

• AUE: Summer Boink, London, June 1999: 1

:Desmond

• Lawler: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 1
• Lawler: Literacy: 1
• UCLE12: News : 1

:desolate-minded

• Preface : 1

:despair

• AWWY: despair; desperados; Desperados and the Lone Ranger; desperate; kemo sabe (Lone Ranger); Lone Ranger and Tonto: 1

:despaired

• FX: "Illegitimis non carborundum": 1

:desperados

• AWWY: despair; desperados; Desperados and the Lone Ranger; desperate; kemo sabe (Lone Ranger); Lone Ranger and Tonto: 2

:desperandum

• FX: "Illegitimis non carborundum": 1

:desperate

• AWWY: despair; desperados; Desperados and the Lone Ranger; desperate; kemo sabe (Lone Ranger); Lone Ranger and Tonto: 1
• FX: Words ending in "-gry": 1

:despert

• Cambodunum : 5

:despise

• FX: "-ize" vs "-ise": 1

:despises

• Lawler: Indian English: 1

:despite

• FX: "billion": a U.K. view: 1
• FX: How reliable are dictionaries?: 1
• Lawler: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 1
• Lawler: Schwa and Central Vowels: 1
• UCLE09: “It went pear-shaped” : 1
• AUE: Plural Formation: 1
• AUE: Richard Fontana audio files: 1

:dessert

• Brians: desert/dessert: 1
• Garbl: desert, dessert: 1
• RH WotD: desert(s), dessert: 1

:desserts

• AWWY: desert; Deserving...Desserts & Just Desserts; desserts, just; meriting just desserts; vindication (just desserts): 5

:destinations

• FX: Split infinitive: 1

:destiny

• Lawler: English L sounds: 1

:destroy

• Garbl: demolish, destroy: 1
• Cambodunum : 1

:destroyed

• UCLE13: Waterloo : 1

:destruction

• Lawler: Can't Help (But) ...: 1

:destructive

• AWWY: constructive; construe; destructive; Instilling...Constructive...Instruction; instruction; obstruct; teach and learn: 1

:desultory

• 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
• RH WotD: desultory: 1

:Det

• Cunningham: Individual poster histories - alt.usage.english: 1

:detach

• FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1

:detail

• FX: Online dictionaries: 1
• Lawler: Since you ask, here's a moderately complete list of polarity items,: 1

:detailed

• FX: Doubling of final consonants before suffixes: 1
• FX: Online usage guides: 1
• Genitive: AUE: Genitive is Not Always Possessive: 1
• Intro B: Where to learn about ASCII IPA : 1
• Lawler: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 1
• Links: Miscellaneous, not language related : 1
• AUE: Detailed comparisons of two Ladefoged vowels: 2
• AUE: Formant Analysis: 1

:details

• AUE Logo: The Totally Official alt.usage.english Logo: 1
• IPA II: Main Index: : 1
• IPA II: The Details: : 1
• Lawler: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 1
• Lawler: That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 1
• Lawler: "It" in "It's raining": 1
• Lawler: English Modals: 1
• Lawler: Hyphens: 1
• Lawler: Verbing Nouns: 1
• Our images: 1

:detain

• Garbl: detain: 1

:detect

• FX: Guidelines for posting: 1
• Intro A: Guidelines for posting : 1
• 6. The British Isles : 1

:detected

• Subjunctive?: AUE: Does English Have a Subjunctive Mood?: 1

:Detection

• Intro D: Acronyms and other abbreviations using initial letters : 1

:detective

• AWWY: detective; Dick; eavesdropper; Gargan, William (Private Eye); gumshoe; investigator (private eye); Martin Kanes (Private Eye); Nolan, Lloyd (Private Eye); Private Eyes, Dicks, and Gumshoes; snooping; whodunit: 1
• FX: "fall off a turnip truck": 1
• FX: Online language columns: 2
• Intro B: Sites on words and language : 1
• Intro C: "whole nine yards" : 1
• Links: Words about words : 1
• Quinion: Word Detective (book review): 1
• What's new?: 10 March 2002 : 1
• What's new?: 2 September 2001: : 1
• AUE: Search Information: 1

:deteriorate

• FX: "go to hell in a handbasket": 1

:determination

• Audio: Bother, father caught... : 1
• Audio: I teach Ferdinand : 1
• Audio: AUE: The Audio Archive: 1
• FX: "by hook or by crook": 1

:determine

• FX: "hopefully", "thankfully": 1
• FX: "ollie ollie oxen free": 1
• Garbl: determine: 1
• Lawler: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 1
• Lawler: Object Complements: 1

:determined

• FX: "a"/"an" before abbreviations: 1
• FX: "whom": 1
• FX: What is "ghoti"?: 1
• Intro D: "A" or "an" : 1
• Lawler: >Just one question: Where does the past perfect ("have gone", "have sung"): 1
• Lawler: The intonation curve is (roughly) up-down-back.up, graphically something: 2
• Lawler: Bring vs Take: 1
• Lawler: Commas: 2
• Lawler: News Item: 1
• Lawler: Object Complements: 2
• Links: Notes : 1

:determiners

• Lawler: Indian English: 1

:determines

• Lawler: The intonation curve is (roughly) up-down-back.up, graphically something: 1
• Lawler: Books on English, Language, and Linguistics: 1
• Lawler: Canadian and American Raising: 1
• Lawler: Object Complements: 1

:determining

• FX: "push the envelope": 1
• Intro C: "push the envelope" : 1

:deterrent

• Garbl: deterrent: 1

:detest

• AWWY: cojones (slang); detest; Hands-On Testimony; Hands-on Testimony; protest; testicles; testify; testimony: 1

:detonated

• FX: "hoist with his own petard": 1

:detoured

• AWWY: ambulance chasers; Attorneys, Shysters et al; Attorneys, Shysters, et al; detoured; lawyers, attorneys and shysters; mouthpieces; Philadelphia lawyer: 1

:Detroit

• FX: Words ending in "-gry": 1

:deuce

• RH WotD: deuce: 1

:Deus

• Morris: Ghost in Machine: 1

:Deutsch

• Lawler: Phrasal Verbs: 1
• UCLE05: John Davies's commentary : 1

:Devanagari

• Lawler: Indian English: 1

:devastating

• UCLE13: Waterloo : 2

:developed

• FX: "canola": 2
• FX: "could care less": 1
• FX: "cut to the chase": 1
• FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 2
• FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1
• FX: Why is "I" capitalized?: 2
• IPA II: Credits: : 1
• IPA I: Credits : 1
• Lawler: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1
• Links: Phonetic alphabets : 1
• UCLE03: Lindsay : 2

:development

• FX: "alumin(i)um": 1
• FX: "quality": 1
• FX: "titsling"/"brassiere": 1
• FX: Double "is": 1
• FX: Rhotic vs non-rhotic, intrusive "r": 1
• Garbl: new development: 1
• Intro B: Historical English, and English Literature : 1
• Lawler: News Item: 2
• UCLE05: What’s : 1
• 11. The Commonwealth : 1

:developmental

• AUE: About Autism and Daniel McGrath: 1

:developments

• FX: "you saying" vs "your saying": 1
• FX: Why do we say "30 years old", but "a 30-year-old man"?: 1
• Intro B: British English : 1
• Intro D: Why do we say "30 years old" but "a 30-year-old man"? : 1

:Deveson

• Cunningham: Individual poster histories - alt.usage.english: 1

:deviant

• Lawler: Headline grammar: 1

:deviating

• AWWY: deviating; devious; laughing all the way to the bank; obviates; obvious; previously; trivia; Trivial Pursuit: 1

:device

• Brians: device/devise: 1
• Emphasis quotes: AUE: Use of Quotation Marks for Emphasis: 1
• FX: "-er" vs "-re": 2
• FX: "bug"="defect": 1
• FX: "mouses" vs "mice": 3
• FX: "rule of thumb": 1
• UCLE06: Rhetorical vocabulary: 1
• UCLE09: “Bloody” : 1

:devices

• FX: "merkin": 1
• FX: "mouses" vs "mice": 1
• Links: Measurement conversion : 1
• Links: Rhetoric vocabulary : 2

:devil

• AWWY: between the devil and the deep blue sea; Devil...Blue sea...All Hell to Pay; hell to pay; hot pitch, devil to pay and (original phrase): 3
• AWWY: devil-may-care attitude (harum scarum); giddy headed (harum scarum); Harassment...Hares...Harum Scarum; hare-brained; Mad as a March Hare, original meaning of; scatterbrained (harum scarum): 1
• FX: Subjunctive: 1
• FX: What do you call the grass strip between the road and the sidewalk?: 1
• I before E: Exceptions with "ei" or "ie" pronounced as in "species" or "seize": : 1
• Morris: Devil Strip: 1
• Morris: Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: 1
• Morris: Devil's Advocate: 1
• Quinion: Devil to pay, the: 1
• Quinion: Needs must when the devil drives: 1
• Wilton: Devil to Pay: 1
• Yaelf: The Devil's Derivatives Dictionary: 1

:Devil's

• UCLE04: Our Favourite Cultural and Language Links : 1

:devil-may-care

• Lawler: Usage of "the hell": 1

:devious

• AWWY: deviating; devious; laughing all the way to the bank; obviates; obvious; previously; trivia; Trivial Pursuit: 1
• Morris: Devious Derivations: 1

:devise

• Brians: device/devise: 1
• FX: "-ize" vs "-ise": 1
• Lawler: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1
• AUE: Comments on a Proposal for Reformed English Spelling: 2

:devised

• FX: "ebonics": 1
• FX: Does the next millennium begin in 2000 or 2001?: 1

:Devlin

• Cunningham: Individual poster histories - alt.usage.english: 1

:devo

• Quinion: Evo-devo: 1

:devoicing

• Lawler: That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 1
• Lawler: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 1
• Lawler: gonna: 1

:devolved

• AUE: What is the UK? Is it the same as Britain, Great Britain or England?: 1

:Devon

• UCLE10: British : 1
• Cambodunum : 1

:devoted

• FX: Dictionaries: 1
• FX: Related newsgroups: 3
• Lawler: Canadian and American Raising: 1
• Lawler: Object Complements: 1
• UCLE09: “Pop : 1
• UCLE13: More articles: 1

:devotees

• FX: Books on usage: 1

:dew

• Cambodunum : 3

:Dewer

• UCLE10: British : 1

:dews

• Fieldfares : 1

:dexamethasone

• FX: Trademarks: 1

:Dexamyl

• FX: Trademarks: 1

:dexterity

• AWWY: adroit; dexterity; gauche (left?); left (associations with evil); left-handed compliment (insult); Right and Left; sinister (left?): 1

:DFC

• FX: Words ending in "-gry": 2

:Dfc

• Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results : 1

:Dgitc

• Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results : 1

:Dgm

• Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results : 1

:dhaet

• Lawler: Henry Lee Smith: 1

:dhe

• AUE: Comments on a Proposal for Reformed English Spelling: 2

:dhis

• AUE: Comments on a Proposal for Reformed English Spelling: 2

:Dhl

• Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results : 1

:dhow

• Lawler: Henry Lee Smith: 1