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- UCLE12: News
: 6
- Yaelf: LAST CALL FOR PAPERS: 6th CONFERENCE ON CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURE, DISCOURSE AND LANGUAGE: 1
:for
- AUE Logo: AUE: The Totally Official Logo: 8
- AWWY: Albatross around one's neck; accumulate; pennies, pretty; Penny For Your Thoughts, A; pretty penny; slush fund: 1
- AWWY: Barrelhead...Pay Through the Nose; bookkeeping on the cuff; cash on the barrelhead/spot; celluloid cuff for bookkeeping; cuff, putting it on the; nose, paying through the; pay through the nose; portable cuffs and collars; slitting the nose: 1
- AWWY: Battle Royal; cockfight (Battle Royal); donnybrook; free-for-alls (donnybrooks); Hey Rube!; melees (donnybrooks); rhubarb; Seattle WTO meet (Battle Royal); WTO meet, Seattle (Battle Royal): 1
- AWWY: Birds of a Feather; birds, for the; investigation; pedigree; vestiges: 1
- AWWY: Everything's Coming Up Roses,; Francis Rose, Sir; Gertrude Stein and Sir Francis Rose; Pete Rose (baseball); Pete's sake, for; Rose, Pete (baseball); Rose, Sir Francis; St. Peter (for Pete's sake); Stein, Gertrude (rose is a rose...): 2
- 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: 2
- AWWY: adverse; advertising; conversation; criminal conversation; divert; perverse; Turn for the Verse, A; version; versus: 1
- AWWY: aftermath; Hay! Hay! Hay!; hey, euphemism for hell; make hay while the sun shines; shines, make hay while the sun; sun shines, make hay while the; that ain't hay; What the hey?: 1
- AWWY: airs, putting on; big for boots or britches; big heads; boots, too big for; britches, too big for; couture, haute; cuisine, haute; haughty; haute couture or cuisine; head, swollen or big; highfalutin; hoity-toity; hot air, full of; hoyden; humility; inflated egos, euphemisms for; Our Inflated Ego; swollen heads: 4
- AWWY: armful (euphemisms for woman); babe (euphemisms for woman); baby (euphemisms for woman); Oh, You Beautiful Doll...; chick (euphemisms for woman); chippie (euphemisms for woman); cutie (euphemisms for woman); dish (euphemisms for woman); doll; dry goods, fine piece of (euphemisms for woman); eyeful (euphemisms for woman); filly (euphemisms for woman); fluff, some (euphemisms for woman); fox (euphemisms for woman); frock, bit of (euphemisms for woman); hunk (euphemisms for woman); mouse (euphemisms for woman); muslin, pretty piece of (euphemisms for woman); peach (euphemisms for woman); woman, euphemisms for: 18
- 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: barista; boudoir; cappuchino; coffee, anyone?; cup of coffee?; den; espresso; expressions of coffee (pressure); focus; Grounds for Concern; hearth; Hitting Close to Home; home is where the heart is; home, there's no place like; jamoke; Java; joe; Latte; mocha; parlor; skinny on the coffee; there's no place like home: 1
- AWWY: bearings, losing ones; Waiting for Ones Ship...Opportunity; opportunity; Portunus, god of harbors (opportunity); sails, trimming your; trimming your sails: 1
- AWWY: big stick, the (Roosevelt); branch, olive; fencing and sticklers; olive branch, biblical origins of; shtick; stick, the big; umpires for fencing (sticklers): 1
- AWWY: bobby (slang for English policemen); captive and cap; copping a plea or feel; fuzz (slang for policeman); gendarme (slang for French policemen); giving lip; Judas kiss; K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple Stupid); kiss and tell; kiss of death; Read My Lips; lip service, paying; lip, giving; loose lips sink ships; paying lip service; ships, loose lips sink; sink ships, loose lips: 3
- AWWY: boffo; buffoons; farce; Going for the Jocular; Jocular, Going for the; slapstick; zany: 2
- AWWY: brilliant intellect (genius); Genius; juno for women: 1
- 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
- AWWY: cop and copper (slang for American policeman); cop-out; Cop-Outs: 1
- AWWY: crying out loud, for; for crying out loud; gee-whiz (Jesus Christ); Golly (godly) exclamation; Gomer Pyle-style Golly (godly); Heavens to Betsy! exclamation; Holy Mackerel and Heavens to Betsy; Holy Moly exclamation; mackerel: 2
- AWWY: cynics; Greeks had a word for it, the; It's Greek to Us; On the Rocks; skeptics; stoic: 1
- AWWY: face the music; Facing the Music...For a Song; music, face the; song, for a: 2
- Abbreviations:
Explanation of Search Criteria
: 1
- Abbreviations:
Unedited list of search results
: 11
- Abbreviations: AUE: Initialisms Commonly Used in alt.usage.english: 11
- Audio:
Credits
: 2
- Audio:
Other Sound Files
: 1
- Audio:
The spoken texts
: 1
- Audio:
Technical information
: 1
- Audio: AUE: The Audio Archive: 1
- Brians: for sale/on sale: 1
- Brians: for/fore/four: 1
- Brians: intense/intensive: 1
- Brians: like for: 1
- Brians: weather forecast calls for: 1
- Cunningham: Comments: 6
- Cunningham: Explanatory Remarks: 2
- Cunningham: History of posting volume to AUE and AEU: 5
- Cunningham: Individual poster histories - alt.usage.english: 3
- Cunningham: Multiple IDs: : 5
- Cunningham: Note B:: 1
- Cunningham: Note C:: 2
- Emphasis quotes: AUE: Use of Quotation Marks for Emphasis: 3
- FX: "-er" vs "-re": 4
- FX: "-ize" vs "-ise": 1
- FX: "." after abbreviations: 2
- FX: "A, B and C" vs "A, B, and C": 1
- FX: "A.D.": 2
- FX: "Bob's your uncle": 2
- FX: "Caesarean section": 4
- FX: "Enquiring minds want to know.": 1
- FX: "Eskimo": 7
- FX: "Get the lead out": 2
- FX: "Go figure": 3
- FX: "Go placidly amid the noise and the haste" (Desiderata): 1
- FX: "ISO": 6
- FX: "Illegitimis non carborundum": 4
- FX: "It's me" vs "It is I": 8
- FX: "Jingle Bells": 1
- FX: "Let them eat cake!": 3
- FX: "O.K.": 9
- FX: "SOS": 9
- FX: "Santa Ana": 1
- FX: "Scotch": 4
- FX: "Take the prisoner downstairs", said Tom condescendingly.: 2
- FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 6
- FX: "You have another think coming": 1
- FX: "all ... not": 1
- FX: "alright": 1
- FX: "alumin(i)um": 3
- FX: "beg the question": 3
- FX: "billion": a U.K. view: 3
- FX: "bloody": 5
- FX: "blue moon": 5
- FX: "bug"="defect": 1
- FX: "by hook or by crook": 1
- FX: "canola": 3
- FX: "catch-22": 2
- FX: "cop": 2
- FX: "could of": 1
- FX: "cut the mustard": 1
- FX: "cut to the chase": 1
- FX: "different to", "different than": 1
- FX: "done"="finished": 5
- FX: "ebonics": 4
- FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 3
- FX: "fall off a turnip truck": 2
- FX: "flammable": 3
- FX: "fuck": 5
- FX: "full monty": 1
- FX: "go to hell in a handbasket": 1
- FX: "golf": 2
- FX: "hell for leather": 3
- FX: "hoist with his own petard": 2
- FX: "hopefully", "thankfully": 4
- FX: "impact"="to affect": 3
- FX: "in like Flynn": 1
- FX: "jerry-built"/"jury-rigged": 3
- FX: "kangaroo": 6
- FX: "less" vs "fewer": 3
- FX: "like" vs "as": 5
- FX: "like" vs "such as": 3
- FX: "limerence"/"limerent": 1
- FX: "loo": 2
- FX: "love"="zero": 2
- FX: "merkin": 4
- FX: "mind your p's and q's": 1
- FX: "more than you can shake a stick at": 1
- FX: "mouses" vs "mice": 2
- FX: "nimrod": 1
- FX: "ollie ollie oxen free": 5
- FX: "paparazzo": 1
- FX: "pie-shaped": 4
- FX: "politically correct": 1
- FX: "portmanteau word": 2
- FX: "posh": 2
- FX: "put in one's two cents' worth": 1
- FX: "quality": 2
- FX: "rule of thumb": 5
- FX: "scot-free": 1
- FX: "shall" vs "will", "should" vs "would": 4
- FX: "spoonerism": 3
- FX: "suck"="be very unsatisfying": 3
- FX: "the bee's knees": 1
- FX: "the whole nine yards": 2
- FX: "tip": 1
- FX: "titsling"/"brassiere": 3
- FX: "to all intents and purposes": 1
- FX: "to call a spade a spade": 5
- FX: "try and", "be sure and", "go" + verb: 2
- FX: "wait for the other shoe to drop": 3
- FX: "whole cloth": 8
- FX: "whom": 2
- FX: "wog": 3
- FX: "wonk": 1
- FX: "wop": 4
- FX: Basic English: 1
- FX: Biblical sense of "to know": 1
- FX: Books on Britishisms, Canadianisms, etc.: 9
- FX: Commonest words: 3
- FX: Dictionaries: 6
- FX: Distribution of English-speakers: 1
- FX: Do publishers put false info in dictionaries to catch plagiarists?: 3
- FX: E-prime: 1
- FX: English is Tough Stuff: 1
- FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 10
- FX: Fumblerules ("Don't use no double negatives", etc.): 1
- FX: Gender-neutral pronouns: 3
- FX: General reference: 1
- FX: Guidelines for posting: 3
- FX: How did "Truly" become a personal name?: 5
- FX: How do Americans pronounce "dog"?: 1
- FX: How do you spell "e-mail"?: 4
- FX: How reliable are dictionaries?: 5
- FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 18
- FX: I before E except after C: 6
- FX: Names of "&", "@", and "#": 8
- FX: Online dictionaries: 10
- FX: Online language columns: 2
- FX: Online usage guides: 4
- FX: Origin of the dollar sign: 8
- FX: Postfix "not": 1
- FX: Preposition at end: 5
- FX: Radio alphabets: 4
- FX: Related newsgroups: 9
- FX: Rhotic vs non-rhotic, intrusive "r": 3
- FX: Sentences grammatical in both Old English and Modern English: 1
- FX: Spelling reform: 1
- FX: Split infinitive: 3
- FX: Subjunctive: 4
- FX: The the "hoi polloi" debate: 2
- FX: Trademarks: 2
- FX: Typo: 2
- FX: WELCOME TO ALT.USAGE.ENGLISH!: 2
- FX: What is "ghoti"?: 1
- FX: What is a suggested format for citing online sources?: 2
- FX: What is the language term for...?: 3
- FX: What is the phone number of the Grammar Hotline?: 1
- FX: What will we call the next decade?: 1
- FX: What words are their own antonym?: 4
- FX: When to use "the": 4
- FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 21
- FX: Wicca: 1
- FX: Words ending in "-gry": 1
- FX: Words pronounced differently according to context: 1
- FX: Words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 2
- FX: Words without vowels: 1
- FX: [Prefatory remarks]: 6
- Fast FAQ:
[Prefatory remarks]
: 4
- Fast FAQ: AUE's fast-access FAQ: 1
- Fast FAQ: The fast-access FAQ
: 1
- Garbl: except for: 1
- Garbl: for the reason that: 1
- Garbl: for your information: 1
- Garbl: request for proposals: 1
- Genitive: AUE: Genitive is Not Always Possessive: 5
- Groups: AUE: "company is" and "company are": 3
- Home: The alt.usage.english Home Page: 5
- I before E:
Examples of exceptions to the rule:
: 3
- I before E:
Exceptions with "ei" or "ie" pronounced as in "species" or "seize":
: 2
- I before E: AUE: Exceptions to the rule 'I before E except after C': 1
- IPA II:
About this document:
: 1
- IPA II:
Many U.S. speakers substitute [@] for [V"], so they would
: 1
- IPA II:
The Details:
: 1
- IPA II:
The [O] sound requires rounded lips, but lips making a
: 3
- IPA II:
The pronunciations shown for the previous six lines are not heard in
: 1
- IPA II:
The pure sound is heard in French beau /bo/.
: 5
- IPA II: A Quick Look:
: 1
- IPA II: IPA Chart Revision Date:
: 2
- IPA II: Slashes or square brackets?
: 3
- IPA II: The reference to 'Chicago pop' first appeared in Mark Israel's
: 2
- IPA I:
A.
: 1
- IPA I:
I.
: 1
- IPA I:
O
: 2
- IPA I:
V
: 1
- IPA I:
V"
: 1
- IPA I:
W
: 1
- IPA I:
Y
: 1
- IPA I:
o
: 5
- IPA I:
oU
: 1
- IPA I:
y
: 1
- IPA I:
Writing ASCII IPA
: 3
- IPA I:
Let's get started!
: 2
- IPA I:
Slashes or square brackets?
: 4
- IPA I:
What is this?
: 4
- IPA I:
Credits
: 1
- IPA I:
<+>
: 2
- IPA I:
<+>
: 1
- IPA I:
<+>
: 5
- IPA I:
<+>
: 1
- IPA I:
<+>
: 4
- IPA I:
About the sound files
: 1
- IPA I:
Reading ASCII IPA
: 4
- IPA I:
About this document
: 1
- IPA I:
Let's get started!
: 1
- IPA I:
Note A
: 2
- IPA I:
Preliminary remarks
: 1
- IPA I:
Reading ASCII IPA
: 3
- IPA I:
Slashes or square brackets?
: 4
- IPA I:
Technical details
: 1
- IPA I:
The pronunciations shown for the previous six lines are not heard in
: 1
- IPA I:
The remarks concerning the pronunciation of [O] were taken verbatim from Mark Israel's
: 1
- IPA I:
What is this?
: 2
- IPA I:
Writing ASCII IPA
: 3
- IPA I:
<+>
: 1
- IPA I: A Quick Look:
: 1
- IPA I: AUE: ASCII IPA in a nutshell: 1
- 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: Many British accents use [oU], rather than [@U], before /l/ in certain positions. These accents would say [ koUld]. Some other British accents use [oU] for /@U/ all the time.
: 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: Round your lips for [U] and try to say [I].
: 1
- IPA I: Note 6: Round your lips for [O] and try to say [E].
: 1
- IPA I: Note 7: Round your lips for [o] and try to say [e].
: 1
- IPA I: Note 8: Round your lips for [u] and try to say [i].
: 1
- IPA I: The reference to 'Chicago pop' first appeared in Mark Israel's
: 2
- IPA I: There is no ASCII IPA symbol for the IPA 180-degree-rotated
: 4
- Interlinear IPA: AUE: Interlinear transliterations of ASCII IPA: 3
- Intro A:
Dictionary Abbreviations
: 3
- Intro A:
Guidelines for posting
: 2
- Intro A:
Responding
: 2
- Intro A:
WELCOME TO alt.usage.english!
: 2
- Intro A: AUE Intro A: Welcome to AUE and Guidelines for Posting: 6
- Intro B:
Black English (African-American Vernacular English, Ebonics)
: 1
- Intro B:
Encyclopedias & Search Engines
: 1
- Intro B:
Historical English, and English Literature
: 5
- Intro B:
Where to find previous postings
: 1
- Intro B:
Word lists
: 2
- Intro B:
Writing and Grammar Guides On Line
: 2
- Intro B: AUE Intro B: Useful Web Sites for AUE Participants: 4
- Intro C:
"billion"
: 2
- Intro C:
"cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey"
: 2
- Intro C:
"exception proves the rule"
: 1
- Intro C:
"obaue" or "ObAUE"
: 1
- Intro C:
"whole nine yards"
: 1
- Intro C:
American
: 1
- Intro C:
words ending in "-gry"
: 2
- Intro C: AUE Intro C: Mini-FAQ on Words & Phrases: 1
- Intro D:
"A" or "an"
: 1
- Intro D:
Gender-neutral pronouns: "he/she" -v- "they"
: 2
- Intro D:
Names for &, @, and #
: 3
- Intro D:
Where to find the big AUE FAQ
: 2
- Intro D:
Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms
: 5
- Intro D: AUE Intro D: Mini-FAQ on Grammar, Usage & Punctuation: 2
- Intro E:
Humorous poems about spelling
: 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
: 2
- Intro E:
U.S. -v- REST-OF-WORLD ENGLISH
: 2
- Intro E:
What is "ghoti"?
: 2
- Intro E: AUE Intro E: Mini-FAQ on Spelling: 1
- Intro F: AUE Intro F: Contents of AUE FAQ and FAQ Supplement: 2
- Intro G: AUE Intro G: Where is the FAQ?: 7
- Introduction: AUE: Intro Documents: 4
- Isles:
BRITAIN. The informal name for the United
: 2
- Isles:
CHANNEL ISLANDS, ISLE OF MAN. Note that the Isle of Man
: 2
- Isles:
ENGLAND. The biggest and most populous of the four countries
: 1
- Isles:
GREAT BRITAIN. Used by cartographers to denote the biggest
: 1
- Isles:
IRELAND. As used by geographers, the second largest island
: 1
- Isles:
NORTHERN IRELAND This is not the place to go into
: 2
- Isles:
SCOTCH. The following is extracted from Mark Israel's FAQ
: 7
- Isles:
THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND.
: 1
- Lawler: As to this discussion, the usual oppositions are those between: 2
- Lawler: The canonical paraphrase for will is be going to, idiosyncratically: 8
- Lawler: -- more followup:: 2
- Lawler: --- Followup --: 1
- Lawler: >> For instance: English has only one phoneme, but it has: 4
- Lawler: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 8
- Lawler: >>> The facts of the matter are these:: 10
- Lawler: >If, say, a parenthesis is marked off by commas, is that phonological: 2
- Lawler: >Just one question: Where does the past perfect ("have gone", "have sung"): 4
- Lawler: >Past tenses:: 9
- 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: 6
- Lawler: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 19
- 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: That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 1
- Lawler: You may have noticed the Sapir quotation in my .sig.: 5
- Lawler: "Correctness": 3
- Lawler: "It" in "It's raining": 4
- Lawler: "Quote, Unquote": 1
- Lawler: "amn't": 10
- Lawler: "equally" and comparatives: 1
- Lawler: "only": 5
- Lawler: "vehicle": 4
- Lawler: A or An Historical Novel?: 2
- Lawler: Alumin(i)um: 4
- Lawler: As far as ... goes/is concerned: 6
- Lawler: Aural and Oral, Boy and Buoy: 1
- Lawler: Books on English, Language, and Linguistics: 5
- Lawler: Bring vs Take: 9
- Lawler: Can't Help (But) ...: 7
- Lawler: Canadian and American Raising: 4
- Lawler: Commas again: 6
- Lawler: Commas: 6
- Lawler: English L sounds: 10
- Lawler: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 21
- Lawler: English Modals: 3
- Lawler: English and Infinity: 11
- Lawler: Extraposition, plus Selected Short Subjects: 3
- Lawler: Give a Damn: 2
- Lawler: Gotten vs. Got: 5
- Lawler: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 4
- Lawler: He, she, they?: 3
- Lawler: Headline grammar: 1
- Lawler: Henry Lee Smith: 3
- Lawler: Hyphens: 9
- Lawler: Indian English: 7
- Lawler: Literacy: 5
- Lawler: Negative Polarity Items: 6
- Lawler: News Item: 2
- Lawler: Object Complements: 9
- Lawler: Phrasal Verbs: 5
- Lawler: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 11
- Lawler: Reams: 12
- Lawler: Ross Constraints: 3
- Lawler: Schwa and Central Vowels: 7
- Lawler: So Much For Spelling Reform: 18
- Lawler: Tense and related topics: 8
- Lawler: That vs. Which: 2
- Lawler: Toward(s) and Beside(s): 3
- Lawler: Usage of "the hell": 11
- Lawler: Verbing Nouns: 2
- Lawler: Vowels Before R: 2
- Lawler: Who(m): 1
- Lawler: anymore: 2
- Lawler: gonna: 11
- Lawler: hadn't've: 6
- Lawler: striddly: 8
- Lawler: zilch: 6
- Links: Collections of Web links
: 11
- Links: Color charts
: 2
- Links: Dictionaries
: 4
- Links: Discussion groups, Usenet group Websites
: 5
- Links: Fun with words
: 1
- Links: Guides: Usage, Grammar, and Style
: 2
- Links: Learning English
: 3
- Links: Lexicons
: 1
- Links: Measurement conversion
: 1
- Links: Miscellaneous, language related
: 3
- Links: Miscellaneous, not language related
: 9
- Links: Online services
: 1
- Links: Phonetic alphabets
: 2
- Links: Rhetoric vocabulary
: 4
- Links: Thesauruses
: 1
- Links: Web-design utilities
: 2
- Links: Words about words
: 3
- Morris: Burton, Gone for a: 1
- Morris: Hell Bent for Leather: 1
- Morris: Hell Sued for Murder: 1
- Morris: Loop, Knocked for a: 1
- Quinion: As well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb: 1
- Quinion: For appearance's sake: 1
- Quinion: Glossary for the Nineties (book review): 1
- Quinion: Have one's guts for garters: 1
- Quinion: Names for the next decade: 1
- Quinion: Phobias: 1
- Quinion: Pound abbreviation lb: 1
- Quinion: They Have a Word for It (book review): 1
- Quinion: Through the mill: 1
- Quinion: Turn up for the book: 1
- Quinion: Waiting for the other shoe to drop: 1
- Quinion: Whim-wham for a goose's bridle: 1
- Quinion: Words for colours: 1
- Quinion: Words for drinks: 1
- Quinion: Words for ghouls and ghosts: 1
- Quinion: Words for liquors: 1
- Quinion: Words for multiples: 1
- Quinion: Words for natural fibres: 1
- Quinion: Words for parts of the UK: 1
- Quinion: Words for sums of money: 1
- Quinion: Words for the rare earth elements: 1
- RH WotD: bang for the buck: 1
- RH WotD: for free: 1
- RH WotD: for-, fore-: 1
- RH WotD: give your eyeteeth for: 1
- RH WotD: rhymes for orange: 1
- RH WotD: tit for tat 2: 1
- RH WotD: tit for tat: 1
- Subjunctive?: AUE: Does English Have a Subjunctive Mood?: 1
- Supp: AUE FAQ Supplement: 3
- UCLE02: The history of ucle: 10
- UCLE03: A uk.culture.language.english
: 1
- UCLE03: Lindsay
: 5
- UCLE04: Our Favourite Cultural and Language Links
: 3
- UCLE05: John Davies's commentary
: 1
- UCLE05: What’s
: 6
- UCLE06: Rhetorical vocabulary: 7
- UCLE07: Some significant numbers from literature and literary criticism: 4
- UCLE08: “This
: 2
- UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,
: 9
- UCLE08: London’s
: 1
- UCLE08: The “Fat Lady”
: 1
- UCLE09: “Bloody”
: 3
- UCLE09: “It went pear-shaped”
: 4
- UCLE09: “It’s
: 2
- UCLE09: “Pop
: 4
- UCLE09: Anorak
: 4
- UCLE09: Daring
: 5
- UCLE09: Holidays
: 2
- UCLE09: Rivers
: 1
- UCLE09: Serendipity
: 1
- UCLE09: The
: 1
- UCLE10: "Bite the bullet"
: 3
- UCLE10: Fainites!
: 1
- UCLE10: The
: 5
- UCLE11: The
: 8
- UCLE12: News
: 3
- UCLE13: "On the fritz"
: 1
- UCLE13: The Curse of Macbeth
: 1
- UCLE13: Waterloo
: 3
- UCLE14: Cripplegate and Crutched
: 1
- UCLE14: Eponymous London Shopkeepers
: 2
- UCLE14: Slang Names for British Currency
: 3
- UCLE15:
The Tooth Fairy
: 3
- UCLE15: Gossip
: 2
- UCLE15: Round-Robin and
: 1
- UCLE15: Scuttlebutt, Grapevine,
: 2
- Usenet Docs: AUE: Links to Official Usenet Documents: 2
- What's new?:
6 December 2001
: 3
- What's new?:
2 September 2001:
: 13
- What's new?:
3 September 2001:
: 1
- What's new?:
4 Jun 2002
: 1
- What's new?:
5 March 2002
: 4
- Where FAQ?: AUE FAQ supplement:
: 1
- Where FAQ?: Introductions to alt.usage.english:
: 2
- Where FAQ?: AUE: Places to find Mark Israel's FAQ: 1
- Wilton: Hell-Bent for Leather: 1
- Yaelf: 'A Is for American': The Republic of Letters (book review): 1
- Yaelf: 'Apostrophe-box' for spelling errors: 1
- Yaelf: 'In silico' and 'pink Viagra' will be buzzwords for 2002: 1
- Yaelf: (IPL) What is the right name for the @ sign?: 1
- Yaelf: (IPL) Why were WWI infantry called "doughboys"? What does the "D" in D-Day stand for? How far is a klick?: 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 am interested in the phrase hammer and tongs because it is used by our fraternity (Theta Tau, a professional fraternity for engineering students). We are of the belief that this is a very old English phrase: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) I am looking for the origin and meaning of the phrase "Heavens to Betsy".: 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) What explaination can be given for the rhyme, "Pop Goes the Weasel"?: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) What is the origin of "to have a millstone around one's neck"? "put through the mill"? "all is grist for the mill"? "keeping your nose to the grindstone"? "run of the mill"?: 1
- Yaelf: A Glossary for Medieval English Towns: 1
- Yaelf: AUE Contributors John Lawler and Aaron Dinkin provide an *excellent* reference for Latin sources for grammatical terms.: 2
- Yaelf: Ansaxdat is the full-text database for the Listserv discussion group ANSAXNET. It is stored on the library server of the Queen Elizabeth II Library at Memorial University, St John's, Newfoundland.: 1
- Yaelf: Book Review, They Have a Word for It: 1
- Yaelf: Cambridge Dictionaries Online. Searches five Cambridge Dictionaries for a single word.: 1
- Yaelf: Collective Terms for Animals: 1
- Yaelf: Dictionary.com - Search for one word across multiple dictionaries.: 1
- Yaelf: For Most-Favored Term, a Presidential Workout: 1
- Yaelf: Glossary of Old Names (for diseases): 1
- Yaelf: Good Breeding Is for the Dogs; Why Not Memorize Nancy Mitford: 1
- Yaelf: Grammar, Punctuation, and Capitalization: A Handbook for Technical Writers and Editors: 1
- Yaelf: Jargon for bullfighting enthusiasts: 1
- Yaelf: Jargon for coin collectors: 1
- Yaelf: Jargon for graffiti artists: 1
- Yaelf: Jargon for license plate collectors: 1
- Yaelf: Looking at Language: Jest for the Pun of It: 1
- Yaelf: Onelook provides a very special "Internet search engine" that finds on-line dictionaries that contain the word you look for. The actual dictionaries are provided by other web sites.: 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
- Yaelf: Search for the Perfect Baby Name: 1
- Yaelf: Spelling Fines for Swiss Journalists: 1
- Yaelf: The alternative FAQ For alt.usage.english: 1
- Yaelf: The need for simple English on the Web: 1
- Yaelf: Volunteers Sought for Real-Time Web Translator: 1
- Yaelf: What is a collection of literary passages used as an aid for language learning?: 1
- Yaelf: Which is the correct word for the first course of a meal: "entrée" or "starter"?: 1
- Yaelf: WordNet: a lexical database for the English language: 1
- Yaelf: WordWeb: the free thesaurus and dictionary for Windows: 1
- e-mail vs email: AUE: Preferences, "e-mail" vs "email": 4
-
AUE people
: 4
- 10. The United Kingdom and Colonies
: 1
- 11. The Commonwealth
: 6
- 4. The United Kingdom
: 2
- 5. The United Kingdom and Islands
: 2
- 6. The British Isles
: 1
- A ucle resource page: 3
- A ucle resource page: 3
- AUE Gallery: Gary G. Taylor: 1
- AUE Gallery: John Varela: 1
- AUE Gallery: Mickwick: 1
- AUE Gallery: Padraig Breathnach: 2
- AUE: "Pear-shaped", supplementary comments: 1
- AUE: "SOS": 3
- AUE: "miss not having": 1
- AUE: ASCII IPA files: 1
- AUE: About Autism and Daniel McGrath: 1
- AUE: About the alt.usage.english newsgroup: 7
- AUE: Additional comments about deja.com: 1
- AUE: Analysis of Some Mark Barratt Vowels: 1
- AUE: Announcement of creation of uk.culture.language.english: 6
- AUE: Arthur the Rat: 4
- AUE: Audio recording technique - some suggestions: 7
- AUE: Books About Words: 1
- AUE: Comments on a Proposal for Reformed English Spelling: 7
- AUE: Does Mark Barratt's recording of "catamaran" have a plosive "t"?: 1
- AUE: Formant values for 14 Fontana vowels: 2
- AUE: Georgia speaker comments: 2
- AUE: Grammar Books: 5
- AUE: London Millennium Boink, December 1999: 7
- AUE: London Symposium Boink, September 1998: 7
- AUE: Perlfect Search: 1
- AUE: Plural Formation: 2
- AUE: Richard Fontana audio files: 2
- AUE: Search Information: 5
- AUE: Showing variation of formants of [i:] with context: 1
- AUE: Speech Examples: 1
- AUE: Summer Boink, London, June 1999: 12
- AUE: Table of Formant Frequencies for Mark Barratt's "a" Vowels: 2
- AUE: The Rainbow Passage: 2
- AUE: Thou, Thee, and Archaic Grammar: 1
- AUE: Totally Officially Unknown People: 1
- AUE: Vowel quadrilateral with cluster of [A] sounds: 1
- AUE: What is prescriptivism?: 2
- AUE: What is the UK? Is it the same as Britain, Great Britain or England?: 1
- AUE: Worldwide Distribution of English Speakers: 5
- Cambodunum
: 69
- Credits
: 1
- Fieldfares
: 10
- Improvements
: 1
- Our images: 6
- Preface
: 36
- The AUE Photo Gallery: 1
- The Aim Of This Document
: 2
- The Poetry of F. W. Moorman: 1
- What Is Quoting?
: 1
- Yet to come: 1
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- Abbreviations:
Unedited list of search results
: 1
- Abbreviations: AUE: Initialisms Commonly Used in alt.usage.english: 1
- FX: "-er" vs "-re": 1
- FX: "Eskimo": 1
- FX: "I won't mention...": 1
- FX: "It's me" vs "It is I": 1
- FX: "Take the prisoner downstairs", said Tom condescendingly.: 2
- FX: "alumin(i)um": 5
- FX: "beg the question": 2
- FX: "between you and I": 1
- FX: "fuck": 1
- FX: "impact"="to affect": 1
- FX: "ollie ollie oxen free": 1
- FX: "quality": 1
- FX: "wait for the other shoe to drop": 1
- FX: "whom": 1
- FX: Commonest words: 1
- FX: Foreign plurals => English singulars: 1
- FX: Guidelines for posting: 1
- FX: Origin of the dollar sign: 2
- FX: Plurals of Latin/Greek words: 2
- FX: Related newsgroups: 1
- FX: Subjunctive: 4
- FX: Typo: 1
- FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 4
- FX: Why is "I" capitalized?: 3
- FX: Wicca: 2
- FX: Words ending in "-gry": 1
- FX: Words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 2
- Genitive: AUE: Genitive is Not Always Possessive: 1
- Groups: AUE: "company is" and "company are": 1
- I before E:
Examples of exceptions to the rule:
: 1
- IPA I:
aU@
: 1
- IPA I:
What is this?
: 1
- IPA I:
What is this?
: 1
- IPA I: Note 3: A schwa /@/ can be added to many other diphthongs to form triphthongs, as in British fire /'faI@/ 0,
: 1
- Intro C:
"beg the question"
: 1
- Intro D:
Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms
: 1
- Lawler: >> For instance: English has only one phoneme, but it has: 1
- Lawler: >Just one question: Where does the past perfect ("have gone", "have sung"): 2
- Lawler: >Past tenses:: 1
- Lawler: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 4
- Lawler: You may have noticed the Sapir quotation in my .sig.: 4
- Lawler: "amn't": 2
- Lawler: Alumin(i)um: 2
- Lawler: Bring vs Take: 2
- Lawler: Can't Help (But) ...: 1
- Lawler: Give a Damn: 1
- Lawler: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 2
- Lawler: Headline grammar: 3
- Lawler: Indian English: 1
- Lawler: Negative Polarity Items: 1
- Lawler: Object Complements: 2
- Lawler: Tense and related topics: 6
- Lawler: anymore: 1
- Lawler: gonna: 2
- Lawler: striddly: 1
- Links: Collections of Web links
: 1
- Lynch: Any Way, Shape, or Form.: 1
- Subjunctive?: AUE: Does English Have a Subjunctive Mood?: 4
- UCLE06: Rhetorical vocabulary: 2
- UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,
: 1
- UCLE11: The
: 1
- UCLE13: The Ides of March
: 1
- UCLE15: Gossip
: 1
- UCLE15: Sockdolager
: 1
- AUE: About the alt.usage.english newsgroup: 1
- AUE: Plural Formation: 1
- AUE: The Rainbow Passage: 2
- AUE: Thou, Thee, and Archaic Grammar: 1
- Contents
: 1
- Preface
: 2
- Suggestions: How To Form Your Reply
: 1
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- AWWY: bad luck, Roman explanation of; bed, getting up on wrong side of; Best/Right Foot...Wrong Side of the Bed; defeat, Caesar's explanation of; foot forward, putting best; grouchiness, Roman explanation of; military defeat, Caesar's explanation of; right foot, getting off on; wrong side of bed, getting up on: 1
- Brians: forward vs. forwards: 1
- Brians: forward: 1
- FX: Words pronounced differently according to context: 1
- Garbl: foreword , forward: 1
- Garbl: forward: 1
- UCLE02: The history of ucle: 1
- UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,
: 1
- UCLE12: News
: 1
- UCLE13: Waterloo
: 1
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