Concordance index for 'h' onwards

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:H

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
Quinion: Jesus H Christ: 1
RH WotD: Jesus H. Christ: 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

:h&N

FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 1
IPA I: /h&N/ 0 : 1

:h&pI

AUE: Comments on a Proposal for Reformed English Spelling: 1

:h&w

AUE: Georgia speaker comments: 1

:h&z

Interlinear IPA: AUE: Interlinear transliterations of ASCII IPA: 3

:hís

Lawler: A or An Historical Novel?: 1

:hören

Lawler: Phrasal Verbs: 1

:h's

FX: Words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 1

:H-bombs

FX: Subjunctive: 1

:H-G

AUE: The North Wind and The Sun: 1

:Haarlem

Intro E: Humorous poems about spelling : 1

:haberdasher

RH WotD: haberdasher: 1

:Habilitative

Lawler: >Past tenses:: 1

:habit

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: 3
FX: "It's me" vs "It is I": 1
FX: When to use "the": 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: "It" in "It's raining": 1
Lawler: Schwa and Central Vowels: 1
Preface : 1

:habits

AWWY: Kicking Habits and Footing the Bill; bill, footing the; footing the bill; history of tobacco controversies; smoking controversies: 1
Lawler: >> For instance: English has only one phoneme, but it has: 1
Lawler: >Past tenses:: 1
Lawler: gonna: 1
Preface : 4

:habitual

FX: "ebonics": 1
Yaelf: What word can be used to describe a habitual liar?: 1

:habitually

Lawler: "It" in "It's raining": 1

:hablar

Lawler: >Past tenses:: 1

:Habsburg

FX: Spaces between sentences: 1

:hack

Intro C: "obaue" or "ObAUE" : 1

:hacker

FX: Related newsgroups: 1
Links: Lexicons : 1
Yaelf: This is the Jargon File, a comprehensive compendium of hacker slang illuminating many aspects of hackish tradition, folklore, and humor.: 1

:Hacker's

FX: Related newsgroups: 1
Lawler: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 1

:hackers

AWWY: Monkeywrenches and Kiboshes; hackers and sabotage; kibosh on them, put the; people, hacking off; put the kibosh on: 1

:hacking

AWWY: Monkeywrenches and Kiboshes; hackers and sabotage; kibosh on them, put the; people, hacking off; put the kibosh on: 1

:hackish

FX: Typo: 1
Links: Lexicons : 1
Yaelf: This is the Jargon File, a comprehensive compendium of hacker slang illuminating many aspects of hackish tradition, folklore, and humor.: 1

:hackles

AWWY: bad hair day; Big Tease, The; hackles, raising people's; hair, in our; hatchet job; The Big Tease; heckle; hekele; job, hatchet; raises people's hackles; teasing hair; tousled hair: 2

:hackney

AWWY: boiling the pot; Cooking Up a Story; going to pot; hackney horses, coaches, and licenses; pot, boiling the; potboilers and hacks: 1
Wilton: Hackney: 1

:Hackneyed

Quinion: Hackneyed: 1

:hacks

AWWY: boiling the pot; Cooking Up a Story; going to pot; hackney horses, coaches, and licenses; pot, boiling the; potboilers and hacks: 1

:Hacky

FX: Trademarks: 1

:had

AWWY: cynics; Greeks had a word for it, the; It's Greek to Us; On the Rocks; skeptics; stoic: 1
AWWY: demand; fist, had over; Hand over Fist; hand over hand; manufactured: 1
Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results : 1
Audio: Credits : 1
Audio: Technical information : 1
Brians: had ought: 1
Cunningham: Explanatory Remarks: 4
FX: ", vs ,": 1
FX: "-ize" vs "-ise": 1
FX: "Break a leg!": 1
FX: "Caesarean section": 1
FX: "Eskimo": 1
FX: "SOS": 1
FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 1
FX: "billion": a U.K. view: 2
FX: "canola": 1
FX: "copacetic": 1
FX: "could of": 1
FX: "crap": 1
FX: "due to": 1
FX: "flammable": 1
FX: "merkin": 4
FX: "mind your p's and q's": 2
FX: "mouses" vs "mice": 1
FX: "none is" vs "none are": 1
FX: "push the envelope": 1
FX: "put in one's two cents' worth": 2
FX: "quality": 1
FX: "rule of thumb": 1
FX: "scot-free": 1
FX: "suck"="be very unsatisfying": 2
FX: "the whole nine yards": 3
FX: "titsling"/"brassiere": 1
FX: "whole cloth": 5
FX: Commonest words: 1
FX: Double "is": 1
FX: Gender-neutral pronouns: 1
FX: Plurals of Latin/Greek words: 4
FX: Postfix "not": 1
FX: Preposition at end: 1
FX: Related newsgroups: 11
FX: Split infinitive: 1
FX: Subjunctive: 4
FX: When to use "the": 1
FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1
I before E: Examples of exceptions to the rule: : 1
IPA II: Here is a key to the abbreviations used under 'Articulatory descriptions': : 1
IPA I: Here is a key to the abbreviations used under 'Articulatory descriptions': : 1
IPA I: <+> : 1
Intro C: "push the envelope" : 1
Isles: THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND. : 1
Lawler: --- Followup --: 1
Lawler: >Past tenses:: 9
Lawler: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 5
Lawler: Where I grew up (in DeKalb, IL, 100 km W of Chicago) Mary,: 1
Lawler: "It" in "It's raining": 1
Lawler: "amn't": 1
Lawler: "equally" and comparatives: 1
Lawler: Alumin(i)um: 1
Lawler: Gotten vs. Got: 2
Lawler: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 6
Lawler: Headline grammar: 1
Lawler: Henry Lee Smith: 1
Lawler: Negative Polarity Items: 2
Lawler: Object Complements: 1
Lawler: Phrasal Verbs: 1
Lawler: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 1
Lawler: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1
Lawler: Tense and related topics: 1
Lawler: Usage of "the hell": 1
Lawler: Vowels Before R: 1
Lawler: anymore: 1
Lawler: gonna: 1
Lawler: hadn't've: 4
Subjunctive?: AUE: Does English Have a Subjunctive Mood?: 1
Symposium I: AUE: London Symposium, March 1998: 1
UCLE06: Rhetorical vocabulary: 2
UCLE08: “This : 1
UCLE13: Calamity Jane : 1
UCLE13: The Ides of March : 1
UCLE13: Waterloo : 1
UCLE14: Cripplegate and Crutched : 1
UCLE15: The Tooth Fairy : 4
UCLE15: Gossip : 1
What's new?: 6 December 2001 : 1
What's new?: 2 September 2001: : 2
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: 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
11. The Commonwealth : 1
AUE Gallery: Padraig Breathnach: 3
AUE Gallery: Stephen Toogood: 1
AUE: Comments on a Proposal for Reformed English Spelling: 2
AUE: Does Mark Barratt's recording of "catamaran" have a plosive "t"?: 1
AUE: Formant values for 14 Fontana vowels: 1
AUE: Georgia speaker comments: 1
AUE: London Millennium Boink, December 1999: 1
AUE: The North Wind and The Sun: 1
AUE: Thou, Thee, and Archaic Grammar: 1
Cambodunum : 6
Fieldfares : 3
Preface : 12
The Aim Of This Document : 1
The Poetry of F. W. Moorman: 1

:had've

Lawler: I suspect much of the rancor that greets spellings of had've is: 1
Lawler: hadn't've: 4

:had-n

Lawler: I suspect much of the rancor that greets spellings of had've is: 2

:Hades

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

:Hadley

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

:hadn't

FX: "due to": 1
FX: "whole cloth": 1
FX: How did "Truly" become a personal name?: 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: I suspect much of the rancor that greets spellings of had've is: 1
Lawler: "only": 1
Lawler: Alumin(i)um: 1

:hadn't'a

Lawler: I suspect much of the rancor that greets spellings of had've is: 1

:hadn't've

Lawler: hadn't've: 4

:hadna

Lawler: hadn't've: 1

:Hadrian

UCLE08: Britannia: Her history, : 3

:hae

Cambodunum : 2

:haegry

FX: Words ending in "-gry": 1

:haez

Lawler: Henry Lee Smith: 2

:hafe

Cambodunum : 2

:haff

Lawler: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 2
Lawler: gonna: 2

:hafta

Lawler: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 5
Lawler: gonna: 1

:hagery

FX: Words ending in "-gry": 1

:haggling

AWWY: Cutting Up; deal, cutting a; dickering; Dutch, in; haggling; Jew down (haggling); welsh: 2

:Hagglund

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

:hagiography

RH WotD: hagiography: 1

:Haglund

Cunningham: Individual poster histories - alt.usage.english: 2

:hags

FX: "spoonerism": 1

:Hague

Lawler: Phrasal Verbs: 1

:Hahvahd

FX: Preposition at end: 1

:Hail

AWWY: Caesar; Hail Caesar!; Julius Caesar; salad, caesar: 1
RH WotD: Hail Mary pass: 1

:Haile

UCLE09: “Stranger : 1

:hair

AWWY: Letting Our Hair Down...Hair of the Dog; crewcut (puritanical); dog hair; dogbite treatment; haircut, get a; hairy, feeling; hang out, letting it all; homeopathic principle (likes are cured by likes); letting it all hang out; little hair of the dog: 4
AWWY: Letting Our Hair Down...Hair of the Dog: 2
AWWY: bad hair day; Big Tease, The; hackles, raising people's; hair, in our; hatchet job; The Big Tease; heckle; hekele; job, hatchet; raises people's hackles; teasing hair; tousled hair: 4
FX: "merkin": 1
Lawler: He, she, they?: 1
Lawler: Phrasal Verbs: 1
Morris: Dog, Hair of the: 1
RH WotD: hair of the dog (that bit you): 1
RH WotD: hair shirt: 1
RH WotD: long-hair(ed): 1
UCLE08: Britannia: Her history, : 1
UCLE13: "Rearranging deck chairs : 1
UCLE15: The Tooth Fairy : 3
Yaelf: What is the origin of "Bad Hair Day"?: 1
AUE: Arthur the Rat: 1
Cambodunum : 2

:hairbrained

Brians: hairbrained: 1

:hairbreadth

AWWY: Abe Lincoln's beard; bearding; Close Shave, A; Grace Bedell's suggestion; hairbreadth; make beard, meaning of; shave, a close: 1

:haircut

:hairier

Lawler: --- Followup --: 1

:hairiest

Lawler: "equally" and comparatives: 1

:hairy

:Haiti

FX: "O.K.": 1

:Hal

Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results : 1
AUE: Georgia speaker comments: 1

:halcyon

AWWY: Acolus and Ceyx; Ceyx and Acolus; Halcyon Days and Serendipity; halkyons (Ceyx and Acolus); serendipity: 1
Morris: Halcyon: 1
RH WotD: halcyon: 1

:hale

AWWY: Holistic Health; disease; hale; healthy; physical; physicians; wholesome: 1
FX: "mouses" vs "mice": 1

:half

AWWY: eighty-seven and one half, soda jerk origins of; Eighty-Six; nichts (nixed); ninety-eight, soda jerk origins of: 1
Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results : 2
Cunningham: Multiple IDs: : 1
Cunningham: Note C:: 1
FX: "blue moon": 1
FX: "posh": 1
FX: "whole cloth": 1
FX: Subjunctive: 1
FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1
Garbl: half of: 1
Garbl: half-mast, half-staff: 2
Lawler: Aural and Oral, Boy and Buoy: 1
Lawler: Literacy: 1
Lawler: Object Complements: 3
Lawler: Phrasal Verbs: 1
Quinion: Cheap at half the price: 1
RH WotD: half seas over: 1
UCLE08: The “Fat Lady” : 1
UCLE09: “Pop : 1
AUE: Arthur the Rat: 2
Suggestions: How To Form Your Reply : 1

:half-angry

FX: Words ending in "-gry": 1

:half-mammoth

UCLE12: News : 1

:half-swallowed

FX: "merkin": 1

:half-warmed

FX: "spoonerism": 1

:halfpenny

FX: "posh": 1
UCLE08: Britannia: Her history, : 1

:Halifax

Preface : 5
The Poetry of F. W. Moorman: 1

:halkyons

AWWY: Acolus and Ceyx; Ceyx and Acolus; Halcyon Days and Serendipity; halkyons (Ceyx and Acolus); serendipity: 1

:HALL

UCLE12: News : 1

:hall

Cunningham: Individual poster histories - alt.usage.english: 2
FX: Online dictionaries: 1
UCLE05: What’s : 1
UCLE12: News : 1
Fieldfares : 2

:Hallam

AUE: "Pear-shaped", supplementary comments: 1

:Halle

Lawler: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 1

:Hallowed

FX: Subjunctive: 1

:Halloween

Quinion: Words for ghouls and ghosts: 1

:hallucinations

AWWY: antitoxin; Delirious...Toxins...Intoxicated; hallucinations, delirium tremens (d.t.s.); intoxicated; line, out of (delirious); liquor, too much of; poisonous liquor (toxic); toxins: 1

:hallucinogenic

FX: Trademarks: 1

:Halmos

FX: Book on mathematical exposition: 1

:halo

FX: "like" vs "such as": 1

:Hals

FX: "Break a leg!": 1

:halve

FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1

:halves

FX: "spit and image"/"spitting image": 1

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