Concordance index for 'mop' onwards

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:mop

AWWY: accident; ball bounces, that's the way the; casual; chances; coincidence; cookie crumbles, that's the way the; How the Ball Bounces; incident; mop flops, that's the way the: 1

:Mopery

Morris: Mopery: 1

:Moraitakis

AUE: Perlfect Search: 1

:moral

Brians: moral/morale: 1
FX: "There's a sucker born every minute": 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: 2
Lawler: Phrasal Verbs: 1
UCLE07: Some significant numbers from literature and literary criticism: 1

:morale

Brians: moral/morale: 1

:morals

RH WotD: morals vs. ethics: 1
Cambodunum : 1

:morass

UCLE09: Daring : 1

:mordant

FX: "alumin(i)um": 1

:Mordred

UCLE07: Some significant numbers from literature and literary criticism: 1
UCLE08: A Litany of notable : 1

:MORE

UCLE12: News : 1
AUE: London Boink, December 2001: 1

:more

AUE Logo: AUE: The Totally Official Logo: 2
Abbreviations: Explanation of Search Criteria : 3
Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results : 2
Abbreviations: AUE: Initialisms Commonly Used in alt.usage.english: 1
Audio: The spoken texts : 3
Audio: I teach Ferdinand : 1
Brians: More errors: 1
Brians: any more: 1
Brians: more importantly: 1
Cunningham: Individual poster histories - alt.usage.english: 1
Cunningham: Multiple IDs: : 1
Emphasis quotes: AUE: Use of Quotation Marks for Emphasis: 1
FX: ", vs ,": 1
FX: "A, B and C" vs "A, B, and C": 2
FX: "Caesarean section": 1
FX: "I won't mention...": 1
FX: "It's me" vs "It is I": 3
FX: "Let them eat cake!": 1
FX: "O.K.": 1
FX: "SOS": 1
FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 1
FX: "a"/"an" before abbreviations: 3
FX: "billion": a U.K. view: 1
FX: "bloody": 1
FX: "blue moon": 1
FX: "company is" vs "company are": 1
FX: "could care less": 3
FX: "cut the mustard": 1
FX: "cut to the chase": 1
FX: "done"="finished": 2
FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 2
FX: "fall off a turnip truck": 1
FX: "full monty": 1
FX: "functionality": 1
FX: "hopefully", "thankfully": 3
FX: "impact"="to affect": 2
FX: "in like Flynn": 1
FX: "jerry-built"/"jury-rigged": 1
FX: "less" vs "fewer": 2
FX: "like" vs "as": 3
FX: "like" vs "such as": 1
FX: "love"="zero": 1
FX: "more honoured in the breach than the observance": 3
FX: "more than you can shake a stick at": 7
FX: "more/most/very unique": 3
FX: "mouses" vs "mice": 2
FX: "none is" vs "none are": 1
FX: "pie-shaped": 1
FX: "portmanteau word": 1
FX: "rule of thumb": 1
FX: "shall" vs "will", "should" vs "would": 1
FX: "sincere": 1
FX: "son of a gun": 1
FX: "that" vs "which": 1
FX: "the whole nine yards": 1
FX: "try and", "be sure and", "go" + verb: 1
FX: "you saying" vs "your saying": 2
FX: Books on Britishisms, Canadianisms, etc.: 1
FX: Books on phrase origins: 1
FX: Commonest words: 1
FX: Dictionaries: 3
FX: Grammars: 1
FX: How do you spell "e-mail"?: 1
FX: How reliable are dictionaries?: 2
FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 1
FX: Joke about step-by-step spelling reform: 2
FX: Online language columns: 1
FX: Online usage guides: 2
FX: Origin of the dollar sign: 1
FX: Plurals of Latin/Greek words: 2
FX: Postfix "not": 1
FX: Preposition at end: 1
FX: Related newsgroups: 1
FX: Repeated words after abbreviations: 1
FX: Spaces between sentences: 1
FX: Split infinitive: 2
FX: Trademarks: 1
FX: WELCOME TO ALT.USAGE.ENGLISH!: 1
FX: What is the phone number of the Grammar Hotline?: 1
FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1
FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 3
FX: Words ending in "-gry": 1
FX: Words without vowels: 1
FX: [Prefatory remarks]: 1
Fast FAQ: [Prefatory remarks] : 3
Garbl: anymore, any more: 1
Garbl: more and more: 2
Garbl: more, most: 1
Garbl: over , more than: 1
Genitive: AUE: Genitive is Not Always Possessive: 1
Groups: AUE: "company is" and "company are": 2
Home: The alt.usage.english Home Page: 2
I before E: Examples of exceptions to the rule: : 1
I before E: Excerpt, with minor editing, from the 1996 posting: : 2
IPA II: Many U.S. speakers substitute [@] for [V"], so they would : 1
IPA II: Slashes or square brackets? : 1
IPA I: V" : 1
IPA I: Writing ASCII IPA : 1
IPA I: Help to complete this page! : 1
IPA I: Let's get started! : 1
IPA I: Slashes or square brackets? : 1
IPA I: <+> : 1
IPA I: Reading ASCII IPA : 2
IPA I: Help me complete this Web page! : 1
IPA I: Reading ASCII IPA : 2
IPA I: Slashes or square brackets? : 1
IPA I: Writing ASCII IPA : 1
IPA I: AUE: ASCII IPA in a nutshell: 1
Interlinear IPA: AUE: Interlinear transliterations of ASCII IPA: 2
Intro A: Dealing with unwanted postings : 1
Intro A: Dictionary Abbreviations : 1
Intro A: Dictionary Definitions : 1
Intro A: Responding : 1
Intro A: WELCOME TO alt.usage.english! : 1
Intro B: Writing and Grammar Guides On Line : 1
Intro C: "beg the question" : 2
Intro C: AUE Intro C: Mini-FAQ on Words & Phrases: 1
Intro D: "A" or "an" : 1
Intro D: "Gotten" : 1
Intro D: AUE Intro D: Mini-FAQ on Grammar, Usage & Punctuation: 1
Intro E: Humorous poems about spelling : 1
Intro E: I before E except after C : 2
Intro E: AUE Intro E: Mini-FAQ on Spelling: 1
Isles: BRITISH ISLES. A geographical term referring to the islands : 1
Isles: NORTHERN IRELAND This is not the place to go into : 1
Isles: SCOTCH. The following is extracted from Mark Israel's FAQ : 1
Lawler: The canonical paraphrase for will is be going to, idiosyncratically: 2
Lawler: -- more followup:: 2
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: 3
Lawler: >>> The facts of the matter are these:: 1
Lawler: >Just one question: Where does the past perfect ("have gone", "have sung"): 2
Lawler: >Past tenses:: 9
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: 3
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: That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 3
Lawler: The intonation curve is (roughly) up-down-back.up, graphically something: 3
Lawler: There are at least 11 phonemically distinct vowels in standard American: 1
Lawler: "Correctness": 3
Lawler: "It" in "It's raining": 7
Lawler: "Quote, Unquote": 2
Lawler: "amn't": 2
Lawler: "equally" and comparatives: 2
Lawler: "vehicle": 2
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: 1
Lawler: Bring vs Take: 4
Lawler: Can't Help (But) ...: 4
Lawler: Canadian and American Raising: 2
Lawler: Commas again: 1
Lawler: Commas: 3
Lawler: English L sounds: 1
Lawler: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 6
Lawler: English Modals: 1
Lawler: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 1
Lawler: He, she, they?: 3
Lawler: Headline grammar: 1
Lawler: Henry Lee Smith: 1
Lawler: Hyphens: 4
Lawler: Literacy: 2
Lawler: Negative Polarity Items: 12
Lawler: News Item: 2
Lawler: Object Complements: 6
Lawler: Phrasal Verbs: 1
Lawler: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 3
Lawler: Reams: 6
Lawler: Ross Constraints: 1
Lawler: Schwa and Central Vowels: 1
Lawler: So Much For Spelling Reform: 3
Lawler: There are also two kinds of relative clauses:: 2
Lawler: Verbing Nouns: 4
Lawler: Vowels Before R: 1
Lawler: anymore: 10
Lawler: zilch: 1
Links: Collections of Web links : 1
Links: Miscellaneous, not language related : 1
Links: Online reference books : 1
Morris: More Holiday Books 97: 1
Morris: More so: 1
Quinion: Skin a cat: 1
Subjunctive?: AUE: Does English Have a Subjunctive Mood?: 1
Supp: AUE FAQ Supplement: 1
UCLE03: Judith : 1
UCLE03: Lindsay : 3
UCLE04: Our Favourite Cultural and Language Links : 1
UCLE07: Some significant numbers from literature and literary criticism: 1
UCLE08: A Litany of notable : 1
UCLE08: Britannia: Her history, : 1
UCLE09: “Bloody” : 1
UCLE09: “It went pear-shaped” : 1
UCLE09: Colours : 1
UCLE09: Food : 1
UCLE09: More articles: 2
UCLE09: One : 1
UCLE10: More articles: 2
UCLE10: The : 1
UCLE11: More articles: 1
UCLE12: More articles: 1
UCLE12: News : 2
UCLE13: More articles: 1
UCLE13: Waterloo : 2
UCLE14: Cripplegate and Crutched : 1
UCLE15: The Tooth Fairy : 1
UCLE16: Hooligan : 1
What's new?: 2 September 2001: : 3
What's new?: 27 March 2002 : 1
Where FAQ?: Single-page FAQ with internal links: : 1
Yaelf: Economically Disadvantaged Men More Skilled At Communicating Attraction to Women: 1
AUE people : 2
10. The United Kingdom and Colonies : 1
11. The Commonwealth : 3
AUE Gallery: Bob Cunningham ("Sparky"): 1
AUE Gallery: Padraig Breathnach: 3
AUE Gallery: Tootsie's Engagement-Announcement Picture: 1
AUE: "anymore" and "any more": 11
AUE: "miss not having": 1
AUE: ASCII IPA files: 1
AUE: Arthur the Rat: 1
AUE: Audio recording technique - some suggestions: 1
AUE: Comments on a Proposal for Reformed English Spelling: 2
AUE: Formant Analysis: 1
AUE: Georgia speaker comments: 4
AUE: London Boink, December 2001: 1
AUE: Search Information: 2
AUE: Summer Boink, London, June 1999: 1
AUE: The North Wind and The Sun: 2
AUE: The Rainbow Passage: 1
AUE: Thou, Thee, and Archaic Grammar: 1
Cambodunum : 6
Preface : 11
Suggestions: How To Form Your Reply : 2
The AUE Photo Gallery: 1
The Aim Of This Document : 1
The Poetry of F. W. Moorman: 1
Why Bother Following This Style? : 3

:more-or-less

FX: "cut the mustard": 1

:Moreano

UCLE12: News : 1

:Morehouse

FX: Postfix "not": 3

:moreover

FX: "Caesarean section": 1
FX: Split infinitive: 1
Garbl: moreover: 1
Lawler: As to this discussion, the usual oppositions are those between: 1
Preface : 2

:moreso

Brians: moreso: 1

:Moriarty

UCLE08: A Litany of notable : 1

:morn

Cambodunum : 3

:mornin

Cambodunum : 5

:morning

FX: "O.K.": 1
Intro C: "obaue" or "ObAUE" : 1
Lawler: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 5
AUE: Arthur the Rat: 1

:morology

AWWY: idiom; idiosyncrasies; idiot; idiot box; morology; Morons and Idiots; Shipley Joseph (moron): 1

:moron

AWWY: idiom; idiosyncrasies; idiot; idiot box; morology; Morons and Idiots; Shipley Joseph (moron): 1

:morons

:morpheme

Lawler: You may have noticed the Sapir quotation in my .sig.: 1
Lawler: "amn't": 1
Lawler: Give a Damn: 1

:morphemes

Lawler: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 1
Lawler: That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 1

:morphological

Lawler: English L sounds: 1

:morphologically

Lawler: Hyphens: 1

:morphology

Lawler: The canonical paraphrase for will is be going to, idiosyncratically: 1
Lawler: >Past tenses:: 8
Lawler: I suspect much of the rancor that greets spellings of had've is: 1
Lawler: "It" in "It's raining": 3
Lawler: Commas again: 1
Lawler: Commas: 2
Lawler: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 1
Lawler: Headline grammar: 2
Lawler: Object Complements: 1
Lawler: Verbing Nouns: 2
Lawler: hadn't've: 1
Wilton: Morphology: 1

:morphosyntactic

Lawler: As to this discussion, the usual oppositions are those between: 1

:Morrell's

UCLE14: Literary characters who became : 1

:Morris

Cunningham: Individual poster histories - alt.usage.english: 1
FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 1
FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 1
FX: "fall off a turnip truck": 2
FX: Online language columns: 1
Intro B: Sites on words and language : 1
Lawler: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 4
Lawler: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 2
Links: Words about words : 1
Preface : 1

:Morris's

Intro C: "whole nine yards" : 1
Lawler: Literacy: 1
What's new?: 10 March 2002 : 1
What's new?: 2 September 2001: : 1
AUE: Search Information: 1

:Morse

FX: "SOS": 2
AUE: "SOS": 3

:morsel

AWWY: What's Eating You?; bird, eat like a (misnomer); eating humble pie; eating your words; high off the hog; hog, high off the; humble pie, eating; morsel; pie, eating humble; remorse; words, eating your (remorse): 1

:mortal

Cambodunum : 1

:mortar

RH WotD: clicks-and-mortar: 1

:Mortgage

Wilton: Mortgage: 1

:Mortimer

AWWY: Mickey Mouse; Minnie Mouse; Mortimer (Mickey Mouse); Mouse Power; muscles: 1

:Morton

FX: "like" vs "such as": 1
FX: "quality": 1
FX: Dictionaries: 1
FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 1

:Morton's

FX: "politically correct": 1

:Morveau

FX: "alumin(i)um": 1

:Mos

Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results : 1

:Mosaic

Morris: Mosaic: 1

:Moses

FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1
Intro D: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms : 1

:mosey

AWWY: color me gone; cut and run, nautical origins of; escape; high tail it; mosey; Moving Right Along; skedaddle; skidoo; split the scene; twenty-three skiddoo; vamoose: 1

:mosh

RH WotD: mosh; mosh pit: 2

:Mosin

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

:moss

FX: Books on Britishisms, Canadianisms, etc.: 1
UCLE11: The : 2
Cambodunum : 1
Fieldfares : 1

:MOST

UCLE12: News : 1

:most

AUE Logo: AUE: The Totally Official Logo: 1
Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results : 1
Brians: most always: 1
Cunningham: Explanatory Remarks: 1
Emphasis quotes: AUE: Use of Quotation Marks for Emphasis: 1
FX: ", vs ,": 1
FX: "-er" vs "-re": 1
FX: "-ize" vs "-ise": 1
FX: "A.D.": 2
FX: "Caesarean section": 1
FX: "Enquiring minds want to know.": 1
FX: "God rest you merry, gentlemen": 1
FX: "It's me" vs "It is I": 1
FX: "Let them eat cake!": 1
FX: "O.K.": 1
FX: "alumin(i)um": 1
FX: "beg the question": 2
FX: "billion": a U.K. view: 1
FX: "ebonics": 1
FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 3
FX: "fall off a turnip truck": 1
FX: "functionality": 1
FX: "hopefully", "thankfully": 2
FX: "like" vs "as": 1
FX: "mind your p's and q's": 1
FX: "more than you can shake a stick at": 1
FX: "more/most/very unique": 3
FX: "ollie ollie oxen free": 2
FX: "portmanteau word": 2
FX: "quality": 1
FX: "shouting fire in a crowded theater": 1
FX: "the whole nine yards": 1
FX: "true fact": 3
FX: "try and", "be sure and", "go" + verb: 2
FX: "whom": 1
FX: "widget": 1
FX: "you saying" vs "your saying": 1
FX: Books on usage: 2
FX: Commonest words: 1
FX: Dictionaries: 2
FX: Does the next millennium begin in 2000 or 2001?: 1
FX: E-prime: 1
FX: Gender-neutral pronouns: 1
FX: Guidelines for posting: 1
FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 2
FX: I before E except after C: 2
FX: Names of "&", "@", and "#": 1
FX: Online dictionaries: 1
FX: Preposition at end: 2
FX: Related newsgroups: 1
FX: Repeated words after abbreviations: 1
FX: Rhotic vs non-rhotic, intrusive "r": 2
FX: Split infinitive: 2
FX: Subjunctive: 2
FX: The the "hoi polloi" debate: 1
FX: What do you call the grass strip between the road and the sidewalk?: 1
FX: What is the phone number of the Grammar Hotline?: 1
FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1
FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 7
FX: Wicca: 1
FX: Words without vowels: 1
FX: [Prefatory remarks]: 1
Fast FAQ: [Prefatory remarks] : 1
Garbl: all, any, most, some: 1
Garbl: in most cases , in most instances: 2
Garbl: more, most: 1
Genitive: AUE: Genitive is Not Always Possessive: 2
I before E: Extensions to the rule that have been suggested: : 1
IPA II: About this document: : 2
IPA II: The Details: : 1
IPA II: The pronunciations shown for the previous six lines are not heard in : 1
IPA I: What is this? : 2
IPA I: Credits : 1
IPA I: About the sound files : 1
IPA I: Consonants and vowels : 1
IPA I: Reading ASCII IPA : 1
IPA I: About this document : 1
IPA I: Consonants and vowels : 1
IPA I: Preliminary remarks : 1
IPA I: Reading ASCII IPA : 1
IPA I: The pronunciations shown for the previous six lines are not heard in : 1
IPA I: What is this? : 2
IPA I: Note 1: The "U.S." word pronunciations are not heard in : 1
Intro A: Dictionary Abbreviations : 1
Intro A: AUE Intro A: Welcome to AUE and Guidelines for Posting: 1
Intro C: "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey" : 1
Intro C: "obaue" or "ObAUE" : 1
Intro C: American : 1
Intro C: AUE Intro C: Mini-FAQ on Words & Phrases: 1
Intro D: "It's me" -v- "It is I" : 1
Intro D: AUE Intro D: Mini-FAQ on Grammar, Usage & Punctuation: 1
Intro E: U.S. -v- REST-OF-WORLD ENGLISH : 1
Intro E: AUE Intro E: Mini-FAQ on Spelling: 1
Isles: ENGLAND. The biggest and most populous of the four countries : 3
Isles: GREAT BRITAIN. Used by cartographers to denote the biggest : 1
Isles: NORTHERN IRELAND This is not the place to go into : 1
Isles: SCOTCH. The following is extracted from Mark Israel's FAQ : 1
Lawler: As to this discussion, the usual oppositions are those between: 2
Lawler: The canonical paraphrase for will is be going to, idiosyncratically: 1
Lawler: >>> The facts of the matter are these:: 1
Lawler: >Past tenses:: 3
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: 2
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: 1
Lawler: You may have noticed the Sapir quotation in my .sig.: 2
Lawler: "Correctness": 2
Lawler: "It" in "It's raining": 1
Lawler: "equally" and comparatives: 1
Lawler: "only": 1
Lawler: "vehicle": 1
Lawler: A or An Historical Novel?: 3
Lawler: Aural and Oral, Boy and Buoy: 4
Lawler: Books on English, Language, and Linguistics: 1
Lawler: Bring vs Take: 1
Lawler: Canadian and American Raising: 3
Lawler: Commas: 1
Lawler: English L sounds: 2
Lawler: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 1
Lawler: English Modals: 1
Lawler: English and Infinity: 2
Lawler: Gotten vs. Got: 1
Lawler: He, she, they?: 1
Lawler: Headline grammar: 1
Lawler: Henry Lee Smith: 1
Lawler: Indian English: 5
Lawler: Literacy: 1
Lawler: Negative Polarity Items: 9
Lawler: Object Complements: 3
Lawler: Phrasal Verbs: 1
Lawler: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 3
Lawler: Reams: 1
Lawler: Ross Constraints: 1
Lawler: Schwa and Central Vowels: 1
Lawler: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1
Lawler: Tense and related topics: 2
Lawler: Verbing Nouns: 2
Lawler: Vowels Before R: 1
Lawler: Who(m): 2
Lawler: gonna: 2
Lawler: hadn't've: 1
Lawler: zilch: 1
Links: Collections of Web links : 1
Links: Miscellaneous, not language related : 1
UCLE03: Lindsay : 1
UCLE08: Britannia: Her history, : 2
UCLE08: The “Fat Lady” : 3
UCLE09: “Pop : 1
UCLE09: Anorak : 1
UCLE10: "Bite the bullet" : 1
UCLE12: News : 2
UCLE16: Hooligan : 1
What's new?: 2 September 2001: : 1
Yaelf: (WD) The bee's knees informally means the best, the most desirable. How did the saying originate?: 1
Yaelf: For Most-Favored Term, a Presidential Workout: 1
Yaelf: The most beautiful words in the English language: 1
Yaelf: These pages contain words and expressions you most likely won't find in a normal dictionary. This is an experimental "internet collaborative project", which means that all entries are made by internet users: 1
11. The Commonwealth : 5
AUE: "SOS": 1
AUE: "miss not having": 1
AUE: Audio recording technique - some suggestions: 1
AUE: London Symposium Boink, September 1998: 2
AUE: Search Information: 1
AUE: Summer Boink, London, June 1999: 1
AUE: Thou, Thee, and Archaic Grammar: 1
Cambodunum : 5
How Do I Quote? : 1
Preface : 9
Suggestions: How To Form Your Reply : 1
What Is Quoting? : 1

:mostly

FX: "suck"="be very unsatisfying": 1
FX: Online dictionaries: 1
Genitive: AUE: Genitive is Not Always Possessive: 1
Lawler: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 1
Lawler: "equally" and comparatives: 1
Lawler: Indian English: 1
Lawler: Schwa and Central Vowels: 1
Lawler: Vowels Before R: 1
Lawler: anymore: 1
Links: AUE: Links to Language Sites (Mostly): 2
AUE: "anymore" and "any more": 1
AUE: Comments on a Proposal for Reformed English Spelling: 1
Cambodunum : 1

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