Concordance index for 'ref' onwards

:Ref

• Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results : 1

:refdesk

• Intro B: Encyclopedias & Search Engines : 1
• Links: Collections of Web links : 1
• Links: Miscellaneous, language related : 1

:refer

• Brians: allude/refer: 1
• FX: "freeway": 1
• FX: "hooker": 1
• FX: "in like Flynn": 1
• FX: "mouses" vs "mice": 1
• FX: "rule of thumb": 1
• FX: "the whole nine yards": 1
• FX: Books on usage: 1
• FX: Dictionaries: 3
• FX: Gender-neutral pronouns: 1
• FX: Origin of the dollar sign: 2
• FX: Typo: 1
• Garbl: refer to as: 1
• Intro A: Dictionary Abbreviations : 1
• Isles: NORTHERN IRELAND This is not the place to go into : 1
• Lawler: -- more followup:: 1
• Lawler: --- Followup --: 1
• Lawler: >Past tenses:: 2
• 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: Commas: 1
• Lawler: Extraposition, plus Selected Short Subjects: 1
• Lawler: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 1
• Lawler: Headline grammar: 1
• Lawler: Literacy: 1
• Lawler: Negative Polarity Items: 1
• Lawler: That vs. Which: 2
• Lawler: gonna: 1
• Lawler: zilch: 1
• Subjunctive?: AUE: Does English Have a Subjunctive Mood?: 1
• UCLE03: Lindsay : 1
• UCLE09: Holidays : 1
• UCLE09: Rivers : 2
• UCLE13: "Rearranging deck chairs : 1
• UCLE13: Calamity Jane : 2
• UCLE13: Custer's last stand : 1
• UCLE13: The Ides of March : 1
• UCLE13: Waterloo : 2
• UCLE14: Cripplegate and Crutched : 1
• UCLE14: Literary characters who became : 4
• Yaelf: Why do we refer to a pound as a 'quid'?: 1
• AUE: Analysis of Some Mark Barratt Vowels: 1

:referable

• Garbl: referable: 1

:referee

• UCLE09: “Up : 1
• Yet to come: 1

:reference

• AWWY: digitus impudicus (finger); Fickle Finger of Fate, original reference; fingers and various related idioms; Sticky Fingers: 1
• Abbreviations: AUE: Initialisms Commonly Used in alt.usage.english: 2
• Brians: reference vs. cite: 1
• Brians: vague reference: 1
• FX: "Scotch": 1
• FX: "bloody": 1
• FX: "blue moon": 1
• FX: "bug"="defect": 1
• FX: "dressed to the nines": 1
• FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 1
• FX: "golf": 1
• FX: "in like Flynn": 1
• FX: "like" vs "such as": 1
• FX: "love"="zero": 1
• FX: "wait for the other shoe to drop": 1
• FX: Books on usage: 1
• FX: E-prime: 1
• FX: General reference: 2
• FX: Guidelines for posting: 1
• FX: Online usage guides: 1
• FX: Words ending in "-gry": 1
• Fast FAQ: [Prefatory remarks] : 1
• Garbl: in reference to: 1
• Garbl: make reference to: 1
• Garbl: second reference: 1
• Garbl: with reference to: 1
• IPA II: The reference to 'Chicago pop' first appeared in Mark Israel's : 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 : 1
• IPA I: The reference to 'Chicago pop' first appeared in Mark Israel's : 1
• Intro A: Dictionary Abbreviations : 1
• Intro A: Guidelines for posting : 1
• Intro B: Encyclopedias & Search Engines : 2
• Intro E: What is "ghoti"? : 1
• Isles: SCOTCH. The following is extracted from Mark Israel's FAQ : 2
• Lawler: >Just one question: Where does the past perfect ("have gone", "have sung"): 1
• Lawler: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 2
• Lawler: You may have noticed the Sapir quotation in my .sig.: 1
• Lawler: He, she, they?: 5
• Lawler: News Item: 1
• Lawler: Object Complements: 1
• Lawler: Reams: 1
• Lawler: Tense and related topics: 2
• Lawler: Two kinds of "that-clauses": 1
• Lawler: anymore: 3
• Links: Dictionaries : 1
• Links: Encyclopedias : 2
• Links: Online reference books : 3
• Links: Phonetic alphabets : 1
• Links: Urban legends : 1
• Quinion: Oxford Pop-up English Language Reference Shelf (CD-ROM review): 1
• UCLE04: Our Favourite Cultural and Language Links : 1
• UCLE05: What’s : 3
• UCLE07: Some significant numbers from literature and literary criticism: 3
• UCLE08: Britannia: Her history, : 2
• UCLE13: The Curse of Macbeth : 1
• UCLE13: Waterloo : 1
• What's new?: 2 September 2001: : 4
• Yaelf: AUE Contributors John Lawler and Aaron Dinkin provide an *excellent* reference for Latin sources for grammatical terms.: 1
• Yaelf: xrefer is the web's reference engine, a unique service providing free access to the largest collection of encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and quotations: 1
• AUE: Grammar Books: 2
• AUE: London Boink, December 2001: 1

:referenced

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

:references

• Audio: Other Sound Files : 1
• FX: "God rest you merry, gentlemen": 1
• FX: "blue moon": 1
• FX: "face the music": 1
• FX: Online dictionaries: 1
• FX: Words ending in "-gry": 3
• Intro B: Encyclopedias & Search Engines : 1
• Lawler: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 1
• Lawler: Aural and Oral, Boy and Buoy: 1
• Lawler: Bring vs Take: 1
• Lawler: English Modals: 2
• Lawler: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1
• Links: Audio references : 1
• UCLE05: Language references: 2
• UCLE06: Rhetorical vocabulary: 1
• UCLE07: Some significant numbers from literature and literary criticism: 1
• UCLE14: Patriarchs As Bottle Sizes : 1
• UCLE15: Bonfire : 2
• What's new?: 6 December 2001 : 1
• What's new?: 2 September 2001: : 2
• Where FAQ?: Version with links to Amazon (2 October 1996): : 1
• A ucle resource page: 1
• A ucle resource page: 1
• AUE: Grammar Books: 1

:referent

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

:referential

• Lawler: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 2
• Lawler: "It" in "It's raining": 4

:referred

• FX: "Eskimo": 1
• FX: "cut to the chase": 1
• FX: "freeway": 1
• FX: "hopefully", "thankfully": 1
• FX: "put in one's two cents' worth": 1
• FX: "scot-free": 1
• FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 1
• FX: Origin of the dollar sign: 1
• FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1
• Intro D: Gender-neutral pronouns: "he/she" -v- "they" : 1
• Intro D: Group nouns: singular or plural? "company is" -v- "company are" : 1
• Isles: NORTHERN IRELAND This is not the place to go into : 1
• Isles: THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND. : 1
• Lawler: "equally" and comparatives: 1
• Lawler: Hyphens: 1
• Lawler: Negative Polarity Items: 1
• Lawler: Tense and related topics: 1
• UCLE14: Eponymous London Shopkeepers : 1
• UCLE16: Hooligan : 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
• AUE: "Pear-shaped", supplementary comments: 1
• AUE: "SOS": 1
• AUE: What is the UK? Is it the same as Britain, Great Britain or England?: 2

:referring

• FX: "by hook or by crook": 1
• FX: "peter out": 1
• FX: Names of "&", "@", and "#": 1
• FX: What is "ghoti"?: 1
• FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1
• IPA I: Let's get started! : 1
• IPA I: Let's get started! : 1
• Isles: BRITISH ISLES. A geographical term referring to the islands : 1
• Isles: BRITISH is the formal designation of the nationality of citizens : 1
• Lawler: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 2
• Lawler: Hyphens: 1
• Lawler: Literacy: 1
• Lawler: Negative Polarity Items: 1
• UCLE08: “This : 1
• UCLE08: The “Fat Lady” : 1
• UCLE14: Patriarchs As Bottle Sizes : 1
• 3. Great Britain : 2
• 6. The British Isles : 1
• AUE Gallery: Padraig Breathnach: 1

:refers

• FX: "Take the prisoner downstairs", said Tom condescendingly.: 1
• FX: "cut the mustard": 1
• FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 1
• FX: When to use "the": 2
• Intro C: "whole nine yards" : 1
• Intro D: Names for &, @, and # : 1
• Lawler: The canonical paraphrase for will is be going to, idiosyncratically: 1
• Lawler: >Past tenses:: 2
• Lawler: "It" in "It's raining": 1
• Lawler: "amn't": 1
• Lawler: Commas again: 1
• Lawler: Literacy: 1
• Lawler: Phrasal Verbs: 1
• Lawler: Tense and related topics: 1
• Lawler: Who(m): 1
• Lawler: striddly: 1
• UCLE08: “This : 1
• UCLE08: The “Fat Lady” : 1
• UCLE09: “It went pear-shaped” : 2
• UCLE13: Waterloo : 1
• UCLE14: Cripplegate and Crutched : 1
• UCLE14: Literary characters who became : 2

:refined

• UCLE08: “This : 1

:reflect

• FX: Words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 1
• Lawler: >>> The facts of the matter are these:: 1
• Lawler: Commas again: 1
• UCLE08: “This : 1
• What's new?: 23 February 2002 : 1

:reflected

• FX: Words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 2
• AUE Gallery: Padraig Breathnach: 1

:reflecting

• UCLE05: John Davies's commentary : 1

:reflection

• Lawler: Negative Polarity Items: 1
• AUE: The Rainbow Passage: 1

:reflections

• FX: "like" vs "such as": 1
• FX: "quality": 1
• FX: "the whole nine yards": 1
• Yaelf: Reflections on Creative Writing Class: 1
• AUE: The Rainbow Passage: 1

:reflects

• Lawler: Hyphens: 1
• Lawler: Reams: 1
• UCLE08: Britannia: Her history, : 1
• UCLE11: The : 1
• AUE: What is prescriptivism?: 1

:Reflexive

• Lawler: >Past tenses:: 1

:refloated

• Lawler: Headline grammar: 1

:reform

• Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results : 1
• FX: Joke about step-by-step spelling reform: 2
• FX: Spelling reform: 4
• FX: What is "ghoti"?: 1
• Fast FAQ: [Prefatory remarks] : 2
• Intro E: Isn't spelling reform a good idea? : 4
• Intro E: Joke about step-by-step spelling reform : 2
• Intro E: What is "ghoti"? : 1
• Intro E: AUE Intro E: Mini-FAQ on Spelling: 2
• Lawler: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 1
• Lawler: He, she, they?: 1
• Lawler: So Much For Spelling Reform: 4
• Links: Spelling : 2
• What's new?: 2 September 2001: : 1
• Cambodunum : 1
• Preface : 1

:reformation

• RH WotD: reformation: 1
• Preface : 1

:reforme

• FX: "billion": a U.K. view: 1

:reformed

• FX: What is "ghoti"?: 1
• Supp: AUE FAQ Supplement: 1
• AUE: Comments on a Proposal for Reformed English Spelling: 6

:reformed-spelling

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

:reformers

• FX: What is "ghoti"?: 1

:reforms

• Intro E: Joke about step-by-step spelling reform : 1

:refraction

• AUE: The Rainbow Passage: 1

:refrain

• FX: "hopefully", "thankfully": 1
• FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 1
• FX: Gender-neutral pronouns: 1

:refresh

• UCLE03: Lindsay : 1

:refreshment

• UCLE15: Scuttlebutt, Grapevine, : 1

:refugees

• FX: "O.K.": 1

:refusing

• FX: "I won't mention...": 1

:refute

• Brians: rebut/refute: 1
• Emphasis quotes: AUE: Use of Quotation Marks for Emphasis: 1
• FX: "catch-22": 1
• FX: "spit and image"/"spitting image": 1
• Lawler: News Item: 3

:refuted

• Lawler: News Item: 2

:regale

• FX: "God rest you merry, gentlemen": 1

:regaled

• Preface : 1

:regalia

• FX: Foreign plurals => English singulars: 1

:regard

• AWWY: Care; carefree or careful; chary; empathy; regard (care): 1
• Brians: regard/regards: 1
• FX: "between you and I": 1
• FX: "less" vs "fewer": 1
• FX: Plurals of Latin/Greek words: 1
• Garbl: in regard to: 1
• Garbl: regard: 1
• Garbl: with regard to: 1
• Genitive: AUE: Genitive is Not Always Possessive: 1
• I before E: Examples of exceptions to the rule: : 1
• Lawler: Negative Polarity Items: 1
• Lawler: Phrasal Verbs: 1
• Lawler: Verbing Nouns: 1
• Subjunctive?: AUE: Does English Have a Subjunctive Mood?: 1

:regarded

• Brians: highly looked upon/highly regarded: 1
• FX: "done"="finished": 1
• FX: "less" vs "fewer": 2
• FX: "more/most/very unique": 1
• FX: "suck"="be very unsatisfying": 1
• FX: Repeated words after abbreviations: 1
• IPA II: The reference to 'Chicago pop' first appeared in Mark Israel's : 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 : 1
• IPA I: The reference to 'Chicago pop' first appeared in Mark Israel's : 1
• Isles: BRITISH ISLES. A geographical term referring to the islands : 2
• Isles: BRITON, BRITISHER, BRIT. None of these nouns is universally : 1
• Isles: ENGLAND. The biggest and most populous of the four countries : 1
• Isles: NORTHERN IRELAND This is not the place to go into : 1
• UCLE03: Lindsay : 2
• UCLE09: “It went pear-shaped” : 1
• AUE: What is prescriptivism?: 1
• AUE: What is the UK? Is it the same as Britain, Great Britain or England?: 1

:regarding

• Garbl: regarding: 1
• Lawler: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 1
• Lawler: The intonation curve is (roughly) up-down-back.up, graphically something: 1
• Lawler: hadn't've: 1
• UCLE11: The : 1

:regardless

• Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results : 1
• FX: ", vs ,": 1
• FX: "Eskimo": 1
• FX: "flammable": 2
• FX: Doubling of final consonants before suffixes: 1
• IPA II: Slashes or square brackets? : 1
• IPA I: Slashes or square brackets? : 1
• IPA I: What is this? : 1
• IPA I: Slashes or square brackets? : 1
• IPA I: What is this? : 1
• Lawler: The intonation curve is (roughly) up-down-back.up, graphically something: 1
• Lawler: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1
• UCLE15: The Tooth Fairy : 1

:regards

• Brians: in regards to: 1
• Brians: regard/regards: 1
• Garbl: as regards: 1
• AUE: "Pear-shaped", supplementary comments: 1
• AUE: Summer Boink, London, June 1999: 1

:Regender

• Quinion: Regender: 1

:Regent

• UCLE09: Rivers : 1
• AUE: London Boink, December 2001: 1

:Regent's

• AUE: London Millennium Boink, December 1999: 1

:Reggae

• Wilton: Reggae: 1

:regime

• Brians: regime vs. regimen: 1

:regimen

• Brians: regime vs. regimen: 1

:regiment

• FX: "face the music": 1
• FX: Words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 1
• UCLE13: Waterloo : 1
• AUE: Summer Boink, London, June 1999: 1

:region

• FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1
• Lawler: Schwa and Central Vowels: 1
• UCLE10: The : 1
• Cambodunum : 1

:regional

• FX: "go to hell in a handbasket": 1
• Intro B: Sites on words and language : 1
• Intro G: AUE Intro G: Where is the FAQ?: 1
• Lawler: English Modals: 1
• Lawler: Give a Damn: 1
• Lawler: Negative Polarity Items: 1
• Lawler: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1
• UCLE03: The : 1
• AUE: "anymore" and "any more": 1

:regionally

• FX: What do you call the grass strip between the road and the sidewalk?: 1

:regions

• FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1
• Garbl: directions and regions: 1

:register

• FX: "bloody": 2
• Lawler: anymore: 1
• Links: News : 1
• UCLE08: Mother Goose : 1

:registered

• FX: "canola": 1
• UCLE09: Rivers : 1

:regret

• Lawler: Canadian and American Raising: 1
• UCLE11: The : 1
• AUE: "miss not having": 1

:regretful

• FX: Subjunctive: 1

:regretfully

• Brians: regretfully/regrettably: 1

:regrettably

• Brians: regretfully/regrettably: 1
• FX: "hopefully", "thankfully": 1

:regulam

• FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 4

:regular

• Abbreviations: Explanation of Search Criteria : 1
• FX: "blue moon": 1
• FX: Postfix "not": 1
• FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1
• FX: Why do we say "30 years old", but "a 30-year-old man"?: 1
• Home: The alt.usage.english Home Page: 1
• Intro A: WELCOME TO alt.usage.english! : 1
• Intro D: Why do we say "30 years old" but "a 30-year-old man"? : 1
• Intro F: AUE Intro F: Contents of AUE FAQ and FAQ Supplement: 1
• Lawler: >Past tenses:: 1
• Lawler: "amn't": 3
• Lawler: Bring vs Take: 1
• Lawler: Gotten vs. Got: 1
• Lawler: Hyphens: 3
• Lawler: News Item: 1
• Lawler: Object Complements: 1
• Lawler: Verbing Nouns: 1
• AUE people : 1
• AUE: London Symposium Boink, September 1998: 1

:regularly

• Intro A: Newcomers to the Net : 1
• Intro G: AUE Intro G: Where is the FAQ?: 1
• Introduction: AUE: Intro Documents: 1
• Lawler: Canadian and American Raising: 1
• Lawler: English L sounds: 1
• Lawler: Gotten vs. Got: 1
• UCLE03: Lindsay : 1
• AUE: About the alt.usage.english newsgroup: 1
• The Poetry of F. W. Moorman: 1

:regulars

• FX: Guidelines for posting: 1
• FX: Related newsgroups: 1
• Intro A: Guidelines for posting : 1

:regulating

• FX: "rule of thumb": 1

:regulation

• FX: "rule of thumb": 1

:regulations

• FX: "catch-22": 1

:regurgitate

• AWWY: attraction; Attractive, Gorgeous, and Handsome; gorgeous; gurgle; handsome, changes in meaning of; regurgitate; traction and attraction: 1

:rehabilitating

• 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: 1

:Rehoboam

• UCLE14: Patriarchs As Bottle Sizes : 1

:rei

• FX: "A.D.": 1

:reIf

• FX: Words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 2

:reification

• FX: What is the language term for...?: 1

:reified

• Lawler: Reams: 1

:reight

• Cambodunum : 5

:reign

• Brians: reign/rein: 1
• UCLE08: Britannia: Her history, : 2
• UCLE14: Eponymous London Shopkeepers : 1

:Reilly

• Yaelf: What is the origin of "the life of Riley"? "life of Reilly"?: 1

:rein

• Brians: reign/rein: 1
• I before E: /eI/ as in 'pate' and 'weigh': : 1
• I before E: Examples of exceptions to the rule: : 1

:Reine

• UCLE09: Food : 1

:reinforced

• FX: "scot-free": 1

:reinforcing

• Lawler: English L sounds: 2

:Reinhardt

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

:Reinhold

• Cunningham: Individual poster histories - alt.usage.english: 1
• AUE Gallery: Reinhold (Rey) Aman: 2
• The AUE Photo Gallery: 1

:reinstate

• What's new?: 18 December 2001 : 1

:reinterpret

• FX: "Take the prisoner downstairs", said Tom condescendingly.: 1

:reinterpreted

• FX: "ollie ollie oxen free": 1

:reissue

• Preface : 1

:reissued

• FX: "Jingle Bells": 1

:reiterate

• RH WotD: reiterate: 1

:reject

• AWWY: baby with the bathwater, throw the; conjecture; dejected; hands, throw up your; inject; objections; project; reject; sponge, throw in the; Throwing the Baby Out...; towel, throw in the: 1
• Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results : 1
• FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 1
• Intro C: "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey" : 1