alt.usage.english FAQ concordance for 'sem' onwards

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

:seminaries

awwy_P: 'Word With You' list for letter P: 1

:Seminars

:semiotics

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

UCLE: What’s: 1

summer: 1

:semivowel

Lawler schwa: Schwa and Central Vowels: 4

Lawler truly: Canadian and American Raising: 3

Lawler vowels: Vowels Before R: 1

:semiweekly

Garbl: S: 1

:senate

UCLE: News: 1

UCLE: The Ides of March: 1

:send

The AUE Photo Gallery: 1

aue people (album1): 1

EMorris: C : 1

Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results: 2

FX: "acronym": 1

FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 4

FX: "posh": 1

FX: [Prefatory remarks]: 3

FX: Related newsgroups: 1

FX: "SOS": 1

FX: When to use "the": 3

Description of FAQ maintenance: 1

Archive: Arthur the Rat: 1

UCLE: Our 404 page: 1

UCLE: The ucle photo album: 1

UCLE: “It went pear-shaped”: 1

Intro A: Dealing with unwanted postings: 1

IPA II: Technical details:: 1

IPA I: Help me complete this Web page!: 1

IPA I: Technical details: 1

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

Supp: About this File: 1

aue people (album1): 1

:send-up

RH_wotd send-up: 2

RH_WOTD: - S - : 1

:Senegal

FX: "kangaroo": 1

:senior

Garbl: S: 1

FX: How reliable are dictionaries?: 1

UCLE: What’s: 1

UCLE: Rhetorical vocabulary: 1

:seniority

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

:sensational

Frequently Asked Questions about English, Series 1 and 2: 2

:sensationalistic

FX: "Enquiring minds want to know." (notes by James Kiso): 1

:sense

AUE Logo: Notes about the Totally Official AUE Logo: 1

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

Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 1

FX: "beg the question": 1

FX: Biblical sense of "to know": 3

FX: "billion": a U.K. view: 1

FX: "bug"="defect": 2

FX: "cop": 1

FX: "could care less": 2

FX: "crap": 1

FX: "done"="finished": 4

FX: "ebonics": 1

FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 1

FX: Foreign plurals => English singulars: 1

FX: Gender-neutral pronouns: 2

FX: "hell for leather": 1

FX: "hooker": 3

FX: "hopefully", "thankfully": 2

FX: I before E except after C (notes by Mark Wainwright): 1

FX: "impact"="to affect": 5

FX: "less" vs "fewer": 4

FX: "like" vs "such as": 2

FX: "like" vs "as": 4

FX: "love"="zero": 2

FX: "merkin" (notes by Michael B. Quinion and Ruth Bygrave): 1

FX: "more/most/very unique": 3

FX: "more than you can shake a stick at": 1

FX: "peter out": 1

FX: "pie-shaped": 2

FX: [Prefatory remarks]: 1

FX: "push the envelope": 1

FX: "quality": 1

FX: "quiz": 1

FX: "rule of thumb": 1

FX: Table of Contents: 1

FX: "the bee's knees": 1

FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 1

FX: "tip": 3

FX: "titsling"/"brassiere": 1

FX: "to call a spade a spade": 1

FX: "try and", "be sure and", "go" + verb: 1

FX: What is "ghoti"? (notes by Jim Scobbie): 1

FX: "whole cloth" (notes by Ellen Rosen): 4

FX: "wonk" (notes by Fred Shapiro): 1

FX: words without vowels: 5

FX: Words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 1

Fast FAQ: Table of Contents: 1

fast_faq_toc.html: 1

Lawler Commas: Commas: 3

Lawler Commas: >>> The facts of the matter are these:: 1

Lawler amnt: "amn't": 2

Lawler anymore: anymore: 1

Lawler asfaras: As far as ... goes/is concerned: 1

Lawler besides: Toward(s) and Beside(s): 2

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

Lawler bring: Bring vs Take: 1

Lawler canthelp: Can't Help (But) ...: 3

Lawler complmnt: Object Complements: 2

Lawler correct: "Correctness": 5

Lawler enghist: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 2

Lawler equally: "equally" and comparatives: 2

Lawler extrapos: Extraposition, plus Selected Short Subjects: 3

Lawler giveadamn: Give a Damn: 2

Lawler gonna: gonna: 1

Lawler gotten: Gotten vs. Got: 2

Lawler hadve: hadn't've: 1

Lawler hafta: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 2

Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 2

Lawler infinite: English and Infinity: 3

Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in : 1

Lawler modals: The canonical paraphrase for will is be going to, idiosyncratically: 3

Lawler modals: There is also another opposition among the formal auxiliaries, between: 1

Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 3

Lawler phrasal: Phrasal Verbs: 1

Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 2

Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 2

Lawler quote: "Quote, Unquote": 1

Lawler reams: Reams: 2

Lawler tense: Tense and related topics: 4

Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 1

Lawler tense: >Just one question: Where does the past perfect ("have gone", "have sung"): 1

Lawler they: He, she, they?: 1

Lawler truly: Canadian and American Raising: 1

Lawler vehicle: "vehicle": 1

UCLE: British: 1

UCLE: News: 1

UCLE: Calamity Jane: 1

UCLE: Cripplegate and Crutched: 1

UCLE: Gossip: 1

UCLE: “Bloody”: 1

Intro F: Last Revised: 2001-10-18: 1

Supp: "anymore" and "any more": 2

:senses

FX: "beg the question": 1

FX: "bug"="defect": 2

FX: "done"="finished": 1

FX: Words pronounced differently according to context: 2

Lawler amnt: "amn't": 1

Lawler canthelp: Can't Help (But) ...: 1

Lawler complmnt: Object Complements: 1

Lawler correct: "Correctness": 1

Lawler gotten: Gotten vs. Got: 1

Lawler hafta: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 2

Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 2

Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 1

Lawler tense: Tense and related topics: 1

:sensible

Intro A: Dictionary Definitions: 1

:sensitive

e-mail vs email: e-mail-vs-email.html: 1

Isles: BRITAIN/GREAT BRITAIN/UNITED KINGDOM &C: 1

:Sensitivity

awwy_N: 'Word With You' list for letter N: 1

:sensual

Stephen Toogood's explanation of the paddle: 1

:sent

Frequently Asked Questions about English, Series 1 and 2: 1

Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results: 1

FX: "politically correct": 1

FX: "SOS": 1

Lawler extrapos: Extraposition, plus Selected Short Subjects: 1

Lawler xmasthat: There are also two kinds of relative clauses: : 4

UCLE: News: 1

UCLE: Waterloo: 1

:sentence

RH_wotd conjunction beginning a sentence: 1

Garbl: S: 1

RH_WOTD: - C - : 1

Resources: Fun with words : 1

FX: "A, B and C" vs "A, B, and C": 1

FX: "all ... not": 1

FX: "beg the question": 1

FX: Commonest words: 1

FX: "could care less": 1

FX: "ebonics": 1

FX: "It's me" vs "It is I": 1

FX: "like" vs "such as": 3

FX: Preposition at end: 5

FX: "push the envelope": 1

FX: split infinitive: 1

FX: "Take the prisoner downstairs", said Tom condescendingly.: 2

FX: When to use "the": 1

FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1

Groups: "company is" vs "company are": 1

Lawler Commas: >If, say, a parenthesis is marked off by commas, is that phonological: 1

Lawler asfaras: As far as ... goes/is concerned: 1

Lawler besides: Toward(s) and Beside(s): 1

Lawler canthelp: Can't Help (But) ...: 1

Lawler comma: Commas again: 1

Lawler complmnt: Object Complements: 5

Lawler equally: "equally" and comparatives: 2

Lawler extrapos: Extraposition, plus Selected Short Subjects: 5

Lawler extrapos: --- Followup -- > But note that both: 2

Lawler gotten: Gotten vs. Got: 2

Lawler headline: Headline grammar: 7

Lawler infinite: English and Infinity: 2

Lawler itsraining: "It" in "It's raining": 4

Lawler itsraining: You may have noticed the Sapir quotation in my : 5

Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in : 2

Lawler npislands: News Item: 3

Lawler only: "only": 2

Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 6

Lawler reams: Reams: 1

Lawler ross: Ross Constraints: 8

Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 2

Lawler that: Two kinds of "that-clauses": 1

Lawler thehell: Usage of "the hell": 3

Lawler writing: Literacy: 1

Lawler xmasthat: There are also two kinds of relative clauses: : 1

Lawler zilch: zilch: 4

Intro C: "beg the question": 1

Intro D: Gender-neutral pronouns -- "he/she" -v- "they": 1

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

Supp: "anymore" and "any more": 1

Supp: What is prescriptivism?: 1

:sentence-modifying

Frequently Asked Questions about English, Series 1 and 2: 2

:sentenced

Lawler sig: Maybe the horse will sing: 1

:sentences

Resources: Fun with words : 1

FX: Gender-neutral pronouns: 2

Archive: 5. Accent determination by a short introduction with a: 1

FX: "if I was" vs "if I were": 1

FX: "impact"="to affect": 1

FX: "It's me" vs "It is I": 1

FX: "like" vs "as": 2

FX: Preposition at end: 1

FX: sentences grammatical in both Old English and Modern English: 3

FX: spaces between sentences: 4

FX: Table of Contents: 2

FX: "Take the prisoner downstairs", said Tom condescendingly.: 2

FX: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.": 2

FX: "whom": 1

FX: "you saying" vs "your saying": 1

Fast FAQ: Table of Contents: 2

fast_faq_toc.html: 2

Fun with words TOC: 4

Lawler canthelp: Can't Help (But) ...: 1

Lawler comma: Commas again: 1

Lawler complmnt: Object Complements: 4

Lawler equally: "equally" and comparatives: 1

Lawler extrapos: --- Followup -- > But note that both: 1

Lawler gotten: Gotten vs. Got: 3

Lawler infinite: English and Infinity: 8

Lawler modals: There is also another opposition among the formal auxiliaries, between: 1

Lawler only: "only": 4

Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 4

Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 3

Lawler ross: Ross Constraints: 1

Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 1

Lawler that: Two kinds of "that-clauses": 1

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

Lawler zilch: zilch: 1

Intro D: "If I was" -v- "If I were": 1

Intro F: Last Revised: 2001-10-18: 2

Subjunctive?: Subjunctive: 2

:sentimental

UCLE: Literary characters who became: 1

:Sentiments

FX: "politically correct": 1

:sentire

:senyu

FX: "kangaroo": 1

:separable

Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 1

:separate

Title: 1

Garbl: S: 1

Isles: CHANNEL ISLANDS, ISLE OF MAN. Note that the Isle of Man: 1

FX: "flammable": 1

FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1

Description of FAQ maintenance: 2

Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 1

Lawler itsraining: You may have noticed the Sapir quotation in my : 2

Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in : 1

Lawler l-sounds: >> For instance: English has only one /l/ phoneme, but it has: 1

Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 2

Lawler quote: "Quote, Unquote": 1

Lawler they: He, she, they?: 1

Lawler vowels: Vowels Before R: 1

Lawler whom: Who(m): 1

Lawler zilch: zilch: 1

UCLE: News: 1

:separated

FX: "could care less": 1

FX: "that" vs "which": 1

FX: "whom": 1

:separately

FX: "shall" vs "will", "should" vs "would": 1

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

Lawler tense: Tense and related topics: 1

Lawler vowels: Where I grew up (in DeKalb, IL, 100 km W of Chicago) : 1

UCLE: John Davies's commentary: 1

UCLE: “Pop: 1

:separates

FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1

:separating

Showing variation of formants of [i:] with context: 1

FX: split infinitive: 1

Lawler extrapos: --- Followup -- > But note that both: 1

Lawler hafta: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 1

:separation

FX: split infinitive: 1

Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 1

UCLE: Some significant numbers from literature and literary criticism: 2

Showing variation of formants of [i:] with context: 1

:separator

UCLE: Lindsay: 3

:September

Formant values for 14 Fontana vowels: 1

Wilton: Wilton's Etymology Page: 1

Choice of two ASCII IPA files: 1

Posting History: [Top] [2001]: 1

Posting History: [Top] [2001] [2000]: 1

Posting History: [Top] [2001] [2000] : 1

RH_WOTD: - Z - : 1

Resources: Words about words : 1

Cicero used exception proves the rule: 1

FX: "blue moon" (notes by Philip Hiscock): 1

FX: Books on rhyming slang: 1

FX: How do you spell "e-mail"?: 1

FX: Online usage guides: 1

Fast FAQ: A faster way to access items in the AUE FAQ: 2

Main: Questions or comments about the Web site may be addressed to: 1

Archive: Other Sound Files: 1

Archive: Southern speaker's description of his speech: 1

UCLE: Mother Goose: 1

Intro F: Last Revised: 2001-10-18: 1

Intro G: Intro G: Where is the FAQ?: 2

Intro G: Last Revised 2001-09-22: 1

boink: 1

Thou, thee & archaic grammar: 1

Detailed comparisons of two Ladefoged vowels: 1

Supp: Dictionaries: 1

Supp: The organization of this file generally follows that of a hypertext version of Mark : 1

Where FAQ?: Index: 1

Where FAQ?: Indirect to previous item: : 1

What's new?: History of Changes at the AUE Web Site: 9

:septendecillion

FX: "billion": a U.K. view: 1

:septillion

FX: "billion": a U.K. view: 3

:sepulchre

FX: "-er" vs "-re": 1

:sequel

FX: "in like Flynn": 1

:sequels

:sequence

Alternating voices: Markus's and Skitt's voices alternating: 1

FX: "a"/"an" before abbreviations: 1

FX: "cut to the chase": 1

FX: "SOS": 1

FX: Subjunctive: 1

Lawler infinite: English and Infinity: 1

Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in : 2

:sequences

Lawler infinite: English and Infinity: 1

:sequential

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

:sequitur

awwy_N: 'Word With You' list for letter N: 1

:Seraphim

:Serendip

UCLE: Serendipity: 1

:serendipity

awwy_H: 'Word With You' list for letter H: 1

:Serenleono

Posting frequencies: Tabulation of user names with over 50 postings in the past four years: 1

:serfs

UCLE: The: 1

:Sergeant

Frequently Asked Questions about English, Series 1 and 2: 8

:serial

RH_wotd serial comma: 1

RH_WOTD: - S - : 1

FX: "A, B and C" vs "A, B, and C": 1

:serial comma

RH_wotd serial comma: 1

:series

FX: "billions and billions": 1

FX: Dictionaries: 1

FX: "Enquiring minds want to know." (notes by James Kiso): 1

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

FX: "you saying" vs "your saying": 1

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

Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in : 1

Lawler phrasal: Phrasal Verbs: 2

Lawler smith: Henry Lee Smith: 1

UCLE: Literary characters who became: 1

UCLE: The Tooth Fairy: 1

UCLE: Britannia: Her history,: 5

Intro A: Last Revised 2001-10-08: 1

Intro B: Historical English, and English Literature: 1

Intro C: words ending in "-gry": 1

Intro D: Where to find the big AUE FAQ: 1

Intro E: U.S. -v- REST-OF-WORLD ENGLISH: 1

Intro F: Last Revised: 2001-10-18: 1

Intro G: Intro G: Where is the FAQ?: 2

Intro G: Last Revised 2001-09-22: 2

:serious

Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results: 1

FX: "Jingle Bells": 1

FX: "merkin" (notes by Michael B. Quinion and Ruth Bygrave): 1

FX: split infinitive: 1

Lawler l-sounds: >> For instance: English has only one /l/ phoneme, but it has: 1

Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 1

Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 1

Lawler thehell: Usage of "the hell": 1

UCLE: The history of ucle: 1

Supp: Grammars: 3

summer: 1

Announcement of creation of uk.culture.language.english: 1

:seriously

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

Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in : 2

Lawler truly: Canadian and American Raising: 1

:serpent

:Serpentine

Differing opinion about Tyburn River: 1

:servant

awwy_I: 'Word With You' list for letter I: 1

UCLE: Literary characters who became: 1

:servants

FX: "beg the question": 1

:serve

RH_wotd service and serve: 1

Garbl: S: 1

RH_WOTD: - S - : 1

Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 2

FX: Do publishers put false info in dictionaries to catch plagiarists?: 1

FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 2

FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 1

Fun with words TOC: 1

UCLE: Colours: 1

Emphasis quotes: Use of Quotation Marks for Emphasis: 1

:served

Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 5

FX: "billion": a U.K. view: 1

FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 1

FX: "merkin" (notes by Michael B. Quinion and Ruth Bygrave): 1

Lawler xmasthat: There are also two kinds of relative clauses: : 1

UCLE: The: 1

UCLE: Calamity Jane: 1

:server

Resources: �� 10. 'The requested URL: 1

Resources: �� 2. The URL in the original list now: 1

Resources: �� 3. The URL: 1

Resources: Lexicons : 1

Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 1

FX: Online usage guides: 1

FX: Related newsgroups: 1

UCLE: Lindsay: 2

:server-style

FX: Online dictionaries: 1

:servers

Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 1

:serves

Autism and Daniel McGrath: 1

FX: "less" vs "fewer": 1

Lawler modals: English Modals: 1

Lawler only: "only": 1

Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 1

UCLE: The: 1

:service

RH_wotd service and serve: 1

awwy_L: 'Word With You' list for letter L: 1

awwy_P: 'Word With You' list for letter P: 1

RH_WOTD: - S - : 1

Resources: Online services : 1

Resources: Web-design utilities : 1

FX: Online dictionaries: 3

FX: "wog": 1

Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 1

UCLE: The history of ucle: 1

UCLE: Britannia: Her history,: 1

UCLE: Holidays: 1

Intro A: Responding: 1

Intro B: On-line dictionaries: general: 1

Announcement of creation of uk.culture.language.english: 1

:SERVICE

UCLE: News: 2

:service and serve

RH_wotd service and serve: 1

:serviceable

Garbl: S: 1

:services

Autism and Daniel McGrath: 1

Resources: Categories index: 1

Resources: Discussion groups, Usenet group Websites : 1

Resources: Online services : 1

Resources: Miscellaneous, language related : 1

FX: Online dictionaries: 2

FX: What is the phone number of the Grammar Hotline?: 1

FX: When to use "the": 1

groups_and_email_addresses.html: 1

Posting frequencies: Tabulation of user names with over 50 postings in the past four years: 1

:serving

Emphasis quotes: Use of Quotation Marks for Emphasis: 1

Stub: Stub to advise that rules_for_motto_poll.html is no longer available: 1

:Sesame

Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results: 1

:session

FX: What is the phone number of the Grammar Hotline?: 1

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

boink: 1

:sessions

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

:set

RH_wotd cap, set one's: 1

Garbl: S: 1

Posting History: Comments: 1

awwy_H: 'Word With You' list for letter H: 1

awwy_J: 'Word With You' list for letter J: 1

RH_WOTD: - C - : 1

Resources: Learning English : 1

Resources: Miscellaneous, not language related : 1

Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 2

FX: "blue moon" (notes by Philip Hiscock): 1

FX: Commonest words: 1

FX: "crap": 1

FX: "done"="finished": 1

FX: "flammable": 1

FX: "like" vs "such as": 2

FX: "more than you can shake a stick at": 1

FX: "push the envelope": 1

FX: "shall" vs "will", "should" vs "would": 1

FX: Subjunctive: 1

FX: "that" vs "which": 1

FX: trademarks: 1

FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1

FX: When to use "the": 1

FX: "ye"="the": 1

Lawler Commas: The intonation curve is (roughly) up-down-back.up, graphically something: 1

Lawler Commas: >>> The facts of the matter are these:: 1

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

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

Lawler infinite: English and Infinity: 4

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

Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 1

Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 1

Lawler tense: Tense and related topics: 1

Lawler truly: Canadian and American Raising: 1

Lawler vehicle: "vehicle": 1

Lawler xmasthat: That vs. Which: 3

Lawler xmasthat: There are also two kinds of relative clauses: : 1

UCLE: The: 2

UCLE: The history of ucle: 2

UCLE: Lindsay: 2

UCLE: Britannia: Her history,: 1

UCLE: Rivers: 2

Intro A: Responding: 1

Intro C: "push the envelope": 1

summer: 1

Where FAQ?: Introduction to alt.usage.english: : 1

:Seth

:sets

FX: "the bee's knees": 1

Lawler amnt: "amn't": 1

Lawler hadve: I suspect much of the rancor that greets spellings of : 1

Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1

Supp: What is prescriptivism?: 1

:settable

Resources: Color charts : 2

:setting

FX: "shouting fire in a crowded theater": 1

UCLE: Rhetorical vocabulary: 1