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

:combat

FX: "catch-22": 1

:combats

awwy_C: 'Word With You' list for letter C: 1

:Combe

UCLE05: What’s: 1

:combination

Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 2

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

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

Lawler l-sounds: English L sounds: 1

Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 1

Lawler tense: Tense and related topics: 2

UCLE15: Sockdolager: 1

:combinations

FX: "SOS": 1

FX: When to use "the": 1

Lawler tense: Tense and related topics: 2

Intro C: American: 1

IPA I: Reading ASCII IPA: 1

:combinatorics

Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 1

:Combinatory

FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 1

:combine

Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 1

:combined

Choice of two ASCII IPA files: 1

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

ASCII IPA stub: 2

Posting frequencies: Explanatory comments:: 2

:combines

Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 2

:combining

wwwords Food combining: 1

:Combs

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

:come

RH_wotd cropper, come a: 1

wwwords Come hell or high water: 1

wwwords Come a cropper: 1

aue people (album1): 1

Arthur the Rat: 1

Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 3

FX: "bug"="defect": 2

FX: "canola": 1

FX: Commonest words: 1

FX: "cop": 2

FX: "cut the mustard": 1

FX: "cut to the chase": 1

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

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

FX: "flammable": 1

FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 1

FX: "Go figure": 1

FX: "hooker": 1

FX: How did "Truly" become a personal name?: 1

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

FX: "kangaroo": 1

FX: "O.K.": 1

FX: "ollie ollie oxen free": 2

FX: "outrage": 1

FX: "peter out": 3

FX: "posh": 1

FX: [Prefatory remarks]: 1

FX: "quiz": 1

FX: "rule of thumb": 1

FX: split infinitive: 1

FX: "spoonerism": 1

FX: Subjunctive: 3

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

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

FX: troll: 2

FX: typo: 2

FX: What is the opposite of "to exceed"?: 1

Description of FAQ maintenance: 1

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

Lawler booklist: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 2

Lawler bring: Bring vs Take: 9

Lawler comma: Commas again: 1

Lawler giveadamn: Give a Damn: 1

Lawler gotten: Gotten vs. Got: 4

Lawler hafta: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 1

Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 2

Lawler indian: Indian English: 2

Lawler infinite: English and Infinity: 1

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

Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 1

Lawler quote: "Quote, Unquote": 1

Lawler schwa: Schwa and Central Vowels: 1

Lawler tense: Tense and related topics: 1

Lawler thehell: Usage of "the hell": 1

summer: 1

aue people (album1): 1

UCLE10: British: 1

UCLE11: The: 1

UCLE12: News: 1

UCLE16: Kibosh: 1

UCLE03: Judith: 1

UCLE05: John Davies's commentary: 1

UCLE09: Literary: 2

Yet to come: 1

:Come a cropper

wwwords Come a cropper: 1

:Come hell or high water

wwwords Come hell or high water: 1

:come-to-Jesus

RH_wotd come-to-Jesus meeting: 1

:come-to-Jesus meeting

RH_wotd come-to-Jesus meeting: 1

:come?

RH_wotd how come?: 1

:comedian

Lawler buoy: Aural and Oral, Boy and Buoy: 1

:comedic

UCLE09: “It went pear-shaped”: 1

:comedy

awwy_B: 'Word With You' list for letter B: 1

Resources: Humor : 1

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

FX: "wait for the other shoe to drop": 1

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

What's new?: History of Changes at the AUE Web Site: 1

:Comenius

FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 2

:comes

awwy_B: 'Word With You' list for letter B: 1

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

awwy_W: 'Word With You' list for letter W: 1

FX: "bug"="defect": 1

FX: "fuck": 1

FX: "Go figure": 1

FX: "golf": 1

FX: "Illegitimis non carborundum": 1

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

FX: "jerry-built"/"jury-rigged": 1

FX: "love"="zero": 1

FX: "O.K.": 1

FX: Online dictionaries: 2

FX: "outrage": 2

FX: "paparazzo": 1

FX: "peter out": 1

FX: Plurals of Latin/Greek words: 3

FX: "portmanteau word": 1

FX: Postfix "not": 1

FX: "rule of thumb": 1

FX: "Santa Ana": 1

FX: "sirloin"/"baron of beef": 1

FX: Subjunctive: 1

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

FX: "titsling"/"brassiere": 1

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

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

FX: Wicca: 2

FX: "widget" (notes by William C. Waterhouse): 1

FX: "wonk" (notes by Fred Shapiro): 2

FX: "wop": 1

FX: Words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 1

Lawler a-an: A or An Historical Novel?: 1

Lawler comma: Commas again: 1

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

Lawler itsraining: You may have noticed the Sapir quotation in my : 1

Lawler tense: Tense and related topics: 1

Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 2

Lawler thehell: Usage of "the hell": 1

Lawler they: He, she, they?: 2

Lawler vehicle: "vehicle": 1

Lawler whom: Who(m): 1

IPA I: Slashes or square brackets?: 1

UCLE13: Calamity Jane: 1

UCLE13: "Rearranging deck chairs: 2

UCLE13: Waterloo: 1

UCLE14: Cripplegate and Crutched: 2

UCLE14: Lemon sole: 1

UCLE14: Eponymous London Shopkeepers: 1

UCLE15: Gossip: 1

UCLE15: Round-Robin and: 1

UCLE15: Scuttlebutt, Grapevine,: 1

UCLE15: Sockdolager: 2

UCLE15: The Tooth Fairy: 1

UCLE16: Hooligan: 1

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

UCLE09: Anorak: 1

UCLE09: “Bloody”: 1

UCLE09: Rivers: 1

:Comets

Unedited list of search results: 1

:comfort

awwy_C: 'Word With You' list for letter C: 1

awwy_F: 'Word With You' list for letter F: 1

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

Lawler reams: Reams: 1

boink: 1

:comfortable

awwy_C: 'Word With You' list for letter C: 1

FX: "whole cloth" (notes by Ellen Rosen): 2

Lawler amnt: "amn't": 1

Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 1

:comfortably

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

:comforting

Lawler itsraining: You may have noticed the Sapir quotation in my : 1

:comic

FX: How do Americans pronounce "dog"?: 1

FX: Postfix "not": 2

FX: radio alphabets: 2

Lawler verbing: Verbing Nouns: 1

Text Counter Example: 1

:comically

FX: "O.K.": 1

Intro A: Dictionary Definitions: 1

:comics

FX: Postfix "not": 1

FX: "suck"="be very unsatisfying" by John Davies: 1

:coming

aue people (album1): 1

Common errors: your/you're : 1

Garbl: C: 1

Arthur the Rat: 1

awwy_B: 'Word With You' list for letter B: 5

awwy_E: 'Word With You' list for letter E: 1

awwy_G: 'Word With You' list for letter G: 1

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

awwy_M: 'Word With You' list for letter M: 3

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

FX: "ISO" by Mark Brader: 1

FX: Table of Contents: 1

FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1

FX: "You have another think coming": 4

Fast FAQ: Table of Contents: 1

fast_faq_toc.html: 1

Lawler Commas: The intonation curve is (roughly) up-down-back.up, graphically something: 2

Lawler bring: Bring vs Take: 2

Lawler hadve: hadn't've: 1

Lawler schwa: Schwa and Central Vowels: 1

Lawler thehell: Usage of "the hell": 1

Lawler writing: Literacy: 2

Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 1

The Totally Official Boink Home Page: 1

:comma

RH_wotd serial comma: 1

wwwords Oxford comma: 1

Garbl: C: 1

Explanation of Search Criteria: 1

FX: "A, B and C" vs "A, B, and C": 7

FX: "Jingle Bells": 1

Lawler Commas: The intonation curve is (roughly) up-down-back.up, graphically something: 3

Lawler Commas: >>> The facts of the matter are these:: 6

Lawler Commas: >If, say, a parenthesis is marked off by commas, is that phonological: 2

Lawler comma: Commas again: 5

Lawler zilch: zilch: 1

:command

awwy_C: 'Word With You' list for letter C: 1

awwy_R: 'Word With You' list for letter R: 1

Intro B: Where to find previous postings: 1

:commandeered

Intro C: American: 1

:commanding

Lawler anymore: anymore: 1

Lawler npi: Since you ask, here's a moderately complete list of polarity items,: 3

UCLE09: Food: 1

:commandments

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

:commands

FX: Subjunctive: 2

:commas

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

J_Lynch: C: 1

FX: "that" vs "which": 1

Lawler Commas: Commas: 9

Lawler Commas: The intonation curve is (roughly) up-down-back.up, graphically something: 9

Lawler Commas: >>> The facts of the matter are these:: 6

Lawler comma: Commas again: 7

Lawler xmasthat: There are also two kinds of relative clauses: : 2

Lawler zilch: zilch: 2

:commemorating

UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 1

:commence

UCLE11: The: 1

UCLE03: Lindsay: 1

:commencement

FX: What words are their own antonym?: 2

:commences

Lawler headline: Headline grammar: 1

:comment

Initialisms that have been used in AUE: 2

Description of FAQ maintenance: 1

Genitive: Genitive is not always possessive.: 2

Interface: Which should I use? Perlfect Search or the Concordance?: 1

Supp: words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 1

UCLE05: What’s: 2

Where FAQ?: Places to get Mark Israel's AUE FAQ: 1

:Commentariat

wwwords Commentariat: 2

:commentary

Resources: Words about words : 1

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

UCLE12: News: 1

:commentator

FX: split infinitive: 1

UCLE12: News: 3

:commentators

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

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

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

:commented

FX: "all ... not": 1

FX: "spoonerism": 1

UCLE15: Round-Robin and: 1

UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 1

:commenting

FX: "ebonics": 1

Lawler writing: Literacy: 1

:comments

J_Lynch: Lynch, Guide to Grammar and Style -- Contents: 1

Comments on a proposal for reformed English spelling: 6

Audio: Other Sound Files: 2

Southern speaker's description of his speech: 1

Posting History: Historical posting-volume data : 1

Resources: Miscellaneous, language related : 2

Supplementary comments about deja.com: 2

Isles: SCOTCH. The following is extracted from Mark Israel's FAQ: 1

FX: "company is" vs "company are": 1

FX: Guidelines for posting: 1

FX: Online usage guides: 1

FX: "SOS": 1

FX: Spelling reform: 2

FX: Subjunctive: 1

FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1

FX: Words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 1

Description of FAQ maintenance: 1

Posting History: Historical posting-volume data : 1

Intro A: Intro A: Welcome to AUE and Guidelines for Posting:: 1

Intro B: Historical English, and English Literature: 1

Intro F: Spelling: 1

Intro G: Intro G: Where is the FAQ?: 1

IPA II: Credits:: 1

IPA I: About this document: 3

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

Emphasis quotes: Use of Quotation Marks for Emphasis: 1

Audio recording technique - Some suggestions: 1

Supp: About this File: 1

Supp: Spelling: 1

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

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

Subjunctive?: Subjunctive: 2

summer: 1

UCLE14: Cripplegate and Crutched: 1

Where FAQ?: Full FAQ with internal links:: 1

Where FAQ?: Index: 1

What's new?: History of Changes at the AUE Web Site: 2

:commerce

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

UCLE08: “This: 1

:commercial

wwwords Commercial at @: 1

FX: Basic English: 1

FX: "full monty": 1

FX: names of "&", "@", and "#": 2

FX: words ending in "-gry": 1

Intro D: Names for &, @, and #: 2

IPA II: The sounds in the column headed 'IPA sounds' have been copied with permission: 1

IPA I: The sounds in the column headed 'IPA sounds' have been copied with permission: 1

:Commercial at @

wwwords Commercial at @: 1

:Commission

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

:commitment

Garbl: C: 1

:committed

UCLE13: Waterloo: 1

:committee

Garbl: C: 1

FX: "go to hell in a handbasket": 1

FX: "O.K.": 1

FX: "true fact": 1

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

Lawler booklist: Books on English, Language, and Linguistics: 1

boink: 1

:committees

Garbl: C: 1

:COMMON

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

Interface: Help: 1

:common

Common errors: Echo of Index to Articles at www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/: 2

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

The Rainbow Passage: 1

Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 2

FX: "A, B and C" vs "A, B, and C": 2

FX: "alumin(i)um" (notes by Keith Ivey): 1

FX: "beg the question": 1

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

FX: "cut to the chase": 1

FX: "different to", "different than": 1

FX: "done"="finished": 1

FX: "fall off a turnip truck": 1

FX: "Go figure": 1

FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 1

FX: I before E except after C (notes by Mark Wainwright): 4

FX: "It needs cleaned": 1

FX: "less" vs "fewer": 1

FX: "like" vs "as": 1

FX: "loo": 2

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

FX: "mouses" vs "mice": 1

FX: "ollie ollie oxen free": 2

FX: Origin of the dollar sign (notes by Mark Brader): 2

FX: "pie-shaped": 1

FX: Plurals of Latin/Greek words: 1

FX: "politically correct": 1

FX: "put in one's two cents' worth": 2

FX: "rule of thumb": 1

FX: Subjunctive: 2

FX: "that" vs "which": 1

FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 2

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

FX: What is the phone number of the Grammar Hotline?: 2

FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1

FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 3

FX: words ending in "-gry": 1

Fast FAQ: A faster way to access items in the AUE FAQ: 1

Genitive: Genitive is not always possessive.: 2

Interface: Help: 2

Lawler aluminum: Alumin(i)um: 1

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

Lawler booklist: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 2

Lawler buoy: Aural and Oral, Boy and Buoy: 1

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

Lawler complmnt: Object Complements: 1

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

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

Lawler gonna: gonna: 2

Lawler gotten: Gotten vs. Got: 1

Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 1

Lawler itsraining: "It" in "It's raining": 2

Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in : 3

Lawler l-sounds: English L sounds: 1

Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 1

Lawler quote: "Quote, Unquote": 1

Lawler reams: Reams: 1

Lawler ross: Ross Constraints: 1

Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1

Lawler thehell: Usage of "the hell": 1

Lawler they: -- more followup: (double >'s refer to the posting above:: 1

Lawler vehicle: "vehicle": 1

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

Lawler zilch: zilch: 1

Intro A: Dictionary Abbreviations: 1

Intro A: Responding: 1

Intro B: Sites on words and language:: 1

Intro C: "beg the question": 1

Intro C: "exception proves the rule": 1

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

Intro E: I before E except after C (based on notes by Mark Wainwright): 3

Intro E: Isn't spelling reform a good idea?: 1

Intro F: Miscellany: 1

Intro F: Table of major headings:: 1

IPA II: The difference between [hw] and [w] does not : 1

IPA II: Some U.S. speakers do not distinguish between "Mary",: 1

IPA I: Among those who use the same vowel in 'Mary', 'merry', and 'marry', not all of : 1

IPA I: hw: 1

IPA I: Reading ASCII IPA: 1

Supp: Echoed remote indexes: 1

Supp: Miscellany: 1

Supp: Table of major headings:: 1

UCLE11: The: 1

UCLE16: Hooligan: 1

UCLE16: Kibosh: 1

UCLE08: “This: 1

UCLE09: Holidays: 2

UCLE09: “It went pear-shaped”: 1

UCLE09: Rivers: 1

What's new?: History of Changes at the AUE Web Site: 1

:commoner

FX: "company is" vs "company are": 1

FX: "flammable": 1

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

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

Intro D: Group nouns -- singular or plural? "company is" -v- "company are": 1

:commonest

FX: Commonest words: 5

FX: Table of Contents: 1

Fast FAQ: Table of Contents: 1

fast_faq_toc.html: 1

Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 1

:commonly

Common errors: Supplementary Pages: 2

Initialisms that have been used in AUE: 1

FX: "beg the question": 1

FX: "fall off a turnip truck": 1

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

FX: "-ize" vs "-ise": 1

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

FX: When to use "the": 1

Lawler amnt: "amn't": 1

Intro B: Sites on words and language:: 1

Supp: "SOS": 1

UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 1

UCLE09: Anorak: 1

UCLE09: Holidays: 1

:Commons

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

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

:Commonwealth

awwy_C: 'Word With You' list for letter C: 1

awwy_W: 'Word With You' list for letter W: 1

Lawler aluminum: Alumin(i)um: 1

Lawler modals: English Modals: 1

:commoratio

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

:communal

awwy_C: 'Word With You' list for letter C: 1

:communicable

Lawler itsraining: You may have noticed the Sapir quotation in my : 1

:communicate

Resources: Discussion groups, Usenet group Websites : 1

Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 1

Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 2

:communicated

Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 1

:communication

Autism and Daniel McGrath: 1

Resources: Discussion groups, Usenet group Websites : 1

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

Lawler gonna: gonna: 1

Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 1

Lawler writing: Literacy: 3

UCLE03: Judith: 1

UCLE04: Our Favourite Cultural and Language Links: 1

:Communicator

Resources: Lexicons : 1

:Communiqu

summer_boink/big_apple_boink.html: 1

:communism

Lawler extrapos: --- Followup -- > But note that both: 4

:communities

I before E: Exceptions to the rule 'I before E except after C': 1

Comments on a proposal for reformed English spelling: 3

:community

wwwords Community marriage policy: 1

wwwords Community currency: 1

Garbl: C: 1

Comments on a proposal for reformed English spelling: 1

Usenet Docs: Hyperlinks to Official Usenet Documents: 1

awwy_C: 'Word With You' list for letter C: 1

FX: How do Americans pronounce "dog"?: 1

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

FX: What is the phone number of the Grammar Hotline?: 2

Lawler bring: Bring vs Take: 1

Intro A: Newcomers to the Net: 1

:Community currency

wwwords Community currency: 1

:Community marriage policy

wwwords Community marriage policy: 1

:Commw

UCLE09: Rivers: 1

:Como

FX: "kangaroo": 1

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