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

:Cottage

EMorris: C : 1

:cotton

RH_wotd cotton to: 1

EMorris: C : 1

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

:cotton to

RH_wotd cotton to: 1

:Cotton-Picking

Wilton: Wilton's Etymology Page: 1

:couch

EMorris: C : 1

Stephen Toogood's explanation of the paddle: 1

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

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

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

Lawler bring: Bring vs Take: 2

:couched

FX: "done"="finished": 1

:cough

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

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

:could

RH_wotd could care less: 1

RH_wotd might could (double modal): 1

aue people (album1): 1

Common errors: C: 2

I before E: Sticking for the moment to the basic rule, : 3

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

The Totally Official Boink Home Page: 1

Arthur the Rat: 1

The North Wind and the Sun: 3

awwy_B: 'Word With You' list for letter B: 3

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

awwy_T: 'Word With You' list for letter T: 2

Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 3

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

FX: "alright": 1

FX: "bloody": 1

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

FX: "by hook or by crook": 1

FX: Commonest words: 1

FX: "could care less": 10

FX: "could of": 3

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

FX: "Eskimo": 1

FX: "Illegitimis non carborundum": 1

FX: "ISO" by Mark Brader: 1

FX: "less" vs "fewer": 1

FX: "Let them eat cake!": 2

FX: "more than you can shake a stick at": 3

FX: "paparazzo": 1

FX: Preposition at end: 1

FX: "quiz": 1

FX: "scot-free": 1

FX: "SOS": 1

FX: Table of Contents: 2

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

FX: typo: 1

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

FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1

FX: "whole cloth" (notes by Ellen Rosen): 1

Fast FAQ: Table of Contents: 2

fast_faq_toc.html: 2

Genitive: Genitive is not always possessive.: 1

Lawler academy: The Academy: 1

Lawler anymore: anymore: 2

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

Lawler bring: Bring vs Take: 3

Lawler comma: Commas again: 2

Lawler commas: Commas: 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 enghist: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 3

Lawler enghist: >Your example of English and Caxton print shop goes a long way to convince: 1

Lawler equally: "equally" and comparatives: 1

Lawler extrapos: --- Followup --: 1

Lawler giveadamn: Give a Damn: 16

Lawler gonna: gonna: 1

Lawler gotten: Gotten vs. Got: 2

Lawler hadve: hadn't've: 1

Lawler headline: Headline grammar: 2

Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 1

Lawler infinite: English and Infinity: 1

Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 2

Lawler modals: English Modals: 1

Lawler modals: There is also another opposition among the formal auxiliaries, between: 2

Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 1

Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 1

Lawler quote: "Quote, Unquote": 1

Lawler reams: Reams: 2

Lawler sig: Maybe the horse will sing: 1

Lawler smith: Henry Lee Smith: 2

Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1

Lawler striddly: striddly: 1

Lawler tense: Tense and related topics: 1

Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 6

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

Lawler they: He, she, they?: 1

Lawler they: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 2

Intro D: "It's me" -v- "It is I": 1

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

Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 2

Supp: Grammars: 1

summer: 1

Our 404 page: 1

UCLE10: "Bite the bullet": 1

UCLE12: News: 5

UCLE15: Round-Robin and: 1

UCLE09: Literary: 1

:could care less

RH_wotd could care less: 1

:could've

FX: "could of": 1

:couldn't

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

FX: "could care less": 3

FX: "kangaroo": 1

FX: typo: 1

Lawler commas: Commas: 2

Lawler giveadamn: Give a Damn: 3

Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 1

:couldn't've

Lawler Index: Doubly-apostrophic contractions.: 1

FX: "could of": 1

:couldna

Lawler hadve: hadn't've: 1

:coulrophobia

RH_wotd coulrophobia: 2

:council

Common errors: C: 1

Garbl: C: 2

FX: "canola": 2

FX: words ending in "-gry": 1

Lawler equally: "equally" and comparatives: 1

Lawler lingmarks: Languages in General: 1

:COUNCIL

UCLE12: News: 1

:council,

RH_wotd counsel, council, consul: 1

:councilmember

Garbl: C: 1

:counsel

Common errors: C: 1

:counsel,

RH_wotd counsel, council, consul: 1

:counsel, council, consul

RH_wotd counsel, council, consul: 1

:counselor

awwy_M: 'Word With You' list for letter M: 1

:count

I before E: Early in both discussions I submitted a list of words that were: 1

Lawler Index: Mass and count nouns.: 1

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

e-mail vs email: e-mail-vs-email.html: 3

FX: Dictionaries: 1

FX: "less" vs "fewer": 1

FX: "more than you can shake a stick at": 2

FX: "none is" vs "none are": 1

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

Lawler bring: Bring vs Take: 1

Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 4

Lawler reams: Reams: 3

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

UCLE11: The: 1

UCLE12: News: 1

UCLE03: Lindsay: 1

UCLE09: Literary: 2

:countable

Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 2

:countably

Lawler infinite: English and Infinity: 1

:counted

Posting History: Explanatory Remarks: 4

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

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

FX: "ollie ollie oxen free": 1

:counter

EMorris: B : 1

FX: "You have another think coming": 1

Graphical Counter Example: 3

Text Counter Example: 4

UCLE03: Tee Shirts: 1

:counter-argument

Emphasis quotes: Use of Quotation Marks for Emphasis: 1

:counter-mnemonic

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

:Counter-revolutionary

Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 1

:counterclockwise

Comments on a proposal for reformed English spelling: 8

:counterexample

FX: Guidelines for posting: 1

Intro A: Guidelines for posting: 1

:counterexamples

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

:counterfactual

FX: Subjunctive: 4

Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 1

:counterfactually

Lawler npi: Since you ask, here's a moderately complete list of polarity items,: 1

:counterfactuals

FX: Subjunctive: 2

:counties

Isles: NORTHERN IRELAND This is not the place to go into: 2

:counting

Title: 1

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

FX: Does the next millennium begin in 2000 or 2001?: 1

Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 2

:countless

Isles: BRITISH ISLES. A geographical term referring to the islands: 1

:countries

Title: 1

Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 2

Isles: GREAT BRITAIN. Used by cartographers to denote the biggest: 1

FX: "." after abbreviations: 1

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

FX: distribution of English-speakers: 1

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

FX: trademarks: 1

FX: When to use "the": 1

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

Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1

summer: 1

aue people (album1): 1

:country

Title: 3

FX: Commonest words: 1

FX: distribution of English-speakers: 1

FX: "fall off a turnip truck": 1

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

FX: "kangaroo": 1

FX: Origin of the dollar sign (notes by Mark Brader): 1

FX: Postfix "not": 1

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

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

Lawler giveadamn: Give a Damn: 1

Lawler schwa: Schwa and Central Vowels: 1

Intro C: American: 1

boink: 1

summer: 2

:country's

FX: "titsling"/"brassiere": 1

:Countryside

wwwords Countryside: 2

:counts

Posting History: Note C:: 1

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

Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 2

:county

Garbl: C: 2

Resources: News : 1

:countywide

Garbl: C: 1

:Coup

wwwords Coup: 2

:coupersetique

FX: "copacetic": 1

:Couperus

Audio: Other Sound Files: 1

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

:couple

I before E: Sticking for the moment to the basic rule, : 1

I before E: Exceptions to the rule 'I before E except after C': 2

Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 1

FX: words without vowels: 1

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

Lawler lingmarks: One can already, for instance, read the: 1

Lawler modals: English Modals: 1

Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 3

Supp: Grammars: 1

UCLE08: London’s: 2

:courage

awwy_C: 'Word With You' list for letter C: 2

FX: "face the music": 1

FX: "less" vs "fewer": 1

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

:Courier-Mail

FX: Online language columns: 1

:Cours

Lawler lingmarks: Phonetics and Phonology (Many of these use heavy graphics and sound resources).: 1

:course

Common errors: C: 1

Garbl: D: 1

Garbl: I: 1

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

Unedited list of search results: 2

Arthur the Rat: 1

Choice of two ASCII IPA files: 1

The Totally Official Boink Home Page: 1

Explanatory notes:: 1

Resources: Audio references : 1

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

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

FX: double "is": 1

FX: "ebonics": 1

FX: "fall off a turnip truck": 1

FX: Guidelines for posting: 1

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

FX: "in like Flynn": 1

FX: Online usage guides: 1

FX: "push the envelope": 1

FX: "rule of thumb": 1

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

FX: typo: 1

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

FX: Words pronounced differently according to context: 1

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

Lawler canthelp: Can't Help (But) ...: 2

Lawler comma: Commas again: 2

Lawler commas: Commas: 3

Lawler eclectic: Mathematics: 2

Lawler eclectic: Science What you need in order to have Science Fiction: 1

Lawler enghist: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 3

Lawler equally: "equally" and comparatives: 1

Lawler extrapos: Extraposition, plus Selected Short Subjects: 1

Lawler hadve: hadn't've: 1

Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 1

Lawler infinite: English and Infinity: 2

Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 8

Lawler lingmarks: One can already, for instance, read the: 2

Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 1

Lawler npi: Since you ask, here's a moderately complete list of polarity items,: 1

Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 2

Lawler quote: "Quote, Unquote": 1

Lawler reams: Reams: 2

Lawler schwa: Schwa and Central Vowels: 1

Lawler they: He, she, they?: 1

Lawler they: -- more followup:: 1

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

Lawler verbing: Verbing Nouns: 1

Lawler vowels: Vowels Before R: 1

Lawler zilch: zilch: 1

Intro A: Guidelines for posting: 1

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

ASCII IPA stub: 1

IPA II: The sound samples under the heading 'Lausanne sound' are from the Online: 1

IPA I: The sound samples under the heading 'Lausanne sound' are from the Online: 1

boink: 1

Supp: What is prescriptivism?: 1

UCLE11: The: 1

UCLE12: News: 1

UCLE13: Waterloo: 1

UCLE05: John Davies's commentary: 1

UCLE08: London’s: 1

UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 1

UCLE09: Rivers: 1

:courses

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

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

Resources: Learning English : 1

Lawler lingmarks: One can already, for instance, read the: 1

:court

RH_wotd kangaroo court: 1

wwwords Kangaroo court: 1

Garbl: C: 1

EMorris: K : 1

Wilton: Wilton's Etymology Page: 1

Southern speaker's description of his speech: 1

big_apple_boink_2001.html: 1

FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 3

FX: "like" vs "as": 1

FX: "O.K.": 1

FX: Origin of the dollar sign (notes by Mark Brader): 1

FX: "politically correct": 1

FX: Words pronounced differently according to context: 1

Lawler vehicle: "vehicle": 1

IPA II: The [O] sound requires rounded lips, but lips making a: 2

IPA II: [*]: 1

IPA I: The remarks concerning the pronunciation of [O] were taken verbatim from Mark Israel's: 1

IPA I: O: 2

UCLE16: Hooligan: 1

UCLE08: London’s: 1

UCLE09: Holidays: 1

:Court's

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

:courteous

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

:courtesy

awwy_M: 'Word With You' list for letter M: 1

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

Lawler lingmarks: One can already, for instance, read the: 2

:courthouse

Garbl: C: 1

:courtiers

Lawler academy: The Academy: 1

:Courtney

FX: Books on phrasal verbs: 1

Lawler phrasal: Phrasal Verbs: 1

:courts

awwy_M: 'Word With You' list for letter M: 1

:cousin

Lawler indian: Indian English: 1

:cousin-brother

Lawler indian: Indian English: 1

:coutries

Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 1

:couture

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

:Coventry

EMorris: C : 1

:cover

Garbl: C: 1

Garbl: G: 1

FX: Dictionaries: 1

FX: "Jingle Bells": 1

FX: Online language columns: 1

Description of FAQ maintenance: 1

Genitive: Genitive is not always possessive.: 1

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

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

UCLE13: Custer's last stand: 1

UCLE13: Waterloo: 1

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

:cover's

Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 1

:Coverdale

FX: "bug"="defect": 1

:Coverdale's

FX: "bug"="defect": 1

:covered

Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 2

FX: Online usage guides: 1

FX: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.": 1

FX: "the whole nine yards": 1

Description of FAQ maintenance: 2

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

Supp: About this File: 2

UCLE14: Cripplegate and Crutched: 1

UCLE05: John Davies's commentary: 1

:covering

I before E: With regard to the extension added by some people for "neighbor": 1

:covers

I before E: Early in both discussions I submitted a list of words that were: 1

Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 1

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

FX: Style manuals: 1

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

:covert

Subjunctive?: Subjunctive: 1

:covet

UCLE05: John Davies's commentary: 1

:coveted

Lawler phrasal: Phrasal Verbs: 1

:Covington

Lawler lingmarks: People: 1

:cow's

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

:cowabunga

RH_wotd cowabunga: 2

EMorris: C : 1

:Cowan

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

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

UCLE08: The “Fat Lady”: 1

:Coward

:cowardly

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

:cowboy

Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 1

FX: "cut the mustard": 1

:Cowie

FX: Books on phrasal verbs: 1

Lawler phrasal: Phrasal Verbs: 1

:coworkers

Lawler schwa: Schwa and Central Vowels: 1

:Cowper

:cows

awwy_C: 'Word With You' list for letter C: 2

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

awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1

UCLE14: Slang Names for British Currency: 1

:cozen

RH_wotd cozen: 2

:Cphd