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FX: "The die is cast.": 1
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invaded
Lawler tense: >Just one question: Where does the past perfect ("have gone", "have sung"): 2
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invaders
UCLE10: The: 1
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invalid
Garbl: D: 1
Where FAQ?: Places to get Mark Israel's AUE FAQ: 1
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invaluable
Isles: SCOTCH. The following is extracted from Mark Israel's FAQ: 1
FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 1
Intro A: Newcomers to the Net: 1
UCLE02: The history of ucle: 1
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Invar
FX: trademarks: 1
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invariable
FX: Foreign plurals => English singulars: 1
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invariably
Stephen Toogood's explanation of the paddle: 1
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INVASION
UCLE04: Our Favourite Cultural and Language Links: 1
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invasion
Lawler enghist: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 1
UCLE15: Gossip: 1
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Invective
UCLE06: Rhetorical vocabulary: 1
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inveigle
RH_wotd inveigle: 2
I before E: For those people who insist the rule apply only to words where: 1
FX: I before E except after C (notes by Mark Wainwright): 1
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invent
FX: "crap": 1
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invented
FX: Does the next millennium begin in 2000 or 2001?: 1
FX: "mouses" vs "mice": 1
FX: names of "&", "@", and "#": 1
FX: Origin of the dollar sign (notes by Mark Brader): 1
FX: "widget" (notes by William C. Waterhouse): 1
Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 1
summer: 1
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inventor
awwy_E: 'Word With You' list for letter E: 1
awwy_L: 'Word With You' list for letter L: 1
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Inverness
FX: "Elementary, my dear Watson!": 1
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inversions
Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 3
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investigated
FX: "O.K.": 1
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investigation
awwy_I: 'Word With You' list for letter I: 1
Lawler booklist: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 1
Lawler lingmarks: One can already, for instance, read the: 1
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Investigative
UCLE04: British: 1
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investigator
awwy_I: 'Word With You' list for letter I: 1
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invigorate
FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1
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invincible
awwy_I: 'Word With You' list for letter I: 1
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invisible
FX: What words are their own antonym?: 2
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Invitation
The ucle photo album: 1
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invite
FX: "beg the question": 1
Lawler commas: The intonation curve is (roughly) up-down-back.up, graphically something: 1
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invited
Description of FAQ maintenance: 1
Lawler thehell: Usage of "the hell": 3
Where FAQ?: AUE FAQ Supplement: : 1
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invocation
FX: "bloody": 1
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invoice
FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1
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invoke
Lawler canthelp: Can't Help (But) ...: 1
Lawler gonna: gonna: 1
Lawler vehicle: "vehicle": 1
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invoking
Lawler enghist: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 1
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involve
Lawler bring: Bring vs Take: 1
Lawler ross: Ross Constraints: 1
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involved
FX: "hell for leather": 1
Groups: "company is" vs "company are": 1
Lawler besides: Toward(s) and Beside(s): 1
Lawler canthelp: Can't Help (But) ...: 1
Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 2
Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 1
Lawler smith: Henry Lee Smith: 1
Lawler they: He, she, they?: 1
Lawler writing: Literacy: 1
Intro D: Group nouns -- singular or plural? "company is" -v- "company are": 1
Bridge to Damian Conway's pluralization paper: 1
Subjunctive?: Subjunctive: 1
UCLE13: Waterloo: 1
UCLE09: It went pear-shaped: 1
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involvement
UCLE14: Literary characters who became: 1
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Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 1
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involving
Lawler bring: Bring vs Take: 1
Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 1
Lawler reams: Reams: 1
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invulnerable
FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1
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inwards
Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 2
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RH_wotd agenbite of inwit: 1
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Iolanthe
FX: the the "hoi polloi" debate: 1
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Ionian
FX: "paparazzo": 1
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ionized
Lawler itsraining: "It" in "It's raining": 1
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iota
FX: "could care less": 1
FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 1
IPA II: IPA Chart Revision Date:: 1
IPA I: Note A: 1
IPA I: or : 1
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iota,
RH_wotd iota, jot: 1
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iota, jot
RH_wotd iota, jot: 1
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IOUs
awwy_I: 'Word With You' list for letter I: 1
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Iowa
Audio: � USA: 1
Audio: � USA: 1
UCLE10: American belts: 1
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IP
FX: "a"/"an" before abbreviations: 1
Website Hits Logger: 39
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IPA
File Not Found: 1
Jitze once: 1
Jitze Couperus: 1
Mark Israel wedding: 1
Stephen Toogood's explanation of the paddle: 1
Tootsie's Wedding-Announcement Picture: 1
Albert Marshall: 1
Reinhold Aman: 1
Brian Goggin: 1
Aaron Dinkin: 1
Early Alex: 1
Jack Gavin: 1
Peter Moylan: 1
Stub for The AUE Photo Gallery: 1
The AUE Photo Gallery: 1
Peter Pan is alive and well and living in London: 1
Geoff Butler: 1
Graeme Thomas: 1
W. Wesley Groleau: 1
Hells Angel Alex: 1
Simon R. Hughes: 1
Ian Johnson: 1
Jim Nugent: 1
John Davies: 1
Katie Edgcombe: 1
Dennis B�thory-Kitsz: 1
Lindsay Endell: 1
Sara Lorimer: 1
Mark Barratt: 1
Mark Israel: 1
Mike Barnes: 1
Queen of Hearts: 1
Pastoral: 1
Pastoral: 1
aue people (album1): 1
The Totally Official AUE Logo once more in view: 1
Perchprism: 1
Peter Buchwald: 1
Peter Moylan: 1
Richard Fontana: 1
Robert Lieblich: 1
Skitt: 1
Sparky: 1
Gary G. Taylor: 1
Stephen Toogood: 1
Tootsie at 12: 1
Tootsie at 5: 1
Tootsie recently: 1
Trisha Stone: 1
John Varela: 1
Common errors: Other Good Resources: 1
Title: 1
Formant values for 14 Fontana vowels: 1
Fourteen vowels spoken by Richard Fontana: 1
Garbl: Z: 1
I before E: My conclusion: 1
Lawler Index: Humor among linguists.: 1
J_Lynch: W: 1
Alternating voices: Markus's and Skitt's voices alternating: 1
Autism and Daniel McGrath: 1
EMorris: Y : 1
Comments on a proposal for reformed English spelling: 3
Usenet Docs: Hyperlinks to Official Usenet Documents: 1
Wilton: Wilton's Etymology Page: 1
Initialisms that have been used in AUE: 3
Explanation of Search Criteria: 1
Annie bought hot coffee at the sideboard: 1
alt.usage.english FAQ processance for $desc: 1
Arthur the Rat: 1
Audio: Other Sound Files: 5
Southern speaker's description of his speech: 2
The North Wind and the Sun: 1
The Rainbow Passage: 1
Richard Fontana audio files: 4
Choice of two ASCII IPA files: 4
Posting History: Explanatory Remarks: 1
AUE Logo: Notes about the Totally Official AUE Logo: 1
awwy_A: 'Word With You' list for letter A: 1
awwy_B: 'Word With You' list for letter B: 1
awwy_C: 'Word With You' list for letter C: 1
awwy_D: 'Word With You' list for letter D: 1
awwy_E: 'Word With You' list for letter E: 1
awwy_F: 'Word With You' list for letter F: 1
awwy_G: 'Word With You' list for letter G: 1
awwy_H: 'Word With You' list for letter H: 1
awwy_I: 'Word With You' list for letter I: 1
awwy_J: 'Word With You' list for letter J: 1
awwy_K: 'Word With You' list for letter K: 1
awwy_L: 'Word With You' list for letter L: 1
awwy_M: 'Word With You' list for letter M: 1
awwy_N: 'Word With You' list for letter N: 1
awwy_O: 'Word With You' list for letter O: 1
awwy_P: 'Word With You' list for letter P: 1
awwy_Q: 'Word With You' list for letter Q: 1
awwy_R: 'Word With You' list for letter R: 1
awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1
awwy_T: 'Word With You' list for letter T: 1
awwy_U: 'Word With You' list for letter U: 1
awwy_V: 'Word With You' list for letter V: 1
awwy_W: 'Word With You' list for letter W: 1
awwy_X: Yankee Doodle Dandy yard wide, all wool and a yarns, spinning Yippies and Yuppies You're the doctor Yuletide (Christmas) Yuppies zaftig zany zealots Please direct any questions or comments to Melanie: 1
WWYou: | A: 1
Explanatory notes:: 2
big_apple_boink_2001.html: 1
bow_boy_bold_board_0007081805Z: 1
Resources: Audio references : 2
Resources: �������� 10. 'The requested URL: 1
Resources: Fun with words : 1
Resources: Phonetic alphabets : 9
Supplementary comments about deja.com: 1
e-mail vs email: e-mail-vs-email.html: 1
Showing variation of formants of [i:] with context: 1
Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 1
Isles: SCOTCH. The following is extracted from Mark Israel's FAQ: 1
FX: "a"/"an" before abbreviations: 1
FX: "A, B and C" vs "A, B, and C": 1
FX: "acronym": 1
FX: "A.D.": 1
FX: "." after abbreviations: 1
FX: "all ... not": 1
FX: "alot": 1
FX: "alright": 1
FX: "alumin(i)um" (notes by Keith Ivey): 1
FX: "A number of...": 1
FX: Basic English: 1
FX: "beg the question": 1
FX: "between you and I": 1
FX: Biblical sense of "to know": 1
FX: "billion": a U.K. view: 1
FX: "billions and billions": 1
FX: "bloody": 1
FX: "blue moon" (notes by Philip Hiscock): 1
FX: "Bob's your uncle": 1
FX: Books on usage: 1
FX: Books on phrasal verbs: 1
FX: Books on phrase origins: 1
FX: Books on Britishisms, Canadianisms, etc.: 1
FX: Books on "bias-free"/"politically correct" language: 1
FX: Books on group names: 1
FX: Books on rhyming slang: 1
FX: Book on mathematical exposition: 1
FX: Books on linguistics: 1
FX: Books that discriminate synonyms: 1
FX: "Break a leg!": 1
FX: "bug"="defect": 1
FX: "by hook or by crook": 1
FX: "Caesarean section": 1
FX: "canola": 1
FX: "catch-22": 1
FX: Commonest words: 1
FX: "company is" vs "company are": 1
FX: "copacetic": 1
FX: "cop": 1
FX: "could care less": 1
FX: "could of": 1
FX: "crap": 1
FX: "cut the mustard": 1
FX: "cut to the chase": 1
FX: Diacritics: 1
FX: Dictionaries: 1
FX: "different to", "different than": 1
FX: distribution of English-speakers: 1
FX: Does the next millennium begin in 2000 or 2001?: 1
FX: "done"="finished": 1
FX: Do publishers put false info in dictionaries to catch plagiarists?: 1
FX: double "is": 1
FX: doubling of final consonants before suffixes: 1
FX: "dressed to the nines": 1
FX: "due to": 1
FX: "ebonics": 1
FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 1
FX: "Elementary, my dear Watson!": 1
FX: English is Tough Stuff: 1
FX: "Enquiring minds want to know." (notes by James Kiso): 1
FX: E-prime: 1
FX: "-er" vs "-re": 1
FX: "Eskimo": 1
FX: etymologies of personal names: 1
FX: "face the music": 1
FX: "fall off a turnip truck": 1
FX: "flammable": 1
FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 1
FX: Foreign plurals => English singulars: 1
FX: "freeway": 1
FX: "fuck": 1
FX: "full monty": 1
FX: Fumblerules ("Don't use no double negatives", etc.): 1
FX: "functionality": 1
FX: Gender-neutral pronouns: 1
FX: General reference: 1
FX: "Get the lead out": 1
FX: "God rest you merry, gentlemen": 1
FX: "Go figure": 1
FX: "golf": 1
FX: "Go placidly amid the noise and the haste" (Desiderata): 1
FX: "go to hell in a handbasket": 1
FX: Grammars: 1
FX: Guidelines for posting: 1
FX: "hell for leather": 1
FX: "hoist with his own petard": 1
FX: "hooker": 1
FX: "hopefully", "thankfully": 1
FX: How did "Truly" become a personal name?: 1
FX: How do Americans pronounce "dog"?: 1
FX: How do you spell "e-mail"?: 1
FX: How reliable are dictionaries?: 1
FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 14
FX: I before E except after C (notes by Mark Wainwright): 1
FX: "if I was" vs "if I were": 1
FX: "Illegitimis non carborundum": 1
FX: "impact"="to affect": 1
FX: "in like Flynn": 1
FX: "ISO" by Mark Brader: 1
FX: "It needs cleaned": 1
FX: "It's me" vs "It is I": 1
FX: "I won't mention...": 1
FX: "-ize" vs "-ise": 1
FX: "jerry-built"/"jury-rigged": 1
FX: "Jingle Bells": 1
FX: Joke about step-by-step spelling reform: 1
FX: "kangaroo": 1
FX: "less" vs "fewer": 1
FX: "Let them eat cake!": 1
FX: "like" vs "such as": 1
FX: "like" vs "as": 1
FX: "limerence"/"limerent": 1
FX: "loo": 1
FX: "love"="zero": 1
FX: "merkin" (notes by Michael B. Quinion and Ruth Bygrave): 1
FX: "mind your p's and q's": 1
FX: "more honoured in the breach than the observance": 1
FX: "more/most/very unique": 1
FX: "more than you can shake a stick at": 1
FX: "mouses" vs "mice": 1
FX: names of "&", "@", and "#": 1
FX: "near miss": 1
FX: "nimrod": 1
FX: "none is" vs "none are": 1
FX: "O.K.": 1
FX: "ollie ollie oxen free": 1
FX: Online usage guides: 1
FX: Online language columns: 1
FX: Online dictionaries: 1
FX: Origin of the dollar sign (notes by Mark Brader): 1
FX: "outrage": 1
FX: "paparazzo": 1
FX: "peter out": 1
FX: "pie-shaped": 1
FX: Plurals of Latin/Greek words: 1
FX: "politically correct": 1
FX: "portmanteau word": 1
FX: "posh": 1
FX: Postfix "not": 1
FX: [Prefatory remarks]: 1
FX: Preposition at end: 1
FX: provenance of English vocabulary (notes by Lucia Engkent): 1
FX: "push the envelope": 1
FX: "put in one's two cents' worth": 1
FX: "quality": 1
FX: "quiz": 1
FX: radio alphabets: 1
FX: Related newsgroups: 1
FX: Repeated words after abbreviations: 1
FX: rhotic vs non-rhotic, intrusive "r": 1
FX: "rule of thumb": 1
FX: "Santa Ana": 1
FX: "Scotch": 1
FX: "scot-free": 1
FX: sentences grammatical in both Old English and Modern English: 1
FX: "shall" vs "will", "should" vs "would": 1
FX: "shouting fire in a crowded theater": 1
FX: "sincere": 1
FX: "sirloin"/"baron of beef": 1
FX: "son of a gun": 1
FX: "SOS": 1
FX: spaces between sentences: 1
FX: Spelling reform: 1
FX: "spit and image"/"spitting image": 1
FX: split infinitive: 1
FX: "spoonerism": 1
FX: Style manuals: 1
FX: Subjunctive: 1
FX: "suck"="be very unsatisfying" by John Davies: 1
FX: "Take the prisoner downstairs", said Tom condescendingly.: 1
FX: "that kind of a thing": 1
FX: "that" vs "which": 1
FX: "the bee's knees": 1
FX: "The die is cast.": 1
FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 1
FX: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.": 1
FX: "There's a sucker born every minute": 1
FX: the the "hoi polloi" debate: 1
FX: "the whole nine yards": 1
FX: "till"/"until": 1
FX: "tip": 1
FX: "titsling"/"brassiere": 1
FX: "to all intents and purposes": 1
FX: "to call a spade a spade": 1
FX: trademarks: 1
FX: troll: 1
FX: "true fact": 1
FX: "try and", "be sure and", "go" + verb: 1
FX: typo: 1
FX: ", vs ,": 1
FX: "wait for the other shoe to drop": 1
FX: WELCOME TO ALT.USAGE.ENGLISH!: 1
FX: What is the opposite of "to exceed"?: 1
FX: What is the opposite of "distaff side"?: 1
FX: What is a suggested format for citing online sources?: 1
FX: What is the phone number of the Grammar Hotline?: 1
FX: What is "ghoti"? (notes by Jim Scobbie): 1
FX: What do you call the grass strip between the road and the sidewalk?: 1
FX: What is the language term for...?: 1
FX: What will we call the next decade?: 1
FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1
FX: When to use "the": 1
FX: "Wherefore art thou Romeo?": 1
FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1
FX: "whole cloth" (notes by Ellen Rosen): 1
FX: "whom": 1
FX: Why do we say "30 years old", but "a 30-year-old man"?: 1
FX: Why is "I" capitalized?: 1
FX: Wicca: 1
FX: "widget" (notes by William C. Waterhouse): 1
FX: "wog": 1
FX: "wonk" (notes by Fred Shapiro): 1
FX: "wop": 1
FX: words without vowels: 1
FX: words ending in "-gry": 1
FX: Words pronounced differently according to context: 1
FX: Words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 1
FX: "ye"="the": 1
FX: "You have another think coming": 1
FX: "you saying" vs "your saying": 1
Description of FAQ maintenance: 1
Fast FAQ: Table of Contents: 1
Comparison of Fontana "caught" with three UCL vowels: 1
Formant analysis: 2
Graphical Counter Example: 1
Genitive: Genitive is not always possessive.: 1
Groups: "company is" vs "company are": 1
Comparison of vowels in "hing", "hean", "hin", and "hit": 1
Website Hits Logger: 1
Lawler a-an: A or An Historical Novel?: 1
Lawler academy: The Academy: 1
Lawler aluminum: Alumin(i)um: 1
Lawler amnt: "amn't": 1
Lawler anymore: anymore: 1
Lawler asfaras: As far as ... goes/is concerned: 1
Lawler besides: Toward(s) and Beside(s): 1
Lawler booklist: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 1
Lawler bring: Bring vs Take: 1
Lawler buoy: Aural and Oral, Boy and Buoy: 1
Lawler canthelp: Can't Help (But) ...: 1
Lawler comma: Commas again: 1
Lawler commas: >>> The facts of the matter are these:: 1
Lawler complmnt: Object Complements: 1
Lawler correct: "Correctness": 1
Lawler eclectic: Miscellaneous: 1
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: 1
Lawler gonna: gonna: 1
Lawler gotten: Gotten vs. Got: 1
Lawler hadve: I suspect much of the rancor that greets spellings of had've is: 1
Lawler hafta: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 1
Lawler headline: Headline grammar: 1
Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 1
Lawler indian: Indian English: 1
Lawler infinite: English and Infinity: 1
Lawler itsraining: You may have noticed the Sapir quotation in my .sig.: 1
Lawler l-sounds: >> For instance: English has only one /l/ phoneme, but it has: 1
Lawler lingmarks: Miscellaneous: 1
Lawler modals: The canonical paraphrase for will is be going to, idiosyncratically: 1
Lawler npi: Since you ask, here's a moderately complete list of polarity items,: 1
Lawler npislands: News Item: 1
Lawler only: "only": 1
Lawler phrasal: Phrasal Verbs: 1
Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 1
Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 1
Lawler quote: "Quote, Unquote": 1
Lawler reams: Reams: 1
Lawler ross: Ross Constraints: 1
Lawler schwa: Schwa and Central Vowels: 2
Lawler sig: Maybe the horse will sing: 1
Lawler smith: Henry Lee Smith: 1
Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1
Lawler striddly: striddly: 1
Lawler tense: >Just one question: Where does the past perfect ("have gone", "have sung"): 1
Lawler that: Two kinds of "that-clauses": 1
Lawler thehell: Usage of "the hell": 1
Lawler they: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 1
Lawler truly: Canadian and American Raising: 1
Lawler vehicle: "vehicle": 1
Lawler verbing: Verbing Nouns: 1
Lawler vowels: Where I grew up (in DeKalb, IL, 100 km W of Chicago) Mary,: 1
Lawler whom: Who(m): 1
Lawler writing: Literacy: 1
Lawler xmasthat: There are also two kinds of relative clauses:: 1
Lawler zilch: zilch: 1
Interface: Footnote: For small documents, 'search area' may mean the entire document. For larger : 1
Interface: Help: 4
Intro A: Dealing with unwanted postings: 1
Intro B: Intro B: Useful Web Sites for AUE Participants: 1
Intro B: Where to learn about ASCII IPA: 4
Intro F: Pronunciation: 3
Intro G: Intro G: Where is the FAQ?: 1
Introduction: Intro A: Welcome to AUE and Guidelines: 1
ASCII IPA stub: 3
IPA II: Consonants and Vowels:: 3
IPA II: IPA Chart Revision Date:: 2
IPA II: Main Index:: 1
IPA II: The Details:: 4
IPA II: About this document:: 1
IPA II: Affricates, diphthongs and triphthongs:: 1
IPA II: Credits:: 1
IPA II: The reference to 'Chicago pop' first appeared in Mark Israel's: 2
IPA II: The sounds in the column headed 'IPA sounds' have been copied with permission: 2
IPA II: Slashes or square brackets?: 2
IPA II: Technical details:: 1
IPA II: ASCII IPA: A modified version having only American examples: 1
IPA I: Note A: 3
IPA I: Affricates, diphthongs and triphthongs: 1
IPA I: Consonants and vowels: 6
IPA I: Credits: 1
IPA I: The sounds in the column headed 'IPA sounds' have been copied with permission: 2
IPA I: The reference to 'Chicago pop' first appeared in Mark Israel's: 1
IPA I: Slashes or square brackets?: 2
IPA I: Vowel pronunciations by experts: 3
IPA I: Reading ASCII IPA: 7
IPA I: Let's get started!: 1
IPA I: Technical details: 1
IPA I: What is this?: 6
IPA I: Writing ASCII IPA: 4
The Totally Official Boink Home Page: 1
boink: 1
Mark Barratt: 1
Mike Page picture 3: 1
Showing variation of formants of [i:] with context: 1
Bridge to Damian Conway's pluralization paper: 1
Quoting Usenet Articles in Follow-ups
Contents
The Aim Of This Document
What Is Quoting?
Why Should I Quote?
How Do I Quote?
Suggestions: How To Form Your Reply
Why Bother Following This Style?
Credits
Improvements
The Aim Of This Document
This document constitutes a suggested style for Usenet articles that quote the articles of others. It does not pretend to deal with all aspects of posting on Usenet (see the news.announce.newusers newsgroup for more general help), but in the experience of those of us who have had a hand in the formation of this document, the quoting of previous postings is an issue that many people have problems with, especially in light of recent software that is less than helpful to the uninformed user.
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What Is Quoting?
Quoting is placing the relevant text of the news article you are replying to in your own article. Lines of quoted text should be marked at the beginning with a special character to indicated that they are quoted rather than original text. The symbol most often used for marking in this manner is the "greater-than" symbol (>).
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Why Should I Quote?
Quoting the text of the articles you are responding to helps the reader follow the thread that your posting becomes a part of. The reader does not need to look back at the previous articles to understand the context that makes yours meaningful.
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How Do I Quote?
Most newsreaders automatically quote in your reply the article you are following-up (answering). Otherwise, copy the message you are replying to, and paste the text into your reply, indicating in some way that the text is quoted.
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Suggestions: How To Form Your Reply
Always place your text under the text of the articles you are quoting.
If your newsreader places the cursor above the quoted material, move it to the end of the message before you start writing your reply. (Some newsreaders have an option to have the cursor initially placed at the end of the quoted text. RTFM.)
Quote no more text than necessary.
Only leave the text from the previous message that is necessary to give your article its intended meaning. A useful aim, though not always practical, is that not more than half of your total message should be quoted text. If you delete text from the previous article, indicate that you have done so. A common way of doing this is by inserting [snip] or [...] on a line by itself, in place of the deleted text.
Make use of white space.
A blank line takes up only one or two bytes. Leave a blank line between the quoted text and your reply. Doing so makes your posting easier to read.
Do not quote the signatures of previous posters.
You should quote the .sig of a previous poster only when it is specifically the .sig that you are responding to (see immediately below). If a previous poster has quoted someone else's .sig, you can remove it, unless doing so changes the context of the relevant article.
Indicate whom you are quoting.
Most newsreading software automatically places an attribution of the quoted text at the top of the reply. Leave it there. It is good manners, not to mention rather convenient at times, to be able to match poster with posted text. If your newsreader does not place an attribution in your reply, then add a line with at least the name of the person you are quoting.
Do not quote the headers of previous posters.
You should quote the headers of previous posters only when it is specifically the headers that you are responding to. If a previous poster has quoted someone else's headers, you can remove them, unless doing so changes the context of the relevant article.
Do not change quoted text.
Misrepresenting the opinions of others is dishonest. The line lengths of a quoted article can be changed with impunity, but nothing else. (If the profanity of others offends you to the extent that you deem it inappropriate, even as quoted text, in your reply, either paraphrase the previous article, or forget about replying.)
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Why Bother Following This Style?
You save bandwidth.
Your message is easier to read and understand in its context.
The reader can more readily see what you say, the way you say it merging more into the background.
More people will read what you have to say (at least to begin with).
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Credits
This document is based on a translation of a Norwegian document. There have, however, been numerous changes to the content, based on the comments and suggestions of some of the friendly people of alt.usage.english. For the names of the people who have been involved (except those who post X no-archive), see the thread Usenet Quoting Style that I started, inviting discussion of the original document.
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Happy Posting!
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Copyright 1999 © Simon R. Hughes
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Audio recording technique - Some suggestions: 1
Run Home Page Search Engine: 1
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Detailed comparisons of two Ladefoged vowels: 2
Supp: About this File: 1
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