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

The Totally Official Boink Home Page: 2

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

awwy_M: 'Word With You' list for letter M: 6

awwy_O: 'Word With You' list for letter O: 1

awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 5

Resources: Learning English : 1

FX: "acronym": 1

FX: "by hook or by crook": 1

FX: "catch-22": 1

FX: Commonest words: 1

FX: "crap": 1

FX: "ebonics": 1

FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 3

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

FX: "Go figure": 1

FX: Guidelines for posting: 2

FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 1

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

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

FX: "Let them eat cake!": 1

FX: names of "&", "@", and "#": 1

FX: Related newsgroups: 1

FX: split infinitive: 1

FX: "spoonerism": 1

FX: Subjunctive: 1

FX: "try and", "be sure and", "go" + verb: 2

FX: ", vs ,": 1

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

FX: "whom": 1

FX: words without vowels: 1

Description of FAQ maintenance: 3

Fast FAQ: A faster way to access items in the AUE FAQ: 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": 4

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

Lawler bring: Bring vs Take: 1

Lawler comma: Commas again: 1

Lawler commas: Commas: 1

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

Lawler complmnt: Object Complements: 2

Lawler correct: "Correctness": 1

Lawler eclectic: Fantasy and Science Fiction : 1

Lawler extrapos: Extraposition, plus Selected Short Subjects: 2

Lawler gotten: Gotten vs. Got: 3

Lawler hadve: hadn't've: 1

Lawler headline: Headline grammar: 2

Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 1

Lawler infinite: English and Infinity: 1

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

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

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

Lawler modals: The canonical paraphrase for will is be going to, idiosyncratically: 1

Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 2

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

Lawler only: "only": 2

Lawler phrasal: Phrasal Verbs: 1

Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 1

Lawler reams: Reams: 3

Lawler schwa: Schwa and Central Vowels: 1

Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1

Lawler striddly: striddly: 2

Lawler tense: Tense and related topics: 1

Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 4

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

Lawler truly: Canadian and American Raising: 3

Lawler verbing: Verbing Nouns: 1

Lawler writing: Literacy: 1

Intro A: Guidelines for posting: 2

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

IPA I: Slashes or square brackets?: 1

IPA I: Let's get started!: 1

IPA I: What is this?: 2

boink: 1

Audio recording technique - Some suggestions: 3

Supp: Grammars: 1

Supp: "SOS": 1

summer: 2

UCLE11: The: 6

UCLE02: The history of ucle: 1

UCLE03: Judith: 2

UCLE05: John Davies's commentary: 1

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

UCLE09: “Bloody”: 1

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

:make love

RH_wotd make love: 1

:make no bones

RH_wotd make no bones: 1

:MakePlan

The Totally Official Boink Home Page: 2

:makes

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

Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 5

FX: "bloody": 1

FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 1

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

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

FX: Plurals of Latin/Greek words: 1

FX: "spoonerism": 1

FX: "that" vs "which": 1

Description of FAQ maintenance: 2

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

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

Lawler complmnt: Object Complements: 1

Lawler correct: "Correctness": 5

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

Lawler hadve: hadn't've: 1

Lawler l-sounds: English L sounds: 1

Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 3

Lawler writing: Literacy: 1

UCLE11: The: 1

UCLE09: “Pop: 1

:makeshift

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

FX: "loo": 1

:makh

FX: "Go figure": 1

:makhno

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

:making

Arthur the Rat: 1

Southern speaker's description of his speech: 1

The North Wind and the Sun: 1

Richard Fontana audio files: 1

awwy_B: 'Word With You' list for letter B: 4

awwy_G: 'Word With You' list for letter G: 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: 4

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

awwy_P: 'Word With You' list for letter P: 2

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

awwy_T: 'Word With You' list for letter T: 1

Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 1

Isles: ENGLAND. The biggest and most populous of the four countries: 1

FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 1

FX: I before E except after C (notes by Mark Wainwright): 2

FX: "ISO" by Mark Brader: 1

FX: "like" vs "as": 1

FX: spaces between sentences: 1

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

FX: Why is "I" capitalized?: 1

FX: words ending in "-gry": 1

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

Lawler commas: Commas: 1

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

Lawler extrapos: --- Followup --: 1

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

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

Lawler only: "only": 1

Lawler quote: "Quote, Unquote": 2

Lawler truly: Canadian and American Raising: 1

Lawler writing: Literacy: 1

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

IPA II: Technical details:: 1

IPA I: Reading ASCII IPA: 2

IPA I: Technical details: 1

IPA I: O: 1

The Totally Official Boink Home Page: 1

Emphasis quotes: Use of Quotation Marks for Emphasis: 1

UCLE09: Serendipity: 1

:mal

RH_wotd honi soit qui mal y pense: 1

:Malagasy

FX: "kangaroo": 1

:Malapropisms

EMorris: M : 1

:Malarkey

EMorris: M : 1

:Malarky

wwwords Malarky: 2

:malathion

FX: trademarks: 2

:Malawi

Title: 1

:Malay

wwwords Words from Malay: 1

Lawler itsraining: You may have noticed the Sapir quotation in my .sig.: 3

:Malaysia

Title: 1

Comments on a proposal for reformed English spelling: 2

:Malcolm

FX: "loo": 1

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

:Malcus

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

:male

awwy_D: 'Word With You' list for letter D: 1

FX: Gender-neutral pronouns: 1

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

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

Lawler indian: Indian English: 1

Lawler striddly: striddly: 1

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

UCLE09: “It’s: 1

:Maledicta

:malgry

FX: words ending in "-gry": 1

:malicious

UCLE06: Rhetorical vocabulary: 1

:mall

RH_wotd mall: 2

:Malless

Supp: Books about words: 1

:Mallory

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

:Malmkjaer

Explanatory notes:: 1

:Malmkjaer's

Explanatory notes:: 2

:Malouf

Lawler lingmarks: People: 1

:Malta

Title: 1

:Mama

awwy_T: 'Word With You' list for letter T: 1

:mammoth

UCLE12: News: 1

:MAN

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

UCLE12: News: 1

:man

RH_wotd straw man: 1

RH_wotd man alive: 1

RH_wotd point man: 1

wwwords White-van man: 1

:man alive

RH_wotd man alive: 1

:man's

awwy_D: 'Word With You' list for letter D: 1

FX: Biblical sense of "to know": 1

FX: "done"="finished": 1

FX: "rule of thumb": 1

FX: "the whole nine yards": 1

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

Lawler they: -- more followup:: 1

:man,

RH_wotd man, you the: 1

RH_wotd man, woman: 1

:man, woman

RH_wotd man, woman: 1

:man, you the

RH_wotd man, you the: 1

:man-hungry

FX: words ending in "-gry": 1

:man-made

Garbl: M: 1

FX: "true fact": 1

:manage

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

summer: 1

:manageable

Garbl: M: 1

:managed

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

Lawler gotten: Gotten vs. Got: 1

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

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

UCLE13: Custer's last stand: 1

:management

awwy_M: 'Word With You' list for letter M: 2

boink: 3

:manager

Garbl: G: 1

Garbl: M: 1

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

FX: "in like Flynn": 1

FX: "quiz": 1

Lawler giveadamn: Give a Damn: 3

Lawler smith: Henry Lee Smith: 1

Intro D: Gender-neutral pronouns -- "he/she" -v- "they": 4

:managery

FX: words ending in "-gry": 1

:Manchester

summer: 1

:Mandarin

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

:mandate

:mandatory

Garbl: M: 1

:Mandingo

FX: "O.K.": 1

:maneuver

Garbl: M: 1

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

UCLE13: Waterloo: 2

:maneuvers

:Manfred

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

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

:mangent

awwy_Q: 'Word With You' list for letter Q: 1

FX: "Let them eat cake!": 2

:Manger

EMorris: D : 1

:Manhattan

Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 1

:manicotti

FX: Foreign plurals => English singulars: 1

:manifest

RH_wotd manifest: 2

UCLE11: The: 1

:Manifesto

Lawler lingmarks: Man's Reach Must Exceed his Grasp; or, What's a Metaphor?: 1

:Manipulating

:Manitoba

FX: "canola": 1

:Manly

FX: "quality": 1

:mann

FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 1

FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1

IPA I: a: 1

:mann's

FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1

:manner

Garbl: I: 1

Garbl: M: 1

FX: "hopefully", "thankfully": 3

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

FX: "portmanteau word": 1

FX: split infinitive: 1

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

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

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

Lawler reams: Reams: 1

:manners

FX: Subjunctive: 1

UCLE11: The: 1

UCLE03: Lindsay: 1

:mannes

FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 2

:Manning

Lawler lingmarks: Computational Linguistics Extremely: 1

:Manninga

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

:Mannkey

:Manny

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

:manoeuvre

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

:manorial

UCLE09: One: 1

:manpower

Garbl: M: 1

FX: "less" vs "fewer": 1

:mans

Lawler they: -- more followup:: 1

:Mansfield

FX: "could care less": 1

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

:manu

Initialisms that have been used in AUE: 1

UCLE11: The: 1

:Manual

Garbl: Garbl's Editorial Style Manual -- Contents: 2

FX: "mouses" vs "mice": 1

FX: "quality": 1

FX: Style manuals: 1

Supp: Echoed remote indexes: 1

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

:manuals

FX: Style manuals: 2

FX: Table of Contents: 1

Fast FAQ: Table of Contents: 1

fast_faq_toc.html: 1

Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1

Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 1

:Manuel

Lawler lingmarks: People: 1

:manufactured

Stephen Toogood's explanation of the paddle: 1

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

:manufacturer

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

:manufacturing

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

:manunkind

FX: Postfix "not": 1

:manure

awwy_M: 'Word With You' list for letter M: 2

:MANURE

UCLE12: News: 1

:manuscript

FX: Style manuals: 1

:manuscripts

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

FX: Why is "I" capitalized?: 1

:Manwatching

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

:Manx

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

:many

wwwords How many words in the language?: 1

wwwords America In So Many Words (book review): 1

wwwords World In So Many Words (book review): 1

Title: 1

Garbl: E: 1

Garbl: M: 1

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

Autism and Daniel McGrath: 2

Comments on a proposal for reformed English spelling: 3

Audio recording technique - Some suggestions: 2

Audio: Other Sound Files: 1

The Rainbow Passage: 2

Resources: Collections of Web links : 2

Resources: Dictionaries : 2

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

Resources: Lexicons : 1

Resources: Miscellaneous, not language related : 1

Resources: Online services : 1

Resources: Miscellaneous, language related : 1

Resources: Usage, grammar, and style guides : 1

Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 10

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

Isles: SCOTCH. The following is extracted from Mark Israel's FAQ: 3

FX: "." after abbreviations: 1

FX: "all ... not": 2

FX: "beg the question": 1

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

FX: Books on usage: 1

FX: Books on Britishisms, Canadianisms, etc.: 3

FX: Commonest words: 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: "ebonics": 2

FX: English is Tough Stuff: 1

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

FX: "fall off a turnip truck": 1

FX: Foreign plurals => English singulars: 1

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

FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 4

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

FX: "ISO" by Mark Brader: 1

FX: "kangaroo": 2

FX: "less" vs "fewer": 1

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

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

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

FX: Online language columns: 2

FX: Origin of the dollar sign (notes by Mark Brader): 3

FX: "pie-shaped": 1

FX: Related newsgroups: 1

FX: Repeated words after abbreviations: 1

FX: rhotic vs non-rhotic, intrusive "r": 2

FX: "Scotch": 2

FX: split infinitive: 2

FX: "spoonerism": 2

FX: "titsling"/"brassiere": 2

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

FX: trademarks: 1

FX: "true fact": 1

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

FX: ", vs ,": 1

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

FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 5

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

FX: Why do we say "30 years old", but "a 30-year-old man"?: 1

FX: words ending in "-gry": 1

FX: Words pronounced differently according to context: 2

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

Genitive: Genitive is not always possessive.: 2

Lawler a-an: A or An Historical Novel?: 2

Lawler academy: The Academy: 1

Lawler amnt: "amn't": 2

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

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

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

Lawler complmnt: Object Complements: 1

Lawler correct: "Correctness": 2

Lawler eclectic: (Mostly Michigan) People: 1

Lawler hadve: hadn't've: 1

Lawler hadve: I suspect much of the rancor that greets spellings of had've is: 1

Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 1

Lawler indian: Indian English: 5

Lawler infinite: English and Infinity: 1

Lawler itsraining: "It" in "It's raining": 5

Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 3

Lawler l-sounds: English L sounds: 2

Lawler lingmarks: One can already, for instance, read the: 3

Lawler lingmarks: Computational Linguistics Extremely: 2

Lawler modals: English Modals: 2

Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 19

Lawler npi: Since you ask, here's a moderately complete list of polarity items,: 2

Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 3

Lawler quote: "Quote, Unquote": 1

Lawler reams: Reams: 8

Lawler ross: Ross Constraints: 2

Lawler schwa: Schwa and Central Vowels: 1

Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 3

Lawler tense: Tense and related topics: 1

Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 4

Lawler thehell: Usage of "the hell": 2

Lawler they: -- more followup:: 1

Lawler vehicle: "vehicle": 1

Lawler verbing: Verbing Nouns: 1

Lawler vowels: Vowels Before R: 1

Lawler zilch: zilch: 2

Intro A: Responding: 1

Intro B: Acronyms and abbreviations: 1

Intro B: Encyclopedias & Search Engines: 2

Intro B: Historical English, and English Literature: 1

Intro B: Learning English as a Foreign Language: 1

Intro B: On-line dictionaries: 2

Intro B: Word lists: 1

Intro C: Intro C: Mini-FAQ on Words and Phrases: 1

Intro C: American: 2

Intro C: "billion" (based on an article by Ken Moore and Olivier Bettens): 1

Intro C: "full monty": 1

Intro D: Intro D: Mini-FAQ on Grammar, Usage and Punctuation: 1

Intro D: Gender-neutral pronouns -- "he/she" -v- "they": 2

Intro D: Why do we say "30 years old", but "a 30-year-old man"?: 1

Intro E: Intro E: Mini-FAQ on Spelling: 1

Intro E: I before E except after C (based on notes by Mark Wainwright): 2

Intro E: Isn't spelling reform a good idea?: 2

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

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

Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 1

IPA II: Credits:: 2

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

IPA II: Many U.S. speakers substitute [@] for [V"], so they would: 1

IPA I: Credits: 2

IPA I: Slashes or square brackets?: 1

IPA I: aU@: 1

IPA I: hw: 1

IPA I: oU: 1

IPA I: A.: 1

IPA I: V": 2

IPA I: What is this?: 1

boink: 1

Emphasis quotes: Use of Quotation Marks for Emphasis: 2

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

Supp: Books about words: 1

Supp: How to represent pronunciation: 1

Supp: Online dictionaries: 2

summer: 1

Symposium I: The alt.usage.english London Symposium: 1

UCLE11: The: 3

UCLE13: Waterloo: 1

UCLE15: Bonfire: 1

UCLE03: Lindsay: 1

UCLE05: What’s: 1

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

UCLE08: London’s: 1

UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 1

UCLE08: “This: 1

UCLE09: Rivers: 2

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

:manzana