:MI

  • Lawler eclectic: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/aue/eclectic.html: 1

    :mI'n

  • Lawler aluminum: Alumin(i)um: 1

    :mi'ne

  • FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1

    :miasma

  • FX: Plurals of Latin/Greek words: 1

    :mice

  • FX: "mouses" vs "mice": 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
  • UCLE11: The: 1

    :michael

  • Common errors: Other Good Resources: 1
  • Unedited list of search results: 1
  • Audio: � USA: 1
  • Audio: Other Sound Files: 1
  • Resources: Words about words : 1
  • FX: Dictionaries: 1
  • FX: "Enquiring minds want to know." (notes by James Kiso): 1
  • FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 1
  • FX: "full monty": 1
  • FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 1
  • FX: "merkin" (notes by Michael B. Quinion and Ruth Bygrave): 2
  • FX: Online language columns: 1
  • FX: Online dictionaries: 2
  • FX: "the whole nine yards": 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: "whole cloth" (notes by Ellen Rosen): 1
  • Lawler eclectic: (Mostly Michigan) People: 1
  • Lawler lingmarks: People: 1
  • Intro B: Sites on words and language:: 1
  • Intro C: "full monty": 1
  • Intro C: "whole nine yards": 1
  • Supp: Books about wordplay: 1
  • Supp: Books about words: 1
  • Supp: Dictionaries: 1
  • Supp: Echoed remote indexes: 1
  • Supp: Is 'people' the plural of 'person'?: 1
  • Posting frequencies: Tabulation of user names with over 50 postings in the past four years: 10
  • UCLE04: Our Favourite Cultural and Language Links: 1
  • What's new?: History of Changes at the AUE Web Site: 1

    :Michael's

  • Supp: Dictionaries: 1

    :Micheil

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

    :Michigan

  • Audio: � USA: 1
  • Audio: � USA: 1
  • Audio: � USA: 1
  • Audio: � USA: 1
  • Audio: Other Sound Files: 1
  • FX: How did "Truly" become a personal name?: 1
  • Lawler a-an: A or An Historical Novel?: 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: 2
  • 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: Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti/S.E. Michigan Local Area: 2
  • Lawler eclectic: Gateways: 1
  • Lawler eclectic: Reference Tools: 2
  • Lawler eclectic: Science  What you need in order to have Science Fiction: 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: 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: One can already, for instance, read the: 2
  • Lawler lingmarks: Applied   All: 1
  • Lawler lingmarks: Languages in General: 1
  • Lawler lingmarks: Universities: 2
  • 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 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: 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
  • IPA II: Credits:: 1
  • IPA I: Credits: 1
  • UCLE10: American belts: 1

    :Michigan's

  • Lawler booklist: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 1
  • Lawler lingmarks: One can already, for instance, read the: 1

    :Michiganders

  • Lawler truly: Canadian and American Raising: 1

    :Mick

  • UCLE12: News: 1

    :mickey

  • RH_wotd mickey mouse: 1
  • wwwords Take the piss: 1
  • EMorris: M : 1
  • awwy_B: 'Word With You' list for letter B: 1
  • awwy_M: 'Word With You' list for letter M: 4
  • awwy_O: 'Word With You' list for letter O: 1

    :mickey mouse

  • RH_wotd mickey mouse: 1

    :Mickwick

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

    :Micmac

  • FX: "Eskimo": 1

    :Microcredit

  • wwwords Microcredit: 2

    :Microfiche

  • FX: words ending in "-gry": 1

    :Micrometer

  • FX: "-er" vs "-re": 1

    :micrometre

  • FX: "-er" vs "-re": 1

    :micromoles

  • FX: "canola": 1

    :micron

  • FX: "-er" vs "-re": 1

    :Micronesia

  • Title: 1

    :Microphobe

  • wwwords Microphobe: 2

    :microphone

  • Garbl: M: 1
  • Audio recording technique - Some suggestions: 2

    :Microsoft

  • J_Lynch: M: 1
  • Initialisms that have been used in AUE: 3
  • FX: "mouses" vs "mice": 2

    :Microtransaction

  • wwwords Microtransaction: 2

    :microwaved

  • Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 1

    :mid-1960s

  • FX: names of "&", "@", and "#": 1
  • Intro C: "whole nine yards": 1

    :mid-1995

  • FX: words ending in "-gry": 1

    :mid-central

  • Lawler schwa: Schwa and Central Vowels: 2

    :Mid-East

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

    :mid-high-low-mid

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

    :mid-June

  • big_apple_boink_2001.html: 1

    :mid-May

  • FX: How do you spell "e-mail"?: 1
  • summer_boink/big_apple_boink.html: 1

    :mid-nineteenth

  • FX: "posh": 1

    :mid-September

  • FX: How do you spell "e-mail"?: 1

    :mid-western

  • Audio: � USA: 6
  • Audio: � USA: 4
  • Audio: � USA: 2
  • Audio: � USA: 2
  • Audio: � USA: 2
  • Audio: Other Sound Files: 2
  • Lawler indian: Indian English: 1
  • IPA II: Credits:: 2
  • IPA I: Credits: 2

    :midday

  • Garbl: M: 1
  • UCLE11: The: 1

    :middle

  • Garbl: M: 1
  • Initialisms that have been used in AUE: 1
  • awwy_B: 'Word With You' list for letter B: 1
  • awwy_L: 'Word With You' list for letter L: 1
  • awwy_M: 'Word With You' list for letter M: 1
  • awwy_R: 'Word With You' list for letter R: 1
  • Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 4
  • Isles: SCOTCH.  The following is extracted from Mark Israel's FAQ: 1
  • FX: "billion": a U.K. view: 1
  • FX: "bug"="defect": 1
  • FX: "fuck": 1
  • FX: "more/most/very unique": 1
  • FX: "Scotch": 1
  • FX: troll: 3
  • FX: Why is "I" capitalized?: 1
  • FX: "wog": 1
  • FX: Words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 1
  • Lawler a-an: A or An Historical Novel?: 2
  • Lawler academy: The Academy: 1
  • Lawler enghist: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 4
  • Lawler enghist: >Your example of English and Caxton print shop goes a long way to convince: 1
  • Lawler lingmarks: Frequently Asked Questions about English grammar and usage, Series 1 and 2by (* ahem *) John Lawler: 1
  • Lawler quote: "Quote, Unquote": 1
  • Lawler schwa: Schwa and Central Vowels: 1
  • Intro B: Historical English, and English Literature: 1
  • IPA II: Here is a key to the abbreviations used under 'Articulatory descriptions':: 2
  • IPA I: Here is a key to the abbreviations used under 'Articulatory descriptions':: 2
  • Emphasis quotes: Use of Quotation Marks for Emphasis: 1
  • UCLE10: "Bite the bullet": 1
  • UCLE05: What’s: 1
  • UCLE06: Rhetorical vocabulary: 1

    :middle-aged

  • RH_wotd middle-aged: 2

    :middlebrow

  • RH_wotd highbrow, lowbrow, middlebrow: 1
  • awwy_M: 'Word With You' list for letter M: 1

    :Middleton

  • Supp: Echoed remote indexes: 1

    :middling

  • wwwords Fair to middling: 1

    :Mideltone

  • UCLE09: One: 2

    :Midi

  • Unedited list of search results: 1

    :midland

  • FX: How do Americans pronounce "dog"?: 1
  • FX: Why is "I" capitalized?: 1

    :midnight

  • Garbl: M: 1
  • Lawler besides: Toward(s) and Beside(s): 1
  • Lawler modals: As to this discussion, the usual oppositions are those between: 1
  • UCLE13: "Rearranging deck chairs: 1

    :midsegments

  • FX: "the bee's knees": 1

    :Midst

  • UCLE11: The: 1

    :midsummer

  • UCLE15: Bonfire: 1

    :midway

  • IPA I: There is no ASCII IPA symbol for the IPA 180-degree-rotated : 1

    :Midwest

  • Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 2

    :midwestern

  • Audio: Other Sound Files: 1
  • Lawler aluminum: Alumin(i)um: 1
  • Lawler gonna: gonna: 1
  • Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 1
  • Lawler truly: Canadian and American Raising: 1
  • Lawler vehicle: "vehicle": 1

    :miffed

  • RH_wotd miffed: 2
  • EMorris: M : 1

    :Mifflin

  • FX: Commonest words: 1
  • FX: Dictionaries: 2

    :Miggs

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

    :might

  • RH_wotd may and might: 1
  • RH_wotd might could (double modal): 1
  • Common errors: M: 1
  • Garbl: M: 1
  • I before E: Exceptions to the rule 'I before E except after C': 1
  • Comments on a proposal for reformed English spelling: 4
  • Unedited list of search results: 2
  • Southern speaker's description of his speech: 1
  • AUE Logo: Notes about the Totally Official AUE Logo: 2
  • big_apple_boink_2001.html: 1
  • Isles: BRITISH ISLES.  A geographical term referring to the islands: 1
  • FX: "A, B and C" vs "A, B, and C": 1
  • FX: Commonest words: 1
  • FX: "flammable": 1
  • FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 1
  • FX: "functionality": 1
  • FX: "Go figure": 1
  • FX: "hoist with his own petard": 1
  • FX: "hopefully", "thankfully": 1
  • FX: How do Americans pronounce "dog"?: 1
  • FX: "Let them eat cake!": 1
  • FX: "like" vs "as": 2
  • FX: names of "&", "@", and "#": 1
  • FX: Repeated words after abbreviations: 1
  • FX: ", vs ,": 1
  • FX: When to use "the": 1
  • FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1
  • FX: "whom": 1
  • Lawler amnt: "amn't": 1
  • Lawler anymore: anymore: 1
  • Lawler besides: Toward(s) and Beside(s): 2
  • Lawler booklist: Books on English, Language, and Linguistics: 1
  • Lawler buoy: Aural and Oral, Boy and Buoy: 2
  • Lawler canthelp: Can't Help (But) ...: 1
  • 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 complmnt: Object Complements: 2
  • Lawler correct: "Correctness": 2
  • Lawler eclectic: Metasites  Very large collections of links: 1
  • Lawler enghist: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 2
  • Lawler extrapos: --- Followup --: 1
  • Lawler giveadamn: Give a Damn: 3
  • Lawler gonna: gonna: 1
  • Lawler gotten: Gotten vs. Got: 1
  • Lawler hafta: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 1
  • Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 1
  • Lawler itsraining: You may have noticed the Sapir quotation in my .sig.: 1
  • Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 10
  • Lawler modals: English Modals: 1
  • Lawler modals: There is also another opposition among the formal auxiliaries, between: 1
  • Lawler npi: Since you ask, here's a moderately complete list of polarity items,: 1
  • Lawler npislands: News Item: 2
  • Lawler only: "only": 1
  • Lawler phrasal: Phrasal Verbs: 2
  • Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 2
  • Lawler reams: Reams: 3
  • Lawler sig: Maybe the horse will sing: 3
  • Lawler smith: Henry Lee Smith: 1
  • Lawler tense: Tense and related topics: 1
  • Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 4
  • Lawler tense: >Just one question: Where does the past perfect ("have gone", "have sung"): 1
  • Lawler they: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 1
  • Lawler vehicle: "vehicle": 1
  • IPA I: There is no ASCII IPA symbol for the IPA 180-degree-rotated : 1
  • Audio recording technique - Some suggestions: 1
  • Subjunctive?: Subjunctive: 2
  • UCLE06: Rhetorical vocabulary: 2
  • UCLE09: “It’s: 1
  • UCLE09: “It went pear-shaped”: 1

    :might could (double modal)

  • RH_wotd might could (double modal): 1

    :might've

  • FX: "could of": 1

    :mighty

  • Unedited list of search results: 1
  • awwy_M: 'Word With You' list for letter M: 1
  • FX: "nimrod": 2
  • UCLE11: The: 1

    :MIGHTY

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

    :Migrate

  • wwwords Migrate: 2

    :Miguel

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

    :Mikael

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

    :mike

  • Garbl: M: 1
  • Unedited list of search results: 1
  • FX: etymologies of personal names: 1
  • The Totally Official Boink Home Page: 2
  • Audio recording technique - Some suggestions: 12
  • Supp: "miss not having": 1
  • Posting frequencies: Tabulation of user names with over 50 postings in the past four years: 12
  • summer: 7
  • Symposium I: The alt.usage.english London Symposium: 3
  • Symposium II: Groups: 3
  • Symposium II: Individuals: 1

    :Mike's

  • summer: 1

    :MikeB

  • Unedited list of search results: 1

    :MikeP

  • Unedited list of search results: 1

    :Mikey

  • Lawler gotten: Gotten vs. Got: 1

    :Mila

  • FX: "catch-22": 1

    :milch

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

    :mild

  • UCLE09: “It’s: 1

    :mildly

  • Lawler booklist: Books on English, Language, and Linguistics: 1
  • Lawler writing: Literacy: 1

    :mile

  • UCLE09: “Pop: 1

    :mileage

  • Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 1
  • Lawler npi: Since you ask, here's a moderately complete list of polarity items,: 1
  • Lawler schwa: Schwa and Central Vowels: 2

    :miles

  • Stephen Toogood's explanation of the paddle: 1
  • Garbl: M: 3
  • Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 1
  • FX: Commonest words: 1
  • Lawler smith: Henry Lee Smith: 1

    :milestone

  • Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 1

    :milieu

  • Lawler gonna: gonna: 1

    :military

  • awwy_M: 'Word With You' list for letter M: 2
  • FX: "catch-22": 1
  • FX: "cut the mustard": 1
  • FX: "face the music": 1
  • FX: "hoist with his own petard": 1
  • FX: What words are their own antonym?: 2
  • UCLE05: John Davies's commentary: 1
  • UCLE07: Some significant numbers from literature and literary criticism: 1

    :milk

  • Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 2
  • FX: trademarks: 1
  • Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 1
  • UCLE15: The Tooth Fairy: 1

    :milkfat

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

    :milky

  • Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 2

    :mill

  • RH_wotd run of the mill: 1
  • wwwords Through the mill: 3
  • awwy_G: 'Word With You' list for letter G: 1
  • awwy_M: 'Word With You' list for letter M: 1
  • awwy_R: 'Word With You' list for letter R: 1

    :millenia

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

    :millenium

  • Lawler hadve: hadn't've: 1
  • Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 1
  • Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 1

    :millennia

  • FX: Does the next millennium begin in 2000 or 2001?: 1
  • UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 1

    :millennium

  • wwwords Millennium: 2
  • wwwords Millennium bug: 1
  • Garbl: M: 1
  • FX: Does the next millennium begin in 2000 or 2001?: 4
  • FX: Table of Contents: 1
  • Fast FAQ: Table of Contents: 1
  • fast_faq_toc.html: 1
  • Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 1
  • Supp: Dictionaries: 1
  • UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 1

    :Millennium bug

  • wwwords Millennium bug: 1

    :Millenniumitis

  • wwwords Millenniumitis: 2

    :Miller

  • Resources: Fun with words : 1
  • Lawler eclectic: (Mostly Michigan) People: 1
  • Posting frequencies: Tabulation of user names with over 50 postings in the past four years: 1

    :Miller's

  • FX: Books on Britishisms, Canadianisms, etc.: 1

    :milliard

  • FX: "billion": a U.K. view: 3
  • Intro C: "billion" (based on an article by Ken Moore and Olivier Bettens): 1

    :milliHenrys

  • Lawler reams: Reams: 1

    :millihorns

  • Lawler npislands: News Item: 1

    :milling

  • wwwords Through the mill: 1
  • awwy_M: 'Word With You' list for letter M: 1

    :million

  • Unedited list of search results: 2
  • FX: "billion": a U.K. view: 5
  • FX: How do you spell "e-mail"?: 1
  • Lawler indian: Indian English: 2
  • Intro C: "billion" (based on an article by Ken Moore and Olivier Bettens): 6
  • UCLE04: Our Favourite Cultural and Language Links: 1

    :millions

  • Resources: Miscellaneous, not language related : 1
  • FX: "billions and billions": 1

    :mills

  • awwy_M: 'Word With You' list for letter M: 1
  • UCLE05: What’s: 1

    :millstone

  • wwwords Through the mill: 1
  • awwy_M: 'Word With You' list for letter M: 1
  • awwy_N: 'Word With You' list for letter N: 1

    :Millstone around one's neck

  • wwwords Through the mill: 1

    :milner

  • UCLE14: Eponymous London Shopkeepers: 1
  • UCLE08: “This: 1

    :milquetoast

  • RH_wotd milquetoast: 2
  • Wilton: Wilton's Etymology Page: 1

    :Milton

  • UCLE09: One: 6

    :Milton's

  • FX: "all ... not": 1

    :Miltown

  • FX: trademarks: 1

    :Mime

  • Unedited list of search results: 1

    :Mime-Version

  • Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 1

    :mimeograph

  • FX: trademarks: 1

    :mimeographed

  • FX: "Go placidly amid the noise and the haste" (Desiderata): 1

    :Mimi

  • Unedited list of search results: 1
  • Posting frequencies: Tabulation of user names with over 50 postings in the past four years: 2

    :mimic

  • Lawler hadve: I suspect much of the rancor that greets spellings of had've is: 1
  • Lawler itsraining: "It" in "It's raining": 1

    :mimics

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

    :miming

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

    :mimsy

  • FX: "portmanteau word": 1
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