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Resources: Collections of Web links : 1
Resources: Miscellaneous, language related : 1
Intro B: Encyclopedias & Search Engines: 1
:
refer
Common errors: A: 1
Garbl: R: 1
Isles: NORTHERN IRELAND This is not the place to go into: 1
FX: Books on usage: 1
FX: Dictionaries: 3
FX: "freeway": 1
FX: Gender-neutral pronouns: 1
FX: "hooker": 1
FX: "in like Flynn": 1
FX: "mouses" vs "mice": 1
FX: Origin of the dollar sign (notes by Mark Brader): 2
FX: "rule of thumb": 1
FX: "the whole nine yards": 1
FX: typo: 1
Description of FAQ maintenance: 1
Fast FAQ: A faster way to access items in the AUE FAQ: 1
Lawler commas: Commas: 1
Lawler extrapos: Extraposition, plus Selected Short Subjects: 1
Lawler extrapos: --- Followup --: 1
Lawler gonna: gonna: 1
Lawler hafta: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 1
Lawler headline: Headline grammar: 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 npi: Negative Polarity Items: 1
Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 2
Lawler they: -- more followup:: 1
Lawler writing: Literacy: 1
Lawler xmasthat: That vs. Which: 2
Lawler zilch: zilch: 1
Intro A: Dictionary Abbreviations: 1
Subjunctive?: Subjunctive: 1
UCLE13: Calamity Jane: 2
UCLE13: Custer's last stand: 1
UCLE13: The Ides of March: 1
UCLE13: "Rearranging deck chairs: 1
UCLE13: Waterloo: 2
UCLE14: Cripplegate and Crutched: 1
UCLE14: Literary characters who became: 4
UCLE03: Lindsay: 1
UCLE09: Holidays: 1
UCLE09: Rivers: 2
:
referable
Garbl: R: 1
:
referee
Yet to come: 1
UCLE09: Up: 1
:
reference
wwwords Oxford Pop-up English Language Reference Shelf (CD-ROM review): 1
Garbl: I: 1
Garbl: M: 1
Garbl: W: 1
Lawler Index: Reference to an article on 'as far as ... '.: 1
Lawler Index: Gender-neutral reference.: 1
Initialisms that have been used in AUE: 2
awwy_F: 'Word With You' list for letter F: 1
Resources: Categories index: 1
Resources: Dictionaries : 1
Resources: Encyclopedias : 2
Resources: Urban legends : 1
Resources: Phonetic alphabets : 1
Resources: Online reference books : 2
Isles: SCOTCH. The following is extracted from Mark Israel's FAQ: 2
FX: "bloody": 1
FX: "blue moon" (notes by Philip Hiscock): 1
FX: Books on usage: 1
FX: Books on group names: 1
FX: "bug"="defect": 1
FX: "dressed to the nines": 1
FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 1
FX: E-prime: 1
FX: General reference: 2
FX: "golf": 1
FX: Guidelines for posting: 1
FX: "in like Flynn": 1
FX: "like" vs "such as": 1
FX: "love"="zero": 1
FX: Online usage guides: 1
FX: Online dictionaries: 1
FX: "Scotch": 1
FX: Table of Contents: 1
FX: "wait for the other shoe to drop": 1
FX: words ending in "-gry": 1
Description of FAQ maintenance: 2
Fast FAQ: Table of Contents: 1
fast_faq_toc.html: 1
Lawler anymore: anymore: 3
Lawler complmnt: Object Complements: 1
Lawler eclectic: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/aue/eclectic.html: 2
Lawler eclectic: Reference Tools: 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: 2
Lawler lingmarks: Net links Valuable resources.: 1
Lawler npislands: News Item: 1
Lawler reams: Reams: 1
Lawler tense: Tense and related topics: 2
Lawler tense: >Just one question: Where does the past perfect ("have gone", "have sung"): 1
Lawler that: Two kinds of "that-clauses": 1
Lawler they: He, she, they?: 5
Intro A: Dictionary Abbreviations: 1
Intro A: Guidelines for posting: 1
Intro B: Encyclopedias & Search Engines: 2
Intro E: What is "ghoti"? (notes by Jim Scobbie): 1
Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 1
Supp: Grammars: 2
UCLE13: The Curse of Macbeth: 1
UCLE13: Waterloo: 1
UCLE04: Our Favourite Cultural and Language Links: 1
UCLE05: Whats: 3
UCLE07: Some significant numbers from literature and literary criticism: 3
UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 2
What's new?: History of Changes at the AUE Web Site: 4
:
referenced
FX: Books on group names: 1
Lawler booklist: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 1
Supp: The organization of this file generally follows that of a hypertext version of Mark : 1
:
references
I before E: Exceptions to the rule 'I before E except after C': 1
Audio: Other Sound Files: 1
Resources: Categories index: 1
Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 1
FX: "blue moon" (notes by Philip Hiscock): 1
FX: "face the music": 1
FX: "God rest you merry, gentlemen": 1
FX: Online dictionaries: 1
FX: words ending in "-gry": 3
Lawler bring: Bring vs Take: 1
Lawler buoy: Aural and Oral, Boy and Buoy: 1
Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 1
Lawler modals: English Modals: 2
Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1
Intro B: Encyclopedias & Search Engines: 1
Intro F: Table of major headings:: 1
Supp: Grammars: 1
Supp: Word origins: 1
Supp: Table of major headings:: 1
UCLE14: Patriarchs As Bottle Sizes: 1
UCLE15: Bonfire: 2
UCLE05: Language references: 1
UCLE06: Rhetorical vocabulary: 1
UCLE07: Some significant numbers from literature and literary criticism: 1
Where FAQ?: 2 October 1996:: 1
What's new?: History of Changes at the AUE Web Site: 2
:
referent
FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1
:
referential
Lawler itsraining: "It" in "It's raining": 4
Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 2
:
referred
Resources: Implementation note: : 1
Isles: NORTHERN IRELAND This is not the place to go into: 1
Isles: THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND. : 1
FX: "cut to the chase": 1
FX: "Eskimo": 1
FX: "freeway": 1
FX: "hopefully", "thankfully": 1
FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 1
FX: Origin of the dollar sign (notes by Mark Brader): 1
FX: "put in one's two cents' worth": 1
FX: "scot-free": 1
FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1
Lawler equally: "equally" and comparatives: 1
Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 1
Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 1
Lawler tense: Tense and related topics: 1
Intro D: Gender-neutral pronouns -- "he/she" -v- "they": 1
Intro D: Group nouns -- singular or plural? "company is" -v- "company are": 1
Supp: "SOS": 1
UCLE14: Eponymous London Shopkeepers: 1
UCLE16: Hooligan: 1
:
referring
Isles: BRITISH is the formal designation of the nationality of citizens: 1
FX: "by hook or by crook": 1
FX: names of "&", "@", and "#": 1
FX: "peter out": 1
FX: What is "ghoti"? (notes by Jim Scobbie): 1
FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1
Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 1
Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 1
Lawler they: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 2
Lawler writing: Literacy: 1
IPA I: Let's get started!: 1
UCLE14: Patriarchs As Bottle Sizes: 1
UCLE08: The Fat Lady: 1
UCLE08: This: 1
:
refers
Resources: �������� 2. The URL in the original list now: 1
Resources: �������� 4. The previous URL at the link 'The: 1
FX: "cut the mustard": 1
FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 1
FX: "Take the prisoner downstairs", said Tom condescendingly.: 1
FX: When to use "the": 2
Lawler amnt: "amn't": 1
Lawler comma: Commas again: 1
Lawler itsraining: "It" in "It's raining": 1
Lawler modals: The canonical paraphrase for will is be going to, idiosyncratically: 1
Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 1
Lawler striddly: striddly: 1
Lawler tense: Tense and related topics: 1
Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 2
Lawler whom: Who(m): 1
Lawler writing: Literacy: 1
Interface: Footnote: For small documents, 'search area' may mean the entire document. For larger : 1
Intro C: "whole nine yards": 1
UCLE13: Waterloo: 1
UCLE14: Cripplegate and Crutched: 1
UCLE14: Literary characters who became: 2
UCLE08: The Fat Lady: 1
UCLE08: This: 1
UCLE09: It went pear-shaped: 2
:
refine
Description of FAQ maintenance: 1
:
refined
UCLE08: This: 1
:
reflect
FX: Words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 1
Lawler comma: Commas again: 1
Lawler commas: >>> The facts of the matter are these:: 1
UCLE08: This: 1
:
reflected
FX: Words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 2
:
reflecting
UCLE05: John Davies's commentary: 1
:
reflection
The Rainbow Passage: 1
Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 1
:
reflections
The Rainbow Passage: 1
FX: "like" vs "such as": 1
FX: "quality": 1
FX: "the whole nine yards": 1
:
reflects
Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 1
Lawler reams: Reams: 1
Supp: What is prescriptivism?: 1
UCLE11: The: 1
UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 1
:
Reflexive
Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 1
:
refloated
Lawler headline: Headline grammar: 1
:
reform
Lawler Index: English spelling reform.: 1
Unedited list of search results: 1
FX: Joke about step-by-step spelling reform: 2
FX: Spelling reform: 4
FX: Table of Contents: 2
FX: What is "ghoti"? (notes by Jim Scobbie): 1
Fast FAQ: Table of Contents: 2
fast_faq_toc.html: 2
Lawler enghist: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 1
Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 3
Lawler they: He, she, they?: 1
Intro E: Intro E: Mini-FAQ on Spelling: 2
Intro E: Isn't spelling reform a good idea?: 3
Intro E: Joke about step-by-step spelling reform: 1
Intro E: What is "ghoti"? (notes by Jim Scobbie): 1
Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 2
Intro F: Spelling: 1
Supp: Spelling: 1
:
reforme
FX: "billion": a U.K. view: 1
:
reformed
Comments on a proposal for reformed English spelling: 5
FX: What is "ghoti"? (notes by Jim Scobbie): 1
:
reformed-spelling
Comments on a proposal for reformed English spelling: 1
:
reformers
FX: What is "ghoti"? (notes by Jim Scobbie): 1
:
reforms
Intro E: Joke about step-by-step spelling reform: 1
:
refraction
The Rainbow Passage: 1
:
refrain
FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 1
FX: Gender-neutral pronouns: 1
FX: "hopefully", "thankfully": 1
:
refresh
UCLE03: Lindsay: 1
:
refreshment
UCLE15: Scuttlebutt, Grapevine,: 1
:
refugees
FX: "O.K.": 1
:
refusing
FX: "I won't mention...": 1
:
refute
Common errors: R: 1
FX: "catch-22": 1
FX: "spit and image"/"spitting image": 1
Lawler npislands: News Item: 3
Emphasis quotes: Use of Quotation Marks for Emphasis: 1
:
refuted
Lawler npislands: News Item: 2
:
regale
FX: "God rest you merry, gentlemen": 1
:
regalia
FX: Foreign plurals => English singulars: 1
:
regard
Garbl: I: 1
Garbl: R: 1
Garbl: W: 1
awwy_R: 'Word With You' list for letter R: 1
FX: "between you and I": 1
FX: "less" vs "fewer": 1
FX: Plurals of Latin/Greek words: 1
Genitive: Genitive is not always possessive.: 1
Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 1
Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 1
Lawler verbing: Verbing Nouns: 1
Subjunctive?: Subjunctive: 1
:
regarded
Isles: BRITISH ISLES. A geographical term referring to the islands: 2
Isles: BRITON, BRITISHER, BRIT. None of these nouns is universally: 1
Isles: ENGLAND. The biggest and most populous of the four countries: 1
Isles: NORTHERN IRELAND This is not the place to go into: 1
FX: "done"="finished": 1
FX: "less" vs "fewer": 2
FX: "more/most/very unique": 1
FX: Repeated words after abbreviations: 1
FX: "suck"="be very unsatisfying" by John Davies: 1
IPA II: The reference to 'Chicago pop' first appeared in Mark Israel's: 1
IPA I: The reference to 'Chicago pop' first appeared in Mark Israel's: 1
Supp: What is prescriptivism?: 1
UCLE03: Lindsay: 2
UCLE09: It went pear-shaped: 1
:
regarding
Garbl: R: 1
Lawler commas: The intonation curve is (roughly) up-down-back.up, graphically something: 1
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
UCLE11: The: 1
:
regardless
Unedited list of search results: 1
FX: doubling of final consonants before suffixes: 1
FX: "Eskimo": 1
FX: "flammable": 2
FX: ", vs ,": 1
Lawler commas: The intonation curve is (roughly) up-down-back.up, graphically something: 1
Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1
IPA II: Slashes or square brackets?: 1
IPA I: Slashes or square brackets?: 1
IPA I: What is this?: 1
UCLE15: The Tooth Fairy: 1
:
regards
Common errors: I: 1
Garbl: A: 1
summer: 1
:
Regender
wwwords Regender: 2
:
Regent
UCLE09: Rivers: 1
:
Regent's
The Totally Official Boink Home Page: 1
:
Reggae
Wilton: Wilton's Etymology Page: 1
:
regiment
FX: "face the music": 1
FX: Words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 1
summer: 1
UCLE13: Waterloo: 1
:
region
FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1
Lawler schwa: Schwa and Central Vowels: 1
UCLE10: The: 1
:
regional
FX: "go to hell in a handbasket": 1
Lawler giveadamn: Give a Damn: 1
Lawler modals: English Modals: 1
Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 1
Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1
Intro B: Sites on words and language:: 1
Intro G: Intro G: Where is the FAQ?: 1
Supp: "anymore" and "any more": 1
UCLE03: The: 1
:
regionally
FX: What do you call the grass strip between the road and the sidewalk?: 1
:
regions
Garbl: D: 1
FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1
:
register
Resources: News : 1
FX: "bloody": 2
Lawler anymore: anymore: 1
UCLE08: Mother Goose: 1
:
registered
FX: "canola": 1
:
registration
Intro B: Encyclopedias & Search Engines: 1
:
regret
Lawler truly: Canadian and American Raising: 1
Supp: "miss not having": 1
UCLE11: The: 1
:
regretful
FX: Subjunctive: 1
:
regretfully
Common errors: R: 1
:
regrettably
Common errors: R: 1
FX: "hopefully", "thankfully": 1
:
regulam
FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 4
:
regular
Explanation of Search Criteria: 1
FX: "blue moon" (notes by Philip Hiscock): 1
FX: Postfix "not": 1
FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1
FX: Why do we say "30 years old", but "a 30-year-old man"?: 1
Lawler amnt: "amn't": 3
Lawler bring: Bring vs Take: 1
Lawler complmnt: Object Complements: 1
Lawler gotten: Gotten vs. Got: 1
Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 3
Lawler npislands: News Item: 1
Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 1
Lawler verbing: Verbing Nouns: 1
Intro A: WELCOME TO alt.usage.english!: 1
Intro D: Why do we say "30 years old", but "a 30-year-old man"?: 1
Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 1
Intro G: Intro G: Where is the FAQ?: 1
boink: 1
:
regularly
Wilton: Wilton's Etymology Page: 1
Lawler gotten: Gotten vs. Got: 1
Lawler l-sounds: English L sounds: 1
Lawler truly: Canadian and American Raising: 1
Intro A: Newcomers to the Net: 1
Intro G: Intro G: Where is the FAQ?: 1
UCLE03: Lindsay: 1
:
regulars
FX: Guidelines for posting: 1
FX: Related newsgroups: 1
Intro A: Guidelines for posting: 1
:
regulating
FX: "rule of thumb": 1
:
regulation
FX: "rule of thumb": 1
:
regulations
FX: "catch-22": 1
:
regurgitate
awwy_R: 'Word With You' list for letter R: 1
:
rehabilitating
awwy_R: 'Word With You' list for letter R: 1
:
Rehoboam
UCLE14: Patriarchs As Bottle Sizes: 1
:
reIf
FX: Words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 2
Supp: words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 1
:
reification
FX: What is the language term for...?: 1
:
reified
Lawler reams: Reams: 1
:
reign
Common errors: R: 1
UCLE14: Eponymous London Shopkeepers: 1
UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 2
:
rein
Common errors: R: 1
I before E: With regard to the extension added by some people for "neighbor": 1
I before E: Sticking for the moment to the basic rule, : 1
:
Reine
UCLE09: Food: 1
:
reinforced
FX: "scot-free": 1
:
reinforcing
Lawler l-sounds: English L sounds: 2
:
Reinhardt
Posting frequencies: Tabulation of user names with over 50 postings in the past four years: 1
:
Reinhold
Posting frequencies: Tabulation of user names with over 50 postings in the past four years: 2
:
reinterpret
FX: "Take the prisoner downstairs", said Tom condescendingly.: 1
:
reinterpreted
FX: "ollie ollie oxen free": 1
:
reissued
FX: "Jingle Bells": 1
:
reiterate
RH_wotd reiterate: 2
:
reject
Unedited list of search results: 1
awwy_R: 'Word With You' list for letter R: 1
FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 1
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