:slab
FX: "pie-shaped": 2
:
slabber
UCLE09: Daring: 1
:
slack
Lawler modals: There is also another opposition among the formal auxiliaries, between: 1
:
slain
UCLE10: British: 1
:
slake
UCLE09: Daring: 1
:
slang
RH_wotd slang: 2
wwwords Slang: 2
wwwords Oxford Dictionary of Slang (book review): 1
wwwords Slang of Sin (book review): 1
wwwords Cassell Dictionary of Slang (book review): 1
wwwords Dictionary of Contemporary Slang (book review): 1
I before E: For those people who insist the rule apply only to words where: 2
Lawler Index: The slang term 'zilch'.: 1
Initialisms that have been used in AUE: 1
awwy_B: 'Word With You' list for letter B: 3
awwy_C: 'Word With You' list for letter C: 2
awwy_F: 'Word With You' list for letter F: 1
awwy_G: 'Word With You' list for letter G: 1
awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1
awwy_T: 'Word With You' list for letter T: 1
Resources: Collections of Web links : 1
Resources: Lexicons : 1
FX: Books on rhyming slang: 5
FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 5
FX: "fuck": 2
FX: "hell for leather": 1
FX: "jerry-built"/"jury-rigged": 1
FX: "merkin" (notes by Michael B. Quinion and Ruth Bygrave): 1
FX: "more than you can shake a stick at": 1
FX: "nimrod": 1
FX: "O.K.": 1
FX: Origin of the dollar sign (notes by Mark Brader): 1
FX: "posh": 1
FX: "spit and image"/"spitting image": 1
FX: "suck"="be very unsatisfying" by John Davies: 1
FX: Table of Contents: 1
FX: What words are their own antonym?: 4
FX: "whole cloth" (notes by Ellen Rosen): 1
FX: "wonk" (notes by Fred Shapiro): 1
Fast FAQ: Table of Contents: 1
fast_faq_toc.html: 1
Lawler zilch: zilch: 2
Intro A: Dictionary Abbreviations: 1
Intro B: On-line dictionaries: 1
Intro C: "obaue" or "ObAUE": 1
Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 1
Supp: Books about words: 1
Supp: Dictionaries: 2
UCLE14: Slang Names for British Currency: 3
UCLE04: Our Favourite Cultural and Language Links: 1
UCLE05: Whats: 1
UCLE05: John Davies's commentary: 5
UCLE09: Pop: 2
:
Slang of Sin (book review)
wwwords Slang of Sin (book review): 1
:
Slangs
UCLE05: John Davies's commentary: 1
:
Slanguage
FX: Books on Britishisms, Canadianisms, etc.: 1
:
SLANGUAGE
UCLE04: Our Favourite Cultural and Language Links: 1
:
slanted
FX: names of "&", "@", and "#": 2
:
slapstick
awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1
:
slash
Common errors: B: 1
Explanation of Search Criteria: 2
:
slashed
FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 2
IPA I: Y: 1
:
slashes
J_Lynch: S: 1
Comments on a proposal for reformed English spelling: 1
IPA II: Main Index:: 1
IPA II: Slashes or square brackets?: 2
IPA I: Slashes or square brackets?: 2
IPA I: Contents: 1
IPA I: Writing ASCII IPA: 1
:
slate
FX: "scot-free": 1
:
slather
UCLE09: Daring: 1
:
slatted
FX: "loo": 1
:
slave
FX: "politically correct": 1
UCLE14: Literary characters who became: 1
:
slavery
FX: "O.K.": 1
:
slaves
FX: "politically correct": 1
UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 1
:
slay
UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 1
:
slayer
IPA I: aU@: 1
:
slays
Our images: 1
:
sleaze
awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 2
:
Sleazy
EMorris: S : 1
awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1
:
Sledd
FX: Dictionaries: 1
:
sleech
UCLE09: Daring: 1
:
sleep
RH_wotd sleep tight: 1
wwwords Sleep tight: 1
EMorris: S : 2
Wilton: Wilton's Etymology Page: 1
:
sleep tight
RH_wotd sleep tight: 1
wwwords Sleep tight: 1
:
sleeper
FX: "wait for the other shoe to drop": 1
UCLE12: News: 1
:
sleepers
UCLE07: Some significant numbers from literature and literary criticism: 1
:
sleeping
FX: When to use "the": 1
UCLE11: The: 1
:
sleeps
Lawler ross: Ross Constraints: 5
UCLE15: The Tooth Fairy: 2
:
sleeve
awwy_H: 'Word With You' list for letter H: 1
awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1
:
sleigh
FX: "Jingle Bells": 3
:
sleighing
FX: "Jingle Bells": 1
:
Sleightholme
UCLE12: News: 1
:
slew
EMorris: S : 1
FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 1
FX: Online dictionaries: 1
:
SLHinton17
Unedited list of search results: 1
Posting frequencies: Tabulation of user names with over 50 postings in the past four years: 1
:
slice
Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 2
FX: "pie-shaped": 1
:
Sliced
EMorris: S : 1
:
slices
Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 1
:
slicing
FX: Origin of the dollar sign (notes by Mark Brader): 1
:
slide
Garbl: S: 1
:
slides
Lawler l-sounds: English L sounds: 1
:
sliding
RH_wotd sliding pond: 1
:
sliding pond
RH_wotd sliding pond: 1
:
slight
Southern speaker's description of his speech: 1
Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 1
FX: "to call a spade a spade": 1
:
slightest
Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 1
:
slightly
awwy_O: 'Word With You' list for letter O: 1
awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1
Showing variation of formants of [i:] with context: 3
FX: split infinitive: 1
FX: words ending in "-gry": 1
Lawler anymore: anymore: 1
Lawler buoy: Aural and Oral, Boy and Buoy: 1
Lawler gotten: Gotten vs. Got: 1
IPA I: There is no ASCII IPA symbol for the IPA 180-degree-rotated : 1
UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 1
:
Slikker's
Where FAQ?: 19 February 1996:: 1
Where FAQ?: Index: 1
:
Slim
FX: trademarks: 1
:
slime
UCLE09: Daring: 1
:
slimy
FX: "portmanteau word": 1
:
Sling
wwwords Sling one's hook: 1
:
Sling one's hook
wwwords Sling one's hook: 1
:
slings
Lawler enghist: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 1
:
slip
Unedited list of search results: 1
UCLE09: Daring: 1
:
slips
FX: Guidelines for posting: 1
:
slithy
FX: "portmanteau word": 1
:
slitting
awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1
:
Slmr
Unedited list of search results: 1
:
Sloane
UCLE09: Rivers: 1
:
slob
RH_wotd slob: 2
FX: "hopefully", "thankfully": 1
UCLE09: Daring: 1
:
slogan
awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1
FX: "Enquiring minds want to know." (notes by James Kiso): 1
FX: "like" vs "as": 1
FX: "O.K.": 1
Lawler reams: Reams: 1
:
Slogans
awwy_B: 'Word With You' list for letter B: 1
:
slop
UCLE09: Daring: 2
:
Sloper
Unedited list of search results: 1
:
sloppy
FX: Guidelines for posting: 2
Intro A: Guidelines for posting: 2
:
slops
FX: "loo": 1
:
slosh
UCLE09: Daring: 1
:
slot
Resources: Usage, grammar, and style guides : 1
Lawler headline: Headline grammar: 1
:
sloth
UCLE07: Some significant numbers from literature and literary criticism: 1
:
slough
EMorris: S : 1
UCLE09: Daring: 1
:
slow
Stephen Toogood's explanation of the paddle: 1
Unedited list of search results: 1
Lawler they: That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 1
:
slower
FX: Words pronounced differently according to context: 1
Interface: Which should I use? Perlfect Search or the Concordance?: 1
:
slowly
awwy_M: 'Word With You' list for letter M: 1
FX: "hoist with his own petard": 1
Lawler hafta: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 1
Lawler they: That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 1
IPA I: Reading ASCII IPA: 1
summer: 1
UCLE12: News: 1
:
sludder
UCLE09: Daring: 1
:
sludge
UCLE09: Daring: 2
:
Slugflation
wwwords Slugflation: 2
:
sluice
UCLE09: Daring: 1
:
slumgullion
UCLE09: Daring: 1
:
slunk
UCLE09: Daring: 1
:
slur
FX: "to call a spade a spade": 2
:
slurry
UCLE09: Daring: 1
:
slush
awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1
UCLE09: Daring: 1
:
slut
RH_wotd slut: 2
UCLE09: Daring: 1
:
small
The AUE Photo Gallery: 1
Unedited list of search results: 1
Richard Fontana audio files: 1
awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1
Resources: Miscellaneous, language related : 1
Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 1
FX: "A number of...": 2
FX: Commonest words: 1
FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 1
FX: "less" vs "fewer": 1
FX: "mouses" vs "mice": 2
FX: Origin of the dollar sign (notes by Mark Brader): 1
FX: Spelling reform: 1
FX: "suck"="be very unsatisfying" by John Davies: 2
FX: "true fact": 2
FX: What words are their own antonym?: 2
FX: words ending in "-gry": 1
Fast FAQ: A faster way to access items in the AUE FAQ: 1
Lawler booklist: Books on English, Language, and Linguistics: 1
Lawler complmnt: Object Complements: 2
Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 1
Lawler itsraining: You may have noticed the Sapir quotation in my .sig.: 1
Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 1
Lawler zilch: zilch: 2
Interface: Which should I use? Perlfect Search or the Concordance?: 1
IPA II: Affricates, diphthongs and triphthongs:: 1
IPA I: Affricates, diphthongs and triphthongs: 1
IPA I: I.: 1
UCLE10: "Bite the bullet": 1
UCLE13: Custer's last stand: 1
UCLE15: Scuttlebutt, Grapevine,: 1
UCLE03: The: 1
UCLE09: Pop: 1
Where FAQ?: Fast-Access FAQ:: 1
:
smaller
FX: "less" vs "fewer": 5
Lawler enghist: >Your example of English and Caxton print shop goes a long way to convince: 1
IPA II: The Details:: 1
IPA I: Consonants and vowels: 1
What's new?: History of Changes at the AUE Web Site: 1
:
smart
wwwords Smart gun: 1
Wilton: Wilton's Etymology Page: 1
Unedited list of search results: 1
awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1
FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 2
:
Smart gun
wwwords Smart gun: 1
:
smarter
Lawler complmnt: Object Complements: 2
:
SMARTS
UCLE12: News: 1
:
Smathers
awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1
:
smear
awwy_P: 'Word With You' list for letter P: 1
awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 2
awwy_T: 'Word With You' list for letter T: 2
:
smell
awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1
:
Smerti
FX: "SOS": 1
:
smile
awwy_M: 'Word With You' list for letter M: 1
awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1
Lawler zilch: zilch: 1
:
Smiley
wwwords Smiley: 2
:
smirch
UCLE09: Daring: 1
:
smirk
awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1
:
smith
RH_wotd smith: 2
Lawler Index: American linguist Henry Lee Smith.: 1
Unedited list of search results: 1
FX: Books on Britishisms, Canadianisms, etc.: 1
FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 1
FX: "O.K.": 1
FX: Subjunctive: 1
FX: words ending in "-gry": 2
Lawler schwa: Schwa and Central Vowels: 1
Lawler smith: Henry Lee Smith: 4
Posting frequencies: Tabulation of user names with over 50 postings in the past four years: 2
UCLE14: Eponymous London Shopkeepers: 1
:
Smith's
FX: Related newsgroups: 1
Lawler smith: Henry Lee Smith: 1
:
Smithsonian
FX: "Eskimo": 1
Lawler eclectic: Gateways: 1
:
smog
wwwords Gene smog: 1
FX: "portmanteau word": 1
:
smoke
wwwords Holy smoke: 1
awwy_B: 'Word With You' list for letter B: 2
awwy_C: 'Word With You' list for letter C: 1
awwy_D: 'Word With You' list for letter D: 1
awwy_F: 'Word With You' list for letter F: 1
awwy_M: 'Word With You' list for letter M: 1
awwy_P: 'Word With You' list for letter P: 3
awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1
FX: "blue moon" (notes by Philip Hiscock): 1
FX: "portmanteau word": 1
:
smoked
Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 2
:
Smokescreens
awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1
:
smoking
Wilton: Wilton's Etymology Page: 1
awwy_F: 'Word With You' list for letter F: 1
awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 3
:
smoot
RH_wotd smoot: 2
:
Smoothing
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_O: 'Word With You' list for letter O: 1
awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 3
awwy_W: 'Word With You' list for letter W: 1
:
Smouch
wwwords Smouch: 2
:
Smsg
Unedited list of search results: 1
:
Smtp
Unedited list of search results: 1
:
Snafu
Unedited list of search results: 1
:
snail
RH_wotd snail mail: 1
:
snail mail
RH_wotd snail mail: 1
:
snake
EMorris: S : 1
awwy_P: 'Word With You' list for letter P: 1
awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1
FX: "more than you can shake a stick at": 1
Lawler modals: There is also another opposition among the formal auxiliaries, between: 1
:
snake's
FX: "the bee's knees": 1
:
Snakes
Lawler a-an: A or An Historical Novel?: 1
:
Snap
Search: 1
:
Snapper
awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1
:
snarky
RH_wotd snarky: 2
:
snatchers
UCLE10: British: 1
:
sneak
FX: "jerry-built"/"jury-rigged": 1
summer: 1
:
Sneaked
EMorris: S : 1
:
sneer
Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1
Lawler they: He, she, they?: 1
:
sneeze
FX: "could care less": 1
:
snews
Posting frequencies: Tabulation of user names with over 50 postings in the past four years: 1
:
snickersnee
RH_wotd snickersnee: 2
:
Sniggelty
The Totally Official Boink Home Page: 1
:
snip
Unedited list of search results: 1
Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 1
UCLE06: Rhetorical vocabulary: 1
:
sniper's
Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 1
:
Snipped
Unedited list of search results: 1
:
snippet
Intro C: "obaue" or "ObAUE": 1
:
snitch
awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1
:
SNL
FX: Postfix "not": 2
:
snob
wwwords Snob: 2
EMorris: S : 1
FX: "hopefully", "thankfully": 1
:
SNOBOL
FX: Repeated words after abbreviations: 2
:
snobs
awwy_C: 'Word With You' list for letter C: 1
awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 2
awwy_W: 'Word With You' list for letter W: 1
:
Snollygoster
wwwords Snollygoster: 2
:
snook
RH_wotd cock a snook: 1
RH_wotd cock a snook: 1
RH_wotd cock a snook: 1
EMorris: C : 1
EMorris: S : 1
:
snooping
awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1
:
Snopes
FX: "the whole nine yards": 1
:
snores
UCLE11: The: 1
:
snort
FX: "portmanteau word": 1
:
Snortometer
wwwords Snortometer: 2
:
snow
Unedited list of search results: 1
FX: "Eskimo": 1
UCLE12: News: 1
UCLE09: Daring: 6
:
snowbank
FX: "SOS": 1
:
snowfall
Garbl: S: 1
:
snowflake
Garbl: S: 1
:
snowing
FX: What will we call the next decade?: 1
:
snowman
Garbl: S: 1
:
snowplow
Garbl: S: 1
:
snowshoe
FX: "Eskimo": 3
:
snowshoe-netter
FX: "Eskimo": 1
:
snowshoes
FX: "Eskimo": 3
:
snowstorm
Garbl: S: 1
:
snubbed
awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1
:
Snubs
awwy_C: 'Word With You' list for letter C: 1
:
snuck
Common errors: S: 1
EMorris: S : 1
:
snuff
RH_wotd snuff: 2
RH_wotd snuff (revisited): 1
wwwords Up to snuff: 1
EMorris: S : 1
Wilton: Wilton's Etymology Page: 1
awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1
awwy_U: 'Word With You' list for letter U: 1
:
snuff (revisited)
RH_wotd snuff (revisited): 1
:
snug
Arthur the Rat: 1
awwy_R: 'Word With You' list for letter R: 1
awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1
:
So
wwwords America In So Many Words (book review): 1
wwwords World In So Many Words (book review): 1
:
so-and-so
FX: "suck"="be very unsatisfying" by John Davies: 1
:
so-called
FX: "bloody": 1
Lawler canthelp: Can't Help (But) ...: 1
Lawler l-sounds: English L sounds: 1
Lawler lingmarks: One can already, for instance, read the: 1
Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 1
Subjunctive?: Subjunctive: 3
UCLE09: It went pear-shaped: 1
:
soaked
Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 1
:
soap
wwwords No soap: 1
awwy_H: 'Word With You' list for letter H: 1
awwy_O: 'Word With You' list for letter O: 1
awwy_P: 'Word With You' list for letter P: 1
awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 3
awwy_W: 'Word With You' list for letter W: 1
:
soaping
awwy_B: 'Word With You' list for letter B: 1
awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1
:
Soar
Unedited list of search results: 1
:
sober
awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1
:
soberly
FX: "catch-22": 1
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