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

Southern speaker's description of his speech: 1

Audio: Other Sound Files: 5

Audio: Welcome to the: 1

The North Wind and the Sun: 2

The Rainbow Passage: 2

Richard Fontana audio files: 1

Posting History: Comments: 2

AUE Logo: Notes about the Totally Official AUE Logo: 1

Explanatory notes:: 1

big_apple_boink_2001.html: 1

Resources: Dictionaries : 1

Resources: Implementation note: : 2

Resources: Miscellaneous, language related : 1

Resources: Words about words : 2

Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 8

Isles: BRITAIN/GREAT BRITAIN/UNITED KINGDOM &C: 2

Isles: BRITISH ISLES. A geographical term referring to the islands: 1

Isles: GREAT BRITAIN. Used by cartographers to denote the biggest: 2

Isles: IRELAND. As used by geographers, the second largest island: 2

Isles: NORTHERN IRELAND This is not the place to go into: 2

FX: "all ... not": 1

FX: "alright": 1

FX: "alumin(i)um" (notes by Keith Ivey): 4

FX: "beg the question": 1

FX: Biblical sense of "to know": 3

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

FX: "bloody": 4

FX: "blue moon" (notes by Philip Hiscock): 3

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

FX: "bug"="defect": 4

FX: "Caesarean section": 1

FX: "canola": 1

FX: "catch-22": 2

FX: Commonest words: 1

FX: "could care less": 4

FX: "cut to the chase": 1

FX: Dictionaries: 1

FX: "different to", "different than": 1

FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 2

FX: English is Tough Stuff: 1

FX: "Eskimo": 1

FX: "flammable": 3

FX: Foreign plurals => English singulars: 2

FX: "freeway": 1

FX: "fuck": 1

FX: "full monty": 1

FX: "Get the lead out": 1

FX: "go to hell in a handbasket": 1

FX: "hoist with his own petard": 1

FX: "hooker": 1

FX: How did "Truly" become a personal name?: 3

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: 1

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

FX: "Illegitimis non carborundum": 1

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

FX: "ISO" by Mark Brader: 1

FX: "It's me" vs "It is I": 1

FX: "I won't mention...": 1

FX: "-ize" vs "-ise": 2

FX: "jerry-built"/"jury-rigged": 2

FX: Joke about step-by-step spelling reform: 1

FX: "less" vs "fewer": 2

FX: "Let them eat cake!": 1

FX: "like" vs "such as": 5

FX: "like" vs "as": 1

FX: "love"="zero": 1

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

FX: Online dictionaries: 1

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

FX: "peter out": 2

FX: "pie-shaped": 3

FX: Plurals of Latin/Greek words: 1

FX: "politically correct": 1

FX: "portmanteau word": 2

FX: Postfix "not": 1

FX: Preposition at end: 3

FX: "quality": 2

FX: "quiz": 1

FX: Related newsgroups: 3

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

FX: "rule of thumb": 2

FX: "scot-free": 1

FX: "son of a gun": 1

FX: "SOS": 2

FX: "spit and image"/"spitting image": 2

FX: "spoonerism": 1

FX: Subjunctive: 1

FX: Table of Contents: 1

FX: "that" vs "which": 8

FX: "the bee's knees": 1

FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 4

FX: "There's a sucker born every minute": 2

FX: the the "hoi polloi" debate: 2

FX: "tip": 1

FX: typo: 1

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

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

FX: When to use "the": 1

FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 4

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

FX: Wicca: 1

FX: words without vowels: 1

FX: "ye"="the": 2

FX: "you saying" vs "your saying": 1

Description of FAQ maintenance: 2

Fast FAQ: Table of Contents: 1

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

The Totally Official Boink Home Page: 2

Genitive: Genitive is not always possessive.: 1

Groups: "company is" vs "company are": 4

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

Lawler aluminum: Alumin(i)um: 1

Lawler amnt: "amn't": 1

Lawler anymore: anymore: 3

Lawler besides: Toward(s) and Beside(s): 1

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

Lawler bring: Bring vs Take: 3

Lawler buoy: Aural and Oral, Boy and Buoy: 2

Lawler canthelp: Can't Help (But) ...: 2

Lawler comma: Commas again: 5

Lawler commas: Commas: 4

Lawler commas: The intonation curve is (roughly) up-down-back.up, graphically something: 2

Lawler commas: >>> The facts of the matter are these:: 9

Lawler complmnt: Object Complements: 12

Lawler correct: "Correctness": 3

Lawler eclectic: Global There's a whole world out there...: 1

Lawler eclectic: Home Pages: 1

Lawler eclectic: (Mostly Michigan) People: 1

Lawler eclectic: Fantasy and Science Fiction : 3

Lawler enghist: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 5

Lawler enghist: >Your example of English and Caxton print shop goes a long way to convince: 3

Lawler extrapos: Extraposition, plus Selected Short Subjects: 3

Lawler extrapos: --- Followup --: 2

Lawler giveadamn: Give a Damn: 3

Lawler gonna: gonna: 2

Lawler hadve: hadn't've: 2

Lawler hafta: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 2

Lawler headline: Headline grammar: 5

Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 6

Lawler indian: Indian English: 5

Lawler infinite: English and Infinity: 4

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: 5

Lawler l-sounds: English L sounds: 3

Lawler l-sounds: >> For instance: English has only one /l/ phoneme, but it has: 4

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

Lawler lingmarks: Languages in General: 1

Lawler modals: English Modals: 1

Lawler modals: There is also another opposition among the formal auxiliaries, between: 1

Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 3

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

Lawler only: "only": 1

Lawler phrasal: Phrasal Verbs: 3

Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 1

Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 6

Lawler reams: Reams: 6

Lawler ross: Ross Constraints: 8

Lawler schwa: Schwa and Central Vowels: 3

Lawler sig: Maybe the horse will sing: 1

Lawler smith: Henry Lee Smith: 3

Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1

Lawler striddly: striddly: 1

Lawler tense: Tense and related topics: 1

Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 8

Lawler tense: >Just one question: Where does the past perfect ("have gone", "have sung"): 2

Lawler that: Two kinds of "that-clauses": 5

Lawler thehell: Usage of "the hell": 7

Lawler they: He, she, they?: 8

Lawler they: -- more followup:: 2

Lawler they: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 3

Lawler they: That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 2

Lawler truly: Canadian and American Raising: 5

Lawler vehicle: "vehicle": 2

Lawler vowels: Vowels Before R: 4

Lawler writing: Literacy: 2

Lawler xmasthat: That vs. Which: 8

Lawler xmasthat: There are also two kinds of relative clauses:: 11

Lawler zilch: zilch: 3

Interface: Implementation Notes: 1

Intro A: Dictionary Abbreviations: 1

Intro A: WELCOME TO alt.usage.english!: 1

Intro B: On-line dictionaries: 1

Intro B: Where to find previous postings: 1

Intro C: England, Britain, Great Britain, United Kingdom, etc.: 1

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

Intro C: words ending in "-gry": 3

Intro D: Gender-neutral pronouns -- "he/she" -v- "they": 1

Intro D: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1

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

Intro E: I before E except after C (based on notes by Mark Wainwright): 1

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

Intro E: U.S. -v- REST-OF-WORLD ENGLISH: 2

Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 1

Intro G: Intro G: Where is the FAQ?: 1

ASCII IPA stub: 1

IPA II: About this document:: 1

IPA II: Affricates, diphthongs and triphthongs:: 1

IPA II: The sounds in the column headed 'IPA sounds' have been copied with permission: 1

IPA II: Slashes or square brackets?: 1

IPA I: Affricates, diphthongs and triphthongs: 1

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

IPA I: The sounds in the column headed 'IPA sounds' have been copied with permission: 1

IPA I: Slashes or square brackets?: 3

IPA I: Reading ASCII IPA: 2

IPA I: A.: 1

Showing variation of formants of [i:] with context: 1

Bridge to Damian Conway's pluralization paper: 4

Supp: Grammars: 1

Supp: Online dictionaries: 1

Supp: What is prescriptivism?: 2

Supp: "SOS": 1

Posting frequencies: Explanatory comments:: 2

Subjunctive?: Subjunctive: 9

summer: 2

UCLE10: Fainites!: 1

UCLE11: The: 1

UCLE12: News: 4

UCLE13: Custer's last stand: 1

UCLE13: The Curse of Macbeth: 1

UCLE13: "Rearranging deck chairs: 2

UCLE13: Waterloo: 2

UCLE14: Cripplegate and Crutched: 2

UCLE15: Scuttlebutt, Grapevine,: 1

UCLE15: The Tooth Fairy: 3

UCLE16: Hooligan: 1

UCLE16: Kibosh: 1

UCLE02: The history of ucle: 1

UCLE03: Lindsay: 4

UCLE06: Rhetorical vocabulary: 3

UCLE08: London’s: 1

UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 1

UCLE08: The “Fat Lady”: 2

UCLE09: Holidays: 1

UCLE09: Rivers: 1

UCLE09: “Pop: 2

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

Where FAQ?: AUE FAQ Supplement: : 1

:WHICH

Lawler xmasthat: That vs. Which: 1

:whichs

Lawler comma: Commas again: 2

:Whiffing

Comments on a proposal for reformed English spelling: 6

:while

Common errors: A: 1

Garbl: W: 1

I before E: Exceptions to the rule 'I before E except after C': 1

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

alt.usage.english FAQ processance for $desc: 2

Audio: Welcome to the: 1

Southern speaker's description of his speech: 1

Choice of two ASCII IPA files: 1

Posting History: Comments: 1

AUE Logo: Notes about the Totally Official AUE Logo: 1

awwy_I: 'Word With You' list for letter I: 1

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

awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 2

e-mail vs email: e-mail-vs-email.html: 1

Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 10

FX: Commonest words: 1

FX: "face the music": 1

FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 1

FX: "I won't mention...": 2

FX: Online language columns: 1

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

FX: "push the envelope": 1

FX: Spelling reform: 1

FX: troll: 1

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

Description of FAQ maintenance: 1

Lawler aluminum: Alumin(i)um: 1

Lawler bring: Bring vs Take: 2

Lawler complmnt: Object Complements: 2

Lawler correct: "Correctness": 2

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

Lawler hadve: hadn't've: 1

Lawler indian: Indian English: 1

Lawler infinite: English and Infinity: 1

Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 2

Lawler l-sounds: English L sounds: 1

Lawler l-sounds: >> For instance: English has only one /l/ phoneme, but it has: 2

Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 1

Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 1

Lawler ross: Ross Constraints: 1

Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 2

Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 2

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

Lawler truly: Canadian and American Raising: 3

Lawler vowels: Vowels Before R: 1

Lawler whom: Who(m): 1

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

IPA I: hw: 1

Audio recording technique - Some suggestions: 2

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

UCLE11: The: 1

UCLE13: Waterloo: 2

UCLE14: Eponymous London Shopkeepers: 1

UCLE15: Round-Robin and: 1

UCLE15: The Tooth Fairy: 1

UCLE03: Lindsay: 2

UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 1

UCLE09: Rivers: 1

:Whilom

wwwords Whilom: 2

:whilst

Isles: NORTHERN IRELAND This is not the place to go into: 3

Lawler striddly: striddly: 1

UCLE15: The Tooth Fairy: 2

UCLE09: “Stranger: 1

:whim

Lawler besides: Toward(s) and Beside(s): 1

Lawler extrapos: Extraposition, plus Selected Short Subjects: 1

:whimp

Common errors: W: 1

:whimsical

Resources: Fun with words : 1

UCLE15: The Tooth Fairy: 1

:whinge

RH_wotd whinge: 2

EMorris: W : 1

:whip

RH_wotd whip (legislative): 1

:whip (legislative)

RH_wotd whip (legislative): 1

:whipped

Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 6

:Whippersnapper

EMorris: W : 1

:whipping

RH_wotd whipping boy: 1

awwy_C: 'Word With You' list for letter C: 1

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

awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1

:whipping boy

RH_wotd whipping boy: 1

:whipsaw

RH_wotd whipsaw: 2

:whisk(e)y

RH_wotd whisk(e)y: 2

:whiskered

UCLE11: The: 1

:whiskers

awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1

FX: "the bee's knees": 1

:whiskey

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

:whisky

Isles: SCOTCH. The following is extracted from Mark Israel's FAQ: 1

FX: "Scotch": 1

:whistle

EMorris: W : 1

FX: "catch-22": 1

:whistles

RH_wotd bells and whistles: 1

:white

RH_wotd white: 2

RH_wotd white elephant: 1

wwwords White card: 1

Garbl: W: 1

EMorris: W : 1

Explanation of Search Criteria: 1

The Rainbow Passage: 1

awwy_I: 'Word With You' list for letter I: 1

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

Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 18

FX: "blue moon" (notes by Philip Hiscock): 1

FX: Books on usage: 1

FX: Books on phrase origins: 1

FX: Commonest words: 1

FX: "O.K.": 1

FX: Online usage guides: 1

FX: "SOS": 1

Lawler amnt: "amn't": 1

Supp: words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 1

UCLE12: News: 1

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

UCLE09: Daring: 1

:White card

wwwords White card: 1

:white elephant

RH_wotd white elephant: 1

:white-space

Explanation of Search Criteria: 1

:White-van

wwwords White-van man: 1

:White-van man

wwwords White-van man: 1

:Whitebait

wwwords Whitebait dinner: 1

:Whitebait dinner

wwwords Whitebait dinner: 1

:Whitehouse

UCLE09: “It’s: 1

:whitemal

Formant values for 14 Fontana vowels: 1

:whiten

Lawler amnt: "amn't": 1

:whites

Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 2

:Whitewater

Lawler giveadamn: Give a Damn: 7

:Whittington

UCLE14: Eponymous London Shopkeepers: 2

:WHO

The ucle photo album: 1

UCLE12: News: 2

:who

RH_wotd who and whom: 1

:who and whom

RH_wotd who and whom: 1

:who'd

Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1

:who'd've

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

:who's

aue people (album1): 1

Common errors: W: 1

Garbl: W: 1

FX: Do publishers put false info in dictionaries to catch plagiarists?: 1

FX: "Go figure": 1

FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1

FX: words ending in "-gry": 1

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

Lawler extrapos: --- Followup --: 1

summer: 1

:who've

IPA II: Credits:: 1

IPA I: Credits: 1

UCLE02: The history of ucle: 1

:Whoa

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

:whodunit

:whoever

FX: "Let them eat cake!": 1

FX: "whom": 2

Lawler aluminum: Alumin(i)um: 1

:whole

RH_wotd whole nine yards: 1

RH_wotd whole cloth: 1

wwwords Whole nine yards, the: 1

wwwords Whole cloth: 1

wwwords Whole kit and kaboodle: 1

Common errors: W: 1

EMorris: W : 2

Wilton: Wilton's Etymology Page: 2

awwy_B: 'Word With You' list for letter B: 1

awwy_C: 'Word With You' list for letter C: 3

awwy_H: 'Word With You' list for letter H: 1

awwy_K: 'Word With You' list for letter K: 1

awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1

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

awwy_W: 'Word With You' list for letter W: 4

Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 5

FX: "beg the question": 1

FX: Commonest words: 1

FX: "company is" vs "company are": 1

FX: "fall off a turnip truck": 1

FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 2

FX: "full monty": 2

FX: How reliable are dictionaries?: 1

FX: Table of Contents: 2

FX: "the whole nine yards": 3

FX: "whole cloth" (notes by Ellen Rosen): 20

Fast FAQ: Table of Contents: 2

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

fast_faq_toc.html: 2

Groups: "company is" vs "company are": 3

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

Lawler enghist: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 2

Lawler extrapos: Extraposition, plus Selected Short Subjects: 2

Lawler headline: Headline grammar: 1

Lawler indian: Indian English: 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: 3

Lawler lingmarks: Net links Valuable resources.: 1

Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 2

Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 1

Lawler reams: Reams: 1

Intro A: Responding: 1

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

Intro C: "O.K.": 1

Intro C: "full monty": 1

Intro C: "whole nine yards": 1

Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 2

boink: 1

UCLE03: Lindsay: 1

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

UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 1

:whole cloth

RH_wotd whole cloth: 1

wwwords Whole cloth: 1

:Whole kit and kaboodle

wwwords Whole kit and kaboodle: 1

:whole nine yards

RH_wotd whole nine yards: 1

:Whole nine yards, the

wwwords Whole nine yards, the: 1

:WholeCloth

awwy_F: 'Word With You' list for letter F: 1

:wholesale

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

:wholesome

:wholly

FX: "Let them eat cake!": 1

:whom

RH_wotd who and whom: 1

Common errors: W: 1

Lawler Index: Use of 'whom'.: 1

J_Lynch: W: 1

Southern speaker's description of his speech: 1

FX: distribution of English-speakers: 1

FX: "It's me" vs "It is I": 3

FX: Table of Contents: 1

FX: "titsling"/"brassiere": 1

FX: "whom": 12

Fast FAQ: Table of Contents: 1

Lawler commas: >>> The facts of the matter are these:: 5

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

Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 1

Lawler they: He, she, they?: 1

Lawler whom: Who(m): 6

Lawler xmasthat: There are also two kinds of relative clauses:: 1

Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 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

UCLE05: John Davies's commentary: 1

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

UCLE09: “Stranger: 1

:whomever

FX: "put in one's two cents' worth": 1

FX: "whom": 1

:Whopper

:Whopper-jawed

wwwords Whopper-jawed: 2

:Whorf

FX: "flammable": 2

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

:whose

wwwords Whose: 2

Common errors: W: 1

Garbl: W: 1

Wilton: Wilton's Etymology Page: 1

Explanatory notes:: 1

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

FX: "A.D.": 1

FX: "bug"="defect": 1

FX: "canola": 1

FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 1

FX: Guidelines for posting: 1

FX: "hooker": 1

FX: "in like Flynn": 1

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

FX: "less" vs "fewer": 1

FX: "loo": 1

FX: "politically correct": 1

FX: "posh": 1

FX: Table of Contents: 1

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

FX: "till"/"until": 2

FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1

FX: Words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 2

Fast FAQ: Table of Contents: 1

Lawler aluminum: Alumin(i)um: 1

Lawler commas: >>> The facts of the matter are these:: 2

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 phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 1

Lawler zilch: zilch: 1

Intro A: Guidelines for posting: 1

Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 1

Intro F: Pronunciation: 1

Supp: Pronunciation: 1

Supp: words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 1

UCLE11: The: 5

UCLE13: Waterloo: 1

UCLE14: Eponymous London Shopkeepers: 1

UCLE03: Lindsay: 1

:Whus

:WHY

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

:wicca

FX: Table of Contents: 1

FX: Wicca: 6

Fast FAQ: Table of Contents: 1