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

Resources: Miscellaneous, not language related : 1

Resources: Thesauruses : 1

Resources: Usage, grammar, and style guides : 1

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

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

FX: Commonest words: 1

FX: "done"="finished": 5

FX: "flammable": 1

FX: Gender-neutral pronouns: 1

FX: "like" vs "as": 2

FX: "loo": 1

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

The Totally Official Boink Home Page: 1

FX: "none is" vs "none are": 1

FX: Online usage guides: 1

FX: Spelling reform: 1

FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1

FX: Wicca: 1

FX: "widget" (notes by William C. Waterhouse): 2

Description of FAQ maintenance: 1

Lawler a-an: A or An Historical Novel?: 1

Lawler aluminum: Alumin(i)um: 1

Lawler amnt: "amn't": 1

Lawler booklist: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 4

Lawler bring: Bring vs Take: 7

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

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

Lawler comma: Commas again: 2

Lawler commas: Commas: 1

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

Lawler complmnt: Object Complements: 2

Lawler correct: "Correctness": 1

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

Lawler extrapos: Extraposition, plus Selected Short Subjects: 2

Lawler extrapos: --- Followup --: 1

Lawler giveadamn: Give a Damn: 2

Lawler gotten: Gotten vs. Got: 2

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 indian: Indian English: 1

Lawler infinite: English and Infinity: 1

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

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

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

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: 2

Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 2

Lawler quote: "Quote, Unquote": 1

Lawler reams: Reams: 2

Lawler ross: Ross Constraints: 1

Lawler schwa: Schwa and Central Vowels: 1

Lawler sig: Maybe the horse will sing: 1

Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 2

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

Lawler truly: Canadian and American Raising: 2

Lawler verbing: Verbing Nouns: 2

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

Interface: AUE Web-Site Concordance Index: 1

Intro A: Intro A: Welcome to AUE and Guidelines for Posting:: 1

Intro A: Newcomers to the Net: 1

Intro B: Where to find previous postings: 1

IPA II: About this document:: 1

IPA I: About this document: 1

boink: 1

Supp: Grammars: 1

UCLE05: What’s: 1

UCLE05: John Davies's commentary: 2

UCLE09: “It’s: 2

Where FAQ?: Partial hypertext FAQ: : 1

:Work cut out

wwwords Work cut out: 1

:workday

Garbl: W: 1

:worked

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

FX: How reliable are dictionaries?: 1

FX: "ISO" by Mark Brader: 1

Lawler smith: Henry Lee Smith: 1

Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 1

UCLE15: The Tooth Fairy: 1

UCLE16: Hooligan: 1

:worker

wwwords Gold-collar worker: 1

FX: "wog": 1

:worker's

Garbl: W: 1

:workers

Garbl: I: 1

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

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

:working

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

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

awwy_W: 'Word With You' list for letter W: 3

FX: Dictionaries: 1

FX: "wop": 1

FX: Words pronounced differently according to context: 1

Description of FAQ maintenance: 1

Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 1

Lawler infinite: English and Infinity: 1

Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 1

boink: 1

UCLE02: The history of ucle: 1

:workmanship

FX: "quality": 1

:workout

Garbl: W: 1

Supplementary comments about deja.com: 1

:workplace

Garbl: W: 1

:works

Garbl: G: 1

Unedited list of search results: 2

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

FX: Books on group names: 1

FX: "functionality": 1

Initialisms that have been used in AUE: 3

FX: split infinitive: 1

Lawler anymore: anymore: 1

Lawler giveadamn: Give a Damn: 1

Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 1

Lawler indian: Indian English: 1

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

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

Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 2

Lawler tense: Tense and related topics: 2

Lawler whom: Who(m): 1

Intro A: Dictionary Abbreviations: 1

Intro B: Encyclopedias & Search Engines: 1

Intro B: Historical English, and English Literature: 2

Intro B: Sites on words and language:: 1

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

UCLE13: Waterloo: 1

Where FAQ?: Partial hypertext FAQ: : 1

:workstation

Garbl: W: 1

:workweek

Garbl: W: 1

:world

wwwords Encarta World English Dictionary (book review): 1

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

aue people (album1): 1

Common errors: Other Good Resources: 1

Title: 1

Garbl: W: 1

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

Audio: Welcome to the: 1

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

The Totally Official Boink Home Page: 3

Resources: Dictionaries : 1

Resources: Encyclopedias : 1

Resources: �� 10. 'The requested URL: 2

Resources: Miscellaneous, not language related : 3

Resources: Words about words : 1

FX: "acronym": 1

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

FX: "bloody": 1

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

FX: Commonest words: 2

FX: Dictionaries: 1

FX: distribution of English-speakers: 5

FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 3

FX: "Illegitimis non carborundum": 1

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

FX: Online language columns: 1

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

FX: "paparazzo": 1

FX: Postfix "not": 1

FX: [Prefatory remarks]: 1

FX: Preposition at end: 1

FX: "push the envelope": 1

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

FX: rhotic vs non-rhotic, intrusive "r": 1

FX: the the "hoi polloi" debate: 1

FX: "the whole nine yards": 1

FX: WELCOME TO ALT.USAGE.ENGLISH!: 1

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

FX: words ending in "-gry": 8

Lawler booklist: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 3

Lawler commas: Commas: 1

Lawler correct: "Correctness": 1

Lawler eclectic: Gateways: 2

Lawler eclectic: Fantasy and Science Fiction : 3

Lawler eclectic: Texts, and like that: 1

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

Lawler indian: Indian English: 1

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

Lawler lingmarks: Languages in General: 2

Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 2

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

Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 1

Lawler reams: Reams: 2

Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 2

Lawler thehell: Usage of "the hell": 1

Lawler they: He, she, they?: 2

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

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

Intro B: On-line dictionaries: 2

Intro B: Sites on words and language:: 1

Intro C: American: 1

Intro C: "push the envelope": 1

Intro C: "whole nine yards": 1

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

IPA I: What is this?: 1

boink: 2

Supp: Echoed remote indexes: 1

Supp: What is prescriptivism?: 1

aue people (album1): 1

UCLE12: News: 3

UCLE03: Lindsay: 1

What's new?: History of Changes at the AUE Web Site: 3

:World In So Many Words (book review)

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

:world's

Resources: Miscellaneous, not language related : 1

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

Lawler lingmarks: Phonetics and Phonology (Many of these use heavy graphics and sound resources).: 1

Lawler writing: Literacy: 2

:World-English

I before E: Early in both discussions I submitted a list of words that were: 2

:World-Wide

FX: "Illegitimis non carborundum": 1

:worlds

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

:worldwide

Title: 1

Garbl: W: 1

Resources: Miscellaneous, not language related : 1

FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 1

:WorldWideWeb

Resources: Lexicons : 1

:worm

RH_wotd worm has turned: 1

:worm has turned

RH_wotd worm has turned: 1

:worms

FX: "spoonerism": 1

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

Lawler extrapos: --- Followup --: 1

:Wormwood

wwwords Wormwood: 2

:worn

Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 2

FX: "cop": 1

UCLE14: Cripplegate and Crutched: 1

UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 1

:worn-out

Garbl: W: 1

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

:Worries

:worrisome

RH_wotd worrisome: 2

:worry

FX: "could care less": 1

FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 1

Lawler quote: "Quote, Unquote": 1

IPA I: What is this?: 1

IPA I: Writing ASCII IPA: 1

UCLE11: The: 1

:worse

FX: "catch-22": 1

FX: "like" vs "as": 1

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

Lawler hadve: hadn't've: 2

Intro E: Humorous poems about spelling: 1

Supp: Grammars: 1

:worship

FX: "pie-shaped": 1

:Worshipful

Lawler academy: The Academy: 1

:worst

Initialisms that have been used in AUE: 1

big_apple_boink_2001.html: 1

Resources: Fun with words : 1

FX: How reliable are dictionaries?: 1

UCLE11: The: 1

:wort

RH_wotd wort: 2

:worth

RH_wotd not worth the candle: 1

RH_wotd tinker's damn, not worth a: 1

wwwords Worth the candle: 1

Garbl: Y: 1

EMorris: T : 1

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

awwy_R: 'Word With You' list for letter R: 2

awwy_W: 'Word With You' list for letter W: 2

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

Stephen Toogood's explanation of the paddle: 2

FX: "put in one's two cents' worth": 3

FX: Table of Contents: 1

FX: "There's a sucker born every minute": 1

Fast FAQ: Table of Contents: 1

fast_faq_toc.html: 1

Genitive: Genitive is not always possessive.: 1

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

Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 1

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

Lawler they: He, she, they?: 1

Intro B: Where to find previous postings: 1

Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 1

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

UCLE11: The: 1

:Worth the candle

wwwords Worth the candle: 1

:worthies

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

:Worthless

Resources: Collections of Web links : 1

Resources: Words about words : 1

:worthwhile

Garbl: W: 1

UCLE11: The: 1

:worthy

FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1

FX: "wog": 1

:wotthehell

Lawler thehell: Usage of "the hell": 4

:WOULD

UCLE12: News: 1

:would

Common errors: C: 1

Garbl: I: 1

Garbl: W: 1

I before E: Early in both discussions I submitted a list of words that were: 2

Comments on a proposal for reformed English spelling: 2

Unedited list of search results: 2

Arthur the Rat: 3

Audio: Other Sound Files: 6

The North Wind and the Sun: 1

The Rainbow Passage: 1

Posting History: Comments: 1

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

Explanatory notes:: 1

Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 12

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

FX: "A.D.": 1

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

FX: "billion": a U.K. view: 3

FX: "bloody": 2

FX: "blue moon" (notes by Philip Hiscock): 5

FX: "Break a leg!": 1

FX: "Caesarean section": 1

FX: Commonest words: 1

FX: "could of": 1

FX: "done"="finished": 1

FX: "ebonics": 2

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

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

FX: "face the music": 1

FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 2

FX: Gender-neutral pronouns: 1

FX: "God rest you merry, gentlemen": 3

FX: "go to hell in a handbasket": 3

FX: "hell for leather": 1

FX: "hoist with his own petard": 1

FX: "hopefully", "thankfully": 1

FX: How did "Truly" become a personal name?: 2

FX: How do Americans pronounce "dog"?: 1

FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 2

FX: "if I was" vs "if I were": 1

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

FX: "ISO" by Mark Brader: 1

FX: "It's me" vs "It is I": 4

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

FX: "Jingle Bells": 1

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

FX: "like" vs "as": 1

Audio recording technique - Some suggestions: 1

FX: "O.K.": 1

FX: Online dictionaries: 1

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

FX: "pie-shaped": 1

FX: Plurals of Latin/Greek words: 2

FX: "politically correct": 1

FX: "posh": 1

FX: Preposition at end: 1

FX: "quality": 1

FX: Related newsgroups: 1

FX: "shall" vs "will", "should" vs "would": 3

FX: "shouting fire in a crowded theater": 1

FX: split infinitive: 2

FX: Subjunctive: 7

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

FX: Table of Contents: 1

FX: "The die is cast.": 1

FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 1

FX: "the whole nine yards": 1

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

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

FX: When to use "the": 1

FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 6

FX: "whole cloth" (notes by Ellen Rosen): 3

FX: "whom": 1

FX: words without vowels: 1

FX: Words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 1

Fast FAQ: Table of Contents: 1

fast_faq_toc.html: 1

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

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

Lawler aluminum: Alumin(i)um: 1

Lawler amnt: "amn't": 1

Lawler anymore: anymore: 1

Lawler booklist: Books on English, Language, and Linguistics: 2

Lawler bring: Bring vs Take: 3

Lawler commas: Commas: 4

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

Lawler correct: "Correctness": 2

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

Lawler equally: "equally" and comparatives: 1

Lawler extrapos: --- Followup --: 1

Lawler giveadamn: Give a Damn: 1

Lawler gonna: gonna: 2

Lawler gotten: Gotten vs. Got: 1

Lawler hadve: hadn't've: 2

Lawler hafta: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 2

Lawler headline: Headline grammar: 3

Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 2

Lawler itsraining: "It" in "It's raining": 2

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: 1

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

Lawler modals: The canonical paraphrase for will is be going to, idiosyncratically: 3

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

Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 8

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

Lawler npislands: News Item: 1

Lawler only: "only": 3

Lawler phrasal: Phrasal Verbs: 2

Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 1

Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 5

Lawler quote: "Quote, Unquote": 2

Lawler reams: Reams: 2

Lawler schwa: Schwa and Central Vowels: 3

Lawler sig: Maybe the horse will sing: 1

Lawler smith: Henry Lee Smith: 3

Lawler striddly: striddly: 1

Lawler tense: Tense and related topics: 2

Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 2

Lawler tense: >Just one question: Where does the past perfect ("have gone", "have sung"): 1

Lawler they: He, she, they?: 3

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

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

Lawler whom: Who(m): 1

Lawler writing: Literacy: 2

Lawler xmasthat: That vs. Which: 1

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

Lawler zilch: zilch: 4

Interface: Which should I use? Perlfect Search or the Concordance?: 1

Intro C: "beg the question": 1

Intro C: "Cold enough to freeze the balls off of a brass monkey": 2

Intro C: "exception proves the rule": 1

Intro D: "If I was" -v- "If I were": 3

Intro D: "It's me" -v- "It is I": 1

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

Intro E: Isn't spelling reform a good idea?: 1

Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 1

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

IPA II: Here is a key to the abbreviations used under 'Articulatory descriptions':: 1

IPA I: Here is a key to the abbreviations used under 'Articulatory descriptions':: 1

IPA I: Slashes or square brackets?: 1

IPA I: aU@: 1

IPA I: oU: 1

IPA I: Preliminary remarks: 1

IPA I: V: 1

IPA I: V": 1

boink: 1

Emphasis quotes: Use of Quotation Marks for Emphasis: 1

Subjunctive?: Subjunctive: 1

summer: 1

UCLE10: "Bite the bullet": 1

UCLE11: The: 2

UCLE12: News: 3

UCLE13: Calamity Jane: 1

UCLE13: The Ides of March: 1

UCLE13: The Curse of Macbeth: 1

UCLE13: Waterloo: 1

UCLE15: Bonfire: 1

UCLE15: Sockdolager: 1

UCLE15: The Tooth Fairy: 1

UCLE03: The: 1

UCLE05: John Davies's commentary: 1

UCLE08: London’s: 1

UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 2

UCLE08: The “Fat Lady”: 1

UCLE08: “This: 1

UCLE09: “Bloody”: 1

UCLE09: “It went pear-shaped”: 2

:would'st

summer: 1

:would've

FX: "could of": 1

Lawler hadve: hadn't've: 1

:would-be

Resources: Discussion groups, Usenet group Websites : 1

:woulda

Lawler hadve: hadn't've: 1

:wouldn't

File Not Found: 1

RH_wotd butter wouldn't melt in someone's mouth: 1

Arthur the Rat: 1

FX: "beg the question": 1

FX: Preposition at end: 1

Lawler aluminum: Alumin(i)um: 1

Lawler anymore: anymore: 2

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

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

Lawler giveadamn: Give a Damn: 1

Lawler headline: Headline grammar: 1

Lawler itsraining: "It" in "It's raining": 2

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: 1

Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 1

Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1

Lawler tense: Tense and related topics: 1

Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 1

Lawler they: He, she, they?: 2

Intro C: "beg the question": 1

Audio recording technique - Some suggestions: 1

UCLE12: News: 2

UCLE09: “It’s: 2

:wouldn't've

Lawler Index: Doubly-apostrophic contractions.: 1

Lawler hadve: hadn't've: 1

:wouldn'ta

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

:wounded

UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 1

:wove

UCLE13: The Curse of Macbeth: 1

:woven

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

:Wqxr

:Wragg

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

:WRAP

wwwords WRAP: 2

:wrapped

The North Wind and the Sun: 3

:wrath

UCLE07: Some significant numbers from literature and literary criticism: 2

:Wreak

EMorris: W : 1

:wreaked,

RH_wotd wreaked, wrought: 1

:wreaked, wrought

RH_wotd wreaked, wrought: 1

:wreck

:wrench