Concordance index for 'be' onwards

:BE

• Abbreviations: AUE: Initialisms Commonly Used in alt.usage.english: 1
• Lawler: Schwa and Central Vowels: 1
• UCLE12: News : 4
• AUE: Comments on a Proposal for Reformed English Spelling: 26

:be-alls

• FX: "the bee's knees": 1

:Bea

• Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results : 1

:Beach

• FX: What is the phone number of the Grammar Hotline?: 2

:Beacon

• FX: Books on "bias-free"/"politically correct" language: 1

:bead

• Lawler: There are at least 11 phonemically distinct vowels in standard American: 1

:beadle

• RH WotD: beadle: 1

:beads

• FX: Words ending in "-gry": 2

:Beale

• Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results : 1
• FX: "Bob's your uncle": 1
• UCLE05: John Davies's commentary : 1

:Beale's

• UCLE05: John Davies's commentary : 1

:bealin

• Cambodunum : 1

:beamish

• UCLE10: British : 1

:Bean

• Morris: Bean Counter: 1

:beans

• AWWY: amounts to a hill of beans; beans, amounts to a hill of; cent, not worth a red; Little Currency; diddly, diddling, diddle; hill of beans, amounts to a; rap, worth a; red cent, not worth a; tinker's damn, not giving a; worth a red cent / rap /tinker's damn, not: 3
• RH WotD: spill the beans: 1

:bear

• AWWY: Babe Ruth; bear, teddy; eponyms; Teddy Bear and Babe Ruth; teddy bear: 3
• Brians: bare/bear: 1
• Brians: koala bear: 1
• FX: "less" vs "fewer": 1
• FX: "try and", "be sure and", "go" + verb: 1
• FX: What will we call the next decade?: 1
• Lawler: --- Followup --: 1
• Lawler: Object Complements: 1
• Lawler: Ross Constraints: 3
• Quinion: Bear up: 1
• Yaelf: What is the origin of "Teddy Bear"?: 1
• AUE: Summer Boink, London, June 1999: 1
• Cambodunum : 1
• Preface : 1

:beard

• AWWY: Abe Lincoln's beard; bearding; Close Shave, A; Grace Bedell's suggestion; hairbreadth; make beard, meaning of; shave, a close: 2
• FX: "to call a spade a spade": 1
• FX: Books on "bias-free"/"politically correct" language: 1
• Symposium I: AUE: London Symposium, March 1998: 1
• AUE Gallery: Mickwick: 1
• AUE: London Symposium Boink, September 1998: 1

:bearding

• AWWY: Abe Lincoln's beard; bearding; Close Shave, A; Grace Bedell's suggestion; hairbreadth; make beard, meaning of; shave, a close: 1

:bearer

• AWWY: bearer, torch; carrying the torch; flame, old; Old Flames; passing the torch; torch bearer; torches: 2
• FX: "Caesarean section": 1
• Lawler: Indian English: 1

:bearin

• Cambodunum : 1

:bearing

• AUE: Summer Boink, London, June 1999: 1

:bearings

• AWWY: bearings, losing ones; Waiting for Ones Ship...Opportunity; opportunity; Portunus, god of harbors (opportunity); sails, trimming your; trimming your sails: 1

:bears

• AWWY: ballocks and bulls; Bears and Bulls; stock market's bulls and bears; Wall Street bulls and bears: 3
• Morris: Bulls and Bears: 1
• RH WotD: bears and bulls: 1
• Wilton: Bulls and Bears: 1

:beast

• Yaelf: What is the origin of "making the beast with two backs"?: 1

:Beastly

• Yaelf: Beastly Pronunciations: 1

:beasts

• Cambodunum : 1

:beat

• AWWY: Beat generation (Ginsberg and Keruoac); beatniks; Bohemians, Beats, and Hippies; Bohemian Beats and Hippies; The Cat's Pajamas and the Bees Knees; Ginsberg and Kerouac (Beat generation); hep; hip cats; hippies and Beats; hipsters; Kerouac and Ginsberg (Beat generation); rebels without a cause (hippies?); Woodstock; Yippies and Yuppies: 3
• Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results : 1
• FX: "rule of thumb": 2
• FX: Online dictionaries: 1
• Yaelf: What is the origin of to "beat swords into ploughshares"?: 1
• Cambodunum : 2
• Fieldfares : 1

:beater

• RH WotD: wife beater (shirt): 1

:Beatific

• Cunningham: Individual poster histories - alt.usage.english: 1

:beating

• FX: "rule of thumb": 1

:Beatles

• AWWY: Beatles (The Fab Four); Fab Four, The; fabulous; Four, The Fab: 1
• FX: Wicca: 1

:beatniks

• AWWY: Beat generation (Ginsberg and Keruoac); beatniks; Bohemians, Beats, and Hippies; Bohemian Beats and Hippies; The Cat's Pajamas and the Bees Knees; Ginsberg and Kerouac (Beat generation); hep; hip cats; hippies and Beats; hipsters; Kerouac and Ginsberg (Beat generation); rebels without a cause (hippies?); Woodstock; Yippies and Yuppies: 1

:beats

• AWWY: Beat generation (Ginsberg and Keruoac); beatniks; Bohemians, Beats, and Hippies; Bohemian Beats and Hippies; The Cat's Pajamas and the Bees Knees; Ginsberg and Kerouac (Beat generation); hep; hip cats; hippies and Beats; hipsters; Kerouac and Ginsberg (Beat generation); rebels without a cause (hippies?); Woodstock; Yippies and Yuppies: 3
• FX: How did "Truly" become a personal name?: 1
• UCLE11: The : 1
• Fieldfares : 1

:beau

• AWWY: Pork Barrels and Lining Pockets; Brummel, Beau (lining pockets); graft; pockets, lining: 1
• FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 1
• IPA II: The pure sound is heard in French beau /bo/. : 1
• IPA I: <+> : 1
• UCLE14: Eponymous London Shopkeepers : 2

:Beauchemin

• FX: "Eskimo": 1

:Beaumont

• Preface : 1

:beaurocracy

• Brians: beaurocracy: 1

:beaut

• IPA II: A Quick Look: : 1

:beautiful

• AWWY: armful (euphemisms for woman); babe (euphemisms for woman); baby (euphemisms for woman); Oh, You Beautiful Doll...; chick (euphemisms for woman); chippie (euphemisms for woman); cutie (euphemisms for woman); dish (euphemisms for woman); doll; dry goods, fine piece of (euphemisms for woman); eyeful (euphemisms for woman); filly (euphemisms for woman); fluff, some (euphemisms for woman); fox (euphemisms for woman); frock, bit of (euphemisms for woman); hunk (euphemisms for woman); mouse (euphemisms for woman); muslin, pretty piece of (euphemisms for woman); peach (euphemisms for woman); woman, euphemisms for: 1
• Yaelf: The most beautiful words in the English language: 1
• AUE: The Rainbow Passage: 1

:beauty

• FX: "push the envelope": 1
• UCLE07: Some significant numbers from literature and literary criticism: 1
• AUE: Georgia speaker comments: 1
• Cambodunum : 1
• Fieldfares : 1
• Preface : 4

:beaverboard

• FX: Trademarks: 1

:Bebbington

• Cunningham: Individual poster histories - alt.usage.english: 1

:became

• FX: "O.K.": 1
• FX: "billion": a U.K. view: 1
• FX: "bloody": 1
• FX: "could care less": 1
• FX: "done"="finished": 1
• FX: "hopefully", "thankfully": 2
• FX: "less" vs "fewer": 1
• FX: "the bee's knees": 1
• FX: Foreign plurals => English singulars: 1
• FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1
• Isles: THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND. : 1
• Lawler: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 2
• Lawler: Alumin(i)um: 2
• Lawler: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 2
• Lawler: The Academy: 3
• Lawler: zilch: 1
• UCLE09: “Pop : 1
• UCLE14: Cripplegate and Crutched : 1
• UCLE14: Eponymous London Shopkeepers : 1
• UCLE14: Literary characters who became : 1
• UCLE15: Scuttlebutt, Grapevine, : 1
• 11. The Commonwealth : 1
• A ucle resource page: 1
• A ucle resource page: 1
• Cambodunum : 1

:because

• AUE Logo: The Totally Official alt.usage.english Logo: 1
• Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results : 1
• Audio: The spoken texts : 1
• Audio: Technical information : 1
• Brians: reason because: 1
• Brians: since vs. because: 1
• Cunningham: Explanatory Remarks: 1
• Emphasis quotes: AUE: Use of Quotation Marks for Emphasis: 2
• FX: "-er" vs "-re": 1
• FX: "-ize" vs "-ise": 1
• FX: "Caesarean section": 2
• FX: "Enquiring minds want to know.": 1
• FX: "God rest you merry, gentlemen": 2
• FX: "ISO": 2
• FX: "It's me" vs "It is I": 2
• FX: "O.K.": 1
• FX: "SOS": 1
• FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 1
• FX: "a"/"an" before abbreviations: 4
• FX: "acronym": 1
• FX: "beg the question": 3
• FX: "bloody": 1
• FX: "canola": 1
• FX: "catch-22": 1
• FX: "company is" vs "company are": 2
• FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 2
• FX: "flammable": 1
• FX: "jerry-built"/"jury-rigged": 1
• FX: "like" vs "such as": 1
• FX: "merkin": 1
• FX: "mouses" vs "mice": 1
• FX: "peter out": 1
• FX: "posh": 2
• FX: "put in one's two cents' worth": 1
• FX: "sirloin"/"baron of beef": 1
• FX: "that" vs "which": 2
• FX: "to call a spade a spade": 1
• FX: "wait for the other shoe to drop": 1
• FX: Books on Britishisms, Canadianisms, etc.: 1
• FX: Commonest words: 1
• FX: Diacritics: 1
• FX: Dictionaries: 3
• FX: Gender-neutral pronouns: 1
• FX: Origin of the dollar sign: 4
• FX: Rhotic vs non-rhotic, intrusive "r": 1
• FX: Split infinitive: 1
• FX: Typo: 1
• FX: What is "ghoti"?: 1
• FX: Why do we say "30 years old", but "a 30-year-old man"?: 1
• FX: Words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 1
• FX: Words without vowels: 3
• Garbl: because , since: 1
• Garbl: reason why , reason is because: 1
• Genitive: AUE: Genitive is Not Always Possessive: 1
• Groups: AUE: "company is" and "company are": 2
• I before E: Extensions to the rule that have been suggested: : 2
• IPA II: The symbol /A./ has been included only because at least one AUE contributor has : 1
• IPA I: Help to complete this page! : 1
• IPA I: Slashes or square brackets? : 1
• IPA I: What is this? : 1
• IPA I: <+> : 1
• IPA I: Reading ASCII IPA : 1
• Intro C: "beg the question" : 3
• Intro D: "A" or "an" : 3
• Intro D: Acronyms and other abbreviations using initial letters : 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 : 1
• Intro E: What is "ghoti"? : 1
• Isles: GREAT BRITAIN. Used by cartographers to denote the biggest : 1
• Lawler: -- more followup:: 1
• Lawler: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 1
• Lawler: >>> The facts of the matter are these:: 3
• Lawler: >Just one question: Where does the past perfect ("have gone", "have sung"): 1
• Lawler: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 5
• Lawler: I suspect much of the rancor that greets spellings of had've is: 1
• Lawler: That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 1
• Lawler: You may have noticed the Sapir quotation in my .sig.: 2
• Lawler: "Quote, Unquote": 2
• Lawler: "amn't": 4
• Lawler: "equally" and comparatives: 1
• Lawler: "only": 2
• Lawler: A or An Historical Novel?: 3
• Lawler: Alumin(i)um: 1
• Lawler: Aural and Oral, Boy and Buoy: 1
• Lawler: Bring vs Take: 3
• Lawler: Can't Help (But) ...: 1
• Lawler: Commas: 3
• Lawler: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 4
• Lawler: Extraposition, plus Selected Short Subjects: 2
• Lawler: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 2
• Lawler: He, she, they?: 7
• Lawler: Headline grammar: 1
• Lawler: Indian English: 2
• Lawler: Negative Polarity Items: 2
• Lawler: Object Complements: 2
• Lawler: Phrasal Verbs: 1
• Lawler: Phrasal Verbs: 2
• Lawler: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 4
• Lawler: Reams: 4
• Lawler: Schwa and Central Vowels: 2
• Lawler: So Much For Spelling Reform: 3
• Lawler: Tense and related topics: 1
• Lawler: That vs. Which: 1
• Lawler: There are also two kinds of relative clauses:: 2
• Lawler: Toward(s) and Beside(s): 1
• Lawler: Two kinds of "that-clauses": 2
• Lawler: Usage of "the hell": 1
• Lawler: anymore: 1
• Lawler: gonna: 3
• Lawler: hadn't've: 3
• Lawler: striddly: 1
• Lawler: zilch: 2
• Links: Color charts : 1
• Links: Miscellaneous, not language related : 1
• Links: Notes : 2
• Subjunctive?: AUE: Does English Have a Subjunctive Mood?: 1
• UCLE02: The history of ucle: 2
• UCLE03: A uk.culture.language.english : 1
• UCLE03: Lindsay : 2
• UCLE08: Britannia: Her history, : 1
• UCLE09: “Bloody” : 1
• UCLE09: “It went pear-shaped” : 1
• UCLE09: Literary : 1
• UCLE10: The : 1
• UCLE12: News : 3
• What's new?: 18 December 2001 : 1
• What's new?: 2 September 2001: : 1
• Yaelf: (WD) Do you know where the phrase Frick and Frack originated? I'm sure it wasn't because of the Back Street Boys.: 1
• Yaelf: (WD) I am interested in the phrase hammer and tongs because it is used by our fraternity (Theta Tau, a professional fraternity for engineering students). We are of the belief that this is a very old English phrase: 1
• 2. England and Wales : 2
• 6. The British Isles : 1
• AUE Gallery: Padraig Breathnach: 5
• AUE: "anymore" and "any more": 1
• AUE: Comments on a Proposal for Reformed English Spelling: 2
• AUE: Does Mark Barratt's recording of "catamaran" have a plosive "t"?: 1
• AUE: Showing variation of formants of [i:] with context: 1
• AUE: Showing variation of formants of [i:] with context: 1
• AUE: Summer Boink, London, June 1999: 2

:beck

• Morris: Beck and Call: 1
• Yaelf: (WD) What is the origin of "beck and call"?: 1
• Cambodunum : 6
• Fieldfares : 1
• Preface : 2
• The Poetry of F. W. Moorman: 1

:Beckett209

• Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results : 1

:Beckman

• Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results : 1

:becks

• Cambodunum : 1
• Fieldfares : 1

:Beckwith

• Cunningham: Individual poster histories - alt.usage.english: 1

:become

• Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results : 1
• FX: "Caesarean section": 1
• FX: "It's me" vs "It is I": 1
• FX: "billion": a U.K. view: 1
• FX: "hopefully", "thankfully": 1
• FX: How did "Truly" become a personal name?: 2
• FX: How do you spell "e-mail"?: 1
• FX: Repeated words after abbreviations: 1
• FX: Split infinitive: 2
• FX: Subjunctive: 1
• FX: What words are their own antonym?: 2
• FX: Why is "I" capitalized?: 1
• Fast FAQ: [Prefatory remarks] : 1
• I before E: Excerpt, with minor editing, from the 1996 posting: : 1
• Lawler: "It" in "It's raining": 1
• Lawler: As far as ... goes/is concerned: 1
• Lawler: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 1
• Lawler: Gotten vs. Got: 2
• Lawler: Literacy: 2
• Lawler: News Item: 2
• Lawler: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 1
• Lawler: The Academy: 1
• Lawler: hadn't've: 1
• UCLE02: The history of ucle: 1
• UCLE03: Lindsay : 1
• UCLE09: “It went pear-shaped” : 2
• UCLE15: Gossip : 1
• Usenet Docs: AUE: Links to Official Usenet Documents: 2
• What's new?: 2 September 2001: : 1
• Yaelf: Supertitles Are Starting to Become Part of the Act: 1
• AUE: "Pear-shaped", supplementary comments: 1
• Preface : 2
• The Poetry of F. W. Moorman: 1

:becomes

• FX: "Go figure": 1
• FX: Words pronounced differently according to context: 2
• Lawler: -- more followup:: 1
• Lawler: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 3
• Lawler: >>> The facts of the matter are these:: 1
• Lawler: That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 1
• Lawler: "Correctness": 1
• Lawler: "Quote, Unquote": 1
• Lawler: A or An Historical Novel?: 1
• Lawler: English and Infinity: 1
• UCLE03: Lindsay : 1
• AUE Gallery: Padraig Breathnach: 1
• Preface : 1
• Why Should I Quote? : 1

:becoming

• FX: "hopefully", "thankfully": 1
• Lawler: There is also another opposition among the formal auxiliaries, between: 1
• Lawler: >>> The facts of the matter are these:: 1
• Lawler: Extraposition, plus Selected Short Subjects: 1
• Lawler: Phrasal Verbs: 1
• UCLE13: Waterloo : 2
• Preface : 2