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- AUE Logo: The Totally Official alt.usage.english Logo: 2
- AWWY: aggravating and gravy; Can You Dig This?; engraved; grief: 1
- AWWY: can (as in lavatory); facilities; Flushed with Pride; head (as in lavatory); lav (as in lavatory); loo, the; powder-room; restroom; Throne, The; toilet; W. C. (water closet); washroom: 1
- AWWY: copping a duck; doing a duck; drakes and ducks; Ducking Responsibility; lined up like ducks; sitting ducks; swim?, can a duck: 1
- Abbreviations:
Explanation of Search Criteria
: 2
- Abbreviations:
Unedited list of search results
: 2
- Audio:
Other Sound Files
: 1
- Brians: cannot/can not: 1
- Emphasis quotes: AUE: Use of Quotation Marks for Emphasis: 2
- FX: "Caesarean section": 2
- FX: "Go figure": 1
- FX: "God rest you merry, gentlemen": 1
- FX: "ISO": 1
- FX: "It's me" vs "It is I": 3
- FX: "SOS": 1
- FX: "Scotch": 2
- FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 3
- FX: "There's a sucker born every minute": 1
- FX: "a"/"an" before abbreviations: 2
- FX: "all ... not": 3
- FX: "beg the question": 2
- FX: "catch-22": 3
- FX: "copacetic": 1
- FX: "could care less": 1
- FX: "crap": 2
- FX: "due to": 1
- FX: "ebonics": 7
- FX: "functionality": 1
- FX: "hopefully", "thankfully": 4
- FX: "impact"="to affect": 1
- FX: "like" vs "such as": 3
- FX: "love"="zero": 1
- FX: "merkin": 1
- FX: "more than you can shake a stick at": 8
- FX: "more/most/very unique": 1
- FX: "none is" vs "none are": 1
- FX: "ollie ollie oxen free": 1
- FX: "pie-shaped": 2
- FX: "push the envelope": 1
- FX: "shall" vs "will", "should" vs "would": 1
- FX: "spoonerism": 1
- FX: "suck"="be very unsatisfying": 1
- FX: "that" vs "which": 2
- FX: "titsling"/"brassiere": 1
- FX: "true fact": 2
- FX: "try and", "be sure and", "go" + verb: 3
- FX: "whom": 1
- FX: "you saying" vs "your saying": 1
- FX: Biblical sense of "to know": 1
- FX: Books on "bias-free"/"politically correct" language: 1
- FX: Books on Britishisms, Canadianisms, etc.: 5
- FX: Commonest words: 1
- FX: Diacritics: 1
- FX: Distribution of English-speakers: 1
- FX: Do publishers put false info in dictionaries to catch plagiarists?: 1
- FX: Does the next millennium begin in 2000 or 2001?: 1
- FX: Doubling of final consonants before suffixes: 1
- FX: E-prime: 2
- FX: English is Tough Stuff: 2
- FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 3
- FX: Gender-neutral pronouns: 1
- FX: Guidelines for posting: 2
- FX: How do you spell "e-mail"?: 1
- FX: How reliable are dictionaries?: 1
- FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 4
- FX: Joke about step-by-step spelling reform: 2
- FX: Online dictionaries: 4
- FX: Related newsgroups: 3
- FX: Spaces between sentences: 3
- FX: Split infinitive: 1
- FX: Subjunctive: 2
- FX: The the "hoi polloi" debate: 1
- FX: Trademarks: 1
- FX: What is "ghoti"?: 1
- FX: What is the opposite of "to exceed"?: 1
- FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1
- FX: When to use "the": 4
- FX: Wicca: 1
- FX: Words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 1
- FX: Words without vowels: 1
- FX: [Prefatory remarks]: 2
- Fast FAQ:
[Prefatory remarks]
: 1
- Garbl: can, may: 1
- Genitive: AUE: Genitive is Not Always Possessive: 1
- I before E:
Extensions to the rule that have been suggested:
: 1
- IPA II:
Many U.S. speakers substitute [@] for [V"], so they would
: 1
- IPA I:
Writing ASCII IPA
: 2
- IPA I:
Let's get started!
: 1
- IPA I:
<+>
: 1
- IPA I: Note 3: A schwa /@/ can be added to many other diphthongs to form triphthongs, as in British fire /'faI@/ 0,
: 1
- Intro A:
Dealing with unwanted postings
: 1
- Intro A:
Dictionary Abbreviations
: 1
- Intro A:
Guidelines for posting
: 1
- Intro A:
Responding
: 1
- Intro B:
Encyclopedias & Search Engines
: 1
- Intro B:
Historical English, and English Literature
: 1
- Intro B:
Where to learn about ASCII IPA
: 1
- Intro C:
"beg the question"
: 1
- Intro C:
"push the envelope"
: 1
- Intro C:
American
: 1
- Intro C:
England, Britain, Great Britain, United Kingdom, etc.
: 1
- Intro C:
What words are their own antonym?
: 1
- Intro C:
words ending in "-gry"
: 1
- Intro D:
Acronyms and other abbreviations using initial letters
: 1
- Intro D:
Gender-neutral pronouns: "he/she" -v- "they"
: 1
- Intro E:
Humorous poems about spelling
: 1
- Intro E:
Joke about step-by-step spelling reform
: 1
- Intro F: AUE Intro F: Contents of AUE FAQ and FAQ Supplement: 1
- Intro G: AUE Intro G: Where is the FAQ?: 3
- Isles:
SCOTCH. The following is extracted from Mark Israel's FAQ
: 2
- Isles: AUE: (heading): 1
- Lawler: The canonical paraphrase for will is be going to, idiosyncratically: 2
- Lawler: There is also another opposition among the formal auxiliaries, between: 2
- Lawler: --- Followup --: 3
- Lawler: >> For instance: English has only one phoneme, but it has: 3
- Lawler: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 2
- Lawler: >>> The facts of the matter are these:: 3
- Lawler: >Just one question: Where does the past perfect ("have gone", "have sung"): 2
- Lawler: >Past tenses:: 5
- Lawler: >Your example of English and Caxton print shop goes a long way to convince: 2
- Lawler: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 2
- Lawler: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 15
- Lawler: Since you ask, here's a moderately complete list of polarity items,: 2
- Lawler: That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 2
- Lawler: The intonation curve is (roughly) up-down-back.up, graphically something: 2
- Lawler: There are at least 11 phonemically distinct vowels in standard American: 1
- Lawler: "Correctness": 1
- Lawler: "It" in "It's raining": 3
- Lawler: "Quote, Unquote": 2
- Lawler: "amn't": 4
- Lawler: "equally" and comparatives: 1
- Lawler: "only": 3
- Lawler: A or An Historical Novel?: 2
- Lawler: Alumin(i)um: 1
- Lawler: Aural and Oral, Boy and Buoy: 5
- Lawler: Books on English, Language, and Linguistics: 2
- Lawler: Bring vs Take: 1
- Lawler: Can't Help (But) ...: 9
- Lawler: Canadian and American Raising: 3
- Lawler: Commas again: 1
- Lawler: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 2
- Lawler: English Modals: 1
- Lawler: English and Infinity: 1
- Lawler: Extraposition, plus Selected Short Subjects: 2
- Lawler: Give a Damn: 2
- Lawler: Gotten vs. Got: 4
- Lawler: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 3
- Lawler: He, she, they?: 4
- Lawler: Headline grammar: 3
- Lawler: Hyphens: 6
- Lawler: Indian English: 3
- Lawler: Negative Polarity Items: 11
- Lawler: News Item: 1
- Lawler: Object Complements: 4
- Lawler: Phrasal Verbs: 2
- Lawler: Phrasal Verbs: 2
- Lawler: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 9
- Lawler: Reams: 6
- Lawler: Ross Constraints: 1
- Lawler: Schwa and Central Vowels: 2
- Lawler: So Much For Spelling Reform: 4
- Lawler: Tense and related topics: 5
- Lawler: That vs. Which: 1
- Lawler: There are also two kinds of relative clauses:: 5
- Lawler: Toward(s) and Beside(s): 4
- Lawler: Usage of "the hell": 2
- Lawler: Verbing Nouns: 3
- Lawler: anymore: 1
- Lawler: gonna: 1
- Lawler: striddly: 1
- Lawler: zilch: 2
- Links: Dictionaries
: 1
- Links: Online services
: 1
- Morris: Can of Corn: 1
- Quinion: Carry the can: 1
- Quinion: Chill Can: 1
- RH WotD: can/may: 1
- Subjunctive?: AUE: Does English Have a Subjunctive Mood?: 4
- Symposium I: AUE: London Symposium, March 1998: 1
- UCLE02: The history of ucle: 1
- UCLE03: Judith
: 1
- UCLE03: Lindsay
: 7
- UCLE03: Tee Shirts
: 2
- UCLE04: Our Favourite Cultural and Language Links
: 2
- UCLE05: John Davies's commentary
: 1
- UCLE05: Whatâs
: 1
- UCLE06: Rhetorical vocabulary: 1
- UCLE07: Some significant numbers from literature and literary criticism: 1
- UCLE08: “This
: 1
- UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,
: 2
- UCLE08: The “Fat Lady”
: 1
- UCLE09: “It went pear-shaped”
: 3
- UCLE09: Colours
: 1
- UCLE09: Daring
: 2
- UCLE09: Rivers
: 3
- UCLE10: The
: 1
- UCLE11: The
: 4
- UCLE12: News
: 2
- UCLE13: "On the fritz"
: 1
- UCLE13: Calamity Jane
: 2
- UCLE13: Custer's last stand
: 1
- UCLE13: The Ides of March
: 1
- UCLE14: Eponymous London Shopkeepers
: 1
- UCLE14: Literary characters who became
: 7
- UCLE15:
The Tooth Fairy
: 2
- Yaelf: (IPL) My name is..., and I've always wondered what it means. How can I find out?: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) Can you enlighten me about the origins of "mad as a hatter"?: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) What explaination can be given for the rhyme, "Pop Goes the Weasel"?: 1
- Yaelf: Can we Defang the N-Word before We Cleanse People's Minds: 1
- Yaelf: Can you talk the talk?: 1
- Yaelf: Defining words can leave some of us tongue-tied: 1
- Yaelf: What word can be used to describe a habitual liar?: 1
- Yaelf: What word can be used to describe something that is outstandingly poor?: 1
-
AUE people
: 1
- 11. The Commonwealth
: 3
- 7. The Common Travel Area
: 1
- 9. The European Union
: 1
- AUE Gallery: Padraig Breathnach: 1
- AUE Gallery: Stephen Toogood: 1
- AUE: "SOS": 2
- AUE: "anymore" and "any more": 1
- AUE: About Autism and Daniel McGrath: 3
- AUE: About the alt.usage.english newsgroup: 2
- AUE: Analysis of Some Mark Barratt Vowels: 3
- AUE: Audio recording technique - some suggestions: 7
- AUE: Comments on a Proposal for Reformed English Spelling: 3
- AUE: Formant Analysis: 1
- AUE: Grammar Books: 1
- AUE: London Symposium Boink, September 1998: 2
- AUE: Perlfect Search: 1
- AUE: Plural Formation: 1
- AUE: Search Information: 1
- AUE: Speech Examples: 2
- AUE: Summer Boink, London, June 1999: 2
- AUE: Table of Formant Frequencies for Mark Barratt's "a" Vowels: 1
- AUE: The exception proves the rule: 1
- AUE: What is the UK? Is it the same as Britain, Great Britain or England?: 1
- Cambodunum
: 14
- Explanatory notes:
: 1
- Fieldfares
: 1
- Our images: 1
- Preface
: 2
- Suggestions: How To Form Your Reply
: 3
- The AUE Photo Gallery: 3
- The Poetry of F. W. Moorman: 1
- Why Bother Following This Style?
: 1
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