Concordance index for 'fam' onwards

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:fame

AWWY: Andy Warhol and 15 minutes of fame; Fate...Fame...Fortune; fortune; infamous; rich and famous; Warhol, Andy (15 minutes of fame): 3
AWWY: exhibitionism; habit; inhibitions; Klinger, Corporal Maxwell Q. (of M*A*S*H fame); M*A*S*H Habit, The; nun's habit; prohibited; rehabilitating: 1
FX: "titsling"/"brassiere": 1
FX: Words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 1
Lawler: Henry Lee Smith: 1
UCLE09: Rivers : 1
Cambodunum : 1

:familiar

FX: "Enquiring minds want to know.": 1
FX: "God rest you merry, gentlemen": 2
FX: "Jingle Bells": 2
FX: "like" vs "such as": 1
FX: "to call a spade a spade": 1
FX: Related newsgroups: 2
FX: Repeated words after abbreviations: 1
FX: Trademarks: 1
Lawler: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 1
Lawler: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 1
Lawler: Hyphens: 1
Lawler: Phrasal Verbs: 1
Links: Online reference books : 1
RH WotD: familiar (noun): 1
UCLE04: Our Favourite Cultural and Language Links : 1

:familiarisation

What's new?: 6 December 2001 : 1

:familiarity

Lawler: Hyphens: 1
Links: Dictionaries : 1
UCLE15: Gossip : 1

:family

FX: "that" vs "which": 4
FX: How did "Truly" become a personal name?: 2
FX: How do Americans pronounce "dog"?: 1
Garbl: family, genus, species: 1
Garbl: family: 1
Groups: AUE: "company is" and "company are": 3
Intro D: Group nouns: singular or plural? "company is" -v- "company are" : 2
Quinion: Family: 1
UCLE09: One : 1
UCLE13: "Rearranging deck chairs : 1
AUE Gallery: John Varela: 1
AUE Gallery: Padraig Breathnach: 1
AUE Gallery: W. Wesley Groleau: 1
AUE: Georgia speaker comments: 1
Cambodunum : 2
Preface : 1

:famine

FX: "Let them eat cake!": 1
Quinion: Green famine: 2

:famous

AWWY: Andy Warhol and 15 minutes of fame; Fate...Fame...Fortune; fortune; infamous; rich and famous; Warhol, Andy (15 minutes of fame): 1
AWWY: autograph; graffiti; handwriting on the wall, biblical origins of; Kilroy was here (famous graffiti); Write On!: 1
Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results : 1
FX: "Caesarean section": 1
FX: "like" vs "as": 1
FX: "spoonerism": 1
FX: The the "hoi polloi" debate: 1
Intro D: Gender-neutral pronouns: "he/she" -v- "they" : 1
Lawler: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 1
Lawler: A or An Historical Novel?: 1
Lawler: Headline grammar: 1
UCLE08: The “Fat Lady” : 1

:famously

11. The Commonwealth : 1

:fan

FX: "merkin": 1
Quinion: Fan: 1
Cambodunum : 1

:Fanatics

AWWY: Fans...Fanatics...Zealots; zealots: 1

:fanceez

Intro E: I before E except after C : 1

:fancied

FX: I before E except after C: 1

:fancier

FX: "Let them eat cake!": 1

:fancies

FX: I before E except after C: 1
Intro E: I before E except after C : 1

:fancifully

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

:fanciz

Intro E: I before E except after C : 1

:fancy

AWWY: deadlocked; enthrall; fancy free; footloose; knot, tie the; lock (sure thing); prisoner of love (enthralled); sure thing (lock); tie the knot; Tying the Knot and Wedlock; unfettered (footloose); wedlock: 1
FX: I before E except after C: 1
Home: The alt.usage.english Home Page: 1
Lawler: Negative Polarity Items: 1
UCLE04: Our Favourite Cultural and Language Links : 1

:Fans

AWWY: Fans...Fanatics...Zealots; zealots: 1

:Fanshawe

UCLE12: News : 1

:Fanshel

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

:fantasies

:fantastic

FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1
Quinion: Trip the light fantastic: 1
RH WotD: trip the light fantastic: 1
Preface : 1

:fantasy

FX: "merkin": 1
FX: What is "ghoti"?: 1
UCLE04: British : 1

:Fantods

Morris: Fantods: 1

:FAQ

Abbreviations: AUE: Initialisms Commonly Used in alt.usage.english: 1
FX: ", vs ,": 2
FX: "-er" vs "-re": 2
FX: "-ize" vs "-ise": 2
FX: "." after abbreviations: 2
FX: "A number of...": 2
FX: "A, B and C" vs "A, B, and C": 2
FX: "A.D.": 2
FX: "Bob's your uncle": 2
FX: "Break a leg!": 2
FX: "Caesarean section": 2
FX: "Elementary, my dear Watson!": 2
FX: "Enquiring minds want to know.": 2
FX: "Eskimo": 3
FX: "Get the lead out": 2
FX: "Go figure": 2
FX: "Go placidly amid the noise and the haste" (Desiderata): 2
FX: "God rest you merry, gentlemen": 2
FX: "I won't mention...": 2
FX: "ISO": 2
FX: "Illegitimis non carborundum": 2
FX: "It needs cleaned": 2
FX: "It's me" vs "It is I": 2
FX: "Jingle Bells": 2
FX: "Let them eat cake!": 2
FX: "O.K.": 2
FX: "SOS": 2
FX: "Santa Ana": 2
FX: "Scotch": 2
FX: "Take the prisoner downstairs", said Tom condescendingly.: 2
FX: "The die is cast.": 2
FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 2
FX: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.": 2
FX: "There's a sucker born every minute": 2
FX: "Wherefore art thou Romeo?": 2
FX: "You have another think coming": 2
FX: "a"/"an" before abbreviations: 4
FX: "acronym": 2
FX: "all ... not": 2
FX: "alot": 2
FX: "alright": 2
FX: "alumin(i)um": 2
FX: "beg the question": 2
FX: "between you and I": 2
FX: "billion": a U.K. view: 2
FX: "billions and billions": 2
FX: "bloody": 2
FX: "blue moon": 2
FX: "bug"="defect": 2
FX: "by hook or by crook": 2
FX: "canola": 2
FX: "catch-22": 2
FX: "company is" vs "company are": 2
FX: "cop": 2
FX: "copacetic": 2
FX: "could care less": 2
FX: "could of": 2
FX: "crap": 2
FX: "cut the mustard": 2
FX: "cut to the chase": 2
FX: "different to", "different than": 2
FX: "done"="finished": 2
FX: "dressed to the nines": 2
FX: "due to": 2
FX: "ebonics": 2
FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 2
FX: "face the music": 2
FX: "fall off a turnip truck": 2
FX: "flammable": 2
FX: "freeway": 2
FX: "fuck": 2
FX: "full monty": 2
FX: "functionality": 2
FX: "go to hell in a handbasket": 2
FX: "golf": 2
FX: "hell for leather": 2
FX: "hoist with his own petard": 2
FX: "hooker": 2
FX: "hopefully", "thankfully": 2
FX: "if I was" vs "if I were": 2
FX: "impact"="to affect": 2
FX: "in like Flynn": 2
FX: "jerry-built"/"jury-rigged": 2
FX: "kangaroo": 2
FX: "less" vs "fewer": 2
FX: "like" vs "as": 2
FX: "like" vs "such as": 2
FX: "limerence"/"limerent": 2
FX: "loo": 2
FX: "love"="zero": 2
FX: "merkin": 2
FX: "mind your p's and q's": 2
FX: "more honoured in the breach than the observance": 2
FX: "more than you can shake a stick at": 2
FX: "more/most/very unique": 2
FX: "mouses" vs "mice": 2
FX: "near miss": 2
FX: "nimrod": 2
FX: "none is" vs "none are": 2
FX: "ollie ollie oxen free": 2
FX: "outrage": 2
FX: "paparazzo": 2
FX: "peter out": 2
FX: "pie-shaped": 3
FX: "politically correct": 2
FX: "portmanteau word": 2
FX: "posh": 2
FX: "push the envelope": 2
FX: "put in one's two cents' worth": 2
FX: "quality": 2
FX: "quiz": 2
FX: "rule of thumb": 2
FX: "scot-free": 2
FX: "shall" vs "will", "should" vs "would": 2
FX: "shouting fire in a crowded theater": 2
FX: "sincere": 2
FX: "sirloin"/"baron of beef": 2
FX: "son of a gun": 2
FX: "spit and image"/"spitting image": 2
FX: "spoonerism": 2
FX: "suck"="be very unsatisfying": 2
FX: "that kind of a thing": 2
FX: "that" vs "which": 2
FX: "the bee's knees": 2
FX: "the whole nine yards": 2
FX: "till"/"until": 2
FX: "tip": 2
FX: "titsling"/"brassiere": 2
FX: "to all intents and purposes": 2
FX: "to call a spade a spade": 2
FX: "true fact": 2
FX: "try and", "be sure and", "go" + verb: 2
FX: "wait for the other shoe to drop": 2
FX: "whole cloth": 2
FX: "whom": 2
FX: "widget": 2
FX: "wog": 2
FX: "wonk": 2
FX: "wop": 2
FX: "ye"="the": 2
FX: "you saying" vs "your saying": 2
FX: Basic English: 2
FX: Biblical sense of "to know": 2
FX: Book on mathematical exposition: 2
FX: Books on "bias-free"/"politically correct" language: 2
FX: Books on Britishisms, Canadianisms, etc.: 5
FX: Books on group names: 2
FX: Books on linguistics: 2
FX: Books on phrasal verbs: 2
FX: Books on phrase origins: 2
FX: Books on rhyming slang: 2
FX: Books on usage: 2
FX: Books that discriminate synonyms: 2
FX: Commonest words: 2
FX: Diacritics: 2
FX: Dictionaries: 2
FX: Distribution of English-speakers: 2
FX: Do publishers put false info in dictionaries to catch plagiarists?: 2
FX: Does the next millennium begin in 2000 or 2001?: 3
FX: Double "is": 2
FX: Doubling of final consonants before suffixes: 2
FX: E-prime: 2
FX: English is Tough Stuff: 2
FX: Etymologies of personal names: 2
FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 5
FX: Foreign plurals => English singulars: 2
FX: Fumblerules ("Don't use no double negatives", etc.): 2
FX: Gender-neutral pronouns: 4
FX: General reference: 2
FX: Grammars: 2
FX: Guidelines for posting: 4
FX: How did "Truly" become a personal name?: 2
FX: How do Americans pronounce "dog"?: 2
FX: How do you spell "e-mail"?: 2
FX: How reliable are dictionaries?: 2
FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 2
FX: I before E except after C: 2
FX: Joke about step-by-step spelling reform: 2
FX: Names of "&", "@", and "#": 2
FX: Online dictionaries: 2
FX: Online language columns: 2
FX: Online usage guides: 3
FX: Origin of the dollar sign: 2
FX: Plurals of Latin/Greek words: 2
FX: Postfix "not": 2
FX: Preposition at end: 2
FX: Provenance of English vocabulary: 2
FX: Radio alphabets: 2
FX: Related newsgroups: 3
FX: Repeated words after abbreviations: 2
FX: Rhotic vs non-rhotic, intrusive "r": 2
FX: Sentences grammatical in both Old English and Modern English: 2
FX: Spaces between sentences: 2
FX: Spelling reform: 2
FX: Split infinitive: 2
FX: Style manuals: 2
FX: Subjunctive: 2
FX: The the "hoi polloi" debate: 2
FX: Trademarks: 2
FX: Troll: 2
FX: Typo: 2
FX: WELCOME TO ALT.USAGE.ENGLISH!: 2
FX: What do you call the grass strip between the road and the sidewalk?: 2
FX: What is "ghoti"?: 2
FX: What is a suggested format for citing online sources?: 2
FX: What is the language term for...?: 2
FX: What is the opposite of "distaff side"?: 2
FX: What is the opposite of "to exceed"?: 2
FX: What is the phone number of the Grammar Hotline?: 2
FX: What will we call the next decade?: 2
FX: What words are their own antonym?: 2
FX: When to use "the": 3
FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 2
FX: Why do we say "30 years old", but "a 30-year-old man"?: 2
FX: Why is "I" capitalized?: 2
FX: Wicca: 2
FX: Words ending in "-gry": 2
FX: Words pronounced differently according to context: 2
FX: Words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 2
FX: Words without vowels: 2
FX: [Prefatory remarks]: 7
Fast FAQ: AUE's fast-access FAQ: 6
Fast FAQ: The fast-access FAQ : 6
Garbl: FAQ: 1
Genitive: AUE: Genitive is Not Always Possessive: 1
Groups: AUE: "company is" and "company are": 1
Home: The alt.usage.english Home Page: 2
I before E: AUE: Exceptions to the rule 'I before E except after C': 1
IPA II: Credits: : 1
IPA II: The [O] sound requires rounded lips, but lips making a : 1
IPA II: The reference to 'Chicago pop' first appeared in Mark Israel's : 1
IPA I: Credits : 1
IPA I: Note 1: The remarks concerning the pronunciation of [O] were taken verbatim from Mark Israel's AUE FAQ. Some AUE contributors have expressed the opinion : 1
IPA I: Note 2: The reference to 'Chicago pop' first appeared in Mark Israel's AUE FAQ, and I [Bob Cunningham] believe it was copied from there by Markus Laker for inclusion in his : 1
Interlinear IPA: AUE: Interlinear transliterations of ASCII IPA: 7
Intro A: Guidelines for posting : 2
Intro A: WELCOME TO alt.usage.english! : 3
Intro B: Historical English, and English Literature : 2
Intro B: Sites on words and language : 1
Intro B: Where to find previous postings : 1
Intro C: "full monty" : 1
Intro C: "obaue" or "ObAUE" : 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" : 2
Intro C: AUE Intro C: Mini-FAQ on Words & Phrases: 1
Intro D: "A" or "an" : 3
Intro D: Where to find the big AUE FAQ : 3
Intro D: AUE Intro D: Mini-FAQ on Grammar, Usage & Punctuation: 2
Intro E: I before E except after C : 1
Intro E: U.S. -v- REST-OF-WORLD ENGLISH : 1
Intro E: What is "ghoti"? : 1
Intro E: AUE Intro E: Mini-FAQ on Spelling: 1
Intro F: AUE Intro F: Contents of AUE FAQ and FAQ Supplement: 16
Intro G: AUE Intro G: Where is the FAQ?: 23
Introduction: AUE: Intro Documents: 2
Isles: SCOTCH. The following is extracted from Mark Israel's FAQ : 1
Links: Discussion groups, Usenet group Websites : 1
Links: Miscellaneous, language related : 1
Links: Miscellaneous, not language related : 4
Links: Phonetic alphabets : 2
Links: Words about words : 1
Subjunctive?: AUE: Does English Have a Subjunctive Mood?: 1
Supp: AUE FAQ Supplement: 3
UCLE02: The history of ucle: 1
UCLE04: Language and Usenet FAQs : 3
Usenet Docs: AUE: Links to Official Usenet Documents: 3
What's new?: 6 December 2001 : 4
What's new?: 15 February 2002 : 1
What's new?: 2 September 2001: : 20
What's new?: 23 February 2002 : 3
Where FAQ?: Berna Slikker's version (19 February 1996): : 1
Where FAQ?: Brian Tung's version (15 August 1995): : 1
Where FAQ?: Original FAQ, no hypertext: : 2
Where FAQ?: Partial hypertext FAQ: : 2
Where FAQ?: AUE FAQ supplement: : 3
Where FAQ?: Fast-access FAQ: : 2
Where FAQ?: Introductions to alt.usage.english: : 5
Where FAQ?: Peter Moylan's version (12 March 1995): : 1
Where FAQ?: Single-page FAQ with internal links: : 3
Where FAQ?: AUE: Places to find Mark Israel's FAQ: 9
Yaelf: FAQ: Is it "an ef-ay-cue" or "a fack"?: 1
Yaelf: The alternative FAQ For alt.usage.english: 1
A ucle resource page: 1
A ucle resource page: 1
AUE: "SOS": 2
AUE: About the alt.usage.english newsgroup: 5
AUE: Dictionaries: 1
AUE: Grammar Books: 1
AUE: Search Information: 1
AUE: Site Links: 2
AUE: What is prescriptivism?: 1

:Faq

Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results : 7
Intro C: AUE Intro C: Mini-FAQ on Words & Phrases: 1
Intro D: AUE Intro D: Mini-FAQ on Grammar, Usage & Punctuation: 1
Intro E: AUE Intro E: Mini-FAQ on Spelling: 1

:FAQ's

Intro F: AUE Intro F: Contents of AUE FAQ and FAQ Supplement: 1

:FAQ-excerpt

What's new?: 6 December 2001 : 1

:FAQ-type

Supp: AUE FAQ Supplement: 1
Where FAQ?: AUE FAQ supplement: : 1

:FAQS

:faqs

FX: [Prefatory remarks]: 1
Fast FAQ: [Prefatory remarks] : 1
Home: The alt.usage.english Home Page: 1
Intro G: AUE Intro G: Where is the FAQ?: 1
Links: Miscellaneous, not language related : 2
UCLE03: Lindsay : 1
UCLE04: Language and Usenet FAQs : 1
Usenet Docs: AUE: Links to Official Usenet Documents: 2
Yaelf: Related Usenet FAQs: 1
A ucle resource page: 1
A ucle resource page: 1

:far

Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results : 1
Brians: as far as: 1
FX: "Go figure": 1
FX: "It's me" vs "It is I": 1
FX: "O.K.": 1
FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 1
FX: "hopefully", "thankfully": 1
FX: "less" vs "fewer": 1
FX: "like" vs "such as": 1
FX: "love"="zero": 1
FX: "pie-shaped": 1
FX: "shall" vs "will", "should" vs "would": 1
FX: "sincere": 1
FX: "wog": 1
FX: Books on phrase origins: 1
FX: Commonest words: 1
FX: Spaces between sentences: 1
FX: Subjunctive: 1
FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1
Garbl: far-ranging: 1
Intro E: I before E except after C : 1
Isles: NORTHERN IRELAND This is not the place to go into : 1
Lawler: >>> The facts of the matter are these:: 1
Lawler: You may have noticed the Sapir quotation in my .sig.: 2
Lawler: "Correctness": 1
Lawler: "It" in "It's raining": 1
Lawler: "Quote, Unquote": 3
Lawler: Alumin(i)um: 1
Lawler: As far as ... goes/is concerned: 11
Lawler: Bring vs Take: 3
Lawler: Can't Help (But) ...: 1
Lawler: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 1
Lawler: He, she, they?: 1
Lawler: Hyphens: 1
Lawler: Negative Polarity Items: 3
Lawler: Object Complements: 2
Lawler: Phrasal Verbs: 1
Lawler: Reams: 4
Lawler: There are also two kinds of relative clauses:: 1
Lawler: Toward(s) and Beside(s): 1
Lawler: Usage of "the hell": 1
Lynch: As Far As.: 1
UCLE07: Some significant numbers from literature and literary criticism: 1
Yaelf: (IPL) Why were WWI infantry called "doughboys"? What does the "D" in D-Day stand for? How far is a klick?: 1
AUE Gallery: Padraig Breathnach: 2
AUE: Additional comments about deja.com: 1
AUE: Analysis of Some Mark Barratt Vowels: 1
Cambodunum : 4
Fieldfares : 2
Preface : 4

:far-learnt

Cambodunum : 1

:far-off

Fieldfares : 1

:Farb

Quinion: Farb: 1

:farce

AWWY: boffo; buffoons; farce; Going for the Jocular; Jocular, Going for the; slapstick; zany: 1

:fArD

FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 1
IPA II: [*] : 1
IPA I: /A:/ : 1

:fare

Brians: fair/fare: 1

:farebox

Garbl: farebox: 1

:Farewell

RH WotD: Farewell: 1

:farfalle

FX: Foreign plurals => English singulars: 1

:farm

FX: How did "Truly" become a personal name?: 1
Morris: Bought the Farm: 1
Quinion: To buy the farm: 1
UCLE12: News : 1
Wilton: Buy The Farm: 1
Cambodunum : 4
Preface : 3

:farm-folk

Cambodunum : 1

:farm-twang

Cambodunum : 1

:FARMER

UCLE12: News : 1

:farmer

Cambodunum : 1
Preface : 1

:farmer's

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

:farmers

FX: "blue moon": 1
FX: "canola": 1
UCLE07: Some significant numbers from literature and literary criticism: 1
Cambodunum : 6
Preface : 2
The Poetry of F. W. Moorman: 1

:farming

Quinion: Molecular farming: 1

:farms

Cambodunum : 1

:farmyard

Preface : 1

:Farquhar

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

:Farrago

Quinion: Farrago: 1

:Farrakhan

AUE: "miss not having": 1

:Farrar

FX: "like" vs "such as": 1

:Farrell

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

:fart

FX: "peter out": 2

:farther

Brians: farther/further: 1
FX: "done"="finished": 1
FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 1
Garbl: farther , further: 1
IPA II: [*] : 1
IPA I: What is this? : 2
IPA I: British : 1
Lawler: "It" in "It's raining": 1
Lynch: Farther versus Further.: 1
RH WotD: further/farther: 1
AUE: Showing variation of formants of [i:] with context: 1
AUE: Showing variation of formants of [i:] with context: 2

:fartlek

RH WotD: fartlek: 1

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