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:OR
- Lawler: Headline grammar: 1
- Lawler: That vs. Which: 2
- UCLE12: News
: 1
:oral :orama :orange :orangen :oratio :oration :oratorio :orc :orchestra :ordain :ORDER :order
- AWWY: Allen, W.C. (study of birds); cock of the walk; Dryden (henpecked); Henpecked Pecking Order, the; impeccable; peccadilloes; pecking order: 2
- AWWY: Apple Pie Order; apple of discord; apple polisher; discord, apple of: 1
- AWWY: act, cleaning up your; books made of leaves; cleaning up your act; house, set thine in order (Biblical origin); leaves of books?; new leaves, turning over; pages and leaves; Turning Over New Leaves: 1
- Abbreviations:
Unedited list of search results
: 2
- Cunningham: Comments: 1
- Cunningham: Explanations of column headings: : 1
- FX: "-er" vs "-re": 1
- FX: "A.D.": 1
- FX: "It's me" vs "It is I": 3
- FX: "company is" vs "company are": 1
- FX: "cut to the chase": 1
- FX: "that kind of a thing": 1
- FX: "whom": 1
- FX: Books on Britishisms, Canadianisms, etc.: 3
- FX: Commonest words: 1
- FX: How do Americans pronounce "dog"?: 1
- FX: Online dictionaries: 1
- FX: Postfix "not": 1
- FX: Rhotic vs non-rhotic, intrusive "r": 1
- FX: Split infinitive: 1
- FX: What words are their own antonym?: 2
- Garbl: in order to: 1
- Groups: AUE: "company is" and "company are": 1
- Interlinear IPA: AUE: Interlinear transliterations of ASCII IPA: 2
- Intro A:
Responding
: 1
- Lawler: >Just one question: Where does the past perfect ("have gone", "have sung"): 1
- Lawler: >Past tenses:: 2
- 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: 2
- Lawler: "It" in "It's raining": 2
- Lawler: "amn't": 1
- Lawler: Books on English, Language, and Linguistics: 1
- Lawler: Extraposition, plus Selected Short Subjects: 1
- Lawler: Indian English: 1
- Lawler: Phrasal Verbs: 1
- Lawler: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 2
- Lawler: Verbing Nouns: 1
- Subjunctive?: AUE: Does English Have a Subjunctive Mood?: 1
- UCLE03: Tee Shirts
: 1
- UCLE04: Our Favourite Cultural and Language Links
: 1
- UCLE07: Some significant numbers from literature and literary criticism: 1
- UCLE08: London’s
: 1
- UCLE09: “Pop
: 1
- UCLE09: “Stranger
: 1
- UCLE11: The
: 1
- UCLE13: "On the fritz"
: 2
- UCLE13: Custer's last stand
: 1
- UCLE14: Cripplegate and Crutched
: 1
- What's new?:
6 December 2001
: 1
- Yaelf: chiasmus (ky-AZ-mus) n .a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases.: 1
- e-mail vs email: AUE: Preferences, "e-mail" vs "email": 1
- AUE: "SOS": 1
- AUE: Comments on a Proposal for Reformed English Spelling: 2
- AUE: What is the UK? Is it the same as Britain, Great Britain or England?: 1
- Preface
: 1
:ordered :ordering :orders :ordinal :ordinance :ordinarily :ordinary :ordnance :ordnungsgemaess :ore :Oregon :Oregonian :Orexin :Orfu :ORG :org :organ :organic :organisation :Organisations :organised :organization :organization's :organizational :organizations
- Garbl: organizations and institutions: 1
:organize :organized :Organogram :organs :organza :oriel'd :orient :oriental :orientate :Orientated :oriented :origin
- AWWY: The Time is Ripe; down to the wire; eleventh hour, Biblical origins of phrase; hour, the eleventh (Biblical origins of phrase); nick of time, in the; ripe, the time is (Shakespearean origin of phrase); Time is Ripe, The; wire, down to and under: 1
- AWWY: Tough Luck; Black Magic (origin of jinxes); double whammy (jinxes); single whammy (jinxes); superstition: 1
- AWWY: Treading Water; financially strapped (in low water); hard up, nautical origin of phrase; rocks, on the; water, in low: 1
- AWWY: a stitch in time saves nine; etiquette; Sew What's New?; Singer, Isaac (sewing machines); sweatshop, year of origin; ticket: 1
- AWWY: act, cleaning up your; books made of leaves; cleaning up your act; house, set thine in order (Biblical origin); leaves of books?; new leaves, turning over; pages and leaves; Turning Over New Leaves: 1
- AWWY: chain, grocery; Company of Grocers; corner grocery, year of origin; grocery stores (groceries); grocery, corner (year of origin); groceterias (supermarkets); Shoptalk; store, grocery: 2
- AWWY: empechement, year of origin; impeachment; Is this Trip Necessary?; misconduct in public office; official misconduct; scandal; unimpeachable, year of origin: 2
- Abbreviations:
Unedited list of search results
: 1
- FX: "Bob's your uncle": 1
- FX: "Eskimo": 1
- FX: "O.K.": 1
- FX: "bloody": 1
- FX: "bug"="defect": 1
- FX: "canola": 1
- FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 1
- FX: "fuck": 1
- FX: "full monty": 1
- FX: "hell for leather": 1
- FX: "like" vs "such as": 1
- FX: "merkin": 2
- FX: "nimrod": 1
- FX: "ollie ollie oxen free": 1
- FX: "peter out": 1
- FX: "pie-shaped": 1
- FX: "posh": 1
- FX: "rule of thumb": 1
- FX: "sincere": 1
- FX: "suck"="be very unsatisfying": 1
- FX: "the bee's knees": 1
- FX: "the whole nine yards": 2
- FX: "titsling"/"brassiere": 1
- FX: "widget": 1
- FX: "wonk": 1
- FX: Does the next millennium begin in 2000 or 2001?: 1
- FX: Origin of the dollar sign: 3
- FX: Troll: 1
- FX: Words ending in "-gry": 1
- Fast FAQ:
[Prefatory remarks]
: 1
- Intro A:
Dictionary Definitions
: 1
- Intro B: On-line dictionaries: general : 1
- Intro C:
"full monty"
: 1
- Intro C:
"whole nine yards"
: 1
- Intro C: AUE Intro C: Mini-FAQ on Words & Phrases: 1
- Lawler: Canadian and American Raising: 1
- Lawler: He, she, they?: 1
- Lawler: Henry Lee Smith: 1
- Links: Fun with words
: 2
- UCLE05: What’s
: 1
- UCLE09: “It went pear-shaped”
: 2
- UCLE09: “Pop
: 1
- UCLE10: "Bite the bullet"
: 1
- UCLE14: Cripplegate and Crutched
: 1
- UCLE15:
The Tooth Fairy
: 1
- Yaelf: (DW) What is the origin of "the whole nine yards"?: 1
- Yaelf: (IPL) What is the origin of the phrase "Once in a blue moon"?: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) Any thoughts on the origin of bog-standard, as in bog-standard comprehensive?: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) I am looking for the origin and meaning of the phrase "Heavens to Betsy".: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) I've heard the expression brand spanking new many times and am curious about its origin. Any ideas?: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) What is the origin and actual meaning of bob's your uncle?: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) What is the origin of "at sixes and sevens"?: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) What is the origin of "beck and call"?: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) What is the origin of "beyond the pale"?: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) What is the origin of "bodacious"?: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) What is the origin of "boondocks"?: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) What is the origin of "going to Hell in a handbasket"?: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) What is the origin of "honeymoon"?: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) What is the origin of "hooligan"?: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) What is the origin of "mind your 'p's and 'q's"?: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) What is the origin of "on tenterhooks"?: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) What is the origin of "on the wagon"?: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) What is the origin of "scot free"?: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) What is the origin of "that's all she wrote"?: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) What is the origin of "the whole ball of wax"?: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) What is the origin of "to have a millstone around one's neck"? "put through the mill"? "all is grist for the mill"? "keeping your nose to the grindstone"? "run of the mill"?: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) What is the origin of Elephant and Castle? Is it really from Infanta of Castile?: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) What is the origin of the phrase "goody two shoes"?: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) What is the origin of the phrase "to the nines"?: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) What is the origin of the term big cheese as in 'He's a big cheese in the rugby world'?: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) What is the origin of the word "loggerhead?": 1
- Yaelf: (WD) What is the origin of the word "posh"?: 1
- Yaelf: (WWW) What is the origin of "hocus-pocus"?: 1
- Yaelf: Herder: An essay on the origin of language. Superb!: 1
- Yaelf: Origin of "piffy on a rock", "piffy on a rock-bun": 1
- Yaelf: Origin of the term "spam" to mean net abuse: 1
- Yaelf: Origin of the word "Hoax": 1
- Yaelf: The origin of the @ symbol: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "Bad Hair Day"?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "Blue Laws"?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "Bob's your uncle"? "Bob is your uncle"?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "Bog Standard"?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "Dibs"? "Dibbies"? To have "Dibs on"?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "Doodly Squat"? "Diddly Squat"?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "High Muckety Mucks"? "High Muck a Mucks"? "High Muckty Mucks"? "High Muckety Muck on the Totem Pole"?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "Mexican wave"?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "OK"? "Okay"?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "Teddy Bear"?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "To pay the piper"? "He who pays the piper..."?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "an ace in the hole"?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "an albatross around one's neck"?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "as old as the hills"?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "balls to the wall"?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "begs the question"?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "beyond the pale"?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "blue blood"? "blue blooded"?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "brass monkey"? "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey"?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "ducks in a row"??: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "get a life"?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "in one fell swoop"?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "in the limelight"? "lime light"?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "lie back and think of England"? "close your eyes and think of England"?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "making the beast with two backs"?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "naff"? "naff off"?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "red letter day"?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "salt of the earth"?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "scot free"? "to go scot-free"?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "shanks' pony"? "shanks pony"? "shanks mare"?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "shi*t-eating grin"? "a big shi*t-eating grin"?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "slush fund"?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "squaw"? "Nebraska"? "Sioux"? "Dakota"?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "suits to a T"? "suits to a tee"?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "that's cool"?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "the bee's knees"?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "the life of Riley"? "life of Reilly"?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "this neck of the woods"? "our neck of the woods?": 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "to eat crow"? "eat boiled crow"? "Crow McGee"?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "to make no bones about"?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "to ramp up"?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "to the bitter end"?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of "Sweetbread"?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of the term "continental breakfast"?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of the word "Hooligan"?: 1
- Yaelf: What is the origin of to "beat swords into ploughshares"?: 1
- AUE Gallery: Padraig Breathnach: 1
- AUE: "Pear-shaped", supplementary comments: 3
- AUE: Summer Boink, London, June 1999: 1
- AUE: The exception proves the rule: 1
- Preface
: 1
:original
- AUE Logo: AUE: The Totally Official Logo: 1
- AWWY: Chauvinists et al; Nicholas Chauvin (the original chauvinist?): 1
- AWWY: applaud; applause; blockbuster, original meaning of; Bomb, Applause, and Plaudits; explosions; plaudit, meaning of; plausible, meaning of: 1
- AWWY: ballyhoo; Garbled information & Ballyhoo; information, original meaning of; purveyors of information (ballyhoo): 1
- AWWY: beloved, original meaning of; Companions...Friends...Freedom; freedom; friends; love and freedom: 1
- AWWY: between the devil and the deep blue sea; Devil...Blue sea...All Hell to Pay; hell to pay; hot pitch, devil to pay and (original phrase): 1
- AWWY: cloth, cut out of whole; cut out of whole cloth; Whole Cloth...Spinning Yarns; fabrications, spinning yarns; sailors, original yarn spinners; yarns, spinning: 1
- AWWY: devil-may-care attitude (harum scarum); giddy headed (harum scarum); Harassment...Hares...Harum Scarum; hare-brained; Mad as a March Hare, original meaning of; scatterbrained (harum scarum): 1
- AWWY: digitus impudicus (finger); Fickle Finger of Fate, original reference; fingers and various related idioms; Sticky Fingers: 1
- AWWY: government (the ship of state); Machiavelli, Niccolo (contribution to language); The Rigged Ship of State; Rigged Ship of State, The; ship of state, the; shipshape, original meaning of: 1
- Abbreviations:
Unedited list of search results
: 1
- FX: "Caesarean section": 1
- FX: "Elementary, my dear Watson!": 1
- FX: "Eskimo": 1
- FX: "Jingle Bells": 1
- FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 1
- FX: "alumin(i)um": 1
- FX: "billion": a U.K. view: 1
- FX: "ebonics": 1
- FX: "merkin": 1
- FX: "more than you can shake a stick at": 1
- FX: "none is" vs "none are": 1
- FX: "ollie ollie oxen free": 1
- FX: "whole cloth": 1
- FX: Books on usage: 2
- FX: E-prime: 1
- FX: Joke about step-by-step spelling reform: 1
- FX: Origin of the dollar sign: 1
- FX: Words ending in "-gry": 1
- Intro E:
Humorous poems about spelling
: 2
- Intro G: AUE Intro G: Where is the FAQ?: 1
- Lawler: --- Followup --: 7
- Lawler: >Your example of English and Caxton print shop goes a long way to convince: 1
- Lawler: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 1
- Lawler: You may have noticed the Sapir quotation in my .sig.: 1
- Lawler: "equally" and comparatives: 1
- Lawler: "only": 1
- Lawler: Alumin(i)um: 1
- Lawler: Commas again: 1
- Lawler: Negative Polarity Items: 1
- Lawler: Ross Constraints: 2
- Lawler: gonna: 1
- UCLE03: Lindsay
: 1
- UCLE05: John Davies's commentary
: 2
- UCLE06: Rhetorical vocabulary: 1
- What's new?:
15 February 2002
: 1
- What's new?:
2 September 2001:
: 1
- What's new?:
5 March 2002
: 1
- Where FAQ?:
Original FAQ, no hypertext:
: 1
- Where FAQ?: AUE: Places to find Mark Israel's FAQ: 1
- 11. The Commonwealth
: 1
- AUE: London Millennium Boink, December 1999: 1
- AUE: Showing variation of formants of [i:] with context: 1
- AUE: Showing variation of formants of [i:] with context: 1
- Credits
: 1
- What Is Quoting?
: 1
:originally :originate :originated :originates :originator :origins
- AWWY: A Fly on the Wall at the Flea Market; Fly on the Wall at the Flea Market, A; ear, putting a flea in my; flea in my ear, putting a; flea market (marché aux puces); flies on you, there are no; marché aux puces (flea market); market, flea (Parisian origins of); wall, fly on the: 1
- AWWY: America's Hang-Ups; lynch, eponymous origins of: 1
- AWWY: Grog, Old; groggy; Mickey Finn; Old Grog; punch, Indian origins of; Punched Out: 1
- AWWY: Horseplay; fuss, kick up a (equestrian origins of phrase); heels, kick up one's (equestrian origins of phrase); kick up one's heels; rampage, equestrian origins of; recalcitrant; sense, horse; wild horses couldn't drag us, equestrian origins of phrase: 4
- AWWY: The Time is Ripe; down to the wire; eleventh hour, Biblical origins of phrase; hour, the eleventh (Biblical origins of phrase); nick of time, in the; ripe, the time is (Shakespearean origin of phrase); Time is Ripe, The; wire, down to and under: 2
- AWWY: The Walls have ears...Mum...Sub Rosa; auriculaires (walls have ears); Dionysius and walls with ears; ears in walls; The Walls Have Ears...Mum...Sub Rosa; Medici, Catherine de (auriculaires); mum, Shakespearean origins of; sealed lips (mum); sub rosa: 1
- AWWY: autograph; graffiti; handwriting on the wall, biblical origins of; Kilroy was here (famous graffiti); Write On!: 1
- AWWY: bananas, top (burlesque origins); big wheel, the; dealer, wheeler; Honchos, Top Bananas and VIPs; top bananas (burlesque origins); wheeler dealer: 2
- AWWY: big stick, the (Roosevelt); branch, olive; fencing and sticklers; olive branch, biblical origins of; shtick; stick, the big; umpires for fencing (sticklers): 1
- AWWY: bottoms up, sinister origins of; Eat, Drink & Bottoms Up; merry making: 1
- AWWY: color me gone; cut and run, nautical origins of; escape; high tail it; mosey; Moving Right Along; skedaddle; skidoo; split the scene; twenty-three skiddoo; vamoose: 1
- AWWY: dweeb (unknown origins); geeks; nerd; nut; Oddballs; wonk: 1
- AWWY: eighty-seven and one half, soda jerk origins of; Eighty-Six; nichts (nixed); ninety-eight, soda jerk origins of: 2
- AWWY: mailmen, history of; post; post-haste, postal origins of; postmen, history of; postponed, postal origins of; Staying Posted: 2
- Abbreviations:
Unedited list of search results
: 1
- FX: "Break a leg!": 1
- FX: "Caesarean section": 1
- FX: "O.K.": 1
- FX: "bloody": 1
- FX: "copacetic": 1
- FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 1
- FX: "loo": 1
- FX: "push the envelope": 1
- FX: "wonk": 1
- FX: "ye"="the": 1
- FX: Books on phrase origins: 6
- FX: How did "Truly" become a personal name?: 1
- FX: Origin of the dollar sign: 1
- FX: Related newsgroups: 2
- Fast FAQ:
[Prefatory remarks]
: 3
- Intro B: Sites on words and language : 1
- Intro C:
"push the envelope"
: 1
- Lawler: Henry Lee Smith: 1
- Quinion: Cassell Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins (book review): 1
- Supp: AUE FAQ Supplement: 1
- UCLE05: What’s
: 2
- UCLE09: “It went pear-shaped”
: 1
- UCLE15:
The Tooth Fairy
: 2
- UCLE16: Hooligan
: 1
- What's new?:
2 September 2001:
: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) Any ideas on the origins of the expression "nitty-gritty"? I heard today a rather horrible suggestion that it referred to the debris left in the bottom of slave ships after their voyages, once the slaves remaining alive had been removed.: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) Can you enlighten me about the origins of "mad as a hatter"?: 1
- Yaelf: Tony Jebson's site on learning Old English. This site includes articles on the history and origins of Old English.: 1
- AUE: "Pear-shaped", supplementary comments: 1
- AUE: Dictionaries: 1
:Orkneys :Orlando :Orleans :Orlon :ornament :ornamental :ornamentally :ornate :Orne :ornery :Orotund :orphanage
- Lawler: There are also two kinds of relative clauses:: 2
:Orr :Orrery :Orrins-Kendall :Orseman :orses :Orsman :Orthodox :orthodoxy :orthogonal :orthographic :orthographs
- Lawler: He, she, they?: 1
:orthography :Orthorexia :Oscar :Oscars :Oscillon :oscilloscope :oshk :OSN :Ospd :ossified :ostensible :ostensibly
- Lawler: -- more followup:: 1
- Lawler: He, she, they?: 1
:ostensively :Ostracism :ostracize :Osv :Osw
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