:C'est

  • FX: "It's me" vs "It is I": 2
  • FX: "spit and image"/"spitting image": 1

    :C-section

  • FX: "Caesarean section": 1
  • FX: How do you spell "e-mail"?: 1

    :C19

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

    :C20

  • UCLE05: John Davies's commentary: 1

    :CA

  • Audio: Other Sound Files: 3

    :ca'n't

  • Lawler l-sounds: English L sounds: 1

    :ca1750

  • UCLE14: Eponymous London Shopkeepers: 1

    :Cabal

  • Wilton: Wilton's Etymology Page: 1

    :cabbage

  • UCLE16: Kibosh: 1

    :Cabbages

  • FX: "cut the mustard": 1

    :Cabinet

  • FX: "company is" vs "company are": 2
  • Groups: "company is" vs "company are": 2

    :caboche

  • UCLE16: Kibosh: 1

    :caboodle

  • RH_wotd kit and caboodle: 1
  • Wilton: Wilton's Etymology Page: 1
  • awwy_B: 'Word With You' list for letter B: 1
  • awwy_K: 'Word With You' list for letter K: 1

    :cabs

  • awwy_B: 'Word With You' list for letter B: 1
  • awwy_C: 'Word With You' list for letter C: 1

    :cache

  • RH_wotd cache: 2
  • Fast FAQ: A faster way to access items in the AUE FAQ: 1

    :Cacoethes

  • UCLE06: Rhetorical vocabulary: 1

    :cacoetheses

  • FX: What is the language term for...?: 1

    :Cacography

  • wwwords Cacography: 2

    :cacophemism

  • FX: What is the language term for...?: 1

    :CAD

  • Garbl: C: 1

    :cada

  • Lawler extrapos: Extraposition, plus Selected Short Subjects: 1

    :Cadastral

  • wwwords Cadastral: 2

    :caddies

  • awwy_B: 'Word With You' list for letter B: 1
  • awwy_G: 'Word With You' list for letter G: 1

    :cadet

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

    :Cadets

  • awwy_B: 'Word With You' list for letter B: 1

    :cadre

  • FX: "-er" vs "-re": 1

    :Cads

  • awwy_B: 'Word With You' list for letter B: 1

    :caedere

  • FX: "Caesarean section": 1

    :Caeline

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

    :caesar

  • awwy_B: 'Word With You' list for letter B: 1
  • awwy_H: 'Word With You' list for letter H: 1
  • awwy_J: 'Word With You' list for letter J: 1
  • awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1
  • FX: "Caesarean section": 10
  • FX: "I won't mention...": 1
  • FX: "The die is cast.": 4
  • UCLE13: The Ides of March: 2
  • UCLE07: Some significant numbers from literature and literary criticism: 1

    :Caesar's

  • awwy_D: 'Word With You' list for letter D: 1
  • awwy_M: 'Word With You' list for letter M: 1
  • FX: "Caesarean section": 3
  • FX: "I won't mention...": 1
  • FX: "The die is cast.": 1

    :Caesarea

  • FX: "Caesarean section": 1

    :Caesarean

  • FX: "Caesarean section": 3
  • FX: Table of Contents: 1
  • Fast FAQ: Table of Contents: 1
  • fast_faq_toc.html: 1
  • Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 1

    :Caesars

  • FX: "Caesarean section": 1

    :caeso

  • FX: "Caesarean section": 1

    :Cafe

  • Resources: Learning English : 1
  • Intro B: Learning English as a Foreign Language: 1

    :caffeine

  • I before E:      For those people who insist the rule apply only to words where: 1
  • FX: I before E except after C (notes by Mark Wainwright): 1

    :Cahaignes

  • UCLE09: One: 1

    :Cahoot

  • wwwords Cahoot: 2

    :cahoots

  • RH_wotd cahoots: 2

    :cai4

  • Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in : 1

    :Cain

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

    :Caine

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

    :caingy

  • FX: words ending in "-gry": 1

    :cairns

  • FX: "SOS": 1

    :Caitiff

  • wwwords Caitiff: 2

    :Cajori

  • FX: Origin of the dollar sign (notes by Mark Brader): 3

    :cake

  • awwy_B: 'Word With You' list for letter B: 2
  • awwy_L: 'Word With You' list for letter L: 1
  • awwy_P: 'Word With You' list for letter P: 1
  • awwy_Q: 'Word With You' list for letter Q: 1
  • awwy_T: 'Word With You' list for letter T: 1
  • FX: "Let them eat cake!": 2
  • FX: Table of Contents: 1
  • FX: trademarks: 1
  • Fast FAQ: Table of Contents: 1
  • fast_faq_toc.html: 1
  • Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 1
  • IPA II: Affricates, diphthongs and triphthongs:: 1
  • IPA I: Affricates, diphthongs and triphthongs: 1
  • IPA I: Reading ASCII IPA: 1
  • UCLE11: The: 1

    :cake-hole

  • RH_wotd cake-hole: 2

    :cakewalk

  • awwy_B: 'Word With You' list for letter B: 1

    :Cakewalks

  • awwy_L: 'Word With You' list for letter L: 1

    :calamitus

  • UCLE13: Calamity Jane: 1

    :Calamity

  • UCLE13: Calamity Jane: 3

    :calamus

  • UCLE13: Calamity Jane: 1

    :calculus

  • RH_wotd calculus: 2

    :Calcutta

  • Resources: Miscellaneous, not language related : 1

    :Caldew

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

    :Caldwell

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

    :calendar

  • wwwords Red-letter day: 1
  • Garbl: C: 1
  • FX: "blue moon" (notes by Philip Hiscock): 1
  • FX: Does the next millennium begin in 2000 or 2001?: 1

    :Calendar terms

  • wwwords Red-letter day: 1

    :calendars

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

    :calf

  • Arthur the Rat: 1

    :calibrate

  • Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 1

    :calibre

  • FX: "-er" vs "-re": 1

    :California

  • RH_wotd California: 2
  • Audio: � USA: 2
  • Audio: � USA: 1
  • Resources: Miscellaneous, not language related : 1
  • Resources: Rhetoric vocabulary : 2
  • FX: "ebonics": 1
  • FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 1
  • FX: How did "Truly" become a personal name?: 2
  • FX: "Santa Ana": 2
  • FX: "to call a spade a spade": 1
  • FX: What is the phone number of the Grammar Hotline?: 1
  • Intro E: Joke about step-by-step spelling reform: 1
  • IPA II: Credits:: 2
  • IPA I: Credits: 2
  • Supp: "SOS": 1

    :call

  • RH_wotd call a spade a spade: 1
  • Garbl: C: 1
  • Garbl: T: 1
  • Comments on a proposal for reformed English spelling: 1
  • Wilton: Wilton's Etymology Page: 1
  • Unedited list of search results: 1
  • awwy_A: 'Word With You' list for letter A: 1
  • awwy_B: 'Word With You' list for letter B: 4
  • awwy_C: 'Word With You' list for letter C: 3
  • awwy_D: 'Word With You' list for letter D: 3
  • awwy_E: 'Word With You' list for letter E: 1
  • awwy_F: 'Word With You' list for letter F: 4
  • awwy_H: 'Word With You' list for letter H: 1
  • awwy_L: 'Word With You' list for letter L: 1
  • awwy_M: 'Word With You' list for letter M: 2
  • awwy_O: 'Word With You' list for letter O: 1
  • awwy_P: 'Word With You' list for letter P: 1
  • awwy_W: 'Word With You' list for letter W: 2
  • FX: "acronym": 1
  • FX: "ebonics": 1
  • FX: names of "&", "@", and "#": 1
  • FX: "SOS": 1
  • FX: Table of Contents: 2
  • FX: "to call a spade a spade": 6
  • FX: What do you call the grass strip between the road and the sidewalk?: 2
  • FX: What will we call the next decade?: 3
  • Fast FAQ: Table of Contents: 2
  • fast_faq_toc.html: 2
  • Lawler asfaras: As far as ... goes/is concerned: 1
  • Lawler besides: Toward(s) and Beside(s): 1
  • Lawler complmnt: Object Complements: 1
  • Lawler equally: "equally" and comparatives: 1
  • Lawler gonna: gonna: 1
  • Lawler npislands: News Item: 1
  • Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 1
  • Lawler quote: "Quote, Unquote": 1
  • Lawler tense: Tense and related topics: 2
  • Lawler writing: Literacy: 1
  • Intro C: American: 3
  • Intro D: Acronyms and other abbreviations using initial letters: 1
  • Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 2
  • IPA I: About this document: 1
  • IPA I: Preliminary remarks: 1
  • UCLE14: Literary characters who became: 1
  • UCLE15: Gossip: 1
  • UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 1

    :call a spade a spade

  • RH_wotd call a spade a spade: 1

    :call'em

  • Lawler xmasthat: That vs. Which: 1

    :called

  • Frequently Asked Questions about English, Series 1 and 2: 1
  • Unedited list of search results: 1
  • Resources: �������� 9. The original URL,: 1
  • Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 3
  • Isles: IRELAND.  As used by geographers, the second largest island: 2
  • Isles: NORTHERN IRELAND   This is not the place to go into: 1
  • FX: "A, B and C" vs "A, B, and C": 1
  • FX: Biblical sense of "to know": 1
  • FX: "Caesarean section": 1
  • FX: "canola": 2
  • FX: Commonest words: 1
  • FX: "cut the mustard": 1
  • FX: Dictionaries: 1
  • FX: "done"="finished": 1
  • FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 2
  • FX: I before E except after C (notes by Mark Wainwright): 1
  • FX: "I won't mention...": 1
  • FX: "kangaroo": 1
  • FX: "like" vs "such as": 1
  • FX: names of "&", "@", and "#": 2
  • FX: "O.K.": 1
  • FX: Online language columns: 1
  • FX: Origin of the dollar sign (notes by Mark Brader): 3
  • FX: "peter out": 1
  • FX: "push the envelope": 1
  • FX: "quality": 1
  • FX: "Take the prisoner downstairs", said Tom condescendingly.: 2
  • FX: "that" vs "which": 2
  • FX: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.": 1
  • FX: "titsling"/"brassiere": 1
  • FX: WELCOME TO ALT.USAGE.ENGLISH!: 1
  • FX: What will we call the next decade?: 1
  • FX: "whom": 1
  • FX: "wonk" (notes by Fred Shapiro): 1
  • FX: Words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 1
  • FX: "you saying" vs "your saying": 1
  • Genitive: Genitive is not always possessive.: 1
  • Groups: "company is" vs "company are": 1
  • Interface: Help: 1
  • Lawler Commas: Commas: 1
  • Lawler aluminum: Alumin(i)um: 1
  • Lawler besides: Toward(s) and Beside(s): 1
  • Lawler correct: "Correctness": 2
  • Lawler enghist: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 1
  • Lawler extrapos: Extraposition, plus Selected Short Subjects: 1
  • Lawler extrapos: --- Followup -- > But note that both: 1
  • Lawler indian: Indian English: 2
  • Lawler itsraining: "It" in "It's raining": 6
  • Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in : 1
  • Lawler l-sounds: >> For instance: English has only one /l/ phoneme, but it has: 1
  • Lawler modals: English Modals: 1
  • Lawler npislands: News Item: 1
  • Lawler ross: Ross Constraints: 4
  • Lawler schwa: Schwa and Central Vowels: 1
  • Lawler tense: Tense and related topics: 1
  • Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 3
  • Lawler tense: >Just one question: Where does the past perfect ("have gone", "have sung"): 1
  • Lawler that: Two kinds of "that-clauses": 1
  • Lawler they: -- more followup: (double >'s refer to the posting above:: 1
  • Lawler truly: Canadian and American Raising: 1
  • Lawler verbing: Verbing Nouns: 2
  • Lawler vowels: There are at least 11 phonemically distinct vowels in : 1
  • Lawler xmasthat: That vs. Which: 2
  • Lawler xmasthat: There are also two kinds of relative clauses: : 1
  • Interface: Help: 1
  • Intro A: WELCOME TO alt.usage.english!: 1
  • Intro C: "push the envelope": 1
  • Intro D: Names for &, @, and #: 4
  • Intro E: Humorous poems about spelling: 2
  • IPA II: Also in diphthongs: "dive" /daIv/ (yes, folks, the sound: 1
  • IPA II: The sounds in the column headed 'IPA sounds' have been copied with permission: 1
  • IPA I: The sounds in the column headed 'IPA sounds' have been copied with permission: 1
  • IPA I: a: 1
  • IPA I: Reading ASCII IPA: 2
  • IPA I: A.: 1
  • IPA I: What is this?: 1
  • Supp: What is prescriptivism?: 1
  • UCLE13: Custer's last stand: 1
  • UCLE13: Waterloo: 2
  • UCLE15: The Tooth Fairy: 1
  • UCLE16: Hooligan: 2
  • UCLE09: Daring: 1

    :calling

  • awwy_C: 'Word With You' list for letter C: 1
  • awwy_P: 'Word With You' list for letter P: 1
  • awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 2
  • FX: "like" vs "such as": 1
  • FX: "politically correct": 1
  • FX: "SOS": 1
  • FX: split infinitive: 1
  • FX: What will we call the next decade?: 1
  • Lawler aluminum: Alumin(i)um: 1
  • Lawler itsraining: "It" in "It's raining": 1
  • Lawler tense: Tense and related topics: 3
  • Lawler thehell: Usage of "the hell": 1
  • Intro C: American: 1
  • Subjunctive?: Subjunctive: 1

    :Calliope

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

    :callipygian

  • RH_wotd callipygian: 2
  • wwwords Callipygian: 2

    :Callithumpian

  • wwwords Callithumpian: 2

    :calls

  • Common errors: wary/weary/leery * : 1
  • FX: "A.D.": 1
  • FX: Preposition at end: 1
  • FX: "quality": 1
  • FX: "SOS": 1
  • FX: ", vs ,": 1
  • FX: What is the phone number of the Grammar Hotline?: 1
  • FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1
  • FX: Words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 1
  • Lawler they: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 1
  • Intro C: What words are their own antonym?: 1
  • Supp: "SOS": 1
  • Our images: 1
  • UCLE08: The “Fat Lady”: 1

    :Callum

  • FX: "pie-shaped": 1

    :calm

  • wwwords Calm technology: 1
  • Audio: 5. Accent determination by a short introduction with a: 1

    :Calm technology

  • wwwords Calm technology: 1

    :calmly

  • Arthur the Rat: 1

    :calmness

  • FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1

    :calorie

  • Lawler reams: Reams: 1

    :calories

  • Lawler reams: Reams: 5

    :calory

  • Lawler reams: Reams: 1

    :calque

  • RH_wotd calque: 2
  • FX: What is the language term for...?: 1

    :Caltrop

  • wwwords Caltrop: 2

    :Calvert

  • FX: Dictionaries: 1

    :Calvin

  • Lawler verbing: Verbing Nouns: 2

    :Camaraderie

  • boink: 1

    :Cambridge

  • wwwords Cambridge International Dictionary of English on CD-ROM (review): 1
  • Initialisms that have been used in AUE: 2
  • Unedited list of search results: 1
  • Resources: Dictionaries : 1
  • FX: Books on linguistics: 2
  • FX: Dictionaries: 1
  • FX: "wonk" (notes by Fred Shapiro): 1
  • Lawler booklist: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 2
  • Lawler complmnt: Object Complements: 1
  • Lawler enghist: >Your example of English and Caxton print shop goes a long way to convince: 1
  • Lawler gotten: Gotten vs. Got: 1
  • Lawler indian: Indian English: 4
  • Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in : 2
  • Lawler only: "only": 1
  • Lawler phrasal: Phrasal Verbs: 2
  • Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1
  • Intro B: On-line dictionaries: 1
  • UCLE14: Eponymous London Shopkeepers: 1
  • UCLE05: What’s: 1
  • What's new?: History of Changes at the AUE Web Site: 1

    :Cambridge International Dictionary of English on CD-ROM (review)

  • wwwords Cambridge International Dictionary of English on CD-ROM (review): 1

    :Cambronne

  • UCLE13: Waterloo: 2

    :came

  • Arthur the Rat: 1
  • The North Wind and the Sun: 2
  • AUE Logo: Notes about the Totally Official AUE Logo: 1
  • Isles: BRITAIN.  The informal name for the United: 1
  • FX: Biblical sense of "to know": 1
  • FX: "blue moon" (notes by Philip Hiscock): 1
  • FX: "Break a leg!": 1
  • FX: "Caesarean section": 1
  • FX: Commonest words: 1
  • FX: "ebonics": 1
  • FX: "jerry-built"/"jury-rigged": 1
  • FX: "mouses" vs "mice": 1
  • FX: "put in one's two cents' worth": 1
  • FX: "quiz": 1
  • FX: "scot-free": 1
  • FX: "that" vs "which": 1
  • FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1
  • FX: Why is "I" capitalized?: 1
  • FX: Wicca: 1
  • Lawler aluminum: Alumin(i)um: 2
  • Lawler enghist: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 1
  • Lawler equally: "equally" and comparatives: 1
  • Lawler hadve: hadn't've: 1
  • Lawler headline: Headline grammar: 1
  • Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in : 1
  • Lawler striddly: striddly: 1
  • Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 1
  • Lawler thehell: Usage of "the hell": 1
  • Lawler they: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 1
  • UCLE12: News: 1
  • UCLE15: Gossip: 1
  • UCLE15: The Tooth Fairy: 1

    :camel's

  • UCLE11: The: 1

    :Camera

  • wwwords Camera: 2

    :cameron

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

    :camp

  • Supp: "anymore" and "any more": 1
  • UCLE09: What: 1

    :campaign

  • wwwords Campaign: 2
  • awwy_C: 'Word With You' list for letter C: 2
  • awwy_P: 'Word With You' list for letter P: 1
  • awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1
  • Resources: Miscellaneous, language related : 3
  • FX: "in like Flynn": 1
  • Intro B: Writing and Grammar Guides On Line: 1
  • UCLE13: Calamity Jane: 1
  • UCLE13: Custer's last stand: 1

    :campaigned

  • FX: "to call a spade a spade": 1

    :Campbell

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

    :Campbell's

  • FX: etymologies of personal names: 1

    :camps

  • Supp: "anymore" and "any more": 2

    :campus

  • FX: Online usage guides: 1
  • FX: What is the phone number of the Grammar Hotline?: 1
  • FX: When to use "the": 1

    :Camra

  • Unedited list of search results: 1
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