:Cosmeceutical

  • wwwords Cosmeceutical: 2

    :cosmetic

  • FX: trademarks: 1

    :Cosmos

  • FX: "billions and billions": 1

    :cost

  • FX: "loo": 1
  • FX: "put in one's two cents' worth": 1
  • Lawler xmasthat: There are also two kinds of relative clauses:: 3
  • Emphasis quotes: Use of Quotation Marks for Emphasis: 1
  • UCLE11: The: 1
  • UCLE12: News: 1
  • UCLE14: Slang Names for British Currency: 1

    :Costa

  • Resources: Rhetoric vocabulary : 1

    :costs

  • UCLE03: Judith: 1

    :Costus

  • wwwords Costus: 2

    :COSWL

  • Lawler lingmarks: One can already, for instance, read the: 1

    :Cots

  • Unedited list of search results: 1

    :Cottage

  • EMorris: C : 1

    :cotton

  • RH_wotd cotton to: 1
  • EMorris: C : 1
  • FX: "whole cloth" (notes by Ellen Rosen): 2

    :cotton to

  • RH_wotd cotton to: 1

    :Cotton-Picking

  • Wilton: Wilton's Etymology Page: 1

    :couch

  • EMorris: C : 1
  • awwy_C: 'Word With You' list for letter C: 1
  • awwy_F: 'Word With You' list for letter F: 1
  • awwy_I: 'Word With You' list for letter I: 1
  • awwy_P: 'Word With You' list for letter P: 1
  • Lawler bring: Bring vs Take: 2

    :couched

  • FX: "done"="finished": 1

    :cough

  • FX: What is "ghoti"? (notes by Jim Scobbie): 1
  • Intro E: What is "ghoti"? (notes by Jim Scobbie): 1

    :could

  • RH_wotd could care less: 1
  • RH_wotd might could (double modal): 1
  • Stephen Toogood's explanation of the paddle: 1
  • aue people (album1): 1
  • Common errors: C: 2
  • I before E:      Sticking for the moment to the basic rule, : 3
  • Alternating voices: Markus's and Skitt's voices alternating: 1
  • Unedited list of search results: 1
  • Arthur the Rat: 1
  • The North Wind and the Sun: 3
  • awwy_B: 'Word With You' list for letter B: 3
  • awwy_G: 'Word With You' list for letter G: 1
  • awwy_T: 'Word With You' list for letter T: 2
  • Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 3
  • FX: "a"/"an" before abbreviations: 1
  • FX: "alright": 1
  • FX: "bloody": 1
  • FX: "blue moon" (notes by Philip Hiscock): 1
  • FX: "by hook or by crook": 1
  • FX: Commonest words: 1
  • FX: "could care less": 10
  • FX: "could of": 3
  • FX: Do publishers put false info in dictionaries to catch plagiarists?: 1
  • FX: "Eskimo": 1
  • FX: "Illegitimis non carborundum": 1
  • FX: "ISO" by Mark Brader: 1
  • FX: "less" vs "fewer": 1
  • FX: "Let them eat cake!": 2
  • FX: "more than you can shake a stick at": 3
  • FX: "paparazzo": 1
  • FX: Preposition at end: 1
  • FX: "quiz": 1
  • FX: "scot-free": 1
  • FX: "SOS": 1
  • FX: Table of Contents: 2
  • FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 1
  • FX: typo: 1
  • FX: What is "ghoti"? (notes by Jim Scobbie): 1
  • FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1
  • FX: "whole cloth" (notes by Ellen Rosen): 1
  • Fast FAQ: Table of Contents: 2
  • fast_faq_toc.html: 2
  • Genitive: Genitive is not always possessive.: 1
  • Lawler academy: The Academy: 1
  • Lawler anymore: anymore: 2
  • Lawler booklist: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 1
  • Lawler bring: Bring vs Take: 3
  • Lawler comma: Commas again: 2
  • Lawler commas: Commas: 1
  • Lawler commas: The intonation curve is (roughly) up-down-back.up, graphically something: 1
  • Lawler commas: >>> The facts of the matter are these:: 1
  • Lawler enghist: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 3
  • Lawler enghist: >Your example of English and Caxton print shop goes a long way to convince: 1
  • Lawler equally: "equally" and comparatives: 1
  • Lawler extrapos: --- Followup --: 1
  • Lawler giveadamn: Give a Damn: 16
  • Lawler gonna: gonna: 1
  • Lawler gotten: Gotten vs. Got: 2
  • Lawler hadve: hadn't've: 1
  • Lawler headline: Headline grammar: 2
  • Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 1
  • Lawler infinite: English and Infinity: 1
  • Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 2
  • Lawler modals: English Modals: 1
  • Lawler modals: There is also another opposition among the formal auxiliaries, between: 2
  • Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 1
  • Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 1
  • Lawler quote: "Quote, Unquote": 1
  • Lawler reams: Reams: 2
  • Lawler sig: Maybe the horse will sing: 1
  • Lawler smith: Henry Lee Smith: 2
  • Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1
  • Lawler striddly: striddly: 1
  • Lawler tense: Tense and related topics: 1
  • Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 6
  • Lawler tense: >Just one question: Where does the past perfect ("have gone", "have sung"): 1
  • Lawler they: He, she, they?: 1
  • Lawler they: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 2
  • Intro D: "It's me" -v- "It is I": 1
  • Intro E: Joke about step-by-step spelling reform: 1
  • Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 2
  • Supp: Grammars: 1
  • summer: 1
  • Our 404 page: 1
  • UCLE10: "Bite the bullet": 1
  • UCLE12: News: 5
  • UCLE15: Round-Robin and: 1
  • UCLE09: Literary: 1

    :could care less

  • RH_wotd could care less: 1

    :could've

  • FX: "could of": 1

    :couldn't

  • awwy_W: 'Word With You' list for letter W: 1
  • FX: "could care less": 3
  • FX: "kangaroo": 1
  • FX: typo: 1
  • Lawler commas: Commas: 2
  • Lawler giveadamn: Give a Damn: 3
  • Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 1
  • The Totally Official Boink Home Page: 1

    :couldn't've

  • Lawler Index: Doubly-apostrophic contractions.: 1
  • FX: "could of": 1

    :couldna

  • Lawler hadve: hadn't've: 1

    :coulrophobia

  • RH_wotd coulrophobia: 2

    :council

  • Common errors: C: 1
  • Garbl: C: 2
  • FX: "canola": 2
  • FX: words ending in "-gry": 1
  • Lawler equally: "equally" and comparatives: 1
  • Lawler lingmarks: Languages in General: 1

    :COUNCIL

  • UCLE12: News: 1

    :council,

  • RH_wotd counsel, council, consul: 1

    :councilmember

  • Garbl: C: 1

    :counsel

  • Common errors: C: 1

    :counsel,

  • RH_wotd counsel, council, consul: 1

    :counsel, council, consul

  • RH_wotd counsel, council, consul: 1

    :counselor

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

    :count

  • I before E:      Early in both discussions I submitted a list of words that were: 1
  • Lawler Index: Mass and count nouns.: 1
  • AUE Logo: Notes about the Totally Official AUE Logo: 1
  • e-mail vs email: e-mail-vs-email.html: 3
  • FX: Dictionaries: 1
  • FX: "less" vs "fewer": 1
  • FX: "more than you can shake a stick at": 2
  • FX: "none is" vs "none are": 1
  • Lawler besides: Toward(s) and Beside(s): 1
  • Lawler bring: Bring vs Take: 1
  • Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 4
  • Lawler reams: Reams: 3
  • Lawler they: That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 1
  • UCLE11: The: 1
  • UCLE12: News: 1
  • UCLE03: Lindsay: 1
  • UCLE09: Literary: 2

    :countable

  • Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 2

    :countably

  • Lawler infinite: English and Infinity: 1

    :counted

  • Posting History: Explanatory Remarks: 4
  • FX: "blue moon" (notes by Philip Hiscock): 1
  • FX: How do you spell "e-mail"?: 1
  • FX: "ollie ollie oxen free": 1

    :counter

  • EMorris: B : 1
  • FX: "You have another think coming": 1
  • Graphical Counter Example: 3
  • Text Counter Example: 4
  • UCLE03: Tee Shirts: 1

    :counter-argument

  • Emphasis quotes: Use of Quotation Marks for Emphasis: 1

    :counter-mnemonic

  • FX: "God rest you merry, gentlemen": 1

    :Counter-revolutionary

  • Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 1

    :counterclockwise

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

    :counterexample

  • FX: Guidelines for posting: 1
  • Intro A: Guidelines for posting: 1

    :counterexamples

  • FX: "-er" vs "-re": 1

    :counterfactual

  • FX: Subjunctive: 4
  • Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 1

    :counterfactually

  • Lawler npi: Since you ask, here's a moderately complete list of polarity items,: 1

    :counterfactuals

  • FX: Subjunctive: 2

    :counties

  • Isles: NORTHERN IRELAND   This is not the place to go into: 2

    :counting

  • Title: 1
  • e-mail vs email: e-mail-vs-email.html: 1
  • FX: Does the next millennium begin in 2000 or 2001?: 1
  • Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 2

    :countless

  • Isles: BRITISH ISLES.  A geographical term referring to the islands: 1

    :countries

  • Title: 1
  • Comments on a proposal for reformed English spelling: 8
  • Unedited list of search results: 1
  • Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 2
  • Isles: GREAT BRITAIN.  Used by cartographers to denote the biggest: 1
  • FX: "." after abbreviations: 1
  • FX: "alumin(i)um" (notes by Keith Ivey): 1
  • FX: distribution of English-speakers: 1
  • FX: Origin of the dollar sign (notes by Mark Brader): 2
  • FX: trademarks: 1
  • FX: When to use "the": 1
  • Groups: "company is" vs "company are": 1
  • Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1
  • summer: 1
  • aue people (album1): 1

    :country

  • Title: 3
  • FX: Commonest words: 1
  • FX: distribution of English-speakers: 1
  • FX: "fall off a turnip truck": 1
  • FX: "God rest you merry, gentlemen": 1
  • FX: "kangaroo": 1
  • FX: Origin of the dollar sign (notes by Mark Brader): 1
  • FX: Postfix "not": 1
  • Groups: "company is" vs "company are": 1
  • Lawler canthelp: Can't Help (But) ...: 1
  • Lawler giveadamn: Give a Damn: 1
  • Lawler schwa: Schwa and Central Vowels: 1
  • Intro C: American: 1
  • boink: 1
  • summer: 2

    :country's

  • FX: "titsling"/"brassiere": 1

    :Countryside

  • wwwords Countryside: 2

    :counts

  • Posting History: Note C:: 1
  • e-mail vs email: e-mail-vs-email.html: 1
  • Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 2

    :county

  • Garbl: C: 2
  • Resources: News : 1

    :countywide

  • Garbl: C: 1

    :Coup

  • wwwords Coup: 2

    :coupersetique

  • FX: "copacetic": 1

    :Couperus

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

    :couple

  • I before E:      Sticking for the moment to the basic rule, : 1
  • I before E: Exceptions to the rule 'I before E except after C': 2
  • Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 1
  • FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1
  • FX: words without vowels: 1
  • Lawler booklist: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 1
  • Lawler lingmarks: One can already, for instance, read the: 1
  • Lawler modals: English Modals: 1
  • Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 3
  • Supp: Grammars: 1
  • UCLE08: London’s: 2

    :courage

  • awwy_C: 'Word With You' list for letter C: 2
  • FX: "face the music": 1
  • FX: "less" vs "fewer": 1
  • UCLE07: Some significant numbers from literature and literary criticism: 1

    :Courier-Mail

  • FX: Online language columns: 1

    :Cours

  • Lawler lingmarks: Phonetics and Phonology   (Many of these use heavy graphics and sound resources).: 1

    :course

  • Common errors: C: 1
  • Garbl: D: 1
  • Garbl: I: 1
  • Lawler Index: Frequently Asked Questions about English, Series 1 and 2: 1
  • Unedited list of search results: 2
  • Arthur the Rat: 1
  • Choice of two ASCII IPA files: 1
  • awwy_C: 'Word With You' list for letter C: 1
  • Explanatory notes:: 1
  • Resources: Audio references : 1
  • FX: "a"/"an" before abbreviations: 1
  • FX: "blue moon" (notes by Philip Hiscock): 1
  • FX: double "is": 1
  • FX: "ebonics": 1
  • FX: "fall off a turnip truck": 1
  • FX: Guidelines for posting: 1
  • FX: I before E except after C (notes by Mark Wainwright): 1
  • FX: "in like Flynn": 1
  • FX: Online usage guides: 1
  • FX: "push the envelope": 1
  • FX: "rule of thumb": 1
  • FX: "to call a spade a spade": 1
  • FX: typo: 1
  • FX: "widget" (notes by William C. Waterhouse): 1
  • FX: Words pronounced differently according to context: 1
  • Lawler booklist: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 1
  • Lawler canthelp: Can't Help (But) ...: 2
  • Lawler comma: Commas again: 2
  • Lawler commas: Commas: 3
  • Lawler eclectic: Mathematics: 2
  • Lawler eclectic: Science  What you need in order to have Science Fiction: 1
  • Lawler enghist: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 3
  • Lawler equally: "equally" and comparatives: 1
  • Lawler extrapos: Extraposition, plus Selected Short Subjects: 1
  • Lawler hadve: hadn't've: 1
  • Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 1
  • Lawler infinite: English and Infinity: 2
  • Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 8
  • Lawler lingmarks: One can already, for instance, read the: 2
  • Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 1
  • Lawler npi: Since you ask, here's a moderately complete list of polarity items,: 1
  • Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 2
  • Lawler quote: "Quote, Unquote": 1
  • Lawler reams: Reams: 2
  • Lawler schwa: Schwa and Central Vowels: 1
  • Lawler they: He, she, they?: 1
  • Lawler they: -- more followup:: 1
  • Lawler they: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 1
  • Lawler verbing: Verbing Nouns: 1
  • Lawler vowels: Vowels Before R: 1
  • Lawler zilch: zilch: 1
  • Intro A: Guidelines for posting: 1
  • Intro E: Joke about step-by-step spelling reform: 1
  • ASCII IPA stub: 1
  • IPA II: The sound samples under the heading 'Lausanne sound' are from the Online: 1
  • IPA I: The sound samples under the heading 'Lausanne sound' are from the Online: 1
  • The Totally Official Boink Home Page: 1
  • boink: 1
  • Supp: What is prescriptivism?: 1
  • UCLE11: The: 1
  • UCLE12: News: 1
  • UCLE13: Waterloo: 1
  • UCLE05: John Davies's commentary: 1
  • UCLE08: London’s: 1
  • UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 1
  • UCLE09: Rivers: 1

    :courses

  • awwy_B: 'Word With You' list for letter B: 1
  • awwy_R: 'Word With You' list for letter R: 1
  • Resources: Learning English : 1
  • Lawler lingmarks: One can already, for instance, read the: 1

    :court

  • RH_wotd kangaroo court: 1
  • wwwords Kangaroo court: 1
  • Garbl: C: 1
  • EMorris: K : 1
  • Wilton: Wilton's Etymology Page: 1
  • Unedited list of search results: 1
  • Southern speaker's description of his speech: 1
  • awwy_C: 'Word With You' list for letter C: 1
  • big_apple_boink_2001.html: 1
  • FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 3
  • FX: "like" vs "as": 1
  • FX: "O.K.": 1
  • FX: Origin of the dollar sign (notes by Mark Brader): 1
  • FX: "politically correct": 1
  • FX: Words pronounced differently according to context: 1
  • Lawler vehicle: "vehicle": 1
  • IPA II: The [O] sound requires rounded lips, but lips making a: 2
  • IPA II: [*]: 1
  • IPA I: The remarks concerning the pronunciation of [O] were taken verbatim from Mark Israel's: 1
  • IPA I: O: 2
  • UCLE16: Hooligan: 1
  • UCLE08: London’s: 1
  • UCLE09: Holidays: 1

    :Court's

  • FX: "shouting fire in a crowded theater": 1

    :courteous

  • awwy_P: 'Word With You' list for letter P: 1

    :courtesy

  • awwy_C: 'Word With You' list for letter C: 1
  • awwy_M: 'Word With You' list for letter M: 1
  • awwy_P: 'Word With You' list for letter P: 1
  • Lawler lingmarks: One can already, for instance, read the: 2

    :courthouse

  • Garbl: C: 1

    :courtiers

  • Lawler academy: The Academy: 1

    :Courtney

  • FX: Books on phrasal verbs: 1
  • Lawler phrasal: Phrasal Verbs: 1

    :courts

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

    :cousin

  • Lawler indian: Indian English: 1

    :cousin-brother

  • Lawler indian: Indian English: 1

    :coutries

  • Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 1

    :couture

  • awwy_C: 'Word With You' list for letter C: 1
  • awwy_H: 'Word With You' list for letter H: 1

    :Coventry

  • EMorris: C : 1

    :cover

  • Garbl: C: 1
  • Garbl: G: 1
  • FX: Dictionaries: 1
  • FX: "Jingle Bells": 1
  • FX: Online language columns: 1
  • FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1
  • Description of FAQ maintenance: 1
  • Genitive: Genitive is not always possessive.: 1
  • Lawler commas: >>> The facts of the matter are these:: 1
  • Lawler modals: There is also another opposition among the formal auxiliaries, between: 1
  • UCLE13: Custer's last stand: 1
  • UCLE13: Waterloo: 1
  • What's new?: History of Changes at the AUE Web Site: 1

    :cover's

  • Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 1

    :Coverdale

  • FX: "bug"="defect": 1

    :Coverdale's

  • awwy_C: 'Word With You' list for letter C: 1
  • FX: "bug"="defect": 1

    :covered

  • Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 2
  • FX: Online usage guides: 1
  • FX: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.": 1
  • FX: "the whole nine yards": 1
  • Description of FAQ maintenance: 2
  • Intro G: Intro G: Where is the FAQ?: 1
  • Supp: About this File: 2
  • UCLE14: Cripplegate and Crutched: 1
  • UCLE05: John Davies's commentary: 1

    :covering

  • I before E:      With regard to the extension added by some people for "neighbor": 1
  • FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1

    :covers

  • I before E:      Early in both discussions I submitted a list of words that were: 1
  • Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 1
  • FX: I before E except after C (notes by Mark Wainwright): 1
  • FX: Style manuals: 1
  • Lawler asfaras: As far as ... goes/is concerned: 1

    :covert

  • Subjunctive?: Subjunctive: 1

    :covet

  • UCLE05: John Davies's commentary: 1

    :coveted

  • Lawler phrasal: Phrasal Verbs: 1

    :Covington

  • Lawler lingmarks: People: 1

    :cow's

  • awwy_W: 'Word With You' list for letter W: 1

    :cowabunga

  • RH_wotd cowabunga: 2
  • EMorris: C : 1

    :Cowan

  • Posting frequencies: Tabulation of user names with over 50 postings in the past four years: 1
  • UCLE07: Some significant numbers from literature and literary criticism: 1
  • UCLE08: The “Fat Lady”: 1

    :Coward

  • Unedited list of search results: 1

    :cowardly

  • FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 1

    :cowboy

  • Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 1
  • FX: "cut the mustard": 1

    :Cowie

  • FX: Books on phrasal verbs: 1
  • Lawler phrasal: Phrasal Verbs: 1

    :coworkers

  • Lawler schwa: Schwa and Central Vowels: 1

    :Cowper

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

    :cows

  • awwy_C: 'Word With You' list for letter C: 2
  • awwy_G: 'Word With You' list for letter G: 1
  • awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1
  • UCLE14: Slang Names for British Currency: 1

    :cozen

  • RH_wotd cozen: 2

    :Cphd

  • Unedited list of search results: 1

    :CPUs

  • FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1
  • Intro D: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1

    :CQ

  • FX: "SOS": 1

    :CQD

  • FX: "SOS": 2
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