:descendant

  • awwy_D: 'Word With You' list for letter D: 1
  • Lawler enghist: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 1

    :descendants

  • FX: "Caesarean section": 2
  • FX: "nimrod": 1

    :descended

  • FX: "catch-22": 1

    :descendents

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

    :descending

  • File Not Found: 1
  • Comments on a proposal for reformed English spelling: 2

    :descent

  • awwy_D: 'Word With You' list for letter D: 1
  • Isles: SCOTCH.  The following is extracted from Mark Israel's FAQ: 1
  • FX: "done"="finished": 1
  • FX: "Scotch": 1

    :Desconocidos

  • What's new?: History of Changes at the AUE Web Site: 1

    :describe

  • Isles: BRITAIN/GREAT BRITAIN/UNITED KINGDOM &C: 1
  • Isles: BRITISH is the formal designation of the nationality of citizens: 1
  • Isles: NORTHERN IRELAND   This is not the place to go into: 1
  • Description of FAQ maintenance: 1
  • Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 1
  • Lawler quote: "Quote, Unquote": 1
  • Lawler striddly: striddly: 2
  • Lawler they: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 1
  • UCLE13: "On the fritz": 2
  • UCLE14: Literary characters who became: 3
  • UCLE14: Eponymous London Shopkeepers: 1
  • UCLE15: Round-Robin and: 1
  • UCLE09: Anorak: 1
  • UCLE09: “Bloody”: 1
  • UCLE09: “It went pear-shaped”: 1
  • UCLE09: Rivers: 1
  • UCLE09: Serendipity: 1

    :described

  • Title: 1
  • Resources: Categories index: 1
  • FX: "done"="finished": 1
  • FX: Plurals of Latin/Greek words: 1
  • FX: "push the envelope": 1
  • FX: Related newsgroups: 1
  • FX: Words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 1
  • Description of FAQ maintenance: 1
  • IPA I: Reading ASCII IPA: 1
  • Where FAQ?: Earlier edition of 'Full FAQ with internal links': : 1

    :describes

  • FX: Online usage guides: 1
  • Lawler correct: "Correctness": 1
  • Lawler they: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 1
  • Lawler truly: Canadian and American Raising: 1
  • Lawler verbing: Verbing Nouns: 1
  • UCLE14: Cripplegate and Crutched: 1
  • UCLE14: Literary characters who became: 3
  • UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 1
  • UCLE09: “Bloody”: 1

    :describing

  • FX: "nimrod": 1
  • FX: "titsling"/"brassiere": 1
  • FX: "whole cloth" (notes by Ellen Rosen): 1
  • Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 1
  • Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 1
  • Lawler schwa: Schwa and Central Vowels: 1
  • Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 1
  • UCLE10: The: 1

    :description

  • Lawler Index: A ceremony of the Academy.: 1
  • Lawler Index: The syntactic concept 'island'.: 1
  • Unedited list of search results: 1
  • Audio: Other Sound Files: 1
  • FX: Spelling reform: 1
  • FX: "Take the prisoner downstairs", said Tom condescendingly.: 1
  • FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 1
  • FX: WELCOME TO ALT.USAGE.ENGLISH!: 1
  • Description of FAQ maintenance: 3
  • Lawler a-an: A or An Historical Novel?: 1
  • Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 2
  • Lawler quote: "Quote, Unquote": 2
  • Intro A: WELCOME TO alt.usage.english!: 1
  • IPA II: Consonants and Vowels:: 1
  • IPA I: Vowel pronunciations by experts: 1
  • IPA I: What is this?: 1
  • Supp: What is prescriptivism?: 1
  • UCLE15: The Tooth Fairy: 1
  • UCLE09: “It went pear-shaped”: 2
  • Where FAQ?: Places to get Mark Israel's AUE FAQ: 1

    :descriptions

  • Garbl: C: 1
  • Choice of two ASCII IPA files: 1
  • Description of FAQ maintenance: 2
  • Lawler itsraining: "It" in "It's raining": 1
  • Lawler they: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 2
  • Lawler writing: Literacy: 1
  • IPA I: What is this?: 1

    :descriptive

  • Resources: Rhetoric vocabulary : 1
  • FX: "bloody": 1
  • FX: words ending in "-gry": 1
  • Genitive: Genitive is not always possessive.: 2
  • Intro B: Writing and Grammar Guides On Line: 1

    :DescriptiveGrammars

  • J_Lynch: P: 1

    :Descriptivism

  • Supp: What is prescriptivism?: 1

    :descriptivist

  • Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 10

    :descriptivists

  • FX: WELCOME TO ALT.USAGE.ENGLISH!: 1
  • Intro A: WELCOME TO alt.usage.english!: 1

    :descriptors

  • UCLE06: Rhetorical vocabulary: 1

    :deselected

  • Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 1

    :desert

  • wwwords Desert surfing: 1
  • wwwords Food desert: 1
  • wwwords Desert and dessert: 1
  • Common errors: D: 1
  • awwy_D: 'Word With You' list for letter D: 1
  • FX: "Santa Ana": 1

    :Desert and dessert

  • wwwords Desert and dessert: 1

    :Desert surfing

  • wwwords Desert surfing: 1

    :desert(s),

  • RH_wotd desert(s), dessert: 1

    :desert(s), dessert

  • RH_wotd desert(s), dessert: 1

    :deserted

  • UCLE11: The: 1

    :desertion

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

    :deservedly

  • Lawler booklist: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 1
  • Lawler eclectic: Science  What you need in order to have Science Fiction: 1

    :deserving

  • awwy_D: 'Word With You' list for letter D: 1
  • FX: "put in one's two cents' worth": 1

    :Desh

  • Lawler indian: Indian English: 1

    :Desiderata

  • FX: "Go placidly amid the noise and the haste" (Desiderata): 4
  • FX: Table of Contents: 1
  • Fast FAQ: Table of Contents: 1
  • fast_faq_toc.html: 1
  • Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 1

    :desiderative

  • Lawler gonna: gonna: 1

    :design

  • awwy_D: 'Word With You' list for letter D: 1
  • Resources: Miscellaneous, language related : 1
  • FX: "crap": 1
  • FX: "impact"="to affect": 1
  • Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 5
  • Lawler lingmarks: Man's Reach Must Exceed his Grasp; or, What's a Metaphor?: 1
  • UCLE02: The history of ucle: 1
  • UCLE03: A uk.culture.language.english: 1
  • UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 1

    :designate

  • Garbl: D: 1
  • FX: "merkin" (notes by Michael B. Quinion and Ruth Bygrave): 1
  • Lawler academy: The Academy: 1

    :designated

  • FX: "acronym": 1
  • Intro D: Acronyms and other abbreviations using initial letters: 1
  • boink: 1
  • UCLE09: Holidays: 2

    :designates

  • Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 2

    :designation

  • FX: "Eskimo": 1

    :designations

  • Garbl: H: 1

    :designed

  • Resources: Online services : 1
  • Resources: Web-design utilities : 1
  • FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 1
  • FX: "functionality": 2
  • FX: "merkin" (notes by Michael B. Quinion and Ruth Bygrave): 1
  • FX: troll: 1
  • Lawler smith: Henry Lee Smith: 1
  • UCLE03: Judith: 1
  • UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 1

    :designer

  • Comments on a proposal for reformed English spelling: 1
  • FX: "canola": 1
  • FX: "titsling"/"brassiere": 2

    :designers

  • AUE Logo: Notes about the Totally Official AUE Logo: 1

    :designing

  • Lawler lingmarks: Man's Reach Must Exceed his Grasp; or, What's a Metaphor?: 1
  • Bridge to Damian Conway's pluralization paper: 1

    :designs

  • FX: "quality": 1

    :desirability

  • FX: "Illegitimis non carborundum": 1

    :desirable

  • Garbl: D: 1
  • FX: Subjunctive: 1
  • UCLE03: Lindsay: 1

    :desire

  • Garbl: D: 1
  • awwy_D: 'Word With You' list for letter D: 1
  • Isles: NORTHERN IRELAND   This is not the place to go into: 1
  • FX: "push the envelope": 1
  • Lawler enghist: >Your example of English and Caxton print shop goes a long way to convince: 1
  • UCLE05: John Davies's commentary: 1

    :desired

  • FX: "-ize" vs "-ise": 1
  • Description of FAQ maintenance: 1
  • Intro G: Intro G: Where is the FAQ?: 1

    :desirous

  • Garbl: D: 1

    :desist

  • Garbl: D: 1

    :desk

  • Common errors: Other Good Resources: 1
  • FX: "like" vs "such as": 1
  • FX: Online usage guides: 1
  • FX: "push the envelope": 1

    :desking

  • wwwords Hot desking: 1

    :desktop

  • summer: 1

    :Desmond

  • Lawler booklist: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 1
  • Lawler writing: Literacy: 1
  • UCLE12: News: 1

    :despair

  • awwy_D: 'Word With You' list for letter D: 1

    :despaired

  • FX: "Illegitimis non carborundum": 1

    :desperados

  • awwy_D: 'Word With You' list for letter D: 2

    :desperandum

  • FX: "Illegitimis non carborundum": 1

    :desperate

  • awwy_D: 'Word With You' list for letter D: 1
  • FX: words ending in "-gry": 1

    :despise

  • FX: "-ize" vs "-ise": 1

    :despises

  • Lawler indian: Indian English: 1

    :despite

  • Richard Fontana audio files: 1
  • FX: "billion": a U.K. view: 1
  • FX: How reliable are dictionaries?: 1
  • Lawler enghist: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 1
  • Lawler schwa: Schwa and Central Vowels: 1
  • Bridge to Damian Conway's pluralization paper: 1
  • UCLE09: “It went pear-shaped”: 1

    :dessert

  • RH_wotd desert(s), dessert: 1
  • wwwords Desert and dessert: 1
  • Common errors: D: 1

    :desserts

  • awwy_D: 'Word With You' list for letter D: 3
  • awwy_M: 'Word With You' list for letter M: 1
  • awwy_V: 'Word With You' list for letter V: 1

    :destinations

  • FX: split infinitive: 1

    :destiny

  • Lawler l-sounds: English L sounds: 1

    :destroy

  • Garbl: D: 1

    :destroyed

  • UCLE13: Waterloo: 1

    :destruction

  • Lawler canthelp: Can't Help (But) ...: 1

    :destructive

  • awwy_D: 'Word With You' list for letter D: 1

    :desultory

  • awwy_D: 'Word With You' list for letter D: 1

    :detach

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

    :detail

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

    :detailed

  • Lawler Index: Modal auxiliaries.: 1
  • Resources: Miscellaneous, not language related : 1
  • FX: doubling of final consonants before suffixes: 1
  • FX: Online usage guides: 1
  • Formant analysis: 1
  • Genitive: Genitive is not always possessive.: 1
  • Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 1
  • Intro B: Where to learn about ASCII IPA: 1
  • Where FAQ?: Full FAQ with internal links:: 1

    :details

  • Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 1
  • Lawler itsraining: "It" in "It's raining": 1
  • Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 1
  • Lawler lingmarks: One can already, for instance, read the: 1
  • Lawler modals: English Modals: 1
  • Lawler they: That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 1
  • Lawler verbing: Verbing Nouns: 1
  • IPA II: Main Index:: 2
  • IPA I: Contents: 1
  • Our images: 1

    :detain

  • Garbl: D: 1

    :detect

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

    :detected

  • Subjunctive?: Subjunctive: 1

    :Detection

  • Intro D: Acronyms and other abbreviations using initial letters: 1

    :detective

  • wwwords Word Detective (book review): 1
  • EMorris: Echo of Index to Articles at www.word-detective.com/backidx.html/n: 3
  • awwy_D: 'Word With You' list for letter D: 1
  • Resources: Words about words : 1
  • FX: "fall off a turnip truck": 1
  • FX: Online language columns: 2
  • Intro B: Sites on words and language:: 1
  • Intro C: "whole nine yards": 1
  • Supp: Echoed remote indexes: 1
  • What's new?: History of Changes at the AUE Web Site: 1

    :deteriorate

  • FX: "go to hell in a handbasket": 1

    :determination

  • Audio: Welcome to the: 1
  • FX: "by hook or by crook": 1

    :determine

  • Garbl: D: 1
  • FX: "hopefully", "thankfully": 1
  • FX: "ollie ollie oxen free": 1
  • Lawler complmnt: Object Complements: 1
  • Lawler enghist: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 1

    :determined

  • Resources: Categories index: 1
  • FX: "a"/"an" before abbreviations: 1
  • FX: What is "ghoti"? (notes by Jim Scobbie): 1
  • FX: "whom": 1
  • Lawler bring: Bring vs Take: 1
  • Lawler commas: Commas: 2
  • Lawler commas: The intonation curve is (roughly) up-down-back.up, graphically something: 2
  • Lawler complmnt: Object Complements: 2
  • Lawler npislands: News Item: 1
  • Lawler tense: >Just one question: Where does the past perfect ("have gone", "have sung"): 1
  • Intro D: "A" or "an": 1

    :determiners

  • Lawler indian: Indian English: 1

    :determines

  • Lawler booklist: Books on English, Language, and Linguistics: 1
  • Lawler commas: The intonation curve is (roughly) up-down-back.up, graphically something: 1
  • Lawler complmnt: Object Complements: 1
  • Lawler truly: Canadian and American Raising: 1

    :determining

  • FX: "push the envelope": 1
  • Intro C: "push the envelope": 1

    :deterrent

  • Garbl: D: 1

    :detest

  • awwy_D: 'Word With You' list for letter D: 1

    :detonated

  • FX: "hoist with his own petard": 1

    :detoured

  • awwy_D: 'Word With You' list for letter D: 1

    :Detroit

  • FX: words ending in "-gry": 1

    :deuce

  • RH_wotd deuce: 2

    :Deus

  • EMorris: D : 1

    :Deutsch

  • Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 1
  • UCLE05: John Davies's commentary: 1

    :Deutsche

  • Lawler eclectic: Global  There's a whole world out there...: 1

    :Devanagari

  • Lawler indian: Indian English: 1

    :devastating

  • UCLE13: Waterloo: 2

    :developed

  • Resources: Phonetic alphabets : 1
  • FX: "canola": 2
  • FX: "could care less": 1
  • FX: "cut to the chase": 1
  • FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 2
  • FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1
  • FX: Why is "I" capitalized?: 2
  • Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1
  • IPA II: Credits:: 1
  • IPA I: Credits: 1
  • UCLE03: Lindsay: 2

    :development

  • Garbl: N: 1
  • FX: "alumin(i)um" (notes by Keith Ivey): 1
  • FX: double "is": 1
  • FX: "quality": 1
  • FX: rhotic vs non-rhotic, intrusive "r": 1
  • FX: "titsling"/"brassiere": 1
  • Lawler npislands: News Item: 2
  • Intro B: Historical English, and English Literature: 1
  • UCLE05: What’s: 1

    :developmental

  • Autism and Daniel McGrath: 1

    :developments

  • FX: Why do we say "30 years old", but "a 30-year-old man"?: 1
  • FX: "you saying" vs "your saying": 1
  • Intro B: British & American vocabulary differences: 1
  • Intro D: Why do we say "30 years old", but "a 30-year-old man"?: 1

    :deviant

  • Lawler headline: Headline grammar: 1

    :deviating

  • awwy_D: 'Word With You' list for letter D: 1

    :device

  • FX: "bug"="defect": 1
  • FX: "-er" vs "-re": 2
  • FX: "mouses" vs "mice": 3
  • FX: "rule of thumb": 1
  • Emphasis quotes: Use of Quotation Marks for Emphasis: 1
  • UCLE06: Rhetorical vocabulary: 1
  • UCLE09: “Bloody”: 1

    :devices

  • Resources: Rhetoric vocabulary : 2
  • FX: "merkin" (notes by Michael B. Quinion and Ruth Bygrave): 1
  • FX: "mouses" vs "mice": 1

    :devil

  • wwwords Devil to pay, the: 1
  • wwwords Needs must when the devil drives: 1
  • I before E:      For those people who insist the rule apply only to words where: 1
  • EMorris: D : 2
  • Wilton: Wilton's Etymology Page: 1
  • awwy_B: 'Word With You' list for letter B: 1
  • awwy_D: 'Word With You' list for letter D: 1
  • awwy_H: 'Word With You' list for letter H: 1
  • FX: Subjunctive: 1
  • FX: What do you call the grass strip between the road and the sidewalk?: 1

    :Devil to pay, the

  • wwwords Devil to pay, the: 1

    :Devil's

  • EMorris: D : 1
  • UCLE04: Our Favourite Cultural and Language Links: 1

    :devil-may-care

  • awwy_D: 'Word With You' list for letter D: 1
  • Lawler thehell: Usage of "the hell": 1

    :devious

  • EMorris: D : 1
  • awwy_D: 'Word With You' list for letter D: 1

    :devise

  • Comments on a proposal for reformed English spelling: 2
  • FX: "-ize" vs "-ise": 1
  • Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1

    :devised

  • FX: Does the next millennium begin in 2000 or 2001?: 1
  • FX: "ebonics": 1

    :devoicing

  • Lawler gonna: gonna: 1
  • Lawler hafta: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 1
  • Lawler they: That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 1

    :Devon

  • UCLE10: British: 1

    :devoted

  • FX: Dictionaries: 1
  • FX: Related newsgroups: 3
  • Lawler complmnt: Object Complements: 1
  • Lawler eclectic: Fantasy and Science Fiction : 1
  • Lawler truly: Canadian and American Raising: 1
  • UCLE13: More articles: 1
  • UCLE09: “Pop: 1

    :devotees

  • FX: Books on usage: 1

    :Dewer

  • UCLE10: British: 1

    :dexamethasone

  • FX: trademarks: 1

    :Dexamyl

  • FX: trademarks: 1

    :dexterity

  • awwy_D: 'Word With You' list for letter D: 1

    :DFC

  • FX: words ending in "-gry": 2

    :Dgitc

  • Unedited list of search results: 1

    :dhaet

  • Lawler smith: Henry Lee Smith: 1

    :dhis

  • Comments on a proposal for reformed English spelling: 2

    :dhow

  • Lawler smith: Henry Lee Smith: 1
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