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FX: "push the envelope": 1
Intro C: "push the envelope": 1
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FX: "like" vs "as": 1
FX: "O.K.": 1
FX: "quality": 1
FX: "the bee's knees": 1
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FX: I before E except after C (notes by Mark Wainwright): 1
FX: Related newsgroups: 1
FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1
Lawler booklist: ---: 1
Lawler enghist: >Your example of English and Caxton print shop goes a long way to convince: 1
Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 1
The Totally Official Boink Home Page: 1
Supp: Grammars: 1
UCLE15: The Tooth Fairy: 1
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Excelliance
wwwords Excelliance: 2
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excelsior
FX: trademarks: 1
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Excelsiors
awwy_C: 'Word With You' list for letter C: 1
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except
Common errors: A: 1
Garbl: E: 2
I before E: My conclusion: 1
I before E: Sticking for the moment to the basic rule, : 1
I before E: Early in both discussions I submitted a list of words that were: 2
Unedited list of search results: 1
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FX: "billion": a U.K. view: 1
FX: "could care less": 1
FX: General reference: 1
FX: "God rest you merry, gentlemen": 1
FX: I before E except after C (notes by Mark Wainwright): 5
FX: "-ize" vs "-ise": 1
FX: "less" vs "fewer": 1
FX: Subjunctive: 2
FX: "suck"="be very unsatisfying" by John Davies: 1
FX: Table of Contents: 1
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FX: "whom": 1
FX: words without vowels: 1
Fast FAQ: Table of Contents: 1
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Lawler canthelp: Can't Help (But) ...: 1
Lawler commas: Commas: 2
Lawler gonna: gonna: 2
Lawler hafta: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 1
Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 1
Lawler modals: As to this discussion, the usual oppositions are those between: 1
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: 3
Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 1
Lawler reams: Reams: 2
Lawler that: Two kinds of "that-clauses": 2
Lawler they: -- more followup:: 1
Interface: Help: 1
Intro C: "exception proves the rule": 1
Intro D: "Gotten": 1
Intro D: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1
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Intro E: I before E except after C (based on notes by Mark Wainwright): 2
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IPA II: The Details:: 1
IPA II: About this document:: 1
Showing variation of formants of [i:] with context: 1
Run Home Page Search Engine: 1
Supp: The organization of this file generally follows that of a hypertext version of Mark : 1
UCLE12: News: 1
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Unedited list of search results: 1
FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 2
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exceptio
FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 4
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exception
I before E: Early in both discussions I submitted a list of words that were: 2
EMorris: E : 1
Audio: Welcome to the: 2
FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 1
FX: I before E except after C (notes by Mark Wainwright): 1
FX: "put in one's two cents' worth": 1
FX: Table of Contents: 1
FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 10
FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1
Description of FAQ maintenance: 1
Fast FAQ: Table of Contents: 1
fast_faq_toc.html: 1
Interface: Implementation Notes: 1
Intro C: Intro C: Mini-FAQ on Words and Phrases: 1
Intro C: "exception proves the rule": 3
Intro E: I before E except after C (based on notes by Mark Wainwright): 1
Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 1
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exceptions
I before E: Sticking for the moment to the basic rule, : 1
I before E: Early in both discussions I submitted a list of words that were: 1
I before E: Exceptions to the rule 'I before E except after C': 3
Posting History: Comments: 1
FX: I before E except after C (notes by Mark Wainwright): 6
FX: "-ize" vs "-ise": 1
FX: "less" vs "fewer": 1
FX: Subjunctive: 1
FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 2
Lawler canthelp: Can't Help (But) ...: 1
Lawler ross: Ross Constraints: 3
Lawler they: -- more followup:: 1
Lawler writing: Literacy: 1
Intro E: I before E except after C (based on notes by Mark Wainwright): 3
Intro F: Spelling: 1
IPA II: The difference between [hw] and [w] does not : 1
IPA I: hw: 1
Supp: Spelling: 1
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exceptis
FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 2
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excerpt
Stephen Toogood's explanation of the paddle: 1
I before E: Exceptions to the rule 'I before E except after C': 2
FX: "a"/"an" before abbreviations: 1
FX: "A, B and C" vs "A, B, and C": 1
FX: "acronym": 1
FX: "A.D.": 1
FX: "." after abbreviations: 1
FX: "all ... not": 1
FX: "alot": 1
FX: "alright": 1
FX: "alumin(i)um" (notes by Keith Ivey): 1
FX: "A number of...": 1
FX: Basic English: 1
FX: "beg the question": 1
FX: "between you and I": 1
FX: Biblical sense of "to know": 1
FX: "billion": a U.K. view: 1
FX: "billions and billions": 1
FX: "bloody": 1
FX: "blue moon" (notes by Philip Hiscock): 1
FX: "Bob's your uncle": 1
FX: Books on usage: 1
FX: Books on phrasal verbs: 1
FX: Books on phrase origins: 1
FX: Books on Britishisms, Canadianisms, etc.: 1
FX: Books on "bias-free"/"politically correct" language: 1
FX: Books on group names: 1
FX: Books on rhyming slang: 1
FX: Book on mathematical exposition: 1
FX: Books on linguistics: 1
FX: Books that discriminate synonyms: 1
FX: "Break a leg!": 1
FX: "bug"="defect": 1
FX: "by hook or by crook": 1
FX: "Caesarean section": 1
FX: "canola": 1
FX: "catch-22": 1
FX: Commonest words: 1
FX: "company is" vs "company are": 1
FX: "copacetic": 1
FX: "cop": 1
FX: "could care less": 1
FX: "could of": 1
FX: "crap": 1
FX: "cut the mustard": 1
FX: "cut to the chase": 1
FX: Diacritics: 1
FX: Dictionaries: 1
FX: "different to", "different than": 1
FX: distribution of English-speakers: 1
FX: Does the next millennium begin in 2000 or 2001?: 1
FX: "done"="finished": 1
FX: Do publishers put false info in dictionaries to catch plagiarists?: 1
FX: double "is": 1
FX: doubling of final consonants before suffixes: 1
FX: "dressed to the nines": 1
FX: "due to": 1
FX: "ebonics": 1
FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 1
FX: "Elementary, my dear Watson!": 1
FX: English is Tough Stuff: 1
FX: "Enquiring minds want to know." (notes by James Kiso): 1
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FX: "-er" vs "-re": 1
FX: "Eskimo": 1
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FX: "fall off a turnip truck": 1
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FX: "functionality": 1
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FX: General reference: 1
FX: "Get the lead out": 1
FX: "God rest you merry, gentlemen": 1
FX: "Go figure": 1
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FX: "go to hell in a handbasket": 1
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FX: Guidelines for posting: 1
FX: "hell for leather": 1
FX: "hoist with his own petard": 1
FX: "hooker": 1
FX: "hopefully", "thankfully": 1
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FX: How reliable are dictionaries?: 1
FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 1
FX: I before E except after C (notes by Mark Wainwright): 1
FX: "if I was" vs "if I were": 1
FX: "Illegitimis non carborundum": 1
FX: "impact"="to affect": 1
FX: "in like Flynn": 1
FX: "ISO" by Mark Brader: 1
FX: "It needs cleaned": 1
FX: "It's me" vs "It is I": 1
FX: "I won't mention...": 1
FX: "-ize" vs "-ise": 1
FX: "jerry-built"/"jury-rigged": 1
FX: "Jingle Bells": 1
FX: Joke about step-by-step spelling reform: 1
FX: "kangaroo": 1
FX: "less" vs "fewer": 1
FX: "Let them eat cake!": 1
FX: "like" vs "such as": 1
FX: "like" vs "as": 1
FX: "limerence"/"limerent": 1
FX: "loo": 1
FX: "love"="zero": 1
FX: "merkin" (notes by Michael B. Quinion and Ruth Bygrave): 1
FX: "mind your p's and q's": 1
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FX: "more/most/very unique": 1
FX: "more than you can shake a stick at": 1
FX: "mouses" vs "mice": 1
FX: names of "&", "@", and "#": 1
FX: "near miss": 1
FX: "nimrod": 1
FX: "none is" vs "none are": 1
FX: "O.K.": 1
FX: "ollie ollie oxen free": 1
FX: Online usage guides: 1
FX: Online language columns: 1
FX: Online dictionaries: 1
FX: Origin of the dollar sign (notes by Mark Brader): 1
FX: "outrage": 1
FX: "paparazzo": 1
FX: "peter out": 1
FX: "pie-shaped": 1
FX: Plurals of Latin/Greek words: 1
FX: "politically correct": 1
FX: "portmanteau word": 1
FX: "posh": 1
FX: Postfix "not": 1
FX: [Prefatory remarks]: 1
FX: Preposition at end: 1
FX: provenance of English vocabulary (notes by Lucia Engkent): 1
FX: "push the envelope": 1
FX: "put in one's two cents' worth": 1
FX: "quality": 1
FX: "quiz": 1
FX: radio alphabets: 1
FX: Related newsgroups: 1
FX: Repeated words after abbreviations: 1
FX: rhotic vs non-rhotic, intrusive "r": 1
FX: "rule of thumb": 1
FX: "Santa Ana": 1
FX: "Scotch": 1
FX: "scot-free": 1
FX: sentences grammatical in both Old English and Modern English: 1
FX: "shall" vs "will", "should" vs "would": 1
FX: "shouting fire in a crowded theater": 1
FX: "sincere": 1
FX: "sirloin"/"baron of beef": 1
FX: "son of a gun": 1
FX: "SOS": 1
FX: spaces between sentences: 1
FX: Spelling reform: 1
FX: "spit and image"/"spitting image": 1
FX: split infinitive: 1
FX: "spoonerism": 1
FX: Style manuals: 1
FX: Subjunctive: 1
FX: "suck"="be very unsatisfying" by John Davies: 1
FX: Table of Contents: 1
FX: "Take the prisoner downstairs", said Tom condescendingly.: 1
FX: "that kind of a thing": 1
FX: "that" vs "which": 1
FX: "the bee's knees": 1
FX: "The die is cast.": 1
FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 1
FX: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.": 1
FX: "There's a sucker born every minute": 1
FX: the the "hoi polloi" debate: 1
FX: "the whole nine yards": 1
FX: "till"/"until": 1
FX: "tip": 1
FX: "titsling"/"brassiere": 1
FX: "to all intents and purposes": 1
FX: "to call a spade a spade": 1
FX: trademarks: 1
FX: troll: 1
FX: "true fact": 1
FX: "try and", "be sure and", "go" + verb: 1
FX: typo: 1
FX: ", vs ,": 1
FX: "wait for the other shoe to drop": 1
FX: WELCOME TO ALT.USAGE.ENGLISH!: 1
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FX: What is a suggested format for citing online sources?: 1
FX: What is the phone number of the Grammar Hotline?: 1
FX: What is "ghoti"? (notes by Jim Scobbie): 1
FX: What do you call the grass strip between the road and the sidewalk?: 1
FX: What is the language term for...?: 1
FX: What will we call the next decade?: 1
FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1
FX: When to use "the": 1
FX: "Wherefore art thou Romeo?": 1
FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1
FX: "whole cloth" (notes by Ellen Rosen): 1
FX: "whom": 1
FX: Why do we say "30 years old", but "a 30-year-old man"?: 1
FX: Why is "I" capitalized?: 1
FX: Wicca: 1
FX: "widget" (notes by William C. Waterhouse): 1
FX: "wog": 1
FX: "wonk" (notes by Fred Shapiro): 1
FX: "wop": 1
FX: words without vowels: 1
FX: words ending in "-gry": 1
FX: Words pronounced differently according to context: 1
FX: Words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 1
FX: "ye"="the": 1
FX: "You have another think coming": 1
FX: "you saying" vs "your saying": 1
Interface: Help: 1
Audio recording technique - Some suggestions: 1
Run Home Page Search Engine: 2
UCLE05: John Davies's commentary: 1
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excerpts
FX: Online language columns: 1
FX: Preposition at end: 1
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excess
UCLE11: The: 1
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excessive
Garbl: E: 1
UCLE06: Rhetorical vocabulary: 1
UCLE09: “Bloody”: 1
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exchange
Lawler eclectic: Miscellaneous: 1
UCLE11: The: 1
UCLE15: The Tooth Fairy: 1
UCLE06: Rhetorical vocabulary: 1
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EXCHANGE
UCLE12: News: 1
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exchanges
UCLE15: The Tooth Fairy: 1
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exchanging
FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 1
UCLE15: Scuttlebutt, Grapevine,: 1
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excise
FX: "-ize" vs "-ise": 1
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excised
awwy_E: 'Word With You' list for letter E: 1
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Excite
The Totally Official Boink Home Page: 6
Search: 1
Our 404 page: 1
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excited
FX: Foreign plurals => English singulars: 1
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exciting
FX: "cut to the chase": 1
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exclaim
FX: "Elementary, my dear Watson!": 1
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exclamation
Garbl: E: 1
awwy_G: 'Word With You' list for letter G: 1
awwy_H: 'Word With You' list for letter H: 2
Lawler thehell: Usage of "the hell": 1
Lawler zilch: zilch: 2
UCLE09: “It’s: 1
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excluded
I before E: With regard to the extension added by some people for "neighbor": 1
I before E: Early in both discussions I submitted a list of words that were: 1
Comments on a proposal for reformed English spelling: 2
e-mail vs email: e-mail-vs-email.html: 1
Subjunctive?: Subjunctive: 1
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excludes
e-mail vs email: e-mail-vs-email.html: 1
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excluding
I before E: For those people who insist the rule apply only to words where: 1
I before E: Sticking for the moment to the basic rule, : 1
FX: rhotic vs non-rhotic, intrusive "r": 1
Lawler they: He, she, they?: 1
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EXCLUSIVE
UCLE12: News: 1
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exclusive
FX: "quality": 1
Symposium I: The alt.usage.english London Symposium: 1
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exclusively
FX: "between you and I": 2
FX: "different to", "different than": 1
FX: "to call a spade a spade": 1
FX: Words pronounced differently according to context: 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
Run Home Page Search Engine: 1
UCLE15: Gossip: 1
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excogitation
RH_wotd excogitation: 2
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excolonial
Title: 1
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excrement
FX: "jerry-built"/"jury-rigged": 1
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Exculpatory
boink: 1
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excursus
Lawler Index: Literacy as technology.: 1
Lawler enghist: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 1
UCLE06: Rhetorical vocabulary: 1
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excuse
FX: Preposition at end: 2
Lawler lingmarks: One can already, for instance, read the: 1
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exec
Text Counter Example: 1
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execute
FX: split infinitive: 1
Lawler aluminum: Alumin(i)um: 1
UCLE13: Waterloo: 1
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executed
Description of FAQ maintenance: 1
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execution
UCLE09: Rivers: 2
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Executive
boink: 1
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executor
Lawler lingmarks: One can already, for instance, read the: 1
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Exempli
Lawler whom: Who(m): 1
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exemplified
Lawler Index: Non-standard English constructions.: 1
Lawler anymore: anymore: 1
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exemplify
FX: "like" vs "such as": 1
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exercise
awwy_E: 'Word With You' list for letter E: 2
FX: "-ize" vs "-ise": 1
Fast FAQ: A faster way to access items in the AUE FAQ: 1
Lawler striddly: striddly: 1
Yet to come: 1
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exercised
FX: Subjunctive: 1
Lawler they: He, she, they?: 1
UCLE13: "Rearranging deck chairs: 1
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exercises
FX: "by hook or by crook": 1
Lawler booklist: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 1
UCLE14: Literary characters who became: 1
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Exercycle
FX: trademarks: 1
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exergasia
FX: What is the language term for...?: 1
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Exformation
wwwords Exformation: 2
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exhaust
Lawler infinite: English and Infinity: 1
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exhausted
awwy_E: 'Word With You' list for letter E: 1
FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 1
FX: "peter out": 1
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exhaustive
Resources: Words about words : 1
Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 2
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exhibit
FX: What is "ghoti"? (notes by Jim Scobbie): 1
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exhibitionism
awwy_E: 'Word With You' list for letter E: 1
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exhibits
Resources: �������� 10. 'The requested URL: 1
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exhileration
Common errors: E: 1
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exhortations
FX: "try and", "be sure and", "go" + verb: 1
Lawler thehell: Usage of "the hell": 1
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exigent
FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 3
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exist
Garbl: A: 1
Comments on a proposal for reformed English spelling: 4
FX: "beg the question": 1
FX: "catch-22": 1
FX: "crap": 1
FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 1
FX: "politically correct": 1
FX: split infinitive: 1
FX: "titsling"/"brassiere": 1
Genitive: Genitive is not always possessive.: 1
Lawler amnt: "amn't": 1
Lawler bring: Bring vs Take: 1
Lawler l-sounds: English L sounds: 1
Intro C: "beg the question": 1
Intro E: U.S. -v- REST-OF-WORLD ENGLISH: 1
IPA II: The symbol /A./ has been included only because at least one AUE contributor has: 1
Emphasis quotes: Use of Quotation Marks for Emphasis: 1
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existed
FX: "billion": a U.K. view: 1
FX: "catch-22": 1
FX: "whole cloth" (notes by Ellen Rosen): 1
UCLE14: Cripplegate and Crutched: 1
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existence
Garbl: E: 1
FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 1
Groups: "company is" vs "company are": 1
Announcement of creation of uk.culture.language.english: 1
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existential
Lawler modals: As to this discussion, the usual oppositions are those between: 1
Lawler reams: Reams: 1
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existing
FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1
FX: "whole cloth" (notes by Ellen Rosen): 1
UCLE10: The: 1
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exists
J_Lynch: E: 1
Posting History: Note A:: 1
Resources: �������� 7. Mark Israel's Web site at Scripps: 1
FX: "bloody": 1
FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 1
FX: "posh": 1
FX: "Take the prisoner downstairs", said Tom condescendingly.: 1
Lawler l-sounds: English L sounds: 1
Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 2
Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 2
Lawler they: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 1
UCLE15: Scuttlebutt, Grapevine,: 1
UCLE02: The history of ucle: 1
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exit
Garbl: E: 1
Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 4
summer: 1
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exiting
Lawler l-sounds: >> For instance: English has only one /l/ phoneme, but it has: 1
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ExitusActa
Posting frequencies: Tabulation of user names with over 50 postings in the past four years: 1
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