:for

  • RH_wotd tit for tat: 1
  • RH_wotd rhymes for orange: 1
  • RH_wotd bang for the buck: 1
  • RH_wotd for free: 1
  • RH_wotd give your eyeteeth for: 1
  • RH_wotd tit for tat 2: 1
  • wwwords Words for ghouls and ghosts: 1
  • wwwords Words for colours: 1
  • wwwords Names for the next decade: 1
  • wwwords Words for natural fibres: 1
  • wwwords Words for parts of the UK: 1
  • wwwords Words for the rare earth elements: 1
  • wwwords Through the mill: 1
  • wwwords Words for sums of money: 1
  • wwwords Words for multiples: 1
  • wwwords Phobias: 1
  • wwwords Words for drinks: 1
  • wwwords Words for liquors: 1
  • wwwords As well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb: 1
  • wwwords Have one's guts for garters: 1
  • wwwords Pound abbreviation lb: 1
  • wwwords Turn up for the book: 1
  • wwwords Waiting for the other shoe to drop: 1
  • wwwords Glossary for the Nineties (book review): 1
  • wwwords They Have a Word for It (book review): 1

    :FOR

  • UCLE12: News: 5

    :for free

  • RH_wotd for free: 1

    :forbade

  • FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 1

    :forbear

  • Lawler enghist: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 1
  • Lawler extrapos: --- Followup --: 1

    :forbid

  • FX: Subjunctive: 1

    :forbidden

  • FX: "golf": 1
  • Lawler complmnt: Object Complements: 1
  • Lawler extrapos: --- Followup --: 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
  • UCLE02: The history of ucle: 2
  • Announcement of creation of uk.culture.language.english: 2

    :forbidding

  • Common errors: F: 1

    :force

  • Garbl: T: 1
  • Garbl: W: 1
  • Unedited list of search results: 2
  • FX: "bloody": 1
  • FX: "go to hell in a handbasket": 1
  • FX: "It's me" vs "It is I": 2
  • FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 1
  • FX: "the whole nine yards": 1
  • Lawler giveadamn: Give a Damn: 2
  • Lawler npislands: News Item: 2
  • Lawler vowels: There are at least 11 phonemically distinct vowels in standard American: 1
  • UCLE11: The: 1
  • UCLE13: Custer's last stand: 2

    :forced

  • FX: "canola": 1
  • Lawler canthelp: Can't Help (But) ...: 2
  • Lawler enghist: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 1
  • UCLE12: News: 1

    :forces

  • FX: words ending in "-gry": 1
  • UCLE13: Waterloo: 2

    :forcible

  • Garbl: F: 1

    :forcing

  • Lawler reams: Reams: 1
  • IPA II: Affricates, diphthongs and triphthongs:: 1
  • IPA I: Affricates, diphthongs and triphthongs: 1

    :Ford

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

    :Ford's

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

    :fore

  • Common errors: F: 1
  • FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 1
  • IPA II: The pure sound is heard in French beau /bo/.: 1
  • IPA I: o: 1

    :foreboding

  • Common errors: F: 1

    :forecast

  • Common errors: W: 1
  • Garbl: F: 1

    :forecasting

  • awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1

    :forego

  • Common errors: F: 1

    :forehead

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

    :foreign

  • I before E:     /@/ as in 'bacon' and 'surfeit':: 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: 1
  • J_Lynch: F: 1
  • Resources: Collections of Web links : 1
  • FX: English is Tough Stuff: 1
  • FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 2
  • FX: Foreign plurals => English singulars: 2
  • FX: Guidelines for posting: 1
  • FX: "more/most/very unique": 1
  • FX: When to use "the": 1
  • Lawler eclectic: Miscellaneous: 1
  • Lawler indian: Indian English: 2
  • Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 2
  • Intro A: Guidelines for posting: 1
  • Intro B: Intro B: Useful Web Sites for AUE Participants: 1
  • Intro D: "Gotten": 1
  • Intro E: Humorous poems about spelling: 1
  • Emphasis quotes: Use of Quotation Marks for Emphasis: 1
  • summer: 2
  • UCLE09: “Stranger: 1

    :foreigner

  • FX: "a"/"an" before abbreviations: 1

    :foreigners

  • FX: Table of Contents: 1
  • FX: Words pronounced differently according to context: 1
  • Fast FAQ: Table of Contents: 1
  • fast_faq_toc.html: 1
  • Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 1

    :FOREIGNERS

  • FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 2

    :foresee

  • Common errors: F: 1

    :Foresman

  • FX: Dictionaries: 1

    :forest

  • wwwords Forest: 2
  • FX: "blue moon" (notes by Philip Hiscock): 1
  • UCLE04: Our Favourite Cultural and Language Links: 1

    :forestall

  • FX: "Let them eat cake!": 1
  • Lawler commas: The intonation curve is (roughly) up-down-back.up, graphically something: 1

    :forests

  • FX: "by hook or by crook": 1

    :foretells

  • UCLE13: Calamity Jane: 1

    :foretold

  • FX: "jerry-built"/"jury-rigged": 1

    :forever

  • Unedited list of search results: 2
  • awwy_F: 'Word With You' list for letter F: 1
  • awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1
  • Lawler sig: Maybe the horse will sing: 1

    :foreword

  • Garbl: F: 1

    :forfeit

  • I before E:     /@/ as in 'bacon' and 'surfeit':: 1
  • I before E:      Sticking for the moment to the basic rule, : 1
  • FX: I before E except after C (notes by Mark Wainwright): 1

    :forfeited

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

    :forget

  • big_apple_boink_2001.html: 1
  • Lawler zilch: zilch: 1
  • Intro D: "Gotten": 1

    :forgive

  • Lawler l-sounds: >> For instance: English has only one /l/ phoneme, but it has: 1
  • Audio recording technique - Some suggestions: 1

    :forgo

  • Common errors: F: 1

    :forgotten

  • FX: Repeated words after abbreviations: 2
  • Lawler reams: Reams: 1
  • Lawler smith: Henry Lee Smith: 1
  • Intro D: "Gotten": 1
  • UCLE05: What’s: 2

    :fork

  • Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 2

    :form

  • I before E:      Sticking for the moment to the basic rule, : 1
  • J_Lynch: A: 1
  • Initialisms that have been used in AUE: 1
  • Unedited list of search results: 1
  • The Rainbow Passage: 2
  • Resources: Collections of Web links : 1
  • FX: "alumin(i)um" (notes by Keith Ivey): 5
  • FX: "beg the question": 2
  • FX: "between you and I": 1
  • FX: Commonest words: 1
  • FX: "-er" vs "-re": 1
  • FX: "Eskimo": 1
  • FX: Foreign plurals => English singulars: 1
  • FX: "fuck": 1
  • FX: Guidelines for posting: 1
  • FX: "impact"="to affect": 1
  • FX: "It's me" vs "It is I": 1
  • FX: "I won't mention...": 1
  • FX: "ollie ollie oxen free": 1
  • FX: Origin of the dollar sign (notes by Mark Brader): 2
  • FX: Plurals of Latin/Greek words: 2
  • FX: "quality": 1
  • FX: Related newsgroups: 1
  • FX: Subjunctive: 4
  • FX: "Take the prisoner downstairs", said Tom condescendingly.: 2
  • FX: typo: 1
  • FX: "wait for the other shoe to drop": 1
  • FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 4
  • FX: "whom": 1
  • FX: Why is "I" capitalized?: 3
  • FX: Wicca: 2
  • FX: words ending in "-gry": 1
  • FX: Words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 2
  • Description of FAQ maintenance: 1
  • Fast FAQ: A faster way to access items in the AUE FAQ: 1
  • Genitive: Genitive is not always possessive.: 1
  • Groups: "company is" vs "company are": 1
  • Lawler aluminum: Alumin(i)um: 2
  • Lawler amnt: "amn't": 2
  • Lawler anymore: anymore: 1
  • Lawler bring: Bring vs Take: 2
  • Lawler canthelp: Can't Help (But) ...: 1
  • Lawler complmnt: Object Complements: 2
  • Lawler eclectic: Fantasy and Science Fiction : 1
  • Lawler giveadamn: Give a Damn: 1
  • Lawler gonna: gonna: 2
  • Lawler hafta: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 2
  • Lawler headline: Headline grammar: 3
  • Lawler indian: Indian English: 1
  • Lawler itsraining: You may have noticed the Sapir quotation in my .sig.: 4
  • Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 4
  • Lawler l-sounds: >> For instance: English has only one /l/ phoneme, but it has: 1
  • Lawler lingmarks: One can already, for instance, read the: 1
  • Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 1
  • Lawler striddly: striddly: 1
  • Lawler tense: Tense and related topics: 6
  • Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 1
  • Lawler tense: >Just one question: Where does the past perfect ("have gone", "have sung"): 2
  • Intro C: "beg the question": 1
  • Intro D: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1
  • IPA I: aU@: 1
  • IPA I: What is this?: 1
  • Bridge to Damian Conway's pluralization paper: 1
  • Run Home Page Search Engine: 1
  • Subjunctive?: Subjunctive: 4
  • The ucle photo album: 1
  • UCLE11: The: 1
  • UCLE13: The Ides of March: 1
  • UCLE15: Gossip: 1
  • UCLE15: Sockdolager: 1
  • UCLE06: Rhetorical vocabulary: 2
  • UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 1

    :FORM

  • Lawler tense: >Just one question: Where does the past perfect ("have gone", "have sung"): 1
  • Our 404 page: 1

    :form-changing

  • Lawler itsraining: "It" in "It's raining": 1

    :formable

  • Lawler tense: Tense and related topics: 1

    :formal

  • J_Lynch: F: 1
  • Southern speaker's description of his speech: 1
  • Isles: IRELAND.  As used by geographers, the second largest island: 1
  • FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 1
  • FX: "like" vs "such as": 1
  • FX: "like" vs "as": 2
  • FX: names of "&", "@", and "#": 1
  • FX: Subjunctive: 1
  • FX: "try and", "be sure and", "go" + verb: 4
  • FX: "whom": 1
  • Lawler amnt: "amn't": 1
  • Lawler commas: Commas: 1
  • Lawler gonna: gonna: 1
  • Lawler infinite: English and Infinity: 2
  • Lawler lingmarks: Applied   All: 1
  • Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 1
  • Lawler vehicle: "vehicle": 1
  • Lawler whom: Who(m): 1
  • Lawler zilch: zilch: 2
  • Intro D: "It's me" -v- "It is I": 1
  • Intro D: Names for &, @, and #: 1

    :formaldehyde

  • UCLE12: News: 1

    :formalin

  • FX: trademarks: 1

    :formality

  • FX: "like" vs "as": 1
  • FX: "that kind of a thing": 1
  • Lawler amnt: "amn't": 1
  • Lawler anymore: anymore: 1

    :formalize

  • Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 1

    :formally

  • Common errors: F: 1

    :formant

  • Vowel quadrilateral with cluster of [A] sounds: 1
  • Fourteen vowels spoken by Richard Fontana: 2
  • Audio: Other Sound Files: 1
  • Showing variation of formants of [i:] with context: 1
  • Comparison of vowels in "hing", "hean", "hin", and "hit": 1
  • Intro F: Pronunciation: 1
  • Supp: Pronunciation: 1
  • What's new?: History of Changes at the AUE Web Site: 2

    :formant-analysis

  • Audio: Other Sound Files: 1

    :Formant-frequency

  • Formant values for 14 Fontana vowels: 1

    :formants

  • Explanatory notes:: 1
  • Showing variation of formants of [i:] with context: 3
  • Formant analysis: 2
  • Showing variation of formants of [i:] with context: 3
  • "stone cold" formants: 1

    :format

  • Audio: Other Sound Files: 1
  • Audio: Welcome to the: 3
  • Resources: Web-design utilities : 1
  • FX: Online dictionaries: 1
  • FX: Style manuals: 1
  • FX: Table of Contents: 1
  • FX: What is a suggested format for citing online sources?: 2
  • Description of FAQ maintenance: 2
  • Fast FAQ: Table of Contents: 1
  • fast_faq_toc.html: 1
  • Lawler booklist: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 1
  • Lawler eclectic: Government and other information: 1
  • Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 1
  • Intro G: Intro G: Where is the FAQ?: 1

    :formation

  • wwwords Word formation through blends: 1
  • wwwords Word formation: 2
  • FX: Online usage guides: 1
  • Lawler itsraining: "It" in "It's raining": 2
  • Lawler ross: Ross Constraints: 5
  • Bridge to Damian Conway's pluralization paper: 1
  • Supp: Grammar: 1
  • Subjunctive?: Subjunctive: 1

    :formats

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

    :formatted

  • UCLE02: The history of ucle: 1
  • Announcement of creation of uk.culture.language.english: 1

    :formatter

  • FX: spaces between sentences: 1

    :formatting

  • FX: How reliable are dictionaries?: 1
  • Description of FAQ maintenance: 2

    :FORMATTING

  • UCLE02: The history of ucle: 1

    :FormattingEncoded

  • Announcement of creation of uk.culture.language.english: 1

    :formed

  • The Rainbow Passage: 1
  • Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 2
  • FX: "Caesarean section": 1
  • FX: "-ize" vs "-ise": 1
  • FX: "portmanteau word": 1
  • Lawler amnt: "amn't": 2
  • Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 2
  • Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 2
  • Lawler tense: >Just one question: Where does the past perfect ("have gone", "have sung"): 1
  • Bridge to Damian Conway's pluralization paper: 1
  • UCLE13: Waterloo: 1
  • UCLE14: Eponymous London Shopkeepers: 1
  • UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 1

    :former

  • Garbl: F: 1
  • FX: "a"/"an" before abbreviations: 1
  • FX: "canola": 1
  • FX: "catch-22": 1
  • FX: "could care less": 1
  • FX: "God rest you merry, gentlemen": 1
  • FX: How reliable are dictionaries?: 1
  • FX: "It's me" vs "It is I": 1
  • FX: rhotic vs non-rhotic, intrusive "r": 1
  • Lawler commas: Commas: 1
  • Lawler headline: Headline grammar: 1
  • Lawler indian: Indian English: 1
  • Lawler itsraining: You may have noticed the Sapir quotation in my .sig.: 1
  • UCLE09: One: 1

    :former's

  • UCLE11: The: 1

    :formerly

  • Common errors: F: 1
  • Resources: Implementation note: : 1
  • FX: "a"/"an" before abbreviations: 1
  • FX: "by hook or by crook": 1
  • FX: "canola": 1
  • FX: trademarks: 1
  • FX: Words pronounced differently according to context: 1
  • Intro B: Sites on words and language:: 1
  • Intro D: "A" or "an": 1
  • Supp: Url updates: 1

    :Formica

  • FX: trademarks: 1

    :formidable

  • Common errors: F: 1

    :forming

  • FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1
  • Lawler amnt: "amn't": 1
  • Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 1
  • Lawler l-sounds: >> For instance: English has only one /l/ phoneme, but it has: 1

    :forms

  • wwwords Historical forms of the possessive: 1
  • I before E:      Sticking for the moment to the basic rule, : 1
  • Resources: Discussion groups, Usenet group Websites : 1
  • Resources: Miscellaneous, language related : 1
  • Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 2
  • Isles: GREAT BRITAIN.  Used by cartographers to denote the biggest: 1
  • FX: "ebonics": 2
  • FX: E-prime: 1
  • FX: "Eskimo": 1
  • FX: How do you spell "e-mail"?: 3
  • FX: "Illegitimis non carborundum": 1
  • FX: "-ize" vs "-ise": 1
  • FX: "ollie ollie oxen free": 1
  • FX: Online usage guides: 1
  • FX: Online dictionaries: 1
  • FX: Origin of the dollar sign (notes by Mark Brader): 1
  • FX: "peter out": 1
  • FX: Subjunctive: 1
  • FX: "that kind of a thing": 1
  • FX: WELCOME TO ALT.USAGE.ENGLISH!: 1
  • FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 5
  • Lawler amnt: "amn't": 2
  • Lawler booklist: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 1
  • Lawler gotten: Gotten vs. Got: 1
  • Lawler hadve: hadn't've: 1
  • Lawler headline: Headline grammar: 2
  • Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 1
  • Lawler l-sounds: English L sounds: 1
  • Lawler modals: As to this discussion, the usual oppositions are those between: 1
  • Lawler modals: The canonical paraphrase for will is be going to, idiosyncratically: 1
  • Lawler modals: There is also another opposition among the formal auxiliaries, between: 2
  • Lawler ross: Ross Constraints: 1
  • Lawler tense: Tense and related topics: 2
  • Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 1
  • Lawler xmasthat: That vs. Which: 1
  • Intro A: WELCOME TO alt.usage.english!: 1
  • Intro C: words ending in "-gry": 1
  • Intro D: Intro D: Mini-FAQ on Grammar, Usage and Punctuation: 1
  • Intro D: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1
  • boink: 1
  • Bridge to Damian Conway's pluralization paper: 1
  • Supp: What is prescriptivism?: 1
  • Subjunctive?: Subjunctive: 12
  • UCLE02: The history of ucle: 1
  • UCLE04: Our Favourite Cultural and Language Links: 1
  • Yet to come: 1
  • Announcement of creation of uk.culture.language.english: 1

    :formula

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

    :formulaic

  • Lawler giveadamn: Give a Damn: 1

    :formulas

  • FX: Subjunctive: 3

    :formulate

  • Garbl: F: 1
  • Lawler ross: Ross Constraints: 1

    :formulation

  • Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 1

    :fornication

  • FX: "fuck": 1

    :Forrid

  • Unedited list of search results: 1

    :forsee

  • Common errors: F: 1

    :Forsook

  • Supp: words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 1

    :Forsooth

  • UCLE11: The: 1

    :fort

  • RH_wotd forte and fort: 1
  • FX: Words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 1

    :forte

  • RH_wotd forte and fort: 1
  • wwwords Forte: 2
  • Common errors: F: 1
  • awwy_H: 'Word With You' list for letter H: 1
  • FX: Words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 2

    :forte and fort

  • RH_wotd forte and fort: 1

    :fortell

  • The Rainbow Passage: 1

    :forth

  • Unedited list of search results: 1
  • UCLE11: The: 1
  • UCLE09: Holidays: 1

    :forthcoming

  • FX: "ebonics": 1

    :FORThe

  • UCLE12: News: 1

    :Forthright

  • Resources: Words about words : 1

    :Forthright's

  • Resources: Words about words : 1

    :Forthwith

  • wwwords Forthwith: 2

    :fortified

  • UCLE11: The: 1

    :fortitude

  • awwy_F: 'Word With You' list for letter F: 1

    :fortnight

  • RH_wotd fortnight: 2
  • EMorris: F : 1
  • Wilton: Wilton's Etymology Page: 1

    :FORTRAN

  • Lawler commas: Commas: 4

    :Fortran

  • Unedited list of search results: 1

    :fortuitous

  • Common errors: F: 1
  • J_Lynch: F: 1
  • Lawler aluminum: Alumin(i)um: 1

    :fortunate

  • Common errors: F: 1

    :fortunately

  • FX: "hopefully", "thankfully": 1
  • FX: "quality": 1

    :fortune

  • awwy_F: 'Word With You' list for letter F: 2
  • FX: "functionality": 1
  • FX: "quality": 2
  • FX: words without vowels: 1
  • Lawler thehell: Usage of "the hell": 1
  • UCLE15: The Tooth Fairy: 1

    :forty

  • UCLE16: Animals used in "as: 1

    :forum

  • Resources: Discussion groups, Usenet group Websites : 1

    :forward

  • Common errors: Supplementary Pages : 1
  • Common errors: F: 1
  • Garbl: F: 1
  • awwy_F: 'Word With You' list for letter F: 1
  • Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 2
  • FX: Words pronounced differently according to context: 1
  • UCLE12: News: 1
  • UCLE13: Waterloo: 1
  • UCLE02: The history of ucle: 1
  • UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 1

    :forwards

  • Common errors: Supplementary Pages : 1

    :fossils

  • Lawler enghist: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 1

    :Foster

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

    :foster-mother

  • Supp: words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 1

    :Fotomagic

  • UCLE03: Tee Shirts: 1

    :fotonovelas

  • Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1
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