alt.usage.english FAQ concordance for 'mas' onwards

:Mascara

EMorris: M : 1

:masculine

FX: Foreign plurals => English singulars: 1

FX: Wicca: 1

FX: Words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 1

Lawler they: He, she, they?: 4

Intro D: Gender-neutral pronouns -- "he/she" -v- "they": 1

:Mash

Unedited list of search results: 1

:masking

Isles: SCOTCH. The following is extracted from Mark Israel's FAQ: 2

FX: "Scotch": 2

:Mason

Posting frequencies: Tabulation of user names with over 50 postings in the past four years: 2

:Masonite

FX: trademarks: 1

:masquerading

FX: ", vs ,": 1

:mass

Lawler Index: Mass and count nouns.: 1

Unedited list of search results: 1

FX: "Eskimo": 1

FX: Foreign plurals => English singulars: 2

FX: "none is" vs "none are": 1

FX: "pie-shaped": 1

Lawler aluminum: Alumin(i)um: 1

Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 4

Lawler phrasal: Phrasal Verbs: 1

Lawler reams: Reams: 3

:massa

FX: "O.K.": 1

:Massachusetts

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

:massacre

FX: "-er" vs "-re": 1

:masse

Lawler reams: Reams: 1

:masses

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

:massive

Lawler a-an: A or An Historical Novel?: 1

Lawler bring: Bring vs Take: 1

Lawler buoy: Aural and Oral, Boy and Buoy: 1

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

Lawler comma: Commas again: 1

Lawler complmnt: Object Complements: 1

Lawler enghist: >Your example of English and Caxton print shop goes a long way to convince: 1

Lawler extrapos: --- Followup --: 1

Lawler giveadamn: Give a Damn: 1

Lawler gotten: Gotten vs. Got: 1

Lawler hadve: I suspect much of the rancor that greets spellings of had've is: 1

Lawler hafta: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 1

Lawler indian: Indian English: 1

Lawler infinite: English and Infinity: 1

Lawler itsraining: You may have noticed the Sapir quotation in my .sig.: 2

Lawler l-sounds: >> For instance: English has only one /l/ phoneme, but it has: 1

Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 1

Lawler quote: "Quote, Unquote": 1

Lawler ross: Ross Constraints: 1

Lawler schwa: Schwa and Central Vowels: 2

Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 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

Lawler vowels: Where I grew up (in DeKalb, IL, 100 km W of Chicago) Mary,: 1

Lawler writing: Literacy: 1

Lawler xmasthat: There are also two kinds of relative clauses:: 1

The Totally Official Boink Home Page: 1

UCLE13: Custer's last stand: 1

UCLE13: Waterloo: 1

UCLE09: Rivers: 1

:mast

FX: "jerry-built"/"jury-rigged": 4

:master

Unedited list of search results: 1

FX: "whom": 1

Lawler eclectic: Science What you need in order to have Science Fiction: 1

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

The Totally Official Boink Home Page: 1

UCLE03: Tee Shirts: 1

:Master's

UCLE03: Judith: 1

:masterful

Intro B: Sites on words and language:: 1

:masters

UCLE03: A uk.culture.language.english: 1

:masthead

Garbl: M: 1

FX: Related newsgroups: 1

:mastication

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

:Mastroianni

FX: "paparazzo": 1

:masturbator

FX: "wonk" (notes by Fred Shapiro): 1

:mat

RH_wotd go to the mat: 1

:Mata

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

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

:match

Explanation of Search Criteria: 8

Southern speaker's description of his speech: 1

FX: "Eskimo": 1

Lawler asfaras: As far as ... goes/is concerned: 1

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

Supp: "SOS": 1

UCLE12: News: 2

UCLE06: Rhetorical vocabulary: 1

:mate

IPA I: Reading ASCII IPA: 1

:mated

UCLE12: News: 1

:material

The AUE Photo Gallery: 1

Title: 1

Lawler Index: Frequently Asked Questions about English, Series 1 and 2: 1

Resources: �� 9. The original URL,: 1

FX: "Go placidly amid the noise and the haste" (Desiderata): 1

FX: "whole cloth" (notes by Ellen Rosen): 1

Description of FAQ maintenance: 5

Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 1

Intro A: Responding: 2

Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 1

Intro F: Miscellany: 1

IPA II: Credits:: 1

IPA I: Credits: 1

boink: 1

Supp: Miscellany: 1

UCLE11: The: 1

UCLE02: The history of ucle: 1

UCLE05: John Davies's commentary: 2

UCLE08: “This: 1

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

:materialize

Garbl: M: 1

:materials

Resources: Collections of Web links : 1

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

FX: Online dictionaries: 1

Lawler commas: >>> The facts of the matter are these:: 1

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

UCLE09: Anorak: 1

:materteral

RH_wotd materteral: 2

:math

Autism and Daniel McGrath: 1

Resources: Miscellaneous, not language related : 1

FX: Online dictionaries: 1

Lawler eclectic: Mathematics: 2

:mathematical

Lawler Index: Infinite number of English sentences?: 1

Explanatory notes:: 1

FX: Book on mathematical exposition: 5

FX: Origin of the dollar sign (notes by Mark Brader): 1

FX: Table of Contents: 1

FX: "titsling"/"brassiere": 1

Fast FAQ: Table of Contents: 1

fast_faq_toc.html: 1

Lawler infinite: English and Infinity: 5

Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 1

:mathematically

Lawler infinite: English and Infinity: 1

:mathematicians

Resources: Lexicons : 1

FX: "billion": a U.K. view: 1

:mathematics

Resources: Dictionaries : 1

FX: Book on mathematical exposition: 1

FX: Origin of the dollar sign (notes by Mark Brader): 1

Lawler eclectic: Mathematics: 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: 1

summer: 1

:Mathews

Posting frequencies: Tabulation of user names with over 50 postings in the past four years: 2

:Mathias

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

:Mathom

wwwords Mathom: 2

:Maths

UCLE09: “It went pear-shaped”: 1

:matrimonial

Lawler indian: Indian English: 1

:matris

FX: "Caesarean section": 1

:matrix

FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1

Lawler complmnt: Object Complements: 4

Lawler npislands: News Item: 1

:mats

UCLE03: Tee Shirts: 1

:Matt

Posting frequencies: Tabulation of user names with over 50 postings in the past four years: 3

:matter

Unedited list of search results: 3

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

Explanatory notes:: 1

FX: "catch-22": 1

FX: "mouses" vs "mice": 1

FX: "O.K.": 1

FX: "quality": 1

FX: Subjunctive: 1

FX: "Take the prisoner downstairs", said Tom condescendingly.: 1

FX: "the whole nine yards": 1

FX: trademarks: 1

FX: ", vs ,": 1

Lawler aluminum: Alumin(i)um: 1

Lawler amnt: "amn't": 1

Lawler besides: Toward(s) and Beside(s): 1

Lawler bring: Bring vs Take: 1

Lawler commas: >If, say, a parenthesis is marked off by commas, is that phonological: 1

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

Lawler enghist: >Your example of English and Caxton print shop goes a long way to convince: 1

Lawler hafta: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 1

Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 1

Lawler itsraining: You may have noticed the Sapir quotation in my .sig.: 1

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

Lawler phrasal: Phrasal Verbs: 1

Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 1

Lawler sig: Maybe the horse will sing: 1

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

Lawler they: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 5

Lawler they: That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 1

Intro C: "whole nine yards": 1

Supp: "miss not having": 1

UCLE11: The: 1

UCLE06: Rhetorical vocabulary: 1

:matters

awwy_C: 'Word With You' list for letter C: 4

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

awwy_F: 'Word With You' list for letter F: 2

awwy_G: 'Word With You' list for letter G: 3

awwy_K: 'Word With You' list for letter K: 1

awwy_O: 'Word With You' list for letter O: 1

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

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

awwy_T: 'Word With You' list for letter T: 3

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

Lawler booklist: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 1

Lawler commas: The intonation curve is (roughly) up-down-back.up, graphically something: 1

Lawler itsraining: You may have noticed the Sapir quotation in my .sig.: 1

Lawler they: He, she, they?: 1

Intro A: Dealing with unwanted postings: 1

Intro B: Encyclopedias & Search Engines: 1

Intro C: "billion" (based on an article by Ken Moore and Olivier Bettens): 1

IPA I: Preliminary remarks: 1

:Matthew

FX: "merkin" (notes by Michael B. Quinion and Ruth Bygrave): 1

FX: "pie-shaped": 2

FX: "the whole nine yards": 1

Lawler eclectic: Home Pages: 1

Lawler lingmarks: People: 1

Lawler vowels: Where I grew up (in DeKalb, IL, 100 km W of Chicago) Mary,: 1

Posting frequencies: Tabulation of user names with over 50 postings in the past four years: 3

:Matthews

FX: "quality": 1

:Matti

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

UCLE10: The: 1

:mature

Lawler thehell: Usage of "the hell": 1

:maturity

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

:matzah

Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 2

:Maug

Unedited list of search results: 1

:maugry

FX: words ending in "-gry": 1

:Maureen

Tootsie recently: 1

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

:Maurer

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

:Maurier's

UCLE14: Literary characters who became: 1

:Mauritius

Title: 1

:Maury

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

:Mausoleum

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

:mauve

Common errors: M: 1

:maven

RH_wotd maven: 2

:Maven's

Resources: Words about words : 1

FX: Online dictionaries: 1

Intro B: Sites on words and language:: 1

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

:Mavens

Supp: Echoed remote indexes: 1

:Maverick

EMorris: M : 1

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

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

:Mavericks

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

:mawgry

FX: words ending in "-gry": 1

:mawkish

RH_wotd mawkish: 2

EMorris: M : 1

:max2-14

Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 1

:maxim

FX: "functionality": 1

:Maximian

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

:maximum

Lawler aluminum: Alumin(i)um: 1

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

:Maxine

UCLE05: What’s: 1

:Maxwell

awwy_K: 'Word With You' list for letter K: 1

FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 1

:Maxwell's

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

Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 1

:MAY

Lawler xmasthat: There are also two kinds of relative clauses:: 1

:may

RH_wotd may and might: 1

:may and might

RH_wotd may and might: 1

:maybe

Comments on a proposal for reformed English spelling: 1

Unedited list of search results: 1

FX: Origin of the dollar sign (notes by Mark Brader): 1

FX: "whole cloth" (notes by Ellen Rosen): 1

Lawler aluminum: Alumin(i)um: 1

Lawler amnt: "amn't": 1

Lawler anymore: anymore: 1

Lawler asfaras: As far as ... goes/is concerned: 1

Lawler besides: Toward(s) and Beside(s): 1

Lawler booklist: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 1

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

Lawler commas: Commas: 1

Lawler commas: >>> The facts of the matter are these:: 1

Lawler correct: "Correctness": 1

Lawler enghist: >Your example of English and Caxton print shop goes a long way to convince: 1

Lawler equally: "equally" and comparatives: 1

Lawler gonna: gonna: 1

Lawler headline: Headline grammar: 1

Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 1

Lawler itsraining: You may have noticed the Sapir quotation in my .sig.: 2

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

Lawler modals: The canonical paraphrase for will is be going to, idiosyncratically: 1

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

Lawler only: "only": 1

Lawler phrasal: Phrasal Verbs: 1

Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 1

Lawler reams: Reams: 1

Lawler sig: Maybe the horse will sing: 2

Lawler smith: Henry Lee Smith: 1

Lawler striddly: striddly: 1

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

Lawler that: Two kinds of "that-clauses": 1

Lawler thehell: Usage of "the hell": 1

Lawler vehicle: "vehicle": 1

Lawler whom: Who(m): 1

Lawler zilch: zilch: 1

Audio recording technique - Some suggestions: 1

:Maybes

FX: "quality": 1

:Mayday

RH_wotd Mayday: 2

EMorris: M : 1

Wilton: Wilton's Etymology Page: 1

Unedited list of search results: 1

awwy_A: 'Word With You' list for letter A: 1

awwy_M: 'Word With You' list for letter M: 2

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

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

:Mayfair

wwwords Mayfair: 2

:mayhap

RH_wotd mayhap: 2

:Mayhem

EMorris: M : 1

Wilton: Wilton's Etymology Page: 1

:Mazola

FX: "canola": 1

Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 1

:Mazumdar

Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 2

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

:Mazur

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

:MB

Garbl: M: 1

:Mbbs

Unedited list of search results: 1

:McAdams

Common errors: Other Good Resources: 1

:McAlpine

FX: "like" vs "such as": 1

:McArthur

FX: General reference: 1

UCLE05: What’s: 1

:McCall

UCLE13: Calamity Jane: 1

:McCarthy

Lawler lingmarks: Miscellaneous: 1

:McCauley's

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

:McCawley

Lawler booklist: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 4

Lawler equally: "equally" and comparatives: 1

Lawler infinite: English and Infinity: 1

Lawler lingmarks: People: 1

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

:McCawley's

Lawler booklist: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 1

Lawler modals: English Modals: 1

Lawler writing: Literacy: 1

:McCoy

RH_wotd real McCoy: 1

EMorris: R : 1

Wilton: Wilton's Etymology Page: 1

awwy_A: 'Word With You' list for letter A: 1

awwy_B: 'Word With You' list for letter B: 2

awwy_E: 'Word With You' list for letter E: 1

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

awwy_R: 'Word With You' list for letter R: 1

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

:McCoy,

wwwords Real McCoy, the: 1

:McDonald

UCLE05: What’s: 1

:McFarland

FX: "portmanteau word": 1

:McGATNEY

Unedited list of search results: 1

:McGilton

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

:McGowan

Lawler eclectic: (Mostly Michigan) People: 1

:McGrath

Autism and Daniel McGrath: 3

Supp: Miscellany: 1

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

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

:McGuffin

RH_wotd McGuffin: 2

wwwords McGuffin: 2

:McIndoe

FX: Books on Britishisms, Canadianisms, etc.: 1

:McIntyre

Lawler eclectic: Home Pages: 1

:Mckay

Unedited list of search results: 1

:McKenzie

Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 5

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

:McKnight

UCLE02: The history of ucle: 1

:McLaughlin

UCLE05: What’s: 1

:McManus

Resources: Audio references : 1

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

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

:McMeel

FX: "like" vs "such as": 1

FX: "quality": 1

:McMurray

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

:Mcmxcix

Unedited list of search results: 1

:McNutt

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

:McQuain

Supp: Books about words: 1

:McQueer

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

:Mcse

Unedited list of search results: 1

:McWhirter

FX: Preposition at end: 1

:Mdcccclxxxxviiii

Unedited list of search results: 1

:MDR-TB

wwwords MDR-TB: 2

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