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

:OF

Initialisms that have been used in AUE: 1

Isles: BRITAIN/GREAT BRITAIN/UNITED KINGDOM &C: 2

FX: split infinitive: 1

UCLE12: News: 6

UCLE04: Our Favourite Cultural and Language Links: 1

:of

RH_wotd much of a muchness: 1

RH_wotd the proof of the pudding: 1

RH_wotd rule of thumb: 1

RH_wotd skin of the teeth: 1

RH_wotd plurals of compounds: 1

RH_wotd Dodge, get out of: 1

RH_wotd months, names of: 1

RH_wotd week, days of: 1

RH_wotd feet of clay: 1

RH_wotd neck of the woods: 1

RH_wotd agenbite of inwit: 1

RH_wotd bill of goods: 1

RH_wotd favor of a reply: 1

RH_wotd mother of all: 1

RH_wotd drop of a hat, at the: 1

RH_wotd the (dropping of the article): 1

RH_wotd horse of a different (or another) color: 1

RH_wotd run of the mill: 1

RH_wotd out of pocket: 1

RH_wotd cream of the crop: 1

RH_wotd hair of the dog (that bit you): 1

RH_wotd cup of tea: 1

wwwords Words for parts of the UK: 1

wwwords Word formation: 1

wwwords Meeting room jargon: 1

wwwords Through the mill: 1

wwwords Words for sums of money: 1

wwwords Words of 1997: 1

wwwords Words of 1998: 1

wwwords Apple of one's eye: 1

wwwords Horns of a dilemma: 1

wwwords Frequency of initial letters: 1

wwwords Let the cat out of the bag: 1

wwwords Much of a Muchness: 1

wwwords Out of sorts: 1

wwwords Pair of pants: 1

wwwords Philogynist: 1

wwwords Historical forms of the possessive: 1

wwwords Life of riley: 1

wwwords Rule of thumb: 1

wwwords State of the art: 1

wwwords Time out of mind: 1

wwwords Wrong side of the bed: 1

wwwords American Heritage Dictionary, Fourth Edition, and the American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots, Second Edition (book reviews): 1

wwwords Oxford Dictionary of Allusions (book review): 1

wwwords Oxford Dictionary of Slang (book review): 1

wwwords Cambridge International Dictionary of English on CD-ROM (review): 1

wwwords Chambers Dictionary of Etymology (book review): 1

wwwords Slang of Sin (book review): 1

wwwords Cassell Dictionary of Slang (book review): 1

wwwords Oxford Dictionary of Idioms (book review): 2

wwwords Jesse's Word of the Day (book review): 1

wwwords Cassell Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins (book review): 1

wwwords New Oxford Dictionary of English on CD-ROM (review): 1

wwwords New Oxford Dictionary of English (book review): 1

wwwords New Oxford Thesaurus of English (book review): 1

wwwords Oxford Dictionary of New Words (book notice): 1

wwwords Dictionary of New Zealand English (book review): 1

wwwords Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (book review): 1

wwwords Cassell Dictionary of Word Histories (book review): 1

wwwords Dictionary of Contemporary Slang (book review): 1

wwwords Singulars of plurals in -ia: 1

wwwords Plural of person: 1

:of)

RH_wotd alumnae (possessive of): 1

RH_wotd lamb's tail (--- shakes of): 1

:off

RH_wotd rip off: 1

RH_wotd pissed off: 1

RH_wotd on or off the wagon: 1

wwwords Brassed off: 1

:off-color

RH_wotd off-color: 2

:off-peak

Garbl: O: 1

:off-ramp

Garbl: O: 1

:off-site

Garbl: O: 1

:off-topic

Intro A: Dealing with unwanted postings: 1

:offbeat

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

:offence

Isles: ENGLAND. The biggest and most populous of the four countries: 1

FX: "like" vs "as": 1

FX: Words pronounced differently according to context: 1

UCLE03: Judith: 1

UCLE09: Rivers: 1

:offend

Lawler they: He, she, they?: 2

UCLE11: The: 1

:offender

Intro A: Dealing with unwanted postings: 1

:offending

Isles: BRITAIN/GREAT BRITAIN/UNITED KINGDOM &C: 1

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

Lawler they: He, she, they?: 1

:offends

Lawler they: He, she, they?: 1

:offense

Lawler they: He, she, they?: 1

:offensive

Isles: SCOTCH. The following is extracted from Mark Israel's FAQ: 1

FX: "bloody": 2

FX: "Scotch": 1

FX: "to call a spade a spade": 1

Lawler thehell: Usage of "the hell": 1

UCLE09: “It went pear-shaped”: 1

:offer

Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 1

Lawler they: He, she, they?: 1

UCLE11: The: 1

UCLE09: Colours: 1

:offered

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

Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 2

FX: doubling of final consonants before suffixes: 1

UCLE15: The Tooth Fairy: 1

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

Where FAQ?: 2 October 1996:: 1

:offering

FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 1

:offers

Audio: Welcome to the: 1

Resources: Encyclopedias : 2

FX: Guidelines for posting: 1

FX: Online language columns: 1

FX: Online dictionaries: 2

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

Intro G: Intro G: Where is the FAQ?: 1

Run Home Page Search Engine: 1

UCLE05: What’s: 1

Where FAQ?: Fast-Access FAQ:: 1

:offhand

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

:office

Garbl: O: 1

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

FX: "in like Flynn": 1

FX: "that" vs "which": 1

Lawler bring: Bring vs Take: 2

UCLE12: News: 3

:officeholder

Garbl: O: 1

:official

The AUE Photo Gallery: 2

aue people (album1): 3

Title: 1

Unedited list of search results: 1

AUE Logo: Notes about the Totally Official AUE Logo: 5

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

big_apple_boink_2001.html: 2

Resources: Discussion groups, Usenet group Websites : 1

Isles: GREAT BRITAIN. Used by cartographers to denote the biggest: 1

Isles: THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND. : 2

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

FX: Books on "bias-free"/"politically correct" language: 1

FX: "done"="finished": 1

FX: "ISO" by Mark Brader: 1

FX: "Let them eat cake!": 1

FX: names of "&", "@", and "#": 1

FX: [Prefatory remarks]: 1

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

FX: "to call a spade a spade": 1

FX: words ending in "-gry": 1

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

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

Lawler hadve: hadn't've: 1

Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 1

Lawler they: He, she, they?: 1

Lawler they: -- more followup:: 1

Lawler vehicle: "vehicle": 2

Lawler zilch: zilch: 1

Intro F: Photographs of some AUE people: 1

Intro F: Table of major headings:: 1

The Totally Official Boink Home Page: 1

boink: 4

Supp: Table of major headings:: 1

Supp: Photographs of some AUE people: 1

Supp: "SOS": 3

summer: 4

Symposium II: Individuals: 1

aue people (album1): 2

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

:officially

Isles: NORTHERN IRELAND This is not the place to go into: 1

FX: "alumin(i)um" (notes by Keith Ivey): 1

FX: "Eskimo": 1

FX: "SOS": 1

Lawler academy: The Academy: 1

Lawler anymore: anymore: 1

Lawler bring: Bring vs Take: 1

Lawler phrasal: Phrasal Verbs: 1

Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1

Supp: "SOS": 1

:officials

Lawler vehicle: "vehicle": 1

:officialspeak

Lawler they: He, she, they?: 1

:offshore

Isles: GREAT BRITAIN. Used by cartographers to denote the biggest: 1

:OFlaherty

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

:often

File Not Found: 1

RH_wotd often: 2

Common errors: O: 1

Lawler Index: Frequently Asked Questions about English, Series 1 and 2: 3

Isles: BRITAIN/GREAT BRITAIN/UNITED KINGDOM &C: 1

Isles: IRELAND. As used by geographers, the second largest island: 1

Isles: NORTHERN IRELAND This is not the place to go into: 1

Isles: THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND. : 1

FX: "alot": 1

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

FX: Books on usage: 1

FX: "bug"="defect": 1

FX: "by hook or by crook": 1

FX: Commonest words: 1

FX: Dictionaries: 1

FX: "due to": 1

FX: "flammable": 1

FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 1

FX: Foreign plurals => English singulars: 1

FX: "functionality": 1

FX: "hopefully", "thankfully": 1

FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 2

FX: I before E except after C (notes by Mark Wainwright): 1

FX: "It's me" vs "It is I": 1

FX: "I won't mention...": 1

FX: "like" vs "such as": 2

FX: "like" vs "as": 2

FX: "more honoured in the breach than the observance": 1

FX: Preposition at end: 1

FX: "push the envelope": 1

FX: Related newsgroups: 1

FX: spaces between sentences: 1

FX: split infinitive: 1

FX: Subjunctive: 2

FX: "suck"="be very unsatisfying" by John Davies: 1

FX: "that" vs "which": 2

FX: "to call a spade a spade": 1

FX: trademarks: 1

FX: "true fact": 1

FX: When to use "the": 2

FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1

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

FX: words ending in "-gry": 1

FX: Words pronounced differently according to context: 3

Groups: "company is" vs "company are": 1

Lawler a-an: A or An Historical Novel?: 2

Lawler amnt: "amn't": 1

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

Lawler bring: Bring vs Take: 1

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

Lawler complmnt: Object Complements: 3

Lawler extrapos: Extraposition, plus Selected Short Subjects: 1

Lawler giveadamn: Give a Damn: 1

Lawler gonna: gonna: 2

Lawler gotten: Gotten vs. Got: 1

Lawler hadve: hadn't've: 1

Lawler hafta: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 1

Lawler headline: Headline grammar: 1

Lawler indian: Indian English: 3

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

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

Lawler l-sounds: English L sounds: 2

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

Lawler modals: There is also another opposition among the formal auxiliaries, between: 1

Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 3

Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 2

Lawler quote: "Quote, Unquote": 1

Lawler reams: Reams: 2

Lawler ross: Ross Constraints: 2

Lawler schwa: Schwa and Central Vowels: 3

Lawler tense: Tense and related topics: 2

Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 1

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

Lawler thehell: Usage of "the hell": 3

Lawler they: He, she, they?: 1

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

Lawler vehicle: "vehicle": 2

Lawler xmasthat: That vs. Which: 1

Lawler xmasthat: There are also two kinds of relative clauses:: 2

Lawler zilch: zilch: 1

Intro A: Responding: 1

Intro C: England, Britain, Great Britain, United Kingdom, etc.: 1

Intro C: "push the envelope": 1

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

Intro D: Group nouns -- singular or plural? "company is" -v- "company are": 1

Intro D: Names for &, @, and #: 1

IPA II: The Details:: 1

IPA II: Slashes or square brackets?: 1

IPA I: Consonants and vowels: 1

IPA I: Slashes or square brackets?: 1

IPA I: What is this?: 2

boink: 1

summer: 1

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

UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 1

UCLE08: The “Fat Lady”: 2

:often-drunk

UCLE16: Hooligan: 1

:OG

Initialisms that have been used in AUE: 1

:Ogbuji

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

:Ogden

FX: Basic English: 1

:ogre

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

:oh-ka

FX: "O.K.": 1

:OHG

Initialisms that have been used in AUE: 1

:Ohio

Genitive: Genitive is not always possessive.: 1

Lawler lingmarks: Universities: 1

Lawler smith: Henry Lee Smith: 1

UCLE10: American belts: 1

:Ohio43210

Unedited list of search results: 1

:Ohnosecond

wwwords Ohnosecond: 2

:OI

FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 1

IPA II: A Quick Look:: 1

IPA II: Affricates, diphthongs and triphthongs:: 1

IPA I: A Quick Look:: 1

:oikea

FX: "O.K.": 1

:oils

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

UCLE11: The: 1

:Oilseed

FX: "canola": 1

:OIN

FX: "ISO" by Mark Brader: 1

:Ojibwa

FX: "Eskimo": 4

:Ojibwe

Lawler lingmarks: Languages in General: 1

:OK

RH_wotd OK: 2

wwwords OK: 2

Garbl: O: 1

Wilton: Wilton's Etymology Page: 1

Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 1

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

Lawler extrapos: Extraposition, plus Selected Short Subjects: 1

Lawler itsraining: "It" in "It's raining": 2

Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 2

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

Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 1

Lawler reams: Reams: 2

Lawler schwa: Schwa and Central Vowels: 1

Lawler thehell: Usage of "the hell": 1

Lawler truly: Canadian and American Raising: 3

Lawler zilch: zilch: 1

:okay

File Not Found: 1

Unedited list of search results: 1

FX: "O.K.": 2

Description of FAQ maintenance: 1

:okey

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

:Oklahoma

Audio: � USA: 1

UCLE10: American belts: 1

:Oksavik

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

:Okuyama

Unedited list of search results: 1

:Olaf

UCLE08: Mother Goose: 1

:Old

wwwords Old Dart: 1

:Old Dart

wwwords Old Dart: 1

:old-farthood

Lawler eclectic: Fantasy and Science Fiction : 1

:old-fashioned

FX: Gender-neutral pronouns: 1

FX: "suck"="be very unsatisfying" by John Davies: 1

:Olde

FX: "ye"="the": 1

:older

Audio: � England: 1

FX: "SOS": 1

FX: spaces between sentences: 1

FX: "spit and image"/"spitting image": 2

FX: "suck"="be very unsatisfying" by John Davies: 1

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

FX: "try and", "be sure and", "go" + verb: 1

FX: Wicca: 1

FX: words ending in "-gry": 1

FX: "You have another think coming": 1

Genitive: Genitive is not always possessive.: 1

Lawler aluminum: Alumin(i)um: 1

Lawler writing: Literacy: 2

Intro B: Encyclopedias & Search Engines: 1

Intro B: Where to find previous postings: 1

UCLE03: Judith: 1

UCLE09: “It’s: 1

Where FAQ?: Index: 1

:oldest

UCLE15: Gossip: 1

UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 1

:oldie

Lawler booklist: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 2

:Olds

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

:oleomargarine

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

:olifaunt

FX: Words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 1

:olive

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

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

UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 2

:Oliver

aue people (album1): 1

FX: "done"="finished": 1

FX: "Jingle Bells": 1

FX: "ollie ollie oxen free": 1

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

The Totally Official Boink Home Page: 1

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

:oliver1

Unedited list of search results: 1

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

:Olivier

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

:olla

FX: "O.K.": 1

:ollie

RH_wotd ollie ollie oxen free: 2

wwwords Ollie ollie oxen free: 2

FX: "ollie ollie oxen free": 9

FX: Table of Contents: 2

Fast FAQ: Table of Contents: 2

fast_faq_toc.html: 2

Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 2

:ollie ollie oxen free

RH_wotd ollie ollie oxen free: 1

wwwords Ollie ollie oxen free: 1

:Olson

Unedited list of search results: 1

:Olympians

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

:Olympics

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

:Omelet

Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 4

:Omelette

Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 2

:omens

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

:omission

UCLE05: John Davies's commentary: 1

:omissions

Isles: SCOTCH. The following is extracted from Mark Israel's FAQ: 1

FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1

:omit

Unedited list of search results: 1

FX: "A, B and C" vs "A, B, and C": 1

FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 1

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

Lawler commas: >>> The facts of the matter are these:: 3

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

IPA II: [*]: 1

IPA I: o: 1

:omits

FX: "A, B and C" vs "A, B, and C": 1

:omitted

Garbl: O: 1

FX: doubling of final consonants before suffixes: 1

FX: names of "&", "@", and "#": 1

FX: "that" vs "which": 2

FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1

FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1

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

Lawler l-sounds: English L sounds: 1

UCLE11: The: 1

Where FAQ?: Partial hypertext FAQ: : 1

:omitting

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

:omnia

FX: "O.K.": 1

:omnibus

wwwords Omnibus: 2

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

FX: Books on phrase origins: 1

FX: Plurals of Latin/Greek words: 1

:omniscient

I before E: Sticking for the moment to the basic rule, : 1

:omphalopsychites

FX: What is the language term for...?: 1

:Omphaloskepsis

wwwords Omphaloskepsis: 2

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