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

:or

RH_wotd thirty or XXX: 1

RH_wotd a or an: 1

RH_wotd swan or swanny: 1

RH_wotd zed or zee: 1

RH_wotd disk or disc: 1

RH_wotd on or off the wagon: 1

RH_wotd by hook or by crook: 1

RH_wotd fish or cut bait: 1

wwwords Come hell or high water: 1

wwwords Never Let a Fool Kiss You, or a Kiss Fool You (book review): 1

wwwords Broadcast or broadcasted?: 1

wwwords In or under the circumstances?: 1

wwwords Is data singular or plural?: 1

wwwords Electrical or electric?: 1

wwwords Spelling words -ise or -ize: 1

wwwords Pence or penny?: 1

wwwords Plusses or pluses?: 1

:OR

Lawler headline: Headline grammar: 1

Lawler xmasthat: That vs. Which: 2

UCLE12: News: 1

:oral

Garbl: O: 1

Lawler Index: 'Boy' rhymes with 'buoy'? 'Aural' 'with aural'?: 1

FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 1

FX: "quiz": 1

FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1

FX: words without vowels: 1

Lawler buoy: Aural and Oral, Boy and Buoy: 6

Lawler comma: Commas again: 2

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

Intro C: What words are their own antonym?: 1

IPA II: The pure sound is heard in French beau /bo/.: 1

IPA I: o: 1

:orange

RH_wotd rhymes for orange: 1

Wilton: Wilton's Etymology Page: 1

Resources: News : 1

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

Lawler amnt: "amn't": 1

:orangen

Lawler amnt: "amn't": 1

:oratio

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

:oration

FX: Words pronounced differently according to context: 1

:orbit

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

:orbital

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

:orchestra

Audio: Other Sound Files: 1

FX: "face the music": 1

:Orchid

Lawler lingmarks: Frequently Asked Questions about English grammar and usage, Series 1 and 2by (* ahem *) John Lawler: 1

:ordain

Supp: What is prescriptivism?: 1

:ORDER

UCLE12: News: 3

:order

File Not Found: 1

Garbl: I: 1

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

Lawler Index: A ceremony of the Academy.: 1

Comments on a proposal for reformed English spelling: 2

Unedited list of search results: 2

Posting History: Comments: 1

awwy_A: 'Word With You' list for letter A: 2

awwy_H: 'Word With You' list for letter H: 2

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

e-mail vs email: e-mail-vs-email.html: 1

Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 8

FX: "A.D.": 1

FX: Books on Britishisms, Canadianisms, etc.: 3

FX: Commonest words: 1

FX: "company is" vs "company are": 1

FX: "cut to the chase": 1

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

FX: How do Americans pronounce "dog"?: 1

FX: "It's me" vs "It is I": 3

FX: Online dictionaries: 1

FX: Postfix "not": 1

FX: rhotic vs non-rhotic, intrusive "r": 1

FX: split infinitive: 1

FX: "that kind of a thing": 1

FX: What words are their own antonym?: 2

FX: "whom": 1

Fast FAQ: A faster way to access items in the AUE FAQ: 2

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

Lawler amnt: "amn't": 1

Lawler booklist: Books on English, Language, and Linguistics: 1

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

Lawler extrapos: Extraposition, plus Selected Short Subjects: 1

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

Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 1

Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 2

Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 2

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

Lawler verbing: Verbing Nouns: 1

Interface: Help: 1

Intro A: Responding: 1

Supp: "SOS": 1

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

Subjunctive?: Subjunctive: 1

UCLE11: The: 1

UCLE13: Custer's last stand: 1

UCLE13: "On the fritz": 2

UCLE14: Cripplegate and Crutched: 1

UCLE03: Tee Shirts: 1

UCLE04: Our Favourite Cultural and Language Links: 1

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

UCLE08: London’s: 1

UCLE09: “Stranger: 1

UCLE09: “Pop: 1

:ordered

Arthur the Rat: 1

Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 1

FX: "A, B and C" vs "A, B, and C": 2

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

FX: "scot-free": 1

UCLE13: Custer's last stand: 1

UCLE13: Waterloo: 2

:ordering

Unedited list of search results: 1

Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 6

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

:orders

Common errors: O: 1

Unedited list of search results: 1

FX: "true fact": 1

Lawler writing: Literacy: 1

The Totally Official Boink Home Page: 1

:ordinal

awwy_N: 'Word With You' list for letter N: 1

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

:ordinance

Common errors: O: 1

:ordinarily

Lawler giveadamn: Give a Damn: 1

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

Lawler l-sounds: English L sounds: 1

Lawler vehicle: "vehicle": 1

:ordinary

wwwords Shilling ordinary: 1

FX: "less" vs "fewer": 1

FX: "true fact": 1

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

Lawler hadve: hadn't've: 1

Lawler hafta: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 1

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

Lawler ross: Ross Constraints: 1

Intro C: "Cold enough to freeze the balls off of a brass monkey": 1

Emphasis quotes: Use of Quotation Marks for Emphasis: 1

Subjunctive?: Subjunctive: 1

:ordnance

Common errors: O: 1

:ordnungsgemaess

FX: "O.K.": 1

:Oregon

Resources: Miscellaneous, not language related : 1

:Oregonian

Resources: News : 1

:Orexin

wwwords Orexin: 2

:Orfu

Unedited list of search results: 1

:organ

FX: trademarks: 1

:organic

wwwords Organic: 2

Common errors: O: 1

:organisation

Resources: Miscellaneous, language related : 1

FX: "ISO" by Mark Brader: 1

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

:organised

Resources: Learning English : 1

:organization

Garbl: O: 1

Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 2

FX: "ISO" by Mark Brader: 3

FX: "rule of thumb": 1

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

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

Intro C: American: 1

IPA II: The sound samples under the heading 'Lausanne sound' are from the Online: 1

IPA I: The sound samples under the heading 'Lausanne sound' are from the Online: 1

Symposium II: The a.u.e Christmas symposium: 1

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

:organization's

FX: "ISO" by Mark Brader: 1

:organizational

Garbl: C: 1

:organizations

Garbl: O: 1

:organize

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

:organized

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

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

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

Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1

:Organogram

wwwords Organogram: 2

:organs

Showing variation of formants of [i:] with context: 1

:organza

FX: trademarks: 1

:Orient

FX: "posh": 2

:Oriental

Garbl: O: 1

FX: "posh": 1

FX: "wog": 1

FX: "wop": 1

:orientate

RH_wotd orientate: 2

Common errors: O: 1

Garbl: O: 1

:Orientated

wwwords Orientated versus oriented: 1

:Orientated versus oriented

wwwords Orientated versus oriented: 1

:oriented

wwwords Orientated versus oriented: 1

Resources: Lexicons : 1

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

Lawler truly: Canadian and American Raising: 1

:origin

Unedited list of search results: 1

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

awwy_C: 'Word With You' list for letter C: 1

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

awwy_G: 'Word With You' list for letter G: 1

awwy_H: 'Word With You' list for letter H: 2

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

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

awwy_U: 'Word With You' list for letter U: 1

Resources: Fun with words : 2

FX: "bloody": 1

FX: "Bob's your uncle": 1

FX: "bug"="defect": 1

FX: "canola": 1

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

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

FX: "Eskimo": 1

FX: "fuck": 1

FX: "full monty": 1

FX: "hell for leather": 1

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

FX: "merkin" (notes by Michael B. Quinion and Ruth Bygrave): 2

FX: "nimrod": 1

FX: "O.K.": 1

FX: "ollie ollie oxen free": 1

FX: Origin of the dollar sign (notes by Mark Brader): 3

FX: "peter out": 1

FX: "pie-shaped": 1

FX: "posh": 1

FX: "rule of thumb": 1

FX: "sincere": 1

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

FX: Table of Contents: 1

FX: "the bee's knees": 1

FX: "the whole nine yards": 2

FX: "titsling"/"brassiere": 1

FX: troll: 1

FX: "widget" (notes by William C. Waterhouse): 1

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

FX: words ending in "-gry": 1

Fast FAQ: Table of Contents: 1

fast_faq_toc.html: 1

Lawler smith: Henry Lee Smith: 1

Lawler they: He, she, they?: 1

Lawler truly: Canadian and American Raising: 1

Intro A: Dictionary Definitions: 1

Intro B: On-line dictionaries: 1

Intro C: Intro C: Mini-FAQ on Words and Phrases: 1

Intro C: "Cold enough to freeze the balls off of a brass monkey": 1

Intro C: "full monty": 1

Intro C: "whole nine yards": 1

Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 1

Supp: Word origins: 1

summer: 1

UCLE10: "Bite the bullet": 1

UCLE14: Cripplegate and Crutched: 1

UCLE15: The Tooth Fairy: 1

UCLE05: What’s: 1

UCLE09: “It went pear-shaped”: 2

UCLE09: “Pop: 1

:original

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

Unedited list of search results: 1

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

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

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

awwy_H: 'Word With You' list for letter H: 1

awwy_I: 'Word With You' list for letter I: 1

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

awwy_N: 'Word With You' list for letter N: 1

awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 2

Showing variation of formants of [i:] with context: 1

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

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

FX: Books on usage: 2

FX: "Caesarean section": 1

FX: "ebonics": 1

FX: "Elementary, my dear Watson!": 1

FX: E-prime: 1

FX: "Eskimo": 1

FX: "Jingle Bells": 1

FX: Joke about step-by-step spelling reform: 1

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

FX: "more than you can shake a stick at": 1

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

FX: "ollie ollie oxen free": 1

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

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

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

FX: words ending in "-gry": 1

Fast FAQ: A faster way to access items in the AUE FAQ: 2

Lawler aluminum: Alumin(i)um: 1

Lawler comma: Commas again: 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 extrapos: --- Followup --: 7

Lawler gonna: gonna: 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 npi: Negative Polarity Items: 1

Lawler only: "only": 1

Lawler ross: Ross Constraints: 2

Intro E: Humorous poems about spelling: 2

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

The Totally Official Boink Home Page: 1

Showing variation of formants of [i:] with context: 1

UCLE03: Lindsay: 1

UCLE05: John Davies's commentary: 2

UCLE06: Rhetorical vocabulary: 1

Where FAQ?: Index: 1

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

:originally

Audio: Welcome to the: 1

Southern speaker's description of his speech: 1

Resources: Phonetic alphabets : 1

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

FX: "canola": 2

FX: "catch-22": 1

FX: "copacetic": 1

FX: "could care less": 2

FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 2

FX: "freeway": 1

FX: How reliable are dictionaries?: 1

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

FX: "Jingle Bells": 1

FX: Online usage guides: 1

FX: Origin of the dollar sign (notes by Mark Brader): 2

FX: "quality": 1

FX: "Scotch": 1

FX: Subjunctive: 1

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

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

FX: "you saying" vs "your saying": 1

Lawler gonna: gonna: 1

Lawler reams: Reams: 2

Lawler smith: Henry Lee Smith: 1

Lawler vowels: Vowels Before R: 1

UCLE15: Gossip: 1

Where FAQ?: Full FAQ with internal links:: 1

:originated

Comments on a proposal for reformed English spelling: 1

Explanation of Search Criteria: 1

FX: "could care less": 1

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

FX: "Enquiring minds want to know." (notes by James Kiso): 1

FX: "fall off a turnip truck": 1

FX: "Get the lead out": 1

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

FX: "Illegitimis non carborundum": 1

FX: "in like Flynn": 1

FX: "It needs cleaned": 1

FX: "Let them eat cake!": 1

FX: "loo": 1

FX: "more than you can shake a stick at": 1

FX: "sirloin"/"baron of beef": 1

FX: WELCOME TO ALT.USAGE.ENGLISH!: 1

Intro A: WELCOME TO alt.usage.english!: 1

Intro C: "obaue" or "ObAUE": 1

Supp: What is prescriptivism?: 1

UCLE15: The Tooth Fairy: 1

UCLE05: What’s: 1

:originator

Audio: Other Sound Files: 1

:origins

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

Lawler Index: Origin, spelling, and pronunciation of alumnin(i)um.: 1

Unedited list of search results: 1

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

awwy_C: 'Word With You' list for letter C: 1

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

awwy_E: 'Word With You' list for letter E: 2

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

awwy_H: 'Word With You' list for letter H: 3

awwy_L: 'Word With You' list for letter L: 1

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

awwy_N: 'Word With You' list for letter N: 1

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

awwy_P: 'Word With You' list for letter P: 3

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

awwy_T: 'Word With You' list for letter T: 1

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

Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 1

FX: "bloody": 1

FX: Books on phrase origins: 6

FX: "Break a leg!": 1

FX: "Caesarean section": 1

FX: "copacetic": 1

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

FX: How did "Truly" become a personal name?: 1

FX: "loo": 1

FX: "O.K.": 1

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

FX: "push the envelope": 1

FX: Related newsgroups: 2

FX: Table of Contents: 2

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

FX: "ye"="the": 1

Fast FAQ: Table of Contents: 3

fast_faq_toc.html: 3

Lawler smith: Henry Lee Smith: 1

Intro B: Sites on words and language:: 1

Intro C: "push the envelope": 1

Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 3

Intro F: Word origins: 1

Intro F: Table of major headings:: 1

Supp: Dictionaries: 1

Supp: Table of major headings:: 1

UCLE15: The Tooth Fairy: 2

UCLE16: Hooligan: 1

UCLE05: What’s: 2

UCLE09: “It went pear-shaped”: 1

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

:originsA

FX: Table of Contents: 1

:Orkneys

Isles: BRITISH ISLES. A geographical term referring to the islands: 1

:Orlando

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

:Orleans

FX: "O.K.": 1

:Orlon

FX: trademarks: 1

:ornament

Lawler indian: Indian English: 1

:ornamental

UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 1

:ornamentally

FX: Words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 1

:ornate

UCLE06: Rhetorical vocabulary: 1

:Orne

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

:ornery

RH_wotd ornery: 2

EMorris: O : 1

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

:orphanage

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

:Orrery

wwwords Orrery: 2

:Orrins-Kendall

FX: "O.K.": 1

:Orseman

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

:orses

FX: radio alphabets: 1

:Orsman

Supp: Dictionaries: 1

:Orthodox

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

:orthodoxy

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

:orthogonal

summer: 1

:orthographic

Lawler l-sounds: English L sounds: 1

:orthographs

Lawler they: He, she, they?: 1

:orthography

Lawler Index: Proper use of hyphens: 1

Lawler Index: Commas in English orthography.: 1

Comments on a proposal for reformed English spelling: 4

Lawler enghist: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 4

Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 4

Supp: How to represent pronunciation: 1

:Orthorexia

wwwords Orthorexia: 2

:OS

Website Hits Logger: 38

:Oscar

awwy_C: 'Word With You' list for letter C: 1

awwy_G: 'Word With You' list for letter G: 1

awwy_H: 'Word With You' list for letter H: 1

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

:Oscars

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

awwy_T: 'Word With You' list for letter T: 1

:Oscillon

wwwords Oscillon: 2

:oscilloscope

Audio recording technique - Some suggestions: 1

:oshk

FX: "Eskimo": 1

:OSN

FX: words ending in "-gry": 3

:Ospd

Unedited list of search results: 1

:ossified

Lawler hadve: hadn't've: 1

:ostensible

Lawler commas: Commas: 1

:ostensibly

Lawler they: He, she, they?: 1

Lawler they: -- more followup:: 1

:Ostracism

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

:ostracize

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

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