: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
  • 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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