:Otaqui

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

    :Otchipwe

  • FX: "Eskimo": 1

    :other

  • wwwords Waiting for the other shoe to drop: 1
  • The AUE Photo Gallery: 2
  • Common errors: Supplementary Pages : 1
  • Garbl: Garbl's Editorial Style Manual -- Contents: 1
  • Garbl: E: 1
  • Lawler Index: Frequently Asked Questions about English, Series 1 and 2: 1
  • Lawler Index: The schwa and other central vowels.: 1
  • Autism and Daniel McGrath: 1
  • EMorris: O : 1
  • Unedited list of search results: 1
  • Audio: Menu of Sound Files: 1
  • The North Wind and the Sun: 2
  • The Rainbow Passage: 1
  • Posting History: Explanatory Remarks: 1
  • AUE Logo: Notes about the Totally Official AUE Logo: 1
  • awwy_D: 'Word With You' list for letter D: 1
  • awwy_G: 'Word With You' list for letter G: 1
  • awwy_I: 'Word With You' list for letter I: 1
  • awwy_P: 'Word With You' list for letter P: 1
  • awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1
  • Resources: Collections of Web links : 1
  • Resources: Discussion groups, Usenet group Websites : 1
  • Resources: �������� 3. The URL: 1
  • Resources: Lexicons : 1
  • Resources: Phonetic alphabets : 1
  • Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 4
  • Isles: NORTHERN IRELAND   This is not the place to go into: 1
  • Isles: SCOTCH.  The following is extracted from Mark Israel's FAQ: 2
  • FX: "all ... not": 1
  • FX: "alumin(i)um" (notes by Keith Ivey): 2
  • FX: "A number of...": 1
  • FX: "beg the question": 2
  • FX: "billion": a U.K. view: 1
  • FX: "bloody": 3
  • FX: Books on group names: 1
  • FX: "Break a leg!": 1
  • FX: "by hook or by crook": 1
  • FX: "catch-22": 1
  • FX: Commonest words: 1
  • FX: "could care less": 1
  • FX: "cut the mustard": 1
  • FX: Dictionaries: 1
  • FX: "different to", "different than": 1
  • FX: Does the next millennium begin in 2000 or 2001?: 1
  • FX: "done"="finished": 1
  • FX: Do publishers put false info in dictionaries to catch plagiarists?: 1
  • FX: "dressed to the nines": 1
  • FX: "ebonics": 1
  • FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 3
  • FX: "Eskimo": 2
  • FX: etymologies of personal names: 1
  • FX: "flammable": 2
  • FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 1
  • FX: "fuck": 1
  • FX: Gender-neutral pronouns: 1
  • FX: "God rest you merry, gentlemen": 2
  • FX: "Go figure": 1
  • FX: Guidelines for posting: 1
  • FX: How do Americans pronounce "dog"?: 1
  • FX: How do you spell "e-mail"?: 1
  • FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 2
  • FX: I before E except after C (notes by Mark Wainwright): 4
  • FX: "in like Flynn": 1
  • FX: "ISO" by Mark Brader: 1
  • FX: "It's me" vs "It is I": 3
  • FX: "-ize" vs "-ise": 2
  • FX: Joke about step-by-step spelling reform: 1
  • FX: "like" vs "such as": 1
  • FX: "more/most/very unique": 1
  • FX: names of "&", "@", and "#": 2
  • FX: Online dictionaries: 2
  • FX: "pie-shaped": 1
  • FX: Preposition at end: 2
  • FX: provenance of English vocabulary (notes by Lucia Engkent): 1
  • FX: "put in one's two cents' worth": 1
  • FX: "quality": 1
  • FX: Related newsgroups: 4
  • FX: rhotic vs non-rhotic, intrusive "r": 1
  • FX: "Scotch": 1
  • FX: "SOS": 2
  • FX: "spit and image"/"spitting image": 1
  • FX: split infinitive: 2
  • FX: "spoonerism": 2
  • FX: Table of Contents: 1
  • FX: "that" vs "which": 2
  • FX: "The die is cast.": 1
  • FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 1
  • FX: the the "hoi polloi" debate: 1
  • FX: "tip": 1
  • FX: "titsling"/"brassiere": 1
  • FX: "to call a spade a spade": 1
  • FX: "true fact": 1
  • FX: "try and", "be sure and", "go" + verb: 1
  • FX: typo: 1
  • FX: ", vs ,": 1
  • FX: "wait for the other shoe to drop": 6
  • FX: WELCOME TO ALT.USAGE.ENGLISH!: 1
  • FX: What is the phone number of the Grammar Hotline?: 1
  • FX: What do you call the grass strip between the road and the sidewalk?: 1
  • FX: What will we call the next decade?: 1
  • FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1
  • FX: "wonk" (notes by Fred Shapiro): 1
  • FX: words without vowels: 2
  • FX: words ending in "-gry": 1
  • FX: Words pronounced differently according to context: 1
  • FX: "you saying" vs "your saying": 1
  • Description of FAQ maintenance: 2
  • Fast FAQ: Table of Contents: 1
  • Fast FAQ: A faster way to access items in the AUE FAQ: 1
  • fast_faq_toc.html: 1
  • Genitive: Genitive is not always possessive.: 2
  • Groups: "company is" vs "company are": 2
  • Lawler a-an: A or An Historical Novel?: 1
  • Lawler aluminum: Alumin(i)um: 3
  • Lawler amnt: "amn't": 3
  • Lawler anymore: anymore: 2
  • Lawler asfaras: As far as ... goes/is concerned: 1
  • Lawler booklist: Books on English, Language, and Linguistics: 1
  • Lawler booklist: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 2
  • Lawler bring: Bring vs Take: 2
  • Lawler commas: Commas: 2
  • Lawler commas: The intonation curve is (roughly) up-down-back.up, graphically something: 1
  • Lawler commas: >>> The facts of the matter are these:: 4
  • Lawler complmnt: Object Complements: 3
  • Lawler eclectic: Government and other information: 1
  • Lawler eclectic: Net Searching: 1
  • Lawler enghist: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 2
  • Lawler equally: "equally" and comparatives: 1
  • Lawler extrapos: Extraposition, plus Selected Short Subjects: 2
  • Lawler extrapos: --- Followup --: 2
  • Lawler giveadamn: Give a Damn: 3
  • Lawler gonna: gonna: 3
  • 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: 3
  • Lawler headline: Headline grammar: 1
  • Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 3
  • Lawler indian: Indian English: 3
  • Lawler infinite: English and Infinity: 1
  • Lawler itsraining: "It" in "It's raining": 5
  • 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: 5
  • Lawler l-sounds: English L sounds: 1
  • Lawler l-sounds: >> For instance: English has only one /l/ phoneme, but it has: 3
  • Lawler modals: English Modals: 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: 1
  • Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 5
  • Lawler npislands: News Item: 1
  • Lawler phrasal: Phrasal Verbs: 2
  • Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 1
  • Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 6
  • Lawler quote: "Quote, Unquote": 1
  • Lawler reams: Reams: 3
  • Lawler ross: Ross Constraints: 1
  • Lawler schwa: Schwa and Central Vowels: 1
  • Lawler tense: Tense and related topics: 2
  • Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 8
  • Lawler that: Two kinds of "that-clauses": 1
  • Lawler thehell: Usage of "the hell": 3
  • Lawler they: He, she, they?: 2
  • Lawler truly: Canadian and American Raising: 2
  • Lawler vehicle: "vehicle": 3
  • Lawler verbing: Verbing Nouns: 2
  • Lawler vowels: Vowels Before R: 1
  • Lawler whom: Who(m): 2
  • Lawler writing: Literacy: 2
  • Lawler xmasthat: That vs. Which: 4
  • Lawler xmasthat: There are also two kinds of relative clauses:: 1
  • Lawler zilch: zilch: 1
  • Interface: Which should I use?  Perlfect Search or the Concordance?: 1
  • Interface: Help: 1
  • Intro A: Responding: 1
  • Intro A: WELCOME TO alt.usage.english!: 1
  • Intro B: Acronyms and abbreviations: 1
  • Intro B: Encyclopedias & Search Engines: 1
  • Intro B: Historical English, and English Literature: 2
  • Intro B: The a.u.e Audio Archive: 1
  • Intro B: Word lists: 2
  • Intro C: American: 3
  • Intro C: "O.K.": 1
  • Intro C: words ending in "-gry": 1
  • Intro D: Intro D: Mini-FAQ on Grammar, Usage and Punctuation: 1
  • Intro D: Group nouns -- singular or plural? "company is" -v- "company are": 1
  • Intro D: "It's me" -v- "It is I": 1
  • Intro D: Names for &, @, and #: 1
  • Intro E: I before E except after C (based on notes by Mark Wainwright): 2
  • Intro E: U.S. -v- REST-OF-WORLD ENGLISH: 1
  • Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 3
  • Intro G: Intro G: Where is the FAQ?: 4
  • IPA II: Main Index:: 1
  • IPA II: A Quick Look:: 1
  • IPA II: About this document:: 2
  • IPA II: Credits:: 1
  • IPA II: The [O] sound requires rounded lips, but lips making a: 1
  • IPA II: Many U.S. speakers substitute [@] for [V"], so they would: 1
  • IPA II: ASCII IPA: A modified version having only American examples: 1
  • IPA I: A Quick Look:: 1
  • IPA I: About this document: 2
  • IPA I: Consonants and vowels: 2
  • IPA I: Credits: 1
  • IPA I: Contents: 1
  • IPA I: aU@: 1
  • IPA I: oU: 1
  • IPA I: O: 1
  • IPA I: V": 1
  • IPA I: What is this?: 4
  • IPA I: Writing ASCII IPA: 2
  • boink: 2
  • Emphasis quotes: Use of Quotation Marks for Emphasis: 4
  • Audio recording technique - Some suggestions: 4
  • Run Home Page Search Engine: 1
  • Supp: words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 1
  • Subjunctive?: Subjunctive: 3
  • summer: 1
  • The ucle photo album: 1
  • UCLE10: "Bite the bullet": 1
  • UCLE10: The: 2
  • UCLE11: The: 2
  • UCLE12: News: 4
  • UCLE13: More articles: 1
  • UCLE13: "On the fritz": 1
  • UCLE13: The Ides of March: 1
  • UCLE13: The Curse of Macbeth: 1
  • UCLE13: Waterloo: 1
  • UCLE14: Slang Names for British Currency: 1
  • UCLE15: Round-Robin and: 2
  • UCLE02: The history of ucle: 2
  • UCLE03: Lindsay: 3
  • UCLE05: John Davies's commentary: 1
  • UCLE07: Some significant numbers from literature and literary criticism: 3
  • UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 3
  • UCLE08: The “Fat Lady”: 1
  • UCLE08: “This: 1
  • UCLE09: Anorak: 1
  • Announcement of creation of uk.culture.language.english: 2
  • Where FAQ?: Index: 1

    :Other            950

  • Title: 1

    :other symbols

  • IPA I: Reading ASCII IPA: 1

    :other's

  • Lawler writing: Literacy: 1

    :others

  • aue people (album1): 1
  • Lawler Index: Frequently Asked Questions about English, Series 1 and 2: 1
  • Unedited list of search results: 1
  • Audio: Other Sound Files: 2
  • Isles: BRITISH is the formal designation of the nationality of citizens: 1
  • Isles: BRITISH ISLES.  A geographical term referring to the islands: 1
  • FX: "all ... not": 1
  • FX: "between you and I": 1
  • FX: "billion": a U.K. view: 1
  • FX: Commonest words: 1
  • FX: Dictionaries: 2
  • FX: "flammable": 1
  • FX: Foreign plurals => English singulars: 2
  • FX: "fuck": 1
  • FX: Gender-neutral pronouns: 1
  • FX: "It's me" vs "It is I": 1
  • FX: Origin of the dollar sign (notes by Mark Brader): 1
  • FX: Postfix "not": 1
  • FX: "suck"="be very unsatisfying" by John Davies: 1
  • FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 1
  • FX: ", vs ,": 1
  • Description of FAQ maintenance: 1
  • Lawler a-an: A or An Historical Novel?: 1
  • Lawler aluminum: Alumin(i)um: 1
  • Lawler booklist: Books on English, Language, and Linguistics: 1
  • Lawler buoy: Aural and Oral, Boy and Buoy: 1
  • Lawler commas: >>> The facts of the matter are these:: 1
  • Lawler complmnt: Object Complements: 4
  • Lawler correct: "Correctness": 1
  • Lawler eclectic: Net Searching: 1
  • Lawler enghist: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 2
  • Lawler equally: "equally" and comparatives: 1
  • Lawler giveadamn: Give a Damn: 1
  • Lawler hadve: hadn't've: 2
  • 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: 3
  • Lawler l-sounds: English L sounds: 1
  • Lawler lingmarks: One can already, for instance, read the: 1
  • Lawler phrasal: Phrasal Verbs: 1
  • Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 1
  • Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 4
  • Lawler reams: Reams: 1
  • Lawler smith: Henry Lee Smith: 3
  • Lawler tense: Tense and related topics: 1
  • Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 3
  • Lawler thehell: Usage of "the hell": 1
  • Lawler vehicle: "vehicle": 1
  • Lawler vowels: Vowels Before R: 1
  • Lawler vowels: There are at least 11 phonemically distinct vowels in standard American: 1
  • Interface: Implementation Notes: 1
  • Intro B: Encyclopedias & Search Engines: 1
  • Intro C: "beg the question": 1
  • Intro D: Where to find the big AUE FAQ: 1
  • Intro E: U.S. -v- REST-OF-WORLD ENGLISH: 1
  • IPA I: Reading ASCII IPA: 1
  • boink: 2
  • Emphasis quotes: Use of Quotation Marks for Emphasis: 2
  • UCLE10: British: 1
  • UCLE15: Gossip: 1
  • UCLE09: “It went pear-shaped”: 1

    :OTHERS

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

    :otherwise

  • Audio: Other Sound Files: 1
  • FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 1
  • FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 1
  • FX: trademarks: 1
  • FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 2
  • Lawler hafta: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 1
  • Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 1
  • Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 1
  • Lawler thehell: Usage of "the hell": 1
  • Lawler they: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 2
  • Lawler they: That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 1
  • Lawler verbing: Verbing Nouns: 1
  • Intro C: "obaue" or "ObAUE": 1
  • Intro D: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 2
  • IPA II: The pure sound is heard in French beau /bo/.: 1
  • IPA I: o: 1
  • Supp: What is prescriptivism?: 1

    :Otho

  • Unedited list of search results: 1

    :Otiaq

  • Unedited list of search results: 1

    :OTOH

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

    :Otoh

  • Unedited list of search results: 1

    :Ottawa

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

    :Otto

  • FX: Grammars: 1
  • FX: "O.K.": 1
  • FX: "titsling"/"brassiere": 3
  • Supp: Grammars: 1

    :Otto-von-Guericke-Universität

  • Audio: Other Sound Files: 1

    :oU'mIt

  • FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 1
  • IPA II: [*]: 1

    :ought

  • RH_wotd aught; naught; ought: 1
  • Unedited list of search results: 1
  • FX: Guidelines for posting: 1
  • FX: What is "ghoti"? (notes by Jim Scobbie): 1
  • FX: Words pronounced differently according to context: 1
  • Lawler booklist: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 1
  • Lawler commas: Commas: 1
  • Lawler extrapos: --- Followup --: 1
  • Lawler gonna: gonna: 3
  • Lawler hadve: hadn't've: 1
  • Lawler hafta: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 2
  • Lawler l-sounds: English L sounds: 1
  • Lawler only: "only": 1
  • Lawler tense: Tense and related topics: 1
  • Intro A: Guidelines for posting: 1

    :oughta

  • Lawler gonna: gonna: 2
  • Lawler hafta: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 1

    :Ouija

  • Unedited list of search results: 1

    :oUld

  • FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 1
  • IPA II: [*]: 1

    :ounce

  • FX: "put in one's two cents' worth": 1

    :OUP

  • FX: Books on Britishisms, Canadianisms, etc.: 3
  • FX: Commonest words: 1
  • FX: "done"="finished": 1
  • FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 1
  • FX: sentences grammatical in both Old English and Modern English: 1
  • UCLE15: The Tooth Fairy: 1

    :ours

  • FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1

    :ourself

  • RH_wotd ourself: 2

    :ourselves

  • FX: "merkin" (notes by Michael B. Quinion and Ruth Bygrave): 1
  • The Totally Official Boink Home Page: 1

    :Ousd

  • Unedited list of search results: 1

    :out

  • RH_wotd Dodge, get out of: 1
  • RH_wotd luck out: 1
  • RH_wotd out of pocket: 1
  • wwwords Humble pie: 1
  • wwwords Let the cat out of the bag: 1
  • wwwords Out of sorts: 1
  • wwwords Peter out: 1
  • wwwords Time out of mind: 1
  • wwwords Work cut out: 2

    :OUT

  • UCLE12: News: 6

    :out of pocket

  • RH_wotd out of pocket: 1

    :Out of sorts

  • wwwords Out of sorts: 1

    :out-nitpicking

  • summer: 1

    :out-of-date

  • FX: Online dictionaries: 1

    :out-of-place

  • Emphasis quotes: Use of Quotation Marks for Emphasis: 1

    :outcry

  • FX: "rule of thumb": 1

    :outer

  • Isles: BRITISH ISLES.  A geographical term referring to the islands: 1
  • FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1

    :outfit

  • UCLE12: News: 1

    :outgoing

  • Garbl: O: 1

    :outlaw

  • UCLE13: Calamity Jane: 1

    :outline

  • Resources: Phonetic alphabets : 1
  • summer: 1

    :Outlook

  • Intro A: Responding: 1

    :outnumber

  • UCLE09: Daring: 1

    :outnumbered

  • UCLE13: Waterloo: 1

    :outnumbers

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

    :output

  • Garbl: I: 1
  • Audio: Other Sound Files: 1
  • Description of FAQ maintenance: 1
  • IPA II: The Details:: 1
  • IPA I: Consonants and vowels: 1

    :outrage

  • FX: "outrage": 2
  • FX: Table of Contents: 1
  • Fast FAQ: Table of Contents: 1
  • fast_faq_toc.html: 1
  • Lawler hadve: hadn't've: 1
  • Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 1

    :outrageous

  • Lawler booklist: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 1
  • Lawler enghist: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 3

    :outranks

  • Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 2

    :outre

  • FX: "outrage": 2

    :outset

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

    :outside

  • RH_wotd outside the box thinking: 1
  • Unedited list of search results: 1
  • FX: "billion": a U.K. view: 1
  • FX: "cut to the chase": 1
  • FX: "fuck": 1
  • FX: "functionality": 1
  • FX: "push the envelope": 1
  • FX: "shall" vs "will", "should" vs "would": 1
  • FX: ", vs ,": 1
  • FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1
  • Lawler amnt: "amn't": 1
  • Lawler bring: Bring vs Take: 1
  • Lawler commas: Commas: 1
  • Lawler commas: The intonation curve is (roughly) up-down-back.up, graphically something: 1
  • Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 4
  • Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 1
  • Intro C: American: 1
  • Intro C: "push the envelope": 1
  • UCLE12: News: 5
  • UCLE13: The Curse of Macbeth: 1
  • UCLE09: “Bloody”: 1
  • UCLE09: “Pop: 1

    :outside the box thinking

  • RH_wotd outside the box thinking: 1

    :outsource

  • RH_wotd outsource: 2

    :outstandingly

  • FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1
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