:re-assign

  • FX: Words pronounced differently according to context: 1

    :re-elect

  • Garbl: R: 1

    :re-election

  • Garbl: R: 1

    :re-invention

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

    :re-novelized

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

    :re-opening

  • FX: Guidelines for posting: 1
  • Intro A: Guidelines for posting: 1

    :Re-published

  • UCLE05: John Davies's commentary: 1

    :re-recorded

  • Richard Fontana audio files: 1

    :re-spelled

  • FX: What is "ghoti"? (notes by Jim Scobbie): 1
  • Intro E: What is "ghoti"? (notes by Jim Scobbie): 1

    :reach

  • File Not Found: 2
  • EMorris: B : 1
  • The Rainbow Passage: 1
  • FX: Books on group names: 1
  • FX: "by hook or by crook": 1
  • FX: Gender-neutral pronouns: 1
  • Intro A: Responding: 1
  • Intro B: The a.u.e Audio Archive: 1
  • UCLE10: "Bite the bullet": 1
  • UCLE12: News: 1
  • UCLE13: Custer's last stand: 1
  • UCLE09: Rivers: 1

    :reachable

  • FX: "by hook or by crook": 1

    :reached

  • Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 1
  • Intro G: Intro G: Where is the FAQ?: 1
  • IPA II: Slashes or square brackets?: 1
  • IPA I: Slashes or square brackets?: 1

    :reaches

  • FX: Online usage guides: 1
  • UCLE11: The: 1

    :reaching

  • FX: "hopefully", "thankfully": 1
  • UCLE15: The Tooth Fairy: 1

    :reacting

  • Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 1

    :reaction

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

    :reactionary

  • Common errors: R: 1
  • FX: "beg the question": 1

    :reactive

  • Common errors: R: 1

    :READ

  • UCLE12: News: 1

    :read

  • wwwords Read the riot act: 1
  • Common errors: Echo of Index to Articles at www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/: 1
  • Autism and Daniel McGrath: 1
  • Usenet Docs: Hyperlinks to Official Usenet Documents: 3
  • Unedited list of search results: 2
  • Audio: Other Sound Files: 1
  • awwy_K: 'Word With You' list for letter K: 1
  • awwy_R: 'Word With You' list for letter R: 1
  • awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1
  • awwy_X: 'Word With You' list for letter X: 1
  • FX: "a"/"an" before abbreviations: 1
  • FX: Books on Britishisms, Canadianisms, etc.: 1
  • FX: "catch-22": 1
  • FX: Commonest words: 1
  • FX: Guidelines for posting: 1
  • FX: "hooker": 1
  • FX: "O.K.": 1
  • FX: Online dictionaries: 2
  • FX: Preposition at end: 3
  • FX: Related newsgroups: 1
  • FX: "SOS": 1
  • FX: "that" vs "which": 3
  • FX: When to use "the": 1
  • Description of FAQ maintenance: 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
  • Lawler commas: >>> The facts of the matter are these:: 1
  • Lawler eclectic: Fantasy and Science Fiction : 1
  • Lawler gotten: Gotten vs. Got: 1
  • Lawler hadve: I suspect much of the rancor that greets spellings of had've is: 1
  • Lawler headline: Headline grammar: 1
  • Lawler indian: Indian English: 1
  • 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: 3
  • Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 2
  • Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 3
  • Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 1
  • Lawler vehicle: "vehicle": 1
  • Lawler vowels: Vowels Before R: 1
  • Intro A: Dealing with unwanted postings: 1
  • Intro A: Guidelines for posting: 1
  • Intro A: Newcomers to the Net: 1
  • Intro A: Responding: 1
  • Intro A: WELCOME TO alt.usage.english!: 1
  • Intro D: "A" or "an": 1
  • Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 3
  • Intro F: Table of major headings:: 1
  • IPA II: The sounds in the column headed 'IPA sounds' have been copied with permission: 1
  • IPA II: Slashes or square brackets?: 1
  • IPA I: The sounds in the column headed 'IPA sounds' have been copied with permission: 1
  • IPA I: Slashes or square brackets?: 1
  • IPA I: Let's get started!: 2
  • IPA I: Writing ASCII IPA: 2
  • boink: 1
  • Emphasis quotes: Use of Quotation Marks for Emphasis: 2
  • Supp: Grammars: 1
  • Supp: Table of major headings:: 1
  • Posting frequencies: Tabulation of user names with over 50 postings in the past four years: 2
  • UCLE14: Cripplegate and Crutched: 1
  • UCLE02: The history of ucle: 1
  • UCLE03: Lindsay: 4
  • UCLE09: “It’s: 1
  • Announcement of creation of uk.culture.language.english: 1

    :Read the riot act

  • wwwords Read the riot act: 1

    :readable

  • Resources: Phonetic alphabets : 1
  • Lawler booklist: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 4
  • Lawler modals: English Modals: 1
  • UCLE02: The history of ucle: 1
  • Announcement of creation of uk.culture.language.english: 1

    :reader

  • Wilton: Wilton's Etymology Page: 1
  • FX: "impact"="to affect": 1
  • FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 1
  • Description of FAQ maintenance: 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
  • Lawler commas: The intonation curve is (roughly) up-down-back.up, graphically something: 2
  • Lawler eclectic: Texts, and like that: 1
  • Lawler only: "only": 1
  • Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1
  • Lawler striddly: striddly: 1
  • IPA II: Some U.S. speakers do not distinguish between "Mary",: 1
  • IPA II: Slashes or square brackets?: 1
  • IPA I: Among those who use the same vowel in 'Mary', 'merry', and 'marry', not all of : 1
  • IPA I: Slashes or square brackets?: 1
  • Emphasis quotes: Use of Quotation Marks for Emphasis: 1
  • Supp: About this File: 1
  • Supp: Grammars: 1
  • UCLE05: What’s: 1

    :reader's

  • FX: "fuck": 1
  • FX: General reference: 1
  • FX: words ending in "-gry": 1
  • Lawler gonna: gonna: 1

    :readers

  • AUE Logo: Notes about the Totally Official AUE Logo: 1
  • FX: "functionality": 1
  • FX: Guidelines for posting: 2
  • FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 4
  • FX: troll: 1
  • FX: What is the language term for...?: 1
  • Description of FAQ maintenance: 2
  • Lawler a-an: A or An Historical Novel?: 1
  • Lawler commas: The intonation curve is (roughly) up-down-back.up, graphically something: 1
  • Lawler enghist: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 1
  • Lawler only: "only": 1
  • Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 2
  • Intro A: Guidelines for posting: 2
  • Intro A: Responding: 1
  • Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 1
  • IPA II: Affricates, diphthongs and triphthongs:: 1
  • IPA II: The reference to 'Chicago pop' first appeared in Mark Israel's: 1
  • IPA I: Affricates, diphthongs and triphthongs: 1
  • IPA I: The reference to 'Chicago pop' first appeared in Mark Israel's: 1
  • UCLE03: Lindsay: 1
  • UCLE03: Tee Shirts: 1

    :Readies

  • UCLE14: Slang Names for British Currency: 1

    :readily

  • FX: [Prefatory remarks]: 1
  • FX: Words pronounced differently according to context: 1
  • Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 1

    :reading

  • Wilton: Wilton's Etymology Page: 1
  • FX: "done"="finished": 1
  • FX: spaces between sentences: 2
  • Lawler a-an: A or An Historical Novel?: 1
  • Lawler booklist: Books on English, Language, and Linguistics: 1
  • Lawler commas: Commas: 3
  • Lawler commas: >>> The facts of the matter are these:: 1
  • Lawler eclectic: Fantasy and Science Fiction : 1
  • Lawler enghist: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 5
  • Lawler itsraining: "It" in "It's raining": 1
  • Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 1
  • Lawler lingmarks: Frequently Asked Questions about English grammar and usage, Series 1 and 2by (* ahem *) John Lawler: 1
  • Lawler phrasal: Phrasal Verbs: 1
  • Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 2
  • Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1
  • IPA I: Let's get started!: 1
  • UCLE03: Lindsay: 1
  • UCLE05: What’s: 2
  • UCLE06: Rhetorical vocabulary: 1
  • UCLE07: Some significant numbers from literature and literary criticism: 1

    :READING

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

    :readjust

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

    :readopted

  • FX: "more/most/very unique": 1

    :reads

  • FX: "bug"="defect": 1
  • FX: "politically correct": 1
  • Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1

    :ready

  • Early Alex: 1
  • Garbl: A: 1
  • FX: "the whole nine yards": 1
  • FX: "whole cloth" (notes by Ellen Rosen): 1
  • Lawler hadve: hadn't've: 2
  • Lawler writing: Literacy: 1
  • summer: 2

    :ready-made

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

    :ready-mix

  • FX: "the whole nine yards": 1
  • Intro C: "whole nine yards": 1

    :Reagan

  • Lawler equally: "equally" and comparatives: 2

    :real

  • RH_wotd real McCoy: 1
  • wwwords Real McCoy, the: 1
  • wwwords Real: 2
  • Common errors: R: 1
  • EMorris: C : 1
  • EMorris: R : 1
  • Comments on a proposal for reformed English spelling: 1
  • Wilton: Wilton's Etymology Page: 1
  • Unedited list of search results: 2
  • Audio: Welcome to the: 2
  • awwy_A: 'Word With You' list for letter A: 1
  • awwy_E: 'Word With You' list for letter E: 1
  • awwy_M: 'Word With You' list for letter M: 2
  • awwy_R: 'Word With You' list for letter R: 1
  • awwy_W: 'Word With You' list for letter W: 1
  • Showing variation of formants of [i:] with context: 2
  • FX: "Eskimo": 1
  • FX: "Go figure": 1
  • FX: "Illegitimis non carborundum": 1
  • FX: "less" vs "fewer": 1
  • FX: "titsling"/"brassiere": 1
  • Lawler bring: Bring vs Take: 1
  • Lawler eclectic: Science  What you need in order to have Science Fiction: 1
  • Lawler enghist: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 1
  • Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 1
  • Lawler infinite: English and Infinity: 5
  • Lawler lingmarks: Miscellaneous: 1
  • Lawler lingmarks: Languages in General: 1
  • Lawler modals: There is also another opposition among the formal auxiliaries, between: 1
  • Lawler only: "only": 1
  • Lawler quote: "Quote, Unquote": 1
  • Lawler reams: Reams: 1
  • Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 4
  • Lawler they: He, she, they?: 1
  • Lawler they: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 1
  • Lawler truly: Canadian and American Raising: 1
  • Lawler zilch: zilch: 1
  • Intro C: "exception proves the rule": 1
  • Intro C: words ending in "-gry": 1
  • boink: 1
  • UCLE03: Lindsay: 1

    :real McCoy

  • RH_wotd real McCoy: 1

    :Real McCoy, the

  • wwwords Real McCoy, the: 1

    :real-life

  • Lawler ross: Ross Constraints: 1
  • Intro B: Sites on words and language:: 1

    :realaudio

  • Lawler eclectic: Government and other information: 2

    :reales

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

    :realise

  • FX: I before E except after C (notes by Mark Wainwright): 1
  • Intro E: I before E except after C (based on notes by Mark Wainwright): 1

    :realised

  • FX: "mouses" vs "mice": 1

    :realising

  • FX: Preposition at end: 1

    :realistically

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

    :realities

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

    :reality

  • wwwords Reality fighting: 1
  • Unedited list of search results: 1
  • FX: "crap": 1
  • Lawler booklist: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 1
  • Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 2
  • Lawler reams: Reams: 1
  • Lawler they: He, she, they?: 1
  • summer: 1

    :Reality fighting

  • wwwords Reality fighting: 1

    :realize

  • Comments on a proposal for reformed English spelling: 1
  • Unedited list of search results: 1
  • Lawler smith: Henry Lee Smith: 1

    :realized

  • Lawler equally: "equally" and comparatives: 1

    :realizes

  • Lawler ross: Ross Constraints: 1

    :really

  • Stephen Toogood's explanation of the paddle: 1
  • Common errors: R: 1
  • Garbl: R: 1
  • Lawler Index: Frequently Asked Questions about English, Series 1 and 2: 1
  • Lawler Index: How Canadians pronounce 'house'.: 1
  • Unedited list of search results: 2
  • Southern speaker's description of his speech: 1
  • Posting History: Note B:: 1
  • awwy_B: 'Word With You' list for letter B: 1
  • awwy_W: 'Word With You' list for letter W: 1
  • Resources: Rhetoric vocabulary : 1
  • FX: "catch-22": 1
  • FX: Guidelines for posting: 2
  • FX: "I won't mention...": 3
  • FX: "less" vs "fewer": 1
  • FX: "like" vs "such as": 1
  • FX: "merkin" (notes by Michael B. Quinion and Ruth Bygrave): 1
  • FX: "spoonerism": 1
  • FX: ", vs ,": 1
  • FX: What is "ghoti"? (notes by Jim Scobbie): 1
  • FX: "whole cloth" (notes by Ellen Rosen): 1
  • Lawler a-an: A or An Historical Novel?: 1
  • Lawler asfaras: As far as ... goes/is concerned: 1
  • Lawler booklist: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 1
  • Lawler comma: Commas again: 1
  • Lawler commas: Commas: 2
  • Lawler complmnt: Object Complements: 2
  • Lawler correct: "Correctness": 1
  • Lawler eclectic: Gateways: 1
  • Lawler eclectic: Texts, and like that: 1
  • Lawler enghist: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 3
  • Lawler equally: "equally" and comparatives: 2
  • Lawler extrapos: --- Followup --: 3
  • Lawler gotten: Gotten vs. Got: 1
  • Lawler hafta: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 1
  • Lawler indian: Indian English: 1
  • Lawler infinite: English and Infinity: 1
  • Lawler itsraining: "It" in "It's raining": 3
  • Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 2
  • Lawler l-sounds: English L sounds: 1
  • Lawler l-sounds: >> For instance: English has only one /l/ phoneme, but it has: 1
  • Lawler lingmarks: Books and Journals  A very small sample of what's out there: 1
  • Lawler modals: There is also another opposition among the formal auxiliaries, between: 1
  • Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 1
  • Lawler npislands: News Item: 1
  • Lawler only: "only": 1
  • Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 1
  • Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 3
  • Lawler quote: "Quote, Unquote": 2
  • Lawler schwa: Schwa and Central Vowels: 1
  • Lawler sig: Maybe the horse will sing: 1
  • Lawler smith: Henry Lee Smith: 1
  • Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1
  • Lawler tense: Tense and related topics: 2
  • Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 6
  • Lawler they: He, she, they?: 3
  • Lawler they: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 2
  • Lawler truly: Canadian and American Raising: 1
  • Lawler vowels: Where I grew up (in DeKalb, IL, 100 km W of Chicago) Mary,: 1
  • Lawler whom: Who(m): 2
  • Lawler writing: Literacy: 1
  • Intro A: Guidelines for posting: 2
  • Intro B: Sites on words and language:: 1
  • Intro D: "Gotten": 1
  • Intro E: What is "ghoti"? (notes by Jim Scobbie): 1
  • IPA II: A Quick Look:: 1
  • IPA I: A Quick Look:: 1
  • IPA I: Reading ASCII IPA: 2
  • Subjunctive?: Subjunctive: 1
  • summer: 1
  • UCLE12: News: 2
  • UCLE09: “Bloody”: 1

    :realm

  • Lawler canthelp: Can't Help (But) ...: 1
  • Lawler tense: Tense and related topics: 1
  • Lawler they: He, she, they?: 1
  • Lawler they: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 2
  • UCLE07: Some significant numbers from literature and literary criticism: 1

    :realms

  • Lawler they: He, she, they?: 2

    :Realpolitik

  • RH_wotd Realpolitik: 2

    :realtor

  • Common errors: R: 1
  • Garbl: R: 1
  • EMorris: R : 1
  • FX: trademarks: 1

    :ream

  • Lawler reams: Reams: 5

    :reams

  • Lawler reams: Reams: 5

    :reaper's

  • FX: "by hook or by crook": 1

    :reappear

  • Audio: Other Sound Files: 1

    :reappearance

  • Intro B: Sites on words and language:: 1

    :rear

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

    :rearrange

  • FX: "It's me" vs "It is I": 1
  • Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 1
  • UCLE13: "Rearranging deck chairs: 1

    :rearranged

  • FX: Preposition at end: 1

    :rearrangement

  • Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 1

    :reason

  • Common errors: R: 1
  • Garbl: F: 1
  • Garbl: R: 1
  • Unedited list of search results: 1
  • Richard Fontana audio files: 1
  • WWYou: This file has been adapted: 1
  • FX: "catch-22": 2
  • FX: "done"="finished": 1
  • FX: double "is": 1
  • FX: "SOS": 1
  • FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 2
  • FX: "try and", "be sure and", "go" + verb: 1
  • FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1
  • FX: Why do we say "30 years old", but "a 30-year-old man"?: 1
  • Description of FAQ maintenance: 1
  • Fast FAQ: A faster way to access items in the AUE FAQ: 1
  • Lawler buoy: Aural and Oral, Boy and Buoy: 1
  • Lawler commas: >>> The facts of the matter are these:: 1
  • Lawler complmnt: Object Complements: 1
  • Lawler gonna: gonna: 1
  • Lawler hafta: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 1
  • Lawler indian: Indian English: 2
  • Lawler infinite: English and Infinity: 1
  • Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 2
  • Lawler l-sounds: English L sounds: 2
  • Lawler only: "only": 1
  • Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 2
  • Lawler quote: "Quote, Unquote": 1
  • Lawler reams: Reams: 1
  • Lawler sig: Maybe the horse will sing: 1
  • Lawler tense: Tense and related topics: 1
  • Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 3
  • Lawler they: He, she, they?: 1
  • Lawler they: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 1
  • Lawler vowels: Vowels Before R: 1
  • Lawler writing: Literacy: 1
  • Lawler zilch: zilch: 1
  • Interface: Implementation Notes: 1
  • Intro D: Why do we say "30 years old", but "a 30-year-old man"?: 1
  • Intro E: Isn't spelling reform a good idea?: 1
  • IPA II: IPA Chart Revision Date:: 1
  • IPA I: Note A: 1
  • UCLE12: News: 1
  • UCLE14: Cripplegate and Crutched: 1
  • UCLE03: Lindsay: 1
  • UCLE05: What’s: 1
  • UCLE09: Rivers: 1
  • What's new?: History of Changes at the AUE Web Site: 1

    :reasonable

  • FX: Repeated words after abbreviations: 1
  • FX: "shall" vs "will", "should" vs "would": 1
  • FX: spaces between sentences: 1
  • FX: What is "ghoti"? (notes by Jim Scobbie): 1
  • Lawler hadve: hadn't've: 1
  • Lawler itsraining: "It" in "It's raining": 1
  • Lawler lingmarks: One can already, for instance, read the: 1
  • Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 1
  • IPA I: There is no ASCII IPA symbol for the IPA 180-degree-rotated : 1
  • UCLE15: The Tooth Fairy: 1

    :reasonably

  • Initialisms that have been used in AUE: 1
  • FX: spaces between sentences: 1
  • Lawler eclectic: Fantasy and Science Fiction : 1
  • Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1
  • Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 1

    :reasoning

  • Lawler tense: Tense and related topics: 1

    :reasons

  • File Not Found: 1
  • FX: "Go figure": 1
  • Lawler aluminum: Alumin(i)um: 1
  • Lawler commas: Commas: 1
  • Lawler enghist: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 2
  • Lawler enghist: >Your example of English and Caxton print shop goes a long way to convince: 1
  • Lawler infinite: English and Infinity: 2
  • Lawler lingmarks: Computational Linguistics Extremely: 1
  • Lawler reams: Reams: 2
  • Lawler schwa: Schwa and Central Vowels: 1
  • Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1
  • Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 1
  • Lawler vowels: Vowels Before R: 1
  • UCLE13: Waterloo: 1
  • UCLE03: Lindsay: 1
  • What's new?: History of Changes at the AUE Web Site: 1

    :reassurance

  • Lawler bring: Bring vs Take: 1

    :reassure

  • Intro A: Dictionary Definitions: 1

    :reassuring

  • FX: "impact"="to affect": 1

    :rebarbative

  • RH_wotd rebarbative: 2

    :Rebecca

  • Symposium I: The alt.usage.english London Symposium: 2

    :rebelling

  • Common errors: R: 1

    :rebels

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

    :rebus

  • FX: Plurals of Latin/Greek words: 1
  • FX: What is the language term for...?: 1

    :rebut

  • Common errors: R: 1

    :rebuttal

  • Comments on a proposal for reformed English spelling: 1
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