:refdesk

  • Resources: Collections of Web links : 1
  • Resources: Miscellaneous, language related : 1
  • Intro B: Encyclopedias & Search Engines: 1

    :refer

  • Common errors: A: 1
  • Garbl: R: 1
  • Isles: NORTHERN IRELAND   This is not the place to go into: 1
  • FX: Books on usage: 1
  • FX: Dictionaries: 3
  • FX: "freeway": 1
  • FX: Gender-neutral pronouns: 1
  • FX: "hooker": 1
  • FX: "in like Flynn": 1
  • FX: "mouses" vs "mice": 1
  • FX: Origin of the dollar sign (notes by Mark Brader): 2
  • FX: "rule of thumb": 1
  • FX: "the whole nine yards": 1
  • FX: typo: 1
  • Description of FAQ maintenance: 1
  • Fast FAQ: A faster way to access items in the AUE FAQ: 1
  • Lawler commas: Commas: 1
  • Lawler extrapos: Extraposition, plus Selected Short Subjects: 1
  • Lawler extrapos: --- Followup --: 1
  • Lawler gonna: gonna: 1
  • Lawler hafta: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 1
  • Lawler headline: Headline grammar: 1
  • 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 npi: Negative Polarity Items: 1
  • Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 2
  • Lawler they: -- more followup:: 1
  • Lawler writing: Literacy: 1
  • Lawler xmasthat: That vs. Which: 2
  • Lawler zilch: zilch: 1
  • Intro A: Dictionary Abbreviations: 1
  • Subjunctive?: Subjunctive: 1
  • UCLE13: Calamity Jane: 2
  • UCLE13: Custer's last stand: 1
  • UCLE13: The Ides of March: 1
  • UCLE13: "Rearranging deck chairs: 1
  • UCLE13: Waterloo: 2
  • UCLE14: Cripplegate and Crutched: 1
  • UCLE14: Literary characters who became: 4
  • UCLE03: Lindsay: 1
  • UCLE09: Holidays: 1
  • UCLE09: Rivers: 2

    :referable

  • Garbl: R: 1

    :referee

  • Yet to come: 1
  • UCLE09: “Up: 1

    :reference

  • wwwords Oxford Pop-up English Language Reference Shelf (CD-ROM review): 1
  • Garbl: I: 1
  • Garbl: M: 1
  • Garbl: W: 1
  • Lawler Index: Reference to an article on 'as far as ... '.: 1
  • Lawler Index: Gender-neutral reference.: 1
  • Initialisms that have been used in AUE: 2
  • awwy_F: 'Word With You' list for letter F: 1
  • Resources: Categories index: 1
  • Resources: Dictionaries : 1
  • Resources: Encyclopedias : 2
  • Resources: Urban legends : 1
  • Resources: Phonetic alphabets : 1
  • Resources: Online reference books : 2
  • Isles: SCOTCH.  The following is extracted from Mark Israel's FAQ: 2
  • FX: "bloody": 1
  • FX: "blue moon" (notes by Philip Hiscock): 1
  • FX: Books on usage: 1
  • FX: Books on group names: 1
  • FX: "bug"="defect": 1
  • FX: "dressed to the nines": 1
  • FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 1
  • FX: E-prime: 1
  • FX: General reference: 2
  • FX: "golf": 1
  • FX: Guidelines for posting: 1
  • FX: "in like Flynn": 1
  • FX: "like" vs "such as": 1
  • FX: "love"="zero": 1
  • FX: Online usage guides: 1
  • FX: Online dictionaries: 1
  • FX: "Scotch": 1
  • FX: Table of Contents: 1
  • FX: "wait for the other shoe to drop": 1
  • FX: words ending in "-gry": 1
  • Description of FAQ maintenance: 2
  • Fast FAQ: Table of Contents: 1
  • fast_faq_toc.html: 1
  • Lawler anymore: anymore: 3
  • Lawler complmnt: Object Complements: 1
  • Lawler eclectic: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/aue/eclectic.html: 2
  • Lawler eclectic: Reference Tools: 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: 2
  • Lawler lingmarks: Net links  Valuable resources.: 1
  • Lawler npislands: News Item: 1
  • Lawler reams: Reams: 1
  • Lawler tense: Tense and related topics: 2
  • Lawler tense: >Just one question: Where does the past perfect ("have gone", "have sung"): 1
  • Lawler that: Two kinds of "that-clauses": 1
  • Lawler they: He, she, they?: 5
  • Intro A: Dictionary Abbreviations: 1
  • Intro A: Guidelines for posting: 1
  • Intro B: Encyclopedias & Search Engines: 2
  • Intro E: What is "ghoti"? (notes by Jim Scobbie): 1
  • Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 1
  • Supp: Grammars: 2
  • UCLE13: The Curse of Macbeth: 1
  • UCLE13: Waterloo: 1
  • UCLE04: Our Favourite Cultural and Language Links: 1
  • UCLE05: What’s: 3
  • UCLE07: Some significant numbers from literature and literary criticism: 3
  • UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 2
  • What's new?: History of Changes at the AUE Web Site: 4

    :referenced

  • FX: Books on group names: 1
  • Lawler booklist: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 1
  • Supp: The organization of this file generally follows that of a hypertext version of Mark : 1

    :references

  • I before E: Exceptions to the rule 'I before E except after C': 1
  • Audio: Other Sound Files: 1
  • Resources: Categories index: 1
  • Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 1
  • FX: "blue moon" (notes by Philip Hiscock): 1
  • FX: "face the music": 1
  • FX: "God rest you merry, gentlemen": 1
  • FX: Online dictionaries: 1
  • FX: words ending in "-gry": 3
  • Lawler bring: Bring vs Take: 1
  • Lawler buoy: Aural and Oral, Boy and Buoy: 1
  • Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 1
  • Lawler modals: English Modals: 2
  • Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1
  • Intro B: Encyclopedias & Search Engines: 1
  • Intro F: Table of major headings:: 1
  • Supp: Grammars: 1
  • Supp: Word origins: 1
  • Supp: Table of major headings:: 1
  • UCLE14: Patriarchs As Bottle Sizes: 1
  • UCLE15: Bonfire: 2
  • UCLE05: Language references: 1
  • UCLE06: Rhetorical vocabulary: 1
  • UCLE07: Some significant numbers from literature and literary criticism: 1
  • Where FAQ?: 2 October 1996:: 1
  • What's new?: History of Changes at the AUE Web Site: 2

    :referent

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

    :referential

  • Lawler itsraining: "It" in "It's raining": 4
  • Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 2

    :referred

  • Resources: Implementation note: : 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: "cut to the chase": 1
  • FX: "Eskimo": 1
  • FX: "freeway": 1
  • FX: "hopefully", "thankfully": 1
  • FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 1
  • FX: Origin of the dollar sign (notes by Mark Brader): 1
  • FX: "put in one's two cents' worth": 1
  • FX: "scot-free": 1
  • FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1
  • Lawler equally: "equally" and comparatives: 1
  • Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 1
  • Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 1
  • Lawler tense: Tense and related topics: 1
  • Intro D: Gender-neutral pronouns -- "he/she" -v- "they": 1
  • Intro D: Group nouns -- singular or plural? "company is" -v- "company are": 1
  • Supp: "SOS": 1
  • UCLE14: Eponymous London Shopkeepers: 1
  • UCLE16: Hooligan: 1

    :referring

  • Isles: BRITISH is the formal designation of the nationality of citizens: 1
  • FX: "by hook or by crook": 1
  • FX: names of "&", "@", and "#": 1
  • FX: "peter out": 1
  • FX: What is "ghoti"? (notes by Jim Scobbie): 1
  • FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1
  • Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 1
  • Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 1
  • Lawler they: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 2
  • Lawler writing: Literacy: 1
  • IPA I: Let's get started!: 1
  • UCLE14: Patriarchs As Bottle Sizes: 1
  • UCLE08: The “Fat Lady”: 1
  • UCLE08: “This: 1

    :refers

  • Resources: �������� 2. The URL in the original list now: 1
  • Resources: �������� 4. The previous URL at the link 'The: 1
  • FX: "cut the mustard": 1
  • FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 1
  • FX: "Take the prisoner downstairs", said Tom condescendingly.: 1
  • FX: When to use "the": 2
  • Lawler amnt: "amn't": 1
  • Lawler comma: Commas again: 1
  • Lawler itsraining: "It" in "It's raining": 1
  • Lawler modals: The canonical paraphrase for will is be going to, idiosyncratically: 1
  • Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 1
  • Lawler striddly: striddly: 1
  • Lawler tense: Tense and related topics: 1
  • Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 2
  • Lawler whom: Who(m): 1
  • Lawler writing: Literacy: 1
  • Interface: Footnote: For small documents, 'search area' may mean the entire document.  For larger : 1
  • Intro C: "whole nine yards": 1
  • UCLE13: Waterloo: 1
  • UCLE14: Cripplegate and Crutched: 1
  • UCLE14: Literary characters who became: 2
  • UCLE08: The “Fat Lady”: 1
  • UCLE08: “This: 1
  • UCLE09: “It went pear-shaped”: 2

    :refine

  • Description of FAQ maintenance: 1

    :refined

  • UCLE08: “This: 1

    :reflect

  • FX: Words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 1
  • Lawler comma: Commas again: 1
  • Lawler commas: >>> The facts of the matter are these:: 1
  • UCLE08: “This: 1

    :reflected

  • FX: Words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 2

    :reflecting

  • UCLE05: John Davies's commentary: 1

    :reflection

  • The Rainbow Passage: 1
  • Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 1

    :reflections

  • The Rainbow Passage: 1
  • FX: "like" vs "such as": 1
  • FX: "quality": 1
  • FX: "the whole nine yards": 1

    :reflects

  • Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 1
  • Lawler reams: Reams: 1
  • Supp: What is prescriptivism?: 1
  • UCLE11: The: 1
  • UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 1

    :Reflexive

  • Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 1

    :refloated

  • Lawler headline: Headline grammar: 1

    :reform

  • Lawler Index: English spelling reform.: 1
  • Unedited list of search results: 1
  • FX: Joke about step-by-step spelling reform: 2
  • FX: Spelling reform: 4
  • FX: Table of Contents: 2
  • FX: What is "ghoti"? (notes by Jim Scobbie): 1
  • Fast FAQ: Table of Contents: 2
  • fast_faq_toc.html: 2
  • Lawler enghist: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 1
  • Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 3
  • Lawler they: He, she, they?: 1
  • Intro E: Intro E: Mini-FAQ on Spelling: 2
  • Intro E: Isn't spelling reform a good idea?: 3
  • Intro E: Joke about step-by-step spelling reform: 1
  • Intro E: What is "ghoti"? (notes by Jim Scobbie): 1
  • Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 2
  • Intro F: Spelling: 1
  • Supp: Spelling: 1

    :reforme

  • FX: "billion": a U.K. view: 1

    :reformed

  • Comments on a proposal for reformed English spelling: 5
  • FX: What is "ghoti"? (notes by Jim Scobbie): 1

    :reformed-spelling

  • Comments on a proposal for reformed English spelling: 1

    :reformers

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

    :reforms

  • Intro E: Joke about step-by-step spelling reform: 1

    :refraction

  • The Rainbow Passage: 1

    :refrain

  • FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 1
  • FX: Gender-neutral pronouns: 1
  • FX: "hopefully", "thankfully": 1

    :refresh

  • UCLE03: Lindsay: 1

    :refreshment

  • UCLE15: Scuttlebutt, Grapevine,: 1

    :refugees

  • FX: "O.K.": 1

    :refusing

  • FX: "I won't mention...": 1

    :refute

  • Common errors: R: 1
  • FX: "catch-22": 1
  • FX: "spit and image"/"spitting image": 1
  • Lawler npislands: News Item: 3
  • Emphasis quotes: Use of Quotation Marks for Emphasis: 1

    :refuted

  • Lawler npislands: News Item: 2

    :regale

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

    :regalia

  • FX: Foreign plurals => English singulars: 1

    :regard

  • Garbl: I: 1
  • Garbl: R: 1
  • Garbl: W: 1
  • awwy_R: 'Word With You' list for letter R: 1
  • FX: "between you and I": 1
  • FX: "less" vs "fewer": 1
  • FX: Plurals of Latin/Greek words: 1
  • Genitive: Genitive is not always possessive.: 1
  • Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 1
  • Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 1
  • Lawler verbing: Verbing Nouns: 1
  • Subjunctive?: Subjunctive: 1

    :regarded

  • Isles: BRITISH ISLES.  A geographical term referring to the islands: 2
  • Isles: BRITON, BRITISHER, BRIT.  None of these nouns is universally: 1
  • Isles: ENGLAND.  The biggest and most populous of the four countries: 1
  • Isles: NORTHERN IRELAND   This is not the place to go into: 1
  • FX: "done"="finished": 1
  • FX: "less" vs "fewer": 2
  • FX: "more/most/very unique": 1
  • FX: Repeated words after abbreviations: 1
  • FX: "suck"="be very unsatisfying" by John Davies: 1
  • IPA II: The reference to 'Chicago pop' first appeared in Mark Israel's: 1
  • IPA I: The reference to 'Chicago pop' first appeared in Mark Israel's: 1
  • Supp: What is prescriptivism?: 1
  • UCLE03: Lindsay: 2
  • UCLE09: “It went pear-shaped”: 1

    :regarding

  • Garbl: R: 1
  • Lawler commas: The intonation curve is (roughly) up-down-back.up, graphically something: 1
  • Lawler hadve: hadn't've: 1
  • Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 1
  • UCLE11: The: 1

    :regardless

  • Unedited list of search results: 1
  • FX: doubling of final consonants before suffixes: 1
  • FX: "Eskimo": 1
  • FX: "flammable": 2
  • FX: ", vs ,": 1
  • Lawler commas: The intonation curve is (roughly) up-down-back.up, graphically something: 1
  • Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1
  • IPA II: Slashes or square brackets?: 1
  • IPA I: Slashes or square brackets?: 1
  • IPA I: What is this?: 1
  • UCLE15: The Tooth Fairy: 1

    :regards

  • Common errors: I: 1
  • Garbl: A: 1
  • summer: 1

    :Regender

  • wwwords Regender: 2

    :Regent

  • UCLE09: Rivers: 1

    :Regent's

  • The Totally Official Boink Home Page: 1

    :Reggae

  • Wilton: Wilton's Etymology Page: 1

    :regiment

  • FX: "face the music": 1
  • FX: Words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 1
  • summer: 1
  • UCLE13: Waterloo: 1

    :region

  • FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1
  • Lawler schwa: Schwa and Central Vowels: 1
  • UCLE10: The: 1

    :regional

  • FX: "go to hell in a handbasket": 1
  • Lawler giveadamn: Give a Damn: 1
  • Lawler modals: English Modals: 1
  • Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 1
  • Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1
  • Intro B: Sites on words and language:: 1
  • Intro G: Intro G: Where is the FAQ?: 1
  • Supp: "anymore" and "any more": 1
  • UCLE03: The: 1

    :regionally

  • FX: What do you call the grass strip between the road and the sidewalk?: 1

    :regions

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

    :register

  • Resources: News : 1
  • FX: "bloody": 2
  • Lawler anymore: anymore: 1
  • UCLE08: Mother Goose: 1

    :registered

  • FX: "canola": 1

    :registration

  • Intro B: Encyclopedias & Search Engines: 1

    :regret

  • Lawler truly: Canadian and American Raising: 1
  • Supp: "miss not having": 1
  • UCLE11: The: 1

    :regretful

  • FX: Subjunctive: 1

    :regretfully

  • Common errors: R: 1

    :regrettably

  • Common errors: R: 1
  • FX: "hopefully", "thankfully": 1

    :regulam

  • FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 4

    :regular

  • Explanation of Search Criteria: 1
  • FX: "blue moon" (notes by Philip Hiscock): 1
  • FX: Postfix "not": 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
  • Lawler amnt: "amn't": 3
  • Lawler bring: Bring vs Take: 1
  • Lawler complmnt: Object Complements: 1
  • Lawler gotten: Gotten vs. Got: 1
  • Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 3
  • Lawler npislands: News Item: 1
  • Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 1
  • Lawler verbing: Verbing Nouns: 1
  • Intro A: WELCOME TO alt.usage.english!: 1
  • Intro D: Why do we say "30 years old", but "a 30-year-old man"?: 1
  • Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 1
  • Intro G: Intro G: Where is the FAQ?: 1
  • boink: 1

    :regularly

  • Wilton: Wilton's Etymology Page: 1
  • Lawler gotten: Gotten vs. Got: 1
  • Lawler l-sounds: English L sounds: 1
  • Lawler truly: Canadian and American Raising: 1
  • Intro A: Newcomers to the Net: 1
  • Intro G: Intro G: Where is the FAQ?: 1
  • UCLE03: Lindsay: 1

    :regulars

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

    :regulating

  • FX: "rule of thumb": 1

    :regulation

  • FX: "rule of thumb": 1

    :regulations

  • FX: "catch-22": 1

    :regurgitate

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

    :rehabilitating

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

    :Rehoboam

  • UCLE14: Patriarchs As Bottle Sizes: 1

    :reIf

  • FX: Words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 2
  • Supp: words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 1

    :reification

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

    :reified

  • Lawler reams: Reams: 1

    :reign

  • Common errors: R: 1
  • UCLE14: Eponymous London Shopkeepers: 1
  • UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 2

    :rein

  • Common errors: R: 1
  • I before E:      With regard to the extension added by some people for "neighbor": 1
  • I before E:      Sticking for the moment to the basic rule, : 1

    :Reine

  • UCLE09: Food: 1

    :reinforced

  • FX: "scot-free": 1

    :reinforcing

  • Lawler l-sounds: English L sounds: 2

    :Reinhardt

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

    :Reinhold

  • Posting frequencies: Tabulation of user names with over 50 postings in the past four years: 2

    :reinterpret

  • FX: "Take the prisoner downstairs", said Tom condescendingly.: 1

    :reinterpreted

  • FX: "ollie ollie oxen free": 1

    :reissued

  • FX: "Jingle Bells": 1

    :reiterate

  • RH_wotd reiterate: 2

    :reject

  • Unedited list of search results: 1
  • awwy_R: 'Word With You' list for letter R: 1
  • FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 1
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