:slab

  • FX: "pie-shaped": 2

    :slabber

  • UCLE09: Daring: 1

    :slack

  • Lawler modals: There is also another opposition among the formal auxiliaries, between: 1

    :slain

  • UCLE10: British: 1

    :slake

  • UCLE09: Daring: 1

    :slang

  • RH_wotd slang: 2
  • wwwords Slang: 2
  • wwwords Oxford Dictionary of Slang (book review): 1
  • wwwords Slang of Sin (book review): 1
  • wwwords Cassell Dictionary of Slang (book review): 1
  • wwwords Dictionary of Contemporary Slang (book review): 1
  • I before E:      For those people who insist the rule apply only to words where: 2
  • Lawler Index: The slang term 'zilch'.: 1
  • Initialisms that have been used in AUE: 1
  • awwy_B: 'Word With You' list for letter B: 3
  • awwy_C: 'Word With You' list for letter C: 2
  • awwy_F: 'Word With You' list for letter F: 1
  • awwy_G: 'Word With You' list for letter G: 1
  • awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1
  • awwy_T: 'Word With You' list for letter T: 1
  • Resources: Collections of Web links : 1
  • Resources: Lexicons : 1
  • FX: Books on rhyming slang: 5
  • FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 5
  • FX: "fuck": 2
  • FX: "hell for leather": 1
  • FX: "jerry-built"/"jury-rigged": 1
  • FX: "merkin" (notes by Michael B. Quinion and Ruth Bygrave): 1
  • FX: "more than you can shake a stick at": 1
  • FX: "nimrod": 1
  • FX: "O.K.": 1
  • FX: Origin of the dollar sign (notes by Mark Brader): 1
  • FX: "posh": 1
  • FX: "spit and image"/"spitting image": 1
  • FX: "suck"="be very unsatisfying" by John Davies: 1
  • FX: Table of Contents: 1
  • FX: What words are their own antonym?: 4
  • FX: "whole cloth" (notes by Ellen Rosen): 1
  • FX: "wonk" (notes by Fred Shapiro): 1
  • Fast FAQ: Table of Contents: 1
  • fast_faq_toc.html: 1
  • Lawler zilch: zilch: 2
  • Intro A: Dictionary Abbreviations: 1
  • Intro B: On-line dictionaries: 1
  • Intro C: "obaue" or "ObAUE": 1
  • Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 1
  • Supp: Books about words: 1
  • Supp: Dictionaries: 2
  • UCLE14: Slang Names for British Currency: 3
  • UCLE04: Our Favourite Cultural and Language Links: 1
  • UCLE05: What’s: 1
  • UCLE05: John Davies's commentary: 5
  • UCLE09: “Pop: 2

    :Slang of Sin (book review)

  • wwwords Slang of Sin (book review): 1

    :Slangs

  • UCLE05: John Davies's commentary: 1

    :Slanguage

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

    :SLANGUAGE

  • UCLE04: Our Favourite Cultural and Language Links: 1

    :slanted

  • FX: names of "&", "@", and "#": 2

    :slapstick

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

    :slash

  • Common errors: B: 1
  • Explanation of Search Criteria: 2

    :slashed

  • FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 2
  • IPA I: Y: 1

    :slashes

  • J_Lynch: S: 1
  • Comments on a proposal for reformed English spelling: 1
  • IPA II: Main Index:: 1
  • IPA II: Slashes or square brackets?: 2
  • IPA I: Slashes or square brackets?: 2
  • IPA I: Contents: 1
  • IPA I: Writing ASCII IPA: 1

    :slate

  • FX: "scot-free": 1

    :slather

  • UCLE09: Daring: 1

    :slatted

  • FX: "loo": 1

    :slave

  • FX: "politically correct": 1
  • UCLE14: Literary characters who became: 1

    :slavery

  • FX: "O.K.": 1

    :slaves

  • FX: "politically correct": 1
  • UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 1

    :slay

  • UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 1

    :slayer

  • IPA I: aU@: 1

    :slays

  • Our images: 1

    :sleaze

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

    :Sleazy

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

    :Sledd

  • FX: Dictionaries: 1

    :sleech

  • UCLE09: Daring: 1

    :sleep

  • RH_wotd sleep tight: 1
  • wwwords Sleep tight: 1
  • EMorris: S : 2
  • Wilton: Wilton's Etymology Page: 1

    :sleep tight

  • RH_wotd sleep tight: 1
  • wwwords Sleep tight: 1

    :sleeper

  • FX: "wait for the other shoe to drop": 1
  • UCLE12: News: 1

    :sleepers

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

    :sleeping

  • FX: When to use "the": 1
  • UCLE11: The: 1

    :sleeps

  • Lawler ross: Ross Constraints: 5
  • UCLE15: The Tooth Fairy: 2

    :sleeve

  • awwy_H: 'Word With You' list for letter H: 1
  • awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1

    :sleigh

  • FX: "Jingle Bells": 3

    :sleighing

  • FX: "Jingle Bells": 1

    :Sleightholme

  • UCLE12: News: 1

    :slew

  • EMorris: S : 1
  • FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 1
  • FX: Online dictionaries: 1

    :SLHinton17

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

    :slice

  • Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 2
  • FX: "pie-shaped": 1

    :Sliced

  • EMorris: S : 1

    :slices

  • Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 1

    :slicing

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

    :slide

  • Garbl: S: 1

    :slides

  • Lawler l-sounds: English L sounds: 1

    :sliding

  • RH_wotd sliding pond: 1

    :sliding pond

  • RH_wotd sliding pond: 1

    :slight

  • Southern speaker's description of his speech: 1
  • Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 1
  • FX: "to call a spade a spade": 1

    :slightest

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

    :slightly

  • awwy_O: 'Word With You' list for letter O: 1
  • awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1
  • Showing variation of formants of [i:] with context: 3
  • FX: split infinitive: 1
  • FX: words ending in "-gry": 1
  • Lawler anymore: anymore: 1
  • Lawler buoy: Aural and Oral, Boy and Buoy: 1
  • Lawler gotten: Gotten vs. Got: 1
  • IPA I: There is no ASCII IPA symbol for the IPA 180-degree-rotated : 1
  • UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 1

    :Slikker's

  • Where FAQ?: 19 February 1996:: 1
  • Where FAQ?: Index: 1

    :Slim

  • FX: trademarks: 1

    :slime

  • UCLE09: Daring: 1

    :slimy

  • FX: "portmanteau word": 1

    :Sling

  • wwwords Sling one's hook: 1

    :Sling one's hook

  • wwwords Sling one's hook: 1

    :slings

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

    :slip

  • Unedited list of search results: 1
  • UCLE09: Daring: 1

    :slips

  • FX: Guidelines for posting: 1

    :slithy

  • FX: "portmanteau word": 1

    :slitting

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

    :Slmr

  • Unedited list of search results: 1

    :Sloane

  • UCLE09: Rivers: 1

    :slob

  • RH_wotd slob: 2
  • FX: "hopefully", "thankfully": 1
  • UCLE09: Daring: 1

    :slogan

  • awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1
  • FX: "Enquiring minds want to know." (notes by James Kiso): 1
  • FX: "like" vs "as": 1
  • FX: "O.K.": 1
  • Lawler reams: Reams: 1

    :Slogans

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

    :slop

  • UCLE09: Daring: 2

    :Sloper

  • Unedited list of search results: 1

    :sloppy

  • FX: Guidelines for posting: 2
  • Intro A: Guidelines for posting: 2

    :slops

  • FX: "loo": 1

    :slosh

  • UCLE09: Daring: 1

    :slot

  • Resources: Usage, grammar, and style guides : 1
  • Lawler headline: Headline grammar: 1

    :sloth

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

    :slough

  • EMorris: S : 1
  • UCLE09: Daring: 1

    :slow

  • Stephen Toogood's explanation of the paddle: 1
  • Unedited list of search results: 1
  • Lawler they: That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 1

    :slower

  • FX: Words pronounced differently according to context: 1
  • Interface: Which should I use?  Perlfect Search or the Concordance?: 1

    :slowly

  • awwy_M: 'Word With You' list for letter M: 1
  • FX: "hoist with his own petard": 1
  • Lawler hafta: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 1
  • Lawler they: That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 1
  • IPA I: Reading ASCII IPA: 1
  • summer: 1
  • UCLE12: News: 1

    :sludder

  • UCLE09: Daring: 1

    :sludge

  • UCLE09: Daring: 2

    :Slugflation

  • wwwords Slugflation: 2

    :sluice

  • UCLE09: Daring: 1

    :slumgullion

  • UCLE09: Daring: 1

    :slunk

  • UCLE09: Daring: 1

    :slur

  • FX: "to call a spade a spade": 2

    :slurry

  • UCLE09: Daring: 1

    :slush

  • awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1
  • UCLE09: Daring: 1

    :slut

  • RH_wotd slut: 2
  • UCLE09: Daring: 1

    :small

  • The AUE Photo Gallery: 1
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  • Richard Fontana audio files: 1
  • awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1
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  • Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 1
  • FX: "A number of...": 2
  • FX: Commonest words: 1
  • FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 1
  • FX: "less" vs "fewer": 1
  • FX: "mouses" vs "mice": 2
  • FX: Origin of the dollar sign (notes by Mark Brader): 1
  • FX: Spelling reform: 1
  • FX: "suck"="be very unsatisfying" by John Davies: 2
  • FX: "true fact": 2
  • FX: What words are their own antonym?: 2
  • FX: words ending in "-gry": 1
  • Fast FAQ: A faster way to access items in the AUE FAQ: 1
  • Lawler booklist: Books on English, Language, and Linguistics: 1
  • Lawler complmnt: Object Complements: 2
  • Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 1
  • Lawler itsraining: You may have noticed the Sapir quotation in my .sig.: 1
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  • UCLE09: “Pop: 1
  • Where FAQ?: Fast-Access FAQ:: 1

    :smaller

  • FX: "less" vs "fewer": 5
  • Lawler enghist: >Your example of English and Caxton print shop goes a long way to convince: 1
  • IPA II: The Details:: 1
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  • What's new?: History of Changes at the AUE Web Site: 1

    :smart

  • wwwords Smart gun: 1
  • Wilton: Wilton's Etymology Page: 1
  • Unedited list of search results: 1
  • awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1
  • FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 2

    :Smart gun

  • wwwords Smart gun: 1

    :smarter

  • Lawler complmnt: Object Complements: 2

    :SMARTS

  • UCLE12: News: 1

    :Smathers

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

    :smear

  • awwy_P: 'Word With You' list for letter P: 1
  • awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 2
  • awwy_T: 'Word With You' list for letter T: 2

    :smell

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

    :Smerti

  • FX: "SOS": 1

    :smile

  • awwy_M: 'Word With You' list for letter M: 1
  • awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1
  • Lawler zilch: zilch: 1

    :Smiley

  • wwwords Smiley: 2

    :smirch

  • UCLE09: Daring: 1

    :smirk

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

    :smith

  • RH_wotd smith: 2
  • Lawler Index: American linguist Henry Lee Smith.: 1
  • Unedited list of search results: 1
  • FX: Books on Britishisms, Canadianisms, etc.: 1
  • FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 1
  • FX: "O.K.": 1
  • FX: Subjunctive: 1
  • FX: words ending in "-gry": 2
  • Lawler schwa: Schwa and Central Vowels: 1
  • Lawler smith: Henry Lee Smith: 4
  • Posting frequencies: Tabulation of user names with over 50 postings in the past four years: 2
  • UCLE14: Eponymous London Shopkeepers: 1

    :Smith's

  • FX: Related newsgroups: 1
  • Lawler smith: Henry Lee Smith: 1

    :Smithsonian

  • FX: "Eskimo": 1
  • Lawler eclectic: Gateways: 1

    :smog

  • wwwords Gene smog: 1
  • FX: "portmanteau word": 1

    :smoke

  • wwwords Holy smoke: 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_F: 'Word With You' list for letter F: 1
  • awwy_M: 'Word With You' list for letter M: 1
  • awwy_P: 'Word With You' list for letter P: 3
  • awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1
  • FX: "blue moon" (notes by Philip Hiscock): 1
  • FX: "portmanteau word": 1

    :smoked

  • Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 2

    :Smokescreens

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

    :smoking

  • Wilton: Wilton's Etymology Page: 1
  • awwy_F: 'Word With You' list for letter F: 1
  • awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 3

    :smoot

  • RH_wotd smoot: 2

    :Smoothing

  • awwy_B: 'Word With You' list for letter B: 1
  • awwy_L: 'Word With You' list for letter L: 1
  • awwy_M: 'Word With You' list for letter M: 1
  • awwy_O: 'Word With You' list for letter O: 1
  • awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 3
  • awwy_W: 'Word With You' list for letter W: 1

    :Smouch

  • wwwords Smouch: 2

    :Smsg

  • Unedited list of search results: 1

    :Smtp

  • Unedited list of search results: 1

    :Snafu

  • Unedited list of search results: 1

    :snail

  • RH_wotd snail mail: 1

    :snail mail

  • RH_wotd snail mail: 1

    :snake

  • EMorris: S : 1
  • awwy_P: 'Word With You' list for letter P: 1
  • awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1
  • FX: "more than you can shake a stick at": 1
  • Lawler modals: There is also another opposition among the formal auxiliaries, between: 1

    :snake's

  • FX: "the bee's knees": 1

    :Snakes

  • Lawler a-an: A or An Historical Novel?: 1

    :Snap

  • Search: 1

    :Snapper

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

    :snarky

  • RH_wotd snarky: 2

    :snatchers

  • UCLE10: British: 1

    :sneak

  • FX: "jerry-built"/"jury-rigged": 1
  • summer: 1

    :Sneaked

  • EMorris: S : 1

    :sneer

  • Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1
  • Lawler they: He, she, they?: 1

    :sneeze

  • FX: "could care less": 1

    :snews

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

    :snickersnee

  • RH_wotd snickersnee: 2

    :Sniggelty

  • The Totally Official Boink Home Page: 1

    :snip

  • Unedited list of search results: 1
  • Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 1
  • UCLE06: Rhetorical vocabulary: 1

    :sniper's

  • Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 1

    :Snipped

  • Unedited list of search results: 1

    :snippet

  • Intro C: "obaue" or "ObAUE": 1

    :snitch

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

    :SNL

  • FX: Postfix "not": 2

    :snob

  • wwwords Snob: 2
  • EMorris: S : 1
  • FX: "hopefully", "thankfully": 1

    :SNOBOL

  • FX: Repeated words after abbreviations: 2

    :snobs

  • awwy_C: 'Word With You' list for letter C: 1
  • awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 2
  • awwy_W: 'Word With You' list for letter W: 1

    :Snollygoster

  • wwwords Snollygoster: 2

    :snook

  • RH_wotd cock a snook: 1
  • RH_wotd cock a snook: 1
  • RH_wotd cock a snook: 1
  • EMorris: C : 1
  • EMorris: S : 1

    :snooping

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

    :Snopes

  • FX: "the whole nine yards": 1

    :snores

  • UCLE11: The: 1

    :snort

  • FX: "portmanteau word": 1

    :Snortometer

  • wwwords Snortometer: 2

    :snow

  • Unedited list of search results: 1
  • FX: "Eskimo": 1
  • UCLE12: News: 1
  • UCLE09: Daring: 6

    :snowbank

  • FX: "SOS": 1

    :snowfall

  • Garbl: S: 1

    :snowflake

  • Garbl: S: 1

    :snowing

  • FX: What will we call the next decade?: 1

    :snowman

  • Garbl: S: 1

    :snowplow

  • Garbl: S: 1

    :snowshoe

  • FX: "Eskimo": 3

    :snowshoe-netter

  • FX: "Eskimo": 1

    :snowshoes

  • FX: "Eskimo": 3

    :snowstorm

  • Garbl: S: 1

    :snubbed

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

    :Snubs

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

    :snuck

  • Common errors: S: 1
  • EMorris: S : 1

    :snuff

  • RH_wotd snuff: 2
  • RH_wotd snuff (revisited): 1
  • wwwords Up to snuff: 1
  • EMorris: S : 1
  • Wilton: Wilton's Etymology Page: 1
  • awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1
  • awwy_U: 'Word With You' list for letter U: 1

    :snuff (revisited)

  • RH_wotd snuff (revisited): 1

    :snug

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    :So

  • wwwords America In So Many Words (book review): 1
  • wwwords World In So Many Words (book review): 1

    :so-and-so

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

    :so-called

  • FX: "bloody": 1
  • Lawler canthelp: Can't Help (But) ...: 1
  • Lawler l-sounds: English L sounds: 1
  • Lawler lingmarks: One can already, for instance, read the: 1
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  • UCLE09: “It went pear-shaped”: 1

    :soaked

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    :soap

  • wwwords No soap: 1
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  • awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 3
  • awwy_W: 'Word With You' list for letter W: 1

    :soaping

  • awwy_B: 'Word With You' list for letter B: 1
  • awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 1

    :Soar

  • Unedited list of search results: 1

    :sober

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

    :soberly

  • FX: "catch-22": 1
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