alt.usage.english FAQ concordance for 'sur' onwards

Audio recording technique - Some suggestions: 3

awwy_L: 'Word With You' list for letter L: 1

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

Isles: NORTHERN IRELAND This is not the place to go into: 1

FX: "bloody": 1

FX: "catch-22": 3

FX: Commonest words: 1

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

FX: "Go figure": 1

FX: How did "Truly" become a personal name?: 1

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

FX: Related newsgroups: 1

FX: "SOS": 1

FX: Table of Contents: 1

FX: "try and", "be sure and", "go" + verb: 3

FX: "wait for the other shoe to drop": 1

Fast FAQ: Table of Contents: 1

fast_faq_toc.html: 1

Lawler buoy: Aural and Oral, Boy and Buoy: 1

Lawler comma: Commas again: 2

Lawler commas: The intonation curve is (roughly) up-down-back.up, graphically something: 2

Lawler infinite: English and Infinity: 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 npi: Negative Polarity Items: 1

Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 1

Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 1

Lawler quote: "Quote, Unquote": 1

Lawler reams: Reams: 2

Lawler they: He, she, they?: 1

Lawler they: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 1

Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 1

UCLE15: The Tooth Fairy: 1

UCLE08: London’s: 2

:surely

FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 1

Lawler anymore: anymore: 1

Lawler comma: Commas again: 1

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

Lawler indian: Indian English: 1

Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 1

Lawler sig: Maybe the horse will sing: 1

Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 1

Lawler writing: Literacy: 2

:surface

Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 4

Lawler they: He, she, they?: 1

Subjunctive?: Subjunctive: 1

UCLE11: The: 1

:surfed

Resources: Collections of Web links : 1

:surfeit

I before E: /@/ as in 'bacon' and 'surfeit':: 1

I before E: Sticking for the moment to the basic rule, : 1

I before E: Exceptions to the rule 'I before E except after C': 1

Lawler bring: Bring vs Take: 1

:surfer

Resources: Collections of Web links : 1

summer: 1

:surfing

wwwords Desert surfing: 1

Common errors: S: 1

:surgeon

:Surgeons

awwy_C: 'Word With You' list for letter C: 2

awwy_S: 'Word With You' list for letter S: 6

:surgery

FX: "Caesarean section": 1

:Surinam

FX: "O.K.": 1

:surlonge

FX: "sirloin"/"baron of beef": 1

:surmise

FX: "-ize" vs "-ise": 1

Lawler quote: "Quote, Unquote": 1

:surname

FX: "Caesarean section": 1

FX: names of "&", "@", and "#": 1

FX: "paparazzo": 1

:surnames

UCLE08: “This: 1

:surprise

Garbl: S: 1

The Totally Official Boink Home Page: 1

FX: "Enquiring minds want to know." (notes by James Kiso): 1

FX: "-ize" vs "-ise": 1

FX: "O.K.": 1

Lawler comma: Commas again: 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 tense: >Past tenses:: 1

Lawler thehell: Usage of "the hell": 3

Intro E: Humorous poems about spelling: 1

:surprised

Lawler enghist: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 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 npi: Since you ask, here's a moderately complete list of polarity items,: 1

Lawler thehell: Usage of "the hell": 1

UCLE12: News: 1

:surprises

Lawler bring: Bring vs Take: 1

:surprising

FX: "fall off a turnip truck": 1

FX: "titsling"/"brassiere": 1

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

Lawler amnt: "amn't": 1

Lawler booklist: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 1

Lawler bring: Bring vs Take: 1

Lawler correct: "Correctness": 1

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

Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 1

Lawler that: Two kinds of "that-clauses": 4

:surprisingly

FX: Guidelines for posting: 1

Lawler indian: Indian English: 1

Lawler lingmarks: The Eclectic Company - Language & Linguistics: 1

Lawler modals: English Modals: 1

Intro A: Guidelines for posting: 1

:surprize

FX: "-ize" vs "-ise": 1

:Surrealist

Lawler eclectic: Texts, and like that: 1

:Surrebutter

wwwords Surrebutter: 2

:Surrey

UCLE10: The: 1

:surrounded

Garbl: S: 1

UCLE13: Waterloo: 1

UCLE15: The Tooth Fairy: 1

:surrounding

FX: names of "&", "@", and "#": 1

:survey

Resources: Miscellaneous, language related : 1

FX: Books on usage: 1

FX: "hopefully", "thankfully": 3

FX: words ending in "-gry": 1

UCLE09: “It’s: 1

:survival

FX: "SOS": 1

:survivals

Genitive: Genitive is not always possessive.: 2

:survived

FX: "Caesarean section": 1

:survives

FX: "till"/"until": 1

:surviving

FX: "kangaroo": 1

UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 1

:survivors

UCLE13: "Rearranging deck chairs: 1

:Susan

EMorris: L : 1

:suspect

Audio recording technique - Some suggestions: 1

FX: "go to hell in a handbasket": 1

Lawler commas: >>> The facts of the matter are these:: 1

Lawler complmnt: Object Complements: 1

Lawler infinite: English and Infinity: 1

Lawler quote: "Quote, Unquote": 1

Lawler reams: Reams: 1

Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1

Intro B: Where to find previous postings: 1

UCLE05: John Davies's commentary: 1

UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 1

:suspense

FX: "wait for the other shoe to drop": 1

:suspension

FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 1

:suspicious

FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1

:sustained

UCLE06: Rhetorical vocabulary: 1

:Sven

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

:Svengali

EMorris: S : 1

UCLE14: Literary characters who became: 1

:Swag

wwwords Swag: 2

:Swahili

Lawler lingmarks: One can already, for instance, read the: 3

:swallow

awwy_G: 'Word With You' list for letter G: 1

awwy_O: 'Word With You' list for letter O: 2

UCLE11: The: 1

:swallowing

Lawler they: He, she, they?: 1

:swam

FX: sentences grammatical in both Old English and Modern English: 1

:swamp

UCLE09: Daring: 1

:Swamper

wwwords Swamper: 2

:swan

RH_wotd swan song: 1

RH_wotd swan or swanny: 1

Wilton: Wilton's Etymology Page: 1

awwy_L: 'Word With You' list for letter L: 1

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

FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 1

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

:swan or swanny

RH_wotd swan or swanny: 1

:swan song

RH_wotd swan song: 1

:Swannee

EMorris: S : 1

:swanny

RH_wotd swan or swanny: 1

:swap

Lawler truly: Canadian and American Raising: 1

:swashbuckler

RH_wotd swashbuckler: 2

EMorris: S : 1

:swayed

Lawler reams: Reams: 1

:swear

Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 1

:swearing

wwwords Swearing on one's testicles: 1

UCLE05: What’s: 2

UCLE09: “It’s: 5

:Swearing on one's testicles

wwwords Swearing on one's testicles: 1

:sweatshop

:sweaty

Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 5

:Sweden

Title: 1

Lawler eclectic: Fantasy and Science Fiction : 1

UCLE09: “Stranger: 1

:Sweden's

UCLE08: The “Fat Lady”: 1

:Swedish

FX: "fuck": 1

FX: "golf": 1

:sweeping

IPA II: The [O] sound requires rounded lips, but lips making a: 1

IPA I: The remarks concerning the pronunciation of [O] were taken verbatim from Mark Israel's: 1

:sweet

RH_wotd toot sweet: 1

awwy_A: 'Word With You' list for letter A: 2

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

awwy_K: 'Word With You' list for letter K: 1

awwy_L: 'Word With You' list for letter L: 2

awwy_P: 'Word With You' list for letter P: 2

awwy_T: 'Word With You' list for letter T: 1

Lawler lingmarks: Universities: 1

:sweetbread

RH_wotd sweetbread: 2

:sweetly

FX: spaces between sentences: 1

:swell

FX: "bug"="defect": 1

FX: Postfix "not": 1

:swept

I before E: Exceptions to the rule 'I before E except after C': 1

:swift

FX: "bloody": 2

FX: sentences grammatical in both Old English and Modern English: 1

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

UCLE11: The: 1

UCLE09: “Bloody”: 1

UCLE09: Notable: 1

:Swifties

Resources: �� 7. Mark Israel's Web site at Scripps: 3

Resources: Fun with words : 1

FX: "Take the prisoner downstairs", said Tom condescendingly.: 3

:Swifty

FX: "Take the prisoner downstairs", said Tom condescendingly.: 3

:swill

UCLE09: Daring: 1

:swim

UCLE12: News: 1

:swimmers

UCLE12: News: 1

:swimming

FX: "A, B and C" vs "A, B, and C": 1

UCLE12: News: 1

:Swindell

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

:Swindle

EMorris: S : 1

:Swine

:Swing

EMorris: N : 1

:switch

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

Lawler l-sounds: English L sounds: 1

:switched

FX: "alumin(i)um" (notes by Keith Ivey): 1

:switches

Lawler l-sounds: English L sounds: 1

:switching

FX: "cut to the chase": 1

Lawler l-sounds: English L sounds: 1

Lawler reams: Reams: 1

:Switfties

Resources: �� 7. Mark Israel's Web site at Scripps: 1

:Switzerland

FX: "posh": 1

:swive

RH_wotd swive: 2

:Swmbo

:swollen

awwy_H: 'Word With You' list for letter H: 1

Southern speaker's description of his speech: 1

FX: "bug"="defect": 1

:swoop

RH_wotd fell swoop: 1

wwwords One fell swoop: 1

EMorris: F : 1

EMorris: S : 1

:sword

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

:swound

RH_wotd swound: 2

:Sycophant

wwwords Sycophant: 2

:Sygry

FX: words ending in "-gry": 1

:syka

FX: "to call a spade a spade": 2

:Sykes

UCLE08: A Litany of notable: 1

:sylble

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

:Sylie

Lawler l-sounds: English L sounds: 1

:Syllabi

Lawler lingmarks: One can already, for instance, read the: 2

:syllabic

FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 1

Lawler aluminum: Alumin(i)um: 6

Lawler indian: Indian English: 1

Lawler reams: Reams: 1

Lawler vehicle: "vehicle": 1

Lawler vowels: Vowels Before R: 1

IPA II: -: 1

IPA I: -: 1

:syllabicity

FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 1

:syllable

FX: doubling of final consonants before suffixes: 1

FX: How do you spell "e-mail"?: 1

FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 2

FX: provenance of English vocabulary (notes by Lucia Engkent): 1

FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 3

FX: words without vowels: 1

FX: Words pronounced differently according to context: 15

Lawler a-an: A or An Historical Novel?: 3

Lawler aluminum: Alumin(i)um: 12

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: 2

Lawler they: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 1

IPA II: ': 1

IPA II: ,: 1

IPA I: ': 1

IPA I: Reading ASCII IPA: 1

IPA I: ,: 1

IPA I: Writing ASCII IPA: 1

:syllable-timed

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

:syllables

FX: "a"/"an" before abbreviations: 1

FX: Words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 1

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

Lawler aluminum: Alumin(i)um: 2

Lawler buoy: Aural and Oral, Boy and Buoy: 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: 5

Intro D: "A" or "an": 1

:syllepsis

Resources: Dictionaries : 1

Comments on a proposal for reformed English spelling: 2

:syllogistic

FX: "beg the question": 1

:sylph

RH_wotd sylph: 2

:symbol

Resources: Audio references : 1

FX: "blue moon" (notes by Philip Hiscock): 1

FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 3

FX: names of "&", "@", and "#": 2

FX: Origin of the dollar sign (notes by Mark Brader): 3

FX: "to call a spade a spade": 1

FX: words without vowels: 1

Lawler schwa: Schwa and Central Vowels: 1

IPA II: Consonants and Vowels:: 2

IPA II: The Details:: 1

IPA II: Affricates, diphthongs and triphthongs:: 2

IPA II: The reference to 'Chicago pop' first appeared in Mark Israel's: 1

IPA II: The [O] sound requires rounded lips, but lips making a: 1

IPA I: Affricates, diphthongs and triphthongs: 2

IPA I: Consonants and vowels: 3

IPA I: The reference to 'Chicago pop' first appeared in Mark Israel's: 1

IPA I: Vowel pronunciations by experts: 2

IPA I: Preliminary remarks: 3

IPA I: Reading ASCII IPA: 5

IPA I: A.: 1

IPA I: O: 1

IPA I: What is this?: 2

Supp: How to represent pronunciation: 1

:symbolic

Lawler lingmarks: Miscellaneous: 1

Lawler ross: Ross Constraints: 1

:symbolism

Lawler writing: Literacy: 1

:symbolized

FX: "dressed to the nines": 1

:symbols

wwwords Symbols in arithmetic: 2

Garbl: S: 1

EMorris: D : 1

Comments on a proposal for reformed English spelling: 1

Audio: Other Sound Files: 1

awwy_K: 'Word With You' list for letter K: 1

Explanatory notes:: 3

Resources: Audio references : 1

Resources: Phonetic alphabets : 1

FX: "alumin(i)um" (notes by Keith Ivey): 1

FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 6

FX: names of "&", "@", and "#": 2

FX: Online dictionaries: 2

FX: "to call a spade a spade": 1

Lawler schwa: Schwa and Central Vowels: 2

Lawler smith: Henry Lee Smith: 1

Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1

Intro B: Where to learn about ASCII IPA: 1

Intro F: Pronunciation: 1

IPA II: Consonants and Vowels:: 1

IPA II: IPA Chart Revision Date:: 2

IPA II: Main Index:: 1

IPA II: The Details:: 1

IPA II: Affricates, diphthongs and triphthongs:: 1

IPA II: Credits:: 1

IPA II: ASCII IPA: A modified version having only American examples: 1

IPA I: Note A: 2

IPA I: Affricates, diphthongs and triphthongs: 1

IPA I: Consonants and vowels: 3

IPA I: Credits: 1

IPA I: There is no ASCII IPA symbol for the IPA 180-degree-rotated : 1

IPA I: Help me complete this Web page!: 1

IPA I: Contents: 1

IPA I: Preliminary remarks: 1

IPA I: Reading ASCII IPA: 3

IPA I: What is this?: 2

IPA I: Writing ASCII IPA: 3

Supp: Pronunciation: 1

:Symbols in arithmetic

wwwords Symbols in arithmetic: 1

:symmetric

Lawler itsraining: "It" in "It's raining": 1

Lawler schwa: Schwa and Central Vowels: 1

:symmetrical

FX: "SOS": 1

:sympathetically

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

:sympathy

UCLE13: "On the fritz": 1

:sympatico

:symploce

:symposium

Lawler lingmarks: Miscellaneous: 1

Intro F: Photographs of some AUE people: 3

boink: 2

Supp: Photographs of some AUE people: 3

Symposium I: The alt.usage.english London Symposium: 1

Symposium II: The a.u.e Christmas symposium: 2

:synaeresis

:synaesthesia

:Synaesthete

wwwords Synaesthete: 2

:synaloepha

:synchronic

Lawler asfaras: As far as ... goes/is concerned: 1

:synchronicity

RH_wotd synchronicity: 2

:synchysis

:syncope

RH_wotd syncope and assimilation: 1

:syncope and assimilation

RH_wotd syncope and assimilation: 1

:syndicated

FX: Online language columns: 1

:syndrome

wwwords Balkan War syndrome: 1

wwwords Economy-class syndrome: 1

wwwords Information fatigue syndrome: 1

Garbl: S: 1

:synecdoche

RH_wotd synecdoche: 2

wwwords Synecdoche and metonymy: 1

:Synecdoche and metonymy

wwwords Synecdoche and metonymy: 1

:synesis

:synesthesia

RH_wotd synesthesia: 2

:syngyng

FX: "done"="finished": 1

:synonym

Lawler amnt: "amn't": 1

Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 2

:synonymous

FX: "cut the mustard": 1

FX: "O.K.": 1

FX: Subjunctive: 1

FX: "try and", "be sure and", "go" + verb: 1

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

Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 1

:synonyms

Resources: Dictionaries : 1

FX: Books that discriminate synonyms: 3

FX: Table of Contents: 1

Fast FAQ: Table of Contents: 1

fast_faq_toc.html: 1

Lawler booklist: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 1

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

Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 1

:synopsis

Comments on a proposal for reformed English spelling: 1

Lawler smith: Henry Lee Smith: 1

:syntactic

Lawler Index: The syntactic concept 'island'.: 1

FX: rhotic vs non-rhotic, intrusive "r": 1

FX: "try and", "be sure and", "go" + verb: 1

FX: WELCOME TO ALT.USAGE.ENGLISH!: 1

FX: "whom": 1

Lawler amnt: "amn't": 1

Lawler asfaras: As far as ... goes/is concerned: 3

Lawler booklist: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 2

Lawler canthelp: Can't Help (But) ...: 2

Lawler commas: Commas: 1

Lawler commas: The intonation curve is (roughly) up-down-back.up, graphically something: 1

Lawler equally: "equally" and comparatives: 1

Lawler infinite: English and Infinity: 1

Lawler itsraining: "It" in "It's raining": 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: One can already, for instance, read the: 1

Lawler modals: English Modals: 2

Lawler only: "only": 1

Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 2

Lawler ross: Ross Constraints: 3

Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 1

Lawler thehell: Usage of "the hell": 1

Lawler whom: Who(m): 1

Intro A: WELCOME TO alt.usage.english!: 1

Supp: What is prescriptivism?: 1

Subjunctive?: Subjunctive: 1

:syntactical

Lawler commas: >If, say, a parenthesis is marked off by commas, is that phonological: 1

Subjunctive?: Subjunctive: 1

:syntactically

Lawler modals: The canonical paraphrase for will is be going to, idiosyncratically: 1

Lawler npislands: News Item: 1

Lawler they: He, she, they?: 1

:syntax

Lawler asfaras: As far as ... goes/is concerned: 2

Lawler booklist: Books on English, Language, and Linguistics: 1

Lawler booklist: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 3

Lawler commas: Commas: 5

Lawler complmnt: Object Complements: 2

Lawler equally: "equally" and comparatives: 1

Lawler extrapos: Extraposition, plus Selected Short Subjects: 1

Lawler extrapos: --- Followup --: 2

Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 1

Lawler indian: Indian English: 1

Lawler infinite: English and Infinity: 1

Lawler itsraining: "It" in "It's raining": 4

Lawler modals: English Modals: 1

Lawler modals: The canonical paraphrase for will is be going to, idiosyncratically: 1

Lawler npislands: News Item: 1

Lawler ross: Ross Constraints: 1

Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 8

Lawler tense: >Just one question: Where does the past perfect ("have gone", "have sung"): 1

Lawler thehell: Usage of "the hell": 3

Lawler they: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 1

boink: 1

:Synthesizer

Lawler lingmarks: Phonetics and Phonology (Many of these use heavy graphics and sound resources).: 1

:synthesizers

Lawler comma: Commas again: 1

:Synthespian

wwwords Synthespian: 2

:synthetic

Lawler itsraining: "It" in "It's raining": 2

Lawler verbing: Verbing Nouns: 1

:syntheticness

Lawler itsraining: "It" in "It's raining": 1

:Syracuse

FX: "wonk" (notes by Fred Shapiro): 1

:system

Audio: Welcome to the: 1

Resources: Miscellaneous, not language related : 2

Isles: CHANNEL ISLANDS, ISLE OF MAN. Note that the Isle of Man: 1

FX: Does the next millennium begin in 2000 or 2001?: 1

FX: "functionality": 1

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

Website Hits Logger: 1

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

Lawler correct: "Correctness": 1

Lawler eclectic: Government and other information: 1

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

Lawler enghist: >Your example of English and Caxton print shop goes a long way to convince: 2

Lawler indian: Indian English: 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 lingmarks: One can already, for instance, read the: 2

Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 1

Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 2

Lawler schwa: Schwa and Central Vowels: 2

Lawler smith: Henry Lee Smith: 1

Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 3

Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 1

Lawler writing: Literacy: 3

Intro C: "billion" (based on an article by Ken Moore and Olivier Bettens): 1

Supp: "SOS": 1

UCLE06: Rhetorical vocabulary: 1

:systematic

Title: 1

Supp: Grammars: 1

:Systematically

Lawler schwa: Schwa and Central Vowels: 1

:systems

AUE Logo: Notes about the Totally Official AUE Logo: 1

Resources: Phonetic alphabets : 3

FX: Online dictionaries: 1

Lawler booklist: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 1

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

Lawler lingmarks: Miscellaneous: 1

Lawler they: That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 1

Lawler vowels: Vowels Before R: 1

Lawler writing: Literacy: 1

Interface: Which should I use? Perlfect Search or the Concordance?: 1

:systole