:thes

  • Interface: AUE Web-Site Concordance Index: 1

    :thesaurus

  • wwwords New Oxford Thesaurus of English (book review): 1
  • wwwords Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (book review): 1
  • Resources: Thesauruses : 1
  • FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 1
  • FX: "like" vs "such as": 1
  • FX: Online dictionaries: 4
  • Lawler booklist: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 1
  • Lawler lingmarks: Books and Journals  A very small sample of what's out there: 1
  • Intro A: Guidelines for posting: 1
  • Intro B: Word lists: 1
  • UCLE05: What’s: 1

    :Thesauruses

  • Resources: Categories index: 1

    :these

  • Stephen Toogood's explanation of the paddle: 3
  • The AUE Photo Gallery: 1
  • Common errors: T: 3
  • Title: 1
  • Garbl: T: 1
  • I before E:      Early in both discussions I submitted a list of words that were: 1
  • Lawler Index: Frequently Asked Questions about English, Series 1 and 2: 4
  • Lawler Index: A ceremony of the Academy.: 1
  • Lawler Index: Humor among linguists.: 1
  • Comments on a proposal for reformed English spelling: 1
  • Wilton: Wilton's Etymology Page: 1
  • Unedited list of search results: 1
  • The Rainbow Passage: 1
  • Richard Fontana audio files: 1
  • Posting History: Explanatory Remarks: 1
  • Posting History: Note A:: 1
  • Posting History: Note B:: 1
  • Resources: Collections of Web links : 1
  • Resources: Online services : 1
  • Resources: Miscellaneous, language related : 1
  • Supplementary comments about deja.com: 1
  • Showing variation of formants of [i:] with context: 1
  • Isles: BRITISH ISLES.  A geographical term referring to the islands: 1
  • Isles: GREAT BRITAIN.  Used by cartographers to denote the biggest: 1
  • FX: "a"/"an" before abbreviations: 2
  • FX: "beg the question": 1
  • FX: Books on Britishisms, Canadianisms, etc.: 1
  • FX: "Caesarean section": 1
  • FX: Commonest words: 1
  • FX: "copacetic": 1
  • FX: "could care less": 1
  • FX: Dictionaries: 3
  • FX: "done"="finished": 2
  • FX: "-er" vs "-re": 2
  • FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 1
  • FX: Fumblerules ("Don't use no double negatives", etc.): 1
  • FX: "Get the lead out": 1
  • FX: "go to hell in a handbasket": 1
  • FX: "hopefully", "thankfully": 3
  • FX: I before E except after C (notes by Mark Wainwright): 1
  • FX: "impact"="to affect": 1
  • FX: "-ize" vs "-ise": 1
  • FX: "like" vs "such as": 1
  • FX: "more than you can shake a stick at": 1
  • FX: names of "&", "@", and "#": 1
  • FX: "ollie ollie oxen free": 3
  • FX: Origin of the dollar sign (notes by Mark Brader): 1
  • FX: "posh": 1
  • FX: Postfix "not": 1
  • FX: Related newsgroups: 1
  • FX: "scot-free": 1
  • FX: sentences grammatical in both Old English and Modern English: 1
  • FX: "shall" vs "will", "should" vs "would": 1
  • FX: "spit and image"/"spitting image": 2
  • FX: split infinitive: 1
  • FX: "the bee's knees": 1
  • FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 1
  • FX: "try and", "be sure and", "go" + verb: 3
  • FX: What is "ghoti"? (notes by Jim Scobbie): 1
  • FX: What do you call the grass strip between the road and the sidewalk?: 1
  • FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1
  • FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 2
  • FX: "whole cloth" (notes by Ellen Rosen): 1
  • FX: "whom": 2
  • FX: words without vowels: 1
  • FX: words ending in "-gry": 1
  • FX: "you saying" vs "your saying": 1
  • Description of FAQ maintenance: 2
  • Lawler aluminum: Alumin(i)um: 1
  • Lawler amnt: "amn't": 2
  • Lawler anymore: anymore: 1
  • Lawler besides: Toward(s) and Beside(s): 3
  • Lawler booklist: Books on English, Language, and Linguistics: 1
  • Lawler booklist: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 1
  • Lawler bring: Bring vs Take: 2
  • Lawler canthelp: Can't Help (But) ...: 2
  • Lawler comma: Commas again: 1
  • Lawler commas: The intonation curve is (roughly) up-down-back.up, graphically something: 1
  • Lawler complmnt: Object Complements: 2
  • Lawler eclectic: Reference Tools: 1
  • Lawler enghist: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 1
  • Lawler extrapos: --- Followup --: 2
  • Lawler gonna: gonna: 3
  • Lawler hadve: hadn't've: 2
  • Lawler hafta: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 3
  • Lawler headline: Headline grammar: 1
  • Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 1
  • Lawler indian: Indian English: 2
  • Lawler infinite: English and Infinity: 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: 6
  • Lawler lingmarks: Net links  Valuable resources.: 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: 2
  • Lawler modals: There is also another opposition among the formal auxiliaries, between: 2
  • Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 1
  • Lawler npi: Since you ask, here's a moderately complete list of polarity items,: 1
  • Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 1
  • Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 5
  • Lawler quote: "Quote, Unquote": 2
  • Lawler reams: Reams: 1
  • Lawler ross: Ross Constraints: 1
  • Lawler schwa: Schwa and Central Vowels: 1
  • Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1
  • Lawler tense: Tense and related topics: 1
  • Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 3
  • Lawler tense: >Just one question: Where does the past perfect ("have gone", "have sung"): 2
  • Lawler that: Two kinds of "that-clauses": 4
  • Lawler thehell: Usage of "the hell": 2
  • Lawler they: He, she, they?: 1
  • Lawler vehicle: "vehicle": 1
  • Lawler vowels: Vowels Before R: 1
  • Lawler whom: Who(m): 2
  • Lawler xmasthat: That vs. Which: 4
  • Lawler xmasthat: There are also two kinds of relative clauses:: 3
  • Lawler zilch: zilch: 1
  • Interface: WebFusion AUE Concordance Interface Prefix: 1
  • Intro A: Newcomers to the Net: 1
  • Intro B: Historical English, and English Literature: 2
  • Intro B: Where to find previous postings: 1
  • Intro C: Intro C: Mini-FAQ on Words and Phrases: 4
  • Intro C: American: 2
  • Intro C: England, Britain, Great Britain, United Kingdom, etc.: 1
  • Intro C: What words are their own antonym?: 1
  • Intro D: Intro D: Mini-FAQ on Grammar, Usage and Punctuation: 4
  • Intro D: Acronyms and other abbreviations using initial letters: 1
  • Intro D: "A" or "an": 1
  • Intro D: "It's me" -v- "It is I": 1
  • Intro E: Intro E: Mini-FAQ on Spelling: 3
  • Intro E: What is "ghoti"? (notes by Jim Scobbie): 1
  • Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 1
  • Intro G: Intro G: Where is the FAQ?: 1
  • Introduction: INTRODUCTION TO ALT.USAGE.ENGLISH: 1
  • IPA II: Here is a key to the abbreviations used under 'Articulatory descriptions':: 1
  • IPA I: Here is a key to the abbreviations used under 'Articulatory descriptions':: 1
  • IPA I: Slashes or square brackets?: 1
  • IPA I: Help me complete this Web page!: 1
  • IPA I: oU: 1
  • IPA I: Reading ASCII IPA: 1
  • Showing variation of formants of [i:] with context: 1
  • Emphasis quotes: Use of Quotation Marks for Emphasis: 3
  • Search: 1
  • Supp: Grammars: 1
  • Subjunctive?: Subjunctive: 1
  • Symposium I: The alt.usage.english London Symposium: 1
  • Yet to come: 1
  • UCLE10: "Bite the bullet": 1
  • UCLE10: The: 1
  • UCLE11: The: 4
  • UCLE12: News: 2
  • UCLE13: The Curse of Macbeth: 1
  • UCLE15: The Tooth Fairy: 2
  • UCLE03: Lindsay: 1
  • UCLE03: A uk.culture.language.english: 4
  • UCLE05: What’s: 1
  • UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 2
  • UCLE08: The “Fat Lady”: 1
  • UCLE09: Anorak: 1
  • UCLE09: Holidays: 1
  • UCLE09: “Pop: 1
  • Where FAQ?: Places to get Mark Israel's AUE FAQ: 1

    :thesis

  • J_Lynch: T: 1
  • FX: "that" vs "which": 1
  • FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1
  • Lawler lingmarks: Man's Reach Must Exceed his Grasp; or, What's a Metaphor?: 1
  • UCLE02: The history of ucle: 1

    :theta

  • FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 1
  • Lawler they: He, she, they?: 1
  • Lawler they: That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 2
  • IPA I: T: 1

    :they

  • wwwords They Have a Word for It (book review): 1
  • Stephen Toogood's explanation of the paddle: 2
  • Common errors: T: 1
  • I before E:      Early in both discussions I submitted a list of words that were: 1
  • Lawler Index: Frequently Asked Questions about English, Series 1 and 2: 3
  • Lawler Index: Gender-neutral reference.: 1
  • Autism and Daniel McGrath: 2
  • Comments on a proposal for reformed English spelling: 6
  • Unedited list of search results: 5
  • The North Wind and the Sun: 2
  • The Rainbow Passage: 1
  • Choice of two ASCII IPA files: 1
  • AUE Logo: Notes about the Totally Official AUE Logo: 2
  • awwy_A: 'Word With You' list for letter A: 1
  • awwy_B: 'Word With You' list for letter B: 1
  • awwy_C: 'Word With You' list for letter C: 1
  • awwy_L: 'Word With You' list for letter L: 1
  • Explanatory notes:: 3
  • Resources: Categories index: 1
  • Resources: Humor : 1
  • Resources: Rhetoric vocabulary : 1
  • Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 7
  • Isles: BRITISH ISLES.  A geographical term referring to the islands: 1
  • Isles: CHANNEL ISLANDS, ISLE OF MAN.  Note that the Isle of Man: 5
  • Isles: NORTHERN IRELAND   This is not the place to go into: 1
  • Isles: SCOTCH.  The following is extracted from Mark Israel's FAQ: 1
  • FX: "all ... not": 1
  • FX: "alumin(i)um" (notes by Keith Ivey): 1
  • FX: "beg the question": 2
  • FX: Biblical sense of "to know": 1
  • FX: "blue moon" (notes by Philip Hiscock): 2
  • FX: Books on usage: 2
  • FX: Books on Britishisms, Canadianisms, etc.: 2
  • FX: Books on "bias-free"/"politically correct" language: 1
  • FX: "by hook or by crook": 1
  • FX: "canola": 1
  • FX: "catch-22": 6
  • FX: Commonest words: 1
  • FX: "copacetic": 1
  • FX: "could care less": 1
  • FX: Dictionaries: 1
  • FX: Do publishers put false info in dictionaries to catch plagiarists?: 1
  • FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 1
  • FX: "-er" vs "-re": 1
  • FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 2
  • FX: Foreign plurals => English singulars: 2
  • FX: "functionality": 1
  • FX: Gender-neutral pronouns: 10
  • FX: "Go figure": 1
  • FX: Guidelines for posting: 1
  • FX: "hopefully", "thankfully": 1
  • FX: How do Americans pronounce "dog"?: 1
  • FX: How do you spell "e-mail"?: 1
  • FX: How reliable are dictionaries?: 1
  • FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 4
  • FX: I before E except after C (notes by Mark Wainwright): 1
  • FX: "ISO" by Mark Brader: 2
  • FX: "It's me" vs "It is I": 4
  • FX: "less" vs "fewer": 2
  • FX: "Let them eat cake!": 1
  • FX: "like" vs "such as": 1
  • FX: "like" vs "as": 3
  • FX: "O.K.": 1
  • FX: "ollie ollie oxen free": 1
  • FX: Online dictionaries: 2
  • FX: "pie-shaped": 2
  • FX: Plurals of Latin/Greek words: 1
  • FX: "posh": 1
  • FX: "push the envelope": 1
  • FX: rhotic vs non-rhotic, intrusive "r": 5
  • FX: "Scotch": 1
  • FX: Subjunctive: 2
  • FX: "suck"="be very unsatisfying" by John Davies: 1
  • FX: "Take the prisoner downstairs", said Tom condescendingly.: 1
  • FX: "that" vs "which": 1
  • FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 1
  • FX: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.": 1
  • FX: "try and", "be sure and", "go" + verb: 3
  • FX: ", vs ,": 2
  • FX: WELCOME TO ALT.USAGE.ENGLISH!: 2
  • FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1
  • FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 5
  • FX: "whom": 2
  • FX: words without vowels: 1
  • FX: Words pronounced differently according to context: 1
  • FX: "you saying" vs "your saying": 1
  • Description of FAQ maintenance: 5
  • Genitive: Genitive is not always possessive.: 3
  • Groups: "company is" vs "company are": 1
  • Lawler academy: The Academy: 1
  • Lawler aluminum: Alumin(i)um: 3
  • Lawler amnt: "amn't": 3
  • Lawler anymore: anymore: 2
  • Lawler booklist: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 3
  • Lawler bring: Bring vs Take: 2
  • Lawler buoy: Aural and Oral, Boy and Buoy: 7
  • Lawler canthelp: Can't Help (But) ...: 2
  • Lawler comma: Commas again: 2
  • Lawler commas: Commas: 1
  • Lawler commas: The intonation curve is (roughly) up-down-back.up, graphically something: 2
  • Lawler commas: >>> The facts of the matter are these:: 1
  • Lawler complmnt: Object Complements: 4
  • Lawler correct: "Correctness": 2
  • Lawler eclectic: Science  What you need in order to have Science Fiction: 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 giveadamn: Give a Damn: 15
  • Lawler gonna: gonna: 1
  • Lawler gotten: Gotten vs. Got: 1
  • Lawler hadve: I suspect much of the rancor that greets spellings of had've is: 4
  • Lawler hafta: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 1
  • Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 1
  • Lawler indian: Indian English: 5
  • Lawler infinite: English and Infinity: 2
  • Lawler itsraining: "It" in "It's raining": 2
  • 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: 15
  • Lawler modals: English Modals: 4
  • Lawler modals: As to this discussion, the usual oppositions are those between: 3
  • Lawler modals: The canonical paraphrase for will is be going to, idiosyncratically: 1
  • Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 5
  • Lawler npi: Since you ask, here's a moderately complete list of polarity items,: 1
  • Lawler only: "only": 1
  • Lawler phrasal: Phrasal Verbs: 1
  • Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 1
  • Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 7
  • Lawler quote: "Quote, Unquote": 1
  • Lawler reams: Reams: 4
  • Lawler ross: Ross Constraints: 2
  • Lawler schwa: Schwa and Central Vowels: 3
  • Lawler smith: Henry Lee Smith: 2
  • Lawler striddly: striddly: 2
  • Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 7
  • Lawler that: Two kinds of "that-clauses": 2
  • Lawler thehell: Usage of "the hell": 3
  • Lawler they: He, she, they?: 11
  • Lawler they: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 8
  • Lawler truly: Canadian and American Raising: 5
  • Lawler vehicle: "vehicle": 2
  • Lawler vowels: Vowels Before R: 3
  • Lawler whom: Who(m): 3
  • Lawler writing: Literacy: 1
  • Lawler xmasthat: There are also two kinds of relative clauses:: 3
  • Interface: Help: 1
  • Intro A: Dealing with unwanted postings: 1
  • Intro A: Guidelines for posting: 1
  • Intro A: WELCOME TO alt.usage.english!: 2
  • Intro B: Where to find previous postings: 1
  • Intro C: American: 4
  • Intro C: What words are their own antonym?: 1
  • Intro C: "beg the question": 1
  • Intro C: "billion" (based on an article by Ken Moore and Olivier Bettens): 1
  • Intro D: Intro D: Mini-FAQ on Grammar, Usage and Punctuation: 1
  • Intro D: Acronyms and other abbreviations using initial letters: 1
  • Intro D: Gender-neutral pronouns -- "he/she" -v- "they": 5
  • Intro D: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1
  • Intro E: Joke about step-by-step spelling reform: 1
  • Intro G: Intro G: Where is the FAQ?: 1
  • IPA II: About this document:: 1
  • IPA II: The pronunciations shown for the previous six lines are not heard in: 1
  • IPA II: The [O] sound requires rounded lips, but lips making a: 1
  • IPA II: The sounds in the column headed 'IPA sounds' have been copied with permission: 1
  • IPA II: Slashes or square brackets?: 3
  • IPA II: ASCII IPA: A modified version having only American examples: 2
  • IPA I: Consonants and vowels: 2
  • IPA I: The pronunciations shown for the previous six lines are not heard in: 1
  • IPA I: There is no ASCII IPA symbol for the IPA 180-degree-rotated : 1
  • IPA I: The remarks concerning the pronunciation of [O] were taken verbatim from Mark Israel's: 1
  • IPA I: The sounds in the column headed 'IPA sounds' have been copied with permission: 1
  • IPA I: Slashes or square brackets?: 3
  • IPA I: Help me complete this Web page!: 1
  • IPA I: V: 1
  • IPA I: V": 1
  • IPA I: What is this?: 1
  • Emphasis quotes: Use of Quotation Marks for Emphasis: 4
  • Supp: Grammars: 1
  • Supp: What is prescriptivism?: 4
  • Supp: The organization of this file generally follows that of a hypertext version of Mark : 1
  • Supp: "SOS": 1
  • Subjunctive?: Subjunctive: 10
  • summer: 6
  • UCLE10: The: 1
  • UCLE11: The: 3
  • UCLE12: News: 5
  • UCLE13: More articles: 1
  • UCLE13: Custer's last stand: 1
  • UCLE13: Waterloo: 1
  • UCLE14: Literary characters who became: 2
  • UCLE15: Round-Robin and: 1
  • UCLE03: Lindsay: 2
  • UCLE03: A uk.culture.language.english: 1
  • UCLE03: Judith: 3
  • UCLE09: “It’s: 1
  • UCLE09: Rivers: 1

    :They Have a Word for It (book review)

  • wwwords They Have a Word for It (book review): 1

    :they'd

  • Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 2
  • Lawler lingmarks: Languages in General: 1
  • Lawler vehicle: "vehicle": 2
  • UCLE12: News: 1

    :they'll

  • FX: Does the next millennium begin in 2000 or 2001?: 1
  • Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 3

    :they're

  • Common errors: T: 1
  • Garbl: T: 1
  • Explanatory notes:: 1
  • FX: "." after abbreviations: 1
  • FX: "-ize" vs "-ise": 1
  • FX: Online dictionaries: 1
  • FX: WELCOME TO ALT.USAGE.ENGLISH!: 1
  • FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1
  • FX: Words pronounced differently according to context: 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: 3
  • Lawler bring: Bring vs Take: 2
  • Lawler buoy: Aural and Oral, Boy and Buoy: 1
  • Lawler canthelp: Can't Help (But) ...: 4
  • Lawler commas: Commas: 1
  • Lawler commas: The intonation curve is (roughly) up-down-back.up, graphically something: 1
  • Lawler commas: >>> The facts of the matter are these:: 1
  • Lawler enghist: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 2
  • Lawler gonna: gonna: 2
  • Lawler gotten: Gotten vs. Got: 1
  • Lawler hadve: hadn't've: 3
  • Lawler hadve: I suspect much of the rancor that greets spellings of had've is: 3
  • Lawler hafta: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 2
  • Lawler indian: Indian English: 1
  • Lawler infinite: English and Infinity: 2
  • Lawler itsraining: "It" in "It's raining": 2
  • 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: 7
  • Lawler modals: English Modals: 2
  • Lawler modals: The canonical paraphrase for will is be going to, idiosyncratically: 1
  • Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 2
  • Lawler quote: "Quote, Unquote": 1
  • Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 2
  • Lawler thehell: Usage of "the hell": 1
  • Lawler they: He, she, they?: 2
  • Lawler they: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 2
  • Lawler vehicle: "vehicle": 1
  • Lawler xmasthat: That vs. Which: 1
  • Lawler zilch: zilch: 1
  • Intro A: WELCOME TO alt.usage.english!: 1
  • IPA I: What is this?: 1
  • Supp: What is prescriptivism?: 1
  • Subjunctive?: Subjunctive: 1
  • UCLE11: The: 1
  • UCLE12: News: 1

    :they've

  • FX: "could of": 1
  • FX: How reliable are dictionaries?: 1
  • Lawler gotten: Gotten vs. Got: 5
  • UCLE12: News: 2

    :thick

  • Unedited list of search results: 1
  • awwy_T: 'Word With You' list for letter T: 1
  • FX: "bug"="defect": 1
  • UCLE09: Daring: 1

    :thicker

  • FX: names of "&", "@", and "#": 1
  • FX: "rule of thumb": 2
  • UCLE11: The: 1

    :thief

  • FX: "hooker": 1
  • UCLE14: Literary characters who became: 1

    :thigmotropic

  • RH_wotd thigmotropic: 2

    :thim

  • FX: Postfix "not": 1

    :Thimblerigger

  • EMorris: T : 1
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