:wheat

  • Common errors: W: 1
  • FX: "none is" vs "none are": 1
  • FX: trademarks: 1

    :wheedling

  • awwy_W: 'Word With You' list for letter W: 1

    :wheel

  • EMorris: B : 1
  • EMorris: W : 1
  • awwy_B: 'Word With You' list for letter B: 1
  • FX: words without vowels: 1

    :wheelbarrow

  • RH_wotd wheelbarrow: 2
  • awwy_H: 'Word With You' list for letter H: 1
  • awwy_W: 'Word With You' list for letter W: 1

    :wheelchair

  • Garbl: W: 1

    :wheeler

  • awwy_D: 'Word With You' list for letter D: 1
  • awwy_W: 'Word With You' list for letter W: 1
  • FX: Books on rhyming slang: 1

    :wheels

  • awwy_H: 'Word With You' list for letter H: 1
  • awwy_W: 'Word With You' list for letter W: 1

    :when

  • File Not Found: 1
  • wwwords Needs must when the devil drives: 1
  • Stephen Toogood's explanation of the paddle: 1
  • Garbl: E: 1
  • Garbl: I: 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: 1
  • Lawler Index: 'a' and 'an'.: 2
  • Alternating voices: Markus's and Skitt's voices alternating: 1
  • Autism and Daniel McGrath: 2
  • Comments on a proposal for reformed English spelling: 1
  • Unedited list of search results: 2
  • Audio: Welcome to the: 1
  • Southern speaker's description of his speech: 3
  • The North Wind and the Sun: 2
  • The Rainbow Passage: 3
  • Posting History: Explanatory Remarks: 1
  • awwy_B: 'Word With You' list for letter B: 1
  • awwy_D: 'Word With You' list for letter D: 1
  • awwy_P: 'Word With You' list for letter P: 1
  • awwy_W: 'Word With You' list for letter W: 2
  • Resources: Humor : 1
  • Resources: Words about words : 1
  • Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 20
  • Isles: BRITAIN.  The informal name for the United: 1
  • Isles: BRITISH is the formal designation of the nationality of citizens: 1
  • Isles: THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND.  : 2
  • FX: "all ... not": 1
  • FX: "billion": a U.K. view: 1
  • FX: "blue moon" (notes by Philip Hiscock): 5
  • FX: "Bob's your uncle": 1
  • FX: "Break a leg!": 1
  • FX: Commonest words: 1
  • FX: "copacetic": 1
  • FX: "done"="finished": 3
  • FX: doubling of final consonants before suffixes: 2
  • FX: "ebonics": 1
  • FX: "-er" vs "-re": 1
  • FX: "Eskimo": 1
  • FX: "flammable": 1
  • FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 3
  • FX: Foreign plurals => English singulars: 1
  • FX: "full monty": 1
  • FX: Guidelines for posting: 1
  • FX: How did "Truly" become a personal name?: 2
  • FX: How do Americans pronounce "dog"?: 1
  • FX: I before E except after C (notes by Mark Wainwright): 2
  • FX: "Illegitimis non carborundum": 1
  • FX: "It's me" vs "It is I": 1
  • FX: "jerry-built"/"jury-rigged": 1
  • FX: "Let them eat cake!": 3
  • FX: "like" vs "such as": 3
  • FX: "like" vs "as": 2
  • FX: "loo": 2
  • FX: "merkin" (notes by Michael B. Quinion and Ruth Bygrave): 3
  • FX: names of "&", "@", and "#": 2
  • FX: "O.K.": 1
  • FX: Online dictionaries: 1
  • FX: Origin of the dollar sign (notes by Mark Brader): 1
  • FX: "pie-shaped": 3
  • FX: "posh": 1
  • FX: Postfix "not": 1
  • FX: Preposition at end: 1
  • FX: "scot-free": 1
  • FX: "SOS": 1
  • FX: split infinitive: 1
  • FX: "spoonerism": 1
  • FX: Subjunctive: 1
  • FX: "suck"="be very unsatisfying" by John Davies: 1
  • FX: Table of Contents: 1
  • FX: "that" vs "which": 1
  • FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 2
  • FX: "There's a sucker born every minute": 1
  • FX: "the whole nine yards": 1
  • FX: "try and", "be sure and", "go" + verb: 1
  • FX: typo: 2
  • FX: ", vs ,": 1
  • FX: "wait for the other shoe to drop": 1
  • FX: What is the opposite of "to exceed"?: 1
  • FX: What is "ghoti"? (notes by Jim Scobbie): 1
  • FX: When to use "the": 2
  • FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1
  • FX: "whom": 1
  • FX: Why do we say "30 years old", but "a 30-year-old man"?: 1
  • FX: words without vowels: 1
  • FX: Words pronounced differently according to context: 18
  • FX: "You have another think coming": 1
  • Description of FAQ maintenance: 4
  • Fast FAQ: Table of Contents: 1
  • Fast FAQ: A faster way to access items in the AUE FAQ: 1
  • fast_faq_toc.html: 1
  • Graphical Counter Example: 1
  • Groups: "company is" vs "company are": 4
  • Lawler a-an: A or An Historical Novel?: 2
  • Lawler academy: The Academy: 1
  • Lawler aluminum: Alumin(i)um: 3
  • Lawler amnt: "amn't": 2
  • Lawler bring: Bring vs Take: 1
  • Lawler buoy: Aural and Oral, Boy and Buoy: 2
  • Lawler canthelp: Can't Help (But) ...: 1
  • Lawler comma: Commas again: 1
  • Lawler commas: The intonation curve is (roughly) up-down-back.up, graphically something: 1
  • Lawler commas: >>> The facts of the matter are these:: 5
  • Lawler correct: "Correctness": 1
  • Lawler enghist: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 1
  • Lawler gotten: Gotten vs. Got: 1
  • Lawler hadve: hadn't've: 2
  • Lawler hadve: I suspect much of the rancor that greets spellings of had've is: 1
  • Lawler headline: Headline grammar: 1
  • Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 3
  • Lawler indian: Indian English: 1
  • Lawler infinite: English and Infinity: 2
  • Lawler itsraining: "It" in "It's raining": 3
  • 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: 5
  • Lawler l-sounds: English L sounds: 3
  • Lawler l-sounds: >> For instance: English has only one /l/ phoneme, but it has: 1
  • Lawler modals: The canonical paraphrase for will is be going to, idiosyncratically: 1
  • Lawler modals: There is also another opposition among the formal auxiliaries, between: 1
  • Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 4
  • Lawler npi: Since you ask, here's a moderately complete list of polarity items,: 1
  • Lawler only: "only": 1
  • Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 2
  • Lawler reams: Reams: 1
  • Lawler ross: Ross Constraints: 1
  • Lawler schwa: Schwa and Central Vowels: 2
  • Lawler smith: Henry Lee Smith: 1
  • Lawler striddly: striddly: 1
  • Lawler tense: Tense and related topics: 3
  • Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 3
  • Lawler that: Two kinds of "that-clauses": 2
  • Lawler thehell: Usage of "the hell": 5
  • Lawler they: He, she, they?: 2
  • Lawler they: -- more followup:: 1
  • Lawler they: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 3
  • Lawler they: That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 1
  • Lawler truly: Canadian and American Raising: 4
  • Lawler vehicle: "vehicle": 1
  • Lawler vowels: Vowels Before R: 1
  • Lawler writing: Literacy: 2
  • Lawler xmasthat: That vs. Which: 2
  • Lawler zilch: zilch: 2
  • Interface: Which should I use?  Perlfect Search or the Concordance?: 1
  • Intro A: Guidelines for posting: 1
  • Intro A: Responding: 3
  • Intro C: American: 1
  • Intro C: "exception proves the rule": 1
  • Intro D: Gender-neutral pronouns -- "he/she" -v- "they": 1
  • Intro D: Names for &, @, and #: 1
  • Intro D: Why do we say "30 years old", but "a 30-year-old man"?: 1
  • Intro E: I before E except after C (based on notes by Mark Wainwright): 2
  • Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 1
  • IPA II: hw: 1
  • IPA I: hw: 1
  • IPA I: Let's get started!: 1
  • IPA I: Writing ASCII IPA: 2
  • boink: 1
  • Emphasis quotes: Use of Quotation Marks for Emphasis: 1
  • Audio recording technique - Some suggestions: 3
  • Run Home Page Search Engine: 1
  • Supp: "anymore" and "any more": 2
  • Supp: "miss not having": 1
  • summer: 2
  • UCLE11: The: 8
  • UCLE12: News: 1
  • UCLE13: Waterloo: 1
  • UCLE14: Cripplegate and Crutched: 1
  • UCLE15: The Tooth Fairy: 3
  • UCLE03: Lindsay: 2
  • UCLE08: London’s: 1
  • UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 1
  • UCLE09: Holidays: 1
  • UCLE09: “It’s: 1
  • UCLE09: “Up: 1
  • UCLE09: “Pop: 1
  • Where FAQ?: Places to get Mark Israel's AUE FAQ: 1

    :WHEN

  • UCLE12: News: 1

    :whence

  • RH_wotd from whence: 1
  • FX: "bug"="defect": 1
  • FX: "God rest you merry, gentlemen": 1
  • FX: "peter out": 2
  • Lawler canthelp: Can't Help (But) ...: 2
  • Lawler enghist: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 1
  • Lawler l-sounds: >> For instance: English has only one /l/ phoneme, but it has: 1

    :whenever

  • Arthur the Rat: 1
  • Description of FAQ maintenance: 1
  • Lawler gotten: Gotten vs. Got: 1
  • Lawler l-sounds: >> For instance: English has only one /l/ phoneme, but it has: 1

    :where

  • File Not Found: 1
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  • The AUE Photo Gallery: 2
  • aue people (album1): 1
  • Common errors: W: 2
  • Title: 1
  • I before E:      With regard to the extension added by some people for "neighbor": 1
  • EMorris: Echo of Index to Articles at www.word-detective.com/backidx.html/n: 1
  • Comments on a proposal for reformed English spelling: 4
  • Initialisms that have been used in AUE: 2
  • Unedited list of search results: 1
  • Arthur the Rat: 1
  • Southern speaker's description of his speech: 2
  • awwy_C: 'Word With You' list for letter C: 1
  • awwy_H: 'Word With You' list for letter H: 1
  • awwy_L: 'Word With You' list for letter L: 1
  • WWYou: This file has been adapted: 1
  • Explanatory notes:: 1
  • Resources: Humor : 1
  • Resources: Online services : 1
  • Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 7
  • FX: "." after abbreviations: 1
  • FX: "A number of...": 1
  • FX: Basic English: 1
  • FX: Biblical sense of "to know": 1
  • FX: "billion": a U.K. view: 1
  • FX: "by hook or by crook": 1
  • FX: Commonest words: 1
  • FX: "could care less": 3
  • FX: "could of": 1
  • FX: "cut to the chase": 1
  • FX: "done"="finished": 1
  • FX: "due to": 2
  • FX: "flammable": 1
  • FX: "fuck": 1
  • FX: How do Americans pronounce "dog"?: 3
  • FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 4
  • FX: I before E except after C (notes by Mark Wainwright): 1
  • FX: "impact"="to affect": 1
  • FX: "It needs cleaned": 1
  • FX: "like" vs "such as": 1
  • FX: "O.K.": 1
  • FX: Online dictionaries: 2
  • FX: Plurals of Latin/Greek words: 2
  • FX: Preposition at end: 3
  • FX: "push the envelope": 1
  • FX: "quality": 1
  • FX: Related newsgroups: 2
  • FX: "shall" vs "will", "should" vs "would": 1
  • FX: split infinitive: 2
  • FX: Subjunctive: 1
  • FX: "suck"="be very unsatisfying" by John Davies: 1
  • FX: "Take the prisoner downstairs", said Tom condescendingly.: 4
  • FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 1
  • FX: "try and", "be sure and", "go" + verb: 1
  • FX: WELCOME TO ALT.USAGE.ENGLISH!: 2
  • FX: "Wherefore art thou Romeo?": 1
  • FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 13
  • FX: Why is "I" capitalized?: 1
  • FX: "you saying" vs "your saying": 1
  • Description of FAQ maintenance: 1
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  • Lawler aluminum: Alumin(i)um: 1
  • Lawler amnt: "amn't": 1
  • Lawler anymore: anymore: 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) ...: 1
  • Lawler comma: Commas again: 2
  • Lawler commas: Commas: 2
  • Lawler commas: The intonation curve is (roughly) up-down-back.up, graphically something: 3
  • Lawler commas: >>> The facts of the matter are these:: 2
  • Lawler eclectic: Metasites  Very large collections of links: 1
  • Lawler enghist: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 1
  • Lawler extrapos: Extraposition, plus Selected Short Subjects: 1
  • Lawler gonna: gonna: 3
  • Lawler gotten: Gotten vs. Got: 1
  • Lawler hadve: I suspect much of the rancor that greets spellings of had've is: 1
  • Lawler hafta: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 1
  • Lawler headline: Headline grammar: 1
  • Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 2
  • Lawler indian: Indian English: 1
  • 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: 1
  • Lawler l-sounds: >> For instance: English has only one /l/ phoneme, but it has: 4
  • 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: 1
  • Lawler only: "only": 2
  • Lawler phrasal: Phrasal Verbs: 1
  • Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 3
  • Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 2
  • Lawler quote: "Quote, Unquote": 4
  • Lawler reams: Reams: 1
  • Lawler ross: Ross Constraints: 2
  • Lawler schwa: Schwa and Central Vowels: 1
  • Lawler smith: Henry Lee Smith: 1
  • Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 2
  • Lawler striddly: striddly: 2
  • Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 2
  • Lawler thehell: Usage of "the hell": 5
  • Lawler they: He, she, they?: 2
  • Lawler they: -- more followup:: 1
  • Lawler vehicle: "vehicle": 5
  • Lawler whom: Who(m): 2
  • Lawler xmasthat: That vs. Which: 1
  • Lawler zilch: zilch: 1
  • Interface: Which should I use?  Perlfect Search or the Concordance?: 1
  • Intro A: Responding: 1
  • Intro A: WELCOME TO alt.usage.english!: 3
  • Intro B: Intro B: Useful Web Sites for AUE Participants: 2
  • Intro C: "beg the question": 1
  • Intro C: "billion" (based on an article by Ken Moore and Olivier Bettens): 1
  • Intro C: "push the envelope": 1
  • Intro D: Intro D: Mini-FAQ on Grammar, Usage and Punctuation: 2
  • Intro D: Group nouns -- singular or plural? "company is" -v- "company are": 1
  • Intro D: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1
  • Intro E: I before E except after C (based on notes by Mark Wainwright): 1
  • Intro E: U.S. -v- REST-OF-WORLD ENGLISH: 1
  • Intro G: Intro G: Where is the FAQ?: 3
  • Introduction: Intro A: Welcome to AUE and Guidelines: 1
  • IPA I: Help me complete this Web page!: 1
  • IPA I: V: 1
  • The Totally Official Boink Home Page: 3
  • Emphasis quotes: Use of Quotation Marks for Emphasis: 1
  • Supp: What is prescriptivism?: 1
  • Posting frequencies: Explanatory comments:: 1
  • UCLE10: "Bite the bullet": 1
  • UCLE10: The: 1
  • UCLE13: Custer's last stand: 1
  • UCLE13: The Curse of Macbeth: 1
  • UCLE13: Waterloo: 1
  • UCLE15: Bonfire: 1
  • UCLE15: Round-Robin and: 1
  • UCLE02: The history of ucle: 1
  • UCLE05: What’s: 1
  • UCLE06: Rhetorical vocabulary: 2
  • UCLE08: London’s: 1
  • UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 3
  • UCLE08: The “Fat Lady”: 1
  • UCLE09: “It’s: 1
  • UCLE09: “It went pear-shaped”: 1
  • UCLE09: Rivers: 1
  • Announcement of creation of uk.culture.language.english: 1
  • Where FAQ?: 2 October 1996:: 1
  • What's new?: History of Changes at the AUE Web Site: 1

    :where's

  • RH_wotd Where's Jesse?: 1
  • Lawler schwa: Schwa and Central Vowels: 1
  • Emphasis quotes: Use of Quotation Marks for Emphasis: 1

    :Where's Jesse?

  • RH_wotd Where's Jesse?: 1

    :whereabouts

  • Common errors: W: 1

    :whereas

  • Unedited list of search results: 1
  • FX: "done"="finished": 1
  • FX: "ebonics": 1
  • FX: "like" vs "such as": 2
  • FX: Repeated words after abbreviations: 1
  • FX: rhotic vs non-rhotic, intrusive "r": 1
  • FX: "the whole nine yards": 1
  • Lawler a-an: A or An Historical Novel?: 1
  • Lawler canthelp: Can't Help (But) ...: 1
  • Lawler complmnt: Object Complements: 1
  • Lawler gotten: Gotten vs. Got: 1
  • Lawler hafta: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 1
  • Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 3
  • Lawler l-sounds: English L sounds: 1
  • Lawler tense: Tense and related topics: 1
  • Lawler they: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 1
  • Intro D: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1
  • UCLE09: “Pop: 1

    :whereby

  • FX: Words pronounced differently according to context: 1

    :Wherefore

  • FX: Table of Contents: 1
  • FX: "Wherefore art thou Romeo?": 3
  • Fast FAQ: Table of Contents: 1
  • fast_faq_toc.html: 1
  • Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 1

    :wherever

  • FX: "go to hell in a handbasket": 1
  • Fast FAQ: A faster way to access items in the AUE FAQ: 1
  • Lawler amnt: "amn't": 1
  • Lawler commas: >If, say, a parenthesis is marked off by commas, is that phonological: 1
  • UCLE03: Lindsay: 1

    :whether

  • Common errors: W: 1
  • Garbl: W: 1
  • Lawler Index: Infinite number of English sentences?: 1
  • Lawler Index: 'Boy' rhymes with 'buoy'? 'Aural' 'with aural'?: 1
  • J_Lynch: A: 1
  • Resources: Collections of Web links : 1
  • FX: "a"/"an" before abbreviations: 1
  • FX: "could care less": 3
  • FX: Gender-neutral pronouns: 1
  • FX: "God rest you merry, gentlemen": 2
  • FX: "hopefully", "thankfully": 1
  • FX: "It's me" vs "It is I": 1
  • FX: "posh": 1
  • FX: "quality": 1
  • FX: "SOS": 1
  • FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1
  • Groups: "company is" vs "company are": 1
  • Lawler a-an: A or An Historical Novel?: 1
  • Lawler besides: Toward(s) and Beside(s): 2
  • Lawler buoy: Aural and Oral, Boy and Buoy: 2
  • Lawler commas: The intonation curve is (roughly) up-down-back.up, graphically something: 1
  • Lawler complmnt: Object Complements: 2
  • Lawler eclectic: Metasites  Very large collections of links: 1
  • Lawler extrapos: Extraposition, plus Selected Short Subjects: 2
  • Lawler hadve: I suspect much of the rancor that greets spellings of had've is: 1
  • Lawler headline: Headline grammar: 2
  • Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 1
  • Lawler modals: As to this discussion, the usual oppositions are those between: 1
  • Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 2
  • Lawler npi: Since you ask, here's a moderately complete list of polarity items,: 2
  • Lawler phrasal: Phrasal Verbs: 1
  • Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 4
  • Lawler schwa: Schwa and Central Vowels: 2
  • Lawler striddly: striddly: 1
  • Lawler thehell: Usage of "the hell": 2
  • Lawler zilch: zilch: 2
  • Intro D: "Gotten": 1
  • Intro D: Group nouns -- singular or plural? "company is" -v- "company are": 1
  • Intro D: "If I was" -v- "If I were": 1
  • IPA II: The difference between [hw] and [w] does not : 1
  • IPA I: Help me complete this Web page!: 1
  • IPA I: hw: 1
  • IPA I: Preliminary remarks: 1
  • IPA I: Reading ASCII IPA: 1
  • IPA I: What is this?: 1
  • Subjunctive?: Subjunctive: 2
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