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

Bob Cunningham vowels compared with Peter Ladefog vowels: 1

WWYou: This file has been adapted: 5

Explanatory notes:: 1

Resources: Audio references : 3

Resources: Categories index: 3

Resources: Collections of Web links : 1

Resources: Discussion groups, Usenet group Websites : 3

Resources: �� 10. 'The requested URL: 1

Resources: Humor : 1

Resources: Fun with words : 2

Resources: Implementation note: : 1

Resources: Miscellaneous, not language related : 5

Resources: Phonetic alphabets : 2

Resources: Rhetoric vocabulary : 5

Resources: Thesauruses : 1

Resources: Miscellaneous, language related : 3

Resources: Color charts : 2

Resources: Web-design utilities : 1

Resources: Words about words : 2

Supplementary comments about deja.com: 2

e-mail vs email: e-mail-vs-email.html: 1

Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 38

Isles: BRITAIN. The informal name for the United: 1

Isles: CHANNEL ISLANDS, ISLE OF MAN. Note that the Isle of Man: 2

Isles: ENGLAND. The biggest and most populous of the four countries: 1

Isles: IRELAND. As used by geographers, the second largest island: 1

Isles: NORTHERN IRELAND This is not the place to go into: 4

Isles: SCOTCH. The following is extracted from Mark Israel's FAQ: 2

Isles: THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND. : 1

FX: "a"/"an" before abbreviations: 3

FX: "all ... not": 1

FX: "alumin(i)um" (notes by Keith Ivey): 3

FX: Basic English: 1

FX: "beg the question": 1

FX: "between you and I": 1

FX: "billion": a U.K. view: 2

FX: "billions and billions": 2

FX: "bloody": 3

FX: Books on usage: 1

FX: Books on phrasal verbs: 1

FX: Books on "bias-free"/"politically correct" language: 1

FX: Books on group names: 1

FX: "by hook or by crook": 3

FX: "Caesarean section": 2

FX: "canola": 1

FX: Commonest words: 2

FX: "copacetic": 2

FX: "could care less": 1

FX: "could of": 1

FX: "crap": 1

FX: "cut to the chase": 1

FX: Dictionaries: 5

FX: "different to", "different than": 1

FX: "done"="finished": 12

FX: "ebonics": 1

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

FX: "Elementary, my dear Watson!": 1

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

FX: "-er" vs "-re": 2

FX: "Eskimo": 3

FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 3

FX: Foreign plurals => English singulars: 1

FX: "fuck": 3

FX: "functionality": 1

FX: Gender-neutral pronouns: 4

FX: General reference: 2

FX: "God rest you merry, gentlemen": 4

FX: "Go placidly amid the noise and the haste" (Desiderata): 1

FX: "go to hell in a handbasket": 2

FX: Guidelines for posting: 2

FX: "hell for leather": 1

FX: "hoist with his own petard": 4

FX: "hooker": 1

FX: "hopefully", "thankfully": 1

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

FX: How do Americans pronounce "dog"?: 2

FX: How do you spell "e-mail"?: 2

FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 22

FX: I before E except after C (notes by Mark Wainwright): 3

FX: "Illegitimis non carborundum": 1

FX: "impact"="to affect": 3

FX: "in like Flynn": 1

FX: "It's me" vs "It is I": 2

FX: "I won't mention...": 2

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

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

FX: "Jingle Bells": 3

FX: "less" vs "fewer": 5

FX: "like" vs "such as": 2

FX: "like" vs "as": 2

FX: "merkin" (notes by Michael B. Quinion and Ruth Bygrave): 2

FX: "mind your p's and q's": 1

FX: "more than you can shake a stick at": 6

FX: "mouses" vs "mice": 1

FX: names of "&", "@", and "#": 3

FX: "nimrod": 2

FX: "none is" vs "none are": 2

FX: "O.K.": 1

FX: "ollie ollie oxen free": 1

FX: Online usage guides: 2

FX: Online language columns: 1

FX: Online dictionaries: 5

FX: Origin of the dollar sign (notes by Mark Brader): 5

FX: "pie-shaped": 1

FX: Plurals of Latin/Greek words: 2

FX: "posh": 1

FX: Postfix "not": 1

FX: [Prefatory remarks]: 1

FX: Preposition at end: 9

FX: "put in one's two cents' worth": 1

FX: "quality": 2

FX: Related newsgroups: 3

FX: Repeated words after abbreviations: 1

FX: rhotic vs non-rhotic, intrusive "r": 3

FX: "rule of thumb": 3

FX: "Scotch": 1

FX: "scot-free": 1

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

FX: "SOS": 1

FX: spaces between sentences: 1

FX: split infinitive: 2

FX: Subjunctive: 3

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

FX: Table of Contents: 1

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

FX: "that" vs "which": 1

FX: "the bee's knees": 1

FX: the the "hoi polloi" debate: 2

FX: "the whole nine yards": 1

FX: "titsling"/"brassiere": 2

FX: "to call a spade a spade": 3

FX: troll: 4

FX: "try and", "be sure and", "go" + verb: 2

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

FX: What words are their own antonym?: 4

FX: When to use "the": 2

FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 5

FX: "whole cloth" (notes by Ellen Rosen): 2

FX: "whom": 1

FX: Why is "I" capitalized?: 1

FX: words without vowels: 1

FX: words ending in "-gry": 4

FX: Words pronounced differently according to context: 2

FX: Words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 3

FX: "You have another think coming": 2

Description of FAQ maintenance: 8

Fast FAQ: Table of Contents: 1

Fast FAQ: A faster way to access items in the AUE FAQ: 2

fast_faq_toc.html: 1

Formant analysis: 4

Genitive: Genitive is not always possessive.: 5

Groups: "company is" vs "company are": 5

Lawler a-an: A or An Historical Novel?: 10

Lawler aluminum: Alumin(i)um: 6

Lawler amnt: "amn't": 6

Lawler anymore: anymore: 1

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

Lawler besides: Toward(s) and Beside(s): 2

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

Lawler booklist: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 5

Lawler bring: Bring vs Take: 3

Lawler buoy: Aural and Oral, Boy and Buoy: 7

Lawler canthelp: Can't Help (But) ...: 7

Lawler comma: Commas again: 6

Lawler commas: Commas: 6

Lawler commas: The intonation curve is (roughly) up-down-back.up, graphically something: 3

Lawler commas: >>> The facts of the matter are these:: 4

Lawler complmnt: Object Complements: 8

Lawler correct: "Correctness": 3

Lawler eclectic: Gateways: 1

Lawler eclectic: Mathematics: 1

Lawler eclectic: Home Pages: 1

Lawler eclectic: Metasites Very large collections of links: 1

Lawler eclectic: Reference Tools: 1

Lawler eclectic: Science What you need in order to have Science Fiction: 1

Lawler eclectic: Fantasy and Science Fiction : 2

Lawler enghist: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 8

Lawler enghist: >Your example of English and Caxton print shop goes a long way to convince: 1

Lawler equally: "equally" and comparatives: 7

Lawler extrapos: Extraposition, plus Selected Short Subjects: 3

Lawler extrapos: --- Followup --: 10

Lawler giveadamn: Give a Damn: 4

Lawler gonna: gonna: 9

Lawler gotten: Gotten vs. Got: 6

Lawler hadve: hadn't've: 2

Lawler hadve: I suspect much of the rancor that greets spellings of had've is: 3

Lawler hafta: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 10

Lawler headline: Headline grammar: 2

Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 4

Lawler indian: Indian English: 10

Lawler infinite: English and Infinity: 4

Lawler itsraining: "It" in "It's raining": 10

Lawler itsraining: You may have noticed the Sapir quotation in my .sig.: 3

Lawler itsraining: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 12

Lawler l-sounds: English L sounds: 3

Lawler l-sounds: >> For instance: English has only one /l/ phoneme, but it has: 3

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

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

Lawler lingmarks: Net links Valuable resources.: 1

Lawler lingmarks: People: 1

Lawler modals: English Modals: 2

Lawler modals: The canonical paraphrase for will is be going to, idiosyncratically: 4

Lawler modals: There is also another opposition among the formal auxiliaries, between: 3

Lawler npi: Negative Polarity Items: 11

Lawler npi: Since you ask, here's a moderately complete list of polarity items,: 3

Lawler npislands: News Item: 1

Lawler only: "only": 5

Lawler phrasal: Phrasal Verbs: 2

Lawler phrasals: Phrasal Verbs: 9

Lawler q-neg: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 13

Lawler quote: "Quote, Unquote": 4

Lawler reams: Reams: 13

Lawler ross: Ross Constraints: 8

Lawler schwa: Schwa and Central Vowels: 7

Lawler sig: Maybe the horse will sing: 2

Lawler smith: Henry Lee Smith: 3

Lawler spelling: So Much For Spelling Reform: 4

Lawler striddly: striddly: 1

Lawler tense: Tense and related topics: 3

Lawler tense: >Past tenses:: 7

Lawler tense: >Just one question: Where does the past perfect ("have gone", "have sung"): 2

Lawler that: Two kinds of "that-clauses": 7

Lawler thehell: Usage of "the hell": 8

Lawler they: He, she, they?: 7

Lawler they: -- more followup:: 1

Lawler they: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 6

Lawler they: That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 2

Lawler truly: Canadian and American Raising: 6

Lawler vehicle: "vehicle": 2

Lawler vowels: Vowels Before R: 1

Lawler whom: Who(m): 2

Lawler writing: Literacy: 2

Lawler xmasthat: That vs. Which: 3

Lawler xmasthat: There are also two kinds of relative clauses:: 3

Lawler zilch: zilch: 4

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

Interface: Implementation Notes: 1

Intro A: Intro A: Welcome to AUE and Guidelines for Posting:: 1

Intro A: Dictionary Definitions: 1

Intro A: Guidelines for posting: 2

Intro A: Newcomers to the Net: 1

Intro B: Historical English, and English Literature: 1

Intro B: On-line dictionaries: 1

Intro B: Where to find previous postings: 1

Intro B: Word lists: 1

Intro C: Intro C: Mini-FAQ on Words and Phrases: 1

Intro C: American: 1

Intro C: "billion" (based on an article by Ken Moore and Olivier Bettens): 2

Intro C: "obaue" or "ObAUE": 1

Intro C: words ending in "-gry": 2

Intro D: Intro D: Mini-FAQ on Grammar, Usage and Punctuation: 1

Intro D: "A" or "an": 3

Intro D: Gender-neutral pronouns -- "he/she" -v- "they": 3

Intro D: Names for &, @, and #: 2

Intro D: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 2

Intro E: Intro E: Mini-FAQ on Spelling: 1

Intro E: U.S. -v- REST-OF-WORLD ENGLISH: 2

Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 1

Intro F: Word origins: 1

Intro G: Intro G: Where is the FAQ?: 1

IPA II: The reference to 'Chicago pop' first appeared in Mark Israel's: 3

IPA II: Some U.S. speakers do not distinguish between "Mary",: 1

IPA II: Many U.S. speakers substitute [@] for [V"], so they would: 1

IPA II: Slashes or square brackets?: 4

IPA I: About this document: 1

IPA I: Among those who use the same vowel in 'Mary', 'merry', and 'marry', not all of : 1

IPA I: The reference to 'Chicago pop' first appeared in Mark Israel's: 3

IPA I: Slashes or square brackets?: 4

IPA I: Preliminary remarks: 4

IPA I: Reading ASCII IPA: 1

IPA I: V": 1

IPA I: What is this?: 1

The Totally Official Boink Home Page: 1

boink: 4

Emphasis quotes: Use of Quotation Marks for Emphasis: 1

Audio recording technique - Some suggestions: 4

Run Home Page Search Engine: 1

Supp: Online audio files: 1

Supp: Echoed remote indexes: 1

Supp: Grammars: 2

Supp: Word origins: 1

Supp: "miss not having": 2

Supp: What is prescriptivism?: 1

Supp: Url updates: 1

Supp: words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 2

Supp: "SOS": 2

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

Subjunctive?: Subjunctive: 4

summer: 6

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

aue people (album1): 2

The ucle photo album: 1

UCLE10: The: 2

UCLE11: The: 10

UCLE12: News: 6

UCLE13: Calamity Jane: 1

UCLE13: "On the fritz": 2

UCLE13: "Rearranging deck chairs: 1

UCLE13: Waterloo: 3

UCLE14: Cripplegate and Crutched: 2

UCLE14: Eponymous London Shopkeepers: 1

UCLE15: Bonfire: 2

UCLE15: Gossip: 3

UCLE15: Round-Robin and: 1

UCLE15: The Tooth Fairy: 2

UCLE16: Kibosh: 1

UCLE02: The history of ucle: 2

UCLE03: Lindsay: 4

UCLE03: Tee Shirts: 1

UCLE03: Judith: 3

UCLE05: What’s: 1

UCLE05: John Davies's commentary: 2

UCLE06: Rhetorical vocabulary: 4

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

UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 12

UCLE08: The “Fat Lady”: 3

UCLE09: Anorak: 1

UCLE09: Holidays: 1

UCLE09: Daring: 1

Announcement of creation of uk.culture.language.english: 2

Where FAQ?: 2 October 1996:: 1

Where FAQ?: Full FAQ with internal links:: 1

Where FAQ?: Index: 3

Where FAQ?: Partial hypertext FAQ: : 2

Where FAQ?: Earlier edition of 'Full FAQ with internal links': : 1

What's new?: History of Changes at the AUE Web Site: 1

:with bells on

RH_wotd with bells on: 1

:withers

RH_wotd withers: 2

:withheld

The AUE Photo Gallery: 2

:withhold

Garbl: W: 1

:withholding

Groups: "company is" vs "company are": 1

:within

RH_wotd punctuation within quotations: 1

Comments on a proposal for reformed English spelling: 1

Unedited list of search results: 2

Arthur the Rat: 1

Resources: Categories index: 1

Isles: BRITAIN/GREAT BRITAIN/UNITED KINGDOM &C: 1

FX: "Caesarean section": 1

FX: "cut to the chase": 1

FX: "push the envelope": 1

Lawler canthelp: Can't Help (But) ...: 1

Lawler giveadamn: Give a Damn: 1

Lawler infinite: English and Infinity: 1

Lawler phrasal: Phrasal Verbs: 1

Lawler smith: Henry Lee Smith: 1

Lawler tense: Tense and related topics: 1

Intro D: Group nouns -- singular or plural? "company is" -v- "company are": 1

Intro G: Intro G: Where is the FAQ?: 1

IPA II: About this document:: 1

UCLE11: The: 2

UCLE13: The Curse of Macbeth: 1

Where FAQ?: Partial hypertext FAQ: : 1

:without

wwwords Go hence without day: 1

wwwords Books without the letter e: 1

Audio: Welcome to the: 1

The Rainbow Passage: 1

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

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

awwy_D: 'Word With You' list for letter D: 2

awwy_P: 'Word With You' list for letter P: 1

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

Audio recording technique - Some suggestions: 3

Eggs: Ways to cook eggs: 1

FX: "A, B and C" vs "A, B, and C": 2

FX: Commonest words: 1

FX: Dictionaries: 1

FX: "Go figure": 1

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

FX: "hopefully", "thankfully": 1

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

FX: "It's me" vs "It is I": 1

FX: "like" vs "such as": 1

FX: "love"="zero": 1

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

FX: Related newsgroups: 1

FX: "scot-free": 1

FX: "sincere": 1

FX: "son of a gun": 1

FX: "SOS": 1

FX: split infinitive: 1

FX: Subjunctive: 1

FX: "suck"="be very unsatisfying" by John Davies: 2

FX: Table of Contents: 1

FX: "that" vs "which": 1

FX: What words are their own antonym?: 2

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

FX: "wop": 1

FX: words without vowels: 5

FX: Words pronounced differently according to context: 1

Description of FAQ maintenance: 1

Fast FAQ: Table of Contents: 1

fast_faq_toc.html: 1

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

Lawler aluminum: Alumin(i)um: 1

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

Lawler comma: Commas again: 2

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 complmnt: Object Complements: 1

Lawler gotten: Gotten vs. Got: 1

Lawler headline: Headline grammar: 1

Lawler hyphen: Hyphens: 2

Lawler itsraining: You may have noticed the Sapir quotation in my .sig.: 3

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

Lawler l-sounds: English L sounds: 1

Lawler l-sounds: >> For instance: English has only one /l/ phoneme, but it has: 1

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: 1

Lawler quote: "Quote, Unquote": 1

Lawler reams: Reams: 1

Lawler thehell: Usage of "the hell": 2

Lawler they: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 2

Lawler vehicle: "vehicle": 1

Lawler verbing: Verbing Nouns: 1

Lawler vowels: Vowels Before R: 1

Lawler xmasthat: There are also two kinds of relative clauses:: 1

Lawler zilch: zilch: 1

Intro F: Intro F: AUE FAQ Contents: 1

IPA I: Let's get started!: 1

summer: 1

Symposium II: The a.u.e Christmas symposium: 1

UCLE12: News: 2

UCLE14: Literary characters who became: 1

UCLE15: Round-Robin and: 1

UCLE03: Lindsay: 1

Where FAQ?: AUE FAQ Supplement: : 1

:withstand

FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1

:witness

Lawler extrapos: Extraposition, plus Selected Short Subjects: 1

Lawler gotten: Gotten vs. Got: 1

Lawler zilch: zilch: 1

:witnessed

Lawler complmnt: Object Complements: 1

Lawler reams: Reams: 1

:wits

FX: "quality": 1

:wittily

FX: Gender-neutral pronouns: 1

:witty

UCLE03: Lindsay: 2

:Witzelsucht

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

:wives

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

:wizard

Resources: Discussion groups, Usenet group Websites : 1

FX: Wicca: 1

:wizardry

Lawler lingmarks: One can already, for instance, read the: 1

:WMFisher40

:WNBC

Lawler vowels: Vowels Before R: 1

:Wncd

:WNCD

:Wnem

:WNI2

:WNI3

:Wnid

Unedited list of search results: 3

:WNID

:WNID2

:WNID3

:Wnncd

:Wnwcd

:WNWCD

:WNWCollege2

:WNWD

:Wnyc

Comments on a proposal for reformed English spelling: 1

:wo'n't

Lawler l-sounds: English L sounds: 1

:woad

UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,: 2

:woak

:Wobbegong

wwwords Wobbegong: 2

:Wodehouse

UCLE14: Literary characters who became: 1

UCLE09: What: 1

:Woebegone

wwwords Woebegone: 2

:Wojcik

Lawler lingmarks: Net links Valuable resources.: 1

Lawler lingmarks: People: 1

:woke

Lawler amnt: "amn't": 4

:wolf

awwy_D: 'Word With You' list for letter D: 1

:Wolfe

Intro C: "push the envelope": 1

:Wolfe's

FX: "push the envelope": 1

:Wolfgang

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

:Wolfhound

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

:woll

Lawler l-sounds: English L sounds: 1

:wollen

Lawler l-sounds: English L sounds: 1

:Wolof

FX: "kangaroo": 1

FX: "O.K.": 1

:wolves

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