AUE: The alt.usage.english Home Page

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This is the web site of the
alt.usage.english
newsgroup

Here you'll find:

Information about newsgroups in general and alt.usage.english in particular: our logo, our people, more, in About the alt.usage.english newsgroup.

FAQs: We've got lots of them!

The Introductory documents (mini-FAQs). Newcomers to the a.u.e newsgroup should start with Intro A: Welcome and Guidelines for Posting, and will find further useful help and answers in Intros B, C, D, E, F, and G.
The large and fascinating AUE FAQ, written in 1997 by Mark Israel.
The AUE FAQ Supplement, containing additional entries from recent years.

Pronunciation is a big topic in alt.usage.english, but in newsgroups we can't use those fancy characters you see in dictionaries. We make do with ordinary characters. So if you want to know how to say /'fA:D@/, consult the ASCII IPA pages.

Listen to the sounds of English from across the USA and around the world in the Audio Archive. It's amazing how many different ways there are to say the same words.

The Links page has hundreds of categorised links to English usage and other interesting web sites.

Another English usage site, that of the uk.culture.language.english newsgroup, is hosted here. The newsgroup is alive and well, but their Web site is no longer active, and is frozen in time at UCLE Corner.

If you're a regular visitor, you might like to look at What's New? to find out about recent changes and additions to the site – also convenient links to new features that you might have seen announced in the newsgroup. In What's New you'll also find links to archive copies of this site going back to August 2000.

If you know what you're looking for but not where to find it, try the English Usage Site Search facility, which searches this site and other English usage sites in one operation. Read about these and other search methods on the Search Suggestions page.

The Site Map is a hierarchical list of all the pages in this site, allowing you to explore the site structure, or to search for a page using a part of its title.

Requests for this page since inception of the site on 29 March 2000:
Count of requests for this page

See how many requests this site has been getting recently, where they've been coming from, etc, on the Site Statistics page.

Questions or comments about this site are always welcome. Contact the webmaster.
Please do not send questions about English usage to the webmaster. Post them to the alt.usage.english newsgroup.

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If you like this site, you might like another English usage site: www.yaelf.com.

Quotation from The Grapes of Wrath