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:bubble :bubblin :Buchwald :Buchwald's :buck :Buck's :Buckaroo :bucket :buckets :buckle :buckler :Buckley :Bucks :bud :budda :Buddha :Buddies :buddy :budge :budged :budget :buds :Budweiser :buff :buffalo :buffoons :buffs :bug :bugaboo :bugbear :Bugbears :bugge :Bugger :bugges :Buggy :bugja :Bugry :bugs :bugth :bui1din :build :buildin :building :building's :buildings :built :bulge :bulk :BULL :bull :bull-begger :Bulldozer :Buller :bullet :Bulletin :bullfighting
- Yaelf: Jargon for bullfighting enthusiasts: 1
:bullheaded :Bullinger :bullish :bullpen :bulls :Bullseye :Bullsh :bullshit :bully :Bulwer-Lytton :bum :Bumf :bumin :bummel-clocks :bummer :bump :Bumper :bumpkin :Bumps :bun :bunch :bunco :Buncombe :bundle :Bundt :Bungry :bunk :bunkum :Bunny :Bunny's :bunt :Bunter :Bunyan :buoy :buoyant :Bupkes :bupkis :Burchfield :Burchfield's :burden :burdens :bureau :bureaucracy :bureaucrat :bureaucratic :Buren :burgers :Burgess :Burgess's :burgundy :burial :buried :burlesque :Burlington :burn :burned :Burnett :Burnett's :burning :burns :Burnside :burnt :bursar :burst :bursts :Burton :Bury :burying :bus :buses :bush :bushed :Bushel :Bushisms :bushwa :bushwhack :bushy :business :BUSINESS-SL :businessman :Busker :Busman :bust :Bust-up :Bustard :Buster :Busting :busy :BUT :but
- AUE Logo: The Totally Official alt.usage.english Logo: 2
- AWWY: ball of wax, the whole; caboodle; kit and caboodle, the whole; kitchen sink, everything but the; Mandingo tribe; shebang, the whole; sink, everything but the kitchen; stove, everything but the kitchen; wax, the whole ball of; Whole Thing, The: 3
- AWWY: bra; brassiere; breast supporter; Brief but Uplifting Tale, A; burn the bra movement; embrace; Maidenform bra: 1
- AWWY: cigar; Close, But No Cigar; Conestoga wagons (stogies); Nick o' Teen; stogies (stogyes) and cigars: 1
- Abbreviations:
Unedited list of search results
: 1
- Abbreviations: AUE: Initialisms Commonly Used in alt.usage.english: 1
- Alternating voices: Markus's and Skitt's voices alternating: 2
- Audio:
Other Sound Files
: 1
- Cunningham: Comments: 1
- Cunningham: Explanatory Remarks: 2
- Emphasis quotes: AUE: Use of Quotation Marks for Emphasis: 3
- FX: ", vs ,": 1
- FX: "-er" vs "-re": 4
- FX: "-ize" vs "-ise": 1
- FX: "." after abbreviations: 2
- FX: "A.D.": 2
- FX: "Break a leg!": 1
- FX: "Caesarean section": 3
- FX: "Eskimo": 3
- FX: "Go figure": 1
- FX: "God rest you merry, gentlemen": 1
- FX: "ISO" by Mark Brader: 3
- FX: "Illegitimis non carborundum": 2
- FX: "It's me" vs "It is I": 5
- FX: "Jingle Bells": 1
- FX: "Let them eat cake!": 1
- FX: "SOS": 1
- FX: "Scotch": 2
- FX: "Take the prisoner downstairs", said Tom condescendingly.: 1
- FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 3
- FX: "There's a sucker born every minute": 1
- FX: "You have another think coming": 1
- FX: "a"/"an" before abbreviations: 1
- FX: "acronym": 1
- FX: "all ... not": 3
- FX: "alot": 1
- FX: "alright": 1
- FX: "alumin(i)um": 3
- FX: "beg the question": 2
- FX: "between you and I": 1
- FX: "billion": a U.K. view: 1
- FX: "billions and billions": 1
- FX: "bloody": 6
- FX: "blue moon": 3
- FX: "canola": 2
- FX: "catch-22": 4
- FX: "copacetic": 1
- FX: "could care less": 6
- FX: "crap": 1
- FX: "cut the mustard": 1
- FX: "different to", "different than": 4
- FX: "done"="finished": 1
- FX: "due to": 1
- FX: "ebonics": 3
- FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 2
- FX: "fall off a turnip truck": 2
- FX: "flammable": 1
- FX: "fuck": 1
- FX: "functionality": 2
- FX: "hopefully", "thankfully": 3
- FX: "in like Flynn": 2
- FX: "jerry-built"/"jury-rigged": 2
- FX: "kangaroo": 1
- FX: "less" vs "fewer": 6
- FX: "like" vs "as": 5
- FX: "like" vs "such as": 2
- FX: "merkin": 6
- FX: "more than you can shake a stick at": 1
- FX: "mouses" vs "mice": 4
- FX: "none is" vs "none are": 1
- FX: "ollie ollie oxen free": 1
- FX: "peter out": 1
- FX: "pie-shaped": 2
- FX: "politically correct": 2
- FX: "posh": 2
- FX: "quality": 2
- FX: "rule of thumb": 4
- FX: "shall" vs "will", "should" vs "would": 1
- FX: "spoonerism": 1
- FX: "suck"="be very unsatisfying" by John Davies: 3
- FX: "that" vs "which": 2
- FX: "the whole nine yards": 1
- FX: "till"/"until": 1
- FX: "to call a spade a spade": 1
- FX: "true fact": 4
- FX: "try and", "be sure and", "go" + verb: 5
- FX: "whole cloth": 2
- FX: "whom": 2
- FX: "wonk": 2
- FX: "you saying" vs "your saying": 2
- FX: Books on usage: 1
- FX: Commonest words: 1
- FX: Dictionaries: 1
- FX: Does the next millennium begin in 2000 or 2001?: 1
- FX: Doubling of final consonants before suffixes: 3
- FX: E-prime: 1
- FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 1
- FX: Foreign plurals => English singulars: 3
- FX: Fumblerules ("Don't use no double negatives", etc.): 1
- FX: Gender-neutral pronouns: 3
- FX: Guidelines for posting: 1
- FX: How did "Truly" become a personal name?: 1
- FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 5
- FX: Names of "&", "@", and "#": 3
- FX: Online dictionaries: 1
- FX: Online language columns: 1
- FX: Online usage guides: 1
- FX: Origin of the dollar sign: 1
- FX: Plurals of Latin/Greek words: 3
- FX: Postfix "not": 1
- FX: Preposition at end: 1
- FX: Related newsgroups: 5
- FX: Repeated words after abbreviations: 2
- FX: Rhotic vs non-rhotic, intrusive "r": 3
- FX: Spaces between sentences: 4
- FX: Split infinitive: 5
- FX: Subjunctive: 6
- FX: The the "hoi polloi" debate: 2
- FX: Trademarks: 1
- FX: Typo: 2
- FX: What is "ghoti"?: 4
- FX: What is the opposite of "distaff side"?: 1
- FX: What is the phone number of the Grammar Hotline?: 1
- FX: What will we call the next decade?: 2
- FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 5
- FX: Why do we say "30 years old", but "a 30-year-old man"?: 2
- FX: Words ending in "-gry": 2
- FX: Words pronounced differently according to context: 10
- FX: Words whose spelling has influenced their pronunciation: 3
- FX: Words without vowels: 3
- FX: [Prefatory remarks]: 1
- Fast FAQ:
[Prefatory remarks]
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- Garbl: and, but: 1
- Garbl: not only ... but also: 1
- Genitive: AUE: Genitive is Not Always Possessive: 3
- Groups: AUE: "company is" and "company are": 2
- Home: The alt.usage.english Home Page: 4
- I before E:
Examples of exceptions to the rule:
: 1
- IPA II:
/*/ is a short tap of the tongue use by some U.S.
: 1
- IPA II:
About this document:
: 1
- IPA II:
Also in diphthongs: "dive" /daIv/ (yes, folks, the sound
: 1
- IPA II:
The [O] sound requires rounded lips, but lips making a
: 1
- IPA II: Affricates, diphthongs and triphthongs:
: 1
- IPA I:
*
: 1
- IPA I:
A.
: 2
- IPA I:
O
: 1
- IPA I:
a
: 1
- IPA I:
Affricates, diphthongs and triphthongs
: 1
- IPA I:
Reading ASCII IPA
: 1
- IPA I:
Slashes or square brackets?
: 1
- IPA I:
What is this?
: 1
- IPA I:
Writing ASCII IPA
: 1
- Intro A:
Dictionary Abbreviations
: 1
- Intro A:
Guidelines for posting
: 1
- Intro A:
Newcomers to the Net
: 1
- Intro B:
Historical English, and English Literature
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- Intro B:
Word lists
: 1
- Intro C:
"billion"
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- Intro D:
"If I was" -v- "If I were"
: 1
- Intro D:
Acronyms and other abbreviations using initial letters
: 1
- Intro D:
Gender-neutral pronouns: "he/she" -v- "they"
: 3
- Intro D:
Group nouns: singular or plural? "company is" -v- "company are"
: 1
- Intro D:
Names for &, @, and #
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- Intro D:
Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms
: 1
- Intro D:
Why do we say "30 years old" but "a 30-year-old man"?
: 1
- Intro D: AUE Intro D: Mini-FAQ on Grammar, Usage & Punctuation: 1
- Intro E:
Humorous poems about spelling
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- Intro E:
Joke about step-by-step spelling reform
: 1
- Intro F: AUE Intro F: Contents of AUE FAQ and FAQ Supplement: 1
- Intro G: AUE Intro G: Where is the FAQ?: 1
- Isles:
BRITISH ISLES. A geographical term referring to the islands
: 1
- Isles:
BRITISH is the formal designation of the nationality of citizens
: 1
- Isles:
GREAT BRITAIN. Used by cartographers to denote the biggest
: 1
- Isles:
IRELAND. As used by geographers, the second largest island
: 1
- Isles:
NORTHERN IRELAND This is not the place to go into
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- Isles:
SCOTCH. The following is extracted from Mark Israel's FAQ
: 2
- Lawler: The canonical paraphrase for will is be going to, idiosyncratically: 7
- Lawler: There is also another opposition among the formal auxiliaries, between: 1
- Lawler: -- more followup:: 3
- Lawler: --- Followup --: 4
- Lawler: >> For instance: English has only one phoneme, but it has: 4
- Lawler: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 2
- Lawler: >>> The facts of the matter are these:: 6
- Lawler: >Past tenses:: 13
- Lawler: >Your example of English and Caxton print shop goes a long way to convince: 5
- Lawler: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 7
- Lawler: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 23
- Lawler: I suspect much of the rancor that greets spellings of had've is: 1
- Lawler: Since you ask, here's a moderately complete list of polarity items,: 3
- Lawler: That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 5
- Lawler: The intonation curve is (roughly) up-down-back.up, graphically something: 3
- Lawler: There are at least 11 phonemically distinct vowels in standard American: 2
- Lawler: You may have noticed the Sapir quotation in my .sig.: 2
- Lawler: "Correctness": 2
- Lawler: "It" in "It's raining": 6
- Lawler: "Quote, Unquote": 2
- Lawler: "amn't": 6
- Lawler: "equally" and comparatives: 3
- Lawler: "only": 1
- Lawler: "vehicle": 2
- Lawler: A or An Historical Novel?: 4
- Lawler: Alumin(i)um: 7
- Lawler: As far as ... goes/is concerned: 2
- Lawler: Aural and Oral, Boy and Buoy: 5
- Lawler: Books on English, Language, and Linguistics: 1
- Lawler: Bring vs Take: 4
- Lawler: Can't Help (But) ...: 15
- Lawler: Canadian and American Raising: 3
- Lawler: Commas again: 6
- Lawler: Commas: 5
- Lawler: English L sounds: 5
- Lawler: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 13
- Lawler: English and Infinity: 5
- Lawler: Extraposition, plus Selected Short Subjects: 4
- Lawler: Give a Damn: 5
- Lawler: Gotten vs. Got: 7
- Lawler: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 3
- Lawler: He, she, they?: 4
- Lawler: Headline grammar: 3
- Lawler: Henry Lee Smith: 3
- Lawler: Hyphens: 5
- Lawler: Indian English: 3
- Lawler: Literacy: 4
- Lawler: Negative Polarity Items: 10
- Lawler: News Item: 2
- Lawler: Object Complements: 8
- Lawler: Phrasal Verbs: 3
- Lawler: Phrasal Verbs: 5
- Lawler: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 17
- Lawler: Reams: 4
- Lawler: Ross Constraints: 3
- Lawler: Schwa and Central Vowels: 5
- Lawler: So Much For Spelling Reform: 5
- Lawler: Tense and related topics: 5
- Lawler: That vs. Which: 2
- Lawler: There are also two kinds of relative clauses:: 5
- Lawler: Toward(s) and Beside(s): 6
- Lawler: Usage of "the hell": 4
- Lawler: Verbing Nouns: 1
- Lawler: Vowels Before R: 1
- Lawler: Who(m): 2
- Lawler: anymore: 5
- Lawler: gonna: 4
- Lawler: hadn't've: 3
- Lawler: zilch: 3
- Links: Words about words
: 1
- Lynch: But at the Beginning.: 1
- Morris: No Cigar (Close, but): 1
- Subjunctive?: AUE: Does English Have a Subjunctive Mood?: 2
- UCLE02: The history of ucle: 1
- UCLE03: Judith
: 1
- UCLE03: Lindsay
: 1
- UCLE05: John Davies's commentary
: 2
- UCLE05: What’s
: 2
- UCLE07: Some significant numbers from literature and literary criticism: 2
- UCLE08: Britannia: Her history,
: 2
- UCLE08: London’s
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- UCLE09: “It went pear-shaped”
: 1
- UCLE09: “It’s
: 2
- UCLE09: “Pop
: 2
- UCLE09: Anorak
: 1
- UCLE09: Daring
: 1
- UCLE09: Holidays
: 1
- UCLE09: Rivers
: 2
- UCLE09: The
: 1
- UCLE10: "Bite the bullet"
: 1
- UCLE11: The
: 5
- UCLE12: News
: 3
- UCLE13: The Curse of Macbeth
: 1
- UCLE14: Cripplegate and Crutched
: 1
- UCLE15:
The Tooth Fairy
: 6
- UCLE15: Bonfire
: 1
- UCLE15: Gossip
: 1
- UCLE16: Hooligan
: 1
- UCLE16: Kibosh
: 1
- UK Interlinear IPA: Markus Laker's Interlinear ASCII IPA: 1
- Usenet Docs: AUE: Links to Official Usenet Documents: 1
- What's new?:
6 December 2001
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- What's new?:
18 December 2001
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- What's new?:
2 September 2001:
: 2
- What's new?:
5 March 2002
: 1
- What's new?: AUE: What's new: History of Changes at the Site: 1
- Where FAQ?:
Brian Tung's version (15 August 1995):
: 1
- Where FAQ?:
Partial hypertext FAQ:
: 1
- Where FAQ?: Introductions to alt.usage.english:
: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) During an Internet dialogue, the question came up - why do people say Jesus H Christ? It never seems to be any other letter. It sounds American, but what does it stand for and where did it originate? Holy seems to be a strong candidate, or could it: 1
- Yaelf: (WD) I'm not sure how you would spell "hunky dorey", but it means 'just great', or something like that. Where does it come from?: 1
- Yaelf: The Words are the Same, but their Usage is Changing: 1
- Yaelf: The place where words you've made up can become part of an actual online dictionary! slang, webspeak, colloquialisms...you name it, if you know a word that should be in the dictionary but isn't, submit it and we'll post it on this site (with credit given: 1
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Explanatory notes:
: 1
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AUE people
: 2
- 11. The Commonwealth
: 2
- 2. England and Wales
: 2
- 3. Great Britain
: 1
- 5. The United Kingdom and Islands
: 2
- 7. The Common Travel Area
: 2
- 9. The European Union
: 1
- AUE Gallery: Stephen Toogood's paddle: 1
- AUE: "SOS": 2
- AUE: "anymore" and "any more": 2
- AUE: "miss not having": 1
- AUE: ASCII IPA files: 1
- AUE: Comments on a Proposal for Reformed English Spelling: 5
- AUE: Contact: 1
- AUE: Grammar Books: 2
- AUE: Perlfect Search: 1
- AUE: Search Information: 3
- AUE: What is prescriptivism?: 1
- AUE: What is the UK? Is it the same as Britain, Great Britain or England?: 2
- Analysis of Some Mark Barratt Vowels: 1
- Announcement of creation of uk.culture.language.english: 1
- Audio recording technique - Some suggestions: 1
- Cambodunum
: 56
- Fieldfares
: 10
- Fun with words TOC: 1
- Pear-shaped comments: 2
- Preface
: 29
- Suggestions: How To Form Your Reply
: 1
- The Aim Of This Document
: 1
- The Poetry of F. W. Moorman: 1
- The Totally Official Boink Home Page: 2
- Untitled: 1
- Untitled: 4
- Untitled: 2
- Untitled: 2
- london_symposium_boink/boink.html: 2
- summer_boink/summer.html: 4
:butch :butcher's :butler :Butler's :bUtS
- IPA II:
[*]
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- IPA II:
tS
: 1
:butt :butt-end :butter
- AWWY: Breadstuffs, Lords, Ladies, and Duffs; bread and butter; bread and money; dough; duff and dough; Lady; out of bread: 1
- AWWY: Smoothing the Way; butter people; currying favor; dab will do ya, a little (Brylcreem flattery?); Favel, the centaur (to curry favor); favor, to curry; little dab will do ya, a (Brylcreem flattery?); thick, lay on see also; unctuous: 1
- FX: "A, B and C" vs "A, B, and C": 1
- FX: "cut the mustard": 1
- FX: "less" vs "fewer": 1
- Morris: Bread and Butter: 1
- Morris: Butter: 1
- RH WotD: butter wouldn't melt in her/his mouth: 1
- RH WotD: butter wouldn't melt in someone's mouth: 1
- UCLE11: The
: 1
- aue London Boink 29 Dec 01: 5
:Buttercup :butterfly :butterine :buttocks :button :buttons :butty :buxom :buy
- AWWY: A Hog on Ice; bag, letting the cat out of the; buy a pig in a poke; cat out of the bag, letting the; hog on ice; ice, hog on; pig in a poke, buy a; poke, buy a pig in a: 3
- AWWY: après le deluge (flood of bills); buying it; extravagantly; Lavish...Extravagant...Buy it on Plastic; plastic: 1
- Abbreviations:
Unedited list of search results
: 1
- Brians: by/'bye/buy: 1
- FX: "try and", "be sure and", "go" + verb: 1
- FX: Books on Britishisms, Canadianisms, etc.: 1
- FX: Online dictionaries: 1
- FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1
- IPA II:
The sounds in the column headed 'IPA sounds' have been copied with permission
: 1
- IPA I:
The sounds in the column headed 'IPA sounds' have been copied with permission
: 1
- Lawler: Books on English, Language, and Linguistics: 1
- Lawler: Hyphens: 1
- Lawler: Ross Constraints: 1
- Lawler: striddly: 1
- Links: Miscellaneous, not language related
: 1
- Quinion: To buy the farm: 1
- Wilton: Buy The Farm: 1
- AUE: "anymore" and "any more": 1
:Buyer's :buying :buzz :buzzer :buzzes :buzzing :buzzwords :BVD :BVDs :BVE :Bve :bVnd :bVndl :bVt :bVtn :Bwb :bwg :BY :by'r :by-passing :BYE :bye :Bygrave :byproduct :byrlady :Byron :bystanders :Byte :bytes :BYU
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