Concordance index for 'le' onwards

:lea

• Cunningham: Individual poster histories - alt.usage.english: 1
• Fieldfares : 1

:leach

• Brians: leach/leech: 1
• Cunningham: Individual poster histories - alt.usage.english: 1

:lead

• AWWY: attempt; enticing; Lead Us Not To Temptation; tantalizing; tempting; titillate: 1
• AWWY: cinch, lead-pipe; conviction; dead to rights; invincible; lead-pipe cinch; victims; victory: 2
• Brians: lead/led: 1
• FX: "Get the lead out": 3
• FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 1
• FX: "whom": 1
• FX: "you saying" vs "your saying": 1
• FX: Guidelines for posting: 1
• FX: How reliable are dictionaries?: 1
• Fast FAQ: [Prefatory remarks] : 1
• IPA II: The Details: : 1
• IPA I: Consonants and vowels : 1
• IPA I: Consonants and vowels : 1
• Intro A: Guidelines for posting : 1
• Intro C: American : 1
• Intro E: I before E except after C : 1
• Lawler: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 1
• Morris: Lead Pipe Cinch: 1
• UCLE09: Food : 1
• UCLE11: The : 1
• Wilton: Lead-Pipe Cinch: 1

:leader

• FX: "like" vs "such as": 1

:leaders

• Preface : 1

:leading

• FX: "Break a leg!": 2
• Lawler: Indian English: 1
• Links: Notes : 1
• 11. The Commonwealth : 1

:leads

• FX: "like" vs "such as": 1
• FX: Split infinitive: 1
• Genitive: AUE: Genitive is Not Always Possessive: 1
• Lawler: Bring vs Take: 1
• Lawler: News Item: 2
• Lawler: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 1
• UCLE10: Fainites! : 1
• AUE: London Millennium Boink, December 1999: 1
• The AUE Photo Gallery: 1

:leaf

• Lawler: Negative Polarity Items: 1
• Yaelf: Baggot Leaf Gilding Glossary: 1
• Fieldfares : 1

:leafing

• Cambodunum : 1

:LEAFLET

• UCLE12: News : 1

:leaflet

• UCLE08: Britannia: Her history, : 1
• UCLE12: News : 1

:Leafs

• Lawler: Negative Polarity Items: 1

:league

• AWWY: Major and Bush Leagues; big league; bush league; major league; minor league: 4
• AWWY: allegiance; assets; gambling (in the hole); hole, in the; In the Hole...Assets...Liabilities; league; liabilities; liege; ligament: 1
• Intro B: Word lists : 1
• Lawler: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 1
• UCLE04: British : 1
• UCLE07: Some significant numbers from literature and literary criticism: 1
• Wilton: Ivy League: 1

:Leagues

• AWWY: Major and Bush Leagues; big league; bush league; major league; minor league: 1

:leak

• FX: "pie-shaped": 2

:leakage

• FX: "God rest you merry, gentlemen": 1

:Leake

• Cunningham: Individual poster histories - alt.usage.english: 1

:lean

• Lawler: Commas: 1

:leaned

• Fieldfares : 1

:leaning

• UCLE08: Britannia: Her history, : 1

:leansome

• Cambodunum : 1

:leap

• AWWY: desultory; faith, leap of; gun, jumping the; jump the gun; Jumping Off Point, A; leap of faith; leap, quantum; quantum leap; resilient; results; salient; sally: 4
• Brians: quantum leap: 1
• FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1
• Fieldfares : 1

:learn

• AWWY: bitter end; defeat, on the verge of (on the ropes); end of your rope, at the; Learn the Ropes...The Bitter End; know the ropes; ropes, on the; tether, at the end of your (end of your rope); verge of defeat (on the ropes): 1
• AWWY: constructive; construe; destructive; Instilling...Constructive...Instruction; instruction; obstruct; teach and learn: 1
• FX: Commonest words: 1
• IPA II: The reference to 'Chicago pop' first appeared in Mark Israel's : 1
• IPA I: Writing ASCII IPA : 2
• IPA I: Let's get started! : 1
• IPA I: What is this? : 1
• IPA I: Reading ASCII IPA : 1
• IPA I: Let's get started! : 1
• IPA I: Reading ASCII IPA : 1
• IPA I: What is this? : 1
• IPA I: Writing ASCII IPA : 2
• IPA I: Note 2: The reference to 'Chicago pop' first appeared in Mark Israel's AUE FAQ, and I [Bob Cunningham] believe it was copied from there by Markus Laker for inclusion in his : 1
• IPA I: The reference to 'Chicago pop' first appeared in Mark Israel's : 1
• Intro B: Where to learn about ASCII IPA : 1
• Intro B: AUE Intro B: Useful Web Sites for AUE Participants: 1
• Lawler: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 6
• Lawler: That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 1
• Lawler: "amn't": 1
• Lawler: "vehicle": 1
• Lawler: Canadian and American Raising: 1
• Lawler: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 2
• Lawler: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 1
• Lawler: Indian English: 1
• Lawler: Object Complements: 1
• Lawler: Ross Constraints: 2
• Lawler: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1
• Lawler: gonna: 1
• Lawler: zilch: 1
• AUE: Audio recording technique - some suggestions: 1
• AUE: London Symposium Boink, September 1998: 1
• Fieldfares : 1

:Learn2

• Links: Miscellaneous, not language related : 1

:learned

• Audio: Technical information : 1
• FX: "bloody": 1
• FX: "kangaroo": 1
• FX: "whom": 1
• FX: How did "Truly" become a personal name?: 1
• Lawler: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 3
• Lawler: Where I grew up (in DeKalb, IL, 100 km W of Chicago) Mary,: 1
• Lawler: "amn't": 1
• Lawler: Alumin(i)um: 1
• Lawler: Canadian and American Raising: 1
• Lawler: Negative Polarity Items: 1
• Lawler: Reams: 1
• Lawler: Tense and related topics: 1
• Links: Words about words : 1
• UCLE11: The : 1

:learner

• Lawler: Usage of "the hell": 1

:Learner's

• FX: Online dictionaries: 1

:learners

• FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 1
• Intro D: "Gotten" : 1
• Lawler: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 1
• Lawler: gonna: 1

:learning

• AWWY: Academic Schools; learning, love of (academics); school: 1
• FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 1
• FX: "mind your p's and q's": 2
• FX: "shall" vs "will", "should" vs "would": 1
• FX: "you saying" vs "your saying": 1
• FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 1
• FX: Online dictionaries: 1
• FX: When to use "the": 1
• FX: Words pronounced differently according to context: 1
• Intro B: Learning English as a Foreign Language : 1
• Intro B: AUE Intro B: Useful Web Sites for AUE Participants: 1
• Intro G: AUE Intro G: Where is the FAQ?: 1
• Lawler: >> For instance: English has only one phoneme, but it has: 1
• Lawler: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 1
• Lawler: Indian English: 1
• Lawler: Negative Polarity Items: 1
• Lawler: Object Complements: 3
• Links: Collections of Web links : 2
• Links: Learning English : 4
• What's new?: 6 December 2001 : 2
• Yaelf: Tony Jebson's site on learning Old English. This site includes articles on the history and origins of Old English.: 1
• Yaelf: What is a collection of literary passages used as an aid for language learning?: 1
• Preface : 1

:Learning English

• Links: Almanacs : 1

:learns

• Lawler: Commas: 1

:lease

• FX: "done"="finished": 1

:least

• Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results : 1
• Audio: Technical information : 1
• Cunningham: Explanations of column headings: : 2
• FX: "-ize" vs "-ise": 1
• FX: "blue moon": 2
• FX: "crap": 1
• FX: "merkin": 1
• FX: "ollie ollie oxen free": 1
• FX: "push the envelope": 1
• FX: "the whole nine yards": 1
• FX: "whole cloth": 1
• FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 1
• FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1
• FX: Words ending in "-gry": 1
• FX: [Prefatory remarks]: 1
• I before E: Exceptions with "ei" or "ie" pronounced as in "species" or "seize": : 1
• IPA II: The symbol /A./ has been included only because at least one AUE contributor has : 1
• IPA I: <+> : 1
• IPA I: There is no ASCII IPA symbol for the IPA 180-degree-rotated : 1
• Intro A: Dictionary Definitions : 1
• Intro A: WELCOME TO alt.usage.english! : 1
• Intro C: "push the envelope" : 1
• Intro E: I before E except after C : 1
• Isles: GREAT BRITAIN. Used by cartographers to denote the biggest : 1
• Lawler: >Past tenses:: 1
• Lawler: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 1
• Lawler: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 2
• Lawler: Since you ask, here's a moderately complete list of polarity items,: 1
• Lawler: The intonation curve is (roughly) up-down-back.up, graphically something: 1
• Lawler: There are at least 11 phonemically distinct vowels in standard American: 1
• Lawler: You may have noticed the Sapir quotation in my .sig.: 1
• Lawler: "It" in "It's raining": 1
• Lawler: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 1
• Lawler: English and Infinity: 1
• Lawler: Extraposition, plus Selected Short Subjects: 1
• Lawler: Give a Damn: 3
• Lawler: He, she, they?: 1
• Lawler: Literacy: 1
• Lawler: Negative Polarity Items: 1
• Lawler: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 1
• Lawler: Schwa and Central Vowels: 2
• Lawler: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1
• Lawler: Usage of "the hell": 4
• Lawler: anymore: 1
• Symposium I: AUE: London Symposium, March 1998: 1
• UCLE03: Lindsay : 1
• UCLE09: Daring : 1
• UCLE12: News : 1
• UCLE14: Eponymous London Shopkeepers : 1
• UCLE15: Round-Robin and : 1
• AUE: "anymore" and "any more": 1
• AUE: Comments on a Proposal for Reformed English Spelling: 1
• Cambodunum : 1
• Suggestions: How To Form Your Reply : 1
• Why Bother Following This Style? : 1

:leather

• AWWY: chagrin; Chagrined, Roughshod, Hands Down; hands down; Chagrined, Roughshod, and Hands Down; harsh leather (chagrin); leather, harsh (chagrin); riding roughshod; roughshod, riding: 2
• FX: "Eskimo": 2
• FX: "hell for leather": 4
• FX: "portmanteau word": 1
• Fast FAQ: [Prefatory remarks] : 1
• Morris: Hell Bent for Leather: 1
• Quinion: Nothing like leather: 1
• Wilton: Hell-Bent for Leather: 1

:leather-hungry

• FX: Words ending in "-gry": 1

:leatherette

• FX: Trademarks: 1

:Leatherneck

• Wilton: Leatherneck: 1

:leave

• AWWY: bottom, hit rock; hit rock bottom; rock bottom, hit; scrupulous scruples; stone cold; tone unturned, leave no; unscupulous; unturned, leave no stone: 2
• Brians: leave/let: 1
• FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 2
• FX: "different to", "different than": 1
• FX: "loo": 1
• FX: "spoonerism": 1
• FX: Books on rhyming slang: 1
• Genitive: AUE: Genitive is Not Always Possessive: 1
• IPA I: Credits : 1
• IPA I: About this document : 1
• Intro C: "exception proves the rule" : 2
• Lawler: >Past tenses:: 1
• Lawler: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 1
• Lawler: Gotten vs. Got: 4
• Lawler: Object Complements: 3
• Lawler: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 1
• Lawler: Who(m): 1
• UCLE03: Lindsay : 1
• What's new?: 6 December 2001 : 1
• Yaelf: Defining words can leave some of us tongue-tied: 1
• AUE: Summer Boink, London, June 1999: 1
• Cambodunum : 3
• Suggestions: How To Form Your Reply : 3

:leaves

• AWWY: act, cleaning up your; books made of leaves; cleaning up your act; house, set thine in order (Biblical origin); leaves of books?; new leaves, turning over; pages and leaves; Turning Over New Leaves: 5
• Lawler: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 1
• Lawler: Can't Help (But) ...: 1
• Lawler: English L sounds: 1
• Lawler: Negative Polarity Items: 2
• Subjunctive?: AUE: Does English Have a Subjunctive Mood?: 1
• UCLE11: The : 1
• AUE Gallery: Padraig Breathnach: 1
• Cambodunum : 1
• Fieldfares : 1
• Preface : 2

:Leavin

• Fieldfares : 1

:LEAVING

• UCLE12: News : 1

:leaving

• Lawler: Object Complements: 1
• UCLE03: Lindsay : 1
• UCLE08: The “Fat Lady” : 1
• Preface : 1

:Lebrecht

• AWWY: Blazers, Cardigans, Bluchers et al; bluchers; boxers; British HMS Blazer; Brudenell, James Thomas (7th Earl of Cardigan); cardigan; cravat; Croatian cravats; Earl of Cardigan (James Thomas Brudenell); trench coat; von Blücher, Gebhard Lebrecht (bluchers): 1

:lectern

• Brians: podium/lectern: 1
• Garbl: lectern , podium: 1

:lecture

• Lawler: Bring vs Take: 1
• Lawler: Negative Polarity Items: 1

:lectures

• FX: "spoonerism": 1
• Lawler: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 1
• Lawler: Alumin(i)um: 1
• Lawler: Bring vs Take: 2

:LED

• FX: Repeated words after abbreviations: 1

:led

• Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results : 1
• Brians: lead/led: 1
• FX: "billion": a U.K. view: 1
• FX: "blue moon": 1
• FX: "bug"="defect": 1
• Genitive: AUE: Genitive is Not Always Possessive: 1
• IPA II: Credits: : 1
• IPA I: Credits : 1
• IPA I: Credits : 1
• Lawler: Henry Lee Smith: 1
• UCLE13: Custer's last stand : 1
• UCLE13: Waterloo : 1
• UCLE16: Hooligan : 1

:lede

• RH WotD: lede: 1

:Lederer

• FX: Online language columns: 1
• FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1
• Intro C: What words are their own antonym? : 1
• AUE: Books About Words: 1

:Lederer's

• FX: Trademarks: 1

:lee

• Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results : 1
• Cunningham: Individual poster histories - alt.usage.english: 7
• FX: "like" vs "such as": 2
• FX: "loo": 1
• Lawler: Henry Lee Smith: 3

:Leeb

• Audio: Credits : 1

:leech

• Brians: leach/leech: 1

:Leeds

• UCLE12: News : 1
• Cambodunum : 2
• Preface : 3

:leek

• IPA I: Reading ASCII IPA : 1
• IPA I: Reading ASCII IPA : 1

:leery

• Brians: wary/weary/leery: 1
• Morris: Leery: 1

:leet

• Cambodunum : 12

:leet's

• Cambodunum : 1

:leetin

• Cambodunum : 1

:leetly

• Cambodunum : 1

:leets

• Cambodunum : 1
• Fieldfares : 1

:leetsome

• Cambodunum : 1

:leeward

• FX: "loo": 1

:Lefl

• Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results : 1

:LEFT

• AUE: The Big Apple Boink, July 2001: 1

:left

• AWWY: adroit; dexterity; gauche (left?); left (associations with evil); left-handed compliment (insult); Right and Left; sinister (left?): 5
• AWWY: conservatives (right wing); Left, Right Wings...Middle of the Road; middle of the road; political wings; radical extremists (left wing); right wing extremists; road, middle of the; wings, different political: 2
• Abbreviations: Explanation of Search Criteria : 2
• Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results : 2
• Abbreviations: AUE: Initialisms Commonly Used in alt.usage.english: 1
• Cunningham: Individual poster histories - alt.usage.english: 1
• FX: "It's me" vs "It is I": 1
• FX: "like" vs "such as": 1
• FX: "sirloin"/"baron of beef": 1
• FX: "whole cloth": 1
• FX: Commonest words: 1
• FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 1
• FX: Online language columns: 1
• FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1
• Garbl: left off: 1
• Lawler: The canonical paraphrase for will is be going to, idiosyncratically: 1
• Lawler: >Past tenses:: 1
• Lawler: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 1
• Lawler: I suspect much of the rancor that greets spellings of had've is: 1
• Lawler: "It" in "It's raining": 1
• Lawler: Can't Help (But) ...: 1
• Lawler: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 1
• Lawler: Phrasal Verbs: 1
• Lawler: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 1
• Lawler: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1
• Lawler: Tense and related topics: 1
• Lawler: Toward(s) and Beside(s): 1
• Lawler: Who(m): 2
• Lawler: striddly: 1
• Links: Notes : 2
• Morris: Right (vs. Left): 1
• RH WotD: right and left: 1
• UCLE05: John Davies's commentary : 1
• UCLE08: Britannia: Her history, : 11
• UCLE09: Daring : 1
• UCLE13: "Rearranging deck chairs : 1
• UCLE13: Waterloo : 2
• UCLE14: Eponymous London Shopkeepers : 1
• What's new?: 24 April 2002 : 1
• Wilton: Left Wing: 1
• Yaelf: (WD) Any ideas on the origins of the expression "nitty-gritty"? I heard today a rather horrible suggestion that it referred to the debris left in the bottom of slave ships after their voyages, once the slaves remaining alive had been removed.: 1
• AUE: London Boink, December 2001: 2
• AUE: Summer Boink, London, June 1999: 3
• Cambodunum : 3
• Preface : 1

:left-hand

• Links: Miscellaneous, not language related : 2

:Leftpondian

• AUE: London Boink, December 2001: 3

:leg

• AWWY: ankle, break an; break a leg, knee, your neck, or an ankle (various meanings of); knee, break a; leg, break a; neck, break your; Those Are the Breaks: 2
• FX: "Break a leg!": 5
• Fast FAQ: [Prefatory remarks] : 1
• Morris: Break a Leg: 1
• Morris: Leg, Pulling Your: 1
• UCLE12: News : 2
• Wilton: Break A Leg: 1

:legacy

• RH WotD: legacy: 1

:legal

• Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results : 2
• FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 1
• FX: "rule of thumb": 1
• FX: "to all intents and purposes": 1
• FX: Split infinitive: 1
• FX: Trademarks: 2
• Lawler: "only": 1
• Lawler: "vehicle": 3
• Quinion: Legal language in England: 2
• 11. The Commonwealth : 2
• 2. England and Wales : 1
• 3. Great Britain : 1
• 4. The United Kingdom : 1
• 7. The Common Travel Area : 1
• AUE: What is the UK? Is it the same as Britain, Great Britain or England?: 2

:legales

• FX: "billion": a U.K. view: 1

:legalese

• AWWY: circumlocution (gobbledygook); Gobbledygook; journalese (gobbledygook); legalese (gobbledygook); Maverick, Maury (gobbledygook); Pentagonese (gobbledygook); pseudo-technical jargon (gobbledygook); turkey and gobbledygook: 1
• Links: Miscellaneous, language related : 1

:legally

• Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results : 1
• Isles: NORTHERN IRELAND This is not the place to go into : 1
• 3. Great Britain : 1

:legend

• Brians: legend/myth: 1
• FX: "Caesarean section": 1
• FX: "There's a sucker born every minute": 1
• FX: How did "Truly" become a personal name?: 2
• UCLE04: Our Favourite Cultural and Language Links : 1
• UCLE09: Daring : 2
• UCLE12: News : 1
• AUE: The Rainbow Passage: 1

:legends

• FX: "rule of thumb": 1
• Links: Urban legends : 2
• Yaelf: A collection of Naval slang, abbreviations, legends and historical tit-bits which was originally compiled by Commander A. Covey-Crump, RN, a former Naval Assistant to the Chief of Naval Information: 1
• AUE: Summer Boink, London, June 1999: 1

:legible

• UCLE15: Round-Robin and : 1

:legion

• Lawler: Can't Help (But) ...: 1

:legions

• UCLE13: Waterloo : 1

:legislate

• AUE: What is the UK? Is it the same as Britain, Great Britain or England?: 1

:legislation

• AUE: What is the UK? Is it the same as Britain, Great Britain or England?: 1
• Preface : 1

:legislative

• Garbl: legislative titles: 1
• RH WotD: whip (legislative): 1

:legislature

• Garbl: legislature: 1
• Isles: CHANNEL ISLANDS, ISLE OF MAN. Note that the Isle of Man : 1
• AUE: What is the UK? Is it the same as Britain, Great Britain or England?: 1

:legislatures

• AUE: What is the UK? Is it the same as Britain, Great Britain or England?: 2

:legitimacy

• FX: Repeated words after abbreviations: 1

:legitimate

• Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results : 1
• Garbl: legitimate: 1

:legitimately

• FX: Origin of the dollar sign: 1
• AUE: Worldwide Distribution of English Speakers: 1

:legitimizes

• Emphasis quotes: AUE: Use of Quotation Marks for Emphasis: 1

:legitimizing

• Lawler: English L sounds: 1

:Lego

• Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results : 1

:legomenon

• FX: What is the language term for...?: 1
• RH WotD: hapax legomenon: 1

:legs

• AWWY: backside (obscenities); bottom (obscenities); boy birds or cocks (obscenities); cock or gentlemen fowl (obscenities); gentlemen fowl or cocks (obscenities); he-cows or bulls (obscenities); legs or limbs (obscenities); limbs or legs (obscenities); obscene; Obscenity: 2
• FX: "the bee's knees": 1
• Lawler: Indian English: 1
• Lawler: striddly: 2
• Quinion: Queen of Spain's Legs: 1
• UCLE12: News : 2

:Lehrer's

• Lawler: Canadian and American Raising: 1

:Leiber's

• FX: Postfix "not": 1

:Leicester

• Cambodunum : 1

:Leichter

• Cunningham: Individual poster histories - alt.usage.english: 2
• FX: "push the envelope": 1

:Leid

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

:Leigh

• FX: I before E except after C: 1

:Leiotrichous

• Quinion: Leiotrichous: 1

:leisure

• FX: I before E except after C: 1
• Garbl: leisure: 1
• I before E: Exceptions with "ei" or "ie" pronounced as in "species" or "seize": : 1
• UCLE11: The : 1
• Preface : 1

:leIt

• Interlinear IPA: AUE: Interlinear transliterations of ASCII IPA: 1

:leitmotiv

• I before E: /AI/ as in 'bite' and 'height': : 1
• I before E: Examples of exceptions to the rule: : 1

:Leland

• FX: "more than you can shake a stick at": 1
• FX: Books on Britishisms, Canadianisms, etc.: 1

:lelogo

• AUE: Totally Officially Unknown People: 1