Concordance index for 'pres' onwards

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:pres

Lawler: -- more followup:: 1

:prescient

I before E: /@/ as in 'bacon' and : 1
I before E: Examples of exceptions to the rule: : 2

:prescribe

Brians: prescribe/proscribe: 1
FX: "A.D.": 1
FX: "all ... not": 1
FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1
Lawler: Negative Polarity Items: 1
Lawler: Reams: 1
AUE: What is prescriptivism?: 4

:prescribed

:prescribing

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

:prescription

FX: "whom": 1
FX: Related newsgroups: 1
FX: WELCOME TO ALT.USAGE.ENGLISH!: 1
Intro A: WELCOME TO alt.usage.english! : 1
Lawler: "vehicle": 1
AUE: What is prescriptivism?: 1

:prescriptive

FX: "between you and I": 1
FX: "none is" vs "none are": 1
FX: "whom": 1
FX: Gender-neutral pronouns: 1
Lynch: Prescriptive versus Descriptive Grammars.: 1

:prescriptively

Lawler: Object Complements: 1

:prescriptivism

:prescriptivist

:prescriptivists

FX: Books on usage: 1
FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1
AUE: What is prescriptivism?: 3

:preselected

AUE: About the alt.usage.english newsgroup: 1

:presence

IPA I: Slashes or square brackets? : 1
Lawler: >Just one question: Where does the past perfect ("have gone", "have sung"): 1
Lawler: English L sounds: 1
Lawler: The Academy: 1
Subjunctive?: AUE: Does English Have a Subjunctive Mood?: 1
UCLE09: Literary : 1

:present

Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results : 1
FX: "A number of...": 3
FX: "done"="finished": 1
FX: "ebonics": 1
FX: "posh": 1
FX: Online usage guides: 1
FX: Postfix "not": 1
FX: Subjunctive: 6
FX: When to use "the": 1
Garbl: at the present time, at this point in time, at this particular time, at this time: 1
Garbl: present time: 2
Lawler: There is also another opposition among the formal auxiliaries, between: 1
Lawler: -- more followup:: 1
Lawler: --- Followup --: 1
Lawler: >Just one question: Where does the past perfect ("have gone", "have sung"): 6
Lawler: >Past tenses:: 8
Lawler: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 4
Lawler: "It" in "It's raining": 2
Lawler: "amn't": 5
Lawler: Alumin(i)um: 1
Lawler: Bring vs Take: 1
Lawler: English L sounds: 1
Lawler: Give a Damn: 1
Lawler: Gotten vs. Got: 1
Lawler: Headline grammar: 5
Lawler: Object Complements: 1
Lawler: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1
Lawler: Tense and related topics: 2
Lawler: anymore: 4
Lynch: At This Point, At the Present Time, At This Point in Time.: 1
Subjunctive?: AUE: Does English Have a Subjunctive Mood?: 1
UCLE05: Whatâ€™s : 1
UCLE12: News : 1
UCLE15: Gossip : 1
Yaelf: (IPL) What is the proper usage of neither and nor? How do I use who and whom correctly? What's a present participle?: 1
Yaelf: Creating a parsed and searchable diachronic corpus of present-day spoken English: 1
Preface : 1

:Present Tense

AUE: Thou, Thee, and Archaic Grammar: 1

:present-day

AUE Logo: The Totally Official alt.usage.english Logo: 1

:presentation

:presented

FX: Words ending in "-gry": 1
IPA I: Preliminary remarks : 1
Intro E: I before E except after C : 1
Lawler: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 1
Links: Fun with words : 2
Plural Formation: 1
Preface : 1

:Presenteeism

Quinion: Presenteeism: 1

:Presenter

UCLE12: News : 3

:presenting

UCLE08: Britannia: Her history, : 1

:presently

Brians: presently: 1
Emphasis quotes: AUE: Use of Quotation Marks for Emphasis: 1
Garbl: presently: 1
RH WotD: presently: 1

:presents

FX: "ISO" by Mark Brader: 1
I before E: AUE: Exceptions to the Rule 'I before E except after C': 1
Links: Encyclopedias : 1
Our images: 1

:preserve

Garbl: preserve: 1
UCLE11: The : 1

:preserved

Home: The alt.usage.english Home Page: 1
UCLE11: The : 1

:presidency

FX: "in like Flynn": 1

:president

FX: "O.K.": 1
FX: "merkin": 2
FX: "put in one's two cents' worth": 1
Garbl: president: 1
Genitive: AUE: Genitive is Not Always Possessive: 1

:president-elect

Lawler: Tense and related topics: 1

:presidential

FX: "merkin": 1
Yaelf: For Most-Favored Term, a Presidential Workout: 1

:presidents

Garbl: Presidents Day: 1
Lawler: "equally" and comparatives: 1

:Presley

:press

FX: "A, B and C" vs "A, B, and C": 1
FX: "There's a sucker born every minute": 1
FX: "alumin(i)um": 1
FX: "ebonics": 1
FX: "impact"="to affect": 1
FX: "like" vs "such as": 1
FX: "mouses" vs "mice": 1
FX: "quality": 1
FX: Books on Britishisms, Canadianisms, etc.: 1
FX: Books on linguistics: 2
FX: Books on usage: 3
FX: Dictionaries: 3
FX: General reference: 1
FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 1
FX: Origin of the dollar sign: 1
FX: Related newsgroups: 1
FX: Style manuals: 1
Garbl: Associated Press , The: 1
Garbl: press: 1
IPA I: Some Britons, again including the Oxford University Press, : 1
IPA I: Some Britons, including the Oxford University Press, : 1
Lawler: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 1
Lawler: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 1
Lawler: English Modals: 1
Lawler: Indian English: 1
Lawler: Phrasal Verbs: 3
Links: Fun with words : 1
Links: News : 1
RH WotD: full-court press: 1
UCLE05: John Davies's commentary : 1
UCLE07: Some significant numbers from literature and literary criticism: 1
Yaelf: The Maledicta Press: 1
Preface : 1

:pressed

Lawler: "equally" and comparatives: 1
UCLE03: Tee Shirts : 1

:pressing

FX: "push the envelope": 1
Lawler: Phrasal Verbs: 1

:pressure

:pressurized

Garbl: pressurized: 1

:Prestidigitation

AWWY: distress; prestidigitator; prestige; restrain; Stress...Prestidigitation & Prestige; strict; strung out: 1

:prestidigitator

AWWY: distress; prestidigitator; prestige; restrain; Stress...Prestidigitation & Prestige; strict; strung out: 1
RH WotD: prestidigitator: 1

:prestige

AWWY: distress; prestidigitator; prestige; restrain; Stress...Prestidigitation & Prestige; strict; strung out: 2
UCLE13: Waterloo : 1

:prestigious

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

:presumably

Cunningham: Explanatory Remarks: 1
FX: "Eskimo": 1
FX: "bloody": 1
FX: "merkin": 1
FX: "rule of thumb": 1
Lawler: hadn't've: 1
Subjunctive?: AUE: Does English Have a Subjunctive Mood?: 1
UCLE08: Britannia: Her history, : 1

:presumed

FX: "Eskimo": 1

:presumes

Lawler: "vehicle": 1

:presumption

Lawler: gonna: 1
UCLE15: Gossip : 1

:presuppose

Lawler: anymore: 2

:presupposed

Lawler: Negative Polarity Items: 1
Lawler: Toward(s) and Beside(s): 1
Lawler: anymore: 1

:presuppositions

Lawler: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 1

:pretend

:pretending

FX: "I won't mention...": 1
FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 1

:pretends

FX: Typo: 1

:pretense

AWWY: blowing smoke; blue smoke and mirrors; cheating (selling smoke); defrauded (sold smoke); facts, smoking out the; falsehood, sanctioning (passed the bottle of smoke); mirrors, blue smoke and; obscuring facts through pretense (passed the bottle of smoke); smoke, blowing; Smokescreens...Smoking out the Facts; smoking out the facts: 1

:pretentious

FX: "impact"="to affect": 1

:preterite

Lawler: The canonical paraphrase for will is be going to, idiosyncratically: 2
Lawler: There is also another opposition among the formal auxiliaries, between: 4

:preterition

FX: "I won't mention...": 1

:preterity

Lawler: There is also another opposition among the formal auxiliaries, between: 1

:pretext

AWWY: Texts, Pretexts, and Subtleties; pretext; subtle; warp and the woof; woof and the warp: 1
UCLE06: Rhetorical vocabulary: 1

:Pretexts

AWWY: Texts, Pretexts, and Subtleties; pretext; subtle; warp and the woof; woof and the warp: 1

:pretty

AWWY: Albatross around one's neck; accumulate; pennies, pretty; Penny For Your Thoughts, A; pretty penny; slush fund: 2
AWWY: Fish to Fry; fray; fry; kettle of fish, pretty; pretty kettle of fish; small fry; troubled waters, fishing in; waters, fishing in troubled: 2
AWWY: armful (euphemisms for woman); babe (euphemisms for woman); baby (euphemisms for woman); Oh, You Beautiful Doll...; chick (euphemisms for woman); chippie (euphemisms for woman); cutie (euphemisms for woman); dish (euphemisms for woman); doll; dry goods, fine piece of (euphemisms for woman); eyeful (euphemisms for woman); filly (euphemisms for woman); fluff, some (euphemisms for woman); fox (euphemisms for woman); frock, bit of (euphemisms for woman); hunk (euphemisms for woman); mouse (euphemisms for woman); muslin, pretty piece of (euphemisms for woman); peach (euphemisms for woman); woman, euphemisms for: 1
Brians: pretty: 1
FX: "It's me" vs "It is I": 1
FX: "bloody": 1
FX: "suck"="be very unsatisfying" by John Davies: 1
FX: How reliable are dictionaries?: 1
Lawler: --- Followup --: 2
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: 1
Lawler: "amn't": 1
Lawler: Commas: 1
Lawler: Hafta and Other Modal Paraphrases: 1
Lawler: Indian English: 1
Lawler: Literacy: 1
Lawler: Phrasal Verbs: 1
Lawler: Phrasal Verbs: 1
Lawler: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 1
Lawler: Reams: 1
Lawler: gonna: 1
Quinion: Pretty: 1
RH WotD: pretty: 1
UCLE08: Britannia: Her history, : 1
Showing variation of formants of [i:] with context: 1
summer_boink/summer.html: 1

:prevail

:prevails

FX: "flammable": 1

:prevalence

FX: "shall" vs "will", "should" vs "would": 1
Lawler: As far as ... goes/is concerned: 1

:prevalent

FX: WELCOME TO ALT.USAGE.ENGLISH!: 1
Intro A: WELCOME TO alt.usage.english! : 1
AUE: What is prescriptivism?: 1

:prevarication

UCLE11: The : 1

:prevent

FX: "could care less": 1
FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1
Lawler: Since you ask, here's a moderately complete list of polarity items,: 1
Lawler: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 1
Lawler: Phrasal Verbs: 1
Lawler: Reams: 1
Quinion: Prevent: 1

:preventable

Garbl: non-preventable: 1

:preventative

Brians: preventive vs. preventative: 1
Garbl: preventative: 1

:prevented

Preface : 1

:preventing

UCLE11: The : 1

:prevention

FX: "flammable": 1

:preventive

Brians: preventive vs. preventative: 1

:prevents

Lawler: Two kinds of "that-clauses": 1

:preview

Links: Web-design utilities : 1

:previous

FX: "spoonerism": 1
FX: Does the next millennium begin in 2000 or 2001?: 1
FX: How reliable are dictionaries?: 1
FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 5
FX: Subjunctive: 1
Garbl: past, previous, prior: 1
I before E: Extensions to the rule that have been suggested: : 1
IPA II: <h> : 1
IPA II: - : 1
IPA II: : : 1
IPA II: ; : 1
IPA II: ~ : 2
IPA II: The pronunciations shown for the previous six lines are not heard in : 1
IPA I: <h> : 1
IPA I: - : 1
IPA I: : : 1
IPA I: ; : 1
IPA I: ~ : 2
IPA I: The pronunciations shown for the previous six lines are not heard in : 1
IPA I: Writing ASCII IPA : 1
Intro A: Dealing with unwanted postings : 1
Intro A: Responding : 1
Intro A: AUE Intro A: Welcome to AUE and Guidelines for Posting: 1
Intro B: Historical English, and English Literature : 1
Intro B: Where to find previous postings : 1
Intro B: AUE Intro B: Useful Web Sites for AUE Participants: 2
Intro C: words ending in "-gry" : 1
Intro C: AUE Intro C: Mini-FAQ on Words & Phrases: 1
Intro D: Acronyms and other abbreviations using initial letters : 1
Intro D: Where to find the big AUE FAQ : 1
Intro D: AUE Intro D: Mini-FAQ on Grammar, Usage & Punctuation: 1
Intro E: U.S. -v- REST-OF-WORLD ENGLISH : 1
Intro E: AUE Intro E: Mini-FAQ on Spelling: 1
Intro F: AUE Intro F: Contents of AUE FAQ and FAQ Supplement: 2
Intro G: AUE Intro G: Where is the FAQ?: 2
Introduction: AUE: Intro Documents: 2
Lawler: Quantifier-Negative Semantics: 1
Lynch: Previous.: 1
UCLE03: Lindsay : 1
What's new?: 6 December 2001 : 1
What's new?: 15 February 2002 : 1
What's new?: 5 March 2002 : 1
7. The Common Travel Area : 1
AUE Gallery: Stephen Toogood's paddle: 1
AUE: About the alt.usage.english newsgroup: 1
AUE: Perlfect Search: 1
Preface : 1
Suggestions: How To Form Your Reply : 9
The Aim Of This Document : 1
Untitled: 1
Why Should I Quote? : 1

:previously

AWWY: deviating; devious; laughing all the way to the bank; obviates; obvious; previously; trivia; Trivial Pursuit: 1
FX: "eighty-six"="nix": 1
UCLE08: Londonâ€™s : 1
What's new?: 10 March 2002 : 1
What's new?: 15 February 2002 : 2
What's new?: 18 December 2001 : 1
What's new?: 5 March 2002 : 1
Audio recording technique - Some suggestions: 1

:previously-existing

Subjunctive?: AUE: Does English Have a Subjunctive Mood?: 1

:prevocalic

Lawler: >> For instance: English has only one phoneme, but it has: 1

:prey

Brians: pray/prey: 1

:Pri

Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results : 1

:prI'pE

UK Interlinear IPA: Markus Laker's Interlinear ASCII IPA: 1

:pri'pE

Interlinear IPA: ASCII IPA Interlinear Transliterations: 1

:price

FX: "Let them eat cake!": 2
FX: "less" vs "fewer": 1
FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1
FX: Words pronounced differently according to context: 1
Quinion: Cheap at half the price: 1
UCLE05: John Davies's commentary : 1

:price-unregulated

FX: "Let them eat cake!": 1

:priceless

FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 1
FX: What words are their own antonym?: 1

:prices

FX: "Let them eat cake!": 1
FX: "mind your p's and q's": 1
FX: Books on Britishisms, Canadianisms, etc.: 1

:prick

FX: "fuck": 1

:pride

AWWY: can (as in lavatory); facilities; Flushed with Pride; head (as in lavatory); lav (as in lavatory); loo, the; powder-room; restroom; Throne, The; toilet; W. C. (water closet); washroom: 1
AWWY: housewives and hussies; hussy; pride; proud; prude; prudent; The Proud and the Prudent Prude: 1
FX: "titsling"/"brassiere": 1
UCLE07: Some significant numbers from literature and literary criticism: 1
UCLE11: The : 1
Cambodunum : 1

:prie

FX: "loo": 1

:primarily

FX: FOREIGNERS' FAQS: 2
Intro G: AUE Intro G: Where is the FAQ?: 1

:primary

AWWY: benefit of clergy, without the; clergy, without the benefit of; Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval; person of the other sex sharing living quarters (POSSLQ); primary relationship, enter into; promiscuity (shacking up); relationships and shacking up; Shacking Up; significant other: 1
FX: "ebonics": 2
FX: How to represent pronunciation in ASCII: 1
FX: Where to put apostrophes in possessive forms: 1
Garbl: Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area: 1
IPA II: ' : 1
IPA I: ' : 1
Lawler: English L sounds: 1
Lawler: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 1
Lawler: Literacy: 2
Links: Color charts : 1
AUE: What is the UK? Is it the same as Britain, Great Britain or England?: 1
Preface : 1
Untitled: 1

:Primate

Lawler: The Academy: 1

:prime

Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results : 1
FX: "billion": a U.K. view: 1
Lawler: Reams: 1
Lynch: E-Prime.: 1
Quinion: Sub-prime: 1
11. The Commonwealth : 1

:primer

Brians: primer: 1
Intro A: Newcomers to the Net : 1
Usenet Docs: AUE: Links to Official Usenet Documents: 1

:primes

:Primettes

AWWY: crème de la crème; Forever Supreme; la crème de la crème; Primes and Primettes; Supreme, Forever; Temptations (Primes); tough act to follow; vaudeville, last act: 1

:Primroses

Fieldfares : 1

:Prince

AWWY: charming; enchant; Enchanting and Charming Sirens; Prince Charming; siren: 1
UCLE09: “Bloody” : 1
UCLE12: News : 1
aue London Boink 29 Dec 01: 1

:princely

Fieldfares : 1

:Princes

Preface : 1

:princess

FX: "Let them eat cake!": 1

:Princesse

FX: Words ending in "-gry": 1

:Princeton

FX: Postfix "not": 1
Lawler: >Just one question: Where does the past perfect ("have gone", "have sung"): 4

:principal

Brians: principal/principle: 1
FX: "The exception proves the rule.": 1
FX: "politically correct": 1
Garbl: principle , principal: 1
Lawler: As to this discussion, the usual oppositions are those between: 1
Lawler: >Just one question: Where does the past perfect ("have gone", "have sung"): 1
Lawler: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 1
Lawler: "amn't": 1
Lawler: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 1
Lawler: Toward(s) and Beside(s): 1
UCLE07: Some significant numbers from literature and literary criticism: 1
What's new?: 2 September 2001: : 1
AUE: Comments on a Proposal for Reformed English Spelling: 2
Showing variation of formants of [i:] with context: 1
Showing variation of formants of [i:] with context: 1

:Principality

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

:principally

FX: "bloody": 1
Lawler: Reams: 1

:principii

FX: "beg the question": 1

:principle

AWWY: Letting Our Hair Down...Hair of the Dog; crewcut (puritanical); dog hair; dogbite treatment; haircut, get a; hairy, feeling; hang out, letting it all; homeopathic principle (likes are cured by likes); letting it all hang out; little hair of the dog: 1
Brians: principal/principle: 1
FX: "rule of thumb": 1
Garbl: principle , principal: 1
Lawler: >> That is, the voicing assimilation that makes these morphemes voiceless: 1
Lawler: "amn't": 1
Lawler: English and Infinity: 1
Lawler: Tense and related topics: 1
AUE: What is the UK? Is it the same as Britain, Great Britain or England?: 1

:principles

FX: "alumin(i)um": 1
FX: "mouses" vs "mice": 1
FX: Books on Britishisms, Canadianisms, etc.: 1
FX: Grammars: 1
Lawler: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1
AUE: Grammar Books: 1
Analysis of Some Mark Barratt Vowels: 1
Untitled: 1

:print

Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results : 1
Emphasis quotes: AUE: Use of Quotation Marks for Emphasis: 1
FX: "alot": 1
FX: "crap": 1
FX: "like" vs "such as": 1
FX: "ollie ollie oxen free": 1
FX: "quality": 1
FX: "the whole nine yards": 1
FX: Books on usage: 2
FX: Dictionaries: 2
FX: Online dictionaries: 1
Lawler: >Your example of English and Caxton print shop goes a long way to convince: 1
Lawler: Beth Levin is a computational linguist at Northwestern University: 1
Lawler: Books on English, Language, and Linguistics: 1
Links: Miscellaneous, language related : 1
UCLE05: John Davies's commentary : 1
AUE: Grammar Books: 2

:printed

FX: "Go placidly amid the noise and the haste" (Desiderata): 1
FX: Trademarks: 1
Lawler: Reams: 1
UCLE08: Britannia: Her history, : 1

:printer's

FX: "kangaroo": 1

:printers

FX: Spaces between sentences: 1

:printing

FX: ", vs ,": 1
Lawler: >Your example of English and Caxton print shop goes a long way to convince: 2
Lawler: "Quote, Unquote": 1
Lawler: English Language History, with excursus on Technology: 1
Lawler: Literacy: 1

:Prion

Quinion: Prion: 1

:prior

FX: "It's me" vs "It is I": 1
FX: "beg the question": 2
Garbl: past, previous, prior: 1
Garbl: prior to: 1
Garbl: prior: 1
Intro A: Responding : 1
Lawler: Henry Lee Smith: 1
Lynch: Prior to.: 1
UCLE06: Rhetorical vocabulary: 1
Fieldfares : 1

:prioritize

Brians: prioritize: 1
Garbl: prioritize: 1

:priority

Brians: priority: 1
FX: Guidelines for posting: 1
IPA II: The [O] sound requires rounded lips, but lips making a : 1
IPA II: The reference to 'Chicago pop' first appeared in Mark Israel's : 1
IPA I: The remarks concerning the pronunciation of [O] were taken verbatim from Mark Israel's : 1
IPA I: The reference to 'Chicago pop' first appeared in Mark Israel's : 1
Intro A: Guidelines for posting : 1
Lawler: Commas: 1

:prip

Interlinear IPA: ASCII IPA Interlinear Transliterations: 1

:prise

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

:prism

Untitled: 1

:prison

UCLE09: Rivers : 1

:prisoner

:prisoners

FX: "done"="finished": 1

:privacy

FX: "son of a gun": 1

:private

AWWY: buttocks; natural parts (private parts); parts below (private parts); Private Parts; pudenda (private parts): 4
AWWY: detective; Dick; eavesdropper; Gargan, William (Private Eye); gumshoe; investigator (private eye); Martin Kanes (Private Eye); Nolan, Lloyd (Private Eye); Private Eyes, Dicks, and Gumshoes; snooping; whodunit: 5
Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results : 1
FX: Words ending in "-gry": 1
Lawler: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 1
Links: Miscellaneous, not language related : 1
RH WotD: private language: 1

:privative

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

:privilege

Garbl: privilege: 1
Lawler: I can't say _____ really means I can't say ___ in a word. When I go: 2
Lawler: Literacy: 1
Lawler: Negative Polarity Items: 1

:privileged

Preface : 1

:privileges

Lawler: "equally" and comparatives: 1

:prize

Lawler: So Much For Spelling Reform: 1
Fieldfares : 1
london_symposium_boink/boink.html: 1

:pro

Abbreviations: Unedited list of search results : 1
FX: "A.D.": 1
FX: E-prime: 1

:proactive

Brians: reactionary/reactive: 1
Morris: Proactive: 1
RH WotD: proactive: 1

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