The alt.usage.english Home Page



http://alt-usage-english.org/index.shtml

The HTML face of this excellent news group has a very economic approach to its community.
From the homepage:
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. It's no longer active, but is preserved for posterity in UCLE Corner.


Wow, newsgroups. I've pretty much lost touch of most of the newsgroup sector of the net.

Posted: Thu - February 5, 2004 at 04:03 PM            

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