January 2009 Archives by thread
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- antedating of 'ho' -- from an unexpected speaker, too
Doug Harris
- WOTY - now fortified with Grant Barrett!
Tom Zurinskas
- Some TV dialect trends
Tom Zurinskas
- Top 10 Language Stories of 2008
Dennis Baron
- A note on black naming practices
Amy West
- "Murphy's law" 1951 and 1952
Stephen Goranson
- ADS-L Digest - 31 Dec 2008 to 1 Jan 2009 (#2009-2)
Your Name
- Recountland
Dan Goodman
- "work construction" 'do construction work'
Chris Waigl
- Antedating of Teddy Bear(s) 1905
Sam Clements
- Million words?
Joel S. Berson
- a couple of WOTY sleepers
Victor
- Muddy Waters and sE
Wilson Gray
- WOTY preview (LA Times editorial)
Benjamin Zimmer
- A note on black naming practices (3)
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Vocabula: Oops!
Word Crafter
- "that" ~ zero
Arnold Zwicky
- -body vs. -one
Murrah Lee
- Typo: "that" ~ zero
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "that" omission on Language Log
Arnold Zwicky
- Antedatings of rule regarding coordination and quotation?
Neal Whitman
- Where words come from
Jonathan Lighter
- long URLs (was Re: Where words come from)
Mark Mandel
- more weird prep-dropping and/or subcategorization
Laurence Horn
- ADS-L Digest - 2 Jan 2009 to 3 Jan 2009 (#2009-4)
Your Name
- Google Book Search article
Jesse Sheidlower
- charlatans and quacks
RonButters at AOL.COM
- reporter's license
Victor
- Heard on The Judges: BE 0-Plural
Wilson Gray
- Spending a Year Living Like Jesus
Victor
- Conjunctive WHICH (... Living Like Jesus)
RonButters at AOL.COM
- flyting and rap
Amy West
- whales on stilts/a whale on stilts
Hillary Brown
- Further Antedating of "Googol" and "Googolplex"
Shapiro, Fred
- positive polarity "can help it"
Mark Mandel
- [ADS-L] positive pola rity "can help it"
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Copy of 1980 "yuppie" from Chicago Magazine
Grant Barrett
- "bawdy" = rowdy and sardonic?
Jonathan Lighter
- FW: Slice on Boston pizza article from 1903 ---(message from Barry Popik)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- WOTY on NPR
Benjamin Zimmer
- etymology is no picnic
James Harbeck
- Australian WOTY nominees (Macquarie)
Benjamin Zimmer
- "both"/"each"
Arnold Zwicky
- Forteh: UK pronunciation
Benjamin Barrett
- more on prepositions
Arnold Zwicky
- WOTY on NPR (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Antedating of Teddy Bear(s) 1905 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Pentagon tells soldiers, "We have ways of making you talk"
Dennis Baron
- Pentagon tells soldiers, "We have ways of making you talk" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Zero vs. 'that'-relatives
Spruiell, William C
- Obama as a common noun
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Hoda Kotb
Jonathan Lighter
- shovel-ready (1995)
Benjamin Zimmer
- FW: book on English loanwords in several languages
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- WOTY 2008
David Marc Fischer
- Heard on The Judges: "go for the okey-doke" fall for the con
Wilson Gray
- Double-Tap (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- F-Word update: Want to help?
Neal Whitman
- "Make My Day"
Shapiro, Fred
- A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries (Vol I): Coleman
Mark Mandel
- Congress becomes gender-neutral
Jesse Sheidlower
- ADS WOTY 08: bailout
Benjamin Zimmer
- Eliminating masculine pronouns, Congressional old boys network goes gender-neutral
Dennis Baron
- Two outrageous WOTYs
Joel S. Berson
- Pentagon tells soldiers...
Jonathan Lighter
- Re" "he" and "he or she"/ Congress becomes gender-neutral
Jonathan Lighter
- financial "haircut" (1955)
Benjamin Zimmer
- "No law west of..."
Jonathan Lighter
- Usage of 'Anti-semite'
Arun K Raman
- English First - Nashville
David Metevia
- another "bare PST/PSP"
Arnold Zwicky
- "come to Limerick" antedate and Limerick (verse) etymology suggestion
Stephen Goranson
- Higgledy-piggledy-ness
Mark Peters
- "Wine" gallon vs. "imperial" gallon
Wilson Gray
- WOTY postmortem
Benjamin Zimmer
- possible ID of "Murphy's Law" user in 1951/1949-50
Stephen Goranson
- possible ID of "Murphy's Law" user in 1951/1949-50 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- narrative
Jonathan Lighter
- **correction** Re: [ADS-L] possible ID of "Murphy's Law" user in 1951/1949-50 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Stephen Goranson
- "come to Limerick" antedate and Limerick (verse) etymology suggestion (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Eggcorns?
Wilson Gray
- Fwd: another "bare PST/PSP"
Arnold Zwicky
- Laffs from the Welsh Marches
Jonathan Lighter
- "power"
Jonathan Lighter
- Law West of the Pecos
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- INGs
Victor
- SOTA alert
Benjamin Zimmer
- Picky point on semicolons
Laurence Horn
- call, click or stop by
Benjamin Barrett
- Scanalize
Gerald Walton
- Reading on the rise as economy falters
Dennis Baron
- "bring her to Limerick" 1862 and Limericks
Stephen Goranson
- Chicago winter -- chicagotribune.com
Paul
- trunch
Jonathan Lighter
- Tight-knight
Baker, John
- A Couple of Resources
Baker, John
- convince and persuade
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "Limerick stanza" 1896 image
Stephen Goranson
- inference (vb)
Mark Mandel
- "bumfuck"?
Joel S. Berson
- social = 'social networking'
Benjamin Zimmer
- Early attrib. of "War is hell" to Sherman
Jonathan Lighter
- Evans address?
Mark Mandel
- "War is Hell"
Jonathan Lighter
- Temperature Stated As a "Negative"
Doug Harris
- Pronuncations
Damien Hall
- (will/won't you) come (up/down) to Limerick (town)?
Stephen Goranson
- often / sophomore (was: Pronuncations)
Damien Hall
- bounty = "splendid abundance"
Jonathan Lighter
- behemothic
Jonathan Lighter
- Sega and outlier
Benjamin Barrett
- OT: tracing a cookie recipe
Grant Barrett
- ASSORTED COMMENTS
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Pronuncations (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Frak Attack!
Mark Peters
- Call for papers: American Dialect Society Annual Meeting 2010, Baltimore
Grant Barrett
- Word of the Decade Nominations Open for 2000-2009
Grant Barrett
- Correction: Call for papers: American Dialect Society Annual Meeting 2010, Baltimore
Grant Barrett
- Re: [ADS-L] Word of the Decade Nominations Open for 2000-2009
RonButters at AOL.COM
- convince/persuade to
Arnold Zwicky
- On the trail of "wombat"
Grant Barrett
- Cap'n Johnson's Pyrate Rhetorick
Jonathan Lighter
- Reversals in usage judgements (was: Pronuncations)
Damien Hall
- Possible partial eggcorn: portcullis >> fort colours
Damien Hall
- reversals in usage judgments
Arnold Zwicky
- Baby father
Michael Quinion
- antedating "Limerick" (rhyme) Feb. 3, 1896
Stephen Goranson
- "Limerick" in 1880?
Shapiro, Fred
- Best-Known Jack Handey "Deep Thoughts"?
Shapiro, Fred
- new old saying
Jonathan Lighter
- Is That an Emoticon in 1862? in NYT
Grant Barrett
- "the google" noun was Re: Re: Word of the Decade Nominations Open for 2000-2009
Amy West
- Zero vs. "that" relatives--when linguistic evidence and popular belief conflict
Herb Stahlke
- Spaces around punctuation (was: Is That an Emoticon in 1862? in NYT )
Damien Hall
- Inaugural Address Future Famous Quotations
Shapiro, Fred
- limerick
Jonathan Lighter
- "the google"
Amy West
- whitehouse.gov search terms
M Covarrubias
- Negative inversion
Matthew Gordon
- ABX
Benjamin Barrett
- ABX
Benjamin Zimmer
- ABX
Mark Mandel
- Strict constructionist Chief Justice flubs oath, Obama presidency survives unscathed
Dennis Baron
- preservation within the Psycholinguistics
Sturm, Beate
- Pronunciation of hoisin
Benjamin Barrett
- stepgrandparents and relational ambiguity
Victor
- OT: Change almost beyond belief!
Wilson Gray
- stepgrandparents and relational ambiguity (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Heard on The Judges: localisms
Wilson Gray
- If U Seek Amy
Baker, John
- OED etym. of ((we)b)log
Mark Mandel
- A "killack" in 1648?
Joel S. Berson
- heroics
Jonathan Lighter
- antedating "three kinds of falsehood...statistics" June 8, 1891
Stephen Goranson
- dangers of dialect
Arnold Zwicky
- The Cupertino effect
Mark Peters
- Trend Central: Slang for '09
Benjamin Zimmer
- Lady Mondragon and Other NW Pa Matters
Carter Rila
- Our Tongue Tied Ex-Executive Makes the World Scene
Carter Rila
- Obasm
Murrah Lee
- dangers of dialect-LION and LINE
RonButters at AOL.COM
- An Eggcorn in the Wild
Doug Harris
- town/township
Dan Goodman
- Barry, the Yale News, and Hamburgers
Sam Clements
- Heard on The Judges: "nigger" = man, person
Wilson Gray
- Heard on The Judges: "bartend(e)ress"
Wilson Gray
- Eggcorn? "push as come to shove"
Wilson Gray
- Say what? It must be catching!
Wilson Gray
- Limerick, Copperheads, nonsense, etc.
Stephen Goranson
- Heard on The Jud es: "bartend(e)ress"
Joel S. Berson
- Towns and Townships
Carter Rila
- Some Judge Jive from the Silly Sixties, plus Some Sociological Cultural Commentary
Carter Rila
- ACTRESS vs. WAITRESS
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Corrections to Web Addresses in Towns and Townships Postings
Carter Rila
- "primer seisin" not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- ADS-L Digest - 24 Jan 2009 to 25 Jan 2009 (#2009-26)
Amy West
- [spam] Re: ACTRESS vs. WAITRESS
Dave Wilton
- "mixmash" eggcorn?
Arnold Zwicky
- Should we fear a world without books?
Dennis Baron
- OT: A washingtonpost.com article from: elcutachero at yahoo.com
Carter Rila
- wung it
M Covarrubias
- What is The Judges Site?
Carter Rila
- What is The Judges Site? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Allan Metcalf on NPR
Kathryn Remlinger
- N-looking
Mark Mandel
- Antedating of "Communist"
Shapiro, Fred
- eggcorn
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Pretty Please (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "narrative"; PLUS script = to present, portray, interpret, etc....
Jonathan Lighter
- spelling the interlabial trill
Mark Mandel
- Re: [ADS-L] Heard o n The Judges: "bartend(e)ress"
RonButters at AOL.COM
- a rascal with a nice name
George Thompson
- "Red Mail"; not in OED
George Thompson
- Accents in the courtroom, 1841
George Thompson
- "rough around the ages"
Arnold Zwicky
- obituary
Victor
- "Palpable" for Palatable
Brian Hitchcock
- "Wreck & ruin"
Bill Palmer
- write-off > right-off
James Harbeck
- ADS-L Digest - 27 Jan 2009 to 28 Jan 2009 (#2009-29)
Your Name
- spelling the interlabial trill Unlucky Joe.
Carter Rila
- More Al Capp Contributions to American Culture
Carter Rila
- "parse" without direct object
Herb Stahlke
- Heard on The Judges: " -nim" in possessive
Wilson Gray
- puzzling percent reference
Victor
- Mae West and the Military
Carter Rila
- Parachute Subdivisions- A Proposed Term
Carter Rila
- Pranging -A proposed term.
Carter Rila
- Cuckoo for snowclone puffs
Mark Peters
- Phonology of "rough around the ages"
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Bale Out vs. Bail Out
Carter Rila
- "Break bad": 2; "break nasty": 0
Wilson Gray
- antedating of "Egyptology" 1841
Stephen Goranson
- eggcorn or cupertino?
Victor
- saddlebacking
James Harbeck
- from "It's Your World"
Arnold Zwicky
- Antedating "and them"
Jonathan Lighter
- Pres. Obama accent
Tom Zurinskas
- "close line"
Arnold Zwicky
- Take care and be careful
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Google harm
Joel S. Berson
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