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- Tebowing
 
Ann Burlingham
- psycho-biddy+Grand (Dame) Guignol
 
Victor Steinbok
- Rumsfeld redux
 
Shapiro, Fred
- The wiener and its warming (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Weak lean / (weakling) eggcorn
 
Randy Alexander
- unknown unknowns
 
David Barnhart
- "Yesterday is history..."
 
Jonathan Lighter
- no rhyme for "castle"
 
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- other unknown unknowns
 
David Barnhart
- Swung on, and missed!
 
Arnold Zwicky
- "... _under_ the protests of Xerox's engineers."
 
Wilson Gray
- Question about public domain works in Google Books with a Harvard library example
 
Garson O'Toole
- Question about public domain works in Google Books with a Harvard              library example (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- full text databases (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Turing test (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- The wiener and its warming (and the OED)
 
Joel S. Berson
- Ticker Tape and Ticker Tape Parade
 
Joel S. Berson
- opps.
 
Brenda Lester
- Military-slang dictionary
 
Wilson Gray
- observations on rinse and repeat
 
Victor Steinbok
- Most Notable Quotations of 2011?
 
Shapiro, Fred
- "the ultimate insider/ outsider"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Engineering amazing
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "A perfect opportunity to step up your set-up!"
 
Wilson Gray
- question about lexicography
 
Laurence Horn
- Jinks Hoodoo again (1893)
 
Douglas G. Wilson
- another "canny"
 
Victor Steinbok
- more on early "jeeps"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- vowels front and back
 
Tom Zurinskas
- Misdated articles in Barron's from ProQuest and Boothill News in NewspaperArchive
 
Garson O'Toole
- transitive "officiate"
 
Charles C Doyle
- observations on rinse and repeat (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Benjamin Disraeli's exemplary use of negation in the Parliament
 
Garson O'Toole
- Early jockey-caps: worn by a (female) chimpanzee, in 1739; and (human) females, in 1723
 
Joel S. Berson
- Heard on The Judges: _Baker-Act_ v.
 
Wilson Gray
- "moist"
 
Joel S. Berson
- short note on Brand-name
 
Victor Steinbok
- Picasso quotation about computers
 
Garson O'Toole
- Grammar Girl on corpora
 
Joel S. Berson
- Occu-pella Singing
 
John McChesney-Young
- "belie": another reversal?
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Throne
 
Benjamin Barrett
- Scofflaw
 
James E. Clapp
- Short note on scuzzy
 
Victor Steinbok
- Short note on grungy
 
Victor Steinbok
- "Don't let the door hit you on the way out!"
 
Wilson Gray
- bobwhite
 
Victor Steinbok
- "moist" on Language Log
 
Arnold Zwicky
- "triage" (v.)
 
Laurence Horn
- retail politician
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "fish" (was Re: "moist")
 
Arnold Zwicky
- "fish"; was "moist" (now out of the water?)
 
Joel S. Berson
- Jakobson and Boroditsky (was Re: "moist")
 
Laurence Horn
- sub vs. grinder
 
Victor Steinbok
- pronunciation ideas
 
Tom Zurinskas
- /s/ = /S/ in context of new name
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "lush workers"
 
George Thompson
- camp, n.
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Alphabetizing
 
Charles C Doyle
- quote from Warren Buffet (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- /s/ = /S/ in context of new name (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "fish" (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- duduk
 
Victor Steinbok
- Staff = employee
 
Benjamin Barrett
- dog-gonest
 
Victor Steinbok
- "substitute for" reversal redux
 
Victor Steinbok
- "be inappropriate"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "went missing"
 
Joel S. Berson
- brand = 'public image and reputation'
 
Jonathan Lighter
- pend, v.
 
Laurence Horn
- consider, v.i.
 
Jonathan Lighter
- semantic shift: "coming out of the woodwork"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- another reversal: "sustain"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- reveal, n.
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Fun with phrases
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "The cops have been called. ..."
 
Wilson Gray
- If I were you, I'd make yourself scarce. Was  "The cops have been called. ..."
 
Neal Whitman
- alphabet soup
 
Victor Steinbok
- Boom!
 
Victor Steinbok
- swag
 
Victor Steinbok
- Coach Paterno and the syntactic blind alley
 
Laurence Horn
- swag (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Maryland Man Dies During Road Race; Saved By Bystanders
 
Baker, John
- not a significant surprise
 
Victor Steinbok
- No grand wizard
 
Victor Steinbok
- _Sprinkling_
 
Wilson Gray
- Jersey Devil(s)
 
Victor Steinbok
- Antedating of "Kangaroo Court"
 
Shapiro, Fred
- "a Hail Mary of a chance"
 
Laurence Horn
- dry drunk
 
Victor Steinbok
- "inpert" (n.; & occasional, unrelated v.) -- not in OED
 
Joel S. Berson
- murmuration
 
James Harbeck
- CNN follies
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "Narrative" again
 
Jonathan Lighter
- rebranding
 
Jonathan Lighter
- David Brooks of the NYT
 
Wilson Gray
- passive v.
 
Victor Steinbok
- New look for americandialect.org; media queries
 
Grant Barrett
- Short note on kinesthetic
 
Victor Steinbok
- spurious Cicero quote
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Schedule and Abstracts for 2012 Annual Meeting in Portland
 
Grant Barrett
- alphabetization
 
Arnold Zwicky
- FW: [DSNA] 7th Congress of Dialectology and Geolinguistics (SIDG) "dialect 2.0 & wboe100"
 
David Barnhart
- "turn the other cheek" = 'turn a blind eye'
 
Laurence Horn
- Heard on The Judges: how ADJ _of_ a(n) NP
 
Wilson Gray
- Quote: Henry Ford the banking system and a revolution tomorrow
 
Garson O'Toole
- Heard on The Doctors: a former hapax
 
Wilson Gray
- Worcester", Mass.
 
Joel S. Berson
- Bogus Hitler quote
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "a doer, not a talker"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Call: Internat. Soc. Dialectology & Geoling.
 
Jesse Sheidlower
- Black on White -- The Story of English (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Brother Gay
 
wordmall
- PET in general use?
 
Benjamin Barrett
- producorial
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Brits undergoing Americanization
 
Benjamin Barrett
- manny
 
Victor Steinbok
- Hear text to speech accents
 
Tom Zurinskas
- registering for ads-m forum
 
Tom Zurinskas
- eggcorn
 
Charles C Doyle
- "We ARE x !"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "war porn"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- disclaimer inclusiveness
 
Victor Steinbok
- the night is getting old
 
Victor Steinbok
- 'feedback'
 
Joseph Salmons
- liberal
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "suck the oxygen out"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- leaderful
 
Jonathan Lighter
- TIME goes $$$$
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Quoted in the NYT:
 
Wilson Gray
- Sea turtle
 
Benjamin Barrett
- one more can/can't confusion
 
Victor Steinbok
- "books do furnish a room"
 
Stephen Goranson
- Bisquit
 
Benjamin Barrett
- inaccurate Billy Sunday quote
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Panties (moist)
 
James Smith
- About a submission to YouTube: "Another _burrowed_ video …"
 
Wilson Gray
- Short note on turn turtle (antedating and interdating)
 
Victor Steinbok
- QOTY
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Panties
 
Ronald Butters
- blue skies
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Modern Fable: Lions and gazelles (Dan Montano 1985 July 6)
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "jaw-dropping" in OED
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Different as determinative
 
Randy Alexander
- collide = 'compete'
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "Look to the left ..."
 
Joel S. Berson
- perpetrator / perpetrate / perpetrative
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Panties (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- A new Index of Forbidden [NP]'s
 
Wilson Gray
- "squeal like a girl"
 
Ronald Butters
- "squeal like a girl" (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- ticky-tacky
 
Victor Steinbok
- In 2012
 
Katy Steinmetz
- "... _all most_ everything else ..."
 
Wilson Gray
- US/UK difference: seen and not ...
 
David Barnhart
- New American Dialect Society Facebook page
 
Grant Barrett
- 52 phonemes of English?
 
Tom Zurinskas
- Query: Slang "Cool!" in 1868?
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "Look to the left..." (was "Modern Fable: Lions and gazelles")
 
George Thompson
- as high than... in NYT
 
Victor Steinbok
- "uppity"
 
Laurence Horn
- brie-eating liberals
 
Victor Steinbok
- two more late entries for WOTY (if they take off)
 
Laurence Horn
- "evil twin"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- whence "Herself" as "the Mistress" or "my wife"?
 
Mark Mandel
- "Man up" pops up in 1961
 
Evan Morris
- A lady rider "hot" on horseback
 
Joel S. Berson
- "Man up" pops up in 1961 (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- more "jazz" from San Francisco, 1913
 
George Thompson
- frustrating
 
George Thompson
- millionaires from Wall street
 
George Thompson
- speaking by book
 
George Thompson
- millionaires from France [was: Wall street]
 
Joel S. Berson
- Ticky-tack revisited
 
Laurence Horn
- antedate for "pejorist"
 
Geoffrey Nunberg
- "select for"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "Black Friday" on Word Routes
 
Ben Zimmer
- song with an offensive title
 
Victor Steinbok
- swing in her sashay
 
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Antedating of "Motel"
 
Shapiro, Fred
- The winner, and still champion!
 
Wilson Gray
- Passive "have"
 
Sean Fitzpatrick
- "select for" + "trait" or "characteristic"
 
Joel S. Berson
- Antedating of umami
 
Benjamin Barrett
- "Aische bei Supertalent: sie ist _cool_ und _HOT_!" [NT]
 
Wilson Gray
- Kibei
 
Benjamin Barrett
- what do you think
 
paul johnson
- A note on wet-blanket politics--plus antedating of wet blanket
 
Victor Steinbok
- swallow the olive
 
Charles C Doyle
- McGuffin
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Bo Diddley's "I'm A Man"
 
Wilson Gray
- "_Hard-pounding_ sporting events!"
 
Wilson Gray
- "Why is/are phonetics important?"
 
Tom Zurinskas
- Varnum?
 
Douglas G. Wilson
- "eat more X"
 
Charles C Doyle
- amenable
 
Jonathan Lighter
- We believe what?  Transubstantiatioin?
 
Tom Zurinskas
- so much for cyper Monday
 
paul johnson
- Justice Department Seeks Ebonics Experts
 
Tom Zurinskas
- We believe what? Transubstantiation?
 
Tom Zurinskas
- Here we go again on English as official
 
David Barnhart
- and with thy spirit
 
Ronald Butters
- Call for Nominations for Name of the Year 2011
 
Cleve Evans
- Corrected Call for Nominations for Name of the Year 2011
 
Cleve Evans
- If at first you don't succeed.. Call for Nominations for Name of the Year 2011
 
Cleve Evans
- random taboo avoidance
 
Victor Steinbok
- Re We believe what? Transubstantiatioin?
 
Sean Fitzpatrick
- causativization
 
Arnold Zwicky
- We're all Keynesians now
 
Victor Steinbok
- random taboo avoidance (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- beer portmanteaus and other brew news
 
Victor Steinbok
- Siri starts your car
 
Tom Zurinskas
- Word-of-the-year nominations now open
 
Grant Barrett
- We're all Keynesians now -- ("Ich bin ein Berliner")
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
    
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