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- Hogg Prize Reminder
 
Grant Barrett
- Just wondering.
 
Herb Stahlke
- _Songography_ = _discography_: 20,500 hits [NT]
 
Wilson Gray
- Regus
 
Jonathan Lighter
- visual, n. = 'sight'
 
Jonathan Lighter
- query
 
Arnold Zwicky
- Regus
 
Joel S. Berson
- query
 
Stephen Goranson
- Regus
 
V
- Regus
 
V
- a word from "Huck Finn"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- a word from "Huck Finn"
 
Dan Goncharoff
- a word from "Huck Finn"
 
Wilson Gray
- a word from "Huck Finn"
 
Darla Wells
- a word from "Huck Finn"
 
Wilson Gray
- "tactical" vs "strategic"
 
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- "tactical" vs "strategic"
 
Wilson Gray
- "tactical" vs "strategic"
 
Benjamin Barrett
- "tactical" vs "strategic"
 
Dave Wilton
- a few bits from a single article
 
Ben Zimmer
- "tactical" vs "strategic"
 
Garson O'Toole
- a few bits from a single article
 
Victor Steinbok
- a few bits from a single article
 
Ben Zimmer
- [SOAPM] titers to evaluate vaccines
 
Dave Hause
- Regus
 
Wilson Gray
- strategic v. tactical
 
David Barnhart
- Regus
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Regus
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Don't be left out
 
Robert Fiske
- strategic v. tactical
 
Dave Wilton
- a few bits from a single article
 
Joel S. Berson
- "witness box", 1794, antedates 1806-
 
Joel S. Berson
- Mitt: I misunderstood Blunt bill question
 
Victor Steinbok
- Regus
 
Laurence Horn
- "bamboo", some kind of drink?
 
Joel S. Berson
- "bamboo", some kind of drink?
 
Alice Faber
- Regus
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "bamboo", some kind of drink?
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Some dialect stuff
 
Wilson Gray
- a few bits from a single article
 
Dan Goncharoff
- Heard on The Doctors:
 
Wilson Gray
- "Separated by a single language" strikes again!
 
Wilson Gray
- End the word (was: a word from "Huck Finn")
 
Gordon, Matthew J.
- "Separated by a single language" strikes again!
 
Ben Zimmer
- "bamboo", some kind of drink?
 
Joel S. Berson
- End the word (was: a word from "Huck Finn")
 
Wilson Gray
- New to me
 
Wilson Gray
- "bamboo", some kind of drink?
 
Victor Steinbok
- End the word (was: a word from "Huck Finn")
 
Michael Newman
- End the word (was: a word from "Huck Finn")
 
Ben Zimmer
- "bamboo", some kind of drink?
 
Victor Steinbok
- " … cos I again _scowled the market_ for a suitabl  =?UTF-8?Q?e_DAC_=E2=80=A6=22_?=[NT]
 
Wilson Gray
- New to me
 
Jonathan Lighter
- End the word (was: a word from "Huck Finn")
 
Jonathan Lighter
- New to me
 
Arnold Zwicky
- "sometime" (was: New to me)
 
Laurence Horn
- Heard on The Doctors:
 
Arnold Zwicky
- End the word (was: a word from "Huck Finn")
 
Victor Steinbok
- End the word (was: a word from "Huck Finn")
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Beware the fury of the Legions (attributed to Marcus Flavius) (1961 English 1960 French)
 
Garson O'Toole
- End the word (was: a word from "Huck Finn") faggot etc.
 
Michael Newman
- dorky, n. (1965)
 
Ben Zimmer
- Beware the fury of the Legions (attributed to Marcus Flavius) (1961 English 1960 French)
 
Jonathan Lighter
- dorky, n. (1965)
 
Ronald Butters
- End the word (was: a word from "Huck Finn") faggot etc.
 
Ronald Butters
- Beware the fury of the Legions (attributed to Marcus Flavius) (1961 English 1960 French)
 
Ronald Butters
- End the word (was: a word from "Huck Finn") faggot etc.
 
Jonathan Lighter
- dorky, n. (1965)
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Beware the fury of the Legions (attributed to Marcus Flavius) (1961 English 1960 French)
 
Victor Steinbok
- Beware the fury of the Legions (attributed to Marcus Flavius) (1961 English 1960 French)
 
Douglas G. Wilson
- dorky, n. (1965)
 
Laurence Horn
- Beware the fury of the Legions (attributed to Marcus Flavius) (1961 English 1960 French)
 
Jonathan Lighter
- dorky, n. (1965)
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Beware the fury of the Legions (attributed to Marcus Flavius) (1961 English 1960 French)
 
Garson O'Toole
- "bamboo", some kind of drink?
 
Joel S. Berson
- to cloakroom
 
Joel S. Berson
- Beware the fury of the Legions (attributed to Marcus Flavius) (1961 English 1960 French)
 
Joel S. Berson
- to cloakroom
 
Arnold Zwicky
- to cloakroom
 
Joel S. Berson
- empty messages
 
Ronald Butters
- empty messages
 
Victor Steinbok
- "sometime" (was: New to me)
 
Wilson Gray
- antedating "dirty word"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- empty messages
 
Ronald Butters
- Non-negative 1974 connotation of the word retarded
 
W Brewer
- antedating "dirty word"
 
Joel S. Berson
- Could Curiosity Rover Moonlight As Part of a Sample Return Mission? : headline
 
Wilson Gray
- Still the same
 
Wilson Gray
- Could Curiosity Rover Moonlight As Part of a Sample Return Mission? : headline
 
Jonathan Lighter
- the I-don't-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means department
 
Victor Steinbok
- Column on "Lawtalk" Book
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Column on "Lawtalk" Book
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Non-negative 1974 connotation of the word retarded
 
Charles C Doyle
- Non-negative 1974 connotation of the word retarded
 
Victor Steinbok
- Non-negative 1974 connotation of the word retarded
 
Laurence Horn
- Column on "Lawtalk" Book
 
Baker, John
- Non-negative 1974 connotation of the word retarded
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Colbert has defined _blackwashing_, and...
 
Wilson Gray
- Colbert has defined _blackwashing_, and...
 
Victor Steinbok
- Colbert has defined _blackwashing_, and...
 
Victor Steinbok
- codicil gentlemen (???)
 
George Thompson
- bamboo, bombo, etc
 
Joan H. Hall
- bamboo, bombo, etc
 
Victor Steinbok
- bamboo, bombo, etc
 
Joel S. Berson
- "Drop a hard _J_"
 
Wilson Gray
- look their noses down
 
Herb Stahlke
- eggcorn: crash commercialism
 
Randy Alexander
- "Drop a hard _J_"
 
Garson O'Toole
- eggcorn: crash commercialism
 
Joel S. Berson
- tweet citing standard - Modern Language Assn.
 
Tom Zurinskas
- eggcorn: crash commercialism
 
Garson O'Toole
- cloze your eyes and I'll:   a) kiss you  b) go away  c) none of above
 
Tom Zurinskas
- look their noses down
 
Arnold Zwicky
- "Here's you a dog"
 
Laurence Horn
- to "saber-rattle"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "Drop a hard _J_"
 
Wilson Gray
- "Drop a hard _J_"
 
George Thompson
- "Here's you a dog"
 
Wilson Gray
- "Here's you a dog"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "Here's you a dog"
 
Wilson Gray
- "Drop a hard _J_"
 
Garson O'Toole
- "Drop a hard _J_"
 
Garson O'Toole
- "Drop a hard _J_"
 
Wilson Gray
- look their noses down
 
Douglas G. Wilson
- "Here's you a dog"
 
Baker, John
- look their noses down
 
Neal Whitman
- look their noses down
 
Joel S. Berson
- underwater
 
Victor Steinbok
- underwater
 
Benjamin Barrett
- underwater
 
Joel S. Berson
- underwater
 
Victor Steinbok
- underwater
 
Dan Goncharoff
- also _above water_
 
David Barnhart
- underwater
 
Joel S. Berson
- underwater
 
Victor Steinbok
- underwater
 
Victor Steinbok
- underwater
 
Benjamin Barrett
- underwater
 
Dan Goncharoff
- Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
 
Martin Kaminer
- underwater
 
Victor Steinbok
- underwater
 
Ronald Butters
- Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
 
Joel S. Berson
- Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
 
Alice Faber
- "Drop a hard _J_"
 
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
 
Joel S. Berson
- "Drop a hard _J_"
 
Wilson Gray
- "Drop a hard _J_"
 
Laurence Horn
- A slow-spreading(?) slur: "_anti_-slant[-]eye"
 
Wilson Gray
- A slow-spreading(?) slur: "_anti_-slant[-]eye"
 
Benjamin Barrett
- Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
 
Wilson Gray
- " … makes it easy for anyone _to mass-configure_ a  =?UTF-8?Q?nd_deploy_..._iPad_=E2=80=A6=22_?=[NT]
 
Wilson Gray
- underwater
 
Wilson Gray
- Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
 
Jonathan Lighter
- coarseness update
 
Jonathan Lighter
- coarseness update
 
Wilson Gray
- A slow-spreading(?) slur: "_anti_-slant[-]eye"
 
Ronald Butters
- coarseness update
 
Laurence Horn
- A slow-spreading(?) slur: "_anti_-slant[-]eye"
 
Laurence Horn
- OT: Request for information on an article by William Holmes Bennett
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- A slow-spreading(?) slur: "_anti_-slant[-]eye"
 
Wilson Gray
- A slow-spreading(?) slur: "_anti_-slant[-]eye"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- A slow-spreading(?) slur: "_anti_-slant[-]eye"
 
W Brewer
- Plumbing the depths of Joe the Plumber's "dictionary
 
Victor Steinbok
- The Slants
 
Ronald Butters
- Plumbing the depths of Joe the Plumber's "dictionary
 
Ronald Butters
- The Slants
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Plumbing the depths of Joe the Plumber's "dictionary
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Plumbing the depths of Joe the Plumber's "dictionary
 
Ronald Butters
- Plumbing the depths of Joe the Plumber's "dictionary
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
 
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Plumbing the depths of Joe the Plumber's "dictionary
 
Laurence Horn
- Plumbing the depths of Joe the Plumber's "dictionary
 
Ronald Butters
- The Slants
 
Ronald Butters
- from my inbox
 
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- The Slants
 
Ronald Butters
- majesterial
 
Jonathan Lighter
- The Slants
 
Joel S. Berson
- Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
 
Martin Kaminer
- The Slants
 
Victor Steinbok
- Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
 
Dan Goncharoff
- The Slants
 
Dan Goncharoff
- coarseness update
 
Victor Steinbok
- Google slowing down (or putting you in the cross-hairs?)
 
Joel S. Berson
- The Slants
 
Joel S. Berson
- The Slants
 
Jonathan Lighter
- coarseness update
 
Jonathan Lighter
- The Slants
 
Joel S. Berson
- Dysphemism
 
Joel S. Berson
- Dysphemism
 
Wilson Gray
- Dysphemism
 
Victor Steinbok
- Dysphemism
 
Joel S. Berson
- _etic_ rules!
 
Wilson Gray
- The Slants
 
Ronald Butters
- Plumbing the depths of Joe the Plumber's "dictionary
 
Wilson Gray
- Plumbing the depths of Joe the Plumber's "dictionary
 
Wilson Gray
- I Love Little Pussy
 
Wilson Gray
- I Love Little Pussy
 
Laurence Horn
- pink slime
 
Victor Steinbok
- pink slime
 
Larry Sheldon
- cactus as a tree?
 
Victor Steinbok
- cactus as a tree?
 
Victor Steinbok
- pink slime
 
Victor Steinbok
- cactus as a tree?
 
Larry Sheldon
- cactus as a tree?
 
Benjamin Barrett
- Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
 
W Brewer
- cactus as a tree?
 
Wilson Gray
- cactus as a tree?
 
W Brewer
- pink slime
 
Larry Sheldon
- Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
 
Larry Sheldon
- cactus as a tree?
 
Victor Steinbok
- Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
 
Victor Steinbok
- pink slime
 
Victor Steinbok
- Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
 
Larry Sheldon
- cactus as a tree?
 
Garson O'Toole
- pink slime
 
Larry Sheldon
- cactus as a tree?
 
Benjamin Barrett
- cactus as a tree?
 
Eric Nielsen
- Learning to pronounce Seychelles
 
W Brewer
- blogress
 
Victor Steinbok
- a good old girl
 
George Thompson
- Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
 
Ben Zimmer
- Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
 
Ronald Butters
- cactus as a tree?
 
Laurence Horn
- cactus as a tree?
 
Joel S. Berson
- Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
 
Joel S. Berson
- blogress
 
Joel S. Berson
- Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
 
Dan Goncharoff
- Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
 
Larry Sheldon
- blogress
 
Laurence Horn
- Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
 
Larry Sheldon
- Endangered specie (coinages)
 
Larry Sheldon
- Endangered specie (coinages)
 
Laurence Horn
- cactus as a tree?
 
Larry Sheldon
- blogress
 
Larry Sheldon
- blogress
 
Laurence Horn
- blogress
 
Larry Sheldon
- Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
 
Larry Sheldon
- A slow-spreading(?) slur: "_anti_-slant[-]eye"
 
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Endangered specie (coinages)
 
Ben Zimmer
- I Love Little Pussy
 
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Endangered specie (coinages)
 
W Brewer
- bloggeress
 
David Barnhart
- FW: further on bloggeress
 
David Barnhart
- blogress
 
Victor Steinbok
- Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
 
Victor Steinbok
- Endangered specie (coinages)
 
Larry Sheldon
- Endangered specie (coinages)
 
Laurence Horn
- Endangered specie (coinages)
 
Laurence Horn
- Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
 
Larry Sheldon
- cactus as a tree?
 
Michael McKernan
- Endangered specie (coinages)
 
Larry Sheldon
- cactus as a tree?
 
Larry Sheldon
- blogress
 
Ann Burlingham
- bloggeress
 
Brenda Lester
- cactus as a tree?
 
Victor Steinbok
- blogress
 
Victor Steinbok
- Endangered specie (coinages)
 
Victor Steinbok
- thesp
 
Victor Steinbok
- Endangered specie (coinages)
 
Ben Zimmer
- cactus as a tree?
 
Larry Sheldon
- I Love Little Pussy
 
Jonathan Lighter
- A slow-spreading(?) slur: "_anti_-slant[-]eye"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- I Love Little Pussy
 
Larry Sheldon
- A slow-spreading(?) slur: "_anti_-slant[-]eye"
 
Benjamin Barrett
- I Love Little Pussy
 
Victor Steinbok
- cactus as a tree?
 
Wilson Gray
- Alutiiq insult
 
Joel S. Berson
- blogress
 
Joel S. Berson
- cactus as a tree?
 
Joel S. Berson
- cactus as a tree?
 
Larry Sheldon
- thesp
 
Laurence Horn
- cactus as a tree?
 
Larry Sheldon
- Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
 
Joel S. Berson
- thesp
 
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- Heard on The Doctors: a variation on "take precautions"
 
Wilson Gray
- Heard on The Doctors: a variation on "take precautions"
 
Larry Sheldon
- Endangered specie (coinages)
 
Wilson Gray
- blogress
 
Laurence Horn
- blogress
 
Ronald Butters
- blogress
 
Laurence Horn
- I Love Little Pussy
 
W Brewer
- Endangered specie (coinages)
 
Tom Zurinskas
- Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
 
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- I Love Little Pussy
 
George Thompson
- I Love Little Pussy
 
George Thompson
- cactus as a tree?
 
Eric Nielsen
- cactus as a tree?
 
Eric Nielsen
- I Love Little Pussy
 
Laurence Horn
- cactus as a tree?
 
Michael Newman
- Endangered specie (coinages)
 
Larry Sheldon
- cactus as a tree?
 
Joel S. Berson
- non-verbal communications
 
Victor Steinbok
- non-verbal communications
 
Jonathan Lighter
- cactus as a tree?
 
Eric Nielsen
- non-verbal communications
 
Victor Steinbok
- Endangered specie (coinages)
 
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Endangered specie (coinages)
 
Laurence Horn
- cactus as a tree?
 
W Brewer
- cactus as a tree?
 
Ronald Butters
- cactus as a tree?
 
Michael Newman
- I Love Little Pussy
 
Ronald Butters
- Variety Meats--observation
 
Victor Steinbok
- cactus as a tree?
 
Victor Steinbok
- I Love Little Pussy
 
Victor Steinbok
- I Love Little Pussy
 
Jonathan Lighter
- I Love Little Pussy
 
Victor Steinbok
- Quoted in the NYT:
 
Wilson Gray
- I Love Little Pussy
 
Michael Newman
- cactus as a tree?
 
Dan Nussbaum
- Quoted in the NYT:
 
Victor Steinbok
- cactus as a tree?
 
Victor Steinbok
- cactus as a tree?
 
Benjamin Barrett
- Quoted in the NYT:
 
Larry Sheldon
- I Love Little Pussy
 
Larry Sheldon
- to right-size
 
Jonathan Lighter
- I Love Little Pussy
 
Jonathan Lighter
- to right-size
 
Martin Kaminer
- Quoted in the NYT:
 
Laurence Horn
- Quoted in the NYT:
 
Larry Sheldon
- Endangered specie (coinages)
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Endangered specie (coinages)
 
Dan Goncharoff
- I Love Little Pussy
 
Ronald Butters
- Antedating of "Television"
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Libber," "Women's Libber"
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
 
Dan Goncharoff
- I Love Little Pussy
 
W Brewer
- I Love Little Pussy
 
Joel S. Berson
- Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
 
Joel S. Berson
- Endangered specie (coinages)
 
W Brewer
- Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
 
W Brewer
- Antedating of "Television"
 
Garson O'Toole
- Endangered specie (coinages)
 
Garson O'Toole
- Antedating of "Libber," "Women's Libber"
 
Garson O'Toole
- I Love Little Pussy
 
Garson O'Toole
- to right-size
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
 
Ronald Butters
- More from the NYT
 
Martin Kaminer
- Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
 
Garson O'Toole
- More from the NYT
 
Dan Goncharoff
- I Love Little Pussy
 
Baker, John
- More from the NYT
 
Ben Zimmer
- Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
 
Ronald Butters
- Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
 
Dan Goncharoff
- to vet
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Endangered specie (coinages)
 
Larry Sheldon
- More from the NYT
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
 
Larry Sheldon
- Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
 
Martin Kaminer
- Add terms that make my teeth itch.
 
Larry Sheldon
- More from the NYT
 
Laurence Horn
- Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
 
Ronald Butters
- to vet
 
Dan Goncharoff
- Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
 
Martin Kaminer
- How many layers of obfuscation on the average euphemism?
 
Larry Sheldon
- How many layers of obfuscation on the average euphemism?
 
Charles C Doyle
- How many layers of obfuscation on the average euphemism?
 
Larry Sheldon
- Present-tense singular of the verb "text"
 
Charles C Doyle
- to vet
 
Baker, John
- How many layers of obfuscation on the average euphemism?
 
Laurence Horn
- Present-tense singular of the verb "text"
 
Larry Sheldon
- How many layers of obfuscation on the average euphemism?
 
Larry Sheldon
- How many layers of obfuscation on the average euphemism?
 
Laurence Horn
- to vet
 
Jonathan Lighter
- How many layers of obfuscation on the average euphemism?
 
Larry Sheldon
- to vet
 
Larry Sheldon
- "Interned"
 
Larry Sheldon
- How many layers of obfuscation on the average euphemism?
 
Victor Steinbok
- to vet
 
Wilson Gray
- Add terms that make my teeth itch.
 
Wilson Gray
- Scandal: Tlingit man found sleeping in a Haida bed.
 
Larry Sheldon
- On _hoosier_ as an insult, etc.
 
Wilson Gray
- Oh, well
 
Wilson Gray
- Oh, well
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "Interned"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- More from the NYT
 
Arnold Zwicky
- Oh, well
 
Laurence Horn
- Automatic reply: ADS-L Digest - 11 Mar 2012 to 12 Mar 2012 (#2012-73)
 
Damien Hall
- biggest dick
 
Victor Steinbok
- Endangered specie (coinages)
 
W Brewer
- biggest dick
 
Victor Steinbok
- Endangered specie (coinages)
 
Larry Sheldon
- Other seafaring terms that intrigued me
 
Larry Sheldon
- Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
 
W Brewer
- biggest dick
 
Martin Kaminer
- Crash blossom of the morning
 
Laurence Horn
- How many layers of obfuscation on the average euphemism?
 
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- How many layers of obfuscation on the average euphemism?
 
Joel S. Berson
- Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
 
Charles C Doyle
- Present-tense singular of the verb "text"
 
W Brewer
- Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
 
Ronald Butters
- Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
 
Laurence Horn
- How many layers of obfuscation on the average euphemism?
 
Jonathan Lighter
- How many layers of obfuscation on the average euphemism?
 
W Brewer
- SUBREPTION defined
 
Ronald Butters
- Crash blossom of the morning
 
Larry Sheldon
- How many layers of obfuscation on the average euphemism?
 
Larry Sheldon
- SUBREPTION defined
 
Larry Sheldon
- On _hoosier_ as an insult, etc.
 
Herb Stahlke
- Crash blossom of the morning  Try this again
 
Larry Sheldon
- On _hoosier_ as an insult, etc.
 
Wilson Gray
- An on-line exchange:
 
Wilson Gray
- On _hoosier_ as an insult, etc.
 
Jonathan Lighter
- An on-line exchange:
 
Laurence Horn
- FW: "Referendum, Shmeferendum" used by an Amman news site
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- FW: "Referendum, Shmeferendum" used by an Amman news site
 
Dan Goncharoff
- How many layers of obfuscation on the average euphemism?
 
Baker, John
- How many layers of obfuscation on the average euphemism?
 
Larry Sheldon
- How many layers of obfuscation on the average euphemism?
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "Referendum, Shmeferendum" used by an Amman news site
 
Laurence Horn
- "Referendum, Shmeferendum" used by an Amman news site
 
Benjamin Barrett
- How many layers of obfuscation on the average euphemism?
 
Larry Sheldon
- An on-line exchange:
 
Wilson Gray
- How many layers of obfuscation on the average euphemism?
 
Baker, John
- How many layers of obfuscation on the average euphemism?
 
Joel S. Berson
- An on-line exchange:
 
Larry Sheldon
- OT: How to stop people from annoying you with their loud talk
 
Wilson Gray
- How to stop people from annoying you with their loud talk
 
Dave Hause
- Another one
 
Wilson Gray
- "Referendum, Shmeferendum" used by an Amman news site
 
Martin Kaminer
- "Referendum, Shmeferendum" used by an Amman news site
 
Dan Goncharoff
- An on-line exchange:
 
Charles C Doyle
- How many layers of obfuscation on the average euphemism?
 
Dan Goncharoff
- How many layers of obfuscation on the average euphemism?
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Getting around censorship of the Web in China
 
Wilson Gray
- OT: side effects
 
Victor Steinbok
- Headline: "iPads in store arrival set"
 
Wilson Gray
- "Nigerian Scam"
 
Victor Steinbok
- "Nigerian Scam"
 
Laurence Horn
- Quote: You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on
 
Garson O'Toole
- great stuff: football and international politics
 
Victor Steinbok
- badassery
 
Victor Steinbok
- Quote: You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Quote: You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on
 
Wilson Gray
- badassery
 
Wilson Gray
- discount on DARE
 
Joan H. Hall
- Quote: You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Quote: You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Quote: You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on
 
Larry Sheldon
- The wee ones (was Re: badassery)
 
Larry Sheldon
- Quote: You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on
 
Larry Sheldon
- Probably not the first example of this one, but...
 
Wilson Gray
- The wee ones (was Re: badassery)
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
 
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Rick Santorum, Idiot
 
Victor Steinbok
- Rick Santorum, Idiot
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Probably not the first example of this one, but...
 
Ben Zimmer
- The official language nonsense (was Re: Rick Santorum, Idiot)
 
Larry Sheldon
- Heard on The Doctors: _bug juice_
 
Wilson Gray
- Headline: "iPads in store arrival set"
 
Joel S. Berson
- Heard on The Doctors: _bug juice_
 
Laurence Horn
- Probably not the first example of this one, but...
 
Arnold Zwicky
- Heard on The Doctors: _bug juice_
 
Larry Sheldon
- Heard on The Doctors: _bug juice_
 
Arnold Zwicky
- Probably not the first example of this one, but...
 
Larry Sheldon
- Heard on The Doctors: _bug juice_
 
Joel S. Berson
- Heard on The Doctors: _bug juice_
 
Larry Sheldon
- Probably not the first example of this one, but...
 
Arnold Zwicky
- Heard on The Doctors: _bug juice_
 
Arnold Zwicky
- Heard on The Doctors: _bug juice_
 
Larry Sheldon
- Heard on The Doctors: _bug juice_
 
Joel S. Berson
- Heard on The Doctors: _bug juice_
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Heard on The Doctors: _bug juice_
 
Arnold Zwicky
- Heard on The Doctors: _bug juice_
 
Laurence Horn
- Heard on The Doctors: _bug juice_
 
Victor Steinbok
- Hawaiian Punch commercial
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Heard on The Doctors: _bug juice_
 
Alice Faber
- Heard on The Doctors: _bug juice_
 
Joel S. Berson
- Heard on The Doctors: _bug juice_
 
Victor Steinbok
- Heard on The Doctors: _bug juice_
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Docs See Spike in Word Deaths
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Heard on The Doctors: _bug juice_
 
Victor Steinbok
- Heard on The Doctors: _bug juice_
 
Arnold Zwicky
- Heard on The Doctors: _bug juice_
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Heard on The Doctors: _bug juice_
 
Laurence Horn
- mystery meat
 
Ronald Butters
- mystery meat
 
Laurence Horn
- An on-line exchange:
 
W Brewer
- great stuff: football and international politics
 
W Brewer
- Quote: You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on
 
W Brewer
- The wee ones (was Re: badassery)
 
W Brewer
- mystery meat
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- The wee ones (was Re: badassery)
 
Laurence Horn
- great stuff: football and international politics
 
Larry Sheldon
- for the taboo avoidance file: "jackass"
 
Geoffrey Nunberg
- The wee ones (was Re: badassery)
 
Larry Sheldon
- for the taboo avoidance file: "jackass"
 
Ronald Butters
- mystery meat
 
Ronald Butters
- great stuff: football and international politics
 
Laurence Horn
- great stuff: football and international politics
 
Larry Sheldon
- for the taboo avoidance file: "jackass"
 
Joel S. Berson
- great stuff: football and international politics
 
Paul Johnston
- Quote: Reaction to the telephone (Rutherford B. Hayes 1983) (Ulysses S. Grant 1939)
 
Garson O'Toole
- great stuff: football and international politics
 
Alice Faber
- Quote: Reaction to the telephone (Rutherford B. Hayes 1983) (Ulysses S. Grant 1939)
 
Laurence Horn
- More euphemisms:  "pervasive language"
 
Joel S. Berson
- More euphemisms:  "pervasive language"
 
Neal Whitman
- More euphemisms:  "pervasive language"
 
Laurence Horn
- From _Eitb Pays Basque_:
 
Wilson Gray
- More euphemisms:  "pervasive language"
 
Joel S. Berson
- Antedating of "Chocoholic"
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Bargaining Chip"
 
Shapiro, Fred
- great stuff: football and international politics
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- for the taboo avoidance file: "jackass"
 
Ronald Butters
- More euphemisms:  "pervasive language"
 
Neal Whitman
- for the taboo avoidance file: "jackass"
 
Garson O'Toole
- mystery meat
 
Garson O'Toole
- great stuff: football and international politics
 
Laurence Horn
- great stuff: football and international politics
 
Alice Faber
- great stuff: football and international politics
 
Jonathan Lighter
- More euphemisms: "pervasive language"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- More euphemisms:  "pervasive language"
 
Amy West
- great stuff: football and international politics
 
Eric Nielsen
- More euphemisms:  "pervasive language"
 
Amy West
- More euphemisms: "pervasive language"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- More euphemisms: "pervasive language"
 
Arnold Zwicky
- SUBREPTION defined
 
W Brewer
- More euphemisms: "pervasive language"
 
Douglas G. Wilson
- More euphemisms: "pervasive language"
 
George Thompson
- More euphemisms: "pervasive language"
 
Shapiro, Fred
- More euphemisms: "pervasive language"
 
Douglas G. Wilson
- Quote: You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on
 
Garson O'Toole
- Antedating of "Phonetic"
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Fwd: More euphemisms: "pervasive language"
 
George Thompson
- The wee ones (was Re: badassery)
 
W Brewer
- great stuff: football and international politics
 
Laurence Horn
- More euphemisms: "pervasive language"
 
Laurence Horn
- More euphemisms:  "pervasive language"
 
Larry Sheldon
- More euphemisms: "pervasive language"
 
Ronald Butters
- More euphemisms: "pervasive language"
 
Joel S. Berson
- The OED's dates of appearance overseas
 
Joel S. Berson
- "language" = "bad language", "L" = "(bad) language", and the OED
 
Joel S. Berson
- More euphemisms: "pervasive language"
 
Larry Sheldon
- The wee ones (was Re: badassery)
 
Larry Sheldon
- More euphemisms: "pervasive language"
 
Larry Sheldon
- More euphemisms: "pervasive language"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- More euphemisms: "pervasive language"
 
Larry Sheldon
- The OED's dates of appearance overseas
 
Victor Steinbok
- More euphemisms: "pervasive language"
 
Laurence Horn
- The OED's dates of appearance overseas
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Nunberg on Winchester on Green and Lighter
 
Douglas G. Wilson
- More euphemisms: "pervasive language"
 
Shapiro, Fred
- More euphemisms: "pervasive language"
 
George Thompson
- Mixed (Confused?  Confusing?) Metaphor
 
Larry Sheldon
- American
 
Larry Sheldon
- American
 
Jonathan Lighter
- I'd almost gotten to where I could just read stuff.
 
Larry Sheldon
- American
 
Larry Sheldon
- I'd almost gotten to where I could just read stuff.
 
Larry Sheldon
- I'd almost gotten to where I could just read stuff.
 
Benjamin Barrett
- I'd almost gotten to where I could just read stuff.
 
Larry Sheldon
- I'd almost gotten to where I could just read stuff.
 
Victor Steinbok
- That language thing
 
Larry Sheldon
- Guess what!  A piano is a keyboard (instrument).
 
Larry Sheldon
- Guess what!  A piano is a keyboard (instrument).
 
Benjamin Barrett
- Guess what!  A piano is a keyboard (instrument).
 
Larry Sheldon
- Guess what!  A piano is a keyboard (instrument).
 
Victor Steinbok
- Guess what!  A piano is a keyboard (instrument).
 
Larry Sheldon
- Guess what!  A piano is a keyboard (instrument).
 
Benjamin Barrett
- American
 
Joel S. Berson
- I'd almost gotten to where I could just read stuff.
 
Joel S. Berson
- Guess what!  A piano is a keyboard (instrument).
 
Joel S. Berson
- Guess what!  A piano is a keyboard (instrument).
 
Larry Sheldon
- "language" = "bad language", "L" = "(bad) language", and the OED
 
Arnold Zwicky
- I'd almost gotten to where I could just read stuff.
 
Laurence Horn
- The wee ones (was Re: badassery)
 
Wilson Gray
- The wee ones (was Re: badassery)
 
Larry Sheldon
- The wee ones (was Re: badassery)
 
Arnold Zwicky
- Guess what!  A piano is a keyboard (instrument).
 
Benjamin Barrett
- Guess what!  A piano is a keyboard (instrument).
 
Larry Sheldon
- Guess what!  A piano is a keyboard (instrument).
 
Larry Sheldon
- Guess what!  A piano is a keyboard (instrument).
 
Benjamin Barrett
- More euphemisms: "pervasive language"
 
Wilson Gray
- American
 
W Brewer
- American
 
Jonathan Lighter
- a "brokered convention"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- a "brokered convention"
 
Laurence Horn
- a "brokered convention"
 
Victor Steinbok
- a "brokered convention"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- lipo suck
 
Victor Steinbok
- There Will Always Have Been An England . . .
 
Martin Kaminer
- American
 
Wilson Gray
- a "brokered convention"
 
Joel S. Berson
- a "brokered convention"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "Obscene pornography"
 
Joel S. Berson
- American
 
Jonathan Lighter
- a "brokered convention"
 
Joel S. Berson
- "Obscene pornography"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- a "brokered convention"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- hero etymology
 
Michael Newman
- a "brokered convention"
 
Victor Steinbok
- hero etymology
 
Victor Steinbok
- a "brokered convention"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- hero etymology
 
Douglas G. Wilson
- hero etymology
 
Michael Newman
- NYC lecture Saturday March 24, 2012
 
David Barnhart
- hero etymology
 
Larry Sheldon
- hero etymology
 
Larry Sheldon
- "Obscene pornography"
 
Dave Wilton
- hero etymology
 
Laurence Horn
- hero etymology
 
Michael Newman
- hero etymology
 
Larry Sheldon
- hero etymology
 
sclements at NEO.RR.COM
- hero etymology
 
Dave Wilton
- hero etymology
 
Laurence Horn
- basketball
 
Victor Steinbok
- hero etymology
 
Joel S. Berson
- hero etymology
 
Larry Sheldon
- rebel yell and yeehaw
 
Jonathan Lighter
- hero etymology
 
Dan Goncharoff
- American
 
Dan Goncharoff
- hero etymology
 
Laurence Horn
- American
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Makes my teeth itch.
 
Larry Sheldon
- Antedating of "Chocoholic"
 
Garson O'Toole
- Makes my teeth itch.
 
Garson O'Toole
- hero etymology
 
Wilson Gray
- Makes my teeth itch.
 
Victor Steinbok
- hero etymology
 
Victor Steinbok
- Makes my teeth itch.
 
Paul Johnston
- Quote: Reaction to the telephone (Rutherford B. Hayes 1983) (Ulysses S. Grant 1939)
 
Wilson Gray
- Antedating of "Chocoholic"
 
Shapiro, Fred
- More euphemisms: "pervasive language"
 
George Thompson
- Makes my teeth itch.
 
Ronald Butters
- Makes my teeth itch.
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Tegrity and the Flipped Classroom - webinar
 
Tom Zurinskas
- Makes my teeth itch.
 
Ronald Butters
- Tegrity and the Flipped Classroom - webinar
 
Dan Goncharoff
- No subject
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Tegrity and the Flipped Classroom - webinar
 
Garson O'Toole
- Makes my teeth itch.
 
Victor Steinbok
- Makes my teeth itch.
 
Ronald Butters
- Makes my teeth itch.
 
Larry Sheldon
- Makes my teeth itch.
 
Victor Steinbok
- Makes my teeth itch.
 
Larry Sheldon
- Makes my teeth itch.
 
Larry Sheldon
- Makes my teeth itch.
 
Victor Steinbok
- Makes my teeth itch.
 
Larry Sheldon
- Makes my lawn unsightly
 
Ronald Butters
- Makes my lawn unsightly
 
Victor Steinbok
- Makes my lawn unsightly
 
Larry Sheldon
- Antedating of "Chocoholic"
 
Douglas G. Wilson
- Makes my lawn unsightly
 
W Brewer
- New-to-me variant: "For me, that was the end of the straw." [NT]
 
Wilson Gray
- Antedating of "Chocoholic"
 
Douglas G. Wilson
- supercalif... redux
 
Ben Zimmer
- White Flag  -- "rythm", no vowel in
 
Larry Sheldon
- White Flag -- "rythm", no vowel in
 
Garson O'Toole
- White Flag -- "rythm", no vowel in
 
Jonathan Lighter
- White Flag -- "rythm", no vowel in
 
Larry Sheldon
- Antedating of "Chocoholic"
 
Garson O'Toole
- Antedating of "Chocoholic"
 
Douglas G. Wilson
- White Flag -- "rythm", no vowel in
 
Laurence Horn
- White Flag -- "rythm", no vowel in
 
Dan Nussbaum
- White Flag -- "rythm", no vowel in
 
Eric Nielsen
- Welsh is not as distant as Basque, Maltese, or Apache
 
Ronald Butters
- Welsh is not as distant as Basque, Maltese, or Apache
 
Joel S. Berson
- White Flag  -- "rythm", no vowel in
 
Ronald Butters
- White Flag  -- "rythm", no vowel in
 
Benjamin Barrett
- Welsh is not as distant as Basque, Maltese, or Apache
 
Eric Nielsen
- From _Eitb Pays Basque_:
 
Dan Goncharoff
- Antedating of "Confucian"
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Hinduism"
 
Shapiro, Fred
- A prophet without honor
 
Wilson Gray
- From _Eitb Pays Basque_:
 
Wilson Gray
- White Flag -- "rythm", no vowel in
 
Larry Sheldon
- Automatic reply: ADS-L Digest - 18 Mar 2012 to 19 Mar 2012 (#2012-80)
 
Damien Hall
- White Flag  -- "rythm", no vowel in
 
Larry Sheldon
- White Flag  -- "rythm", no vowel in
 
Larry Sheldon
- Welsh is not as distant as Basque, Maltese, or Apache
 
Larry Sheldon
- A prophet without honor
 
Paul Johnston
- Welsh is not as distant as Basque, Maltese, or Apache
 
Paul Johnston
- White Flag  -- "rythm", no vowel in
 
Paul Johnston
- Welsh is not as distant as Basque, Maltese, or Apache
 
W Brewer
- Welsh is not as distant as Basque, Maltese, or Apache
 
Kate
- White Flag  -- "rythm", no vowel in
 
Tom Zurinskas
- Makes my teeth itch.
 
Amy West
- White Flag -- "rythm", no vowel in
 
Amy West
- White Flag  -- "rythm", no vowel in
 
Amy West
- White Flag -- "rythm", no vowel in
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Welsh is not as distant as Basque, Maltese, or Apache
 
W Brewer
- White Flag -- "rythm", no vowel in
 
Charles C Doyle
- <w> as indicator of vowelitude
 
Ronald Butters
- <w> as indicator of vowelitude
 
Joel S. Berson
- OT:  Antedating of "Confucian"
 
Joel S. Berson
- White Flag  -- "rythm", no vowel in
 
Joel S. Berson
- vocalic m, r, n, and l
 
Ronald Butters
- Welsh is not as distant as Basque, Maltese, or Apache
 
Benjamin Barrett
- "chief evangelist" -- standard business jargon? -- since when?
 
George Thompson
- Tegrity and the Flipped Classroom
 
Brian Hitchcock
- vocalic m, r, n, and l
 
Tom Zurinskas
- "chief evangelist" -- standard business jargon? -- since when?
 
Dan Goncharoff
- Makes my teeth itch.
 
Larry Sheldon
- vocalic m, r, n, and l
 
Joel S. Berson
- <w> as indicator of vowelitude
 
Larry Sheldon
- "chief evangelist" -- standard business jargon? -- since when?
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Makes my teeth itch.
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "chief evangelist" -- standard business jargon? -- since when?
 
Larry Sheldon
- "chief evangelist" -- standard business jargon? -- since when?
 
Dave Wilton
- Makes my teeth itch.
 
David A. Daniel
- "chief evangelist" -- standard business jargon? -- since when?
 
Garson O'Toole
- <w> as indicator of vowelitude
 
Ronald Butters
- tapestry
 
Victor Steinbok
- tapestry
 
Dan Goncharoff
- Welsh is not as distant as Basque, Maltese, or Apache
 
Spanbock/Svoboda-Spanbock
- spelling vs orthography
 
Dan Nussbaum
- spelling vs orthography
 
Victor Steinbok
- forensic linguistics
 
Victor Steinbok
- forensic linguistics
 
W Brewer
- "All roads would lead to the king"
 
Joel S. Berson
- Computer Mice or Mouses?
 
Sallie Lemons
- "All roads would lead to the king"
 
Dan Goncharoff
- "All roads would lead to the king"
 
Garson O'Toole
- Computer Mice or Mouses?
 
Victor Steinbok
- Computer Mice or Mouses?
 
Arnold Zwicky
- Computer Mice or Mouses?
 
Sallie Lemons
- Computer Mice or Mouses?
 
Laurence Horn
- Computer Mice or Mouses?
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Computer Mice or Mouses?
 
Ben Zimmer
- Computer Mice or Mouses?
 
Victor Steinbok
- Computer Mice or Mouses?
 
Jonathan Lighter
- OUP lexicography job
 
Jesse Sheidlower
- Computer Mice or Mouses?
 
Garson O'Toole
- Computer Mice or Mouses?
 
Larry Sheldon
- Computer Mice or Mouses?
 
Victor Steinbok
- Computer Mice or Mouses?
 
Sallie Lemons
- Computer Mice or Mouses?
 
Laurence Horn
- "melt-up" and "cyber-squatter"
 
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- "melt-up" and "cyber-squatter"
 
Dan Goncharoff
- Computer Mice or Mouses?
 
Garson O'Toole
- Computer Mice or Mouses?
 
Dan Goncharoff
- Computer Mice or Mouses?
 
Victor Steinbok
- Computer Mice or Mouses?
 
W Brewer
- Computer Mice or Mouses?
 
Ben Zimmer
- "melt-up" and "cyber-squatter"
 
Garson O'Toole
- Questionnaire
 
golnaz jamalifar
- Computer Mice or Mouses?
 
Larry Sheldon
- Computer Mice or Mouses?
 
Wilson Gray
- snowclonelette watch
 
Victor Steinbok
- genericide
 
Victor Steinbok
- Computer Mice or Mouses?
 
Victor Steinbok
- snowclonelette watch
 
Victor Steinbok
- snowclonelette watch
 
Wilson Gray
- Computer Mice or Mouses?
 
Ben Zimmer
- Computer Mice or Mouses?
 
Sallie Lemons
- more -gates
 
Victor Steinbok
- Sigh!
 
Wilson Gray
- novel semiotics (ok, insert your headline here)
 
Victor Steinbok
- more -gates
 
Jonathan Lighter
- more -gates
 
Victor Steinbok
- Sigh!
 
Larry Sheldon
- more -gates
 
Larry Sheldon
- Computer Mice or Mouses?
 
Benjamin Barrett
- "All roads would lead to the king"
 
Joel S. Berson
- Computer Mice or Mouses?
 
Laurence Horn
- "chief evangelist" -- standard business jargon? -- since when?
 
George Thompson
- FW: "Jass" card game in 1911 (from Barry Popik)
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- more -gates
 
Ben Zimmer
- FW: "Jass" card game in 1911 (from Barry Popik)
 
Douglas G. Wilson
- Computer Mice or Mouses?
 
W Brewer
- pinkwashing
 
Victor Steinbok
- pinkwashing
 
Victor Steinbok
- FW: "Jass" card game in 1911 (from Barry Popik)
 
W Brewer
- pinkwashing
 
Victor Steinbok
- Computer Mice or Mouses?
 
Amy West
- more -gates
 
Laurence Horn
- FW: "Jass" card game in 1911 (from Barry Popik)
 
George Thompson
- Problem with OED's First Use of "Capitalism"
 
Shapiro, Fred
- pinkwashing
 
Joel S. Berson
- Computer Mice or Mouses?
 
Joel S. Berson
- more -gates
 
Joel S. Berson
- more -gates
 
Larry Sheldon
- more -gates
 
Jonathan Lighter
- more -gates
 
Jonathan Lighter
- more -gates
 
Garson O'Toole
- Word drift -- "gangbang"
 
Larry Sheldon
- more -gates
 
Garson O'Toole
- Word drift -- "gangbang"
 
Ben Zimmer
- Problem with OED's First Use of "Capitalism"
 
Joel S. Berson
- Announcing digital edition of D.C. Evening Star, 1852-1922
 
Loiterstein, David
- more -gates
 
Garson O'Toole
- Obama & ASL
 
Mark Mandel
- Computer Mice or Mouses?
 
Garson O'Toole
- more -gates
 
Laurence Horn
- Announcing digital edition of D.C. Evening Star, 1852-1922 (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Word drift -- "gangbang"
 
Wilson Gray
- more -gates
 
Victor Steinbok
- Announcing digital edition of D.C. Evening Star, 1852-1922 (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Victor Steinbok
- Problem with OED's First Use of "Capitalism"
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Announcing digital edition of D.C. Evening Star, 1852-1922 (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Willie Schatz
- Computer Mice or Mouses? (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- FW: "Jass" card game in 1911 (from Barry Popik)
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Maine sardine
 
Victor Steinbok
- Maine sardine
 
Victor Steinbok
- Social networking?
 
Joel S. Berson
- _Buthers_ and _Butters_
 
Wilson Gray
- FW: "Jass" card game in 1911 (from Barry Popik)
 
Victor Steinbok
- Social networking?
 
Benjamin Barrett
- Social networking?
 
Victor Steinbok
- Maine sardine
 
Joel S. Berson
- Social networking?
 
Paul Johnston
- Social networking?
 
Baker, John
- Social networking?
 
golnaz jamalifar
- Maine sardine
 
Victor Steinbok
- Social networking?
 
Larry Sheldon
- _Buthers_ and _Butters_
 
Ronald Butters
- Social networking?
 
Jesse Sheidlower
- _Buthers_ and _Butters_
 
Wilson Gray
- "Down"
 
Larry Sheldon
- FW: "Jass" card game in 1911 (from Barry Popik)
 
W Brewer
- Fun with phrases
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Fun with phrases
 
Stephen Goranson
- Source for music terms and.....
 
Eric Nielsen
- DARE Celebrations May 3rd and 4th
 
Grant Barrett
- Source for music terms and.....
 
Ben Zimmer
- "give the bird" (Merrie Melodies, 1942)
 
Ben Zimmer
- FW: "Zazz" (= pep) 1916 -- (from Barry Popik)
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Source for music terms and.....
 
Eric Nielsen
- Good to know that I'm not alone!;-)
 
Wilson Gray
- graphically slaughtered
 
Neal Whitman
- A prophet without honor
 
Wilson Gray
- Problem with OED's First Use of "Capitalism"
 
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- "give the bird" (Merrie Melodies, 1942)
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Congressmen
 
Dan Goodman
- graphically slaughtered
 
Jonathan Lighter
- There's Basically Nothing You Can Say That Isn't Trademarked - Businessweek
 
Ronald Butters
- FW: "Zazz" (= pep) 1916 -- (from Barry Popik)
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Questionnaire
 
golnaz jamalifar
- Congressmen
 
Dan Goncharoff
- FW: "Zazz" (= pep) 1916 -- (from Barry Popik)
 
W Brewer
- Eeyore
 
Herb Stahlke
- Problem with OED's First Use of "Capitalism"
 
Joel S. Berson
- Computer Mice or Mouses?
 
W Brewer
- graphically slaughtered
 
Joel S. Berson
- Congressmen
 
Joel S. Berson
- Eeyore
 
Benjamin Barrett
- Computer Mice or Mouses?
 
Joel S. Berson
- Eeyore
 
Joel S. Berson
- Problem with OED's First Use of "Capitalism"
 
Victor Steinbok
- There's Basically Nothing You Can Say That Isn't Trademarked - Businessweek (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "to cheapen"
 
Joel S. Berson
- Eeyore (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "to cheapen"
 
golnaz jamalifar
- a century of "jazz"
 
Ben Zimmer
- Song-title in Cuban Spanish
 
Wilson Gray
- Problem with OED's First Use of "Capitalism"
 
Dan Goncharoff
- Problem with OED's First Use of "Capitalism"
 
Victor Steinbok
- "to cheapen"
 
Wilson Gray
- graphically slaughtered
 
Wilson Gray
- Eeyore
 
Wilson Gray
- Song-title in Cuban Spanish
 
Wilson Gray
- is "dirty blonde" depreciative?
 
Geoffrey Nunberg
- Congressmen
 
Larry Sheldon
- is "dirty blonde" depreciative?
 
Arnold Zwicky
- is "dirty blonde" depreciative?
 
Larry Sheldon
- Congressmen
 
Victor Steinbok
- is "dirty blonde" depreciative?
 
Ronald Butters
- Belvedere-y
 
Victor Steinbok
- is "dirty blonde" depreciative?
 
Laurence Horn
- is "dirty blonde" depreciative?
 
Victor Steinbok
- Belvedere-y
 
Laurence Horn
- is "dirty blonde" depreciative?
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Song-title in Cuban Spanish
 
Ronald Butters
- " … rough on the outside side …"
 
Wilson Gray
- Song-title in Cuban Spanish
 
Michael Newman
- is "dirty blonde" depreciative?
 
Wilson Gray
- Belvedere-y
 
Wilson Gray
- From an NYT Online teaser
 
Wilson Gray
- Song-title in Cuban Spanish
 
Laurence Horn
- Speak of the devil...
 
Wilson Gray
- a person where
 
Neal Whitman
- Song-title in Cuban Spanish
 
Laurence Horn
- Eeyore
 
Paul Johnston
- is "dirty blonde" depreciative?
 
Eric Nielsen
- is "dirty blonde" depreciative?
 
Jesse Sheidlower
- is "dirty blonde" depreciative?
 
George Thompson
- "blow water"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- is "dirty blonde" depreciative?
 
Eric Nielsen
- is "dirty blonde" depreciative?
 
Laurence Horn
- is "dirty blonde" depreciative?
 
Eric Nielsen
- is "dirty blonde" depreciative?
 
Jonathan Lighter
- is "dirty blonde" depreciative?
 
paul johnson
- "blow water"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- nothing to brag home about
 
Michael Sheehan
- nothing to brag home about
 
Arnold Zwicky
- nothing to brag home about
 
Victor Steinbok
- "blow water"
 
Larry Sheldon
- Fwd: [this-and-that]  Italian Spelling Bee
 
Dan Nussbaum
- Fwd: [this-and-that]  Italian Spelling Bee
 
Victor Steinbok
- "Dairy Queen",  the (basketball) verb
 
Laurence Horn
- new medical specialization
 
Victor Steinbok
- pinkwashing
 
Laurence Horn
- Trying to have it both ways?;-)
 
Wilson Gray
- Another euphemism
 
Wilson Gray
- Another euphemism
 
Larry Sheldon
- Song-title in Cuban Spanish
 
Wilson Gray
- Song-title in Cuban Spanish
 
Larry Sheldon
- Another euphemism
 
Victor Steinbok
- spook
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Another euphemism
 
Larry Sheldon
- spook
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Another euphemism
 
Laurence Horn
- Another euphemism
 
Larry Sheldon
- Another euphemism
 
Victor Steinbok
- is "dirty blonde" depreciative?
 
Joel S. Berson
- Another euphemism
 
Larry Sheldon
- _Striped_
 
Wilson Gray
- nothing to brag home about
 
Joel S. Berson
- pinkwashing
 
Eric Nielsen
- _Striped_
 
Douglas G. Wilson
- is "dirty blonde" depreciative?
 
Laurence Horn
- spook
 
Wilson Gray
- _Striped_
 
Jonathan Lighter
- spook
 
Jonathan Lighter
- spook
 
Larry Sheldon
- Problem with OED's First Use of "Capitalism"
 
Dan Goncharoff
- spook
 
Wilson Gray
- terms of endearment
 
Victor Steinbok
- spook
 
Douglas G. Wilson
- nothing to brag home about
 
W Brewer
- terms of endearment
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Eeyore
 
Amy West
- is "dirty blonde" depreciative?
 
Amy West
- is "dirty blonde" depreciative?
 
Amy West
- is "dirty blonde" depreciative?
 
Amy West
- is "dirty blonde" depreciative?
 
Amy West
- terms of endearment
 
Joel S. Berson
- is "dirty blonde" depreciative?
 
Joel S. Berson
- is "dirty blonde" depreciative?
 
Laurence Horn
- trademark v
 
Victor Steinbok
- spook
 
Wilson Gray
- trademark v
 
Larry Sheldon
- "Fred got married, got divorced, and he is now a librarian at Yale."
 
Wilson Gray
- trademark v
 
Victor Steinbok
- trademark v
 
Victor Steinbok
- eggcorn
 
Victor Steinbok
- egghorns
 
Ronald Butters
- eggcorn
 
Laurence Horn
- The return of helicopter parents
 
Victor Steinbok
- The return of helicopter parents
 
George Thompson
- egghorns
 
Wilson Gray
- Seen on Twitter:   "Tim Whoretons"
 
Dan Goodman
- usage ridicule
 
Jonathan Lighter
- usage ridicule
 
Wilson Gray
- The return of helicopter parents
 
Victor Steinbok
- usage ridicule
 
Laurence Horn
- Seen on Twitter:   "Tim Whoretons"
 
Laurence Horn
- usage ridicule
 
Larry Sheldon
- Output of your job "LarrySheldon"
 
Larry Sheldon
- French legaleze (the English version)
 
Victor Steinbok
- French legaleze (the English version)
 
Laurence Horn
- usage ridicule
 
Herb Stahlke
- "This is the handle of a prison toothbrush embedded with a razorblade." [NT]
 
Wilson Gray
- Seen on Twitter: "Tim Whoretons"
 
Wilson Gray
- terms of endearment
 
Wilson Gray
- Output of your job "LarrySheldon"
 
Wilson Gray
- The return of helicopter parents
 
W Brewer
- usage ridicule
 
W Brewer
- Seen on Twitter: "Tim Whoretons"
 
Herb Stahlke
- usage ridicule
 
Benjamin Barrett
- usage ridicule
 
Eric Nielsen
- terms of endearment
 
Jonathan Lighter
- The return of helicopter parents
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Seen on Twitter: "Tim Whoretons"
 
Laurence Horn
- Fwd: usage ridicule
 
Laurence Horn
- usage ridicule
 
Charles C Doyle
- Seen on Twitter: "Tim Whoretons"
 
Herb Stahlke
- usage ridicule
 
Arnold Zwicky
- striped
 
Mailbox
- terms of endearment
 
Joel S. Berson
- usage ridicule
 
Joel S. Berson
- terms of endearment
 
Dan Goncharoff
- terms of endearment
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Fwd: usage ridicule
 
Joel S. Berson
- usage ridicule
 
W Brewer
- usage ridicule
 
Laurence Horn
- "Sweater-vest"
 
Wilson Gray
- "Sweater-vest"
 
paul johnson
- new Google Books glitch
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "Sweater-vest"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "Sweater-vest"
 
Wilson Gray
- striped
 
Wilson Gray
- usage ridicule
 
Joel S. Berson
- terms of endearment
 
Wilson Gray
- terms of endearment
 
Jonathan Lighter
- anachronism alert!
 
Jonathan Lighter
- egghorns
 
Ronald Butters
- Antedating of "Demographics"
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Demographics"
 
Laurence Horn
- anachronism alert!
 
Ben Zimmer
- Antedating of "Demographics"
 
Shapiro, Fred
- new Google Books glitch
 
Garson O'Toole
- Antedating of "Demographic" (Noun)
 
Shapiro, Fred
- new Google Books glitch
 
Garson O'Toole
- trademark v
 
Mark Mandel
- "up and arms"
 
Mark Mandel
- "up and arms"
 
Benjamin Barrett
- "up and arms"
 
Ben Zimmer
- a century of "jazz"
 
Ben Zimmer
- "up and arms"
 
Benjamin Barrett
- new Google Books glitch
 
Stephen Goranson
- new Google Books glitch
 
Shapiro, Fred
- new Google Books glitch
 
Shapiro, Fred
- new Google Books glitch
 
Joel S. Berson
- new Google Books glitch
 
Garson O'Toole
- trademark v
 
Jonathan Lighter
- new Google Books glitch
 
Dave Wilton
- "up and arms"
 
Laurence Horn
- "Sweater-vest"
 
Amy West
- new Google Books glitch
 
Jonathan Lighter
- usage ridicule
 
Amy West
- "Sweater-vest"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- usage ridicule
 
Jonathan Lighter
- questionnaire
 
golnaz jamalifar
- "Sweater-vest"
 
Wilson Gray
- new Google Books glitch(es)
 
Joel S. Berson
- "Sweater-vest"
 
Joel S. Berson
- usage ridicule
 
Joel S. Berson
- Fwd: usage ridicule
 
Joel S. Berson
- "Sweater-vest"
 
Laurence Horn
- calling dibs on "retronym treadmill"
 
Laurence Horn
- trademark v
 
Victor Steinbok
- return of "colored"
 
Victor Steinbok
- Fwd: usage ridicule
 
W Brewer
- "up and arms"
 
Herb Stahlke
- calling dibs on "retronym treadmill"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- minor eggcornish error
 
Victor Steinbok
- ball boy slur
 
Victor Steinbok
- ball boy slur
 
Alice Faber
- ball boy slur
 
Jonathan Lighter
- ball boy slur
 
Jonathan Lighter
- return of "colored"
 
Wilson Gray
- ball boy slur
 
Victor Steinbok
- Spoken by voiceoverer for a "BrushOnBlock" ad:
 
Wilson Gray
- return of "colored"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- ball boy slur
 
Laurence Horn
- return of "colored"
 
Laurence Horn
- trademark v
 
Victor Steinbok
- Spoken by voiceoverer for a "BrushOnBlock" ad:
 
W Brewer
- Diverting dialects in USA
 
Tom Zurinskas
- Fwd: usage ridicule
 
Victor Steinbok
- Fwd: usage ridicule
 
Eric Nielsen
- short takes
 
Victor Steinbok
- CNN's naughty acronym
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "Sweater-vest"
 
Amy West
- Fwd: usage ridicule
 
Amy West
- "Sweater-vest"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- CNN's naughty acronym
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "Sweater-vest"
 
Amy West
- return of "colored"
 
Amy West
- short takes
 
Ben Zimmer
- CNN's naughty acronym
 
George Thompson
- return of "colored"
 
Charles C Doyle
- return of "colored"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- return of "colored"
 
Laurence Horn
- CNN's naughty acronym
 
Laurence Horn
- return of "colored"
 
W Brewer
- return of "colored"
 
Joel S. Berson
- ball boy slur
 
Joel S. Berson
- return of "colored"
 
Joel S. Berson
- return of "colored"
 
Ben Zimmer
- FW: This is the most absurd position
 
David Barnhart
- return of "colored"
 
Joel S. Berson
- CNN's naughty acronym
 
Joel S. Berson
- return of "colored"
 
Joel S. Berson
- FW: This is the most absurd position
 
Jonathan Lighter
- FW: This is the most absurd position
 
Jonathan Lighter
- return of "colored"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Google glitches?
 
Joel S. Berson
- Google glitches?
 
Dave Wilton
- return of "colored"
 
Victor Steinbok
- short takes
 
Victor Steinbok
- FW: This is the most absurd position
 
Victor Steinbok
- Google glitches?
 
Charles C Doyle
- This is the most absurd position
 
Laurence Horn
- This is the most absurd position
 
Jonathan Lighter
- fun with statistics
 
Victor Steinbok
- Google glitches?
 
Jonathan Lighter
- FW: This is the most absurd position
 
Joel S. Berson
- MMA
 
Jonathan Lighter
- public radio
 
Victor Steinbok
- return of "colored"
 
Amy West
- return of "colored"
 
Amy West
- return of "colored"
 
Amy West
- return of "colored"
 
Laurence Horn
- return of "colored"
 
Ann Burlingham
- rash = 'critically decisive'
 
Jonathan Lighter
- rash = 'critically decisive'
 
Jonathan Lighter
- rash = 'critically decisive'
 
Dan Goncharoff
- rash = 'critically decisive'
 
Laurence Horn
- rash = 'critically decisive'
 
Victor Steinbok
- return of "colored"
 
W Brewer
- ob-gyn revisited
 
Neal Whitman
- rash = 'critically decisive'
 
Jonathan Lighter
- repeal?
 
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- ob-gyn revisited
 
Victor Steinbok
- FW: This is the most absurd position
 
George Thompson
- ob-gyn revisited
 
Spanbock/Svoboda-Spanbock
- ob-gyn revisited
 
Mark Mandel
- Oh, well
 
Mark Mandel
- ob-gyn revisited
 
Wilson Gray
- return of "colored"
 
Wilson Gray
- all-of-the-above = 'multifaceted; multipronged'
 
Jonathan Lighter
- The perils of ngrams (was Usage Ridicule)
 
Geoffrey Nunberg
- "Stay tuned" - the all-digital generation doesn't get this phrase
 
Guy Letourneau
- The perils of ngrams (was Usage Ridicule)
 
Joel S. Berson
- The perils of ngrams (was Usage Ridicule)
 
Victor Steinbok
- The perils of ngrams (was Usage Ridicule)
 
Laurence Horn
- The perils of ngrams (was Usage Ridicule)
 
Ben Zimmer
- " … literally fighting, _fist-to-cuffs_ …  =?UTF-8?Q?=22_?=[NT]
 
Wilson Gray
- "Collateral damage" > "collateral"
 
Wilson Gray
- all-of-the-above = 'multifaceted; multipronged'
 
Garson O'Toole
- "Collateral damage" > "collateral"
 
Arnold Zwicky
- Kmu
 
Martha Barnette
- "Collateral damage" > "collateral"
 
Jonathan Lighter
    
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