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- FW: [lg policy] The great language change hoax
 
David Barnhart
- FW: [lg policy] The great language change hoax
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "triage" (v.)
 
Jonathan Lighter
- FW: [lg policy] The great language change hoax
 
Joel S. Berson
- FW: [lg policy] The great language change hoax
 
Charles C Doyle
- "animation"
 
Charles C Doyle
- slur & epithet, racially derogatory word
 
Geoffrey Nunberg
- "animation"
 
Joel Berson
- "animation"
 
Hollis Barnhart
- FW: [lg policy] The great language change hoax
 
Joel S. Berson
- [lg policy] The great language change hoax
 
Arnold Zwicky
- unless I missed it...
 
Laurence Horn
- unless I missed it...
 
Geoffrey Steven Nathan
- slur & epithet, racially derogatory word
 
Wilson Gray
- "triage" (v.)
 
Wilson Gray
- Reverse graffito/graffiti
 
Charles C Doyle
- stroganoffed
 
Ben Zimmer
- Engineering amazing
 
Jonathan Lighter
- FW: [lg policy] The great language change hoax
 
Victor Steinbok
- Engineering amazing
 
Ben Zimmer
- [lg policy] The great language change hoax
 
Paul Johnston
- sexual terminology
 
Arnold Zwicky
- antedating "joint" (prison)
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Engineering amazing
 
Jonathan Lighter
- slur & epithet, racially derogatory word
 
Neal Whitman
- Engineering amazing
 
Ben Zimmer
- antedating of _wetback_ (1920)
 
David Barnhart
- Eight bizarre sounds you might have made
 
Tom Zurinskas
- stroganoffed
 
Sarah
- slur & epithet, racially derogatory word
 
Margaret Lee
- Fwd: stroganoffed
 
Sarah
- reason = 'purpose'
 
Jonathan Lighter
- stroganoffed
 
Amy West
- Fwd: stroganoffed
 
Joel S. Berson
- antedating of _wetback_ (1920)
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- bop = 'bob (one's head) rhythmically'
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Slight antedatings of "whoopsie daisy" (1914, 1922)
 
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- stroganoffed
 
Dan Goodman
- stroganoffed
 
Joel S. Berson
- bop = 'bob (one's head) rhythmically'
 
Geoff Nathan
- Quote: I am that civilization you are fighting for. (April 20, 1914)
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
- stroganoffed
 
Victor Steinbok
- I am the civilization you are fighting for.
 
Dan Nussbaum
- Quote: I am that civilization you are fighting for. (April 20, 1914)
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
- foul mouth
 
Victor Steinbok
- slur & epithet, racially derogatory word
 
Geoffrey Nunberg
- slur & epithet, racially derogatory word
 
Margaret Lee
- stroganoffed
 
Amy West
- Hypothetical etymon of "diddybopping" PLUS N-word lore
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Richard III said: "My kingdom for a ..."
 
Joel S. Berson
- Be careful how you use the I-word
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "two hundred head o' nigger"
 
Wilson Gray
- slur & epithet, racially derogatory word
 
Geoffrey Nunberg
- Hypothetical etymon of "diddybopping" PLUS N-word lore
 
Margaret Lee
- "two hundred"
 
Joel S. Berson
- slur & epithet, racially derogatory word
 
Joel S. Berson
- Hypothetical etymon of "diddybopping" PLUS N-word lore
 
Joel S. Berson
- Shameless Plug: Yale Book of Quotations / Dictionary of Modern Proverbs App
 
Shapiro, Fred
- slur & epithet, racially derogatory word
 
Geoffrey Nunberg
- "triage" (v.)
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "triage" (v.)
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedating of "hate someone's guts"
 
Hugo
- Antedating of "Dutch wife"
 
Hugo
- Antedating of "hate someone's guts"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedating of "hate someone's guts"
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Do I hear a retronym coming?
 
Joel S. Berson
- Eggcorn(?) posted to a liberal Fb page by a conservative troll
 
Wilson Gray
- "two hundred"
 
Wilson Gray
- Slight antedatings of "whoopsie daisy" (1914, 1922)
 
Wilson Gray
- Origin of "framistat?"
 
Dan Goodman
- Fwd: cross-post of interest from the Forensic Linguistics list
 
Laurence Horn
- "Negro with two g's"
 
Mark Mandel
- "used approvingly"
 
Wilson Gray
- political = 'revealing of attitudes or conditions or something'
 
Jonathan Lighter
- self-descriptive euphemism
 
Victor Steinbok
- "sacred honour", "office of honour"
 
Joel S. Berson
- "sacred honour", "office of honour"
 
Baker, John
- "sacred honour", "office of honour"
 
Dave Wilton
- "sacred honour", "office of honour"
 
Wilson Gray
- "sacred honour", "office of honour"
 
Laurence Horn
- "sacred honour", "office of honour"
 
Joel S. Berson
- Origin of "framistat?"
 
W Brewer
- Origin of "framistat?"
 
Dan Goodman
- "sacred honour", "office of honour"
 
Dave Wilton
- "sacred honour", "office of honour"
 
Dan Goncharoff
- "sacred honour", "office of honour"
 
Dave Wilton
- "sacred honour", "office of honour"
 
Dan Goncharoff
- "sacred honour", "office of honour"
 
Joel S. Berson
- "sacred honour", "office of honour"
 
Baker, John
- Slate article on martini poem attributed to Dorothy Parker
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
- eggcorn (of sorts)
 
Victor Steinbok
- "sacred honour", "office of honour"
 
Joel S. Berson
- Quote: It seems as if anything I like is either illegal or immoral or fattening. (Frank Rand attrib Sept 16, 1933)
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Spanish profanity
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Morning Glory Road renamed due to sexual connotation
 
Brian Hitchcock
- Morning Glory Road renamed due to sexual connotation
 
Geoffrey Steven Nathan
- Quote: It seems as if anything I like is either illegal or immoral or fattening. (Frank Rand attrib Sept 16, 1933)
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Morning Glory Road renamed due to sexual connotation
 
Benjamin Torbert
- cringe and aw
 
Herb Stahlke
- Morning Glory Road renamed due to sexual connotation
 
paul johnson
- Morning Glory Road renamed due to sexual connotation
 
W Brewer
- Morning Glory Road renamed due to sexual connotation
 
Paul Johnston
- Morning Glory Road renamed due to sexual connotation
 
Charles C Doyle
- "Obama Phone" -- Reverse Orwellianism from the WP
 
Martin Kaminer
- Condoms in the 18th century
 
Joel S. Berson
- Morning Glory Road renamed due to sexual connotation
 
David A. Daniel
- "real time"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Morning Glory Road renamed due to sexual connotation
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Morning Glory Road renamed due to sexual connotation
 
Laurence Horn
- Condoms in the 18th century
 
Ben Zimmer
- Condoms in the 18th century
 
Laurence Horn
- Condoms in the 18th century
 
Joel S. Berson
- FW: Paul Asch, leader of the original San Francisco jazz orchestra?
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- FW: Paul Asch, leader of the original San Francisco jazz orchestra?
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Condoms in the 18th century
 
Laurence Horn
- Condoms in Rochester
 
Joel S. Berson
- Joke: I'm looking here because the light is better (1932)
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Joke: I'm looking here because the light is better (1932)
 
paul johnson
- Heard: "I'm on _your guys's_ side." [NT]
 
Wilson Gray
- Heard: "I'm on _your guys's_ side." [NT]
 
Benjamin Barrett
- "Only When I Laugh!"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Heard: "I'm on _your guys's_ side." [NT]
 
Wilson Gray
- Heard: "I'm on _your guys's_ side." [NT]
 
Benjamin Barrett
- hot dogs -- recent newspaper article
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "Only When I Laugh!"
 
Stephen Goranson
- "When the going gets tough, …"
 
Arnold Zwicky
- "Only When I Laugh!"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "When the going gets tough, …"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "When the going gets tough, …"
 
Charles C Doyle
- "When the going gets tough, "
 
Ben Zimmer
- "When the going gets tough, …"
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
- "When the going gets tough, …"
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
- "When the going gets tough, …"
 
Ben Zimmer
- "Only When I Laugh!"
 
Joel S. Berson
- "When the going gets tough,."
 
Dave Hause
- Joke: I'm looking here because the light is better (1932)
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
- "When the going gets tough, …"
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
- spelling bee (1850), spelling match (1808, 1831)
 
Ben Zimmer
- Morning Glory Road renamed due to sexual connotation
 
Wilson Gray
- "When the going gets tough,."
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "anymore"
 
Joel S. Berson
- "anymore"
 
Arnold Zwicky
- spelling bee
 
Joel S. Berson
- Morning Glory Road renamed due to sexual connotation
 
Laurence Horn
- "anymore"
 
Laurence Horn
- "When the going gets tough,."
 
George Thompson
- Morning Glory Road renamed due to sexual connotation
 
Eric Nielsen
- The mysterious disappearance of "of course" (along with "to be sure", "naturally", and a few others of that ilk).
 
George Thompson
- "anymore"
 
Joel S. Berson
- Morning Glory Road renamed due to sexual connotation
 
David A. Daniel
- Morning Glory Road renamed due to sexual connotation
 
Laurence Horn
- "anymore"
 
Wilson Gray
- "real time"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- spelling bee
 
Geoffrey Nunberg
- "anymore"
 
Joel S. Berson
- spelling bee (and spinning bee ~= buzzing?)
 
Joel S. Berson
- Antedating of Speed (=Methamphetamine)
 
Baker, John
- "apple-bee", 1846
 
Joel S. Berson
- "apple-bee", 1846
 
Laurence Horn
- Antedating of Speed (=Methamphetamine)
 
Ben Zimmer
- Morning Glory Road renamed due to sexual connotation
 
Wilson Gray
- Antedating of Speed (=Methamphetamine)
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Antedating of Speed (=Methamphetamine)
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Yale Book of Quotations App Promotion
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Heard: "I'm on _your guys's_ side." [NT]
 
James Harbeck
- Antedating of Speed (=Methamphetamine)
 
Baker, John
- Heard: "I'm on _your guys's_ side." [NT]
 
Herb Stahlke
- Possible timely VT topic
 
Neal Whitman
- Possible timely VT topic
 
Neal Whitman
- Possible timely VT topic
 
Arnold Zwicky
- Heard: "I'm on _your guys's_ side." [NT]
 
Wilson Gray
- WOTY candidate (Dysphemism category?)
 
Laurence Horn
- Heard: "I'm on _your guys's_ side." [NT]
 
Benjamin Torbert
- WOTY candidate (Dysphemism category?)
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
- WOTY candidate (Dysphemism category?)
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
- No subject
 
PL
- "If a man speaks in the forest..."
 
Jonathan Lighter
- FW: Why does Wikipedia have 1825 for "spelling bee"?
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- FW: Why does Wikipedia have 1825 for "spelling bee"?
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Heard: "I'm on _your guys's_ side." [NT]
 
Wilson Gray
- How was your guys's days?
 
Neal Whitman
- Amazing = delicious
 
Neal Whitman
- How was your guys's days?
 
Wilson Gray
- Amazing = delicious
 
Laurence Horn
- Heard on TV show, "Awkward"
 
Wilson Gray
- The Powers That Be
 
Benjamin Torbert
- The Powers That Be
 
Laurence Horn
- The Powers That Be
 
Dave Wilton
- The Powers That Be
 
W Brewer
- The Powers That Be
 
Joel S. Berson
- The Powers That Be
 
Dave Wilton
- The Powers That Be
 
W Brewer
- Amazing = delicious
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Bad WOTD
 
Victor Steinbok
- Bad WOTD
 
Victor Steinbok
- "_deformation_ of character"
 
Wilson Gray
- 2nd attempt re "With Every Kind Regard"
 
Bethany Dumas
- "With Every Kind Regard"
 
Hugo
- cupping
 
Victor Steinbok
- Cuddle Rape
 
Victor Steinbok
- OT: ety of "damascus" steel
 
Amy West
- "With Every Kind Regard"
 
Dan Goncharoff
- NYTimes -- repeating myths?
 
Dan Goncharoff
- First Congressional Church
 
Dan Goodman
- Depreciated - eggcorn for deprecated
 
Benjamin Barrett
- ety of "damascus" steel
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- NYTimes -- repeating myths?
 
Baker, John
- ety of "damascus" steel
 
Victor Steinbok
- Antedating of "Chick Lit"
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Chick Lit"
 
Benjamin Torbert
- Antedating of "Chick Lit"
 
Laurence Horn
- Facebook: "break bad"
 
Wilson Gray
- "With Every Kind Regard"
 
Wilson Gray
- Anecdote: Eugenic potential of love child: Isadora Duncan and Anatole France (1923) (common variant involves George Bernard Shaw)
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Level up
 
Benjamin Barrett
- Level up
 
Victor Steinbok
- Level up
 
Benjamin Barrett
- Level up
 
Ben Zimmer
- Level up
 
Victor Steinbok
- Cuchini
 
Victor Steinbok
- ety of "damascus" steel
 
W Brewer
- ety of "damascus" steel
 
Joel S. Berson
- Level up
 
Joel S. Berson
- "blaze of glory"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Cuchini
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "looped in"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- QOTY
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "looped in"
 
Joel S. Berson
- "institutions of higher earning"
 
Joel S. Berson
- QOTY
 
David A. Daniel
- QOTY
 
Laurence Horn
- "looped in"
 
Dan Goncharoff
- "blaze of glory"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "all things + NP"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "looped in"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "all things + NP"
 
Joel S. Berson
- QOTY
 
W Brewer
- coulda woulda shouda part II
 
Tom Zurinskas
- antedating: "living gale"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- a shimmer of herring
 
Jonathan Lighter
- a shimmer of herring
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "gunfight" and "exchange of gunfire"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- How to say "Boston"
 
Tom Zurinskas
- Heard on The Doctors: "biopsy a wallet"
 
Wilson Gray
- "gunfight" and "exchange of gunfire"
 
Wilson Gray
- How to say "Boston"
 
Herb Stahlke
- Heard on The Doctors: "biopsy a wallet"
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
- How to say "Boston"
 
Tom Zurinskas
- How to say "Boston"
 
Herb Stahlke
- "bugger" [bUg at r]?!
 
Wilson Gray
- "bugger" [bUg at r]?!
 
Victor Steinbok
- Fw: American Dialect Map
 
Margaret Lee
- "gunfight" and "exchange of gunfire"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "bugger" [bUg at r]?!
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "bugger" [bUg at r]?!
 
Arnold Zwicky
- "bugger" [bUg at r]?!
 
Laurence Horn
- Chex Mix
 
W Brewer
- Chex Mix
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Chex Mix
 
Laurence Horn
- Chex Mix
 
Joel S. Berson
- Antedating of "Zombie"
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Further Antedating of "Frisbee"
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Zombie"
 
Stephen Goranson
- Further Antedating of "Frisbee"
 
W Brewer
- What is "phonetics" in the Common Core
 
Tom Zurinskas
- Further Antedating of "Frisbee"
 
W Brewer
- Antedating of "Zombie"
 
Joel S. Berson
- Further Antedating of "Frisbee"
 
Laurence Horn
- "bugger" [bUg at r]?!
 
Paul Johnston
- QOTY
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "real time"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "bugger" [bUg at r]?!
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedating of "Vampire"
 
Shapiro, Fred
- "gunfight" and "exchange of gunfire"
 
Victor Steinbok
- "marabomber"
 
Laurence Horn
- "marabomber"
 
Victor Steinbok
- "marabomber"
 
Victor Steinbok
- How to say "either" and "neither"
 
Tom Zurinskas
- "marabomber"
 
Laurence Horn
- How to say "either" and "neither"
 
Laurence Horn
- What is "phonetics" in the Common Core
 
Herb Stahlke
- "bugger" [bUg at r]?!
 
Wilson Gray
- How to say "either" and "neither"
 
Benjamin Barrett
- "marabomber"
 
Ben Zimmer
- "marabomber"
 
Victor Steinbok
- How to say "either" and "neither"
 
Tom Zurinskas
- How to say "either" and "neither"
 
Barbara Need
- "gunfight" and "exchange of gunfire"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Level up
 
Hugo
- Antedating of "Vampire" (by another 3 days)
 
Joel S. Berson
- "bugger" [bUg at r]?!
 
W Brewer
- How to say "either" and "neither"
 
W Brewer
- quotable
 
Jonathan Lighter
- How to say "either" and "neither"
 
Benjamin Torbert
- How to say "either" and "neither"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Further Antedating of "Frisbee"
 
W Brewer
- How to say "either" and "neither"
 
Geoffrey Steven Nathan
- How to say "either" and "neither"
 
Tom Zurinskas
- "gunfight" and "exchange of gunfire"
 
Joel S. Berson
- "digi[ta]lante"
 
Joel S. Berson
- "digi[ta]lante"
 
Dan Goncharoff
- How to say "either" and "neither"
 
Paul Johnston
- "gunfight" and "exchange of gunfire"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- quotable
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
- "digi[ta]lante"
 
Victor Steinbok
- "gunfight" and "exchange of gunfire"
 
Victor Steinbok
- "digi[ta]lante"
 
Laurence Horn
- "digi[ta]lante"
 
Joel S. Berson
- "gunfight" and "exchange of gunfire"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- etymology of chicano
 
Michael Newman
- etymology of chicano
 
Gregory McNamee
- "gunfight" and "exchange of gunfire"
 
Joel S. Berson
- etymology of chicano
 
Charles C Doyle
- "gunfight" and "exchange of gunfire"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "gunfight" and "exchange of gunfire"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "gunfight" and "exchange of gunfire"
 
Dan Goncharoff
- "gunfight" and "exchange of gunfire"
 
Joel S. Berson
- "gunfight" and "exchange of gunfire"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "gunfight" and "exchange of gunfire"
 
Joel S. Berson
- "Joker"
 
Joel S. Berson
- "Joker"
 
W Brewer
- "Joker"
 
Laurence Horn
- "Joker"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "Joker"
 
Joel S. Berson
- Spoonerisms in a book of children's poems
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "Joker"
 
Victor Steinbok
- "Joker"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- weapons of mass destruction
 
Victor Steinbok
- weapons of mass destruction
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "gunfight" and "exchange of gunfire"
 
Joel S. Berson
- "Joker"
 
Victor Steinbok
- weapons of mass destruction
 
Victor Steinbok
- "gunfight" and "exchange of gunfire"
 
Victor Steinbok
- "bee" from buzzing rather than socializing?
 
Joel S. Berson
- "gunfight" and "exchange of gunfire"
 
Joel S. Berson
- "Joker"
 
Wilson Gray
- "Joker"
 
W Brewer
- "bee" from buzzing rather than socializing?
 
W Brewer
- "Joker" - bomber's names in ~truespel
 
Tom Zurinskas
- "Joker"
 
Amy West
- "Joker"
 
Amy West
- "Joker"
 
Joel S. Berson
- "bee" from buzzing rather than socializing?
 
Joel S. Berson
- Exposed!: Famous ungrammatical quotes!
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "bee" from buzzing rather than socializing?
 
W Brewer
- Exposed!: Famous ungrammatical quotes!
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Exposed!: Famous ungrammatical quotes!
 
Laurence Horn
- Exposed!: Famous ungrammatical quotes!
 
Jonathan Lighter
- QOTY candidate, or new wine in old bottles?
 
Laurence Horn
- "Joker"
 
Victor Steinbok
- QOTY candidate, or new wine in old bottles?
 
Dan Goncharoff
- QOTY candidate, or new wine in old bottles?
 
Laurence Horn
- Exposed!: Famous ungrammatical quotes!
 
Joel S. Berson
- Exposed!: Famous ungrammatical quotes!
 
Laurence Horn
- In re Pussy Drinks, Ltd
 
Wilson Gray
- "Joker"
 
Wilson Gray
- "Joker"
 
Wilson Gray
- "Joker"
 
Joel S. Berson
- "Joker"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "Joker"
 
Laurence Horn
- "gunfight" and "exchange of gunfire"
 
Ben Zimmer
- Facebook: "gas _gosling_ vehicle" [NT]
 
Wilson Gray
- Facebook: "gas _gosling_ vehicle" [NT]
 
Laurence Horn
- "gunfight" and "exchange of gunfire"
 
Joel S. Berson
- "Joker"
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Hey, an English linguistics journal comes to China!
 
Tom Zurinskas
- Exposed!: Famous ungrammatical quotes!
 
Herb Stahlke
- "Joker"
 
Amy West
- "mullet" hair 1994
 
Stephen Goranson
- "mullet" hair 1994
 
Jesse Sheidlower
- "Joker"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "Joker"
 
Joel S. Berson
- Trespassers will be trespassed
 
Neal Whitman
- Exposed!: Famous ungrammatical quotes!
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "Joker"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "Joker"
 
W Brewer
- Trespassers will be trespassed
 
Laurence Horn
- Trespassers will be trespassed
 
Dan Goncharoff
- "Joker"
 
Cleve Evans
- Trespassers will be trespassed
 
Laurence Horn
- "Joker"
 
W Brewer
- "Joker"
 
Laurence Horn
- Trespassers will be trespassed
 
Neal Whitman
- "Joker"
 
Victor Steinbok
- "Joker"
 
Victor Steinbok
- "Joker"
 
Geoffrey Steven Nathan
- "Joker"
 
Joel S. Berson
- "Joker"
 
Laurence Horn
- "Joker"
 
W Brewer
- conspiracy = "a theory of conspiracy"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- powerful = 'showing great resilience or fortitude'
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Researchers track evolution of Philly's odd accent
 
Joel S. Berson
- Researchers track evolution of Philly's odd accent
 
Joel S. Berson
- Spoonerisms in a book of children's poems
 
Joel S. Berson
- test (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- followed = has started following
 
Benjamin Barrett
- conspiracy = "a theory of conspiracy"
 
Geoffrey Nunberg
- In re St. Louis English
 
Wilson Gray
- conspiracy = "a theory of conspiracy"
 
W Brewer
- "Joker"
 
W Brewer
- conspiracy = "a theory of conspiracy"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- conspiracy = "a theory of conspiracy"
 
Ben Zimmer
- "Joker"
 
Joel S. Berson
- followed = has started following
 
Dan Goncharoff
- In re St. Louis English
 
Paul Johnston
- "Joker"
 
Paul Johnston
- followed = has started following
 
Ben Zimmer
- In re St. Louis English
 
Laurence Horn
- In re St. Louis English
 
Joel S. Berson
- Who knows what prescriptivism lurks in the hearts of men?
 
George Thompson
- weapons of mass destruction
 
Jonathan Lighter
- conspiracy = "a theory of conspiracy"
 
Baker, John
- Trespassers will be trespassed
 
Dan Goodman
- More trivial than "conspiracy"...
 
Wilson Gray
- weapons of mass destruction
 
Wilson Gray
- Trespassers will be trespassed
 
Wilson Gray
- How to say "either" and "neither"
 
Wilson Gray
- Said of a hiding cat:
 
Wilson Gray
- How to say "either" and "neither"
 
Tom Zurinskas
- "icebox"
 
Dan Goodman
- "icebox"
 
Jocelyn Limpert
- material on the future of English?
 
Dan Goodman
- "icebox"
 
Laurence Horn
- "icebox"
 
paul johnson
- "icebox"
 
Paul Johnston
- "icebox"
 
Herb Stahlke
- "icebox"
 
Benjamin Torbert
- ice box, fridge, refrigerator, blinky
 
David K. Barnhart
- weapons of mass destruction
 
Baker, John
- etymology of chicano
 
Wilson Gray
- cupping
 
Wilson Gray
- "icebox"
 
Eric Nielsen
- Antedatings of "chalk", verb
 
Hugo
- yet another "fact"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedatings of "canoodle"
 
Hugo
- Antedatings of "Scandihoovian"
 
Hugo
- Southern consonant cluster collapse
 
Jonathan Lighter
- ice box, fridge, refrigerator, blinky
 
Jonathan Lighter
- etymology of chicano
 
Jonathan Lighter
- cupping
 
Jonathan Lighter
- cupping
 
Laurence Horn
- etymology of chicano
 
Laurence Horn
- etymology of chicano
 
Arnold Zwicky
- cupping
 
Joel S. Berson
- cupping
 
Laurence Horn
- etymology of chicano
 
Arnold Zwicky
- year as adjective
 
Jonathan Lighter
- etymology of chicano
 
Jonathan Lighter
- ADS-L Digest - 26 Apr 2013 to 27 Apr 2013 (#2013-118)
 
Mailbox
- cupping
 
Charles C Doyle
- year as adjective
 
Jonathan Lighter
- cupping
 
Joel S. Berson
- etymology of chicano
 
Joel S. Berson
- FW: etymology of chicano
 
Charles C Doyle
- "tactful" = 'tactical'?
 
Charles C Doyle
- etymology of chicano
 
Laurence Horn
- cupping
 
Laurence Horn
- "tactful" = 'tactical'?
 
Jonathan Lighter
- year-date as modifier
 
Arnold Zwicky
- "should/ would" opinions please
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "should/ would" opinions please
 
Jocelyn Limpert
- etymology of chicano
 
Arnold Zwicky
- etymology of chicano
 
Michael Newman
- "should/ would" opinions please
 
Jim Parish
- more on chicano
 
Arnold Zwicky
- "should/ would" opinions please
 
Laurence Horn
- "should/ would" opinions please
 
Douglas G. Wilson
- ice box, fridge, refrigerator, blinky
 
Victor Steinbok
- cupping
 
Victor Steinbok
- etymology of chicano
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- cupping
 
Laurence Horn
- etymology of chicano
 
Laurence Horn
- material on the future of English?
 
Neal Whitman
- cupping
 
Victor Steinbok
- powerful = 'showing great resilience or fortitude'
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "Joker"
 
Cleve Evans
- "Joker"
 
W Brewer
- McKinley/Denali
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Cookery revival
 
Benjamin Barrett
- etymology of chicano
 
Paul Johnston
- "Joker"
 
Wilson Gray
- "Joker"
 
Laurence Horn
- etymology of chicano
 
Wilson Gray
- FW: etymology of chicano
 
Wilson Gray
- "Joker"
 
W Brewer
- "Joker"
 
Wilson Gray
- cupping
 
Wilson Gray
- cupping
 
Wilson Gray
- "Joker"
 
Laurence Horn
- cupping
 
Wilson Gray
- cupping
 
Wilson Gray
- cupping
 
Wilson Gray
- ice box, fridge, refrigerator, blinky
 
Wilson Gray
- Antedating of "Easter egg" (computing)
 
Hugo
- "should/ would" opinions please
 
Jonathan Lighter
- etymology of chicano
 
Joel S. Berson
- "Joker"
 
Joel S. Berson
- from the movies "either/neither"
 
Tom Zurinskas
- Antedatings of "Scandihoovian" (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- "Joker"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "Boston Strong"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "should/ would" opinions please
 
Joel S. Berson
- "Boston Strong"
 
Ben Zimmer
- "should/ would" opinions please
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "should/ would" opinions please
 
Joel S. Berson
- "Boston Strong"
 
Dave Wilton
- either and neither
 
Tom Zurinskas
- inter/antedating "speculative fiction" (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- "Joker"
 
W Brewer
- "lignum vitae" -- figurative adjective, 1739
 
Joel S. Berson
- "Boston Strong"
 
Wilson Gray
- etymology of chicano
 
Wilson Gray
- A Facebook friend noting a pet peeve
 
Wilson Gray
- A Facebook friend noting a pet peeve
 
Jonathan Lighter
- mysterious; elusive; shadowy = 'declining to sit for on-air interviews'
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "eyeballs"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- A Facebook friend noting a pet peeve (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- A Facebook friend noting a pet peeve (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Jonathan Lighter
- A Facebook friend noting a pet peeve (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Laurence Horn
- A Facebook friend noting a pet peeve (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Benjamin Torbert
- A Facebook friend noting a pet peeve (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Laurence Horn
- DOTI (downgrading of text initialisms)
 
Benjamin Barrett
- DOTI (downgrading of text initialisms)
 
Ben Zimmer
- DOTI (downgrading of text initialisms)
 
Geoffrey Steven Nathan
- Cocteau Quote About Dictionaries
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Cocteau Quote About Dictionaries
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Cocteau Quote About Dictionaries
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
    
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