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- Heard: "dog pound" > "dog pond"
 
Wilson Gray
- get the snafu
 
Dan Goncharoff
- Orchestration -- in OED?
 
Dan Goncharoff
- scrambling jets
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "That program won a contest, because of course it did."
 
Hugo
- Reverse English
 
Wilson Gray
- lipstick on a pig
 
Randy Alexander
- SALUGGI ~ S(A)LOOGIE ~ SALUGIE ~SALUGI
 
David Barnhart
- salugi
 
David Barnhart
- Swiss /shard/
 
Benjamin Barrett
- Brooklyn Daily Eagle
 
sclements at NEO.RR.COM
- "a brief and pithy letter nine yards long." 1873 -- was RE: [ADS-L] Brooklyn Daily Eagle
 
Stephen Goranson
- calypso, calyptso 1933
 
Stephen Goranson
- Beirut (drinking game)
 
Ben Zimmer
- It's older than I thought!
 
Wilson Gray
- Going the way of "on the average"?
 
Wilson Gray
- Antedatings of "FUBAR"
 
Hugo
- Blood of the young mouse
 
Joel S. Berson
- bodice-ripper (1978), bodice-ripping (1979)
 
Ben Zimmer
- "lyric" = "an individual word in a song"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedating and Origin of Bourbon Whiskey
 
Baker, John
- prompt = 'writing assignment for students'
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "netting box" definition in OED
 
Joel S. Berson
- Further Antedating of "Bourbon" (Whiskey)
 
Shapiro, Fred
- all yo(l)ked up
 
Laurence Horn
- "The Stages of Grading"
 
Joel S. Berson
- Blog:
 
Wilson Gray
- pronouns gone mad
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Best damn sexual assault program in the country
 
W Brewer
- To "choice into"
 
Lisa Galvin
- To bodice-rip (was Re: bodice-ripper (1978), bodice-ripping (1979))
 
Neal Whitman
- Pun: the lesser of two weevils
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Automatic reply: pronouns gone mad
 
Hunter, Lynne R CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-PACIFIC, 71700
- peeve the verb
 
Joel S. Berson
- Further Antedating of "Preppy" (Noun)
 
Shapiro, Fred
- choice into and choicer
 
David Barnhart
- peeve and relations
 
Joel S. Berson
- Indiana bans linguistics
 
Herb Stahlke
- Q: Couplet: "The pride of family is all a cheat, / Who's truly good alone is truly great."
 
Joel S. Berson
- Head of sunken ferry's owner
 
W Brewer
- strain one's coffee
 
Jonathan Lighter
- significant "Gooks"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Firenado
 
W Brewer
- Scope gone wild
 
Alice Faber
- My birthday word is "gobbledygook" -- now on the Web of Language
 
Baron, Dennis E
- Headline syntactic haplogy?
 
Wilson Gray
- The nu? f u
 
Joel S. Berson
- Ben Zimmer in WSJ on "Boko Haram"
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- awesome sauce!
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "in the trenches"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedatings of "Skid Row"
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Frankfurter"
 
Shapiro, Fred
- "fighter plane" again
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedating of "Terminological" -- Not by Winston Churchill
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Still Further Antedating of "Guillotine"?
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Fictional Materials for OED
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedatings of "skid-way" (n.) and "skid" (v.)
 
Hugo
- silo
 
Jonathan Lighter
- things on my blog
 
Arnold Zwicky
- "white lightning (non-drug)-- needs an OED entry?
 
Joel S. Berson
- Web of Language birthday word -- link correction
 
Baron, Dennis E
- Chuppie
 
Benjamin Barrett
- Where the name mis-fits the occupation
 
Joel S. Berson
- Another crash blossom?
 
victor steinbok
- Call for papers for 2015 American Dialect Society conference
 
Grant Barrett
- frunk: front trunk of an automobile (Tesla electric car)
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
- OCR "arms" > "anus"
 
Neal Whitman
- Chronicle of Higher Education Article on Serenity Prayer
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Question about "the whole three yards" (1882)
 
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- Thank you for calling -> Thank you?
 
Benjamin Barrett
- Dinosaur serrations
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Question about value of newspapers.com
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Slight Antedating of Modern Sense of "Baseball"
 
Shapiro, Fred
- "put on"
 
Wilson Gray
- trophy wife (1961)
 
Ben Zimmer
- crash blossom
 
Michael Newman
- "bikeable" (1972)
 
Hugo
- "War is God's way...."
 
Jonathan Lighter
- The future of knowledge production
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
- "sportive" (2005)
 
Hugo
- Rant, vt
 
Randy Alexander
- banned words at GM
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "gran fondo" (1998)
 
Hugo
- "audax" (1981)
 
Hugo
- TV-drama dialogue:
 
Wilson Gray
- "It's about the BHO's, the dabbing, the wax, the shatter, the shake - the getting really fucking HIGH."
 
Wilson Gray
- diggety/diggity dong/dog
 
Stephen Goranson
- Goodbye Sunny Nissan
 
Joel S. Berson
- Basics - STEM Education Has Little to Do With Flowers - NYTimes.com
 
victor steinbok
- US reductions (slang)
 
Tom Zurinskas
- an antedating "how to"?
 
Beth Young
- Never before scene photos
 
W Brewer
- A new saw
 
Wilson Gray
- landslip, landslide (jargon[ish] geological): NA/UK updates?
 
Sarah
- Triangle of Death
 
Jonathan Lighter
- traveshamockery
 
Jonathan Lighter
- high-value
 
Jonathan Lighter
- fauxyal, "fake royal"
 
Geoffrey Nunberg
- ooftish, ouftish (money)
 
Stephen Goranson
- The Right Rhymes (historical dictionary of hip-hop)
 
Ben Zimmer
- fulton history newspapers
 
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- More careless lexical baloney
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Further Antedating of "Plugola"
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Automatische Antwort: Further Antedating of "Plugola"
 
Wandl-Vogt, Eveline
- Slight Antedating of "Positron"
 
Shapiro, Fred
- TV ad: "... a real dude ranch"
 
Wilson Gray
- Slight Antedating of "Neutrino"
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Cold Fusion"
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Xenophobia"
 
Shapiro, Fred
- already posted on ADS RE: Antedating of "Xenophobia"
 
Stephen Goranson
- antedating (?) "ass bandit"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedating of "Rafferty's rules"
 
Hugo
- "How well they're off"
 
Mark Mandel
- Antedating Jaz(z) musician to 1916
 
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- "Punch in the neck"
 
Jim Parish
- Fwd: an antedating "how to"?
 
Dan Goncharoff
- Anedating Jook House to 1930
 
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- to _show out_
 
Wilson Gray
- _Joog_
 
Wilson Gray
- "=?UTF-8?Q?=C2=A1Super_nice!_Esto_que_me_man=C3=B3_?=Getzemani Rivas." [NT]
 
Wilson Gray
- Antedating of "throw a party"
 
Hugo
- Antedating of "crazy" (submodifer)
 
Hugo
- Memorial Day Poem
 
Tom Zurinskas
- Good-natured jibe
 
Benjamin Barrett
- antedating "calvary"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedating of "Scatological"
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Off topic: Quote Investigator: Facebook and Twitter
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Master/slave databases in Django
 
Hugo
- self-orientalizing 1991
 
Stephen Goranson
- Antedating of "tweep"
 
Hugo
- brandal brandalism brandalise
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
- "Hedonic treadmill" -- not in OED
 
Joel S. Berson
- the blade of life
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "PERmitted"
 
Charles C Doyle
- brain-dead simple
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedating of "Marital Rape"
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Bootlegger"
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Cuneiform"
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Ziggurat"
 
Shapiro, Fred
- "Artisanal gefilte fish." ...
 
Joel S. Berson
- anachronistic "update"
 
Laurence Horn
- Pronunciation of Donetsk
 
Joel S. Berson
- "Both" for "either" or "or" for "and"?
 
Wilson Gray
- OT almost entirely:  Radu Florescu, 88, Scholar of Dracula, and the OED
 
Joel S. Berson
- Looking for Corky
 
Sali Tagliamonte
- Show Out
 
Brian Hitchcock
- frig = 'to cheat'
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Frankenbeast; Batsquatch
 
Jonathan Lighter
- do I sound gay, the movie
 
Tom Zurinskas
- Automatic reply: ADS-L Digest - 28 May 2014 to 29 May 2014 (#2014-150)
 
Damien Hall
- PDF illustration of the Slavyansk and Donetsk stuff
 
Dan Goncharoff
- SWUG, dayger
 
Ben Zimmer
- Antedating of "Texan"
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Further Antedating of "Texan"
 
Shapiro, Fred
- "32 Words That Make You Look Bad"
 
Jonathan Lighter
    
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