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- "Whole nine yards" : some negative evidence [addendum]
 
Jesse Sheidlower
- Fwd: I'm done my homework
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "good to go"
 
Mullins, Bill
- DARE queries
 
Luanne von Schneidemesser
- snipe
 
Mullins, Bill
- What is that gesture called?
 
Joyce, Thomas F.
- Alert: Site of Annual Meeting 2005
 
AAllan at AOL.COM
- terminology question
 
Steve Hollis
- Fw: New revision of report on the word SCRUMP
 
Thomas Paikeday
- typo and PS Re: "Whole nine yards" ...
 
Stephen Goranson
- Call for Nominations: Presidential Honorary Memberships
 
Margaret Lee
- Natino; David Shulman
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Machiavelli (was Re: What is that gesture called?)
 
Stephen Goranson
- David Shulman
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- NOT A WORD!
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Sad news about David Shulman
 
Fred Shapiro
- "Flash Crowd"  -- another science fiction word in real-world use
 
Dan Goodman
- Re:       Re: Sad news about David Shulman
 
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Re:       NOT A WORD!
 
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Sad news about David Shulman (Scrabble dict. story)
 
Victoria Neufeldt
- Update on Annual Meeting arrangements
 
AAllan at AOL.COM
- Slay, ?slayed?
 
Wilson Gray
- Slay, ?slayed?
 
Mullins, Bill
- Slay, ?slayed?
 
Jim Parish
- Slay, ?slayed?
 
Wilson Gray
- Slay, ?slayed?
 
Jesse Sheidlower
- Slay, ?slayed?
 
Joanne M. Despres
- Slay, ?slayed?
 
Wilson Gray
- Slay, ?slayed?
 
Michael Adams
- Slay, ?slayed?
 
James A. Landau
- Slay, ?slayed?
 
Wilson Gray
 
- Jeepable; No Spit Zone; BRO road signs
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Slay, ?slayed? and I'm done my homework
 
FRITZ JUENGLING
- David Shulman--1999 article about him
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Webster's New World (was: Slay, ?slayed?)
 
Victoria Neufeldt
- Himalayan Recipes
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "borrow me"--again
 
Mircea Sauciuc
- "A Hard Man is Good to Find"
 
Fred Shapiro
- the curious grammar of Ohio
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Sikkim Food
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- exit polls
 
Mullins, Bill
- CP Time
 
Mullins, Bill
- SF hotel situation LSA/ADS
 
Steve Kl.
- Oops. My apologies for the redundant message.
 
Steve Kl.
- New?
 
Wilson Gray
- "Big-Foot/Bigfoot Land"
 
Wilson Gray
- Boojies (was CP Time)
 
Grant Barrett
- Alcindor's only high school loss (was CP Time)
 
Sam Clements
- nookie
 
Mullins, Bill
- Dust(-)bin
 
Damien Hall
- better had ~ had better: semantics
 
Damien Hall
- better had ~ had better:  syntax
 
Damien Hall
- Navy slang -- Gundeck
 
Mullins, Bill
- "Brain" as Slang for "Oral Sex"
 
davemarc
- clam
 
Mullins, Bill
- The reason/point Was: Re: "Big-Foot/Bigfoot Land"
 
Rachel E. Shuttlesworth
- The reason/point being
 
Beverly Flanigan
- Burgoo
 
J. Eulenberg
- numerical acronym
 
Mullins, Bill
- "Brain" as Slang for "Oral Sex": fun with metonymy
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Snarky
 
Benjamin Barrett
- Fw:      Re: "Brain" as Slang for "Oral Sex"
 
Thomas Paikeday
- Help wanted - History of English - U of Wisconsin - Spring 2005
 
AAllan at AOL.COM
- iPod use?
 
Bethany K. Dumas
- cat hoarding
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "Napoleon"?
 
James A. Landau
- LBJ cake
 
Mullins, Bill
- David Shulman obit in NY Times
 
Benjamin Zimmer
- David Shulman obit in NY Times (and NY Sun)
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "That's gotta hurt!" (1989)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Karmapa (1955)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Weasel Coffee; Asia Pacific Food Expo (Cat Whiskers Tea)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Dred" Scott
 
Wilson Gray
- Not in DARE?
 
Wilson Gray
- "Boogieman" and "Bugis" (from Singapore's shopping mall)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Mur/Rum" at Asia Pacific Food Expo
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- LA Times, Chicago Tribune digitization by ProQuest
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- IMDb as a verb
 
Mullins, Bill
- snuffy smith's home identified by regional dialect
 
Mullins, Bill
- Flop -- Telco Lingo
 
Tom Kysilko
- Pauline Kael quote about Nixon
 
Sam Clements
- Nine-yard shroud?
 
Douglas G. Wilson
- latest college slang
 
Kathleen E. Miller
- Speaking the date in Charleston, SC
 
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Al  Capp
 
Wilson Gray
- whammy antedating (was Al Capp)
 
Mullins, Bill
- The curious grammar of Ohio: revised version
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Al Capp's way with names
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Double whammy (1946)
 
Douglas G. Wilson
- Double whammy (1945)
 
Douglas G. Wilson
- Leslie Howard and the "gay doorman"
 
Benjamin Zimmer
- tremblor -- antedating
 
Mullins, Bill
- Imported from Brooklyn; Gerald Cohen on NPR
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Singapore cuisine (top ten dishes)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Right on"
 
Kathy Seal
- "On the ground" redux
 
Peter A. McGraw
- John Simpson on David Shulman
 
Fred Shapiro
- Kentucky it was!
 
Michael McKernan
- Kentucky it was!  Again!
 
Michael McKernan
- Roti John
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Than
 
Ed Keer
- Continental Divide
 
jim wolf
- Followup: Re: "Brain" as Slang for "Oral Sex": fun with metonymy
 
Barbara Need
- Otah; Shulman burial
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Otah
 
Benjamin Zimmer
- "laud" as a dative alternation verb
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Pico de Gallo (1962)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "....that for a game of soldiers": Origin, please?
 
James Mullan
- Remember this thread?
 
Wilson Gray
- IE root of Skt. "udaya"?
 
Thomas Paikeday
- Redundancy--(in defense of "South Yugoslavia")
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- ink-pen
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- High five
 
James A. Landau
- Sunday Gravy
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Cut off my legs and call me shorty" (1939)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Erin's column, Safire "electionating"
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Mexican Lasagna (1976); Siam Rolls
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- NY Times bastardizes "Ol' Dirty Bastard"
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- New York Brand Texas Toast
 
Dan Goodman
- "di?nt" (with glottal stop)
 
Mark A. Mandel
- OUT OF SIGHT
 
Michael McKernan
- Bronx Indian (1934?)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- wag 'carry/lug/haul'
 
Mark A. Mandel
- Arnold Zwicky et al. aside ...
 
Robert Hartwell Fiske
- more on heads, brains, and skulls
 
Laurence Horn
- Getting an extra syllable?
 
Wilson Gray
- New day, old topic
 
Wilson Gray
- Fwd: "di?nt" (with glottal stop)
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Yiddish with Dick and Jane
 
Sam Clements
- gobsmack
 
Matthew Gordon
- Laurence Urdang-DSNA Award
 
Luanne von Schneidemesser
- Police as "pigs"
 
Kathy Seal
- pig as college slang(was "di?nt" (with glottal stop)
 
Sam Clements
- Hartered
 
Mark A. Mandel
- "What happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas"
 
Mullins, Bill
- wag
 
Mark A. Mandel
- wag
 
Wilson Gray
- wag
 
Erik Hoover
- wag
 
Wilson Gray
- wag
 
Douglas G. Wilson
- wag
 
Wilson Gray
- wag
 
Beverly Flanigan
- wag
 
Beverly Flanigan
- wag
 
Douglas G. Wilson
- wag
 
Wilson Gray
- wag
 
Dan Goodman
- wag
 
David Bergdahl
- wag
 
Mark A. Mandel
 
- bolograph antedate
 
Mullins, Bill
- Not a Word! -- revised version
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
- PLEASE DO NOT DELETE
 
J C
- greengrocer's apostrophe of the week
 
Laurence Horn
- Fwd: Police as "pigs"
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Re:       Re: greengrocer's apostrophe of the week
 
RonButters at AOL.COM
- deracinate
 
RonButters at AOL.COM
- WOT, but worth it
 
Wilson Gray
- chillaxin'
 
Mullins, Bill
- Still more to read, <sigh>
 
Jesse Sheidlower
- more grandtheftendo
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Say what?
 
Wilson Gray
- Say what? Addendum.
 
Wilson Gray
- Re:       Re: deracinate
 
RonButters at AOL.COM
- slow boat to china
 
Sam Clements
- CEDL Minority Scholar Survey
 
Terry Irons
- blobology
 
Mullins, Bill
- merry chrismukkah/happy holidays
 
Gabriel Sanders
- dirty words in dictionaries revisted
 
George Thompson
- swift boat
 
Mullins, Bill
- dialectal "from the home" referring to a woman's maiden name
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Antedating of "bathing beauty" (1897)
 
Mullins, Bill
- "curl up with a good book"
 
Geoffrey Nunberg
- dialectal "from the home" /of the home
 
paulzjoh
- News flash: New location for ADS annual meeting
 
AAllan at AOL.COM
- Program for ADS Annual Meeting
 
AAllan at AOL.COM
- radio
 
Beverly Flanigan
- Movie Quotes; Chrismukkah
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Curl up to a good book"
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Anyhoo (1865)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Not in DARE/HDAS?
 
Wilson Gray
- "Why not?" catchphrase author died
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Dope Fiend" Sandwich: Prison Food and Slang Glossary
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- hold tight
 
Mullins, Bill
- another dayton allen obit
 
Mullins, Bill
- the curious phonology of Wisconsin
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Oyster Pan Roast & Seafood Pan Roast & Olympia Pan Roast (1899)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Re:       Re: the curious phonology of Wisconsin
 
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Request for info on hot dogs in literature
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "What's the matter with Kansas?"(1896); "What's the matter with Hannah?"(1875)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Adam Had 'Em" (1914)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Adam Had 'Em" (1911)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Stalkerazzi, Nonstoparazzi, Poopernazi and the Superflack
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- [?] Stalkerazzi, Nonstoparazzi, Poopernazi and the Superflack
 
Barnhart
- whole nine yards -- predecessor phrase???
 
Mullins, Bill
- short slang story
 
Mullins, Bill
- Golf  --  was: short slang story
 
Mullins, Bill
- Predating "boogaloo"
 
Wilson Gray
- "Faked into the popcorn machine" (1966)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Baseball Magazine (was: Golf -- was: short slang story)
 
Benjamin Zimmer
- mark by hand (was:  the curious phonology of Wisconsin)
 
Mark A. Mandel
- goof antedate
 
Mullins, Bill
- sports magazine cites
 
Mullins, Bill
- See you in the funny papers!
 
Sam Clements
- OT: Virgin Mary image in Grilled Cheese Sandwich
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- OT (slightly) Re: Oyster Pan Roast & Seafood Pan Roast & Olympia Pan Roast (1899)
 
Barnhart
- There is/there are
 
George Thompson
- Subject: Re: mark by hand (was:  the curious phonology of Wisconsin)
 
Mark A. Mandel
- Virgin Mary image in Grilled Cheese Sandwich (now less OT)
 
Gordon, Matthew J.
- breastaurant
 
Mullins, Bill
- Yingling
 
Beverly Flanigan
- "in the soup"
 
Mullins, Bill
- the Lenape language
 
George Thompson
- sex 'have sex with'
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "Pepper, salt, mustard, cider, vinegar" (1881)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- everynow
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "Hip" from Wolof?; Big Apple Whores (cont.); My book is published
 
Laurence Horn
- Dear John Letters
 
Benjamin Barrett
- Goofs, Yannigans, Juveniles (was Re: goof antedate)
 
Benjamin Zimmer
- Wolof hip
 
David Bergdahl
- "only ever"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Goof (1902)
 
Douglas G. Wilson
- "Yannigan bag"?
 
Douglas G. Wilson
- The fall eggcorn crop
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Assorted comments
 
James A. Landau
- "Money Is the Mother's Milk..."
 
Fred Shapiro
- "English Was Good Enough for Jesus"
 
Fred Shapiro
- Rule Of Three (redux)
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
- sniping?
 
Bethany K. Dumas
- boarding-house reach (1909)
 
Barnhart
- "Money is the mother's milk of politics" (1963)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "English was good enough for Jesus" (1905, 1912 for "St. Paul")
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Speaking of "toast"
 
Wilson Gray
- "I kid, because I love"
 
Vida J Morkunas
- "How to Talk Southern" : Roy Blount, Jr.
 
Wilson Gray
- snipe  (was Re: Assorted comments)
 
Mullins, Bill
- Mountain talk from Manly Wade Wellman
 
Douglas G. Wilson
- thisclose (1933), closeasthis (1955)
 
Benjamin Zimmer
- "hunky-dory" < Sc. "unco dour" ?
 
Benjamin Zimmer
- Wake me up when Kirby dies; Broker than the Ten Commandments
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- 1 thousand words for reindeer?
 
Barnhart
- Ithaca's "Hot Truck" terminology
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- AOR (1977)
 
Benjamin Zimmer
- After-School Club
 
Benjamin Zimmer
- dialectal brogues
 
Beverly Flanigan
- "Wake me up when Kirby dies" (1886)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- bubble wrap (1965)
 
Benjamin Zimmer
- "One foot on a banana peel and the other in a grave" (1932)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Mrs. Astor's pet horse (1915)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- card-carrying (1927)
 
Benjamin Zimmer
- Wet clothes...Dry Martini (1940)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- dream team (1925)
 
Benjamin Zimmer
- If not 1 thousand words for reindeer, then how many?
 
Se�n Fitzpatrick
- Hancock building in Chicago
 
Jesse Sheidlower
- Fwd: If not 1 thousand words for reindeer, then how many?
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
- e-dress (was Lenape ...)
 
Barnhart
- e-dress
 
Beverly Flanigan
- Origin of the Term "Hot Dog"--book now on sale
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Origin of the Term "Hot Dog"-- Why 300 pages?
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Hipster Handbook, part II; Sears/K-Mart Tower in Chicago
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Stretching..." (was Re: Wake me...)
 
Wilson Gray
- Uh-huh, huh-uh
 
Douglas Wilson
- drive time (1966)
 
Benjamin Zimmer
- "go figure (it (out))"
 
Benjamin Zimmer
- monkey suit = baseball uniform (1914)
 
Benjamin Zimmer
- A trivial note re St. Louis
 
Wilson Gray
- traveling to Oakland on the cheap.
 
Steve Kl.
- poundage and others
 
Mullins, Bill
- Scots archive
 
Dan Goodman
- Attention Arnold!
 
Alice Faber
- Fwd: Colonial English
 
Beverly Flanigan
- e-dress  etc.
 
Beverly Flanigan
- jassak and baseball slang
 
Mullins, Bill
    
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