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- Barry and the Yanikees
 
Sam Clements
 - Barry and the Yanikees
 
Laurence Horn
 - Libercon
 
Kara Everman
 - Barry and the Yanikees
 
Patti J. Kurtz
 - Libercon
 
Laurence Horn
 - LES (Lower East Side);
 
Wilson Gray
 - Blendship
 
Wilson Gray
 - Blendship
 
Elizabeth Coppock
 - Taxachusetts (1952); "Passerbys" in Gothamist
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Blendship
 
Sam Clements
 - Blendship
 
Wilson Gray
 - ADS-L Digest - 30 Aug 2004 to 31 Aug 2004 (#2004-245)
 
Aaron Dinkin
 - D 'N' B (Drum and Bass)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - N-bomb
 
Kristina Eisenhower
 - wide array of death euphemisms
 
James Smith
 - N-bomb
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - D 'N' B (Drum and Bass)
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - buffet flat
 
George Thompson
 - begging
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - libercon
 
Dan Goodman
 - wide array of death euphemisms
 
Mark A. Mandel
 - wide array of death euphemisms
 
Baker, John
 - wide array of death euphemisms
 
Grant Barrett
 - Prescriptive grammar (was: wide array of death euphemisms
 
Patti J. Kurtz
 - wide array of death euphemisms
 
Laurence Horn
 - Gimmy Crack Corn
 
J. Eulenberg
 - wide array of death euphemisms
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - wide array of death euphemisms
 
Mark A. Mandel
 - N-bomb
 
Wilson Gray
 - N-bomb
 
Laurence Horn
 - buffet flat
 
Grant Barrett
 - N-bomb
 
Alice Faber
 - buffet flat
 
Sam Clements
 - buffet flat
 
Sam Clements
 - APB: Non English Language Slang
 
Jonathon Green
 - APB: Non English Language Slang
 
Robert Wachal
 - Antedating of "Feminazi"
 
Fred Shapiro
 - APB: Non English Language Slang
 
Grant Barrett
 - D 'N' B (Drum and Bass)
 
Damien Hall
 - D 'N' B (Drum and Bass)
 
Brenda Lester
 - Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang
 
Dan Goodman
 - wide array of death euphemisms
 
Courtney Stastyshyn
 - wide array of death euphemisms
 
Duane Campbell
 - wide array of death euphemisms
 
Bethany K. Dumas
 - wide array of death euphemisms
 
Baker, John
 - wide array of death euphemisms
 
Dennis R. Preston
 - APB: Non English Language Slang
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - Desk Appearance Ticket (DAT) (1974)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Black-and-White, Half-Moon, Harlequin
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - APB: Non English Language Slang
 
Grant Barrett
 - APB: Non English Language Slang
 
George Thompson
 - wide array of death euphemisms
 
Robert Wachal
 - APB: Non English Language Slang
 
Joanne M. Despres
 - negation again, and coordination too
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - First Use of Term "Establishment": Advice Needed
 
Fred Shapiro
 - Re:       Re: wide array of death euphemisms
 
RonButters at AOL.COM
 - "Refute" versus "Rebut"
 
James A. Landau
 - First Use of Term "Establishment": Advice Needed
 
David Bergdahl
 - negation again, and coordination too
 
Bethany K. Dumas
 - N-bomb
 
Wilson Gray
 - (Up Salt./Shit Creek/River) "Without a Paddle" (1911)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - (Up Salt./Shit Creek/River) "Without a Paddle" (1911)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Different dialects, same error
 
Wilson Gray
 - negation again, and coordination too
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - APB: Non English Language Slang
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - (Up Salt./Shit Creek/River) "Without a Paddle" (1911)
 
Jonathon Green
 - Barry Popik in my morning paper
 
Thomas Paikeday
 - Barry Popik in my morning paper
 
Ron Southerland
 - Different dialects, same error
 
Laurence Horn
 - Barry Popik in my morning paper
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Different dialects, same error
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - negation again, and coordination too
 
Douglas Bigham
 - Black-and-White, Half-Moon, Harlequin
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Different dialects, same error
 
Laurence Horn
 - Black-and-White, Half-Moon, Harlequin
 
Laurence Horn
 - Different dialects, same error
 
Dennis R. Preston
 - Different dialects, same error
 
Gordon, Matthew J.
 - hostage-taker
 
Barnhart
 - Different dialects, same error
 
Wilson Gray
 - Different dialects, same error
 
Dennis R. Preston
 - Different dialects, same error
 
Wilson Gray
 - Different dialects, same error
 
Dennis R. Preston
 - hostage-taker
 
Barnhart
 - hostage-taker
 
Barnhart
 - Different dialects, same error
 
Beverly Flanigan
 - OED not contemporary or American; OT: Bonnie Slotnick cookbooks
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Different dialects, same error
 
Wilson Gray
 - Eggnogg (1815)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Labor Day (1880?, 1886)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - OED not contemporary or American; OT: Bonnie Slotnick cookbooks
 
Barnhart
 - aste(r)perious
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - Eggnogg (1815)
 
Barnhart
 - aste(r)perious
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - aste(r)perious
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - BIG ONION BIG APPLE  redux
 
Daniel Cassidy
 - Roquefort Dressing (1908)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - aste(r)perious
 
Jonathon Green
 - hostage-taker
 
Grant Barrett
 - Different dialects, same error
 
James A. Landau
 - Different dialects, same error
 
Beverly Flanigan
 - Black-and-White, Half-Moon, Harlequin
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - hostage-taker
 
Barnhart
 - Black-and-White, Half-Moon, Harlequin
 
Sam Clements
 - hostage-taker
 
Sam Clements
 - aste(r)perious
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - aste(r)perious
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - aste(r)perious
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - aste(r)perious
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - aste(r)perious
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - wide array of  death euphemisms- icebreaker?
 
Kara Everman
 - Cabbage (CABG, or Coronary Artery Bypass Graft) (1985)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Different dialects, same error
 
Wilson Gray
 - aste(r)perious
 
Wilson Gray
 - Black-and-White, Half-Moon, Harlequin
 
Wilson Gray
 - Fwd: N-bomb
 
Wilson Gray
 - Different dialects, same error
 
Dennis R. Preston
 - aste(r)perious
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - "nobody but us chickens" 1909
 
Sam Clements
 - Different dialects, same error
 
Wilson Gray
 - Johnny Mac(k) Brown
 
Mullins, Bill
 - Ofay (1920-1924)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Johnny Mac(k) Brown
 
Sam Clements
 - Johnny Mac(k) Brown
 
Dennis R. Preston
 - Johnny Mac(k) Brown
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - another eggcorn episode
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - Black-and-White, Half-Moon, Harlequin
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - negation again, and coordination too
 
Gwyn Alcock
 - "Ofay" etymology (speculative)
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - "Ofay" etymology (speculative)
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - "Ofay" etymology (speculative)
 
paulzjoh
 - Ofay (1920-1924)
 
Mullins, Bill
 - "Ofay" etymology (speculative)
 
paulzjoh
 - Ofay etymology (speculative)
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - "Ofay" etymology (speculative)
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - Ofay etymology (speculative)
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - Ofay etymology (speculative)--"au fait" = socially acceptable, genteel
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - Ofay etymology (speculative)--"au fait" = socially acceptable, genteel
 
Sam Clements
 - Black-and-White, Half-Moon, Harlequin
 
Laurence Horn
 - Black-and-White, Half-Moon, Harlequin
 
Sam Clements
 - Ofay etymology (speculative)
 
Wilson Gray
 - aptronyms (was: Johnny Mac(k) Brown)
 
Laurence Horn
 - Johnny Mac(k) Brown
 
Wilson Gray
 - Ofay etymology (speculative)
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - "Turd Ferguson" slang book; Indiana "Pitch-In Supper" (1923)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Archive of weaving and textile documents
 
Mullins, Bill
 - "Raining Pitchforks" (1866)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Trombo ("triple combo" of Togo/Dunkin/Baskin)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Blue Jay on a Friday (1895); Eat Oats Out of a Churn (1903); Mississippi (1946)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Systematicity
 
David Bowie
 - Systematicity
 
Dennis R. Preston
 - faux mitzvah
 
Dennis Baron
 - Different dialects, same error
 
Laurence Horn
 - "Turd Ferguson" slang book; Indiana "Pitch-In Supper" (1923)
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - faux mitzvah
 
David Bergdahl
 - "Turd Ferguson" slang book; Indiana "Pitch-In Supper" (1923)
 
Laurence Horn
 - faux mitzvah
 
Laurence Horn
 - faux mitzvah
 
Baker, John
 - "Turd Ferguson" slang book
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - fuckedupness vs. fuckedupedness
 
Mark Peters
 - "Turd Ferguson" slang book; Indiana "Pitch-In Supper" (1923)
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - D 'N' B (Drum and Bass)
 
Steve Kl.
 - "Turd Ferguson" slang book
 
Laurence Horn
 - fuckedupness vs. fuckedupedness
 
Laurence Horn
 - "Turd Ferguson" slang book
 
Gwyn Alcock
 - helpful google site
 
Catherine Merlen
 - "Turd Ferguson" slang book; Indiana "Pitch-In Supper" (1923)
 
Wilson Gray
 - Different dialects, same error
 
Wilson Gray
 - fuckedupness vs. fuckedupedness
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - Ofay (1920-1924)
 
Wilson Gray
 - Buckra
 
Dave Hause
 - "Turd Ferguson" slang book; Indiana "Pitch-In Supper" (1923)
 
Dave Wilton
 - Buckra
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - Turd Ferguson etc.
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "...% of statistics are made up on the spot"
 
Stephen Goranson
 - Systematicity
 
David Bowie
 - Systematicity
 
Dennis R. Preston
 - "Turd Ferguson" slang book; Indiana "Pitch-In Supper" (1923)
 
James Smith
 - Systematicity
 
Wilson Gray
 - yet another spam eggcorn
 
Laurence Horn
 - final devoicing
 
Dennis R. Preston
 - Dueling impressions
 
Wilson Gray
 - Dueling impressions
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - Dueling impressions
 
Stahlke, Herbert F.W.
 - Dueling impressions
 
Stahlke, Herbert F.W.
 - [SPAM:####] Re: yet another spam eggcorn
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - "Apple a Day"
 
Fred Shapiro
 - "Apple a Day"
 
Baker, John
 - finna
 
Orin Hargraves
 - Dueling impressions
 
Laurence Horn
 - finna
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - finna
 
Alice Faber
 - finna
 
Rachel E. Shuttlesworth
 - Dueling impressions
 
Stahlke, Herbert F.W.
 - finna
 
Greg Pulliam
 - finna
 
Terry Irons
 - Dueling impressions
 
Wilson Gray
 - Dueling impressions
 
Stahlke, Herbert F.W.
 - "...% of statistics are made up on the spot"
 
Jeff Prucher
 - "...% of statistics are made up on the spot"
 
Stephen Goranson
 - finna
 
Wilson Gray
 - finna > ret
 
Beverly Flanigan
 - Only in East Texas? More widespread?
 
Wilson Gray
 - Only in East Texas? More widespread?
 
J. Eulenberg
 - finna > ret
 
Wilson Gray
 - Only in East Texas? More widespread?
 
Wilson Gray
 - Only in East Texas? More widespread?
 
Justin Wells
 - Serbian  grammar
 
Patti J. Kurtz
 - Word "Baseball" in 1755
 
Fred Shapiro
 - [SPAM:####] Re: yet another spam eggcorn
 
Wilson Gray
 - Only in East Texas? More widespread?
 
J. Eulenberg
 - "Apple a Day"
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - Only in East Texas? More widespread?
 
Wilson Gray
 - finna
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "Apple a Day" (addendum)
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - finna
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - Only in East Texas? More widespread?
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - Apologies
 
Patti J. Kurtz
 - finna
 
Laurence Horn
 - Apple a day
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Different dialects, same error
 
Mark A. Mandel
 - hostage-taker
 
Mark A. Mandel
 - Different dialects, same error
 
Laurence Horn
 - "Turd Ferguson" slang book; Indiana "Pitch-In Supper" (1923)
 
Mark A. Mandel
 - Only in East Texas? More widespread?
 
Wilson Gray
 - finna
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - Only in East Texas? More widespread?
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - "You can always tell a Harvard man" (1907)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Systematicity
 
David Bowie
 - Different dialects, same error
 
James A. Landau
 - Conference announcement
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - "No good deed goes unpunished"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "No good deed goes unpunished"
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - "Connecticut accent" in the Times
 
Laurence Horn
 - Subject: Re: wide array of  death euphemisms- icebreaker?
 
Mark A. Mandel
 - Only in East Texas? More widespread?
 
Peter A. McGraw
 - Dueling impressions
 
Mark A. Mandel
 - "Connecticut accent" in the Times
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - "Connecticut accent" in the Times
 
Alice Faber
 - "Connecticut accent" in the Times
 
Charles Jones
 - Only in East Texas? More widespread?
 
Wilson Gray
 - Dueling impressions
 
Wilson Gray
 - "Connecticut accent" in the Times
 
Wilson Gray
 - "Connecticut accent" in the Times
 
Wilson Gray
 - "Connecticut accent" in the Times
 
Laurence Horn
 - "Connecticut accent" in the Times
 
Laurence Horn
 - "Connecticut accent" in the Times
 
Alice Faber
 - "Connecticut accent" in the Times
 
Wilson Gray
 - "Connecticut accent" in the Times
 
Robert Wachal
 - "Connecticut accent" in the Times
 
Beverly Flanigan
 - Subject: Re: wide array of  death euphemisms- icebreaker?
 
paulzjoh
 - "Connecticut accent" in the Times
 
Wilson Gray
 - Subject: Re: wide array of  death euphemisms- icebreaker?
 
Wilson Gray
 - "Ofay" etymology (speculative)
 
Mark A. Mandel
 - "Connecticut accent" in the Times
 
Laurence Horn
 - "Connecticut accent" in the Times
 
Stahlke, Herbert F.W.
 - "Connecticut accent" in the Times
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - "Connecticut accent" in the Times
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - "Connecticut accent" in the Times
 
Wilson Gray
 - "Connecticut accent" in the Times
 
Wilson Gray
 - "Connecticut accent" in the Times
 
Dan Goodman
 - egregious prescriptivism
 
RonButters at AOL.COM
 - egregious prescriptivism
 
Gordon, Matthew J.
 - egregious prescriptivism
 
Patti J. Kurtz
 - egregious prescriptivism
 
Laurence Horn
 - egregious prescriptivism
 
Patti J. Kurtz
 - Ubiquitous prescriptivism
 
Ed Finegan
 - Ubiquitous prescriptivism
 
Barnhart
 - "Connecticut accent" in the Times
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - Ubiquitous prescriptivism
 
Gordon, Matthew J.
 - "Connecticut accent" in the Times
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - fleeting datum
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - ostentatious avoidance
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - Ubiquitous prescriptivism
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - egregious prescriptivism
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - ostentatious avoidance
 
Peter A. McGraw
 - ostentatious avoidance
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - egregious prescriptivism
 
Wilson Gray
 - ostentatious avoidance
 
Peter A. McGraw
 - egregious prescriptivism
 
Wilson Gray
 - "Connecticut accent" in the Times
 
Alice Faber
 - Re:       Re: egregious prescriptivism
 
RonButters at AOL.COM
 - Re:       Re: Ubiquitous prescriptivism
 
RonButters at AOL.COM
 - Klingon language attitudes
 
RonButters at AOL.COM
 - Re:  Finegan on Ubiquitous prescriptivism
 
RonButters at AOL.COM
 - Ubiquitous prescriptivism
 
Wilson Gray
 - Ubiquitous prescriptivism
 
Robert Hartwell Fiske
 - Ubiquitous prescriptivism
 
Michael Adams
 - Spuckies
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Bulkie Rolls & Wickerd Good Guides/Boston English
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - OT: Oxford Encyclopedia on Food and Drink in America
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Re:       OT: Oxford Encyclopedia on Food and Drink in America
 
RonButters at AOL.COM
 - two queries: bobwire, know the score
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - NAV33 room
 
Bethany K. Dumas
 - two queries: bobwire, know the score
 
Wilson Gray
 - Ubiquitous prescriptivism
 
Mark A. Mandel
 - know the score
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - Availablity of my published volumes--(preliminary remarks)
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - Klingon language attitudes
 
RonButters at AOL.COM
 - Re:       Re: know the score
 
RonButters at AOL.COM
 - RE:      Re:       Re: know the score
 
Baker, John
 - know the score
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - RE:      Re:       Re: know the score
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - Ubiquitous prescriptivism
 
Wilson Gray
 - "know the score"--1887 attestations in opera context
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - know the score--operatic context (1887)
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - Spuckies (1985)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - know the score
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - [Fwd: [ss talk] [Fwd: World Wide Words -- 11 Sep 04]]
 
Dan Goodman
 - NYT Article on Origins of Baseball
 
Fred Shapiro
 - the goomba speech pattern
 
Susan Tamasi
 - Many thanks
 
Jonathon Green
 - know the score
 
Michael Quinion
 - Spa (1882 origin for Boston eatery?)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - More crap from "Says You"--P.O.S.H.
 
Sam Clements
 - Puke, Corncracker (1834); Tell a Harvard Man (April 6, 1907)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - know the score
 
Laurence Horn
 - Klingon language attitudes
 
Mark A. Mandel
 - Kathleen Miller in New York Times
 
Baker, John
 - CYA
 
Mullins, Bill
 - Lady Mondegreen
 
George Thompson
 - Lady Mondegreen
 
Sam Clements
 - Lady Mondegreen
 
Sam Clements
 - CYA
 
Wilson Gray
 - know the score
 
George Thompson
 - Lady Mondegreen
 
Wilson Gray
 - CYA
 
Ed Finegan
 - CYA
 
sagehen
 - Cover Your Ass
 
Michael Quinion
 - Cover Your Ass
 
Sam Clements
 - Cover Your Ass
 
Mullins, Bill
 - CYA
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - Lady Mondegreen
 
Laurence Horn
 - Potluck Dinner/Supper (1910)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Potluck Dinner/Supper (1910)
 
Sam Clements
 - know the score
 
Sean Fitzpatrick
 - Kerry coined "baby killer"? (another coinage myth, of course)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Lady Mondegreen
 
Dan Goodman
 - Scramble supper/dinner/lunch (1944)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Potluck Dinner/Supper (1910)
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - MethodsXII at umoncton.ca: Call for papers Methods XII
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - The Bible in Polari
 
Grant Barrett
 - know the score
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - The Bible in Polari
 
Beverly Flanigan
 - The Bible in Polari
 
Grant Barrett
 - The Bible in Polari
 
Michael Quinion
 - aste(r)perious
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - know the score -1937
 
Sam Clements
 - negation again, and coordination too
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - know the score -1929
 
Sam Clements
 - "Emeritus" means...
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - "History is written by the victors/winners"
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - "What happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas"
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Scramble supper/dinner/lunch (1944)
 
James A. Landau
 - "Emeritus" means...
 
George Thompson
 - "What happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas"
 
George Thompson
 - "What happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas"
 
Dave Wilton
 - "What happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas"
 
Orin Hargraves
 - Computer quote
 
James A. Landau
 - "What happens on the road, stays on the road"
 
Mullins, Bill
 - "What happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas"
 
Ron Southerland
 - know the score -1929
 
Mark A. Mandel
 - FW: Johnny cakes
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - Johnny cakes
 
Sam Clements
 - LingFlicks
 
Dennis R. Preston
 - Johnny cakes
 
James C Stalker
 - Misery Index (1959, 1975)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Johnny cakes
 
Wilson Gray
 - [?] Misery Index (1959, 1975)
 
Barnhart
 - Lost Tweakends
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - LingFlicks
 
Barnhart
 - Misery Index (1959, 1975)
 
James A. Landau
 - LingFlicks
 
Dennis R. Preston
 - Base Ball (1803?)
 
James A. Landau
 - "Emeritus" means...
 
David Bowie
 - LingFlicks
 
Bethany K. Dumas
 - LingFlicks
 
Beverly Flanigan
 - 'Confused'
 
Geoff Nathan
 - 'Confused'
 
Barnhart
 - LingFlicks
 
Bethany K. Dumas
 - LingFlicks
 
Dennis R. Preston
 - 'Confused'
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - Ling Flicks
 
Beverly Flanigan
 - Fwd: Chantek
 
Beverly Flanigan
 - Misery Index (1959, 1975)
 
Tom Kysilko
 - celebumom, skeezy
 
Dan Goodman
 - "There's a saying..." (Part One)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - "There's a saying..." (Part Two)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Fat lady singing ...
 
Michael Quinion
 - Fwd: SECOL news: In memoriam Marvin Ching
 
Terry Lynn Irons
 - Vernification?
 
David Bowie
 - Fat lady singing ...
 
Baker, John
 - Fat lady singing ...
 
Michael Quinion
 - Fat lady singing ...
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Vernification?
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - Do hurricanes hate or love Florida?
 
Thomas Paikeday
 - Do hurricanes hate or love Florida?
 
Laurence Horn
 - Fwd: 15.2577, FYI: Assessing Well-formedness Using Google Script
 
Laurence Horn
 - Do hurricanes hate or love Florida?
 
Dennis R. Preston
 - new language in Nicaragua
 
Larissa H. Chen
 - new language in Nicaragua
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - Email list wisdom (fwd)
 
Peter A. McGraw
 - Email list wisdom (fwd)
 
Dennis R. Preston
 - "The worms they crept in"
 
George Thompson
 - "The worms they crept in"
 
Patti J. Kurtz
 - "The worms they crept in"
 
Patty Davies
 - "The worms they crept in"
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - "The worms they crept in"
 
Baker, John
 - Counterfeiter's slang, 1822
 
George Thompson
 - "The worms they crept in"
 
George Thompson
 - "The worms they crept in"
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - "The worms they crept in"
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - "The worms they crept in"
 
Patty Davies
 - "The worms they crept in"
 
Laurence Horn
 - "Let's Play Two" (1972)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - "The worms they crept in"
 
Patti J. Kurtz
 - "The worms they crept in"
 
Patti J. Kurtz
 - "The worms they crept in"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "The worms they crept in"
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - "Even turkeys can fly" (1992)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - "The worms they crept in" (1881)
 
Sam Clements
 - "The worms they crept in"
 
sagehen
 - Baseball "the real katish" (1898)
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - "There's a saying..." (Part One)
 
Fred Shapiro
 - Email list wisdom (fwd)
 
Wilson Gray
 - Email list wisdom (fwd)
 
Patti J. Kurtz
 - Baseball "the real katish" (1898)
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - "The worms they crept in"
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - Santa Claus (NYC, 1773)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - "The worms they crept in"
 
Ed Keer
 - "Even turkeys can fly" (1992)
 
Wilson Gray
 - "The worms they crept in"
 
Page Stephens
 - Santa Claus (NYC, 1773)
 
Wilson Gray
 - Pigasus; when pigs fly
 
Page Stephens
 - Broadcast in Klingon
 
Mullins, Bill
 - Email list wisdom (fwd)
 
George Thompson
 - "The worms they crept in"
 
Laurence Horn
 - 'Confused'
 
Mark A. Mandel
 - [No] Broadcast in Klingon
 
Grant Barrett
 - Including your "YMCA" ads-l message in a  Comments on Etymology article
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - "The worms they crept in"
 
Patty Davies
 - 'Confused'
 
Wilson Gray
 - "Even turkeys can fly" (1992)
 
Mullins, Bill
 - "Even turkeys can fly" (1992)
 
Wilson Gray
 - "Even turkeys can fly" (1992)
 
Mullins, Bill
 - "Even turkeys can fly" (1992)
 
Laurence Horn
 - Ubiquitous prescriptivism
 
Robert Hartwell Fiske
 - "Even turkeys can fly" (1992)
 
Wilson Gray
 - "There's a saying..." (Part One)
 
Wilson Gray
 - "Even turkeys can fly" (1992)
 
Wilson Gray
 - "There's a saying..." (Part Two)
 
Wilson Gray
 - Email list wisdom (fwd)
 
FRITZ JUENGLING
 - "Even turkeys can fly" (1992)
 
Laurence Horn
 - Anacolutonic appendage
 
Sean Fitzpatrick
 - Anacolutonic appendage
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - Shitballs; Disorientated; Useless Existence
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Anacolutonic appendage
 
Orin Hargraves
 - Anacolutonic appendage
 
Grant Barrett
 - "The worms they crept in"
 
Mark A. Mandel
 - Including your "YMCA" ads-l message in a  Comments on Etymology article
 
Mark A. Mandel
 - when pigs fly
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "The worms they crept in"
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - when pigs fly
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - Anacolutonic appendage
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - Including your "YMCA" ads-l message in a  Comments on Etymology article
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - Apology for encrypted ads-l message
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - celebumom, skeezy
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - celebumom, skeezy
 
Jonathon Green
 - No "Oscar" for OED
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - celebumom, skeezy
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - celebumom, skeezy
 
Jonathon Green
 - "The worms they crept in"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "On Third Avenue" from "Vagabond in New York" (1913)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - "in one swell foop" (sic)--another example
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - "in one swell foop" (sic)--another example
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "in one swell foop" (sic)--another example
 
Sam Clements
 - celebumom, skeezy
 
sagehen
 - literature with lots of dialect
 
Marta Marciniak
 - "Feets Don't Fail Me Now"
 
Fred Shapiro
 - "Feets Don't Fail Me Now"
 
Sam Clements
 - "Feets Don't Fail Me Now"
 
Sam Clements
 - "Feets Don't Fail Me Now"
 
Sam Clements
 - "Lonely at the Top"
 
Fred Shapiro
 - "Lonely at the Top"
 
Sam Clements
 - "The worms they crept in"
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - NY's "Orient Express" also not in revised OED
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - ["Bulldyke"] (1892)
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - "The worms they crept in"
 
Tom Kysilko
 - celebumom, skeezy
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - celebumom, skeezy
 
Wilson Gray
 - "Lonely at the Top"
 
Michael Quinion
 - Antedating of "Hell in a Handbasket"
 
Fred Shapiro
 - "Lonely at the Top"
 
Sam Clements
 - celebumom, skeezy
 
Laurence Horn
 - ["Bulldyke"] (1892)
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - ["Bulldyke"] (1892)
 
Baker, John
 - Lost Tweakends
 
Douglas Bigham
 - "You don't win the silver, you lose the gold" (1996)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - "The worms they crept in"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Encrypted ads-l message has somehow been sent again (decrypted?)
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - Antedating? of "shot his wad" 1896
 
Sam Clements
 - "The worms they crept in"
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - Antedating? of "shot his wad" 1882!
 
Sam Clements
 - "The worms they crept in"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Auxiliary Reduction: it all depends on the context
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - Auxiliary Reduction: it all depends on the context
 
Dennis R. Preston
 - "Ancestors" / "Descendants"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - hoggee, hoggy
 
David Bergdahl
 - Antedating? of "shot his wad" 1896
 
Mullins, Bill
 - "Ancestors" / "Descendants"
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - Drum 'n' bass ~ D 'n' B
 
Damien Hall
 - Antedating? of "shot his wad" 1896
 
Wilson Gray
 - "Ancestors" / "Descendants"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Antedating? of "shot his wad" 1896
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Antedating? of "shot his wad" 1896
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Antedating? of "shot his wad" 1896
 
Mullins, Bill
 - Antedating? of "shot his wad" 1882!
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - Antedating? of "shot his wad" 1882!
 
Mullins, Bill
 - Antedating? of "shot his wad" 1896
 
Dennis R. Preston
 - Antedating? of "shot his wad" 1896
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Antedating? of "shot his wad" 1882!
 
Dave Wilton
 - Hinky Dinky
 
Dave Hause
 - Including your "YMCA" ads-l message in a  Comments on Etymology
 
James A. Landau
 - "Feet, do your duty" (1918); "Feet, do your office" (1693)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Antedating? of "shot his wad" 1882!
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - Antedating? of "shot his wad" 1896
 
Wilson Gray
 - "Don't Make Waves"
 
Fred Shapiro
 - "YMCA" ads-l message
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - "Don't Make Waves"
 
Wilson Gray
 - "Don't Make Waves"
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - "Don't Make Waves"
 
Fred Shapiro
 - "There's a saying..." (Part three)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - "There's a saying..." (Part four)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Heaven in a Hand Basket (1863)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Antedating? of "shot his wad" 1896
 
Jonathon Green
 - "Don't Make Waves"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Hinky Dinky
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "Don't Make Waves"
 
Laurence Horn
 - Paul Reiser and "Don't Go There"
 
Fred Shapiro
 - Paul Reiser and "Don't Go There"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Paul Reiser and "Don't Go There"
 
Baker, John
 - Paul Reiser and "Don't Go There"
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - Antedating? of "shot his wad" 1896
 
Wilson Gray
 - "Feets Don't Fail Me Now"
 
Wilson Gray
 - Paul Reiser and "Don't Go There"
 
Laurence Horn
 - No subject
 
Yerkes, Susan
 - Apology for encrypted ads-l message
 
Mark A. Mandel
 - gimmick
 
Mullins, Bill
 - "last stitch effort"
 
Orin Hargraves
 - Hinky Dinky
 
Mark A. Mandel
 - MM
 
Laurence Horn
 - Hinky Dinky
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Hinky Dinky
 
sagehen
 - Hinky Dinky
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Etymology of exclamation "jiminy crickets"
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - Etymology of exclamation "jiminy crickets"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "Feets Don't Fail Me Now"/ "Feet do your Office!"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "There's a saying..."
 
James A. Landau
 - Snipantry
 
James A. Landau
 - Etymology of exclamation "jiminy crickets"
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - Snipantry
 
Dave Wilton
 - Hinky Dinky
 
Philip E. Cleary
 - ["Bulldyke"] (1892)
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - "There's a saying..."
 
Mullins, Bill
 - Snipantry
 
Mullins, Bill
 - Snipantry
 
James Smith
 - Hinky Dinky
 
Page Stephens
 - Hinky Dinky
 
Robert Wachal
 - Hinky Dinky
 
James A. Landau
 - Hinky Dinky
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Hinky Dinky
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Hinky Dinky
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Hinky Dinky
 
Gordon, Matthew J.
 - Hinky Dinky
 
paulzjoh
 - Hinky Dinky
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - taboo words in the NYT
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - taboo words in the NYT
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Hinky Dinky
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - taboo words in the NYT
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - taboo words in the NYT
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "there's a saying"
 
Mark A. Mandel
 - "there's a saying"
 
Mark A. Mandel
 - Snipantry
 
Mark A. Mandel
 - "there's a saying"
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - Hinky Dinky
 
Baker, John
 - YMCA a "gay" anthem?
 
RonButters at AOL.COM
 - "there's a saying"
 
Michael Quinion
 - Speaking of "gay," etc.
 
Wilson Gray
 - Hinky Dinky
 
sagehen
 - Speaking of "gay," etc.
 
Benjamin J Barrett
 - Speaking of "gay," etc.
 
Mullins, Bill
 - dialect tidbit
 
Beverly Flanigan
 - Speaking of "gay," etc.
 
Wilson Gray
 - Speaking of "gay," etc.
 
Benjamin J Barrett
 - dialect tidbit
 
Wilson Gray
 - Speaking of "gay," etc.
 
Wilson Gray
 - YMCA a "gay" anthem?
 
Wilson Gray
 - Speaking of "gay," etc.
 
Laurence Horn
 - Speaking of "gay," etc.
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - dialect tidbit
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Speaking of "gay," etc.
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Speaking of "gay," etc.
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - dialect tidbit
 
Peter A. McGraw
 - dialect tidbit
 
Patti J. Kurtz
 - dialect tidbit
 
Dennis R. Preston
 - dialect tidbit
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - dialect tidbit
 
Bethany K. Dumas
 - dialect tidbit
 
sagehen
 - "There's an old saying..." (Part one)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Hinky Dinky; question for Jonathan Lighter
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - Speaking of "gay," etc.
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - "There's an old saying..." (Part one)
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - duke and dook
 
RonButters at AOL.COM
 - duke and dook
 
Laurence Horn
 - Hinky Dinky; question for Jonathan Lighter
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Hinky Dinky
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - "There's an old saying..." cont.; "Buy Land" and WIll Rogers
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - YMCA a "gay" anthem?
 
Elaine Ashton
 - Hinky Dinky
 
paulzjoh
 - Hinky Dinky
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Hinky Dinky
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Green Day (was Speaking of "gay," etc.)
 
Wilson Gray
 - Re:       Re: duke and dook
 
RonButters at AOL.COM
 - duke and dook
 
Alice Faber
 - duke and dook
 
Laurence Horn
 - duke and dook
 
Dennis R. Preston
 - duke and dook
 
Laurence Horn
 - dialect tidbit
 
FRITZ JUENGLING
 - dialect tidbit
 
Alice Faber
 - dialect tidbit
 
Michael Procter
 - dialect tidbit
 
FRITZ JUENGLING
 - Vitale
 
Beverly Flanigan
 - dialect tidbit
 
Laurence Horn
 - Re:       Re: duke and dook
 
RonButters at AOL.COM
 - duke and dook
 
Dennis R. Preston
 - duke and dook
 
Laurence Horn
 - Green Day (was Speaking of "gay," etc.)
 
Jeff Prucher
 - dookie
 
Steve Kl.
 - "last stitch effort"
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - dialect tidbit
 
Beverly Flanigan
 - Green Day (was Speaking of "gay," etc.)
 
Wilson Gray
 - dookie
 
Wilson Gray
 - Auxiliary Reduction: it all depends on the context
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - dialect tidbit
 
Peter A. McGraw
 - dookie
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - dialect tidbit
 
Wilson Gray
 - dookie
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - dookie
 
Mullins, Bill
 - dookie
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - dookie
 
Wilson Gray
 - BBC Request for Interviews: Ohio, Mo., Ill., Ky.
 
Grant Barrett
 - dialect tidbit
 
J. Eulenberg
 - dialect tidbit
 
J. Eulenberg
 - dialect tidbit
 
Wilson Gray
 - dialect tidbit
 
Orin Hargraves
 - "last stitch effort"
 
Wilson Gray
 - dialect tidbit
 
J. Eulenberg
 - dialect tidbit
 
Wilson Gray
 - "last stitch effort"
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - "There's an old saying..." cont.; "Buy Land" and WIll Rogers
 
George Thompson
 - "last stitch effort"
 
Wilson Gray
 - dookie
 
Wilson Gray
 - Hinky Dinky
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - "Good Old Days"
 
Baker, John
 - dialect tidbit
 
sagehen
 - dialect tidbit
 
Sally Donlon
 - dookie
 
Laurence Horn
 - "last stitch effort"
 
Laurence Horn
 - dookie
 
Laurence Horn
 - TV Catchphrase Queries
 
Fred Shapiro
 - "Good Old Days"
 
Sam Clements
 - dialect tidbit
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - dialect tidbit
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Local = Hawaiian Ex-Pat
 
Benjamin J Barrett
 - Hinky Dinky
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - TV Catchphrase Queries
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "Good Old Days"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - dookie
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - TV Catchphrase Queries
 
Sam Clements
 - Hinky Dinky
 
Wilson Gray
 - dookie
 
James C Stalker
 - "last stitch effort"
 
Wilson Gray
 - dialect tidbit
 
Wilson Gray
 - Subject:      TV Catchphrase Queries
 
Jerry Kane
 - Hinky Dinky
 
Sean Fitzpatrick
 - dookie
 
Mullins, Bill
 - Hinky Dinky
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - Mush; Brooklyn Historical Society; David Shulman
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - dookie
 
Wilson Gray
 - Mush; Brooklyn Historical Society; David Shulman
 
Wilson Gray
 - Hinky Dinky
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - New word
 
Justin Hertog
 - Hinky Dinky
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Mush; Brooklyn Historical Society; David Shulman
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - dookie
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Mush; Brooklyn Historical Society; David Shulman
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - New word
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "last stitch effort"
 
David Bowie
 - dookie
 
David Bowie
 - dookie
 
Barbara Need
 - dookie
 
Steve Kl.
 - dialect tidbit
 
James A. Landau
 - dookie
 
Laurence Horn
 - dialect tidbit
 
Allen Maberry
 - dookie
 
Barbara Need
 - dookie
 
Laurence Horn
 - Mitch Miller
 
Mullins, Bill
 - "last stitch effort"
 
Dennis R. Preston
 - "last stitch effort"
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - "last stitch effort"
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - dookie
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - dookie
 
Barnhart
 - dookie
 
Mark A. Mandel
 - coffee (was: Duke and dook)
 
Mark A. Mandel
 - "last stitch effort"
 
Mark A. Mandel
 - dookie
 
Laurence Horn
 - "last stitch effort"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - TV Catchphrase Queries
 
Mark A. Mandel
 - "last stitch effort"
 
Dennis R. Preston
 - coffee (was: Duke and dook)
 
Dennis R. Preston
 - "last stitch effort"
 
Wilson Gray
 - "last stitch effort"
 
Wilson Gray
 - "last stitch effort"
 
Wilson Gray
 - "last stitch effort"
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - "last stitch effort"
 
Dennis R. Preston
 - "last stitch effort"
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - "last stitch effort"
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - "last stitch effort"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "last stitch effort"
 
Baker, John
 - "last stitch effort"
 
Wilson Gray
 - "last stitch effort"
 
Dennis R. Preston
 - "last stitch effort"
 
Wilson Gray
 - Novel = Book
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "last stitch effort"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Novel = Book
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - "last stitch effort"
 
Sam Clements
 - "last stitch effort"
 
Baker, John
 - Novel = Book
 
Sam Clements
 - Novel = Book
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - "last stitch effort"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "last stitch effort"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Novel = Book
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Novel = Book
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "last stitch effort"
 
Baker, John
 - Blind Squirrel (1951)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Blind Squirrel (1951)
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Splib
 
Larry Scroggs
 - "By" = "Until"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - SUX
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Re:       SUX
 
RonButters at AOL.COM
 - SUX
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Blind Squirrel (1951)
 
Sam Clements
 - SUX
 
Wilson Gray
 - SUX
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Blind Squirrel (1951)
 
Rachel E. Shuttlesworth
 - Blind Hog...Biggest Acorn (1900) [was Re: Blind Squirrel (1951)]
 
Rachel E. Shuttlesworth
 - Blind Squirrel (1951)
 
Sam Clements
 - Blind Hog...Schiller (1893) [was Re: Blind Squirrel (1951)]
 
Sam Clements
 - Splib
 
Dave Hause
 - Re:       Re: SUX
 
RonButters at AOL.COM
 - Song = piece of music (was: Novel = Book)
 
Tom Kysilko
 - Novel = Book
 
Mullins, Bill
 - Novel = Book
 
Sam Clements
 - Ranch Dressing (1966); "Windy City" is plagiarized
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - "By" = "Until"--(syntactic blend?)
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - Song = piece of music (was: Novel = Book)
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - all growns up
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - "Windy City" plagiarism (part one)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - "Windy City" is plagiarized
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - "Windy City" plagiarism (part two)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - "Chapter book", "novel"
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - assumably etc. (was Re: "last stitch effort")
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - disappearing prepositions
 
Robert Wachal
 - assumably etc. (was Re: "last stitch effort")
 
Robert Wachal
 - disappearing prepositions
 
Laurence Horn
 - "last stitch effort"
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - Chapter play
 
Wilson Gray
 - assumably etc. (was Re: "last stitch effort")
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - assumably etc. (was Re: "last stitch effort")
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - ABSENT 'without'
 
RonButters at AOL.COM
 - assumably etc.
 
RonButters at AOL.COM
 - "Chapter book", "novel"
 
Dave Wilton
 - Why is "hopefully" bad English? -- was "Re: assumably"
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - "Blind hog/pig finds an acorn" (1883, 1889)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Splib
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - disappearing prepositions
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Why is "hopefully" bad English? -- was "Re: assumably"
 
Wilson Gray
 - assumably etc. (was Re: "last stitch effort")
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - assumably etc. (was Re: "last stitch effort")
 
Marsha Alley
 - Splib
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Splib
 
Wilson Gray
 - FYI: "Hooker" in New York Sun
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - SUX
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "sort of" is elitist?
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - "sort of" is elitist?
 
Patti J. Kurtz
 - "sort of" is elitist?
 
Gordon, Matthew J.
 - Obie (1956); Peace SIgn (1968)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Why is "hopefully" bad English? -- was "Re: assumably"
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - "Top of the heap"
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - ABSENT 'without'
 
Laurence Horn
 - Re:       Re: SUX
 
RonButters at AOL.COM
 - Re:       Re: ABSENT 'without'
 
RonButters at AOL.COM
 - disappearing prepositions
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - "sort of" is elitist?
 
Laurence Horn
 - "sort of" is elitist?
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - "sort of" is elitist? (""Would that it were")
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Splib
 
Jonathon Green
 - Chapter Book (1991)
 
James A. Landau
 - assumably etc. (was Re: "last stitch effort")
 
James Smith
 - assumably etc. (was Re: "last stitch effort")
 
James Smith
 - assumably etc. (was Re: "last stitch effort")
 
Alice Faber
 - SUX
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Splib
 
Wilson Gray
 - SUX
 
Dave Wilton
 - SUX
 
Dennis R. Preston
 - Splib
 
Mullins, Bill
 - SUX
 
Mullins, Bill
 - SUX
 
Patti J. Kurtz
 - SUX
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - SUX
 
Grant Barrett
 - Splib
 
Wilson Gray
 - Re:       Re: SUX
 
RonButters at AOL.COM
 - "sort of" is elitist?
 
sagehen
 - SUX
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - SUX
 
Wilson Gray
 - Splib
 
Dennis R. Preston
 - SUX
 
Geoff Nathan
 - SUX
 
Mullins, Bill
 - SUX
 
Dennis R. Preston
 - Chapter Book (1991)
 
Victoria Neufeldt
 - SUX
 
Laurence Horn
 - SUX
 
Wilson Gray
 - "sort of" is elitist?
 
Wilson Gray
 - Re:       Re: SUX
 
Robert Wachal
 - Re:       Re: † † † Re: SUX
 
RonButters at AOL.COM
 - wails vs. whales
 
James Smith
 - assumably etc. (was Re: "last stitch effort")
 
James Smith
 - S. P. Q. R.
 
George Thompson
 - Re:       Re:     Re : SUX
 
Robert Wachal
 - "sort of" is elitist?
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - wails vs. whales
 
Wilson Gray
 - S. P. Q. R.
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - disappearing prepositions
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - S. P. Q. R.
 
Barbara Need
 - SUX
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - "By" = "Until"--(syntactic blend?)
 
Michael Adams
 - SUX
 
Dennis R. Preston
 - SUX
 
Dennis R. Preston
 - SQUICK
 
Mullins, Bill
 - SUX
 
Wilson Gray
 - SQUICK
 
Laurence Horn
 - taking the slaw (was Re: SUX)
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - SUX
 
Laurence Horn
 - taking the slaw (was Re: SUX)
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - taking the slaw (was Re: SUX)
 
Grant Barrett
 - SUX
 
Dave Hause
 - Antedating of "speed boat" (1903)
 
Sam Clements
 - taking the slaw (was Re: SUX)
 
Laurence Horn
 - taking the slaw (was Re: SUX)
 
Sam Clements
 - taking the slaw (was Re: SUX)
 
Wilson Gray
 - taking the slaw (was Re: SUX)
 
Wilson Gray
 - Coral
 
Wilson Gray
 - SUX
 
Sam Clements
 - disappearing prepositions
 
Sean Fitzpatrick
 - SUX
 
Wilson Gray
 - SUX
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - SUX
 
Wilson Gray
 - taking the slaw (was Re: SUX)
 
Dennis R. Preston
 - SUX
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Chapter Book (1991)
 
David Bowie
 - Splib
 
James A. Landau
 - war lordism (1917)
 
Barnhart
 - warlordism (1931)
 
Barnhart
 - SUX
 
Laurence Horn
 - disappearing prepositions
 
sagehen
 - /wh/ - /w/
 
Dennis R. Preston
 - /wh/ - /w/
 
Sally Donlon
 - /wh/ - /w/
 
Dennis R. Preston
 - Blind Squirrel (1951)
 
Yerkes, Susan
 - the world
 
Mullins, Bill
 - /wh/ - /w/
 
FRITZ JUENGLING
 - /wh/ - /w/
 
Dennis R. Preston
 - /wh/ - /w/
 
Lesa Dill
 - toadpoles
 
Mark A. Mandel
 - /wh/ - /w/
 
Wilson Gray
 - /wh/ - /w/
 
Marsha Alley
 - toadpoles
 
Wilson Gray
 - /wh/ - /w/
 
Lesa Dill
 - /wh/ - /w/
 
FRITZ JUENGLING
 - /wh/ - /w/
 
Wilson Gray
 - "last stitch effort"
 
Mark A. Mandel
 - "last stitch effort"
 
Baker, John
 - linguistic SF
 
Mark A. Mandel
 - Introductory Textbooks
 
Strasheim, Dwayne
 - /wh/ - /w/
 
Marsha Alley
 - disappearing prepositions
 
Mark A. Mandel
 - disappearing prepositions
 
Laurence Horn
 - the world
 
Wilson Gray
 - the world
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Introductory Textbooks
 
Patti J. Kurtz
 - linguistic SF
 
Patti J. Kurtz
 - linguistic SF
 
Jeff Prucher
 - /wh/ - /w/
 
Dennis R. Preston
 - /wh/ - /w/
 
Dennis R. Preston
 - /wh/ - /w/
 
Dennis R. Preston
 - disappearing prepositions
 
Robert Wachal
 - disappearing prepositions
 
Baker, John
 - disappearing prepositions
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - /wh/ - /w/
 
Wilson Gray
 - disappearing prepositions
 
Baker, John
 - /wh/ - /w/
 
Marsha Alley
 - Kissinger, Sayre, and "vicious university politics for small stakes"
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - the world
 
Mullins, Bill
 - Changes in St. Louis BE
 
Wilson Gray
 - Skivvies (1918)
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - "Bar Chef" (formerly, "bartender")
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - the world
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Skivvies (1918)
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - /wh/ - /w/
 
Allen Maberry
 - /wh/ - /w/
 
Dennis R. Preston
 - /wh/ - /w/
 
Lesa Dill
 - Changes in St. Louis BE
 
Gordon, Matthew J.
 - "Assumably" = "Probably" ?
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - linguistic SF
 
David Bowie
 - the world
 
David Bowie
 - query
 
Catherine Aman
 - Changes in St. Louis BE
 
Wilson Gray
 - the world
 
Wilson Gray
 - "Stinky pinky"
 
Wilson Gray
 - "Stinky pinky"
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - "Stinky pinky"
 
Mullins, Bill
 - "Stinky pinky"
 
Dennis R. Preston
 - linguistic SF
 
Gwyn Alcock
 - the world
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "Stinky pinky"
 
Mullins, Bill
 - the euphemism "love"
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - SUX
 
Mark A. Mandel
 - lol (was: Re: /wh/ - /w/)
 
Mark A. Mandel
 - lol (was: Re: /wh/ - /w/)
 
FRITZ JUENGLING
 - "Stinky pinky"
 
Beverly Flanigan
 - Introductory Textbooks
 
AAllan at AOL.COM
 - lol
 
Sally Donlon
 - "Stinky pinky"
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - lol (was: Re: /wh/ - /w/)
 
Patti J. Kurtz
 - "Stinky pinky"
 
Baker, John
 - "Stinky pinky"
 
Peter A. McGraw
 - lol (was: Re: /wh/ - /w/)
 
Marsha Alley
 - "Stinky pinky"
 
sagehen
 - aunt/ant
 
Beverly Flanigan
 - disappearing prepositions
 
Laurence Horn
 - "Stinky pinky"
 
Wilson Gray
 - "Stinky pinky"
 
Laurence Horn
 - "Stinky pinky"
 
Mullins, Bill
 - aunt/ant
 
J. Eulenberg
 - the world
 
Wilson Gray
 - lol
 
Marsha Alley
 - "Stinky pinky"
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - "Stinky pinky"
 
Wilson Gray
 - /wh/ - /w/
 
Laurence Horn
 - the world
 
Laurence Horn
 - the world
 
Beverly Flanigan
 - "Stinky pinky"
 
Beverly Flanigan
 - aunt/ant
 
Barbara Need
 - "Stinky pinky"
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - "Stinky pinky"
 
Mullins, Bill
 - "Stinky pinky"
 
Baker, John
 - "Stinky pinky"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "Stinky pinky"
 
Wilson Gray
 - aunt/ant
 
Beverly Flanigan
 - "Stinky pinky"
 
Peter A. McGraw
 - linguistic SF
 
Mark A. Mandel
 - Razorbicks
 
James A. Landau
 - the world
 
Bethany K. Dumas
 - /wh/ - /w/
 
Dennis R. Preston
 - Razorbicks
 
Sam Clements
 - "Stinky pinky"
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - "Stinky pinky"
 
Wilson Gray
 - the world
 
Wilson Gray
 - the world
 
Bethany K. Dumas
 - "know the score"
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - the world
 
sagehen
 - "Stinky pinky"
 
Jeff Prucher
 - the world
 
Wilson Gray
 - Skivvies (1918)
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - gaydirt -- new word?
 
Mullins, Bill
 - Kissinger, Sayre, and "vicious university politics for small stakes"
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - "know the score"(1934)
 
Sam Clements
 - "know the score"(1938)
 
Sam Clements
 - "Middle of the road" political quotations
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - aunt/ant
 
Margaret Lee
 - "Stinky pinky"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - aunt/ant
 
Mullins, Bill
 - aunt/ant
 
Ed Keer
 - woofer&tweeter
 
RonButters at AOL.COM
 - aunt/ant
 
Wilson Gray
 - the world
 
Mark A. Mandel
 - R r
 
Wilson Gray
 - the world
 
Mark A. Mandel
 - R r
 
Rachel E. Shuttlesworth
 - R r
 
Jonathan Lighter
    
 
    
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