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- Barry and the Yanikees
Sam Clements
- Libercon
Kara Everman
- LES (Lower East Side);
Wilson Gray
- Blendship
Wilson Gray
- Taxachusetts (1952); "Passerbys" in Gothamist
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- 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
- buffet flat
George Thompson
- begging
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Prescriptive grammar (was: wide array of death euphemisms
Patti J. Kurtz
- Gimmy Crack Corn
J. Eulenberg
- APB: Non English Language Slang
Jonathon Green
- Antedating of "Feminazi"
Fred Shapiro
- Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang
Dan Goodman
- Desk Appearance Ticket (DAT) (1974)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Black-and-White, Half-Moon, Harlequin
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Black-and-White, Half-Moon, Harlequin
Jonathan Lighter
- Black-and-White, Half-Moon, Harlequin
Laurence Horn
- Black-and-White, Half-Moon, Harlequin
Jonathan Lighter
- Black-and-White, Half-Moon, Harlequin
Sam Clements
- Black-and-White, Half-Moon, Harlequin
Wilson Gray
- Black-and-White, Half-Moon, Harlequin
Jonathan Lighter
- Black-and-White, Half-Moon, Harlequin
Laurence Horn
- Black-and-White, Half-Moon, Harlequin
Sam Clements
- 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
- (Up Salt./Shit Creek/River) "Without a Paddle" (1911)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Different dialects, same error
Wilson Gray
- Different dialects, same error
Laurence Horn
- Different dialects, same error
Douglas G. Wilson
- Different dialects, same error
Laurence Horn
- Different dialects, same error
Dennis R. Preston
- Different dialects, same error
Gordon, Matthew J.
- 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
- Different dialects, same error
Beverly Flanigan
- Different dialects, same error
Wilson Gray
- Different dialects, same error
James A. Landau
- Different dialects, same error
Beverly Flanigan
- Different dialects, same error
Wilson Gray
- Different dialects, same error
Dennis R. Preston
- Different dialects, same error
Wilson Gray
- Different dialects, same error
Laurence Horn
- Different dialects, same error
Wilson Gray
- Different dialects, same error
Mark A. Mandel
- Different dialects, same error
Laurence Horn
- Different dialects, same error
James A. Landau
- Barry Popik in my morning paper
Thomas Paikeday
- hostage-taker
Barnhart
- OED not contemporary or American; OT: Bonnie Slotnick cookbooks
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Eggnogg (1815)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Labor Day (1880?, 1886)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- aste(r)perious
Arnold M. Zwicky
- BIG ONION BIG APPLE redux
Daniel Cassidy
- Roquefort Dressing (1908)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- wide array of death euphemisms- icebreaker?
Kara Everman
- Cabbage (CABG, or Coronary Artery Bypass Graft) (1985)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Fwd: N-bomb
Wilson Gray
- "nobody but us chickens" 1909
Sam Clements
- Johnny Mac(k) Brown
Mullins, Bill
- Ofay (1920-1924)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- another eggcorn episode
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "Ofay" etymology (speculative)
Douglas G. Wilson
- Ofay etymology (speculative)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Ofay etymology (speculative)--"au fait" = socially acceptable, genteel
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- aptronyms (was: Johnny Mac(k) Brown)
Laurence Horn
- "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
- faux mitzvah
Dennis Baron
- "Turd Ferguson" slang book
Arnold M. Zwicky
- fuckedupness vs. fuckedupedness
Mark Peters
- helpful google site
Catherine Merlen
- Buckra
Dave Hause
- Turd Ferguson etc.
Jonathan Lighter
- "...% of statistics are made up on the spot"
Stephen Goranson
- yet another spam eggcorn
Laurence Horn
- final devoicing
Dennis R. Preston
- Dueling impressions
Wilson Gray
- [SPAM:####] Re: yet another spam eggcorn
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "Apple a Day"
Fred Shapiro
- finna
Orin Hargraves
- finna > ret
Beverly Flanigan
- Only in East Texas? More widespread?
Wilson Gray
- Serbian grammar
Patti J. Kurtz
- Word "Baseball" in 1755
Fred Shapiro
- "Apple a Day" (addendum)
Douglas G. Wilson
- Apologies
Patti J. Kurtz
- Apple a day
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "You can always tell a Harvard man" (1907)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Conference announcement
Jesse Sheidlower
- "No good deed goes unpunished"
Jonathan Lighter
- "Connecticut accent" in the Times
Laurence Horn
- Subject: Re: wide array of death euphemisms- icebreaker?
Mark A. Mandel
- egregious prescriptivism
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Ubiquitous prescriptivism
Ed Finegan
- fleeting datum
Arnold M. Zwicky
- ostentatious avoidance
Arnold M. Zwicky
- 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
- 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
- know the score
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Availablity of my published volumes--(preliminary remarks)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Re: Re: know the score
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "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
- [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
- 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
- Kathleen Miller in New York Times
Baker, John
- CYA
Mullins, Bill
- CYA
Wilson Gray
- CYA
Ed Finegan
- CYA
sagehen
- CYA
Jesse Sheidlower
- Lady Mondegreen
George Thompson
- Cover Your Ass
Michael Quinion
- Kerry coined "baby killer"? (another coinage myth, of course)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Scramble supper/dinner/lunch (1944)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- MethodsXII at umoncton.ca: Call for papers Methods XII
Jesse Sheidlower
- The Bible in Polari
Grant Barrett
- know the score -1937
Sam Clements
- 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
- Computer quote
James A. Landau
- "What happens on the road, stays on the road"
Mullins, Bill
- FW: Johnny cakes
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Johnny cakes
Sam Clements
- LingFlicks
Dennis R. Preston
- Misery Index (1959, 1975)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- [?] Misery Index (1959, 1975)
Barnhart
- Lost Tweakends
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Base Ball (1803?)
James A. Landau
- 'Confused'
Geoff Nathan
- Fwd: Chantek
Beverly Flanigan
- 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
- Do hurricanes hate or love Florida?
Thomas Paikeday
- Fwd: 15.2577, FYI: Assessing Well-formedness Using Google Script
Laurence Horn
- new language in Nicaragua
Larissa H. Chen
- Email list wisdom (fwd)
Peter A. McGraw
- "The worms they crept in"
George Thompson
- Counterfeiter's slang, 1822
George Thompson
- "Let's Play Two" (1972)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Even turkeys can fly" (1992)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "The worms they crept in" (1881)
Sam Clements
- Baseball "the real katish" (1898)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Santa Claus (NYC, 1773)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Pigasus; when pigs fly
Page Stephens
- Broadcast in Klingon
Mullins, Bill
- [No] Broadcast in Klingon
Grant Barrett
- Including your "YMCA" ads-l message in a Comments on Etymology article
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Anacolutonic appendage
Sean Fitzpatrick
- Shitballs; Disorientated; Useless Existence
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- when pigs fly
Jonathan Lighter
- Apology for encrypted ads-l message
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- No "Oscar" for OED
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "On Third Avenue" from "Vagabond in New York" (1913)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "in one swell foop" (sic)--another example
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- literature with lots of dialect
Marta Marciniak
- "Feets Don't Fail Me Now"
Fred Shapiro
- "Lonely at the Top"
Fred Shapiro
- NY's "Orient Express" also not in revised OED
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- ["Bulldyke"] (1892)
Douglas G. Wilson
- Antedating of "Hell in a Handbasket"
Fred Shapiro
- "You don't win the silver, you lose the gold" (1996)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Encrypted ads-l message has somehow been sent again (decrypted?)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Antedating? of "shot his wad" 1896
Sam Clements
- Antedating? of "shot his wad" 1882!
Sam Clements
- Auxiliary Reduction: it all depends on the context
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "Ancestors" / "Descendants"
Jonathan Lighter
- hoggee, hoggy
David Bergdahl
- Drum 'n' bass ~ D 'n' B
Damien Hall
- 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
- "Don't Make Waves"
Fred Shapiro
- "YMCA" ads-l message
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "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
- Paul Reiser and "Don't Go There"
Fred Shapiro
- No subject
Yerkes, Susan
- gimmick
Mullins, Bill
- "last stitch effort"
Orin Hargraves
- MM
Laurence Horn
- Etymology of exclamation "jiminy crickets"
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "Feets Don't Fail Me Now"/ "Feet do your Office!"
Jonathan Lighter
- "There's a saying..."
James A. Landau
- Snipantry
James A. Landau
- taboo words in the NYT
Arnold M. Zwicky
- YMCA a "gay" anthem?
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Speaking of "gay," etc.
Wilson Gray
- Speaking of "gay," etc.
Benjamin J Barrett
- Speaking of "gay," etc.
Mullins, Bill
- Speaking of "gay," etc.
Wilson Gray
- Speaking of "gay," etc.
Benjamin J Barrett
- Speaking of "gay," etc.
Wilson Gray
- Speaking of "gay," etc.
Laurence Horn
- Speaking of "gay," etc.
Jonathan Lighter
- Speaking of "gay," etc.
Jonathan Lighter
- Speaking of "gay," etc.
Jonathan Lighter
- Speaking of "gay," etc.
Jesse Sheidlower
- dialect tidbit
Beverly Flanigan
- "There's an old saying..." (Part one)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Hinky Dinky; question for Jonathan Lighter
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- duke and dook
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "There's an old saying..." cont.; "Buy Land" and WIll Rogers
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Green Day (was Speaking of "gay," etc.)
Wilson Gray
- Re: Re: duke and dook
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Vitale
Beverly Flanigan
- dookie
Steve Kl.
- BBC Request for Interviews: Ohio, Mo., Ill., Ky.
Grant Barrett
- "Good Old Days"
Baker, John
- TV Catchphrase Queries
Fred Shapiro
- Local = Hawaiian Ex-Pat
Benjamin J Barrett
- Subject: TV Catchphrase Queries
Jerry Kane
- Mush; Brooklyn Historical Society; David Shulman
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- New word
Justin Hertog
- Mitch Miller
Mullins, Bill
- coffee (was: Duke and dook)
Mark A. Mandel
- Novel = Book
Jonathan Lighter
- Blind Squirrel (1951)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Splib
Larry Scroggs
- "By" = "Until"
Jonathan Lighter
- SUX
Jonathan Lighter
- SUX
Jonathan Lighter
- SUX
Wilson Gray
- SUX
Jonathan Lighter
- SUX
Jonathan Lighter
- SUX
Jonathan Lighter
- SUX
Dave Wilton
- SUX
Dennis R. Preston
- SUX
Mullins, Bill
- SUX
Patti J. Kurtz
- SUX
Jonathan Lighter
- SUX
Grant Barrett
- SUX
Jonathan Lighter
- SUX
Wilson Gray
- SUX
Geoff Nathan
- SUX
Mullins, Bill
- SUX
Dennis R. Preston
- SUX
Laurence Horn
- SUX
Wilson Gray
- SUX
Arnold M. Zwicky
- SUX
Dennis R. Preston
- SUX
Dennis R. Preston
- SUX
Wilson Gray
- SUX
Laurence Horn
- SUX
Dave Hause
- SUX
Sam Clements
- SUX
Wilson Gray
- SUX
Douglas G. Wilson
- SUX
Wilson Gray
- SUX
Jonathan Lighter
- SUX
Laurence Horn
- SUX
Mark A. Mandel
- Re: SUX
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Blind Hog...Biggest Acorn (1900) [was Re: Blind Squirrel (1951)]
Rachel E. Shuttlesworth
- Blind Hog...Schiller (1893) [was Re: Blind Squirrel (1951)]
Sam Clements
- Re: Re: SUX
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Song = piece of music (was: Novel = Book)
Tom Kysilko
- Ranch Dressing (1966); "Windy City" is plagiarized
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "By" = "Until"--(syntactic blend?)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- 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
- Chapter play
Wilson Gray
- ABSENT 'without'
RonButters at AOL.COM
- assumably etc.
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Why is "hopefully" bad English? -- was "Re: assumably"
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "Blind hog/pig finds an acorn" (1883, 1889)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- FYI: "Hooker" in New York Sun
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Obie (1956); Peace SIgn (1968)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Top of the heap"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Re: Re: ABSENT 'without'
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "sort of" is elitist? (""Would that it were")
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Chapter Book (1991)
James A. Landau
- Re: Re: † † † Re: SUX
RonButters at AOL.COM
- wails vs. whales
James Smith
- S. P. Q. R.
George Thompson
- Re: Â Â Â Re: † † † Re : SUX
Robert Wachal
- SQUICK
Mullins, Bill
- taking the slaw (was Re: SUX)
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Antedating of "speed boat" (1903)
Sam Clements
- Coral
Wilson Gray
- war lordism (1917)
Barnhart
- warlordism (1931)
Barnhart
- /wh/ - /w/
Dennis R. Preston
- the world
Mullins, Bill
- toadpoles
Mark A. Mandel
- linguistic SF
Mark A. Mandel
- Introductory Textbooks
Strasheim, Dwayne
- Kissinger, Sayre, and "vicious university politics for small stakes"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Changes in St. Louis BE
Wilson Gray
- Skivvies (1918)
Douglas G. Wilson
- "Bar Chef" (formerly, "bartender")
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Assumably" = "Probably" ?
Jonathan Lighter
- query
Catherine Aman
- "Stinky pinky"
Wilson Gray
- the euphemism "love"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- lol (was: Re: /wh/ - /w/)
Mark A. Mandel
- lol
Sally Donlon
- aunt/ant
Beverly Flanigan
- Razorbicks
James A. Landau
- "know the score"
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- gaydirt -- new word?
Mullins, Bill
- "know the score"(1934)
Sam Clements
- "know the score"(1938)
Sam Clements
- "Middle of the road" political quotations
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- woofer&tweeter
RonButters at AOL.COM
- R r
Wilson Gray
- R r
Rachel E. Shuttlesworth
- R r
Jonathan Lighter
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