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- Shays's Rebellion
Jan Kammert
- Sexsomnia defense?
bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Hot Dog" wrong on CSI (America's #1 tv show)
bapopik at AOL.COM
- Hamburgers (1883)
Jonathan Lighter
- Shays's Rebellion (follow-up)
Barnhart
- Shays's Rebellion (follow-up #2)
Barnhart
- standing on my head since 1993
George Thompson
- Old Chip or Brother Chip
George Thompson
- Fresh Fish
George Thompson
- "on general principles"
George Thompson
- gravelled
George Thompson
- A funny Hoosier mangling
Rex W. Stocklin
- Ruth Wajnryb's "Funktionary"
Benjamin Zimmer
- student papers
FRITZ JUENGLING
- BBC Wordhunt - Antedatings
Mullins, Bill
- "exchange X for Y"
Benjamin Zimmer
- "E.D.s"?
Douglas G. Wilson
- "Open Dictionary" from MW
Jesse Sheidlower
- Antedating of "Tokenism"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Desegregation"
Fred Shapiro
- polypin
Mark A. Mandel
- "Honeypot (computer)"
Wilson Gray
- "Steaming"
Wilson Gray
- "Graf"
Fred Shapiro
- "sub" (= substitute) in wrong-ordered whatzit
Jesse Sheidlower
- Inner Prescriptivism
Fred Shapiro
- "Tom Swifties" (Was Re: Prescriptivism)
Jonathan Lighter
- homophones (was Re: "Tom Swifties" (Was Re: Prescriptivism))
Laurence Horn
- in dead Earnest
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Return of Chrismahanukwanzakah
Benjamin Zimmer
- Swift-boated
Russ McClay
- Get Your ADS hotel reservation now!
Steve Kl.
- Schumed (U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer)
bapopik at AOL.COM
- dinosaur rock (1976)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Mystery of "Atlanta" (Atlantic or Atalanta?)
bapopik at AOL.COM
- hotel situation dealt with
Steve Kl.
- computer words
Mullins, Bill
- geomythology
Wells Darla L
- "Song and dance" from NYC? (1895)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Win in a walk" (1867)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- claymation
Bethany K. Dumas
- "Loco Foco" in 1833?
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Antedating of "Ethnography"
Fred Shapiro
- Why is "Missouri" pronounced with -z-
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Rushing/Working the Growler
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Pork" and "Pork Barrel" (1884)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Kool-Aid drinker = dupe of propagandists, publicists, etc.
Mullins, Bill
- "America's Finest City" or "Bunglers by the Bay" (San Diego)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Praise The Lord & Pass The Ammunition
Grant Barrett
- Bodcasting (Playboy + Body + Podcasting)
bapopik at AOL.COM
- "should have done"
Jonathan Lighter
- OAD WOTY; Gawker on "squick"
Benjamin Zimmer
- Query: Jim Cramer's "Booyah!"
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Eleventh Commandment of Politics (1966); Pol (1942)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- RE "whup" - "whoop"
Jonathan Lighter
- "Dykes on Bikes" win!
Jesse Sheidlower
- odd relative, and more
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "A closed mouth gathers no feet" (1957)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Keister" etymology (valise=turkey?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- =?UNKNOWN?Q?=A0_=A0_=A0?= Re: odd relative, and more
Paul Johnston
- Phraseomythology : "A Place for Everything...."
Jonathan Lighter
- "Kicks": shoes
Wilson Gray
- odd relative
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Dating "The king is dead; long live the king"
Joel S. Berson
- America--"love it or leave it"
Sam Clements
- "Frozen Rope" (1960)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Queen Apple" at New Orleans (1919)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Love It and Leave It (1937); Joe Doakes, Big Dick, Big Show, Big Top (1911)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Queen Apple Pie (1916); Lemon Apple Pie (1894)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "should have done"?
David Bowie
- White Christmas
Baker, John
- ADS Media Contacts
Grant Barrett
- F*** with = have sex with?
Benjamin Barrett
- limbo set (1983)
Benjamin Zimmer
- TV studio lingo (1953)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Webster's New World's WOTY
Baker, John
- "Jingle Bells, Batman Smells" (1989?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Jaypan fan
Benjamin Zimmer
- "Vanity rates" (Lawyer charges $1,000 an hour)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Whoopee/Whoopie Pie (1931); Marshmallow fluff (1917, 1919)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- FYI: "Yingle Bells" (1949) & "I Yust Go Nuts at Christmas"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- negation up too high
Arnold M. Zwicky
- the noun "forensic"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- double neg of the day?
Bethany K. Dumas
- Sinestrophere (left side of the "blogosphere")
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- labiovelar flap in the IPA--and the Times
Laurence Horn
- FYI: "Jingle Bells" history
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Santa Claus is Comin' to Town (1935?); Sleighing Songs (1804-1857)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Donder/Dunder & Blixem/Blixen
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Proquest links (was Re: Santa Claus is Comin' to Town...)
Benjamin Zimmer
- More "Dunder and Blixen" (1830)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- FRAYMOND (Friends + Everybody Loves Raymond)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Podunk
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedating of "Plate Tectonics"
Fred Shapiro
- Fwd: more astounding acronyms
Arnold M. Zwicky
- CAMP is 135 years old?
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Bosworth & Teller
Wilson Gray
- Antedating of "Coeducation"
Fred Shapiro
- "When I make a mistake, it's a beaut!" (1941)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Never murder a man who is committing suicide"--Woodrow Wilson?
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Follow the rats" (Senator Swanson, 1923)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Only XX more shopping days until Christmas" (Gordon Selfridge? 1899?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Dad's Struck Ile" (oil--PA dialect?) (1894)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Sen. Specter at it again !
Jonathan Lighter
- problemsome
Greg Pulliam
- oops-problemsome
Greg Pulliam
- Human mind creates new complementary antonym
Jonathan Lighter
- "No right to strike against the public safety" (Coolidge, 1919)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Prairie Schooner"
jim wolf
- Chicago Defender: "Back Door Stuff"
Benjamin Zimmer
- cool cats of the '40s
Benjamin Zimmer
- dog-latin plurals; "considerative."
Jonathan Lighter
- Condominis? (boutique condos)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- and still they come [books of phrase origins]
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "Tie that bull outside" (1908); "Tie one on" (1945)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Redux: "jump" /= copulate" in 1720s
Joel S. Berson
- "Sleep with fishes" (Godfather?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Tie one on" (1933)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Alligator Arms" (1985)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Sandwich Seminar" (1975)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "elite"
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- MLA panel on lexicography
Joanne M. Despres
- tops and bottoms
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Bareback Mountain
RonButters at AOL.COM
- 'come to be' = 'come to'
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Duffy's Tavern
sagehen
- Defeaticrats
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "What do we want?/Contract!/When do we want it?/Now!" (1964)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Thanksgiving on a Roll" (1994)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Better Umbrella" or "Big Tent"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- American Dialect Society Words of the Year Preview
Grant Barrett
- grass-hoppers
George Thompson
- "New York Nanosecond" (1989)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- BE slang
Wilson Gray
- Sam Hill (1832?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Sufganiyot/Sufganiot/Soufganioth/Soufganiot (Jelly Doughnuts)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Syntactic change?
Wilson Gray
- "Everywhere we go, people want to know..." (1967)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Everywhere we go, people want to know..." (1967)
James Landau
- "Everywhere we go, people want to know..." (1967)
Sam Clements
- "Everywhere we go, people want to know..." (1967)
Wilson Gray
- "Everywhere we go, people want to know..." (1967)
Paul Johnson
- "Everywhere we go, people want to know..." (1967)
Wilson Gray
- "Everywhere we go, people want to know..." (1967)
Benjamin Zimmer
- "Everywhere we go, people want to know..." (1967)
Paul Johnson
- "Everywhere we go, people want to know..." (1967)
Laurence Horn
- "Everywhere we go, people want to know..." (1967)
Mark A. Mandel
- "Everywhere we go, people want to know..." (1967)
Wilson Gray
- "Everywhere we go, people want to know..." (1967)
Paul Johnson
- "Everywhere we go, people want to know..." (1967)
Paul Johnson
- "Everywhere we go, people want to know..." (1967)
Laurence Horn
- "Everywhere we go, people want to know..." (1967)
Barbara Need
- "Everywhere we go, people want to know..." (1967)
Jonathan Lighter
- heterocentric
James Landau
- Reggaeton & Hurban
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- 2005's Politically Incorrect Words/Phrases
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "How odd that God should choose the Jews" (1924)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- moral equivocation
Benjamin Zimmer
- Michael Musto's "Cliches ready for retirement"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Re: 2005's Politicall y In correc t Words/Phrases
RonButters at AOL.COM
- gay cowboys
Arnold M. Zwicky
- WOTY preview
Benjamin Zimmer
- "Unborn" employees
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Grant Barrett & Catchphrases in N.Y. Times
Fred Shapiro
- "Intelligent Design"
Fred Shapiro
- More on "Intelligent Design"
Fred Shapiro
- "Gaia Hypothesis"
Fred Shapiro
- Early WOTY Nominations Posted
Grant Barrett
- More ADS'ers in NYT
Jesse Sheidlower
- Still Earlier "Intelligent Design"
Fred Shapiro
- Still Still Earlier "Intelligent Design"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Ontology"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Romanticism"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Renaissance"
Fred Shapiro
- Further Antedating of "Renaissance"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Patriotism"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Protestantism"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Catholicism"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Radicalism"
Fred Shapiro
- "You can always tell a Harvard man" (1906, from Yale!)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- shepherds and horses
Amy West
- Bill Parcells; "Outhouse or Castle"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Most Popular Dictionaries in Libraries
Fred Shapiro
- Outhouse and Penthouse and Castle (1969)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- PIGOPOLIST (2002?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- PA Civil War Digital Newspapers; Higdon (1863); Tangle Britches (1858)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Fastnachts (1900)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Hunkee Doree (1865) & Maison Doree?
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Luncheon at ADS Annual Meeting
AAllan at AOL.COM
- heads-up baseball/football (1919)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Honkatonk (1900, from wild geese?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- antedating of reign of terror (1795)
Barnhart
- Antedating of "Guillotine"
Fred Shapiro
- Suit Case (1888 at least); Suitcase Farming (1931, 1936); Sidewalk Farmer (1869)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Antedating of "McCarthyism"
Fred Shapiro
- conked/konked hair (1943)
Benjamin Zimmer
- eggcorn candidate: "undermind"
Laurence Horn
- down with action (1943)
Benjamin Zimmer
- gig, v. (1937)
Benjamin Zimmer
- skiffle, v. (1935)
Benjamin Zimmer
- rug-cutter, rug-cutting (1935)
Benjamin Zimmer
- The trade of "slathener" or "slatherner"?
Joel S. Berson
- Butternut (1861); "Walk a mile to kick a sheep" (1829)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "take the money and run"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Fwd: Re: eggcorn candidate: "undermind"--(Missouri School of Minds)
Laurence Horn
- Last Opportunity for Quotations
Fred Shapiro
- Regional accents 'bad for trade'
Orin Hargraves
- Oral history on "uptight" (1966)
Benjamin Zimmer
- "of" for "have" in "would have" constructions
Amy West
- weirdness
Barnhart
- Fwd: [FL-LIST] text messages
Barnhart
- gay cowboys (erratum)
sagehen
- Baptist Cake (1896); Olive Software
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Time to make the donuts" (1983)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- counting sheep [was "re: gay cowboys"]
Jonathan Lighter
- pink mist
Benjamin Zimmer
- Eggcorn
Wilson Gray
- "orthogonal" = (of non-mathematical factors, elements, etc.) independent of one another.
Jonathan Lighter
- "Bitch and moan"
Wilson Gray
- Overcorrection in BE
Wilson Gray
- day-and-date
Benjamin Zimmer
- a/the number of Ns
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Glory Road (1904? 1917? Civil War?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- meet cute
Arnold M. Zwicky
- King Kong Roll (sushi)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Origin of "King Kong" (Chinese? Courting frogs?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Ivy Colleges (1934)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
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