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- articles on euphemisms for sex
Jonathan Lighter
- diffuse/ defuse
FRITZ JUENGLING
- medicine show (1887)
Barnhart
- Teen Lingo site
Douglas G. Wilson
- Per Vehicles
Dave Wilton
- "novel" = book-length prose account
Jonathan Lighter
- Children's chant
Larry Scroggs
- "Why make one woman miserable?" (1929, 1937, 1943?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- n-heads
Wilson Gray
- Woman, Dog, and Hickory Tree (1909)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- pay-for-say, pay-to-say, pay-to-pander (was: Pay-to-Sway)
Benjamin Zimmer
- ProQuest?; Wolf Tickets (1969); more rhymes
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Most dangerous man in the world" quote
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Whisky dry, Heaven die (1875)
Page Stephens
- Children's chant/and yet another
paulzjoh
- Burma-Shave
George Thompson
- CFP: ADS at MMLA
Kathryn Remlinger
- "war daddy"
Jesse Sheidlower
- Somewhat off- topic
Barnhart
- Eeny Meeny Miny Moe
Peter A. McGraw
- Wilde Quotation
Fred Shapiro
- "Dittybop / Dittybopper"
Jonathan Lighter
- red states, blue states (redux)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Nothing to declare; Sin to steal a pin (1868); Red Garlic & Big Apple
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- peenee/peenie/peeny
neil
- Lockjaw: Locust Valley (1970), Long Island (1977), Larchmont (1986)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Numbers for words (was Teen Lingo Site)
Ron Silliman
- "withdrawl" = withdraw
Jonathan Lighter
- yogasm
Mullins, Bill
- Re: � � � "Mazda bulbs"
Mark A. Mandel
- disposable garbage bags
Mark A. Mandel
- Big Apple
sagehen
- Horizontal bubbles
Peter A. McGraw
- my mistake: garbage can (1906) not garbage pail
Barnhart
- Is Evel Knievel a Pimp?
Mullins, Bill
- "Grass Roots"
Fred Shapiro
- No Capital Letters in Canadian's Last Name
Benjamin Barrett
- California vowels
Beverly Flanigan
- Airborne as verb
Dave Wilton
- Cuckoo's nest; "Monkey, Monkey, bottle of beer" (1892); "Sin to steal a pin" (1840, 1857)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Have XXX Will Travel"
Mullins, Bill
- Nothing to declare; Rotten tangerine (1959); Taste & Try (1882); Bread & Butter (1886)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Burma Shave
James A. Landau
- Have trunk, will travel (1954); Groundhog Day (1859)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Antedating of "Planned Obsolescence"
Fred Shapiro
- Groundhog Day as cinenym
Laurence Horn
- "Future Ain't What It Used to Be"
Fred Shapiro
- Becky Mercuri's book American Sandwich
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- representing reduced auxiliaries orthographically
Arnold M. Zwicky
- BEI MIR BIST DU SCHON
James A. Landau
- gestures and signs
Barnhart
- "belongingness"
Jonathan Lighter
- "Have Car, Will Travel" (1929)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Scuzzcrack" & "Pimpmobile"
Jonathan Lighter
- more hash house lingo (1889-1899)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Antiphrasis among the Rough Riders
Benjamin Zimmer
- Future (1861); Fool me once (1896); Conpoy (dried scallops)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Fool me once" (1896, 1898 and Star Trek)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- The stink/The stank
Douglas Bigham
- indenting paragraphs
Douglas Bigham
- "Ownership Society"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Prediction is difficult, especially about the future"
Benjamin Zimmer
- Advertising Slogans
Jerry E Kane
- Tenure Quote
Patti J. Kurtz
- Nothing to declare; Rotten tangerine (1959)...
Mark A. Mandel
- Dialectic or dialectal?
sagehen
- 2 Nancy Astor Quotes
Fred Shapiro
- Fwd: question
Laurence Horn
- The Camel Walk*
Wilson Gray
- question
Wilson Gray
- New techie term: crossbar latch
Benjamin Zimmer
- dooce(d)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Buttered Side (1841, 1857); Gods send nuts (1860); Oxford Quotations
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Watching grass grow" (Damon Runyon?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Congressional eggcorns: off-times, off-repeated
Benjamin Zimmer
- Heel-clicking
James A. Landau
- "sammies"; was: Becky Mercuri's book American Sandwich
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- 18th c. "jam" in a new sense?
Dale Coye
- OT: machine translation, or how German Schlagsahne wound up as "impact suspect"
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "Hawk" (Chicago wind) and DOWN BEAT stories
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "soylent security"
Dan Goodman
- Sierra Sandwich & Balboa Sandwich
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Three boys are no boy at all" (1850)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Cats
Dave Hause
- Watching paint dry (1959); The Hawk Talks (1952)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Smart cookie (1932)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Politics Makes Strange Bed-Fellows"
Fred Shapiro
- Disraeli Quote on PQHN
Fred Shapiro
- "Politics Makes Strange Bed-Fellows"; No Bad Weather
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "One white foot" proverb (1829); "RIsing tide lifts all boats" (1957)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Flamboozled; Dipsy-doodle; Zoot Suit; 29th Century Gabriel (1942)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Gaper's Block (1964)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Thai Suki, Son in Law Tofu, Three Musketeers
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Judah Benjamin (was Disraeli Quote on PQHN)
Stephen Goranson
- composed salad adj
neil
- SEC (See Everything Crooked); O.T. Going to Pukk
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Fwd: on hypercorrection
Beverly Flanigan
- origins of the english language
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Hybrid drivers
Mark A. Mandel
- reet (was Re: Flamboozled, etc.)
Benjamin Zimmer
- 2006 ANS Call for Papers
Jesse Sheidlower
- on hypercorrection
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "Banging my spoon on the highchair"
Justin Hertog
- The Body in the Library
sagehen
- Ooops!
sagehen
- Dictionaries Online?
Jason Norris
- Hypercorrection
Damien Hall
- Staus (was gaper's block)
David Bergdahl
- CALL FOR PAPERS
Mary Morzinski
- primary, v.
Benjamin Zimmer
- Mail list
Billy Thomas
- Daschled
Benjamin Zimmer
- Query: dating of "the ugly American"
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- A 19th Century F-Word Use
Baker, John
- Alreet (1938); Frontier Folksay (1977)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Children's rhymes (1969); Old Maid Lemonade (1878)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- blawg -- new to me
Dan Goodman
- neck-tie carnival
Michael McKernan
- pernil
neil
- cerebrally challenged
neil
- neck-tie social (new sense?)
Barnhart
- ? for Tom Dalzell
neil
- necktie social (=hanging, 1888)
Barnhart
- Reuters article on Scamto, new South African slang
Mark A. Mandel
- Nathan Bierma on Northern Cities Shift
Arnold M. Zwicky
- 419
Baker, John
- Ollie Ollie Oxen Free (1949); More rhymes; Blck, White, Red All Over
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- necktie sociable (=dinner party, 1871)
Barnhart
- neck-tie sociable (=dinner party, 1870)
Barnhart
- neck-tie party (=dinner party, 1870)
Barnhart
- neck-tie party (=hanging, 1871)
Barnhart
- spatchcock
Jim DeWan
- Rise, Sally, Rise (1883); Old Mother Hawkins (1960)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Rise, Sally, Rise (1883)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Honeydripper (1946); Jonathan Green's "The Hawk" (1930s)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- cross-word puzzles
George Thompson
- Spamming the ADS - L Mailing List
Educational CyberPlayGround
- "Winter's name is Hawkins" in Langston Hughes
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- UNSUBSCRIBE
margaret ellen smith
- The Honey Dripper vs. The Honeydripper
Wilson Gray
- "Curiosity killed the cat" (1901)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- query: Slang Words in Standard English
Mark A. Mandel
- "chocked full" (for the eggcorn files)
Laurence Horn
- our plain-spoken ancestors
George Thompson
- Daily Candy Lexicon XI; Mommywood
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Stuff you sorries in a sack" (Seinfeld, 20 Nov. 1997)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- American Negro Folklore (1968)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- African American Folklore (2002)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- like sardines in a can
Barnhart
- huffing and puffing
neil
- huffing and puffing+
neil
- big picture
neil
- looney bin
neil
- spirituals
Jan Kammert
- Whisky dry/Heaven die (1874), Sardines/Herrings: Sweet Chariot; and more
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Antedating of "Social Science"
Fred Shapiro
- Further Antedating of "Social Science"
Fred Shapiro
- "Target" as a French word?
James C Stalker
- TizzleTalk.com
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "A nought;s a naught, and a figger's a figger" (1911)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Re-inventing the wheel" (1965)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "You can kill a man, but not an idea" (1949) and more
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- railroad slang: "on the cat hop" (right on time)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- children's chants--Rise SAlly
Maggie Thompson
- "Swing Low, (Sweet) Chariot" (1871, 1872); "Roll, Jordan, Roll" (1863)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Roll, Jordan, Roll" (1862)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- zydeco/zottico (1955)
Benjamin Zimmer
- "Spending money they don't have to impress people they don't like" (1928, Will Rogers?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "A nickel a shtickel" (1946)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Fwd: like sardines in a can
Barnhart
- [?] "A nickel a shtickel" (1946)
Barnhart
- Melioration
Wilson Gray
- nice coinage
Laurence Horn
- CNN (Craven News Network); OT: Daily Candy
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Hindoo Salad
J. Eulenberg
- the big picture
neil
- "Swing Low, (Sweet) Chariot" (1871, 1872); "Roll, Jordan, Roll" ( > 1863)
James A. Landau
- Re-Invent the Wheel (1964); NYC Subway Express/Local Anecdote (1913)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- The Worms Crawled Out, the Worms Crawled In
Baker, John
- Knife & Fork, Like My Peaches & Shake My Tree (1944) and more
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Knife & Fork, Like My Peaches & Shake My Tree (1944) and more
Wilson Gray
- Knife & Fork, Like My Peaches & Shake My Tree (1944) and more
Michael Quinion
- Knife & Fork, Like My Peaches & Shake My Tree (1944) and more
Jonathan Lighter
- Knife & Fork, Like My Peaches & Shake My Tree (1944) and more
Laurence Horn
- Knife & Fork, Like My Peaches & Shake My Tree (1944) and more
Peter A. McGraw
- Knife & Fork, Like My Peaches & Shake My Tree (1944) and more
Van Vertloo, Brian J. (UMR-Student)
- Knife & Fork, Like My Peaches & Shake My Tree (1944) and more
Jeff Prucher
- Knife & Fork, Like My Peaches & Shake My Tree (1944) and more
Mullins, Bill
- Knife & Fork, Like My Peaches & Shake My Tree (1944) and more
Wilson Gray
- Knife & Fork, Like My Peaches & Shake My Tree (1944) and more
Mullins, Bill
- Knife & Fork, Like My Peaches & Shake My Tree (1944) and more
neil
- Knife & Fork, Like My Peaches & Shake My Tree (1944) and more
Wilson Gray
- "penny" pre-1831 for 'U.S. cent'?
Jesse Sheidlower
- Oops!
Peter A. McGraw
- fake & filch
George Thompson
- "among" = between
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedating of "Continental"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Thermal"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Avalanche"
Fred Shapiro
- "courtesy" as preposition
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedating of "Inorganic"
Fred Shapiro
- Change the name of Arkansas? (1910); See a pin... (1870)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Shaggy Story (1929); Combed hair with wagon wheel (1931); Inquire within/Gin (1922)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Antedating of "Entomology"
Fred Shapiro
- "Change the Name of Arkansas"
Jonathan Lighter
- FYI: Proquest databases update
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Yumptious (1957); Nat Ferber's "SIdewalks of New York" (1927)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- fee for consulting
Beth Simon
- my link to the archives has changed..
Sam Clements
- "Love muscle"
Wilson Gray
- "Plant you now and dig you later" (1935)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "I'm the boss, applesauce. Understand, rubber band?" (Children's rhymes)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Pinot as WTY
Dennis R. Preston
- Email Exposure and Security
Educational CyberPlayGround
- Another look at "honky"
sagehen
- Cowboynomics; World's Second Home
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- A Knife and a Fork and a Bottle and a Cork... (1948); "Never been to Yale"
Jonathan Lighter
- more peaches
Laurence Horn
- Antedating of "Menstruation"
Fred Shapiro
- Further Antedating of "Menstruation"
Fred Shapiro
- CFP: South Central American Dialect Society
daisy dancer
- Antedating of "Menstruate"
Fred Shapiro
- Further Antedating of "Menstruate"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Surgical"
Fred Shapiro
- "Pompatus"
Wilson Gray
- As Buddy Holly once sang:
Wilson Gray
- "Midnight in Venice" and "Sublime Indiscretion" cakes
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "This is the day we give babies away" (1890s)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Crazy...but it just might work" (1971)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- geoduck
Jonathan Lighter
- ADS newsletter
Thomas Paikeday
- CFP: ADS Annual Meeting, Albuquerque 2006
AAllan at AOL.COM
- Pay--to-Pray; AM-NEW YORK front cover
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Antedating of "Phallic"
Fred Shapiro
- Further Antedating of "Phallic"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Amnesia"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Tourist"
Fred Shapiro
- Dialects in film
Patti J. Kurtz
- Antedating of "Nostalgia"
Fred Shapiro
- Another Antedating of "Nostalgia"
Fred Shapiro
- "Call me a cab/taxi" (1901)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- More from "Teen Lingo"
Wilson Gray
- "Make me a malted" (1956); "Call me an ambulance" (1986)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Chesapeake Bay dialects dying: Washington Post.
Dan Goodman
- "history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes"
Mullins, Bill
- Chesapeake Bay dialects dying: Washington Post
Alan Baragona
- "Coca-Cola"/"Coke" (in Tanzania) = something easy, a given, no problem
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "Y'all" redux
Wilson Gray
- "infamous" = famous
Jonathan Lighter
- [Bapopik at aol.com: Hawkins]
Jesse Sheidlower
- Antedating of "Nymphomania"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Sexuality"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Geologist"
Fred Shapiro
- More "Hawkins" (umpteenth ADS-L try)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- More coinages from Google News
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Antedating of "Professional"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Working Class"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Colloquial"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Bibliography"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Publicity"
Fred Shapiro
- Further Antedating of "Publicity"
Fred Shapiro
- the cleverness of headline writers
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Vocabula in Print
Robert Hartwell Fiske
- party hearty (1955), party hardy (1974)
Benjamin Zimmer
- "infamous" = famous; "assassinate" = murder; "feasible" = plausible; "ancestor" = descendant.
Jonathan Lighter
- Y'all
Prof. R. Sussex
- "assassinate" = murder
Jonathan Lighter
- A new phenomenon?
Wilson Gray
- Fox "kits"?
Wilson Gray
- "slackard" = slacker
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedating of "Quantum Mechanics"
Fred Shapiro
- "Love Mussel"
neil
- 'walk of shame' origin?
neil
- to "effort" = to make an effort toward resolving one's differences with
Jonathan Lighter
- to "effort" = to make an effort toward resolving one's differenc
Barnhart
- "Y'all redux"
sagehen
- oops! Re: "Y'all redux"
sagehen
- Double-barreled "literal"
Peter A. McGraw
- Singular "yez"?
Beverly Flanigan
- dialects in movies
Beverly Flanigan
- illegitament
Jonathan Lighter
- wile away
Bethany K. Dumas
- Spaghetti Western (1967), Chili Western (1995)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Call for papers: a tidbit
ernest vivo
- So's your old man, Press the flesh, Give me five, etc. (1925)
Benjamin Zimmer
- nurdiness (1969)
Benjamin Zimmer
- grind (1874)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Give me five, etc. (1925)
Margaret Lee
- Antedating of "Yalie"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Preppie"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Jock"
Fred Shapiro
- Dialects in the movies
Majors, Tivoli
- y'all redux
Majors, Tivoli
- Singular y'all?
Alice Faber
- hot diggedy dog (1921), peanuts and buggy ride (1922)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Re: Call for papers: a tidbit
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "in the mist of" (possible new eggcorn)
Laurence Horn
- guff (1880)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Dominican "vitamins" & "hot diggety dog" (1906, again)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- hot diggedy dog (1921)...[note: 1913 attestation]
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- mind-blow, n. (1968)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Ivy League (1920?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- weenie, wonkie (1955), wonk (1956)
Benjamin Zimmer
- weenie, wonkie (1955), wonk (1956)
Fred Shapiro
- weenie, wonkie (1955), wonk (1956)
Benjamin Zimmer
- weenie, wonkie (1955), wonk (1956)
Fred Shapiro
- weenie, wonkie (1955), wonk (1956)
Dennis R. Preston
- weenie, wonkie (1955), wonk (1956)
Jonathan Lighter
- weenie, wonkie (1955), wonk (1956)
Dennis R. Preston
- weenie, wonkie (1955), wonk (1956)
Laurence Horn
- weenie, wonkie (1955), wonk (1956)
Dennis R. Preston
- weenie, wonkie (1955), wonk (1956)
Jonathan Lighter
- weenie, wonkie (1955), wonk (1956)
Jonathan Lighter
- Barry's spotting of 1906 "Hot diggetty!" and "Hot dog!"
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- hollo / hullo/ hello / hi / hey as simple greetings
Jonathan Lighter
- Another eggcorn: "lip-sing"
Douglas G. Wilson
- Re: Re: Call for papers: a tidbit
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Knife and a Fork and a Bottle and a Cork
howard schrager
- Tech (1882), Techie (1963)
Benjamin Zimmer
- rushee (1903)
Benjamin Zimmer
- "Gwine"
Wilson Gray
- One more movie question
Patti J. Kurtz
- Guff
Jonathon Green
- Guff
Jesse Sheidlower
- Guff
Benjamin Zimmer
- Wall of Shame
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Dialects in films
Kathryn Remlinger
- Larimar (stone from the Dominican Republic)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- tool
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Query about slang "scootch"-- Why -ch?
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Bourbon,
James C Stalker
- rawk (1987)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Weird pronunciations
Wilson Gray
- new coinage?
sagehen
- Unuses
Ed Keer
- Brinner and Dreakfast
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Church key anecdote
Peter A. McGraw
- Antedating of "Abortionist"
George Thompson
- Antedating of "Sexology"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Feudalism"
Fred Shapiro
- FW: "scootch" in DARE
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- A change
Wilson Gray
- dog, dag, daeg, dawg, doe-ug, etc.
RonButters at AOL.COM
- church key 'beer-can opener' is obsolete
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Re: Re: church key 'beer-can opener' is obsolete
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Re: Re: Church key anecdote
RonButters at AOL.COM
- purile
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Church key in NW
Wendalyn Nichols
- obsolescence; was Re: Re: church key 'beer-can opener' is obsolete
Barbara Need
- obsolescence vs. obsoleteness
RonButters at AOL.COM
- GOLF (Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- time machine=ATM
Greg Pulliam
- obsolescene [was church key]
James C Stalker
- Safire: 'It's A Wrap'
Benjamin Zimmer
- Church key anecdote/screw tops
paulzjoh
- squnchy - neologism or misprint
neil
- Michigan Troll
Bethany K. Dumas
- "Seize the Time"
Fred Shapiro
- Mama Juana & Underground Hotel
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Teen lingo site posted by Patti Kurz
Wilson Gray
- newspaper article on "y'all"
Paul Frank
- "You're not the boss of me" (1953)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Wisconsin-speak
Paul Frank
- Irish Lingo & Million Dollar Baby
Educational CyberPlayGround
- a bunch of the boys ?was/?were...
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Bachata (Dominican dance); Vitamin R (rum)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Spim - New Form of Spam
Jerry E Kane
- No subject
Paul Frank
- gays and straights
Paul Frank
- ice box (was: obsolescene [was church key])
Peter A. McGraw
- [was church key]/ice box
paulzjoh
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