June 2005 Archives by thread
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- Eggcorn? disassemble
Gordon, Matthew J.
- Re: Re: Eggcorn? disassemble
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Minding the store, formerly Bush eggcorn
James C Stalker
- another eggcorn?
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Re: Re: † † † Re: Origin of word "redskin"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "FauxHo"
James Callan
- Deep Throat (1974)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Billion here, billion there (1955, 1956)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Hooverville (Chicago, 1930)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Chicago hot dogs (1980); Gnudi
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- ticktock (1973)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Take 'em apart
Margaret Lee
- Yale Dictionary of Quotations
Fred Shapiro
- "-less" means "less than"? Or "lacking"?
David Bowie
- NOAD discount for scholars
Grant Barrett
- eggcorn
James Smith
- "poser" (before 1990?)
Jonathan Lighter
- Crossing Guard (1890, 1931)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Chicago hot dogs (1980);...
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Merriam Webster Unabridged
Paul Frank
- bubblegummer (1947, 1949, 1966)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Re: Merriam Webster Unabridged
RonButters at AOL.COM
- hard rock (1965), blues-rock (1966)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Poo-flag -- a nonce term or a Germanism?
RonButters at AOL.COM
- freak rock (1966, 1968)
Benjamin Zimmer
- get spaced (1966)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Never (Don't) bring (take) a knife to a gunfight (gun fight) (1989)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- A Fig Newton of My Imagination
Benjamin Barrett
- a "nonce" story--and another faux acronym?
Laurence Horn
- "Ax to Grind"
Fred Shapiro
- "Izz" (Mizzother) in 1982!; Kathleen Miller on "Izzle" (Sept. 2004)
Jonathon Green
- "Doom and Gloom"
Fred Shapiro
- "Going all city" (graffiti everywhere)
neil
- "Guys and Dolls"
neil
- Charlie
Jesse Sheidlower
- The best English dictionary
Paul Frank
- come on like gangbusters/Buster's gang
neil
- Doom and Gloom
Geoff Nathan
- Ratzilla: _Phoberomys pattersoni_
Jonathan Lighter
- hick-hop
Benjamin Zimmer
- Sloppy Joe-the sandwich (1944)-Cuba?
Sam Clements
- Re: Re: Ethics and Disclosures2
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Horse-Collar Tackle; Can't cover a baby with a blanket
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Current Usage of "Hello"
Fred Shapiro
- obesiology
Jonathan Lighter
- cupping/"Apple Computer of"
Bethany K. Dumas
- "He's got a Piece of Bread and Cheese in his Head" = "He's drunk"?
Joel S. Berson
- "Sock It to Me"
Fred Shapiro
- SRO (1890 Standing Room Only; 1941 Single Room Occupancy)
bapopik at AOL.COM
- Cartoonist (1869?)
bapopik at AOL.COM
- Off topic: NPR & Public Broadcasting
Wilson Gray
- "Plan your work, work your plan" (1900)
bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Be careful what you wish for" (1976)
bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Nixonomics," or, Safire fails to mention an ADS member's work yet again
bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Be careful what you set your heart upon"
bapopik at AOL.COM
- Perfect Manhattan (1967?); "Survive first, then do the long-term planning"
bapopik at AOL.COM
- Bouncer (1865)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Antedating of" fuzz" =policeman(1924)
Sam Clements
- "Apple Computer of"
Rachel Elaine Shuttlesworth
- Goethe Quote
Fred Shapiro
- Wall Dogs (the men who put up advertising on walls)
bapopik at AOL.COM
- Shuysters and Skinners (1845)
Benjamin Zimmer
- "Wait 'til next year!" (1938, at least, for Brooklyn Dodgers)
bapopik at AOL.COM
- Joystick
Michael Quinion
- mano on mano
neil
- Sir John Straw-jacket, or Strawberry?
Joel S. Berson
- OT: In defense of Bill Safire
Katy Miller
- undue/undo
neil
- Half-orphan
Benjamin Barrett
- Shuysters and Skinners (1845)--name "Shuyster"?
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Query from Wired: "more cowbell"
Geoffrey Nunberg
- Throwbacks
Benjamin Barrett
- "Don't quit your day job" (1985)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "That's life (in the big city / in the swamp) !
Jonathan Lighter
- "scuzzcrack"
Jonathan Lighter
- Pride Parade (does OED have "pride"?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Sometimes the accent has to go...
Paul Frank
- eggcorn: "running the gambit"
Jonathan Lighter
- "doggy-dog"
Jonathan Lighter
- New linguistics portal
Paul Frank
- "Nobody doesn't like Sarah Lee"
Wilson Gray
- As best as...
sagehen
- Crosspost fwd: those wayward negs
Laurence Horn
- query about an isogloss (pos. "anymore")
Laurence Horn
- What is this?
Peter A. McGraw
- query about an isogloss (pos. "anymore") & a lexical gap
Laurence Horn
- "as best as"
sagehen
- Accent in Doubt
Matthew Gordon
- "Nobody doesn't like Sara Lee"
Wilson Gray
- "I've served my time in Hell"
Fred Shapiro
- Online chat announcement
Wordsmith.org
- NY City Council and a rubber stamp (Henry Stern, 1965)
bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Your world"
Wilson Gray
- blind item (1937)
Benjamin Zimmer
- "Landlord of last resort" (George Meany, 1967)
bapopik at AOL.COM
- "fixed around" (UK vs US)
Benjamin Zimmer
- "Black Cars" (and yellow cabs)
bapopik at AOL.COM
- Origin of "Back to Square One"
Fred Shapiro
- to "recreate"
Jonathan Lighter
- Poorness
Baker, John
- dialect dictionary fiction
Arnold M. Zwicky
- ADS-L Digest - 7 Jun 2005 to 8 Jun 2005 (#2005-160)
Geoff Nathan
- Back to square one; Fwd: NY City Council and a rubber stamp (Henry Stern, 1965)
bapopik at AOL.COM
- Fwd: Scotsman.com Heritage & Culture: Origin of "the whole nine yards"
bapopik at AOL.COM
- dialect dictionary fiction (and spongers)
Laurence Horn
- a syntactic eggcorn?
Laurence Horn
- a whole "nuther"?
Janis Vizier Nihart
- "Indianizing" in football (1919)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Antedating of "Ditz"
Fred Shapiro
- Etymology of "Ska"
Fred Shapiro
- More on "Ska"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedatings of "Smart Casual"
Fred Shapiro
- OED/BBC Word Hunt: "bomber jacket"
Mullins, Bill
- "Ploughman's Lunch" Antedating & Explanation
Fred Shapiro
- Antedatings for BBC List
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "gay" (noun) (BBC Wordhunt)
Mullins, Bill
- Antedating of "nip and tuck" (BBC Wordhunt)
Mullins, Bill
- Antedating of "snazzy" (BBC Wordhunt)
Mullins, Bill
- blend "blown out of context"
Matthew Gordon
- FW: Antedatings for BBC List
Mullins, Bill
- Fudge factor
Mullins, Bill
- FW: Antedating of "gay" (noun) (BBC Wordhunt)
Mullins, Bill
- ahold
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Magnet schools (Philadelphia, 1965)
bapopik at AOL.COM
- Positive Anymore
Tom Kysilko
- Yellow Taxi (1909)
bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Benign Neglect" (1970)
bapopik at AOL.COM
- Charter Schools (1700s? 1998?) and misc.
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Encylopedia of New York State (2005); Re: Etymology of "Ska"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Is you is or is you ain't?" (1921)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Antedating of "Paleontology"
Fred Shapiro
- FYI: Encyclopedia of New York State (continued)
bapopik at AOL.COM
- Antedating of "Paranoid"
Fred Shapiro
- positive "anymore"
Laurence Horn
- Gothamland
bapopik at AOL.COM
- "color" (sports commentary)
Benjamin Zimmer
- "I guess I'll fade into Bolivian now." -- Mike Tyson
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- guy candy
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Schlimmbesserung
Arnold M. Zwicky
- spam from bigapple
Laurence Horn
- All's out's in free(Ollie Ollie oxen free) 1909
Sam Clements
- Lapskous (1947) and Lapskous Boulevard (1969)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- embarras d'eggcorn
Laurence Horn
- "Funademental Tenants"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Correction to inventor of "rag time" Harney-1896
Sam Clements
- Contextual Zoning (1984)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Chicken Riggies (From Utica, NY)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "pencil whip"
Mullins, Bill
- -en > -ing
Wilson Gray
- PISEBY and BANANA
bapopik at AOL.COM
- superhero
Mullins, Bill
- Corny
Wilson Gray
- cop a sunny
Mullins, Bill
- "diva": extended to men
Jonathan Lighter
- "Chicken Riggies" from Boca Raton, Florida? (1994)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Rigatoni (1894)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- computer "shot down"
Joel S. Berson
- TV talk
Wilson Gray
- aw-right
Laurence Horn
- More on "punk"
James Smith
- spell Bar-B-Q
Dennis R. Preston
- supercede, idiosyncracy
Arnold M. Zwicky
- supercede
Arnold M. Zwicky
- On the dangers of crying wol(o)f
Laurence Horn
- big ticket item
Mullins, Bill
- religious archives
Mullins, Bill
- Upside-Down Cake (1923)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Oops! (Re: More on "punk")
Laurence Horn
- pro-choice
Mullins, Bill
- More on "punk"/spunk
neil
- ufo, etc.
Mullins, Bill
- supercede etc.
Arnold M. Zwicky
- more of What is this?
Alan Baragona
- (Henry Stern's "rubber stamp") Fwd: There They Go Again
bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Dr. Midnight" cookies
bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Football is a collision sport" (1963)
bapopik at AOL.COM
- Afghanistanism (1955)
bapopik at AOL.COM
- memorable bumper sticker
Jonathan Lighter
- T-shirt slogan
neil
- chrononaut
Jonathan Lighter
- She was only...
Jonathan Lighter
- oink!
Jonathan Lighter
- Parabuilding & the Hearst Building "Lava Lamp"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- benny?
Rachel Shuttlesworth
- benny/HDAS
neil
- benny?/HDAS
neil
- bucket shop, sweat
Mullins, Bill
- dummy 'it'
Matthew Gordon
- "longtime partner"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- hack
Mullins, Bill
- Copperhead (1861)
bapopik at AOL.COM
- crummies = communists
Mullins, Bill
- California Roll (1981)
bapopik at AOL.COM
- Fwd: Message from Big Apple web site visitor
bapopik at AOL.COM
- Cash Cow (1972); Cal-Mex (1973); Swiss enchilada (1952); Stuffed Pizza (1976)
bapopik at AOL.COM
- unrehabable
Jonathan Lighter
- Demetaphorication (Achilles heel)
Alice Faber
- diner museum's list of diner slang
Mullins, Bill
- new mytho-ety-acronym
Jonathan Lighter
- "Fundamental Tenants"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- 'We' for 'I' in writing
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "Dummycraps"
Jonathan Lighter
- Re: Re: 'We' for 'I' in writing
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Homework question
Ed Keer
- Bennifer, the sequel
David Bowie
- Milkshake
Katy Miller
- ADS-L Digest - 15 Jun 2005 to 16 Jun 2005 (#2005-168)
Geoff Nathan
- "We" for "I"
sagehen
- "Redskin" flap in Indian Country Today
Benjamin Zimmer
- RINO reinterpreted
Benjamin Zimmer
- "opening the kimono" (1979?, 1984)
Benjamin Zimmer
- "opening the kimono" (1979?, 1984)
Benjamin Zimmer
- "opening the kimono" (1979?, 1984)
Mullins, Bill
- "opening the kimono" (1979?, 1984)
Benjamin Zimmer
- "opening the kimono" (1979?, 1984)
Wilson Gray
- "opening the kimono" (1979?, 1984)
Benjamin Zimmer
- "opening the kimono" (1979?, 1984)
Wilson Gray
- "opening the kimono" (1979?, 1984)
Jonathan Lighter
- "opening the kimono" (1979?, 1984)
Douglas Wilson
- "opening the kimono" (1979?, 1984)
Wilson Gray
- "opening the kimono" (1979?, 1984)
Benjamin Zimmer
- "opening the kimono" (1979?, 1984)
Victoria Neufeldt
- "opening the kimono" (1979?, 1984)
Beverly Flanigan
- "opening the kimono" (1979?, 1984)
Victoria Neufeldt
- "opening the kimono" (1979?, 1984)
Jonathan Lighter
- "opening the kimono" (1979?, 1984)
sagehen
- "opening the kimono" (1979?, 1984)
Wilson Gray
- "opening the kimono" (1979?, 1984)
Mark A. Mandel
- "opening the kimono" (1979?, 1984)
Wilson Gray
- "opening the kimono" (1979?, 1984)
Wilson Gray
- "opening the kimono" (1979?, 1984)
Jonathan Lighter
- "opening the kimono" (1979?, 1984)
Wilson Gray
- "opening the kimono" (1979?, 1984)
Jonathan Lighter
- "opening the kimono" (1979?, 1984)
Wilson Gray
- "opening the kimono" (1979?, 1984)
Jonathan Lighter
- "opening the kimono" (1979?, 1984)
Benjamin Zimmer
- "opening the kimono" (1979?, 1984)
Wilson Gray
- "opening the kimono" (1979?, 1984)
Baker, John
- "opening the kimono" (1979?, 1984)
Jonathan Lighter
- benny
Larry Scroggs
- jerk water , gozen
Mullins, Bill
- eggcorn?
sagehen
- "News is what makes you jump" and "Primarying"
bapopik at AOL.COM
- SummerStage (or, Summerstage)
bapopik at AOL.COM
- "I do it because I can; I can because I want to; I want to because you told me I couldn't"
bapopik at AOL.COM
- Univ. of Chicago responds, says taking my "Windy City" work without credit is OK
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Eggcorn: downright >> darn right
James Callan
- Rogue Wave (1921)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- ADS-L Digest - 16 Jun 2005 to 17 Jun 2005 (#2005-169)
Geoffrey S. Nathan
- "Shade-tree," adj.
Jonathan Lighter
- "bailing wire"
sagehen
- Slang for Ambulance (Bus, Bumbolance, Bambulance)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Soup Sandwich; When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "faith crime"
Jonathan Lighter
- "paper-pusher"
Jonathan Lighter
- "Run in circles, scream and shout" (1948); Mabel Earl McGinnis bio request
bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Uptown Art Stroll" (or, "arts stroll")
bapopik at AOL.COM
- The "soul patch"
Wilson Gray
- bogeying=boogying
Michael McKernan
- Safire quotes Word Spy; Manhattanization (San Francisco, 1969)
bapopik at AOL.COM
- Theology Today (1958-97)
Benjamin Zimmer
- televangelism (1958)
Benjamin Zimmer
- transconfessional (1966)
Benjamin Zimmer
- neo-modernism (Islamic 1958, Christian 1964)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Hare Krishna (1966)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Kimby (Keep It in My Back Yard); "Hell with the lid off" (1868)
bapopik at AOL.COM
- "The Sound of Surprise"
Fred Shapiro
- mytho-ety-acronym "news"
Jonathan Lighter
- "conceptual plans"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- recent francophobic slur
Jonathan Lighter
- temporary misreading
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Generalized Whore
Benjamin Barrett
- Expanding the Definiton of Genocide
Benjamin Barrett
- "an-" (verbal particle?)
Jonathan Lighter
- Laugh Whore; Stone Art
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "No pork on my fork"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Cinderella Man" origin?; More "Big Apple" specialists?
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Flavor saver" (soul patch?)l
Dan Goodman
- bubble gum
Mullins, Bill
- Word nerds
Ed Keer
- hot rod
Mullins, Bill
- speedometer
Mullins, Bill
- "Happy as a puppy with two peters"
Mullins, Bill
- Soul Patch
George Thompson
- lemon
Mullins, Bill
- spark plug
Mullins, Bill
- 'kimono' pronun & use (was: "opening the kimono" (1979?, 1984))
Victoria Neufeldt
- Coke and their by-products?
Rachel Shuttlesworth
- Wikipedia [Was: recent francophobic slur]
Baker, John
- Pig Out (1977)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "As If"
Fred Shapiro
- "gay vague"
Steve Kl.
- As if
janis nihart
- potato slur
Jonathan Lighter
- Re: "gay vague"
RonButters at AOL.COM
- slang list
Mark A. Mandel
- 'kimono' pronun & use
Beverly Flanigan
- countdown was: "As If"
Mullins, Bill
- The elementary-school joke (was Re: "opening the kimono" (1979?, 1984)
Wilson Gray
- galiant effort
Gordon, Matthew J.
- Hell, Heaven or Hoboken (1918); Cloud Around the Moon; No Pork on My Fork
bapopik at AOL.COM
- Pinquito (Pinkitas) beans (1975); "Charter School" coiner dies
bapopik at AOL.COM
- green-lighted
Bethany K. Dumas
- No subject
urdang
- "This may pinch a little"
sagehen
- Redeye; Hammerhead; Shot in the Dark (Coffee)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- pinch, prick, etc
Jonathan Lighter
- "Shev-uh-lay"
Jim Parish
- shahbaz
Matthew Gordon
- surimi
Beverly Flanigan
- Ward "Heeler" and "Where the Bronx meets Brooklyn"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Birth of a Nation" and "History written in lightning," again
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- Adjectives vs. nouns in headlines
Joel S. Berson
- Fleisch hammer
James C Stalker
- Fwd: Do children know what it means to 'talk posh'? as we say in gb english
Beverly Flanigan
- Black-and-Tan Brownie (Denver?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Language of Albany (NY capital)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- uptalk
Paul Frank
- Bonnie Taylor-Blake
Fred Shapiro
- Barry, here's one for you
Mark A. Mandel
- comet scenario (was: "No pork on my fork")
Mark A. Mandel
- "Birth of a Nation" and "History written with lightning," again
taylor-blake at nc.rr.com
- Countdown 1959 (?)
Ed Keer
- Fwd: Re: Do children know what it means to 'talk posh'? as we say in gb english
Beverly Flanigan
- "nothwithstood" (was Re: Language of Albany)
Laurence Horn
- "like" and "as if"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Curb your dog
Ed Keer
- Judge Judy
Wilson Gray
- making it across the pond?
Laurence Horn
- "Tom Brown" as an 1896 baseball term
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Vowel perception experiment
Dennis R. Preston
- "Birth of a Nation" and "History written with lightning"
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- Hell, Heaven or Hoboken (1918)... ; galiant effort; and others
Mark A. Mandel
- some figurative "evergreens"
Benjamin Zimmer
- spaz(z), n.
Benjamin Zimmer
- spaz(z), n.
Jonathan Lighter
- spaz(z), n.
Benjamin Zimmer
- spaz(z), n.
Paul Johnston
- spaz(z), n.
Douglas G. Wilson
- spaz(z), n.
Jonathan Lighter
- spaz(z), n.
Jonathan Lighter
- spaz(z), n.
Laurence Horn
- spaz(z), n.
Jonathan Lighter
- spaz(z), n.
Benjamin Zimmer
- spaz(z), n.
Mullins, Bill
- spaz(z), n.
Wilcox, Rose
- spaz(z), n.
Benjamin Zimmer
- spaz(z), n.
Your Name
- spaz(z), n.
Jonathan Lighter
- "Each one teach one" (1923)
bapopik at AOL.COM
- For the snowclone files: "What is this 'X'...?"
Benjamin Zimmer
- "little green men" / "take me to your leader" origin?
Jonathan Lighter
- Camels (was countdown was: "As If")
Mark A. Mandel
- unsubscribe
Lalhe Ghaderifard
- Fwd: Fulbright Grant Opportunities in TEFL and Applied Linguistics in Latin America and Africa
Grant Barrett
- bitchin (was: Re: spaz(z))
Jesse Sheidlower
- spade cat (was Re: "like" and "as if")
Laurence Horn
- Fwd: RE: Do children know what it means to 'talk posh'?
Beverly Flanigan
- frog strangler
Mark A. Mandel
- Cheney on "throes"
Benjamin Zimmer
- searchable New Yorker
Mullins, Bill
- searchable New Yorker--(request for "La Grande Pomme")
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- FW: Redeye; Hammerhead; Shot in the Dark (Coffee)
Mullins, Bill
- "a little sting"
Mark A. Mandel
- New Mexican Spanish, 1937, free ebook
Dan Goodman
- Change in Literacy Rate?
Benjamin Barrett
- Bubbles are for Bathtubs; Maggie Moo's Ice Cream & Treatery
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- new Sappho translation variant
Stephen Goranson
- "Realtor" (1915-1916) and Charles N. Chadbourn(e)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Browncoats
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "all the faster'
Jonathan Lighter
- Old pronuciation of "Los Angeles"
Jonathan Lighter
- street, attrib./adj.
Benjamin Zimmer
- Borg Sighting
Benjamin Barrett
- Pignic
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Flipping; FIRE (Finance, Insurance, Real Estate); Lindy Hop
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Jumper cables
James A. Landau
- Camels (wandering way OT... well, they do that if you let them)
Mark A. Mandel
- "Tragedy is when I cut my finger" (Mel Brooks); Broadway Brownies
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- paperhanger was jumper cables
James C Stalker
- Charles Reynders, Jr. fills in for William Safire
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- wush (was Re: "Sock It to Me")
Benjamin Zimmer
- GOP's "Big Tent" (1955, 1957)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- ADS-L Digest - 25 Jun 2005 to 26 Jun 2005 (#2005-178)
Geoffrey S. Nathan
- Wheedling
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Fwd: "all the faster" (in Latin too)
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Hot Box
Dave Wilton
- Ironically
Jonathan Lighter
- Got Hops?
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Rummy and the Last Throe
Laurence Horn
- wush
Mark A. Mandel
- "all the faster" (in Latin too)
Arnold M. Zwicky
- LGBT (1991, 1992); London's "Daily Express" & Big Apple Whores (6-25-05)
bapopik at AOL.COM
- Answers?
sagehen
- "dialogue," trans.
Jonathan Lighter
- "Sloppy Joe"
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "Sloppy Joe"--(2nd try)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Nanny State (1952)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- FYI: "Hot dog" wrong again (6-29-2005)
bapopik at AOL.COM
- Who'd a thunk it?
Wilson Gray
- History of the OED (forwarded)
Jesse Sheidlower
- lao lao, lao hai, lao khao
Benjamin Barrett
- Crash (v.) ("Wedding Crashers" & "Gate Crashers")(1920)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Scown"
Wilson Gray
- beezark (1919)
Benjamin Zimmer
- smackers = dollars (1918)
Benjamin Zimmer
- song-plugger (1907), song-plugging (1916)
Benjamin Zimmer
- "ply" = "to hawk"
Jonathan Lighter
- beezark (1919)--(corrected spelling)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "Here's looking at you," etc. (1881)
Benjamin Zimmer
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