September 2005 Archives by thread
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- how to escalate a problem
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Bert Kelly's I Invented Jazz
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- 1895 item with slang (Fwd)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- dojiee
Benjamin Zimmer
- FW: washingon post reporter w/ question
Dave Wilton
- "puss" in Icelandic ? Swedish ?
Douglas G. Wilson
- hash-house lingo (1889)
Benjamin Zimmer
- DC-area teen slang (1957)
Benjamin Zimmer
- lilypad strategy and sea-basing
Barnhart
- FW: [19cBB] Verbal Pyrotechnics of an Eastern Sporting Writer
James Smith
- A new take on oblivion?
Michael McKernan
- 'something with bling?'
Michael McKernan
- Tiger Woods
Wilson Gray
- What does "laconic" mean?
Wilson Gray
- Stripperaoke (2005)
James Callan
- "Whole Nine Yards": 1971 Citation
Fred Shapiro
- No Orleans
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Yes, we have no bananas" origin
Benjamin Zimmer
- inxodus
Dennis R. Preston
- Off Topic Question
Terry Irons
- "refugee" a bad word
Jonathan Lighter
- "Katrinacane"
Dan Goodman
- linguistic profiling
Dennis R. Preston
- "Up tight" redux
Harrold Wilson Gray
- effort, v.
Jonathan Lighter
- "to souter"
Benjamin Zimmer
- Duck (DUKW) Tours
bapopik at AOL.COM
- "If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out" (1977)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Europe is now a country
Barnhart
- unscripted speech
Paul Frank
- crush, dead squelch, etc. (1897?)
Benjamin Zimmer
- APS on ProQuest via SABR
Benjamin Zimmer
- wake up and smell the coffee (1943)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Word Cranks Pledge Semantic Aid ! (Was: refugees)
Jonathan Lighter
- "blogoblah"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Ultra-catastrophe
Dave Wilton
- Antedating of "Screwball"
Fred Shapiro
- Further Antedating of "Screwball"
Fred Shapiro
- "come to pass"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- New Orleans "insurgency"
Benjamin Zimmer
- "Don't get mad, get even" (Boston, 1967); "Reformer who gets results" (2000); Big Easy; Virgin paper
bapopik at AOL.COM
- "R" months (1599)
bapopik at AOL.COM
- New Orleans 'insurgency'
Janis Nihart
- 51st State
bapopik at AOL.COM
- New school .... new dialect
Mark A. Mandel
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Paul Frank
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Jonathan Lighter
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Alice Faber
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Jonathan Lighter
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Paul Frank
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Dave Wilton
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Benjamin Zimmer
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Jonathan Lighter
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Chris Waigl
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Chris Waigl
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Jonathan Lighter
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Margaret Lee
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
David Bowie
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
James Smith
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Hollis Barnhart
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
James Smith
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Barnhart
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Jonathan Lighter
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Laurence Horn
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Jonathan Lighter
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Jonathan Lighter
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Michael McKernan
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Benjamin Zimmer
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Chris Waigl
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Margaret Lee
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Margaret Lee
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Jonathan Lighter
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Dennis R. Preston
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Sally O. Donlon
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Barnhart
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Jonathan Lighter
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Jonathan Lighter
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Laurence Horn
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Victoria Neufeldt
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Michael McKernan
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
sagehen
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Benjamin Barrett
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Jonathan Lighter
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
James Smith
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Jonathan Lighter
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
sagehen
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Benjamin Zimmer
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
sagehen
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Benjamin Zimmer
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Harrold Wilson Gray
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Jonathan Lighter
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Jonathan Lighter
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Laurence Horn
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Dave Hause
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Geoffrey Nunberg
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Margaret Lee
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Mark A. Mandel
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Mark A. Mandel
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Hollis Barnhart
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Hollis Barnhart
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Benjamin Zimmer
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Michael Quinion
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Thomas Paikeday
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Benjamin Zimmer
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Jonathan Lighter
- refugee, IDP, evacuee
Mullins, Bill
- Feghoots site
Wilson Gray
- Corn rolls - eggcorn
Damien Hall
- row >> roll
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Terror Dome; Dallas Morning News (1885-present?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- refugee, evacuee
Joel S. Berson
- finding versus looting
Hollis Barnhart
- "pussy band"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "Someone like me, someone such as myself"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Big Easy; Dallas Morning News archives
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "metonymic significance"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Garbo/Gilbert = Gilbo Garbage
Benjamin Zimmer
- by VPing is NP
Arnold M. Zwicky
- card sharp (1874), card shark (1884)
Benjamin Zimmer
- "Bargaining Chip" Again
Fred Shapiro
- "Fat Lady Sings" in Dallas Morning News
Fred Shapiro
- Last Call:Submissions for ADS Newsletter
Grant Barrett
- bureaucracy should be thrown out of the water
Bruce Hunter
- Dialects in Film Revisited
Patti Kurtz
- Fwd: Last Call:Submissions for ADS Newsletter
Luanne von Schneidemesser
- NewsBank Deep Archives
Fred Shapiro
- "Liverpool Blackballer"?`
Joel S. Berson
- 1913 "jazz"; was: Terror Dome; Dallas Morning News (1885-present?)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Rain
Wilson Gray
- FYI: Searchable Oral Histories, Interviews, and more
Dr. Rachel E. Shuttlesworth
- Oddness from Dallas Morning News
Mullins, Bill
- Query: Exes and XXXX
Grant Barrett
- Academic hurricane relief
Salikoko S. Mufwene
- SPUD acroetymythology (1927)
Benjamin Zimmer
- klick
Mullins, Bill
- Texas leaguer (1892)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Nonsexual hooking up, institutional style
David Bowie
- lickety-split/-quick (was Re: unscripted speech)
Amy West
- Texas Hold 'Em; Texas Leaguer; Mexican Stand-Off; Texas Butter; Texas Toast
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Mexican Stand-Off;
Mullins, Bill
- Texas Hold 'Em;
Mullins, Bill
- slang-jang (1901)
Benjamin Zimmer
- dulce de leche (was Re: Terror Dome...)
Mark A. Mandel
- "Harlem of the West"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- these people/efugee, IDP, evacuee
Margaret Lee
- Antedating of "Imperialism"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Afro-American"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Middle Class"
Fred Shapiro
- Corrected Antedating of "Afro-American"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Person of Color"
Fred Shapiro
- Nonsexual lickety-split
David Bowie
- humor (was Re: SPUD acroetymythology (1927))
Arnold M. Zwicky
- sprigging (from Wordcraft)
Mark A. Mandel
- Those Swinging Swiss; or, a "Jass Club" in 1905
George Thompson
- Chicago Defender to go online
Mullins, Bill
- 1913 "jazz";...
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- prosodicons
sagehen
- More "jazz" from Oakland (1914-15)
Benjamin Zimmer
- an exchange about Re: humor
Arnold M. Zwicky
- TAN: a question on ProQuest
Amy West
- "Jazz" from Utah papers , 1918
James Smith
- "Jazz" from Utah papers , 1917
James Smith
- jasbo/jazbo (was Re: 1913 "jazz")
Benjamin Zimmer
- "Ultraviolence" Antedating?
Fred Shapiro
- mouldy fig
Page Stephens
- Cheney's "Katrina exercise"
Benjamin Zimmer
- Flood and Am. Name Society colleague Scott Cattledge
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Antedating of "Statistician"
Fred Shapiro
- Wordsmith.org online chat announcement: Roger W. Shuy - forensic linguistics
Wordsmith.org
- Kanye West on race and slang
Benjamin Zimmer
- "chemo brain"
Mullins, Bill
- "Gridlock squared"
bapopik at AOL.COM
- Latest OED Additions
Fred Shapiro
- Latest OED Additions/Peoria
Jonathan Lighter
- stack
Mullins, Bill
- UCLA class in fictional "Big Apple whores" this fall
bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Yous/ youse" early exx.
Jonathan Lighter
- "Only the little people pay taxes" (1989)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- A presidential eggcorn
Benjamin Zimmer
- Lousy-ana; Stepwell
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- blind quote (1969)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Antedating of "Biodiversity"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Global Warming"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Cold Fusion"
Fred Shapiro
- [Antedating] of "Cold Fusion"
Fred Shapiro
- 'take a new tact': possible double meaning
Michael McKernan
- "The public be damned!" (Sept. 11, 1882)
bapopik at AOL.COM
- Free back issues of American Speech
AAllan at AOL.COM
- Brooklynese in N.O.
Grant Barrett
- Irish breakfast
neil
- Further Antedating of "Cold Fusion"
Fred Shapiro
- Irish breakfast ("Cardiac special"="Heart attack on a plate")
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- a bit of talk, 1826
George Thompson
- Turkey trot & other dances
George Thompson
- Early "hot dog" cite
Mullins, Bill
- "Serve without fear or favor"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- (East) Texas "geechee" redux
Wilson Gray
- Bush Inaugural Malapropism
Fred Shapiro
- antedating of "eightysixed" as verb(1948)
Sam Clements
- Antedating of "Numismatics"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Panoramic"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Globalization"
Fred Shapiro
- bagel (verb) and yips
Mullins, Bill
- pep talk (1913)
Benjamin Zimmer
- pep rally/speech/squad
Benjamin Zimmer
- Dinged-up
Bill Lemay
- "electric" = electric power
Jonathan Lighter
- "pot-able"
Jonathan Lighter
- Yips
Grant Barrett
- Gliberalism
bapopik at AOL.COM
- New Yawk and N'Orleans
Geoff Nathan
- Further Antedating of "Global Warming"
Fred Shapiro
- Wreck havoc
Damien Hall
- "hamburg" = hamburger (was electric = "electric power")
Joanne M. Despres
- Judge Joe Brown, again
Wilson Gray
- "NOLA 2.0"
Chris Waigl
- Vocabula: It's No Verbatim
Robert Hartwell Fiske
- schnazzy (1937)
Benjamin Zimmer
- chorus-girl slang (1935)
Benjamin Zimmer
- "Big Apple whores" in perspective
Jonathan Lighter
- "everyone is fighting a hard battle"
Stephen Goranson
- daily digest
Pam Norton
- W's "A"
sagehen
- "It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it"
bapopik at AOL.COM
- "It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it"
Jonathan Lighter
- "It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it"
Jonathan Lighter
- "It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it"
Benjamin Zimmer
- "It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it"
Hollis Barnhart
- "It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it"
Hollis Barnhart
- "It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it"
Baker, John
- "It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it"
Jonathan Lighter
- "It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it"
Benjamin Zimmer
- "It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it"
Douglas G. Wilson
- "It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it"
Michael Quinion
- "It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it"
Mullins, Bill
- "It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it"
Jonathan Lighter
- "It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it"
Mark A. Mandel
- "knock up"
Joel S. Berson
- the word "poor" in America
Paul Frank
- NO, NYC, Boston....
Dan Goodman
- Antedating of "Chattering Classes"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Grand Unified Theory"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Grand Unified Theory" (Corrected Citation)
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Sexual Harassment"
Fred Shapiro
- "Only city with a foreign policy" (NYC pols to Israel, P.R.)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Correction: Wordsmith.org online chat announcement: Roger W. Shuy - forensic linguistics
Wordsmith.org
- Antedating of "String Theory"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Superstring"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Biochemistry"
Fred Shapiro
- Sock and Sausage Fests (street fairs)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- An off-color street name (proposed but not accepted)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Antedating of "Pharmacology"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Gynecology"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Gynecologist"
Fred Shapiro
- verb eponyms
Tom Kysilko
- Heroin pron. "hair-on"
Grant Barrett
- Walking a mile in moccasins
Mullins, Bill
- emo-anchor
Benjamin Zimmer
- "knock up" --usage
FRITZ JUENGLING
- NYC and New Orleans
Matthew Gordon
- K-Hole
Benjamin Zimmer
- Driving Tips for our 2006 Superbowl Guests
James A. Landau
- Buffalo Soldiers-whence the name
Sam Clements
- Why Do People in New Orleans Talk That Way?
Grant Barrett
- English colloquialism for " à pendre et à dépendre" ?
Joel S. Berson
- Hobbesian choice
Arnold M. Zwicky
- NYT article on cursing
Michael McKernan
- acrostic fame
Arnold M. Zwicky
- swiftboating
Michael McKernan
- ADS-L Digest - 18 Sep 2005 to 19 Sep 2005 (#2005-263)
Geoff Nathan
- [Crosspost offering first cite]
Laurence Horn
- juxtaposition (v.)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Origin of "say 'uncle'"? Or ...?
Douglas G. Wilson
- Early (1873) link between Hot Dog and Sausage
Mullins, Bill
- Obscenity on British TV
Jesse Sheidlower
- left right stuff
Bethany K. Dumas
- "Tagline Guru" survey has 'Big Apple" number one nickname
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- The nefarious "they"
Grant Barrett
- ADS-L Digest - 19 Sep 2005 to 20 Sep 2005 (#2005-264)
Geoff Nathan
- syntactic blend? extension of pattern?
Arnold M. Zwicky
- negative payload "he"
Jonathan Lighter
- "George Washington Slept Here"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Heisman (was Re: verb eponyms)
Benjamin Zimmer
- turn out right
carole crompton
- "String bikini" before 1974?
Barnhart
- case choice by rhyme
Arnold M. Zwicky
- jug handle turn (was Michigan left, or should've been)
Mark A. Mandel
- "stuck on stupid"
Mullins, Bill
- esquivalience
Mullins, Bill
- gang rape, group rape, sexualized bullying
Paul Frank
- Black Pussy
neil
- cubic gallons
Jonathan Lighter
- "teh" + adj./v.
Benjamin Zimmer
- the fit hit the Shan (was: Re: Tiger Woods)
Mark A. Mandel
- "Strew" rhymes w/"sew" redux
Wilson Gray
- polycarbonate ceiling
Dan Goodman
- shotgun shack, shotgun house, railroad flat, etc
Mullins, Bill
- shotgun shack, shotgun house, railroad flat, etc
Wilson Gray
- shotgun shack, shotgun house, railroad flat, etc
Jesse Sheidlower
- shotgun shack, shotgun house, railroad flat, etc
Grant Barrett
- shotgun shack, shotgun house, railroad flat, etc
Douglas G. Wilson
- shotgun shack, shotgun house, railroad flat, etc
Benjamin Zimmer
- shotgun shack, shotgun house, railroad flat, etc
Jonathan Lighter
- shotgun shack, shotgun house, railroad flat, etc
Dave Wilton
- shotgun shack, shotgun house, railroad flat, etc
Jesse Sheidlower
- shotgun shack, shotgun house, railroad flat, etc
sagehen
- shotgun shack, shotgun house, railroad flat, etc
Sam Clements
- shotgun shack, shotgun house, railroad flat, etc
Sally O. Donlon
- shotgun shack, shotgun house, railroad flat, etc
Sam Clements
- shotgun shack, shotgun house, railroad flat, etc
Joel S. Berson
- shotgun shack, shotgun house, railroad flat, etc
Mullins, Bill
- shotgun shack, shotgun house, railroad flat, etc
Barbara Need
- shotgun shack, shotgun house, railroad flat, etc
Laurence Horn
- shotgun shack, shotgun house, railroad flat, etc
Wilson Gray
- McPenntrification
Mark A. Mandel
- oh-dark-thirty, oh-dark-hundred
Mullins, Bill
- prop, prop bet, proposition bet
Benjamin Zimmer
- roustabout
Mullins, Bill
- "If it harelips X"
Benjamin Zimmer
- Fwd: Linguist and Historian William Edward Farrison
Salikoko S. Mufwene
- oops...p.s.
sagehen
- Fwd: cubic gallons
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Texodus
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- What is (e.g.) "danged --> hanged" called?
Joel S. Berson
- (Plank) Spanker (an acoustic musician)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- A Snowball's Chance
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "What? Me Worry?"
Fred Shapiro
- "Voodoo Stew"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- spelled = 'spelled out' (as in 'explained in detail')
Michael McKernan
- "flame-able" and "preponsity."
Jonathan Lighter
- sit-in (verb)
Mullins, Bill
- "New Car Smell"
bapopik at AOL.COM
- "So I said to myself, 'Self...'"
Benjamin Zimmer
- "Scuz" in the courtroom
Benjamin Zimmer
- Fwd: Re: Early (1873) link between Hot Dog and Sausage
Laurence Horn
- "Mother said there'd be days like this."
Jonathan Lighter
- Kool-Aid drinker = dupe of propagandists, publicists, etc.
Jonathan Lighter
- Kool-Aid drinker = dupe of propagandists, publicists, etc.
Mullins, Bill
- Kool-Aid drinker = dupe of propagandists, publicists, etc.
paulzjoh
- Kool-Aid drinker = dupe of propagandists, publicists, etc.
Lesa Dill
- Kool-Aid drinker = dupe of propagandists, publicists, etc.
Orion Montoya
- Kool-Aid drinker = dupe of propagandists, publicists, etc.
Benjamin Zimmer
- Kool-Aid drinker = dupe of propagandists, publicists, etc.
Mullins, Bill
- till the fat lady sings & until the last bell rings
RonButters at AOL.COM
- till the fat lady sings & until the last bell rings (Primo Carnera Story?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Primo CaRnera; Yankees Suck
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Red herring definitions
Joel S. Berson
- To unscrew the inscrutable
Jonathan Lighter
- cubic VVV
James Smith
- "Mountweazel" & "Nihilartikel" [Was: Red herring definitions]
Joel S. Berson
- Amicicide
Bill & Diana Sowers
- LINGUIST cross-post: Origin of Pot 'Cannabis'
Laurence Horn
- Thee and Thou
James A. Landau
- Terry Southern (was "The nefarious 'they'")
Jonathan Lighter
- peops = peeps
Jonathan Lighter
- Being pendantic
David Bowie
- "a whole nother"
sagehen
- Sooking?
Katy Miller
- NY Evening Graphic (still lost)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Stop the presses!"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "French burrito"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Two little-known NYC papers: slang troves?
Jonathan Lighter
- Early Citations for "Cool"
Fred Shapiro
- Thee and Thou/Friends
Barclay Walsh
- The joy of 18th C. stress
Jonathan Lighter
- "I have no hair on my tongue"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Leaf-peeping (1970?, 1973)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- USA Today on "sucks"
Benjamin Zimmer
- 'I have no hair on my tongue'
Gadi Niram
- La-La Land (Paris/L.A./dreamland)
Benjamin Zimmer
- El Lay
Benjamin Zimmer
- rad (1977, 1978)
Benjamin Zimmer
- gnarly = cool (1979)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Sucking eggs
Damien Hall
- Re: USA Today on "sucks "
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "Plonques" : new etymythonym?
Jonathan Lighter
- Family in mysteries
sagehen
- learnings
Wendalyn Nichols
- verse = compete vs. (1984)
Benjamin Zimmer
- oops, again
sagehen
- yuck one's yum
Orion Montoya
- man+(noun) combining form
Carl Burnett
- USA Today on 'sucks '
Gadi Niram
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