April 2006 Archives by thread
Starting: Sat Apr 1 00:11:16 UTC 2006
Ending: Sun Apr 30 22:08:06 UTC 2006
Messages: 513
- "Expects to"
Jim Parish
- abhorred by the notion
Mark A. Mandel
- army ranks [was: assorted comments]
Mark A. Mandel
- Re; Duke Ellington quotes
Fred Shapiro
- The Green Zone and The Pale of Settlement
David Bergdahl
- MWDEU
Arnold M. Zwicky
- 2 Wikipedia accounts of the pale
David Bergdahl
- Eugene Landy, RIP
Benjamin Zimmer
- iJacking
Chris F. Waigl
- Write for Vocabula
Robert Hartwell Fiske
- "Swoop and Squat" (1984)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Patrolio (NY Fire Patrol)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- dioceses pron. "diosees"
Geoffrey Nunberg
- "Say Cheese"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Law School"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Positivism"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Aesthetic"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Superman"
Fred Shapiro
- Further Antedating of "Superman"
Fred Shapiro
- "Snap poll"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- NYT article on gibberish Chinese tattoos
Mark A. Mandel
- San Diego Union-Tribune on Payack
Benjamin Zimmer
- More old GI slang
Wilson Gray
- basketball "length" (was Re: Vals Kilmer)
Douglas G. Wilson
- Odd dummy subject markers
RonButters at AOL.COM
- ADS-L Digest - 23 Mar 2006 to 24 Mar 2006 (#2006-84)
Laurence Horn
- "Pound sterlings"
sagehen
- The "-age" suffix
Jim Parish
- cupcake (it)
Benjamin Zimmer
- "Ifs and buts were candy and nuts" (1971)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Skunk at a/the garden party" (1928)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- ADS-L Digest - 2 Apr 2006 to 3 Apr 2006 (#2006-94)
Landau, James
- uptight redux (was Re: ADS-L Digest - 2 Apr 2006 to 3 Apr 2006 (#2006-94))
Benjamin Zimmer
- BZ on "transfer tube" in Slate
Jesse Sheidlower
- 10,051 hits & ADS in a short story
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Football's "shotgun"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- jilbab (1966)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Another early "whole nine yards" cite
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- A word for a word that's fun to say?
James Callan
- More on "How <Adj> is that!"
Benjamin Zimmer
- Counter Program
Benjamin Barrett
- Frozen Four (NCAA hockey "final four")
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- The Dirty Word in 43 Down
Baker, John
- "Politics is the only game for adults"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- quiche out
neil
- Sneezing with a mouthfull of paint
Mark A. Mandel
- Media Query: California Slang
Grant Barrett
- Mitzvah Mobile/Tank (1974, 1975)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Tipping is not a city in China" (1955?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "The time to repair a leaky roof is when the sun is shining" (FDR, not JFK)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "acronyisms"
Benjamin Zimmer
- Yankee "Stadium" myth?
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- anthropodermic bibliopegy
Joel S. Berson
- Acronyms and Akronites
Janet Marting
- word finding
Arnold M. Zwicky
- The "Red" Army
Wilson Gray
- Non-native-speaker mistake?
Wilson Gray
- Syntactic change?
Wilson Gray
- Yankee "Stadium" myth (1911 and others)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- fishapod
Benjamin Zimmer
- Peasant?
Landau, James
- Slime Warner; Daily Snooze; Page Fix or Page Sick
bapopik at AOL.COM
- Peasant? and Village?
Charles Doyle
- monumentous
Indigo Som
- Village?
Joel S. Berson
- idiom collision
Mark A. Mandel
- antedates for 'alien' to mean "intelligent extraterrestrial creatures"
Geoffrey Nunberg
- village
sagehen
- FYI: Gothamist discovers an American dialect website
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Allan Kaprow & "Happenings"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "A nation that cannot control its borders..."
bapopik at AOL.COM
- A big village . . .
Charles Doyle
- Hi!
Wilson Gray
- Hi!
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Hi!
Dennis R. Preston
- Hi!
Laurence Horn
- Hi!
Wilson Gray
- Hi!
Brenda Lester
- CAPTCHA
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- villages
David Bergdahl
- Free Thomson Gale Access
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "Big Apple" whores are gone!! (the continuing saga)
bapopik at AOL.COM
- Job opening
Charles Doyle
- Red-light districts without brothels?
James Callan
- Source for that "red light district" quote
James Callan
- plural people
George Thompson
- Re: † † † Job opening
RonButters at AOL.COM
- dichotomy / anomaly
Charles Doyle
- query for a student
Laurence Horn
- spinksterinkdum
Benjamin Zimmer
- spaz and Tiger Woods
FRITZ JUENGLING
- "Educate now or incarcerate later"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "You Want It When?"
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Twats
Charles Doyle
- Has it truly come to this?
Wilson Gray
- ADS-L Digest - 11 Apr 2006 to 12 Apr 2006 (#2006-103)
Amy West
- Slanty letters . . .
Charles Doyle
- Assorted comments
James Landau
- Coin a word, win $240 worth of music
James Callan
- Let us know when you change the topic?
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Kabuki & American Politics
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Black Tax (1963?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Pop Scan
bapopik at AOL.COM
- "If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it." (1920)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it." (1898, 1917)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Australian zoo relabels "fairy penguins" in an excess of PC
Mark A. Mandel
- Wonderful garden path headline
Alice Faber
- Joggling
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- BUCLD 31 Call For Papers - Reminder
BUCLD
- Tomkitten
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Syntactic change/
Wilson Gray
- lawn-loan
Greg Pulliam
- Soc(k)dol(l)ager
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- mix metaphors, and stir
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Abbrev.
Ashley Parker
- "Commercial" words (WAS: plural people)
Victoria Neufeldt
- Muffin tops (1992)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- ADS-L Digest - 18 Apr 2006 to 19 Apr 2006 (#2006-109)
Geoff Nathan
- Variant of "Don't count your chickens before they hatch" (1655)
Joel S. Berson
- shiting from the Bluddie-flux
Joel S. Berson
- Q: "fastick wood"?
Joel S. Berson
- Q: "marching carlislie"?
Joel S. Berson
- California Supreme Court on Offensive Speech
Baker, John
- "Baseball cards" in Queens is "tickets" in Brooklyn
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Freeze-out" poker
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Bengali
Joan H. Hall
- unfortuitously
Arnold M. Zwicky
- another morphological reworking
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "Opinions are like (), everybody has one" (1985)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Opinions/Excuses are like noses/asses..." (1928, 1973)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- t--w'at?
Laurence Horn
- "Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it" (1954) & Yahoo Answers
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Take a shower/have a shower
Sam Clements
- Hawkins/The Hawk (1936, in Chicago Defender)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Charity line (1923); Charity stripe (1926)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Purple Party?
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- twat (was: Re: spaz and Tiger Woods)
Mark A. Mandel
- Sternie (Howard Stern fan & Stern student)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Big Apple / Manzana WAS: "Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it" (1954) & Yahoo Answers
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Mitsubushi?
Arnold M. Zwicky
- source?
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Big Apple / Manzana
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Spelling Match (1842); Spelling Bee (1874)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Stud" redux
Wilson Gray
- Oreo cookie
Landau, James
- one more any...not, in the wild
Laurence Horn
- "retroact(ive)", v. tr.
Laurence Horn
- Campaign to add "concept" as a verb in M-W
James Callan
- Flush Out/Flesh Out
Baker, John
- abortion/miscarriage
Paul Johnson
- cerebral palsy dialect
Carolyn S Lieberg
- Holy cow! (1917)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Sweater vest / sweatervest"
Wilson Gray
- "infamous" = celebrated
Laurence Horn
- The (holy) cow: Bossie or Bessie?
Charles Doyle
- HoHo (Houston and Holland Tunnel)
bapopik at AOL.COM
- Dentifrice (was: "Commercial" words - was: plural people)
James Smith
- First use of "lavender linguistics"?
Jed Dews
- Fwd: OutIL Fwd: First use of "lavender linguistics"?
Arnold M. Zwicky
- AAVE query
Arnold M. Zwicky
- 3Gs (God, Guns, Gays)
bapopik at AOL.COM
- "transatlantic passage"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- 3Gs (God, Guns, Gays) (1994)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Yiddish/Yinglish
hpst at earthlink.net
- Latin nominatives and animal names (cf. Bossie)
Charles Doyle
- "I we/they can put a man on the moon..."
bapopik at AOL.COM
- Animal names . . .
Charles Doyle
- Spanthem (Spanish anthem)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- the bitchiness of dictionary makers
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "fact" = notion or idea that has not been established as a fact or is not a fact
Jonathan Lighter
- "good enough for Jesus" redux
Benjamin Zimmer
- national anthem in spanish
Dennis Baron
- jjjrlandau at earthlink.net has a new email address
James A. Landau
- Q: Ad nauseum
Wilson Gray
- Sick at/to/on/in
Roger Shuy
- spanish translation of starspangled banner -- new link
Dennis Baron
- working that idiom
Arnold M. Zwicky
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