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- defining civil war
Dennis Baron
- "Travelin' shotgun"
Douglas G. Wilson
- -SS -> -ST?
Wilson Gray
- Re: [ADS-L] -SS -> -ST?
RonButters at AOL.COM
- whistling in the dark
Wilson Gray
- Hastings-haters
Wilson Gray
- Texas phrases (If ifs and buts were candy and nuts...merry Christmas)
Wilson Gray
- St. Louis
Wilson Gray
- Jesse Jackson wants to ban "N-word"
Margaret Lee
- Comfrontable
Michael Quinion
- Confrontable
Stephen Goranson
- Eggcorn: groan pull
Joanne M. Despres
- Fwd: dialect quiz
GLL
- Margaret Lee's paper; was: Re: Jesse Jackson wants to ban "N-word"
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Barack Hussein Obama
hpst at earthlink.net
- Margaret Lee's paper
Michael H Covarrubias
- "Turtle on a fencepost" (1979)
Stephen Goranson
- Texas Hamburger Origins; Slowdeatha (Odessa); Big Apple 80th
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Ristras (chile pod strings) (1931)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- online accent quiz
Tom Zurinskas
- Meaning of "accent"
Joel S. Berson
- [FL-LIST] dialect test
Wilson Gray
- Ensalada de Noche Buena (Christmas Eve Salad) (1912)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- BRITNEY COMMANDO!!
Jonathan Lighter
- WUXTRA ! WUXTRA!: "hike down," "man up"
Jonathan Lighter
- child language aquisition-- African American Vernacular English
Marianne C. Armenta
- "If i ain't broke, we can't fix it" (1964, 1973, 1974)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "man up"
Gordon, Matthew J.
- "politics" and "guys"
Jonathan Lighter
- "politics"
Joel S. Berson
- Antedatings in the Yale Book of Quotations -- 16: Funny Peculiar
Fred Shapiro
- Origin of the word "Gizmo" (was Origin of the word "Tantrum")
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Porky pigging
Charles Doyle
- FW: Re: online accent quiz
Scot LaFaive
- Saving the World (was online accent quiz)
RonButters at AOL.COM
- online accent quiz - NO MORE!
Bethany K. Dumas
- Re: [ADS-L] Barack Hussein Obama
RonButters at AOL.COM
- linguists are not prejeudiced, they are just biased
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Origin of the word "Gizmo" (also "dudgeon" footnote)
Douglas G. Wilson
- Overheard on the local FOX news:
Wilson Gray
- saving the world
Beverly Flanigan
- Texas Deep-Fried Turkey (and other Texas foods and phrases)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Precious
Charles Doyle
- Yee-ha(w) / "Rebel yell"
Jonathan Lighter
- bad guys
Jonathan Lighter
- pornament
Benjamin Zimmer
- Enemy
Joel S. Berson
- Zurinskas (Was: saving the world)
Jesse Sheidlower
- "buck" meaning dollar
Stephen Goranson
- "by doing that, it..."
Arnold M. Zwicky
- seems as/seeing as
Scot LaFaive
- [Fwd: Safire/NY Times]
Joan H. Hall
- Tom Zurinskas
Mark A. Mandel
- X-10-U-8
George Thompson
- Page's colorful phrase
Jonathan Lighter
- Re: [ADS-L] saving the world
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Antedating of "Radio"
Fred Shapiro
- Schnapps Idea; Texas Bean Dip (1949); Monkey Bread Origin?
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- kibosh, chybosh
Stephen Goranson
- bumper fucked
Kathryn Remlinger
- Zurinskas (one per week)
Tom Zurinskas
- early "grandpop" ex.
Jonathan Lighter
- "shot put(ted)" again
Laurence Horn
- on closing the list (WAS saving the world)
RonButters at AOL.COM
- NPR profile (was something else)
Matthew Gordon
- NPR (was Overheard on the local FOX news)
Matthew Gordon
- Rebel yell, "hooray" & "'ray!"
Jonathan Lighter
- Nora Raum's NPR essay
Michael Adams
- NPR
Joseph Salmons
- NPR
Arnold M. Zwicky
- NPR
Amy West
- changing one's accent from posh to a little less posh
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "Black Friday," again
Baker, John
- Hear a genuine rebel yell - in safety
Jonathan Lighter
- And hear another...
Jonathan Lighter
- Sam Houston quote needed; Anonymous internet "Texas Blessing"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Legman Autobiography [was Texas phrases (If ifs and buts...]
neil
- dhole (wild dog in India): antedatings (?) and etymology(?)
Stephen Goranson
- BRITNEY RADIOACTIVE!!
Jonathan Lighter
- Re: [ADS-L] NPR pro file (was something else)
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Rhymes with "roosters"
Seán Fitzpatrick
- TV Words
Mark Peters
- origin (?) of "hijack"
Stephen Goranson
- Sam Houston quote needed
Charles Doyle
- legal language
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Sam Houston quote needed--Texas and James Bond
William Salmon
- Are you "nuanced"?
Jonathan Lighter
- new post: commas gone wild
Dennis Baron
- "antedating" of zit
Stephen Goranson
- BRITNEY PANTYGATE! PHUN! E-SENSE ! HUMEAN BEINGS!
Jonathan Lighter
- correction on "Humean being."
Jonathan Lighter
- "Bowl of Blessedness" (Will Rogers? O. Henry?); "Soup of the Devil"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "furling" = unfurling; "heart-rending" = affecting; "aghast" = awestruck
Jonathan Lighter
- "the no-thing" = death or nothingness
Jonathan Lighter
- "furling" = unfurling
Joel S. Berson
- samoleon (simoleon) antedating (1889)
Stephen Goranson
- "French Fried Potatoes" myth (from Paris, Texas of course)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Do you do Taco Hell?" / "bus" as non-count n.
Jonathan Lighter
- Origin of the word "Gizmo" (speculative/woolgathering)
Douglas G. Wilson
- High-Jack, zinc and H.J. Snakefeeder
Stephen Goranson
- Pompey, nickname for Portsmouth
Stephen Goranson
- Pompey, nickname for Portsmouth
Alison Murie
- Pompey, nickname for Portsmouth
hpst at earthlink.net
- Pompey, nickname for Portsmouth
Joel S. Berson
- Pompey, nickname for Portsmouth
George Thompson
- Pompey, nickname for Portsmouth
Wilson Gray
- Pompey, nickname for Portsmouth
Joel S. Berson
- Pompey, nickname for Portsmouth
Lynne Murphy
- Pompey, nickname for Portsmouth
James A. Landau
- Pompey, nickname for Portsmouth
Margaret Lee
- Pompey, nickname for Portsmouth
Jonathan Lighter
- Pompey, nickname for Portsmouth
Joel S. Berson
- Pompey, nickname for Portsmouth
Wilson Gray
- Pompey, nickname for Portsmouth
Margaret Lee
- BRITNEY REBUTTAL!!
Jonathan Lighter
- Subject: Re: origin (?) of "hijack"
Mark A. Mandel
- A (new) Texas delicacy
Charles Doyle
- Shade tree mechanic (1942)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Merriam-Webster's WOTY: truthiness!
Benjamin Zimmer
- "lie" antedating
Jonathan Lighter
- clobber (verb), an early use (1944)
Stephen Goranson
- Antedating of "Clobber"
Fred Shapiro
- issues; the X from Hell
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Antedating of "Blitzkrieg"
Fred Shapiro
- "That dog won't hunt" (LBJ?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Clob (Kipling)
Douglas G. Wilson
- "rule of thumb" revisited
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "The Gambler" & Texas Hold 'Em
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- walk the talk; pushback; "baseline" = basis; surrender monkeys
Jonathan Lighter
- "situation": (Was) issues; the X from Hell
Jonathan Lighter
- "not rocket science/not brain surgery"
Sam Clements
- new web of language post: the word of the year
Dennis Baron
- cynical = skeptical
Jonathan Lighter
- blends of the day (if not WOTYs)
Laurence Horn
- Blue Santas & Brown Santas; OT: News 8 Austin's web sightings
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- variouis topics
Tom Zurinskas
- to stronghold
Jonathan Lighter
- ginger = "extremely careful"
Jonathan Lighter
- vikingr antedating
Stephen Goranson
- Sousveillance
Joel S. Berson
- OT: Twins in same classroom; was: Re: Pompey, nickname for Portsmouth
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Microsoft book search?
Stephen Goranson
- your most sought word or phrase origins?
Stephen Goranson
- X-zilla
Geoff Nathan
- Mispronunciation
Michael H Covarrubias
- Mispronunciation (annals)
Joel S. Berson
- Fwd: Rocket Science et al
GLL
- Catch someone up
neil
- From Judge Maria Lopez Show
Wilson Gray
- Mispronunciation?
RonButters at AOL.COM
- From "The People's Court"
Wilson Gray
- As the ...was Re: [ADS-L] Mispronunciation
hpst at earthlink.net
- situation (was: issues; the X from Hell)
Mark A. Mandel
- Earliest Reference to "Ghoti"
Fred Shapiro
- Ghoti -- oops!
Alison Murie
- Missing syllable in impracticable
Benjamin Barrett
- Fwd: Re: Ghoti -- oops!
Dennis R. Preston
- semantic microshift: "compassion"
Jonathan Lighter
- auto/Otto
Charles Doyle
- vowel raising/fronting
Michael H Covarrubias
- ghoti spoken by a stage-Frenchman?
Stephen Goranson
- Fwd: a request
Beverly Flanigan
- realitevangelist
Benjamin Zimmer
- new post: Blair and Rumsfeld end war on terror
Dennis Baron
- "Fo'ward"
Alison Murie
- I say "Lusitan-i-ay"
Jonathan Lighter
- Heard on the Judges:
Wilson Gray
- sannih claw; was Re: vowel raising/fronting
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Uranus
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "Sillage" Not in OED2
Joel S. Berson
- Origin of "flamer"?
Pam Norton
- "You know how I roll" = whatever
Jonathan Lighter
- Teen follies
Jonathan Lighter
- Twins in the same classroom
Amy West
- NYTimes.com: Black History Trove, a Life's Work, Seeks Museum
Salikoko Mufwene
- pH and e e cummings
James Smith
- culture
Jonathan Lighter
- a request
Arnold M. Zwicky
- babel babble
Michael H Covarrubias
- take-home = "(of information) to be remembered"
Jonathan Lighter
- see as past tense
Joan H. Hall
- ah suh-WAY-uh - name for this notation?
Tom Zurinskas
- eloquent (in brain physiology)
Jonathan Lighter
- FW: semantic microshift: "compassion"
Seán Fitzpatrick
- Nobody's Perfect Dept.
Jonathan Lighter
- "situation"
Jonathan Lighter
- poon-tang (was Re: [ADS-L] your most sought word or phrase origins?
Stephen Goranson
- Searchable British newspapers
Joel S. Berson
- all-purpose euphemism
Laurence Horn
- Ay ending
hpst at earthlink.net
- to "monkey-paw" (obs.)
Jonathan Lighter
- Nobody's Perfect Dept. - lects
Tom Zurinskas
- ah suh-WAY-uh
Tom Zurinskas
- gizmo, 1944 origin speculations
Stephen Goranson
- "the odd ____ out"
Charles Doyle
- Cambridge Information Group acquires ProQuest segment
Benjamin Zimmer
- "On behalf of"
Jim Parish
- "situation" /sales event
Margaret Lee
- "bus" as non-count n.
RonButters at AOL.COM
- blogging on teen follies
Arnold M. Zwicky
- cock and caulk
RonButters at AOL.COM
- teaching grammar stops violence
Dennis Baron
- Bobbing for designated drivers
Benjamin Barrett
- Basic anti-Prescriptivism Text
Geoff Nathan
- Monkey fist - Monkey Paw
GLL
- how would truespel.....
Alison Murie
- poon-tang
Stephen Goranson
- "Ballroom brawl"
Jim Parish
- Monkey's paw
hpst at earthlink.net
- a 1926 "Mister Mitchell" (was poon-tang)
Stephen Goranson
- Goodies from NY Tribune 1900-1910 database
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Dropping the aitch from "human"
Grant Barrett
- snooey, shambo, etc. (was Re: [ADS-L] your most sought word or phrase origins?
Douglas G. Wilson
- "pull vacuum"
Jonathan Lighter
- "previous" = previously
Jonathan Lighter
- "status quo," pred. adj. = as it is usually.
Jonathan Lighter
- scam from scheme/schema
Stephen Goranson
- Judas H. Priest
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Joe Friday cop jargon
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Yes, Bill Mullins: what you said
Alison Murie
- Heard on TV
Wilson Gray
- Chilimac (1902); Hopkins County Stew (1901)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Pre-emptively?
Joel S. Berson
- Northern Cities /aI/
Alice Faber
- suppose to
Beverly Flanigan
- Spears: Slang and Euphemism
Wilson Gray
- pre-emptively (customary)
Alison Murie
- Holiday wish from Mr. Goto
Dennis R. Preston
- ghoti, the W.J. Sidis version
Stephen Goranson
- Niagara Falls = "Niffles"
Jonathan Lighter
- one-off (was Re: Dropping the aitch from "human")
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Unreliable Internet Dates (please, no wisecracks)
Jonathan Lighter
- incongruity was Re: Judas H. Priest
Amy West
- Subject: Monkey's paw
Amy West
- Fwd: Tighty-whiteys and "didn't used to"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Loser
Charles Doyle
- ghoti
James A. Landau
- SHEL5: Save the dates
Bill Kretzschmar
- Pronouncing Wisconsin
Scot LaFaive
- spellchecker artefact? + G in Wisconsin
Alison Murie
- Back to Pre-emptively
Alison Murie
- In the great tradition of "disgression"
Laurence Horn
- Gringo (1839)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Fwd: [Fwd: wikipedia eggcorn page]
Arnold M. Zwicky
- various thoughts
Tom Zurinskas
- MLA Lex and Present-Day English
Barnhart
- Lindy Hop, Lindy Lou
Stephen Goranson
- not as juicy as "deflam(m)atory", but...
Laurence Horn
- Guyliner
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Donnica; diabesity; seafood diet
Jonathan Lighter
- "song," "anthem"= musical composition.
Jonathan Lighter
- not a spider web of evidence...
william salmon
- Rebel Yell / Yeeha(w)
Jonathan Lighter
- Gringo
Geoff Nathan
- "Hep" vs. "Hip"
Wilson Gray
- "We're not happy until you're not happy"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Trespassers shot. Survivors shot again" (1983)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- English "jitter" from German "zittern"?
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- 99.44% pure
Alison Murie
- Rebel Yell; Yeeha(w)
Jonathan Lighter
- Re: [ADS-L] 99.44% pure
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "Please don't shoot the organist; he's doing his best" (1882)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "It is requested that you will not shoot at the organist" (1879)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "They Also Serve Who Only Vote on 'Ain't'" in NYT
Laurence Horn
- The mistaken 1909 "jazz" attestation in OED; was: "Please don't shoot the organist; he's doing his best" (1882)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "Mistaken" date of first use for "movie"?
Joel S. Berson
- new Web of Language post: You are the person of the year
Dennis Baron
- Jalapeno Jelly (1971); No Safire correction on Texas Hold 'em
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Eating a peck of dirt . . .
Charles Doyle
- today's slip of the tongue
Arnold M. Zwicky
- NYT: Grant Barrett's '06 Glossary
Benjamin Zimmer
- "Popickian"; was: "Mistaken" date of first use for "movie"?
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Sloppy Joes (1941) and Sloppy Nachos
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Antedatings in the Yale Book of Quotations -- 17: Invisible Hand
Fred Shapiro
- InterNetLingo
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Antedatings in the Yale Book of Quotations -- 18: Light at the End of the Tunnel
Fred Shapiro
- Antedatings in the Yale Book of Quotations -- 19: Back to the Drawing Board
Fred Shapiro
- trou (1970)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Obviously phoney phish--and a definition of ''native speaker''
RonButters at AOL.COM
- 90% chance of rain
David Bowie
- OT: First inhabited island vanishes under the sea
Wilson Gray
- drinking Kool-aid
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- trou (1970)---minor correction
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Antedatings in the Yale Book of Quotations -- 20: Underdog
Fred Shapiro
- Antedatings in the Yale Book of Quotations -- 20: Underdog (Further Antedating)
Fred Shapiro
- Antedatings in the Yale Book of Quotations -- 21: Utilitarian
Fred Shapiro
- Antedatings in the Yale Book of Quotations -- 22: Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grease
Fred Shapiro
- Antedatings in the Yale Book of Quotations -- 23: Actual Malice
Fred Shapiro
- Antedatings in the Yale Book of Quotations -- 24: Chilling Effect
Fred Shapiro
- Antedatings in the Yale Book of Quotations -- 25: Read My Lips
Fred Shapiro
- Antedatings in the Yale Book of Quotations -- 26: Line in the Sand
Fred Shapiro
- More Re: Antedatings in the Yale Book of Quotations -- 26: Line in the Sand
Fred Shapiro
- 99 and 44/100% pure
Alison Murie
- Call for Articles
Robert Hartwell Fiske
- Antedatings in the Yale Book of Quotations -- 27: Misunderestimate
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "goner" (1836)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- Gerald Ford in The Yale Book of Quotations
Fred Shapiro
- British imports to the US
Lynne Murphy
- comic strip words revisited
Laurence Horn
- Double modal
Scot LaFaive
- Misunderestimate (1940, 1952, 1966); Wikipedia tsuris
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Regional accents
Joel S. Berson
- Blue Steel
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- the new black
Benjamin Zimmer
- the new black (also, "the new neutral")
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Antedatings in the Yale Book of Quotations -- 26: Line in the
James A. Landau
- Chad (paper chip[s]) 1930-1932, 1938-1940
Douglas G. Wilson
- "Here I sit, cheeks a-flexin'..." (potty poetry)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Alamo back door quote (Joe E. Lewis? Maury Maverick Jr.?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Multiple modals
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Just wondering
Wilson Gray
- (non-)decisional
Charles Doyle
- How Bush talks
Charles Doyle
- Page's colorful phrase (revival)
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Elements, the LMN proposal
Stephen Goranson
- Y'all in 1800s; Line in the Sand; Cheeks A-Flexin'
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Antedating of "Strip Tease"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Smoking Pistol"
Baker, John
- Antedating of "Sonar"
Fred Shapiro
- "Knock off its horns and wipe its ass" (Texan ordering steak "rare")
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Great Web Site, Barry!
Fred Shapiro
- OT: Proquest expires (SABR subscription), a day early
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- dot-calm
David Bowie
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