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- "tinfoil hat brigade"
 
sagehen
 - Antedating of "Pesticide"
 
Fred Shapiro
 - eggcorn versus malaprop
 
James Landau
 - brokeback/SOTU
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - "dude" in the Guardian
 
Geoffrey Nunberg
 - ADS-L Digest - 30 Jan 2006 to 31 Jan 2006 (#2006-32)
 
Geoff Nathan
 - labor rats
 
George Thompson
 - ADS in "Free Will Astrology"
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - More on "truthiness" and "faction"
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - Antedating of "Federalism"
 
Fred Shapiro
 - Checklist of Electronic Resources (Version 3)
 
Fred Shapiro
 - Feb. 6 Departmental meeting
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - Bibliographical query
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - Apologies
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - Patsy Bolivar (1879, 1882)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - chickens come home to roost
 
Barnhart
 - "hillbilly from Louisville"
 
Thomas Paikeday
 - "Absent of" ~= "without"
 
Mark A. Mandel
 - Hamastan (2003)
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - Query: "Middle Manager"
 
Loren Fox
 - expressions of piety
 
George Thompson
 - "Flustrated"
 
Wilson Gray
 - "A Factoid is NOT a Fact"
 
Wilson Gray
 - Dominican Cake (Bizcocho dominicano)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - FW: slang "scotsh" = shirt, 1879;
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - gist, v. (1949)
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - deep-seeded desire
 
RonButters at AOL.COM
 - 'Put your best face forward' / 'I could care less'
 
Damien Hall
 - "nuptuals" for nuptials
 
sagehen
 - "Scritch"
 
Jim Parish
 - ADS in the horoscopes
 
Steve Kl.
 - Derogatory or Pet Name?
 
Daina Ramey Berry
 - Cluster-headache jargon
 
Wilson Gray
 - "Vacate,' v = "vacation," v?
 
Wilson Gray
- "Vacate,' v = "vacation," v?
 
Laurence Horn
 - "Vacate,' v = "vacation," v?
 
Wilson Gray
 - "Vacate,' v = "vacation," v?
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "Vacate,' v = "vacation," v?
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - "Vacate,' v = "vacation," v?
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - "Vacate,' v = "vacation," v?
 
Wilson Gray
 - "Vacate,' v = "vacation," v?
 
Laurence Horn
 
 - PDF as a Verb
 
Baker, John
 - "Begs the question"
 
sagehen
 - Antedating of "Middle Manager"
 
Fred Shapiro
 - vacate and other terms
 
Barbara H Hudson
 - vacate and other terms -and ambiguity
 
Bethany K. Dumas
 - Fashion Week: "The F-Word" (It's Fabulous!)
 
bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Antedating of "tea-sot"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "Crabs in a barrel" (1923, Jamaica/Black English)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - "Gay" in Sunday NY Times (City section, FYI column)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Another questionable claim in Sunday NY Times ("On Language" column)
 
Laurence Horn
 - More Global Language Monitor silliness
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - Truthiness reaches the Australian capital
 
Pauline Bryant
 - "Emblem poem" and OED2 -- definition and dates?
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Bleachorexia (Bleachorexic)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Dunzo
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Q:  "portagraion" -- a "mathematical instrument" circa 1745?
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Wagashi (Japanese sweets)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Use of "You's" in AAVE
 
Damien Hall
 - Truthiness in Newsweek
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - Suicide by Cop
 
Baker, John
 - pied- à-high-rise
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Fwd: Help for a meaning
 
Joan Houston Hall
 - here's "indignity" again
 
sagehen
 - more "brokeback"
 
Indigo Som
 - Circle with a slash through it=?
 
Sam Clements
 - ADS-L Digest - 5 Feb 2006 to 6 Feb 2006 (#2006-38)
 
Landau, James
 - foment
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - stillwoman/stillroom
 
Joan C Biella
 - "It's alive!"
 
Wilson Gray
 - Terms for decorative front-tooth covers
 
Wilson Gray
 - "Destination Wedding" (1993)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - sleuth = slew
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - STOP
 
Morgan Dave (LTC)
 - spike
 
Mark Spahn
 - "nuptuals" for nuptials: esculate etc.
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - ADS Reference on Podcast
 
Grant Barrett
 - Take me now, Lord!
 
Wilson Gray
 - Eggcorn?
 
Wilson Gray
 - It's nice to know that we're not alone.
 
Wilson Gray
 - "Steak Diane" in Wednesday's NY Times" Big Apple Whore Hoax & Wikipedia
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - This is Artest, if this had not been Artest you would have been instructed.....
 
Rex W. Stocklin
 - "real time" for "real life"
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - Antedating of Inc. and F.O.B.
 
Baker, John
 - Voltaire's quote? ("I disagree with what you say, but I defend right to say it")
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Truthiness in the wild
 
David Bowie
 - Noam Chomsky - was Re: Voltaire's quote? ("I disagree with what you say,              but I defend right to say it")
 
Tom Vincent
 - Fwd: Atlantic Monthly: "Word Fugitives"
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - Atlantic Monthly: "Word Fugitives"
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - Gelato Affogato ("Drowned" Ice Cream)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - "Heavens to Betsy!" (1857)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - A-B, v.
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - Not in the OED
 
Wilson Gray
 - Not quite, but quite close
 
Wilson Gray
 - Toonacy (Cartoon Lunacy)
 
bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Call for Papers
 
Joanne M. Despres
 - tar > paint > taint ?
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - I need your help!
 
chris shaw
 - I need your help! (query about names of typeface parts)
 
Grant Barrett
 - "Hyperrhoticism"
 
Wilson Gray
 - "Windy City" in Discover magazine, March 2006
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 -       Re: †  † † Call for Papers
 
RonButters at AOL.COM
 -       Re: Gelato Affogato   ("Drowned" Ice Cream)
 
RonButters at AOL.COM
 - WPA Slave Narratives and spelling
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Acronym
 
Alan Baragona
 - "portagraion" -- a "mathematical instrument" circa 1745?
 
James Landau
 - "gwine"'
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "cleaned his clock" Antedating to 1946
 
Sam Clements
 - "balls to the wall"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "Whaddya, whaddya" (1992)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - "gwine"
 
James Landau
 - Antedating of "Epistemology"
 
Fred Shapiro
 - BelDel (Below Delancey); Webster's Dictionary is 200
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - "Too Rich or Too Thin"
 
Fred Shapiro
 - Antedating of "Pastrami"
 
Fred Shapiro
 - ADS-L Digest - 10 Feb 2006 to 11 Feb 2006 (#2006-43)
 
James Landau
 - Tarzan
 
James Landau
 - On Language on Heck
 
Baker, John
 - Olympic-y
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - Street-wise (1959) and Street Smart (1960)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - "Puck" (hockey, 1886)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - crown hats
 
Jerry E Kane
 - Another wild "brokeback"
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - Stand up
 
Landau, James
 - Non-Battlestar Use of "Frackin'"
 
Dave Wilton
 - compulsorily required???????
 
Barnhart
 - "Fair Use" Not in OED
 
Fred Shapiro
 - "take and VP"
 
Wilson Gray
 - Antedating of "knock me a kiss"
 
Wilson Gray
 - Call for Papers: ADS at MMLA
 
Kathryn Remlinger
 - "Windy City" response from Newberry Library
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - cash cow
 
FRITZ JUENGLING
 - "Threw the house out the window" (Spanish idiom) (1930, 1933)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - idiom blend du jour
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - Where they drove...
 
Joel Shaver
 - "Brains on the Ground"
 
Tom Vincent
 - "Write what you hear"
 
Wilson Gray
 - learn something new every day
 
Laurence Horn
 - EVERY ONCE AND AWHILE
 
RonButters at AOL.COM
 - EVERY ONCE AND AWHILE source
 
RonButters at AOL.COM
 - Phobe
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "Take Our Word For It"
 
Tom Vincent
 - another (long) naughty posting from GAT
 
George Thompson
 - Cajun Napalm
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 -       Re: "Fair Use" Not                 in OED
 
RonButters at AOL.COM
 - Check your naughty spam wastebasket
 
George Thompson
 - Query: "birds and bees"
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - as in = "in other words"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Query: "birds and bees" (OT)
 
Baker, John
 - "Piled Higher and Deeper"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "Just because you're paranoid..." (1974)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - brokebackly
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - Metrospiritual (on AOL Health today)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Gonzaga's "Brokeback" chant
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - Birds and bees
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - ADS-L Digest - 13 Feb 2006 to 14 Feb 2006 (#2006-46)
 
Landau, James
 - on behalf of a researcher
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - learn something new every second try
 
Wilson Gray
 - Today's Language Quotation
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "Intoonfada"
 
Laurence Horn
 - prefixtual
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - The Wrathful Dispersion controversy: A Canadian perspective on Historical Linguistics Theories
 
Tom Vincent
 - Phat
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - A "bloo at my breech"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "Piled Higher and Deeper" (1965)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Snowboardcross (NASCAR/motocross/roller deby on ice/snow)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - "This guy's below the radar screen"
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - "Method Air" (1995)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - creaky voice (was Re: "Method Air" (1995))
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - Snowboating
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - creaky voice
 
RonButters at AOL.COM
 - CREAKYNESS
 
RonButters at AOL.COM
 - Fwd: Re: [CreoleTalk] Question: Irish American Vernacular English
 
Beverly Flanigan
 - [CreoleTalk] Question: Irish American Vernacular English
 
Grant Barrett
 - Fwd: [CreoleTalk] Question: Irish American Vernacular English
 
Grant Barrett
 - Query: Any studies on Arabic Egyptian youth slang?
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - Acronyms vs. Abbreviations
 
Margaret Lee
 - "How ADJ is that?" (1970)
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - Terminology question
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - OT: anyone know the Greek for spoils of war
 
Beth Simon
 - Ginnie Mae: Further on Acronyms vs. Abbreviations
 
Barnhart
 - Uncle Sam (1808? 1812?), Bretzel (1812), Cousin Sally Ann (1861)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Uncle Sam (1808? 1812?)
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Uncle Sam (1808? 1812?) (full story)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - FW: "How ADJ is that?" (1970)
 
Seán Fitzpatrick
 - Malimony; "Voltaire" & "Roses of the Prophet Mohammed pastries"
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - FW: Query about "delill" (baseball bat)
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - Fwd: Early American Newspapers, Series II and III
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - "Bible Christians"
 
Geoffrey Nunberg
 - behemothic
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - ads
 
Prof. Roland Sussex
 - "The best social program is a good job" (1980)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - "The best social program is a good job" (1977 & Peter Wilson?)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - intravenious(ly)
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - Sukuk
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - "Tristan" now feminine given name
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - ADS-L Digest - 20 Feb 2006 to 21 Feb 2006 (#2006-53)
 
James Landau
 - ADS-L Digest - 14 Feb 2006 to 15 Feb 2006 (#2006-47)
 
James Landau
 - Query: 1910 "squeeze my bit"
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - Shot-gun Wedding (1878? 1894?) and wedding slang
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Hornymoon (1993)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Dubaious
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - "Is, is"
 
Wilson Gray
 - "squeeze" baseball    Re: Query: 1910 "squeeze my bit"
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 - FSBO or fisbo or fiz(z)bo (For Sale By Owner) (1977, 1982)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - How Grammaticality Eludes
 
Robert Hartwell Fiske
 - Eggcorns?
 
Wilson Gray
 - "Nobody sets out to make a bad movie" (1965)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Egyptian Bikini Wax & Brazilian Bikini Wax (1992)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - acronyms versus abbreviations
 
Landau, James
 - "Honest Graft" (1903)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - it is what it is, Monty Python division
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - Appendicitis (1886)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Limobus (1978) or Limo Bus (1989)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - textcasting (1998)
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - "Team Titanic" (New York Knicks, others)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Antedating of "Intelligentsia"
 
Fred Shapiro
 - Antedating of "Federalist"
 
Fred Shapiro
 - "Rock the boat" (1908 and earlier in 1896)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Wrap = "Wind, Reel and Print" (and variants)
 
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
 - "City of Roses" (1872); "Change the name of Arkansas" (1909, 1912)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - Car sales terminology
 
Chris Waigl
 - new (non-)coinage ("vagitarian")
 
Laurence Horn
 - "own it for a limited time"
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - onepeat
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - "apophenia"
 
Laurence Horn
 - Supermodel (1968?)
 
Bapopik at AOL.COM
 - National Archives films on Google Video
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - the purpose of cavalry
 
James Landau
 - 24/6
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - Antedating of "Phrenology"
 
Fred Shapiro
 - twizzle, vingle, idolspize
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - Antedating of "baseball" (except Jane Austen)
 
Joel S. Berson
 - OT query: "Elise"--slang in German?
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - Ta-da!
 
Landau, James
 - Language Change Watch: "mix tape"
 
Jesse Sheidlower
    
 
    
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