February 2006 Archives by thread
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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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