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- Why is "Missouri" pronounced with -z-
Mark A. Mandel
- White Christmas
Mark A. Mandel
- "Clique": kleek? klick?
Wilson Gray
- Origin of "King Kong" (Chinese? Courting frogs?)
Wilson Gray
- "Croocial" (1913) and "Croocial Serious" (1916)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "The bull is off the nickel."
Jonathan Lighter
- Thirteen and the odd
Michael Quinion
- Antedating of "Pseudonym"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Abortionist"
Fred Shapiro
- mezzo(-scale)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Antedating of "Hamburger Steak"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Jamboree"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Industrialist"
Fred Shapiro
- Bloomberg quotes O. Henry (but needs George Thompson)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Antedating of "Proletariat"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Police State"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Optometry"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Urologist"
Fred Shapiro
- Further Antedating of "Urologist"
Fred Shapiro
- Sorry about that!
Wilson Gray
- Antedating of "Motorcycle"
Fred Shapiro
- Further Antedating of "Motorcycle"
Fred Shapiro
- Slight Antedating of "Boycott"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Gangster"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Agnostic"
Fred Shapiro
- "<to be> in the tank for <someone>"
Mark Spahn
- polyglot = (non-linguistic) mixture
Benjamin Zimmer
- Bloomberg quotes O. Henry (new cites from 1850)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "<to be> in the tank for <someone>" (From Gerald Cohen)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- WOTY
davemarc
- LSSU Banished Words, 2006
Benjamin Zimmer
- "Balderdash and Piffle" (OED on BBC)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Checklist of Electronic Resources (Draft of Version 3)
Fred Shapiro
- Most Popular Dictionaries in Libraries
Jesse Sheidlower
- "Gaia Hypothesis"
Jesse Sheidlower
- "retcon"
Jonathan Lighter
- "of" for "have" in "would have" constructions
Amy West
- Antedating of "Radicalism"
Jesse Sheidlower
- American "-ize" words spelled "-ise"
Mark Spahn
- Antedating of "Psycholinguistic"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Obsessive"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Schizophrenia"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Schizophrenic" (Noun)
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Sadomasochism"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Existentialism"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Freudian Slip"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Confrontational"
Fred Shapiro
- So, is there a new use of so?
Jason Norris
- So, is there a new use of so?
Alice Faber
- So, is there a new use of so?
Jonathan Lighter
- So, is there a new use of so?
Arnold M. Zwicky
- So, is there a new use of so?
Alan Baragona
- So, is there a new use of so?
Chris Waigl
- Re: So, is there a new use of so?
RonButters at AOL.COM
- So, is there a new use of so?
Indigo Som
- So, is there a new use of so?
Arnold M. Zwicky
- So, is there a new use of so?
James Smith
- So, is there a new use of so?
Indigo Som
- So, is there a new use of so?
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "take the money and run"
Fred Shapiro
- Slippery Slope (1857); Water's Edge (1898)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Season's greetings?
Wilson Gray
- Eggcorn?
Wilson Gray
- Antedating of "Statistician"
Fred Shapiro
- Comptroller (with a "p")
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- eggcorn or flubbed dialect? non-standard uses of non-standard 'oughtened'
Erik Hoover
- Wife's eggcorn
Wilson Gray
- Eggcorn-like euphemism
Wilson Gray
- "Hells, yeah ! "
Jonathan Lighter
- "Piker"
Jonathan Lighter
- Glory Road (1904? 1917? Civil War?)
James Landau
- Lycanthropic mondegreen: [Was: Glory Road (1904? 1917? Civil War?)]
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedating of "Musicology"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Jazz Age"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Word Game"
Fred Shapiro
- Online Text News
Fred Shapiro
- Pokadope: nonce or regional slang?
neil
- How does John Rockwell pronounce "00's" (the decade)?
Joel S. Berson
- "barber-shop," n. = "type of singing"
Jonathan Lighter
- ADS-L Digest - 2 Jan 2006 to 3 Jan 2006 (#2006-4)
Amy West
- "oral sex" among the Victorians
George Thompson
- "oral sex" among the Victorians + postil(l)ion
neil
- Swedish WOTY
Grant Barrett
- "Andrea"
Wilson Gray
- "Clique": kleek? klick? breeches
FRITZ JUENGLING
- Early Amer. Newspapers [was: Online Text News]
Joel S. Berson
- Two-oh-Two=2002?
Dale Coye
- Time out!
Wilson Gray
- "Ripping and running"
Wilson Gray
- "Oral Sex" Difficult to Antedate
Fred Shapiro
- Balderdash & Piffle BBC2 starting Monday 2nd January (fwd)
Fred Shapiro
- Fwd: Birmingham Public Library launches new digital collections
Rachel E. Shuttlesworth
- "How odd that God should choose the Jews" (1924)
Fred Shapiro
- Cussin' Contests, 1890s
Jonathan Lighter
- one last WOTY preview
Benjamin Zimmer
- wonktocracy, blovel
Benjamin Zimmer
- yesteryear
Mark Spahn
- Balderdash & Piffle
Damien Hall
- iconic spelling
Arnold M. Zwicky
- anDREa again
David Bergdahl
- No subject
Grant Barrett
- Bawdy ballads [Was "Oral Sex" Difficult to Antedate]
Jonathan Lighter
- Lone Ranger (was "yesteryear")
David Bergdahl
- Hawaiianisms; righteous
Benjamin Barrett
- righteous
FRITZ JUENGLING
- Truthiness is the 2005 Word of the Year
Grant Barrett
- Antedating of "Pollster"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Muscular Christianity"
Fred Shapiro
- "Paint the Town Red" (1880 Chicago?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Antedating of "Prohibitionist"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Prescriptivism"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Differentiation"
Fred Shapiro
- "crimenentles," anyone?
sagehen
- "twisted steel and sex appeal"
Jonathan Lighter
- NY Times errs on "lobbyist" ("Weak" in Review section)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Gunsmoke"
Wilson Gray
- "righteous" in Chicago Defender
Jesse Sheidlower
- Trustigious
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Antedating of "Pinko"
Fred Shapiro
- SHIPS THAT PARSE IN THE NIGHT
neil
- Antedating of "Slavic"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "American" (Adj.)
Fred Shapiro
- ADS-L Digest - 6 Jan 2006 to 7 Jan 2006 (#2006-8)
Janet Marting
- Screwy Entry for "Canadian" in OED
Fred Shapiro
- 'Yesteryear' in Detroit
Geoff Nathan
- Truthiness
Baker, John
- Shebrew (female Hebrew) (1880, 1911)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Truthiness (by the numbers)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Antedating of "Psychosexual"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Sociobiology"
Fred Shapiro
- "Where are the customers' yachts?" (1885)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Antedating of "Biodiversity"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Endangered Species"
Fred Shapiro
- "affirmative/negative" v. "yes/no"
Mark Spahn
- Antedating of "Geneticist"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Bacteriologist"
Fred Shapiro
- circumlegally
Benjamin Zimmer
- "Ghetto" now (also) means "jury-rigged"?
Wilson Gray
- a Gormagunt
George Thompson
- Aargh
Grant Barrett
- Shower Party (1897); Bridal Shower (1901)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Bath-ing""
Wilson Gray
- Tonight's Colbert Report
Steve Kl.
- batty bredda (1976)
Benjamin Zimmer
- More on 'ghetto' as verb like 'hack'
Erik Hoover
- "Bath-ing"
Damien Hall
- fabulosity
Benjamin Zimmer
- scrumdiddlyumptious (1962)
Benjamin Zimmer
- -stein names: -stine, or -steen?
Mark Spahn
- -stein names: -stine, or -steen?
Wilson Gray
- -stein names: -stine, or -steen?
FRITZ JUENGLING
- -stein names: -stine, or -steen?
Joel S. Berson
- -stein names: -stine, or -steen?
Amy West
- -stein names: -stine, or -steen?
Dennis Baron
- -stein names: -stine, or -steen?
Joanne M. Despres
- -stein names: -stine, or -steen?
Dale Coye
- -stein names: -stine, or -steen?
Laurence Horn
- -stein names: -stine, or -steen?
Benjamin Zimmer
- -stein names: -stine, or -steen?
Laurence Horn
- Inadvertent jokes
Page Stephens
- Weird 'virus' plural
Geoff Nathan
- "acte veberien"
Joel S. Berson
- "Wordie"?
Joel S. Berson
- Valjean and trouble
Joel S. Berson
- Boston Accent Expert Needed
Grant Barrett
- Mayor Bloomberg's Boston accent
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Ripster (exercising hipster)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- in case you missed it
Dennis Baron
- my personal woty
Dennis Baron
- "Clenched Fist" symbol (1967-1968)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Eggcorn-like something or other
Rex W. Stocklin
- "upper rail" -- not in OED2
Joel S. Berson
- woty truthiness
Dennis Baron
- Terms of venery. was: "oral sex" among the Victorians
Page Stephens
- fade(d/s) into the midst
Michael McKernan
- anyone catch the Colbert Report tonight?
Laurence Horn
- and yet more
Steve Kl.
- Claim for origin of "Cruisazy"
AAllan at AOL.COM
- Carcasting
Tom Vincent
- Definitions of "Hemi"
Fred Shapiro
- exodentist is correct
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "LA Angels of Anaheim" on trial
Benjamin Zimmer
- Mediodating of "boody/booty"
Wilson Gray
- probiotics
Thomas Paikeday
- Dognap (1912, 1924, 1926, 1934)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Cop out (1892)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Where the sun don't shine"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- CNIB
Thomas Paikeday
- Antedating of "Primatology"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Cytology"
Fred Shapiro
- "survivor" in obituaries
Mark Spahn
- Garbled posts
Jesse Sheidlower
- Antedating of "Reliever" & Definition Correction
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Right Fielder"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Second Guesser"
Fred Shapiro
- Re: Antedating of " Pinko"
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Garbled messages
Wilson Gray
- Antedating for frog OED2 n.4 [a guide for wheels]?
Joel S. Berson
- Monk-ish
Benjamin Zimmer
- "That was then, this is now" (1894)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Etymology of "wacko"
RonButters at AOL.COM
- garbled: will this help?
sagehen
- Query: Why "she" in reference to a ship?
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- wacko (1938)
Benjamin Zimmer
- nutso, adj.
Benjamin Zimmer
- Test
Jesse Sheidlower
- test post (rich text w/ URLs)
Benjamin Zimmer
- craven/graven eggcorn?
neil
- Barry utters NYT 'QUOTATION OF THE DAY'
Michael McKernan
- Latest SOTA
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedating of "Radar"
Fred Shapiro
- New light on "truthiness"
Benjamin Zimmer
- Dating of "Angels on Horseback"
Michael McKernan
- Antedating "pigs in blankets" -was "Angels on Horseback"
Michael McKernan
- Truthiness begins to be used for real
aallan at AOL.COM
- Antedating of "Standard English"
Fred Shapiro
- Colbert interview on WOTY
Benjamin Zimmer
- Antedating of "World English"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Triple" (v.)
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Single" (v.)
Fred Shapiro
- On-line OED & Dating of "Angels on Horseback"
Joel S. Berson
- "chocolate New Orleans"
Benjamin Zimmer
- "in the run-up to"
Mark Spahn
- ADS-L Digest - 15 Jan 2006 to 16 Jan 2006 (#2006-17)
Geoff Nathan
- Ivy Colleges (1934)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "OK" Chef symbol (Chicago Tribune, June 3, 1917)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Latest SOTA ('homicide attack')
Damien Hall
- groupie slang (1969)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Balderdash and Piffle
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- BBC Wordhunt - Antedatings
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Bridal Registry (1952)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- ADS's "truthiness" vote makes NYMag
Jesse Sheidlower
- nookie
Jonathon Green
- Nixzmary Brown
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Birth of a nova - truthiness
AAllan at AOL.COM
- Could this be "raffia" from 1751 antedates OED3 1882?
Joel S. Berson
- Mississippi Mud Cake (1967); Janson's Temptation (1951)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- casting couches & fish skins
George Thompson
- Mayor Bloomberg's speech
Joan Houston Hall
- "cross-language homophonic poetry" -- or something
Joel S. Berson
- Yikes! (antedating)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "Melissa": a drink
Wilson Gray
- bardacious (= bodacious??)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "chamber-lye"
Jonathan Lighter
- "bush league"
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- eggcorn
Mark A. Mandel
- Pretzel/Bretzel (1843)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- M-W and "ginormous" (again)
Benjamin Zimmer
- M-W and "fantabulous"
Benjamin Zimmer
- another test post (rich text w/ URLs)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Antedating of "Middle East"
Fred Shapiro
- couch-surfing
Benjamin Zimmer
- illegibilia in digest (re: Pretzel/Bretzel (1843))
Mark A. Mandel
- iomega help conversation
Dennis R. Preston
- Potomac fever (1940)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Truthiness hits Ghana
Benjamin Zimmer
- Fwd: Call for Proposals
Arnold M. Zwicky
- some quotations on memories
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Go sit on your East Coast
Dennis R. Preston
- Antedating of "Maoist"
Fred Shapiro
- "In deep weeds" (1993)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Query: Why "Cripples" (> "Crips") as gang-name?
Fred Shapiro
- More evidence for the reanalysis of "mano a mano"
Laurence Horn
- Is this a good use of scare quotes?
Jesse Sheidlower
- Necktie Party & ending quotation in CAPOTE
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Looking for 'American Tongues' videotape
Margaret Lee
- ending quotation in CAPOTE
Stephen Goranson
- Frank Rich on truthiness
Benjamin Zimmer
- ending quotation in CAPOTE (1876?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon." (Elizabeth Cady Stanton?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Midori [OT?]
Douglas G. Wilson
- Who is Rosetta Stone?
Mark Spahn
- Starvin' Marvin (1975)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- and the rest is history
Stephen Goranson
- Boondocks on "brokeback"
David Bowie
- Q: Word for "a lover of books about religion"?
Joel S. Berson
- "the service"
Jonathan Lighter
- Is this thruthiness?
Paul Johnson
- query on consonant cluster reduction
Laurence Horn
- "San Antone"
Jonathan Lighter
- sandwich words
Benjamin Zimmer
- Query: Why "Cripples" (> "Crips") as gang-name? (fwd)
Mark A. Mandel
- Fw: shit v. shoot [was: Go sit on your East Coast]
Thomas Paikeday
- Antedating of "Yankee Doodle"
Fred Shapiro
- Wyoming Historical Newspapers; "Cocktail" is 200?
bapopik at AOL.COM
- cocktail (1803)
Barnhart
- shit v. shoot [was: Go sit on your East Coast]
Alan Knutson
- "Powder River, let 'er buck !"
Jonathan Lighter
- Mississippi John Hurt
Wilson Gray
- University of Pennsylvania web site tribute to William Labov
Mark A. Mandel
- Sky scraper (February 1883 for "building")
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Too black bad"
Wilson Gray
- correction Re: and the rest is history
Stephen Goranson
- BAREBACK, a most useful word
RonButters at AOL.COM
- prepopulate
Joan Houston Hall
- "Plant corn, you get corn" & "Send donkey around the world, comes back donkey"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- incent : a big SOTA
Jonathan Lighter
- NPR's "On Words"
Tom Vincent
- "Unbought and unbossed" & "Bloodied but unbowed"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "a fisticuff"
Jonathan Lighter
- "Bona Fides" (bone-a fee-deez?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Further Antedating of "Incent"
Fred Shapiro
- "of" = "have"
Jonathan Lighter
- masculine/feminine
RonButters at AOL.COM
- college slang of the '20s
Jonathan Lighter
- slang "scotsh" = shirt, 1879;
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Usage of 'box office' vs 'ticket office' for U.S. theater and concert halls
John D. Hopkins
- "bingefest"
Jonathan Lighter
- 'Brokeback'='girlie' in the wild
Geoff Nathan
- "Feel badly" not enough for you?
Wilson Gray
- 'University Executives' (somewhat OT)
Geoff Nathan
- Sleepworking
bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Hook up" = have casual sex?
Wilson Gray
- Hazelnuts/Filberts/Cob Nuts
FRITZ JUENGLING
- Would ye have a young Virgin of fifteen Years
Tom Vincent
- "Trump-tight"
Wilson Gray
- "I said to myself, 'Self...'" in "Moose Turd Pie"
Benjamin Zimmer
- "New York. It Ain't Kansas" (gun shirt) & "Welcome to New York. Now get out"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Truthiness will not die
Benjamin Zimmer
- "Gravity. It's not just a good idea, it's the law."
James callan
- "A bumper sticker beats an essay."
Jonathan Lighter
- unsubscribe ASAP
Kathleen Shannon
- Freying
Benjamin Zimmer
- "I said to myself, 'Self...'"
Carolyn S Lieberg
- not masculine/queer
RonButters at AOL.COM
- for those who haven't done this week's Times acrostic yet...
Laurence Horn
- "Gay as a picnic basket" (1993)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Possible Antedating of "Cocktail"
Fred Shapiro
- Sorry, delayed reaction! Re: "oral sex"
Thomas Paikeday
- data and analysis
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "Eat your brown bread first" (1822)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- masculine/feminine?
David Bowie
- Re: not masculine/que er
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Bedpan Alley (or, Hospital Land)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- word meaning "resident of ..."
Mark Spahn
- ADS, aka...
Benjamin Zimmer
- More Global Language Monitor silliness
Benjamin Zimmer
- surveil (1884, 1896)
Benjamin Zimmer
- twelfth man (1926)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Antedating of "Racialism"
Fred Shapiro
- "Tristen" now a feminine given name
Jonathan Lighter
- yet another meaning for "brokeback"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Query: "throw a wobbly" (have a fit)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Sound-change in BE
Wilson Gray
- Antedating of "Humanistic"
Fred Shapiro
- First Use of "Gay"
Fred Shapiro
- Fwd: query on "boid"s and "terlet"s
Laurence Horn
- query on "boid"s and "terlet"s
Wilson Gray
- "Peter Ladefoged, 80, Documented Dying Languages"
bapopik at AOL.COM
- New Razzie Categories
Steve Kl.
- OT: language awareness, linguistics, and freshman comp.
Amy West
- OT: language awareness, linguistics, and freshman comp.
John E. Dews
- OT: language awareness, linguistics, and freshman comp.
Patti Kurtz
- OT: language awareness, linguistics, and freshman comp.
Rachel E. Shuttlesworth
- OT: language awareness, linguistics, and freshman comp.
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- OT: language awareness, linguistics, and freshman comp.
Amy West
- 2006 WOTY: Oprahness?
Joel S. Berson
- a very old joke
George Thompson
- the matt and feather
George Thompson
- a little in for't
George Thompson
- New-Yearing
George Thompson
- "dude" in the Guardian
Chris Waigl
- Colbert interview in the onion
Steve Kl.
- posing a question to the list
Terry Irons
- Hawkish Chicken (opposite of Chicken Hawk)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Tinfoil Hat Brigade"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
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