March 2006 Archives by thread
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Ending: Fri Mar 31 22:56:58 UTC 2006
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- "Brokeback" named Hollywood word of the year
James Callan
- the purpose of cavalry
James Landau
- Zillowing
Benjamin Zimmer
- twizzle, vingle, idolspize
Landau, James
- "Rubber Room"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Tribune on "e-English"
Benjamin Zimmer
- diavlog
Benjamin Zimmer
- "Tristan" now feminine given name
Brenda Lester
- Spritzer (1938)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Yellow Dog Democrat (1882)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "You cannot beat somebody with nobody" (1900)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- FW: Re: OT query: "Elise"--slang in German?
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Eggcorn?
Wilson Gray
- A new use of "duh?"
Wilson Gray
- One of those who: VP Sg or VP Pl?
Wilson Gray
- eggcorn
Landau, James
- Eggcorn: illegible?
RonButters at AOL.COM
- an old-time battle-ax
George Thompson
- old hat
George Thompson
- A Conversation in Flash
George Thompson
- eggcorn: lunge < plunge
Gordon, Matthew J.
- Wired: "Robot Wisdom on the Street"
Benjamin Zimmer
- Moon Garden
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- New acronymic revelations
Jonathan Lighter
- Who's running this disaster ?
Jonathan Lighter
- heart-warmed
Benjamin Zimmer
- veloaty?
Joel S. Berson
- aura/areola: eggcorn?
neil
- Query: "off the hook"
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Drugstore Cowboy (1922)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Jan Freeman on "brokeback"
Benjamin Zimmer
- Ta-Da!
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Et tu, Ionathane?!" (was Re: old hat)
Mark A. Mandel
- ADS on the forefront of category making
Steve Kl.
- seeking British hyphenation reference
Mark A. Mandel
- Pimp talk
Wilson Gray
- "Bowl"? A new one to me
Wilson Gray
- all that and a (mere) bag o' shells
Laurence Horn
- "When Washington talks about...taxpayers should watch their wallets"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- gwine
Jonathan Lighter
- "Oatmeal Cookie" (1884) & the official cookie of Connecticut
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Triumph for trump--eggcorn?
David Bowie
- "substitute with" again
Laurence Horn
- "African-American" vs. "black" at the Olympics
Benjamin Zimmer
- "If it moves, tax it" (1952?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- wilsongray.com
Wilson Gray
- SHAFT! (1957)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "B novel"
Jonathan Lighter
- Slush Fund (1836, 1871)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "If it moves, salute it" (1944)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Card-game names
Wilson Gray
- Beyonce and "the dictionary"
Benjamin Zimmer
- airquotes
neil
- cat houses, clams, convents & nuns
George Thompson
- ADS-L Digest - 6 Mar 2006 to 7 Mar 2006 (#2006-67)
Geoffrey S. Nathan
- Relative, related, relevant?
Joel S. Berson
- multilingual eggcorns
James Landau
- Lo-fi 78's v. hi-fi CD's
Wilson Gray
- Hell's bells and little catfishes
Ron Silliman
- "Let's Do It" lyrics
Joel S. Berson
- brokeback generalizations
Arnold M. Zwicky
- eggcorn - or just a misspelling?
Bethany K. Dumas
- "Bloody" in BrE/AusE
Jesse Sheidlower
- eggcorn - or just a misspelling? new attempt
Bethany K. Dumas
- fancy man
Benjamin Zimmer
- yet another word from the gutter press
George Thompson
- Wisegay; Opposite sex marriage
bapopik at AOL.COM
- "even still" ?
sagehen
- more acroetymythology...
Benjamin Zimmer
- Non-bridezillas? Bridal fantasists?
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "even still" ? = "still yet"?
Beverly Flanigan
- Boom Boom & the "Slap Shot" (1924?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- ADS-L Digest - 10 Mar 2006 to 11 Mar 2006 (#2006-71)
James Landau
- "Don't send my boy/son to Syracuse/Harvard/Texas," the dying mother said (1919)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Don't send my boy/son to Syracuse/Harvard/Texas," the dying mother said ...
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- French Tips (1985)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- FYAmusement: The Worst Chinese Menu Translation Ever
Mark A. Mandel
- Congratulations to Barry and his wife!
Damien Hall
- "Person of Interest" (1970)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Highbred" eggcorn
Alice Faber
- Vanilla folder -- eggcorn?
James Callan
- Thou shalt not eggcorn?
Mark Peters
- "infamous" = celebrated
Jonathan Lighter
- "infamous" korrection
Jonathan Lighter
- "sleep gay"?
Laurence Horn
- Congratulations to Barry and his wife! (OT)
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "Lipstick on a caterpillar" (U.S. Ambassador John Bolton)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "The world is a book" (Augustine? Lamartine?) & "The more I admire my dogs"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Copyleft"
Fred Shapiro
- "The world is a book" (Augustine? Lamartine?)
Stephen Goranson
- "infamous" = celebrated & day of infamy
Joel S. Berson
- jointness, getting joint
Benjamin Zimmer
- gay men and their names
RonButters at AOL.COM
- jointness, purple
Grant Barrett
- "disingenious"
sagehen
- Cats, horses, eggcorns
Mark Peters
- Corned Beef & Cabbage (1840)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "stinkfinger"
George Thompson
- cold deck
George Thompson
- on our "crumbs"
George Thompson
- Gecks
George Thompson
- counter jumper
George Thompson
- possible eggcorn
Laurence Horn
- this is dedicated to the one I love...
Laurence Horn
- eephing
Benjamin Zimmer
- "Nigga" untrademarkable?
Benjamin Zimmer
- Antedating of "Get-Go"
Fred Shapiro
- OK, now "punk" is an acronym
Jonathan Lighter
- "Is this a great country, or what?"
Geoffrey Nunberg
- Bowery boys
George Thompson
- Chocolate Lasagna (and Jennifer Lopez)
bapopik at AOL.COM
- the replacement of "replace" and substitution of "substitute"
Mark A. Mandel
- Labovian road trip
Benjamin Zimmer
- "is-is"
Jonathan Lighter
- she-male
George Thompson
- Today 100th anniversary of Roosevelt "muck rake" speech?
bapopik at AOL.COM
- Give me some leadway!
Mark Peters
- Corn dog (from Louisiana?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Turbo-Cojones
Benjamin Zimmer
- Hindu/Hindoo ("do-over")
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "gwine" : another two cents
Jonathan Lighter
- Paper of Record still around?
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Hindoo (1974) (and more "Brooklynese")
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Invitation
Dennis R. Preston
- Handball & Hinder (1951, 1956)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- stunning antedating
Arnold M. Zwicky
- BAGs
Benjamin Zimmer
- "He's got ice water in his veins!" (1906?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Ransom-ware; Grant Barrett & Sunday's New York Times
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Hallmark trend expert on "truthiness"
Benjamin Zimmer
- (still) birth (I hope) of an eggcorn?
sagehen
- "underlooked"
Laurence Horn
- wambulance/whambulance/wahmbulance (1993)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Spinner? (health club use)
bapopik at AOL.COM
- inbounds, v.
Benjamin Zimmer
- MLA 2006 in Philly Needs Submissions
Regina Clemens Fox
- positive "anymore" trivia
Laurence Horn
- Query: "blue laws"
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "Fold like a cheap camera"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Due Process" Not in OED
Fred Shapiro
- More Re: "Due Process" Not in OED
Fred Shapiro
- Eggcorn-like something or other
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "Hollywood accounting"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Hautels" (haute hotel)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "blue laws"
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Team Turmoil (NY Knicks, was NY Yankees)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Hang Time (1969)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "English as U.S. language" press release
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Whydunit (Whodunit, Howdunit)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Colbert gets a book deal
Benjamin Zimmer
- Bierma on "props"
Benjamin Zimmer
- defining "lap dance"
Benjamin Zimmer
- OT; Multiple Sclerosis & Cold Case [Re: Whydunit (Whodunit, Howdunit)]
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Musical notes have more importance than bullets" (Hendrix, through Santana)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Premadonna
Philip E. Cleary
- Second Call for Papers: ADS at MMLA
Kathryn Remlinger
- A slip of the tongue (or of the brain)
Wilson Gray
- Bigfoot and Sasquatch
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- the perils of accidental blending
Benjamin Zimmer
- "huzzah" labelled Colonial speech
Amy West
- Yes vs. I am
Roger Shuy
- Credit for "Early American Newspapers"?
Joel S. Berson
- Willard Hotel "lobbyist" myth (again)
Benjamin Zimmer
- eggcorn: lambash
Gordon, Matthew J.
- Spitzer quotes from Susan B. Anthony, Teddy Roosevelt
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- More on "tinfoil hat" (crazy)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- 2006 > "two-oh-six"?
Wilson Gray
- A verbed noun
Charles Doyle
- Most Decimating
Dave Wilton
- ORIGIN OF "LUNATIC FRINGE"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Bangs"
Fred Shapiro
- Vals Kilmer (like "attorneys general"?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Congestion pricing (1950s? William Vickrey?); Anchor babies
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "matriculation" = graduation
Jonathan Lighter
- ADS-L Digest - 23 Mar 2006 to 24 Mar 2006 (#2006-84)
Landau, James
- By George; Franken-swine
bapopik at AOL.COM
- giving the finger
George Thompson
- the origin of this phrase
Barnhart
- WSJ on new business jargon
Benjamin Zimmer
- call for papers
Sonja L Launspach
- Sophomore Slump & Senior Slump
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "laxicographers and ding-a-linguists"
Robert Hartwell Fiske
- Duke Ellington Quotes
Fred Shapiro
- Re; Duke Ellington quotes
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Eggcorn? guilded vs. gilded
David Bowie
- "Bitch on heels" (and "Hell on wheels")
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Problems with Google Book Search?
Benjamin Zimmer
- Knickerbockers
George Thompson
- assorted comments
James Landau
- army ranks [was: assorted comments]
Joel S. Berson
- "Push-in" robbery (1976)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Dueling dialects
Wilson Gray
- OT: My "Big Apple" website is gone
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- army ranks
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedatings of "Goth" & "Gothic"
Fred Shapiro
- "Windy" gets "Wiki"/"Wacky" ("Windy City" makes "Wikipedia"/"Wackypedia")
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Out of his tree" (crazy)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- basketball "length" (was Re: Vals Kilmer)
Benjamin Zimmer
- People's lawyer (attorney general)
bapopik at AOL.COM
- "wear out stay"
William Salmon
- dioceses pron. "diosees"
sagehen
- Door-prize (1884)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Ghit (was: "wear out stay")
Mark A. Mandel
- The Green Zone and Related Terms
Baker, John
- The Green Zone and The Pale of Settlement
David Bergdahl
- to protest = to "engage in a political demonstration for or against"
Jonathan Lighter
- Army Ranks Old King Cole
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- BUCLD 31 Call For Papers
BUCLD
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