October 2006 Archives by thread
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- "fanelights"
Douglas G. Wilson
- ah/ awe
Gordon, Matthew J.
- The mysteries of paintballing
Benjamin Zimmer
- preadolescent "tortures"
Laurence Horn
- purple drank, lean
Wilson Gray
- saying "ah" for "awe"
Paul Johnston
- idiom blends
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "dominate" =dominant
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "frontsies-backsies"
Joel S. Berson
- Phrase-"thrown under the bus"
Sam Clements
- Re: [ADS-L] ah/ awe
RonButters at AOL.COM
- The Meaning of "Rhyme"
Baker, John
- Fw: Re: when "intercourse" got funny
Amorelli
- Fight to save "awe"? Ah, come on!
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "I say...Lusitani-ay"
Jonathan Lighter
- Hi!
Wilson Gray
- Missent e-mail
Wilson Gray
- The mysteries of paintballing: other slang
Steve Bosak
- spelling pronunciation exercises
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "adverse" + inf. = averse + to + pres. part.; "outroar" = uproar; outcry
Jonathan Lighter
- outroar
Jonathan Lighter
- "whole nine yards" (1967)-disappearing cite
Sam Clements
- "Pissing contest with a skunk"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "live neighbors with"
Jonathan Lighter
- exploitation priority
Arnold M. Zwicky
- The moon and green cheese
Charles Doyle
- Wordsmith.org online chat with Anatoly Liberman: Word Origins
Wordsmith.org
- the moon is not made of green beans
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Definition (descriptions) of troll
Benjamin Barrett
- diphthongs
David Bergdahl
- "Pissing match with a skunk"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- The diphthong thing
Tom Zurinskas
- remove me from corresp
Marshall Wilson
- their hearts and minds will follow
Dennis Baron
- Director needs help
James A. Landau
- Reminder: ADS Newsletter Submissions Due
Grant Barrett
- Identity of the non-existent
Charles Doyle
- [SPAM:####] Re: ah/ awe
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Quote: "A work is great when..."
Jonathan Lighter
- ah/ awe goes to bed
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Phonemic vowel length
David Sutcliffe
- Fried Coke (!)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Take vs Have
GLL
- "well-shod" = wealthy
Jonathan Lighter
- "novel" once again
Jonathan Lighter
- C-Level Executives
Baker, John
- Re; "novel" once again
Jonathan Lighter
- "A Whole Nother" and "Alls I Know Is"
Katherine Hageland
- "A Whole Nother" & "C-Level"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Demolition by neglect (1973?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Geekspeak
Chris Blankenship
- Hearts and minds will follow
Charles Doyle
- "Fart in a mitten"
Troy
- a whole nother
Michael Adams
- Manx mice for computers?
Joel S. Berson
- Kempting secrets
David Bowie
- refs: AAVE mines (1sg possessive pronoun)
Michael T. Wescoat
- "so's" (and "Alls I Know Is")
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Semantic Drift: "meaninglessness," "pointlessness"
Jonathan Lighter
- I say...Lusitani-ay
Jonathan Lighter
- Politics (Poli+tics, or many blood-sucking parasites); Fried Coke (continued)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- City of Brotherly Love (1779)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- City of Brotherly Love
Stephen Goranson
- "how about's"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- booty-chokers
Benjamin Zimmer
- Manorexia
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Pefect Game (1906, 1907, 1908)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "bad to the bone"
Jonathan Lighter
- "all as"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- nexus "to"
James Knight
- more on "novel"
Mark A. Mandel
- "didn't" with ?
Laurence Horn
- Fred Shapiro in the Hartford Courant
Benjamin Zimmer
- Q: Emergence of "American English"
Joel S. Berson
- imparticular (eggcorn?)
John M. Spartz
- Innit - reprise
David Sutcliffe
- The buck stops here?
Charles Doyle
- The buck stops here?; Sooner (1889)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Re: [ADS-L] Identity of the non-existent
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Chai mui
Benjamin Barrett
- seemly nonsense strings
Barnhart
- Dialect split in original language?
Wilson Gray
- "kink in your armor"
Jonathan Lighter
- "coin" = to call; dub; name;
Jonathan Lighter
- A misunderstanding of BE slang
Wilson Gray
- Whadda hell?
George Thompson
- yow
Laurence Horn
- "all's" and "how's"/"what's"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "a real lot"
Charles Doyle
- "legend" = fascinating true story
Jonathan Lighter
- Kindler, Gentler
Grant Barrett
- rooting interest (1905)
Benjamin Zimmer
- V Adj 'V in a Adj way'
Arnold M. Zwicky
- OT query: Etymology of Brazilian Portuguese "banzo"
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- seemly nonsense strings (with bonus "preadolescent tortures")
John Moriarty
- "novel" = epic poem
Jonathan Lighter
- "novel" = an epic poem or full-length poetic drama
Jonathan Lighter
- Should have expected it
Wilson Gray
- more excrescent "'s"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Fwd: excrescent s
Arnold M. Zwicky
- more novels...
Laurence Horn
- More Shakespearean novels
Jonathan Lighter
- Texas Scramble (scramble golf) & Texas Scramble (scrambled eggs with chili)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "reckless abandonment"
Charles Doyle
- cacotopia
Jonathan Lighter
- motel(1925)
Sam Clements
- Hit a bull in the butt with a banjo; Spit & holler "Howdy!"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Friday the Thirteenth" (1898, 1899, 1901)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Friday the Thirteenth" (Snopes has 1908, 1913)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Whisky is for drinking, water is for fighting over" (Mark Twain?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Kype"
Jim Parish
- Hit a bull in the butt with a banjo (1929); Spit & holler "Howdy!"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Popo (police)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Tote guts to a bear: Never argue with skunk, mule, cook; Horse-high, bull-strong
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- French swallow consonants, feel full all day! (Weekly World News)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- N'Archive new additions?
Sam Clements
- ADS-L Digest - 14 Oct 2006 to 15 Oct 2006 (#2006-288)
Dan Lassiter
- new pronun. of "errant"
Jonathan Lighter
- "tacit silence"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- carry guts to a bear, bullstrong, etc
Joan H. Hall
- "look the jack of diamonds in the eye", and "bigger than Dallas"
william salmon
- metro-nation
Benjamin Zimmer
- they don't make words like they used to (revival)
RonButters at AOL.COM
- French swallow consonants, feel full all day!
RonButters at AOL.COM
- term for "golf shot" etc.
Matthew Gordon
- lustrum again
RonButters at AOL.COM
- For all you truthiness-haters...
Benjamin Zimmer
- kype
Nancy Friedman
- bowdlerize: M-W's Word of the Day---Desdemona starts up a jazz band
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "counteract with" (Fwd: job application gem)
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Antedatings of "burglarize," "burgle," and "burglar" (as a verb)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- A positive anymore?
Wilson Gray
- "Puck" (hockey puck) from the verb (bat)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- ~chooldrin
Tom Zurinskas
- The Lightning-Bug and the Lightning
Baker, John
- Austin American-Statesman in Newspaperarchive; Fajita in Kyle
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "come face"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [SPAM:##] Re: "come face"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- enlightening > in lighting
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Re: [ADS-L] ~chooldri n
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Antedating of "Orgasmic
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Orgasm"
Fred Shapiro
- Slang Jang (1901)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- underemployed
James A. Landau
- theological capitalization
James A. Landau
- Texas Popcorn (fried okra or stuffed jalape ños)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Take the rag off the bush
Scot LaFaive
- Hobson's choice
Charles Doyle
- Merkins
Tom Zurinskas
- Cost of illiteracy
Tom Zurinskas
- flutterbys
George Thompson
- "Poo-tang joint" (1935)
Douglas G. Wilson
- Who says ''Merkins''?
RonButters at AOL.COM
- lost communication (come face)
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Eggcorn?
Wilson Gray
- The kids will find lube holes
Mark Peters
- Dobe/Dobie/Doby biscuits
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- web of language feed
Dennis Baron
- pissed as a newt/Albert Jack's book
Lynne Murphy
- p.s.
Lynne Murphy
- FW (from Linguist list): Call for Papers for Book on Slang in American/African Politics
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Fwd: pissed as a newt/Albert Jack's book
Lynne Murphy
- lost communication (face of shame)
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "You can't stop him! You can only hope to contain him!"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Slang Jang/Slangjang (1907)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "The eyes of the South are upon you" (Robert E. Lee?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "I'm just saying"
Nancy Friedman
- Fwd: conversating
Beverly Flanigan
- "the O face"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "Take This Job and Shove It"
Fred Shapiro
- Merkins--(origin in metanalysis)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- An odd construction
Jim Parish
- Neologisms successfully spread by marketers (again)
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Re: [ADS-L] lost co mmunication (face of shame)
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Take the rag off the bush---(origin of "rap" (talk)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- please put places lived history in signature (was merkins)
Tom Zurinskas
- Antedating of "Sexy"
Fred Shapiro
- Further Antedating of "Sexy"
Fred Shapiro
- please put places lived history in signature
Dave Hause
- William Bright obituary in NY Times
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Eggcorns?
Michael Quinion
- cesspool or hot tub?
Jonathan Lighter
- is there a name for this?
Barnhart
- So, is there a new use of so?
Arnold M. Zwicky
- arborcide
Benjamin Zimmer
- "excrudescent"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Announcement of LSA Summer Institute 2007
Lauren Hall-Lew
- greek + latin
Arnold M. Zwicky
- the history of Greco-Roman hybridizing
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Slang Jang, Pecan Cake (1894)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Puppy Stick Wieners" (Corn Dog on a stick) (1940)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- German Chocolate Cake, Texas Hash (January 1957)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Lots of uncovered _skunk_s
Lynne Murphy
- "You got it !"
Jonathan Lighter
- 'Homosexualism' vs. 'homosexuality', Russian gay linguistics
Robert Fojtik
- Oxford Round Table--which doesn't sound very "round"
Charles Doyle
- Are AS article available online yet?
Bethany K. Dumas
- [slightly OT]: German "englisch" = rare
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Dawgs
Charles Doyle
- elastics, tennies, and 'meant to have'
Paul Johnston
- "Bowl of Red" (chili)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- New wine in an old bottle
Wilson Gray
- Slang poster
neil
- Joke on Liverpudlian speechways
Jonathan Lighter
- Traditional turn of phrase
Jonathan Lighter
- Early "wimp"
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedating: hot-bed (fig.), 1739
Joel S. Berson
- "What part of 'No!' ...?"
Jonathan Lighter
- Reflective
Mark A. Mandel
- "the religious rite"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Orientate [was "the religious rite"]
neil
- What city has two names twice?
James A. Landau
- Correction of Amazon Review of YBQ
Fred Shapiro
- Heard on "Law & Order: CI"
Wilson Gray
- Misnomerous
Jonathan Lighter
- Wetback (1944)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Corrected Amazon Review of YBQ
Stephen Goranson
- ADS-L Digest - on Dawgs
Geoff Nathan
- So, about this message...
GLL
- So, about this message...
Charles Doyle
- So, about this message...
Hillary Brown
- So, about this message...
Hillary Brown
- So, about this message...
Jonathan Lighter
- So, about this message...
Jonathan Lighter
- So, about this message...
Arnold M. Zwicky
- So, about this message...
Mark A. Mandel
- So, about this message...
David Bergdahl
- So, about this message...
Laurence Horn
- So, about this message...
Jonathan Lighter
- Yale Book of . . .
Charles Doyle
- pizzafication
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "Now, [was] 'So, about this message...'"
Joel S. Berson
- "Now, [was] 'So, about this message...'"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "Now, [was] 'So, about this message...'"
Joel S. Berson
- "Now, [was] 'So, about this message...'"
James Smith
- "Now, [was] 'So, about this message...'"
Joel S. Berson
- "Now, [was] 'So, about this message...'"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "Toolkit" (was Re: Heard on "Law & Order: CI")
Jonathan Lighter
- the temporal subordinator "since"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "Neanderthal/ ~tal"
Jonathan Lighter
- Can some native USA English speakers say "awe" or not
Tom Zurinskas
- slang/slant
Tom Zurinskas
- Antedating of "Wetback"
Fred Shapiro
- New meanings for pornography?
David Bowie
- Rumsfeld won't have the guillotine "float down"?
Joel S. Berson
- Dawgs and Mirrors
RonButters at AOL.COM
- ADS Annual Meeting Program 2007
Allan A Metcalf
- Final Call: Submissions for ADS newsletter
Grant Barrett
- "Livingstone, I presume" (Oct. 27, 1871?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Antedating of "Wetback" (another 1920 cite, in Dallas Morning News)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Kicking footballs"
Scot LaFaive
- [Fwd: I'm a reporter with a question]
Salikoko S. Mufwene
- Jesse in the news, literally
Joel S. Berson
- "Well, . . ."
Charles Doyle
- Fifteen minutes of fame
Wilson Gray
- "Braynch"
Wilson Gray
- Slang "no brainer" -- a challenge for translators
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Re: [ADS-L] slang/sla nt
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Crackpot index
Mark A. Mandel
- Knowing one's ass from one's elbow
Mark A. Mandel
- "on the same page" / "If I tell you, I'll have to kill you."
Jonathan Lighter
- "I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you" (Top Gun, 1986)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "...Or are you eating a banana?"
Jonathan Lighter
- [ADS-L] New meanings for pornography?
RonButters at AOL.COM
- cooking roadkill for tea
Lynne Murphy
- ADS at MMLA
Kathryn Remlinger
- discourse-initial discourse markers
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Re: [ADS-L] Slang " no brainer" -- a challenge for translators
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Not "feeling" like losing an accent (dialect?)
Tom Zurinskas
- native USA English speakers say "awe" > Supremes
FRITZ JUENGLING
- "guineas"; also "dagoes"; and a quiz
George Thompson
- "If I tell you, I'll have to kill you."
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- formal news readers
william salmon
- Wordsmith.org online chat with Joan Hall, chief editor, DARE
Wordsmith.org
- "aging myself"
Jonathan Lighter
- [ADS-L] Re: † † † [ADS-L] New meanings for pornography?
RonButters at AOL.COM
- New Joe's Special (1949)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Bowl of Red" (1949)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "comfort station" antedating
Jonathan Lighter
- Fwd: the use of "my"
Laurence Horn
- [Fwd: ads visuals archive? (was: jesse in the news)]
Terry Irons
- "Replaced by a two-inch clamp"
Joel S. Berson
- the use of "my"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Dude Esterbrook
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "attack" (euphem.)
Jonathan Lighter
- Bullcorn
Wilson Gray
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