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- My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos (planet mnemonic)
Robert Fitzke
- Allow meaning 'provide the ability to'
Laurence Horn
- "scurred"
Scot LaFaive
- "Since many years"
Douglas G. Wilson
- "My very educated mother just served us nine pickles" (1966)
David Bowie
- purpose of WOTY contests
RonButters at AOL.COM
- eggcorn alert: when misparsing becomes a fixture
Laurence Horn
- "on beha(l)ve of"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- ROYGBIV
Mark A. Mandel
- wreak/wreck
Mark A. Mandel
- a >> the *and more*
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Microsoft files patent for verb conjugation software
Grant Barrett
- "stuck on stupid"
Jonathan Lighter
- Re: [ADS-L] purpose of WOTY contests
RonButters at AOL.COM
- King Ranch Casserole (1967); Bacon Strip District; Golden Corridor; Godzillatron
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "ascribe to" = "subscribe to"
Jonathan Lighter
- Ox Eyes & Eggs in Hell (egg dishes)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- New cite for "Whole Nine Yards" (1967)
Sam Clements
- Idiom "sweat bullets"-----influence of German?
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "contemptuous" = "contemptible"
Jonathan Lighter
- Wishbone (1968?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Spin and Truthiness
Troy
- "Three things happen on pass, two of them bad" (1963)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "ironically" again
Jonathan Lighter
- hayneous
Jonathan Lighter
- Re: [ADS-L] "ironical ly" again
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Howdied but ain't shook; Cow on Astroturf; This ain't my first rodeo
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- [ADS-L] Microsoft fil es patent for verb conjugation software
RonButters at AOL.COM
- [ADS-L] a >> the *and more*
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "Handy as hip pockets on a hog" (1934)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- No subject
Charles Doyle
- [ADS-L]
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Fwd: ex-acronyms
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Google to Offer Deep-Web Searches
Grant Barrett
- Fwd: Google to Offer Deep-Web Searches
Grant Barrett
- Eggcorn: "undo"
Charles Doyle
- all of the sudden, one at the time, still in the bed
RonButters at AOL.COM
- all of the sudden, one at the time, still in the bed
Laurence Horn
- all of the sudden, one at the time, still in the bed
Arnold M. Zwicky
- all of the sudden, one at the time, still in the bed
Arnold M. Zwicky
- all of the sudden, one at the time, still in the bed
Laurence Horn
- all of the sudden, one at the time, still in the bed
Arnold M. Zwicky
- all of the sudden, one at the time, still in the bed
RonButters at AOL.COM
- all of the sudden, one at the time, still in the bed
Laurence Horn
- all of the sudden, one at the time, still in the bed
Wilson Gray
- all of the sudden, one at the time, still in the bed
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- all of the sudden, one at the time, still in the bed
Laurence Horn
- all of the sudden, one at the time, still in the bed
Margaret Lee
- ex-acronyms
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "Notes About Negroes"
Wilson Gray
- source of "orphan initialism"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- ADS-L SOME MESSAGES AREN'T COMING THROUGH
RonButters at AOL.COM
- euphemism of the year
Barnhart
- "which" = "who, whom"
Jonathan Lighter
- ADS words of the year in today's NYT
Martin, Katherine
- missing messages
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Re: [ADS-L] all of the sudden, one at the time, still in the bed
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Missing messages (part 2)
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Invariant innit, isn ´t it
David Sutcliffe
- Invariant innit, isn ´t it
Salikoko S. Mufwene
- Invariant innit, isn ´t it
Grant Barrett
- Invariant innit, isn ´t it
Barnhart
- Invariant innit, isn ´t it
Barnhart
- Invariant innit, isn ´t it
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Invariant innit, isn ´t it
Jonathon Green
- Invariant innit, isn ´t it
Benjamin Zimmer
- Invariant innit, isn ´t it
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Invariant innit, isn ´t it
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Invariant innit, isn ´t it
Matthew Gordon
- Invariant innit, isn ´t it
Salikoko S. Mufwene
- Invariant innit, isn ´t it
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Invariant innit, isn ´t it
Matthew Gordon
- Invariant innit, isn ´t it
ddr11
- Invariant innit, isn ´t it
Jonathon Green
- Invariant innit, isn ´t it
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Invariant innit, isn ´t it
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Call for Submission: Newsletter of ADS
Grant Barrett
- all of "the sudden, one at the time, still in the" bed
Laurence Horn
- "Re: Invariant innit, isn ´t it"
Laurence Horn
- Call for Submissions: Newsletter of ADS
Grant Barrett
- The Meaning of Truthiness
Baker, John
- it pays to increase your word power...
Laurence Horn
- scribbling
RonButters at AOL.COM
- [ADS-L] it pays to increase your word power...
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "Microsoft [to patent] Verb Conjugations"
Wilson Gray
- "Christianist" update
Arnold M. Zwicky
- perils of interview research
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "Uglier than a hat full of ass"
Wilson Gray
- "a thousand per cent"
Jonathan Lighter
- Fred Shapiro in Yale Alumni Magazine
Benjamin Zimmer
- skid row(1931) and "skid road"
Sam Clements
- Texas omelet
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Texas Timex (gold Rolex watch)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "out" = "later"
Jonathan Lighter
- Texas Straw Hat/Egg Roll/Tornado Cake/Sheet Cake/Bumper
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Antedating of "Free World"
Fred Shapiro
- "Breakfast of Champions" (menudo) (1973)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Doing badly what should not be attempted?
Joel S. Berson
- another orphan
Laurence Horn
- "croissant" as a zero plural
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Life of Riley (1918)
Dave Wilton
- "Don't Panic--It's Organic" (1990)
bapopik at AOL.COM
- "no such thing as (a) free lunch" (1943)
Sam Clements
- USC
Charles Doyle
- USC
Fred Shapiro
- USC
Laurence Horn
- USC
Bethany K. Dumas
- USC
Dave Wilton
- USC
Fred Shapiro
- USC
Roger Shuy
- USC
FRITZ JUENGLING
- USC
Duane Campbell
- USC
Arnold M. Zwicky
- USC
Arnold M. Zwicky
- USC
Laurence Horn
- USC
David Bergdahl
- USC
FRITZ JUENGLING
- USC
Arnold M. Zwicky
- USC
Arnold M. Zwicky
- USC
Martin, Katherine
- USC
FRITZ JUENGLING
- USC
Arnold M. Zwicky
- USC
Alice Faber
- USC
Fred Shapiro
- USC
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- USC
sagehen
- USC
Charles Doyle
- USC
Arnold M. Zwicky
- USC
Arnold M. Zwicky
- USC
Charles Doyle
- USC
Laurence Horn
- USC
Arnold M. Zwicky
- USC
Duane Campbell
- USC
Beverly Flanigan
- USC
Beverly Flanigan
- USC
hpst at earthlink.net
- USC
Arnold M. Zwicky
- USC
Laurence Horn
- USC
Arnold M. Zwicky
- USC
David Lonergan
- USC
Charles Doyle
- USC
Matthew Gordon
- USC
Beverly Flanigan
- USC
Matthew Gordon
- USC
Bethany K. Dumas
- USC
Wilson Gray
- USC
Beverly Flanigan
- USC
David Lonergan
- USC
Charles Doyle
- USC
Dave Wilton
- USC
Wilson Gray
- USC
James Smith
- USC
James Smith
- USC
Wilson Gray
- USC
Charles Doyle
- USC
Charles Doyle
- USC
sagehen
- USC
Paul Johnson
- USC
Mark A. Mandel
- USC
Mark A. Mandel
- ironic
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Home Desperate (Home Depot) (1998)
bapopik at AOL.COM
- Re: [ADS-L] USC
RonButters at AOL.COM
- FoxNews.com: Sept. 11 Creates New Lexicon
Benjamin Zimmer
- they don't make words like they used to
Laurence Horn
- "Kitchen table "
Charles Doyle
- ADS-L Digest - 9 Sep 2006 to 10 Sep 2006 (#2006-253)
James A. Landau
- access to AmSp archives
Barnhart
- begs the question
Nathan Bierma
- begs the question (re-sending)
Nathan Bierma
- Fwd: [Fwd: Urban Word of the Day: pluto]
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "have ever been"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- for the (pretty) new word files...
Laurence Horn
- [Fwd: Urban Word of the Day: pluto]
Benjamin Zimmer
- Like croissant, like quiche, focaccia and ciabatta
Chris F Waigl
- Like croissant, like quiche, focaccia and ciabatta
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Like croissant, like quiche, focaccia and ciabatta
Chris F Waigl
- Like croissant, like quiche, focaccia and ciabatta
Mark A. Mandel
- Like croissant, like quiche, focaccia and ciabatta
Benjamin Zimmer
- Like croissant, like quiche, focaccia and ciabatta
Mark A. Mandel
- Like croissant, like quiche, focaccia and ciabatta
Chris F. Waigl
- Like croissant, like quiche, focaccia and ciabatta
Mark A. Mandel
- Innit?
Salikoko S. Mufwene
- [ADS-L] "have ever been"
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "battle of/ war between the sexes"
Jonathan Lighter
- "Rock paper scissors" vs. "Rock scissors paper"
James Callan
- "gun-tackle" antedating
Jonathan Lighter
- "experiential" query
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- more on university names on Language Log
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Question for the quotation gurus
Alice Faber
- to anyone with answers
Alex Freeman
- "taxonation"
Joel S. Berson
- auf, v. (Project Runway)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Tom Dalzell's Book in CHOICE
Fred Shapiro
- mancation
Benjamin Zimmer
- Readex Announces New America's Historical Newspapers Interface
Loiterstein, David
- "Windy City" & "Big Apple" both wrong in Early Show Ken Jennings interview
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Mex-Mex and New Mex-Mex
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Beltbuster" sandwich (Texas Dairy Queens); OT: CBS responds!
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- FYI: Ken Jennings responds about "Early Show" mistakes (9-13-06)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Texas Gold" tea; Wikipedia really sucks
bapopik at AOL.COM
- "will have" = "undoubtedly did"
Jonathan Lighter
- English accent
David Bergdahl
- Fwd: History Channel TV Interviews (fwd)
Laurence Horn
- History Channel TV Interviews (fwd)
Michael Adams
- query
Beverly Flanigan
- "anniversary": losing the 'year' connection
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Lallygag (1859)
Dave Wilton
- query--("next to nobody")
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Jay-Z on "bag" (v.)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Gene Weingarten on the pronunciation of "what"
Benjamin Zimmer
- [ADS-L] "anniversary": losing the 'year' connection
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Studies in Slang, VII: table of contents
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Middlehand - traffic report
Towse
- betting on the facts
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "Co-founder forks Wikipedia"
Wilson Gray
- Pre-Loved ("used"); Texas Sunrise (Rig Red + Tequila)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Pre-Loved ("used"); ....
sagehen
- "Calvary" again
Jonathan Lighter
- "Chick" = nickname for "Charles"
Jonathan Lighter
- eggcorns: scrupleless and moribound
Gordon, Matthew J.
- OT journal online
Gordon, Matthew J.
- Antedating of "Founding Fathers"
Fred Shapiro
- Staging (a house)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Warren Harding & "Founding Fathers"
Fred Shapiro
- "like," intrans.
Jonathan Lighter
- Canadien (was Re: English accent)
Mark A. Mandel
- "knocking on the door"
Charles Doyle
- Newspaperarchive content; Mancation
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Spooktacular (Halloween spectacular) (1897, 1943)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Bargaining Chip (1941); Trick or Treat (1934)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Signoff ADS-L
Roger Shuy
- how better to... than... ?
Arnold M. Zwicky
- today's Bizarro cartoon
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "Obsolete," but still in use
Wilson Gray
- "Obsolete," but still in use
Charles Doyle
- "Obsolete," but still in use
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "Obsolete," but still in use
Wilson Gray
- "Obsolete," but still in use
Jonathan Lighter
- "Obsolete," but still in use
Wilson Gray
- "Obsolete," but still in use
Bethany K. Dumas
- "Obsolete," but still in use
Jonathan Lighter
- "Obsolete," but still in use
Barnhart
- "Obsolete," but still in use
Michael Quinion
- "Obsolete," but still in use
Laurence Horn
- "Obsolete," but still in use
Michael Quinion
- "Obsolete," but still in use
Clai Rice
- "Obsolete," but still in use
Wilson Gray
- "Obsolete," but still in use
Alainna Wrigley
- "Obsolete," but still in use
Wilson Gray
- "Obsolete," but still in use
Jonathan Lighter
- "Obsolete," but still in use
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "Obsolete," but still in use
Jonathan Lighter
- "Obsolete," but still in use
Laurence Horn
- Chili Queen & Chiquita & How's tricks?
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Dallas County Jail Chili" or "Texas Prison Chili" (1976)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Dallas County Jail Chili (1966, 1968, 1976)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- beans, tomatoes, and ground meat
william salmon
- "scurrilous" = "wicked"
Jonathan Lighter
- Niger/Nigger (etc.)
Joel S. Berson
- Mr./Mrs./Miss [first-name]
Joel S. Berson
- OED news -- two new books about English
Joel S. Berson
- Dallas County Jail Chili (1966, 1968, 1976); Newspaperarchive; ADS-L
bapopik at AOL.COM
- White Glove Building (1983?)
bapopik at AOL.COM
- The twelfth of never
Joanne M. Despres
- BBC
FRITZ JUENGLING
- Hi!
Wilson Gray
- Hi!
Brenda Lester
- Hi!
Wilson Gray
- Hi!
FRITZ JUENGLING
- Hi!
Brenda Lester
- Hi!
Wilson Gray
- winkle-pickers
sagehen
- oops!
sagehen
- kurd or curd = corn stalks?
David Bergdahl
- "... Enough to make a black man blush!"
Wilson Gray
- Tenny Runners (tennis shoes) (1965)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Royal Society archive free for two months, 1665-date
Sam Clements
- More semantic drift
Jonathan Lighter
- inflammate = to inflame
Jonathan Lighter
- Tenny runners
sagehen
- "be on the milk carton" = 'be missing in action' (esp. in sports context)
Laurence Horn
- Tenny runners...
Jonathan Lighter
- Wordsmith.org online chat with Paul Dickson: Labels for Locals
Wordsmith.org
- "write," n. = "something intended to be read; a writing."
Jonathan Lighter
- "write," n. = "something intended to be read; a writing."
Laurence Horn
- "write," n. = "something intended to be read; a writing."
Charles Doyle
- "write," n. = "something intended to be read; a writing."
Jesse Sheidlower
- "write," n. = "something intended to be read; a writing."
Charles Doyle
- "write," n. = "something intended to be read; a writing."
Jonathan Lighter
- "write," n. = "something intended to be read; a writing."
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "write," n. = "something intended to be read; a writing."
Charles Doyle
- "write," n. = "something intended to be read; a writing."
Jonathan Lighter
- "write," n. = "something intended to be read; a writing."
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "write," n. = "something intended to be read; a writing."
Wilson Gray
- "write," n. = "something intended to be read; a writing."
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- "write," n. = "something intended to be read; a writing."
Jonathan Lighter
- "write," n. = "something intended to be read; a writing."
Charles Doyle
- "write," n. = "something intended to be read; a writing."
Jonathan Lighter
- "write," n. = "something intended to be read; a writing."
sagehen
- mutual (friend etc.)
Chris F Waigl
- NYU diss
George Thompson
- Antedating of "Meteorite"
Fred Shapiro
- "... heat-sinking missile."
Wilson Gray
- "meant to have"
sagehen
- Chili Head (1963)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- athletic shoes (and home furnishings)
Arnold M. Zwicky
- athletic shoes (yellow pages)
sagehen
- Dating of "blackmail" = 'any payment extorted by intimidation'?
Joel S. Berson
- "Up in G" (1889)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Jesus" = male prostitute who entraps; compare "Judas goat"
Joel S. Berson
- "Steers and Queers" (1982)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- OED2 does not have "blackmail" from Scott, "Rob Roy", possibly 1817?
Joel S. Berson
- Second singular thou
David Sutcliffe
- yellow pages
Joel S. Berson
- "drop by"-- was: Re: "meant to have"
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- elastics, tennies, and 'meant to have'
Lynne Murphy
- elastics, tennies, and 'meant to have'
Jonathan Lighter
- elastics, tennies, and 'meant to have'
Alice Faber
- elastics, tennies, and 'meant to have'
Jonathan Lighter
- elastics, tennies, and 'meant to have'
Alice Faber
- elastics, tennies, and 'meant to have'
Geoff Nathan
- "Ucla"
Charles Doyle
- corn curd
sagehen
- Ozzies . . .
Charles Doyle
- "There are no atheists in [the] foxholes"
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- trimmen - Dutch to English slang
neil
- "Danaergeschenk" as "Greek gift" or "Trojan horse"?
Joel S. Berson
- eggcorn-orthodentist
Lynne Murphy
- "Goodfellas," the book and the movie
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "The Horla" [was "Danaergeschenk"]
Joel S. Berson
- "Gasp!"
Jonathan Lighter
- more morphological reshaping: longetivity
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "novel" once again
Jonathan Lighter
- Machine-sorting of fact and opinion for Homeland Security?
Wilson Gray
- when "intercourse" got funny
Jonathan Lighter
- when "talk" was "f--k"
Joel S. Berson
- Eggcorn or malapropism? "midriff-bearing"
Joel S. Berson
- Newspaperarchive has Austin (TX) newspapers?
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Re: [ADS-L] when "i ntercourse" got funny
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Celebrinerd (2006)
James Callan
- doughnut hole (gap in Medicare drug coverage)
Benjamin Zimmer
- singular y'all
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "It isn't nice to fool Mother Nature!"
Jonathan Lighter
- shopadmins
Benjamin Zimmer
- Re: [ADS-L] singular y'all
RonButters at AOL.COM
- singular "y'all"
Jonathan Lighter
- purple drank, lean
Benjamin Zimmer
- vote early and often
Dennis Baron
- test
J Manning
- What?
Wilson Gray
- [ADS-L] vote early and often
RonButters at AOL.COM
- conduction
David Bergdahl
- Who said it?
Laurence Horn
- vote early and often; Re: purple drank, lean
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "abominal" =abominable
Jonathan Lighter
- "House design was his special gifting"; was Re: conduction
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- [ADS-L] conduction
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Re Re: [ADS-L] conduction
sagehen
- when "intercourse" got funny and where the pale is
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Austin (TX) newspapers still not on Newspaperarchive (continued saga)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Wal-Mart's "Persians" (Pershings?) (1928), Bismarks, and Long Johns
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Red Eye" on Chicago Accent, Windy City, Chicago Hot Dogs
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "dominate" =dominant
Jonathan Lighter
- saying "ah" for "awe"
Tom Zurinskas
- Polvorones (Mexican wedding cookies) (1941)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- [ADS-L] saying "ah" for "awe"
RonButters at AOL.COM
- ah/ awe
Jonathan Lighter
- preadolescent "tortures"
Geoffrey Nunberg
- NOT and KNOT were different
RonButters at AOL.COM
- The mysteries of paintballing
Joel S. Berson
- "fanelights"
Lynne Murphy
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