April 2007 Archives by thread
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- Google to translate text untouched by human hands.
Dennis Baron
- Unsubscribe
Anita
- Grind House
Wilson Gray
- Tody Hamilton phrase (Barnum's press agent)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- The new "evangelism"
Jonathan Lighter
- "vaccine"
Dave Wilton
- Ofaginzy redux--("au fait" = socially proper, genteel)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- stone soup
James A. Landau
- "replace" in place of "substitute"
Mark A. Mandel
- Ofaginzy redux
Dave Hause
- pollution for pollination
sagehen
- Earlier Known Usage of "Sod"
Fred Shapiro
- Variety
Barclay Walsh
- Safire/NY Times (request re "grab ahold) (fwd)
Mark A. Mandel
- Book Review: LA Times -- re 'the N word'
Doug Harris
- "post-traumatic syndrome" 1960
James A. Landau
- Hi!
Wilson Gray
- Hi!
Jesse Sheidlower
- Hi!
Wilson Gray
- Hi!
Rachel Berardinelli
- Hi!
Bethany K. Dumas
- Hi!
James Harbeck
- Hi!
Scot LaFaive
- Hi!
Jonathan Lighter
- Hi!
Rachel Berardinelli
- Hi!
Laurence Horn
- Hi!
Scot LaFaive
- Hi!
Alice Faber
- Hi!
James Harbeck
- Hi!
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Hi!
Paul Johnson
- Hi!
Charles Doyle
- Hi!
Jonathan Lighter
- Hi!
Tom Zurinskas
- Hi!
Laurence Horn
- Fwd: Safire/NY Times
Arnold M. Zwicky
- SIGN-OFF ADS
Alexandra Burguieres
- Guard-house" once = "jail / gaol"?
Wilson Gray
- Duh on Duh, or I Never Met a Phor I Couldn't Mix With
Doug Harris
- Antedating of Bazooka(the instrument) 1918
Jonathan Lighter
- "Sopranos" Quotes & Terms
Fred Shapiro
- metaphorical aboard = on board with
Mark A. Mandel
- Checkmating -- Is This Usage Exceptional?
Doug Harris
- Research Tip: 156 Years of Harper's Now Online
Grant Barrett
- welcomely
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Literacy in American sports?
Joel S. Berson
- Don't you call ME Ugly
Doug Harris
- Retarded WAS Re: Hi!
James Harbeck
- Hi!... BTW
Rachel Berardinelli
- Antedating of "Postmodern"
Fred Shapiro
- phunk/phunky?
Oliver Wang
- "Right Stuff" Not in OED
Fred Shapiro
- pimpin'
Bethany K. Dumas
- "Speak softly and carry a big stick" letter worth $200,000?
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- assorted comments
James A. Landau
- "tranch[e]"
Joel S. Berson
- Tranche
Geoff Nathan
- Antedatings of "Right Stuff"
Fred Shapiro
- couple (was Re: assorted comments)
Mark A. Mandel
- entr ées
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Rudith (Rudy Giuliani + Judy Nathan-Giuliani)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Expleetive"
Jonathan Lighter
- "Plain bays for Jenny's"?
Joel S. Berson
- "Our friends, the Saudis"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Pontius "Pie Late"; prolific
Jonathan Lighter
- "black as Caesar's tail"
Lee Murrah
- "Addend" as a verb: Eggcorn?
Marc Sacks
- "As far as . . ."
Charles Doyle
- For Gingrich, English is global, Spanish is ghetto
Dennis Baron
- Chow Hound (1916? 1917?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Usage of 'Nexis' is Baffling
Doug Harris
- Pontius "Pie Late"
Joel S. Berson
- fag out
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Nexis -
Severinka
- "Cascarones" not in OED?
bapopik at AOL.COM
- "entomology" = etymology or linguistics; "heresay"
Jonathan Lighter
- "entomology" = etymology or linguistics
Joel S. Berson
- accusative cursing
Michael H Covarrubias
- Mystery of "Eggs Benedict" (Sunday NY Times, City section)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Fall Guy (1903-1904)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- siren call
James Harbeck
- two NYT articles on word origins
Robert Greenman
- Eggs Benedict (1904)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- site seeing
James Harbeck
- Rank-sounding names?
GLL
- ADS-L Digest - 6 Apr 2007 to 7 Apr 2007 (#2007-98)
Prof. Roland Sussex
- "vir JINE al"; "dimestore novel"
Jonathan Lighter
- OT: "Free Willy" = porno?
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- This just in: grinded
Mark A. Mandel
- Trademarks Lexis and Lexus (was nexis is baffling)
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Fwd: Chris Waigl in the Boston Globe
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Further Disclosure
Fred Shapiro
- Still Further Disclosure
Fred Shapiro
- Re: [ADS-L] Trademark s Lexis and Lexus (was nexis is baffling)
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Q is no longer unattractive
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Lexus
RonButters at AOL.COM
- What is the least used letter?
Tom Zurinskas
- "Helvetica" turns 50, still not in OED?
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- blackberry winter / Indian summer
Charles Doyle
- Eggcorns on BBC Radio 4
Benjamin Zimmer
- "Pretexting": new?
Wilson Gray
- They say "Ih-slip", I say "Aye-slip"
Joel S. Berson
- relishes / revels in
Charles Doyle
- Imus
Joel S. Berson
- OED & Jigaboo
Scot LaFaive
- STOP SENDING ME MAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sean C Lynch Painting
- plain speaking; sexist lg and more
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Hot like what?
Laurence Horn
- "Airstrip"??? (Was "Ih-slip", I say "Aye-slip")
Doug Harris
- "Frankfurter" and "Wiener"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- some jazzy cites
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Chocolate Brownies (1903)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Chocolate Brownie (1898); Blondie (1941)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Antedating of "Bat Out of Hell"
Fred Shapiro
- STOP SENDING ME MAIL!
Michael H Covarrubias
- Anthropods [sic]
Jonathan Lighter
- Quotable quote?
Wilson Gray
- Overdriving
Doug Harris
- think your way thin
Michael Israel
- more begging of the question.
Michael H Covarrubias
- accusative cursing - phonemic, lexemic
Tom Zurinskas
- query on "what all"
Laurence Horn
- black as Caesar's tail
Joan H. Hall
- Commendatory cursing; "we-all's"
Jonathan Lighter
- "China to Ban Chinglish for '08 Olympics"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- “Young chicken without sex”: China bans Ch inglish for Olympics
Dennis Baron
- FW: Commendatory cursing; "we-all's"
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "Ho"
Charles Doyle
- "Mind-bottling"--a deliberate egg-corn
Seán Fitzpatrick
- meh
Nathan Bierma
- Query for Charlie-nim
Wilson Gray
- "tail-doved"
Joel S. Berson
- Chicken Kiev (1938) (Chicken Supreme?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Coney Island (hot dog) (1897)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Tee-nine-see
Dennis R. Preston
- accusative cursing - stress
Tom Zurinskas
- Kelsie Harder Obituary
Fred Shapiro
- Coney Island (1895)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Coney (Island) sauce (1938,1940)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Possible Antedating of "Scientology"
Fred Shapiro
- WOTY for 2007?
Joel S. Berson
- Skin In The Gane
Doug Harris
- "solacious" for consolatory
sagehen
- "first flight" and "top flight"
Sam Clements
- "glass closet"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Skin In The Game
Doug Harris
- verbing in the Stanford Chaparral
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Washington Post Op-ed
Fred Shapiro
- Skin In The Gane> jump
FRITZ JUENGLING
- eggcorn: "to name a view"
Benjamin Zimmer
- "brim for a fight"
Jonathan Lighter
- Fwd: Crosspost from LL: Resource for Teaching Accents and Dialects
Laurence Horn
- Stoopit!
GLL
- "bigfoot" as verb?
Susan Burt
- change from the bottom up was re: accusative cursing
Amy West
- ADS-L Digest - 9 Apr 2007 to 10 Apr 2007 (#2007-101)
Amy West
- "brim for a fight" -- I'm done
Doug Harris
- fuck you money
Darla Wells
- more on "entr ée"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Railroad cart
Seán Fitzpatrick
- Einstein on bees
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- "macabre"
Jonathan Lighter
- IMMORTAL. etc. -=- WAS Railroad cart
Doug Harris
- stick a fork in - - I'm done
Jonathan Lighter
- Piraha
Jonathan Lighter
- Counting only to two
Joel S. Berson
- POSH Redefined
Doug Harris
- Eggcorn?
Wilson Gray
- New?
Wilson Gray
- "protection" = condom
Jonathan Lighter
- Kitty Carlisle Hart, chairman?
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- IMMORTAL. etc.
Paul Johnson
- change from the bottom up
Beverly Flanigan
- Fwd: Rejected posting to ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Dennis Preston
- Rejected posting to ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Wilson Gray
- Remediation =$25k wd
sagehen
- Fwd [crosspost from LL]: Counter to Pirahan-immediacy thesis?
Laurence Horn
- New words for "nuts"
Jonathan Lighter
- stompin' in the north
James Harbeck
- Wikipedia on "Hippie"
Fred Shapiro
- Modifying One's Language
Doug Harris
- SOL
Doug Harris
- K ärcher (to clean; French political v erb for ghetto cleaning)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Enhanced Threat-- or, Who Can/Can't Say What
Doug Harris
- "Partial-Birth"
Fred Shapiro
- The Korean(-American) passive "himself"?
Joel S. Berson
- flubdub
Jonathan Lighter
- flubadub
Jonathan Lighter
- Gay White Way vs Great White Way
Doug Harris
- Stomp (was Rejected posting to ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU)
Seán Fitzpatrick
- Call: Session on Teaching HEL at SHEL 5
Lisa Cohen Minnick
- FW: Railroad cart
Seán Fitzpatrick
- "If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will own guns" (1968)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Antedating of "Metadata" in Another Sense
Fred Shapiro
- "step away from the X"
James Harbeck
- webscab
Clai Rice
- attributed to Kissinger
James A. Landau
- "Winningest" -- a proper word?
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- y'all
James Harbeck
- Kelsie Harder obituary in Sunday New York Times
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- The Korean(-American) passive "himself
Charles Doyle
- antedating?: "top dollar"
Jonathan Lighter
- Yale Book of Quotations review in American Libraries
Mark A. Mandel
- antedating?: "top dollar" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Eggcorn: override -> overwrite
David Bowie
- euphems.: "fornicating"; "futtering"
Jonathan Lighter
- antedating of "yow"
Jonathan Lighter
- Sympathy pounds (1998)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- English makes you fat
Dennis Baron
- David Halberstam dies ("the best and the brightest")
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- More on "calvary"
Jonathan Lighter
- "throw down" redux
Benjamin Zimmer
- "beril" of a ship?
Joel S. Berson
- "beril" of a ship? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Another "fact" = notion, posited idea
Jonathan Lighter
- Irrevelant: (was More on: "calvary")
Michael Israel
- slang names for poker hands
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Great Quotes of 2006
Jonathan Lighter
- "Beril" on an 18th c. naval vessel
Joel S. Berson
- Upstate New York stamp vs. stomp
David Bowie
- "Same time, same station"
Jonathan Lighter
- yet another dirty potsing from GAT
George Thompson
- Mockolate (1996, from FRIENDS?); Chocolike (2003)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Gustando (gust + tornado) (1991)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- What's a Hokie? (Hokey-Pokey? That's what it's all about?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Eggcorn?? Deepseeded
Margaret Lee
- "Re: More on "calvary"
Landau, James
- "Hoc _enim est_ corpus meum"
Wilson Gray
- "ropes" vs. "lines" [Was "beril" of a ship?]
Jonathan Lighter
- [?] Gustando (gust + tornado) (1991)
Barnhart
- Piraha: counting & The Story of One
Amy West
- Your write "Cartagena", I write "Carthagena" [was: "beril" of a ship?]
Joel S. Berson
- MILF (was Re: change from the bottom up)
Benjamin Zimmer
- AP on Hillary's multidialectalism
Benjamin Zimmer
- shirker: huh?
Jonathan Lighter
- Not Quite an Eggcorn, but...
Doug Harris
- "like" avoidance/correction
Matthew Gordon
- Event announcement: Wordsmith.org online chat with Julie Barlow, author The Story of French
Wordsmith.org
- popular nuance of "regular"
Jonathan Lighter
- Hillary Clinton: Runs like a man, talks like a girl
Dennis Baron
- ping pong balls (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "novel" = narrative, definitive ex.
Jonathan Lighter
- telegraphese (was RE: Eggcorn?? Deepseeded)
Clai Rice
- douchebag
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Hillary Clinton and "Southern" language
William Salmon
- hoo-ha as euphemism (revisited)
Laurence Horn
- Nice "What happens in X stays in X"
Jesse Sheidlower
- Canadians
Mircea Sauciuc
- Canadians/poor tippers
Paul Johnson
- "series" for indeterminate number
sagehen
- No "Yee-ha!" in _Red River_ ?
Jonathan Lighter
- Prime "Yee-Ha"! Vector Identified At Last
Jonathan Lighter
- "Fall Guy" in William Safire's column
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Knock yourself out!"
Wilson Gray
- Canadians & tipping
Tamara O'Callaghan
- Evil passive voice
Jonathan Lighter
- triage in medical sense (1918)
Dave Wilton
- more excrescent "'s"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- eggcorn or pun?
Laurence Horn
- eggcorns or... ?
Doug Harris
- Collateral damage
Landau, James
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