December 2007 Archives by thread
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- Query---"tap" = possum?
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Fwd: Re: early instances of the word "television"
Dennis During
- more lost subjunctive; protest at
James Harbeck
- Origin of "Murphy's Law" Pushed Back to 1911
Shapiro, Fred
- Holiday tree" vs. "Christmas tree"
Jonathan Lighter
- OT: lashes [Was: more lost subjunctive; protest at]
Joel S. Berson
- Antedating of "Movie"
Shapiro, Fred
- Shag Fund; Sex on the City
Dan Goodman
- Further Antedating of "Movie"
Shapiro, Fred
- And Still Further Antedating of "Movie"
Shapiro, Fred
- Even Further Antedating of "Movie"
Shapiro, Fred
- Chanukah poem
JAMES A. LANDAU Netscape. Just the Net You Need.
- wingman
JAMES A. LANDAU Netscape. Just the Net You Need.
- Eggcorn: "toffee"
Jesse Sheidlower
- Origin of "Murphy's Law" Pushed Back to 1911 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- FYAmusement: The Word Song
Mark Mandel
- to "incent"
Jonathan Lighter
- "Movie" & "Photoplay"
Barry Popik
- MILF on Spirit Airlines
Geoff Nathan
- Origin of "Murphy's Law" Pushed Back to 1911 (now OT:)
Mark Mandel
- [antedating] mellerdrammer, meller
Benjamin Zimmer
- baseball cursing, 1898
Benjamin Zimmer
- baseball cursing, 1898
George Thompson
- baseball cursing, 1898
Steve Grant
- baseball cursing, 1898
Jonathan Lighter
- baseball cursing, 1898
Baker, John
- baseball cursing, 1898
Douglas G. Wilson
- baseball cursing, 1898
Jonathan Lighter
- baseball cursing, 1898
George Thompson
- baseball cursing, 1898
Jesse Sheidlower
- baseball cursing, 1898
Baker, John
- baseball cursing, 1898
Benjamin Zimmer
- baseball cursing, 1898
Jesse Sheidlower
- baseball cursing, 1898
Jonathan Lighter
- baseball cursing, 1898
Joel S. Berson
- baseball cursing, 1898
Benjamin Zimmer
- baseball cursing, 1898
Jonathan Lighter
- baseball cursing, 1898
Charles Doyle
- Tortilla Soup/Aztec Soup
Barry Popik
- 100 Issues of Vocabula
Robert Hartwell Fiske
- hot philologist explains "hot dog" origin
Benjamin Zimmer
- Origin of "Murphy's Law" Pushed Back to 1911 (now OT:) (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "Jazz Means Happy and Loose Like" (1917)
Benjamin Zimmer
- "Jazz Means Happy and Loose Like" (1917) (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Tortilla Soup/Aztec Soup (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "Rastus" (was: Re: [ADS-L] "Jazz Means Happy and Loose Like" (1917))
Jesse Sheidlower
- The Broncks', the borough of my childhood, fades away
Joel S. Berson
- The Broncks', the borough of my childhood, fades away
Arnold M. Zwicky
- The Broncks', the borough of my childhood, fades away
Joel S. Berson
- The Broncks', the borough of my childhood, fades away
James Harbeck
- The Broncks', the borough of my childhood, fades away
Doug Harris
- The Broncks', the borough of my childhood, fades away
Geoff Nathan
- The Broncks', the borough of my childhood, fades away
Joel S. Berson
- The Broncks', the borough of my childhood, fades away
James Smith
- The Broncks', the borough of my childhood, fades away
Paul Johnston
- The Broncks', the borough of my childhood, fades away
Paul
- The Broncks', the borough of my childhood, fades away
Dan Goodman
- The Broncks', the borough of my childhood, fades away
David Donnell
- The Broncks', the borough of my childhood, fades away
Paul Johnston
- The Broncks', the borough of my childhood, fades away
Mark Mandel
- The Broncks', the borough of my childhood, fades away
Mark Mandel
- The Broncks', the borough of my childhood, fades away
Laurence Horn
- The Broncks', the borough of my childhood, fades away
Laurence Horn
- The Broncks', the borough of my childhood, fades away
Joel S. Berson
- The Broncks', the borough of my childhood, fades away
Joel S. Berson
- The Broncks', the borough of my childhood, fades away
Laurence Horn
- The Broncks', the borough of my childhood, fades away
James Harbeck
- The Broncks', the borough of my childhood, fades away
Joel S. Berson
- The Broncks', the borough of my childhood, fades away
Laurence Horn
- The Broncks', the borough of my childhood, fades away
James Harbeck
- The Broncks', the borough of my childhood, fades away
Seán Fitzpatrick
- The Broncks', the borough of my childhood, fades away
Michael Quinion
- The Broncks', the borough of my childhood, fades away
Michael Quinion
- The Broncks', the borough of my childhood, fades away
Joel S. Berson
- The Broncks', the borough of my childhood, fades away
Mark Mandel
- The Broncks', the borough of my childhood, fades away
Laurence Horn
- The Broncks', the borough of my childhood, fades away
Jim Parish
- The Broncks', the borough of my childhood, fades away
Jim Parish
- The Broncks', the borough of my childhood, fades away
Mark Mandel
- The Broncks', the borough of my childhood, fades away
Mark Mandel
- The Broncks', the borough of my childhood, fades away
Joel S. Berson
- slave names [Was: "Jazz (etc.)]
Joel S. Berson
- Rastuses
Joel S. Berson
- eriadite
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Croque madame and [an]arthrocity
Joel S. Berson
- Atole / Champurrado / Salep
Benjamin Barrett
- Intersexual/gender-neutral pronouns
Benjamin Barrett
- Barry Popik's research on food terminology
Gerald Cohen
- "Rastus" < "Jazz Means Happy and Loose Like" (1917)
Charles Doyle
- "Miss Television" in 1933 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Amy West
- Coffee as a last name
Joel S. Berson
- Very OT: Uncle Remus frightened me as a child Re: "Jazz Means Happy and Loose Like" (1917)
Amy West
- Poor man's latte / ghetto latte
Benjamin Barrett
- ADS-L on Language Log
Arnold M. Zwicky
- swang
James Harbeck
- Very OT: Uncle Remus frightened me as a child
Kate Daly
- Brooklyn Style Pizza
Dan Goodman
- Friggle
neil
- Low-Slung As Body Description
Doug Harris
- Rastus (was: "Jazz Means Happy and Loose Like" (1917))
Mark Mandel
- Very OT: Uncle Remus frightened me as a child Re: "Jazz Means Happy and Loose Like" (1917) (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- baseball cursing, 1898 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Nice interdating of GenX "so"
Jesse Sheidlower
- Antedating of "Journalism" and "Journalistic"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Bibliography"
Shapiro, Fred
- More 19th Cent obscenities (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- More 19th Cent obscenities
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Vulgar Indian names (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Antedating of "Librarian"
Shapiro, Fred
- Outside his name
Alice Faber
- Fwd: [Aaal-l] FW: BBC Radio - American histroy
Beverly Flanigan
- semantic shift: "fighter jet"
Jonathan Lighter
- ancestor = "descendant"
Jonathan Lighter
- early obscenities from the Law databases (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- OT: Harvard esoterica
Joel S. Berson
- Brooklyn-style pizza
Geoff Nathan
- "unring" etc.
Charles Doyle
- react = "to delete editorially"
Jonathan Lighter
- Brooklyn-style pizza (OT)
David Donnell
- Fighting words in 1841
George Thompson
- Fighting words in 1841 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- No translations please, we're British
Dennis Baron
- screenager
Tom Zurinskas
- Verification of 1911 "Murphy's Law" Proverb Citation
Shapiro, Fred
- beatdown = "beating"
Jonathan Lighter
- ace boon-coon
Jonathan Lighter
- "bellic"
Jonathan Lighter
- Q: Is this 1768 "tar and feather" useful?
Joel S. Berson
- "na' nud'un," etc.
Wilson Gray
- food (service) words
Laurence Horn
- "Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine"
Joel S. Berson
- "nayger" [WAS: Re: Rastus (was: "Jazz Means Happy and Loose Like" (1917))]
Jonathan Lighter
- Eggcorn?
Philip E. Cleary
- bellicist
Jonathan Lighter
- bellicism
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedating of "Ice Cream"
Shapiro, Fred
- shit or go blind WAS Rastus (was: "Jazz Means Happy and Loose Like" (1917))
James Harbeck
- "Snots"
Wilson Gray
- Arkie (& Okie & Ozark/Branson) Talk
David Donnell
- food [?] (service) words
Joel S. Berson
- Slave names
Joel S. Berson
- "How Dictionaries Define Publicity: The Word of the Year"
Joel S. Berson
- Correction of OED
Shapiro, Fred
- Freeman's antedate of "turn a blind eye"
Amy West
- Are you a member of the American Dialect Society?
Grant Barrett
- From Slashdot
Wilson Gray
- Merriam-Webster's Word of '07: 'W00t'
Russ McClay
- A torcherous eggcorn
Mark Peters
- eggcorn: in the rears
Benjamin Zimmer
- "cadger"
Joel S. Berson
- ICE (new acronym)
JAMES A. LANDAU Netscape. Just the Net You Need.
- Origin of "Murphy's Law" Pushed Back further, to 1908
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Republicans want EEOC to speak only English
Dennis Baron
- At last. A home for drinkers!
Dennis Preston
- Slave names--(cryptic sentence at end)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "A park"
Barbara Need
- "Does it trick?"
Joel S. Berson
- false acronymy
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Fwd: w00t
Arnold M. Zwicky
- upsun
Jonathan Lighter
- antedating: "raunch" (1952?)
Jonathan Lighter
- Dialects make the man/woman in UK
Tom Zurinskas
- Antedating of the Term "Murphy's Law"
Shapiro, Fred
- More on Murphy, from Google Books
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- whoremaster/whore-master
Sarah Lang
- FOR COE: MURPHY'S LAW ---- More on Murphy, from Google Books
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Books on diner vocabulary?
Joel S. Berson
- Apology for previous e-mail (on Murphy's Law)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- woot not in mw.com?
Dennis Baron
- NYT on Staten Island lingo
Benjamin Zimmer
- Grass station, locavore and w00t: we need a better word of the year for 2007
Dennis Baron
- personel file
Michael H Covarrubias
- ICE
JAMES A. LANDAU Netscape. Just the Net You Need.
- smoking room
Mark Mandel
- pacificist, pacificism
Jonathan Lighter
- On TV Euphemisms
Jonathan Lighter
- vulcan
Jonathan Lighter
- neologism: cyclation
Mark Mandel
- Fwd: cross-post of possible interest
Laurence Horn
- pseudo-etymology of "news"
George Thompson
- Not Quite Bushonics
Doug Harris
- in a poistion; holy crapsticks
Jonathan Lighter
- cro'jack-eyed
Jonathan Lighter
- Asterisks in sports
Grant Barrett
- In the December Vocabula Now Online: Them's Crying Words
Laurence Horn
- in a position; holy crapsticks
Jonathan Lighter
- Some bawdy songs in the British Army, 1914
Jonathan Lighter
- The word of the year for 2007 is English
Dennis Baron
- The Y
Scot LaFaive
- "The Y" = YMCA (1910)
Douglas G. Wilson
- The word of the year for 2007 is English?
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Yogi Berra's malaprops
JAMES A. LANDAU Netscape. Just the Net You Need.
- successor = 'predecessor'
Charles Doyle
- War on Christmas (2007)
Arnold M. Zwicky
- ADS-L discussion on Language Log
Arnold M. Zwicky
- A new phenomenon?
Jonathan Lighter
- limey 1906
Jonathan Lighter
- Compilation Tape
Scot LaFaive
- Ambiguous AHD/AmE pronunciation guides
Benjamin Barrett
- Detitillating nakedness and enrobing food
Benjamin Barrett
- misnotion
Jonathan Lighter
- semantic drift: "wrought" = ?
Jonathan Lighter
- "Waffo" -- New slang term?
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- More on Murphy (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "incent" goes negative
Jonathan Lighter
- "Give me some sugar."
Wilson Gray
- "Give me some sugar" ... alive and well
Joseph Salmons
- Early ADS WOTY nominations posted
Grant Barrett
- Truthiness strikes again?
Joel S. Berson
- Philosophy of science is for the birds
Joel S. Berson
- Digitizing Wright's English Dialect Dictionary
Grant Barrett
- "Give me some sugar" ... alive and well (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- AD: Sambo as a slave name
Joel S. Berson
- RHDAS on Google Books (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- give me some sugar
Joan H. Hall
- Green dictionaries
Grant Barrett
- Navy/Hollywood Shower (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Heard in Missouri: "but good!"
David Donnell
- Quotations-of-the-year
Charles Doyle
- be that as it will
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Possibly OT: FW: "Chinese Hot Dogs" in NY Times (including digression)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Classic rare words [Was: Early ADS WOTY nominations posted]
Joel S. Berson
- Re: [ADS-L] Early A DS WOTY nominations posted
RonButters at AOL.COM
- OT digression in FW: "Chinese Hot Dogs" in NY Times
Laurence Horn
- folk medical terms
RonButters at AOL.COM
- the alarm rap
George Thompson
- tar and feathers
Joel S. Berson
- Comeupins
Benjamin Barrett
- tight as a tick
Darla Wells
- Dialect awareness on commercial radio
Laurence Horn
- About "Hillsborough paint"; also "executive officer" and "knock [someone] up"
Joel S. Berson
- WOTY festivities
RonButters at AOL.COM
- scattershot, adv.
Jonathan Lighter
- "cover"
Mark Mandel
- didn't, couldn't, shouldn't
Tom Zurinskas
- didn't, couldn't, shouldn't (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Christian Christmas v. Regular Christmas?
David Donnell
- restaurants and refectories
George Thompson
- reporters (much longer than I intended)
George Thompson
- restaurants and refectories -- and INfectories?
Doug Harris
- Chickens for Cheerios
Scot LaFaive
- WOTY 2007 Kibitzing
David Marc Fischer
- Eggcorn: *light sabre* > 'light saver'
Damien Hall
- Spelling and pronunciation; was Re: Comeupins
Barbara Need
- Eggcorn? - *stent* > *stint*
Damien Hall
- hoeboy (?)
George Thompson
- NYT: Grant Barrett's '07 buzzwords
Benjamin Zimmer
- antedating: eggnog (c1774)
Benjamin Zimmer
- More WOTY nominations
Grant Barrett
- [long] antedating: eggnog (c1774)
Joel S. Berson
- "Shermanesque" Not in OED
Shapiro, Fred
- WONY (Word of NEXT Year)? Diavlog Revisited
Doug Harris
- Ninja as a home-mortgage term
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- more ransacking of ADS-L
Arnold M. Zwicky
- WOTY Candidate: Tase
Baker, John
- snot
Wilson Gray
- Safire on participles and gerunds
Joel S. Berson
- Replying to a negative question
Joel S. Berson
- Non-native linguistic detachment
Damien Hall
- a late WOTY entrant: "Shopdropping"
Laurence Horn
- Another late WOTY entrant: "waterboarding"
Towse
- blogging and blugging
Benjamin Zimmer
- [short] eggnog, ingredients of (1800, perhaps 1799)
Joel S. Berson
- expire by the fire
Tom Zurinskas
- walk-the-talkies
James Harbeck
- report into
James Harbeck
- Eggcorn: 'in X's reclining years'
Damien Hall
- Antedating of "Sneaker" by Firstmention
Shapiro, Fred
- Possibly OT: FW: Mystery of "Atomic Buffalo Turds" (jalape ños)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Pre-Colonial
JAMES A. LANDAU Netscape. Just the Net You Need.
- Jesse et al: Further antedating eggnog to 1735 !?
Joel S. Berson
- Fred's further antedating eggnog to 1788 March
Joel S. Berson
- Antedating of "Realpolitik"
Shapiro, Fred
- Still Further Antedating of "Realpolitik"
Shapiro, Fred
- Fwd: [FL-LIST] FW: "The Linguists" world premieres at the 2008 Sundance Film Fest
Barnhart
- American Speech Table of Contents for A Quarterly of Linguistic Usage: 1 December 2007; Vol. 82, No. 4
Grant Barrett
- Probably OT: pets de nonne/putain
Joel S. Berson
- /w/-/hw/ again
Philip E. Cleary
- Another initial "vl"
Joel S. Berson
- 2008 season of Wordsmith Chat
Wordsmith.org
- YBQ Review in American Speech
Shapiro, Fred
- OT: Symposium on Food in Mediterranean Cultures
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- / nu 'man Ik /
Jonathan Lighter
- / nu 'man Ik / (now OT:)
Mark Mandel
- Wal-Marts, singular
David Donnell
- Sambo as a slave name -- etymology?
Joel S. Berson
- New to me
Wilson Gray
- "Blawg"
Shapiro, Fred
- Robot /ro.bit/
Scot LaFaive
- The case of the missing particle
Mark Mandel
- "among elsewhere"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "inferior than" - Re: New to me
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Weather for Chicago
Barbara Need
- likely than"
Joel S. Berson
- U.N. proclaims 2008 the International Year of Languages
Dennis Baron
- Two linguists who died in 2007 honored
Joel S. Berson
- Puchi Puchi
Benjamin Barrett
- WOTY? "Belicheat"
Joel S. Berson
- Melanenglish?
Wilson Gray
- OT: Bronx
Joel S. Berson
- Orange, forest, etc.
Paul Johnston
- Check out my blog
David Gignilliat
- Unsubscribe Please
Lee Handley
- DARE
George Thompson
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