February 2007 Archives by thread
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- FW: katzenjammer: M-W's Word of the Day
James A. Landau
- Innocent until proved guilty
James A. Landau
- FW they're W
Wilson Gray
- Molly Ivins quotes
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Molly Ivins quotes & "Politician will lay down your life for his country"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- honcho > honcha
Amy West
- Ooops, sorry, Re: honcho > honcha
Amy West
- Call for papers: MLA 2007 Lexicography Discussion Group
Martin, Katherine
- Interesting turn of phrase
Wilson Gray
- coincidentally = ironically = also
Charles Doyle
- honcho > honchas
Mark A. Mandel
- Barry in The New Haven Register
Alice Faber
- Correction of "Hoosier" First Use in OED
Fred Shapiro
- A quote from Molly
sagehen
- "Madder than a peach orchard boar" (Molly Ivins)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Murphy's Law (1957)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- A day late (re Cartoon Network's Boston "prank")
Joel S. Berson
- peach -orchard boar
Joan H. Hall
- Confusing headline!
Barbara Need
- towing the line, extended
Barbara Need
- “Lady in the parlor, cook in the kitchen, whore in the bedroom” (Jerry )
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Inter Faeces..." Quote
Fred Shapiro
- Can you say...?
Scot LaFaive
- coincidentally = ironically = also + "fiction"
Jonathan Lighter
- ADS-L Digest - 1 Feb 2007 to 2 Feb 2007 (#2007-34)
James A. Landau
- "fiction"
Jonathan Lighter
- "-istas"
Charles Doyle
- Hamburger buns (1902 again)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Given names--male vs. female (#2007-34)
Charles Doyle
- NewspaperArchive & "Windy City" (1860, from La Crosse, WI?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Peach-orchard boar (1869, 1877)
Douglas G. Wilson
- Spanish Pledge of Allegiance? Oy vey, can you see, it's deja vu all over again.
Dennis Baron
- Modern Meaning of "Gory" Not in OED
Fred Shapiro
- "Willie Nelson, 'garlic soup' of entertainers will do fundraiser"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Decoding in XXI Cent
sagehen
- Friendswood, Texas, may soon give residents the right to speak to town employees in English
Dennis Baron
- to swander
Benjamin Barrett
- Queries about "Up and at 'em"
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- clutch (was: Decoding in XXI Cent)
Mark A. Mandel
- clutch
Chris F Waigl
- illusive = elusive
Jonathan Lighter
- Queries about "Up and at 'em" (open quote/apostrophe)
neil
- FYI: Google to digitize 1 million Princeton books
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Joe Biden ’s Obama moment, or, I love it when you talk white to me
Dennis Baron
- Cool malapropism/eggcorn
Geoffrey S. Nathan
- German-English Bilingual Dictionaries
Fred Shapiro
- Joe Bidens Obama moment, or, I love it when you talk white to me
Brenda Lester
- Loan proverbs
Charles Doyle
- Joe Bidens Obama moment...
William Salmon
- Springfield [was: Joe Bidens Obama moment...]
Joel S. Berson
- "Gay" in Fort Worth, Texas (1937-1941)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Austintatious (Austin-tatious) (1970s?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "fact" = proposition, nonfact
Jonathan Lighter
- anthro(po)cene
Benjamin Zimmer
- "phthonic," "phthonos"
Jonathan Lighter
- OT re "fact" = proposition, nonfact
Joel S. Berson
- "Take Me to Your Leader"
Fred Shapiro
- "Village Idiot" (1907?) and "Texas Village Idiot" (1997?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Fanny" in US English
Jonathan Lighter
- Village's missing idiot
Charles Doyle
- French the most legal language, say the French
Dennis Baron
- Further Antedating of "Free World"
Fred Shapiro
- OT: Attempting to save a high-school French program
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Sometimes Islands (Lake Travis, Texas + Kodiak Island, Alaska)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Another Antedating of "Unemployment"
Fred Shapiro
- Another Antedating of "Industrial Revolution"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Vegetarianism"
Fred Shapiro
- "Fanny" in US English (1922)
Douglas G. Wilson
- Is NewspaperArchive Down?; French Fried Onion Rings
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Antedating of "Muscular Christianity"
Fred Shapiro
- Prostitots in Newsweek
Benjamin Zimmer
- "we do not see the world as it is..."
Fred Shapiro
- /hw-/ > /w-/
Charles Doyle
- TV word queries
Mark Peters
- British "geezer" = American "gangster"?
Joel S. Berson
- Good looking out
Benjamin Zimmer
- “The sun has riz, the sun has se t, and here we is in Texas yet” (1933)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Antedating of "Snail Mail"
Fred Shapiro
- New Yorker Review of Yale Book of Quotations
Fred Shapiro
- Fwd: "The sun has riz, the sun has set, and here we is in Texas yet" (1933)
Laurence Horn
- New Yorker
James A. Landau
- "show ankle" query
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- AAP Award
Fred Shapiro
- "Not so much" and Mad About You (1992-1999)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Nipples to the wind" & "Put on your big-girl panties and deal with it"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "wrench through . . ."
Charles Doyle
- "econo-mist"
Joel S. Berson
- diamond geezers
Jonathon Green
- Eggcorn?
Wilson Gray
- Jasm vs. Jism
Douglas G. Wilson
- hoo-ha as euphemism
Amy West
- civilian
David Bergdahl
- "The sun has riz, the sun has set, and here we is in Texas yet" (1933)
Mark A. Mandel
- "Better to Die on Your Feet"
Fred Shapiro
- "Red Velvet Cake" (1959) revisited
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Antedating of "Been There, Done That"
Fred Shapiro
- "Orgiasm": another candidate ancestor of "jasm"/"jism"
Douglas G. Wilson
- Civilian again
Geoff Nathan
- Loan proverbs ("Che sera sera")
Charles Doyle
- 19th-century "y'all" again
Benjamin Zimmer
- Wheel and deal
Scot LaFaive
- geezer
Lynne Murphy
- cool
James A. Landau
- Barchelle
Benjamin Zimmer
- in the war against English, we won't be undersold
Dennis Baron
- OT: dual staircases and ankle-showing
Amy West
- Harvard Lampoon & Google Books project
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Out of office reply
Stefan Dollinger
- fame-iness
Benjamin Zimmer
- "Heavens to Murgatroyd"
Fred Shapiro
- History of the verb "ankle"
Benjamin Zimmer
- BURR-Y is not 'non-standard' (was Eggcorn?)
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Oyez! Oyez!
RonButters at AOL.COM
- re left, left, left my wife etc.
Judith Marie
- re left, left, left my wife etc.
Rowan McMullin
- re left, left, left my wife etc.
Dennis R. Preston
- re left, left, left my wife etc.
Charles Doyle
- re left, left, left my wife etc.
Baker, John
- re left, left, left my wife etc.
sagehen
- re left, left, left my wife etc.
Rowyn McDonald
- re left, left, left my wife etc.
Wilson Gray
- re left, left, left my wife etc.
Brenda Lester
- re left, left, left my wife etc.
James A. Landau
- re left, left, left my wife etc.
Seán Fitzpatrick
- on the alphabetical principle
Tom Zurinskas
- OT: RE: Re: Wheel and deal
Baker, John
- "Stallion": minor correction of Spears
Wilson Gray
- Blipster (black hipster)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- left, left, left etc.
carole crompton
- "Poontang" redux
Wilson Gray
- (Adj) City
Cole Paulson
- FW: a word/
hpst at earthlink.net
- left, left, left my wife etc.
Geoff Nathan
- Fwd: Winnipeg Free Press article: Portmanteaux
Laurence Horn
- Fwd: another one, but...
Laurence Horn
- re midnight writing, Appalachia.
Judith Marie
- yet another
Bethany K. Dumas
- Team Fill-in-the-Blank
Leslie Savan
- village idiot
dwhause at jobe.net
- BURR-Y is not 'non-standard' (yes it is!)
Seán Fitzpatrick
- syntactic blend? or what?
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "Creek don't rise" (1958?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "creek don't rise"
Stephen Goranson
- "Creeks don't rise" (1901, 1908)
Douglas G. Wilson
- hippies
FRITZ JUENGLING
- OT: Capt. Billopp & Staten Island
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "viable" = possibly true; conceivable
Jonathan Lighter
- "Judge" show
Wilson Gray
- Significance of "G"----was: Re: "Creeks don't rise" (1901, 1908)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Help Needed Please
Jamie Landers
- A triviality
Wilson Gray
- celebrity candidate
Dennis Baron
- The return of the mononym
Laurence Horn
- "the brunt of so many jokes"
Charles Doyle
- Team Fill-in the blank
Amy West
- Catch and kill ... adjectives?
Joel S. Berson
- It takes more than a language to unify a nation
Dennis Baron
- contractions (was "creek don't rise")
Seán Fitzpatrick
- "... I shined her on ..."
Wilson Gray
- Boy, Hidy (Boy, Howdy) (1918--WWI slang?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- consonant-level (B-list, C-list, etc.)
Benjamin Zimmer
- "If you're not brown, you're not down"; News 8 Austin's Web Sightings
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Intonation Project
Erin Davidson
- “The only people who put ketchup o n hot dogs are mental patients and Texans ”
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "The Horse You Rode In On"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Shiver Me Timbers"
Fred Shapiro
- "funkin'"
Jonathan Lighter
- twitch athlete
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Re: [ADS-L] It take s more than a language to unify a nation
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "special" = (of occurrences, gestures, etc.) emotionally or sentimentally moving; tenderly affecting.
Jonathan Lighter
- "Beclown" (two 2-21-07 articles)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- liberated
James A. Landau
- Antedating of "Libber"
Fred Shapiro
- Doughnut Hole (or, when will William Safire retire?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- NY Times: "In Bid to Ban Racial Slur, Blacks Are on Both Sides"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Search for source of quote: "Always tell the truth..."
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Liquid Rain
Barbara Need
- Further note on "gizmo" and one on "God box"
Jonathan Lighter
- You can save this endangered language for only pennies a day; or you could let it die.
Dennis Baron
- need address
Bethany K. Dumas
- "Sufficive to say"
Rowan McMullin
- "... and the horse you rode in on."
Ron 'Hollywood' Parro
- Guys named "Buzz"
Jonathan Lighter
- "grieve"
Charles Doyle
- "curving ambition"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "valorial" = evaluative
Jonathan Lighter
- destinator redux; destinatee indux
Jonathan Lighter
- destinator...
Jonathan Lighter
- unfortunately located adverb
Arnold M. Zwicky
- recutting/eggcorn "aside note"
Gordon, Matthew J.
- "Good-Samaritan discount"
Wilson Gray
- OT: Terror at University of Missouri-Rolla
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Antedating of "Americanist"
Fred Shapiro
- Munchausen
James A. Landau
- "Small things done with great love" (Mother Teresa)(1990?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- would have been = "was"
Jonathan Lighter
- Esquimaux in NYCity; was Munchausen
George Thompson
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