January 2007 Archives by thread
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- Deuce
Scot LaFaive
- LSSU Banished Words list, 2007
Benjamin Zimmer
- "Hail Mary" (1922, 1972, 1974, 1975)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- dot-calm
Tom Zurinskas
- "Knock off its horns and wipe its ass" (Texan ordering steak "rare")
Charles Doyle
- The mistaken 1909 "jazz" attestation in OED; was: "Please don't shoot the organist; he's doing his best" (1882)
Jonathan Lighter
- "Hep" vs. "Hip"
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedatings in the Yale Book of Quotations -- 18: Light at the End of the Tunnel
Jonathan Lighter
- OT: First inhabited island vanishes under the sea
Jonathan Lighter
- Word of the Year Candidate: NSFW
Baker, John
- Double modal
Jonathan Lighter
- comic strip words revisited
Jonathan Lighter
- Just wondering
Jonathan Lighter
- "Ghost riding the whip" and "hyphy"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- not a new euphemism, but new to me
Laurence Horn
- "Desart Sund[a]y", 1750?
Joel S. Berson
- [ADS-L] dot-calm
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Re: [ADS-L] not a new euphemism, but new to me
RonButters at AOL.COM
- [ADS-L] LSSU Banished Words list, 2007
RonButters at AOL.COM
- not a "new euphemism, but new to me"
Laurence Horn
- Sally's "gone round and round"
Wilson Gray
- it's time to ban the banned words list
Dennis Baron
- Just wondering (re: "busghetti")
Victoria Neufeldt
- "Ice cream" from 1735?
Joel S. Berson
- Elements, the LMN proposal
Wilson Gray
- SbaCL Word of the Year
Lynne Murphy
- "difference" = difficulty; issues; busghetti
Jonathan Lighter
- OT: survey of the academics
Amy West
- Google Books [was: "Ice cream" from 1735?]
Joel S. Berson
- WOTY Candidate
Dave Wilton
- multiple modals
Joan H. Hall
- ghoti
Jonathan Lighter
- WOTY suggestion
Alison Murie
- "the X nation"
Charles Doyle
- Stanford's Dime Novel Collection (searchable? only Standford ID?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- mixed metaphor of the week?
Laurence Horn
- purse, pocketbook handbag
Joan H. Hall
- paid their respects
Nathan Bierma
- Australian slang
James A. Landau
- Illinois bans male pronoun
Dennis Baron
- Words of the Year
davemarc
- spelling FISH
Arnold M. Zwicky
- chiefing
Benjamin Zimmer
- Mowing down on
Michael Quinion
- Philly Inquirer WOTY preview
Benjamin Zimmer
- Just wondering ("billfold" vs. "wallet")
Charles Doyle
- Google Book Project
Geoffrey S. Nathan
- Another WOTY Candidate
Dave Wilton
- Subject: Re: dot-calm
Mark A. Mandel
- Chrawna
Geoffrey S. Nathan
- Sausage fest
Scot LaFaive
- Another WOTY Candidate ("telenovela")
Charles Doyle
- In the news - Tossers and prats need public help
Emily G. Cunningham
- Who invented the bola/bolo tie?
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Say what?!
Wilson Gray
- Gun Slinger (1920)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- OT: "Ask Oxford" is News 8 Austin's Web Sighting today
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- omphaloskeptic?
James A. Landau
- busghetti
Amy West
- "Subrespond"
Wilson Gray
- Richard A. Spears
Wilson Gray
- willie pep (was Words of the Year)
davemarc
- Sun Belt & Go Along to Get Along (Sam Rayburn quotes?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Child Success Specialist"
Jonathan Lighter
- urban legend: don't end sentence with preposition
Dennis Baron
- Back(s) of our necks
Bill Le May
- urbane prepositions rule
Dennis Baron
- "Marble Ceiling" (Nancy Pelosi)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Marble Ceiling" (Nancy Pelosi) (2002)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- a gentlelady's maiden speech
Jonathan Lighter
- "Backtrack, v"
Wilson Gray
- Top Quotations of 2006
Fred Shapiro
- Bolo Ties & String Ties
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Soul talk
Wilson Gray
- ire: n,v,a,adv,?
Michael H Covarrubias
- The World hates Barry, part 2731
Jesse Sheidlower
- The World hates Barry, part 2731
Brenda Lester
- The World hates Barry, part 2731
Baker, John
- The World hates Barry, part 2731
Jesse Sheidlower
- The World hates Barry, part 2731
Jonathan Lighter
- The World hates Barry, part 2731
Jesse Sheidlower
- The World hates Barry, part 2731
Jonathan Lighter
- The World hates Barry, part 2731
Baker, John
- The World hates Barry, part 2731
Amy West
- Penmanship [Was: Illinois bans male pronoun]
Joel S. Berson
- Adjectives in headlines [was: ire: n,v,a,adv,?]
Joel S. Berson
- A discussion of Microsoftspeak
Wilson Gray
- Alama back door joke (1958, 1959)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Texas--Where men are men and women are governors"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- ADS-L Digest - 2 Jan 2007 to 3 Jan 2007 (#2007-4)
GLL
- Cigar Sayings
Fred Shapiro
- diprosopus; sick!
Jonathan Lighter
- Second BBC/OED Wordhunt
Fred Shapiro
- Fwd: Re: ILA conference
Barnhart
- "Only fools and newcomers predict the weather in Texas" (1910)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Than I" vs. "than me," etc.
Wilson Gray
- "Plutoed" Voted 2006 Word of the Year
Grant Barrett
- Hairapy & Pluto (WOTY)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Ambiguity in spelling: singer
David Bowie
- assorted
James A. Landau
- Clever police chief arrested
Joel S. Berson
- "Duke, alma mata of 9 Presidents." Sigh! [NT]
Wilson Gray
- Horse Opera & Soap Opera
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Horse Opera (1847)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Winning Ugly" in Chicago Tribune?
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Pooch" (form "puchero"?) (1927)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Eggcorn?
Wilson Gray
- comix words again
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Waddy (Waddie)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Ambiguity in spelling: singer (was: dot-calm)
Mark A. Mandel
- Yale Quotations in The NYT
Robert Greenman
- AP confuses ADS and ANS
Benjamin Zimmer
- AP confuses ADS and ANS; Ranahan (?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Eleventh Commandment of Politics (dead woman or live man)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- hocus, hoax
Stephen Goranson
- Fudge
Michael Quinion
- foo
Arnold M. Zwicky
- foo
Baker, John
- foo
Arnold M. Zwicky
- foo
Karl Hagen
- foo
Chris F Waigl
- foo
Benjamin Barrett
- foo
Wilson Gray
- foo
Arnold M. Zwicky
- foo
Douglas G. Wilson
- foo
Benjamin Barrett
- Hi!
Wilson Gray
- Hi!
Jesse Sheidlower
- Hi!
Wilson Gray
- Hi! II
Wilson Gray
- Eleventh Commandment of Politics (dead woman or live man)(1974)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Antedating of "Soap Opera"
Fred Shapiro
- Brain teasers
Rowan McMullin
- recommendation for a new word for 2007
Charles Parnelle
- ?
JAMES H COPELAND
- new word proposal
Charles Parnelle
- Query: "Jango Lango tea" in an 1841 black minstrel song
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "Never let the facts get in the way of a good story" (J. Frank Dobie?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "grease that squeaking wheel" metaphor
Stephen Goranson
- Palindrome: "MOM" but not "DAD"
Charles Doyle
- "fur bikini"
Charles Doyle
- "Print the legend" Was Re: "Never let the facts get in the way of a good story" (J. Frank Dobie?)
Jonathan Lighter
- "Don't get mad, get even."
Jonathan Lighter
- "Thank you": intonation
Jim Parish
- Word of the Year 2007
Barnhart
- speaking of retronyms
Laurence Horn
- "Grow a sac(k)!" = "Man up!"
Wilson Gray
- "He who smelt it dealt it"
Wilson Gray
- "Axis of Evil" antedating (1941)
Sam Clements
- "Never let the facts get in the way of a good story" (J. Frank
James A. Landau
- Washington Post on "surge"
Benjamin Zimmer
- BE "behind the sun" = down South
Wilson Gray
- For/To all intents and purposes
Benjamin Barrett
- "Bet the Farm"
Fred Shapiro
- final prepositions (was: various)
Mark A. Mandel
- "kippie" - Buster Keaton
Nathan Bierma
- Discovery Channel film group
Dennis R. Preston
- Heard of the Judges:
Wilson Gray
- "Blue laws", 1767; perhaps 1757?
Joel S. Berson
- ADS-L Digest - 8 Jan 2007 to 9 Jan 2007 (#2007-10)
Amy West
- Credit to Michael Quinion
Fred Shapiro
- Kippie = Kewpie Doll?
GLL
- Heard on the Judges
Wilson Gray
- Tyme/time machine
Scot LaFaive
- Q: Word for beginning-of-chapter quotations?
Joel S. Berson
- national handwriting day
Dennis Baron
- Smashed potatoes . . .
Charles Doyle
- Macquarie Dictionary WOTY
Benjamin Zimmer
- FWIW: NYC Council and "n-word"
bapopik at AOL.COM
- F words
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "issues", "concerns", etc.
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [ADS-L] "issues", "co ncerns", etc.
RonButters at AOL.COM
- contango
James A. Landau
- gender ideas in book publishing
James A. Landau
- Spears
Wilson Gray
- Radiator
Geoff Nathan
- Smashed Potatoes--just for fun
Geoff Nathan
- "school" phrases (formerly "kippie")
Charles Doyle
- Analog clocks
Charles Doyle
- online accent quiz
Brenda Lester
- " functionable"--new word?
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- deigned; lorded; incoming
Jonathan Lighter
- back-"formate" (was: deigned; lorded; incoming)
Laurence Horn
- true blue
James A. Landau
- empirical
James A. Landau
- double-edged words
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Q: A (or several) "housen" in 1747?
Joel S. Berson
- empirical (+double-edgedness)
Michael H Covarrubias
- Spears/peckers/poodles
William Salmon
- Call for Abstracts
Susan Burt
- ADS Pioneer Series Tee Shirts
Grant Barrett
- Spears/peckers
Grant Barrett
- Wisconsin dialect
Scot LaFaive
- reliable name origins guide?
Nathan Bierma
- Say what?
Wilson Gray
- "sike"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Readex America's Historical Newspapers Collection to Surpass 1300 Titles
Loiterstein, David
- Any NYC radio personalities out there?
Laurence Horn
- bilingualism delays dementia
Dennis Baron
- hamburger war rages on...
William Salmon
- hiving
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- A disappearing book
Michael H Covarrubias
- "fairy," OED 4a
Jonathan Lighter
- "fairy," OED 4a
Charles Doyle
- "fairy," OED 4a
Scot LaFaive
- "fairy," OED 4a
Laurence Horn
- "fairy," OED 4a
Wilson Gray
- "fairy," OED 4a
Douglas G. Wilson
- "fairy," OED 4a
Jonathan Lighter
- "fairy," OED 4a
Mark A. Mandel
- "fairy," OED 4a
Jonathan Lighter
- "fairy," OED 4a
Charles Doyle
- "fairy," OED 4a
Wilson Gray
- "fairy," OED 4a
Douglas G. Wilson
- "fairy," OED 4a
Baker, John
- "fairy," OED 4a
Douglas G. Wilson
- "fairy," OED 4a
Baker, John
- "fairy," OED 4a
Jesse Sheidlower
- "fairy," OED 4a
Joel S. Berson
- "fairy," OED 4a
Charles Doyle
- "fairy," OED 4a
Charles Doyle
- "fairy," OED 4a
George Thompson
- Eskimo`snow' words myth: Pullum says 'progress'
Nathan Bierma
- slide (#1 & #2)
George Thompson
- Words of the Year (Willie Pepping)
George Thompson
- Battle-axed
Bill Le May
- Words of the Year (Willie Pepping) pt. 2
George Thompson
- forty-eleven
George Thompson
- Forty-eleven (4011 BC)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- FWIW: WSJ errs on "Big Apple"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- State threatens to close schools violating official language law
Dennis Baron
- and look you mock him not
Michael H Covarrubias
- "we do not see the world as it is..."
Stephen Goranson
- "nation"
Charles Doyle
- Honorof & Sheidlower on WNYC
Benjamin Zimmer
- scripture = "prose"
Jonathan Lighter
- Atlanta food slang articles (6-8-1947; 2-19-1961)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Q: Pronunciation of toise (n)
Joel S. Berson
- Overdog (NYC's Con Ed)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "non-apology," 1971; "non-apology apology," 1991
Geoffrey Nunberg
- Request for source of Locke's supposed 1919 mention of Harlem as "the big apple"
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Request for source of Locke's supposed 1919 mention of Harlem as "the big apple"--(2nd try)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- celebu-blends
Benjamin Zimmer
- Krugman & Texas Strategy; UT & Google Books project
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- slang articles; was: Krugman & Texas Strategy; UT & Google Books project
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- NYPL's NY Tribune (1900-1910) (response just received)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Spears (1/28)
Wilson Gray
- Nou a Scots edeetion o Wikipedia
Jonathan Lighter
- "If your mother says she loves you...."
Jonathan Lighter
- Sort of blend: "the 900 pound elephant in the room"
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- 120th birthday of esperanto
Dennis Baron
- blend: "Make no doubt about it."
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Wikipedia on Jazz
Baker, John
- "Prenounce"
Wilson Gray
- Wikipedia on Jazz; San Francisco Call (1900-9105)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Two "jazz" articles(1919, 1927)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- No subject
radul panayotov
- anti-WOTY blogging
Benjamin Zimmer
- [ADS-L] anti-WOTY blo gging
RonButters at AOL.COM
- A new Child ballad
Jonathan Lighter
- Not nonsense, after all
Wilson Gray
- Amsterdam News & Pittsburgh Courier to be available
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Jasm (1907)
Douglas G. Wilson
- Most Notable Quotes of 2006
Baker, John
- FW: Sort of blend: "the 900 pound elephant in the room"
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- a dialect using just participle?
Amy West
- Coming together ...
Wilson Gray
- British "geezer" = American "gangster"?
Mike Speriosu
- Chimney
Scot LaFaive
- semantic state of the union
Dennis Baron
- Macquarie WOTY: muffin top
Benjamin Zimmer
- Chimney (and "nation" and "community")
Charles Doyle
- Spam terms
Benjamin Barrett
- "Democracy is two wolves and a sheep...discussing lunch" (Ben Franklin?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Beggar's slang, 1907
George Thompson
- The TV judges
Wilson Gray
- copula deletion and BEV
Amy West
- FYI: More N-Word Bannings (Ebony magazine; Brazoria, TX)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Elements, Elephants, etc.
Stephen Goranson
- 3-syllable Chimney = Mary Poppins Song?
GLL
- Itty bitty...
Scot LaFaive
- Water over the deck? (Antonin Scalia)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- on the excretory practices of American eagles
Laurence Horn
- lies, statistics: Talleyrand? (or dead end?)
Stephen Goranson
- squeeze the eagle
Joan H. Hall
- lace work (dirty work)
George Thompson
- Further Antedating of "Ragtime"
Fred Shapiro
- Q: "by will and doom" (1672)
Joel S. Berson
- AP "hamburger" story; Athens (TX) is "Big A"?
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Antedating of Qumran and etymology bibliography
Stephen Goranson
- blend
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "Combination Cheese and Hamburger Sandwich" (Cheeseburger?) (1926)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Wilson vs. Urban Dictionary
Wilson Gray
- Modern Meaning of "Gory" Not in OED
Fred Shapiro
- favorited?
David Bergdahl
- "whole enchilada" 1954
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Winter Texans (1975); OT: Billy the Kid
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Winter Texans (1975)
Charles Doyle
- "Hinge-house"?
Joel S. Berson
- English must be protect from cheap foreign imports
Dennis Baron
- Josh Ozersky ("Mr. Cutlets") on the hamburger (LA Times, 1-29-2007)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "ridden with"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Murking Up
Dave Wilton
- Lala-paloosa (1898)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- FW: katzenjammer: M-W's Word of the Day
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- JSTOR access & ADS
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Pentagon declares foreign language a weapon. O.K., maggots, drop and give me 50 conjugations.
Dennis Baron
- honcho > honchas
Michael T. Wescoat
- Pastrami (1916);Yale Food Column gets NY Times mention; still no "hot dog" story
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- coincidentally = ironically = also
Jonathan Lighter
- FW they're W
Wilson Gray
- "One man's terrorist..."
Jonathan Lighter
- Call for Papers: ADS Annual Meeting 2008
Allan A Metcalf
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