July 2007 Archives by thread
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- E.O.Wilson, Etymologist
Beverly Flanigan
- O.T. personal info (UNCLASSIFIED); NY Times "On Language" column stinks
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Ghost-Written Famous Quotations
David A. Daniel
- FW: eighty-six or 86; short-order cookery language
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Kwotable kwote
Jonathan Lighter
- "the entire nine yards" 1969?
Stephen Goranson
- Google Book search-1961-"a sheet nine yards long"
Sam Clements
- Palm Beach=cheese sandwich (1942); Waco=Dr. Pepper (1938)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- semantic drift: "office/ power"
Geoffrey Nunberg
- According to an ad on Comedy Central:
Wilson Gray
- Star-Spangled Flag (1806)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- For words ending in "t".
Tom Zurinskas
- "Birds and the Bees"
Fred Shapiro
- "Generals are always fighting the last war"
Fred Shapiro
- Opposable
Benjamin Barrett
- "jake" = fireman
Joel S. Berson
- ADS website "site error"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Heard on a "Scrubs" rerun:
Wilson Gray
- FYI: 101st birthday of "hot dog" celebrated in Hagerstown, MD July 5th
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- weedeat
Charles Doyle
- Gufier?
Philip E. Cleary
- Heard on VH1
Wilson Gray
- A tip of the slung
Wilson Gray
- "Don't shit where you eat"
Sam Clements
- Red hot dogs (red dogs/red franks/red snappers) from Maine
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- 392 idioms/names to synopsize
Jonathan Marquardt
- Weiner or Hamburger Schnitzel (1868)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- A Grade Apart
Doug Harris
- Bogie's "hot dog" quote; More on the "red snapper" hot dog from Maine
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Weiner and hamburger schnitzel" (1868); Bogie "hot dog" quote
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Vitamin G (grease); Chicken Fried Bacon
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- buzzword = "sinister euphemism or code word"?
Jonathan Lighter
- grade on the curve
Laurence Urdang
- veracity
Charles Doyle
- etymological = "semantic"
Jonathan Lighter
- How is the ending "ous" really spoken?
Tom Zurinskas
- Vitamin G (grease); Chicken Fried Bacon (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Texas Toast (1957); Swinging a dead cat in Austin, Texas
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- slum
Jonathan Lighter
- slum
Wilson Gray
- slum
Douglas G. Wilson
- slum
Wilson Gray
- slum
Stephen Goranson
- slum
Jonathan Lighter
- slum
Douglas G. Wilson
- slum
Jonathan Lighter
- slum
Douglas G. Wilson
- slum
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- slum
Wilson Gray
- "rave" in Variety or earlier?
Jesse Sheidlower
- mud-jeweller
Jonathan Lighter
- billy-go-fister
Jonathan Lighter
- batter, v. = "to run riot, as on a spree"
Jonathan Lighter
- "rave" in Variety or earlier? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Of Possible Interest
Doug Harris
- Hamberger steak (1889); Life of Reilly (1896?), Life of Riley (1911)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- queer, n. (1896)
Jonathan Lighter
- exacerbate = "exaggerate"
Jonathan Lighter
- "you guys" (ca1912)
Jonathan Lighter
- more "vitamins"
Jonathan Lighter
- Commendatory cursing
Jonathan Lighter
- Fwd: "three pairs of Baulkes costing 12, 16 and 18 guineas each"
Joel S. Berson
- Safire
Laurence Urdang
- dry lightning
Jonathan Lighter
- dry lightning (P.S.)
Laurence Horn
- Fwd: Safire
Grant Barrett
- Fwd: Bayle in the New York Times
Joel S. Berson
- The rich & super-rich
sagehen
- most unnecessary blend of the week
Laurence Horn
- word endings "tion, sion, cion"
Tom Zurinskas
- Bayle in the New York Times
Wilson Gray
- NewspaperArchive; O.T.: Mystery identity of Austin's "Goddess of Liberty"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Customs House terms, colonial America
Joel S. Berson
- Bigamy with three wives
Joel S. Berson
- NAACP Plans Funeral for 'N-Word'
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "the whole nine yards" 1942
Stephen Goranson
- "the whole nine yards" 1942 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Heard on Judge Joe Brown:
Wilson Gray
- Antiseptically fluorescent
Scot LaFaive
- heard on Joey Reynolds
Laurence Urdang
- HDAS rides again!
Wilson Gray
- "Don't shit where you eat" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Antedating of "Cross-Examination"
Fred Shapiro
- New words in MW11
Benjamin Zimmer
- grex/ krex/ krechtz
Jonathan Lighter
- "Vitamin M"
Jonathan Lighter
- NewsBank content problems (again)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite"--Winston Churchill
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Mea culpa
Your Name
- Nachos (1954; 1940, by Ignacio Amaya/Anaya?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Frankenbiting
davemarc
- chard
Charles Doyle
- "shout-out" as reanalysis
Benjamin Zimmer
- BrE: Marriage inclusive of CUs
Benjamin Barrett
- ginormous
Robert Hartwell Fiske
- Faustian Illeism (or Bob Dolean Illeism)
Jonathan Lighter
- Bronx Cocktail (1905); Ice Cream Cone (1905); OT: NYC vs. Texas
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Imagineering (1942)
Russ McClay
- ginormous (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- imminent/eminent confusion
sagehen
- MMLA affiliation review at Iowa
Kathryn Remlinger
- SUB
Robert Wachal
- SUB
Scot LaFaive
- SUB
Doug Harris
- SUB
Dennis Preston
- SUB
Wilson Gray
- SUB
Scot LaFaive
- SUB
Wilson Gray
- SUB
Jonathan Lighter
- SUB
Wilson Gray
- SUB
Douglas G. Wilson
- SUB
Dave Hause
- SUB
Jonathan Lighter
- SUB
Mark Mandel
- Beginner's linguistics text recommendation?
Dave Hause
- O.T.: "Official Home of the Hamburger" & "In God We Trust"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- OT, but perhaps of interest
Wilson Gray
- Texas digitized newspapers; Jewish newspapers (Kyke-1914, Bagels & Lox-1937)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- 1912 'big apple' seems to mean 'very important person'
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Roger (Wilco/and out)
Laurence Urdang
- "Getting Everleighed"
Wilson Gray
- ADS Site Move Today
Grant Barrett
- Submariner (Namor) was Re: SUB
David Marc Fischer
- Imminent Domain (for "eminent domain")
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- albatross (was Re: submariner)
Laurence Horn
- "lies, damned lies, and statistics" 1856??
Stephen Goranson
- NPR's "native" = (partly?) ancestral
Jonathan Lighter
- crapper 1910...and more
Jonathan Lighter
- Web of Language: What to name the baby? Forget grandma, hire a consultant
Dennis Baron
- intentional
Charles Doyle
- submerged underwater
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Speech of NYC
George Thompson
- Big F-word Breakthrough...
Jonathan Lighter
- Historians with linguistic awareness
Joel S. Berson
- Antedatings in The Yale Book of Quotations - 39: Silent Majority
Baker, John
- "until" vs "before" or "to"
sagehen
- two relatively useful, relatively recent items for your lexical toolkit
Laurence Horn
- "This pudding has no theme" (Winston Churchill?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- For "quarter" is it ~kworter or ~korter.
Tom Zurinskas
- R: "lies, damned lies, and statistics" 1856??
amorelli
- For "quarter" is it ~kworter or ~korter. (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "This pudding has no theme"
Charles Doyle
- Sun (does|doesn't|don't|gotta|can't|will) shine on (a|every|the same)( ol')? dog's ass (all|every|some)( the | )?(day|time)
Philip (Flip) Kromer
- Faustian Illeism
Jonathan Lighter
- FWI
Wilson Gray
- Slightly OT: ESL Help
Patti Kurtz
- ESPNews's "cautionary" = cautious
Joel S. Berson
- "real life" 1930
Jonathan Lighter
- "stark" = insane
Jonathan Lighter
- "Big Apple" prostitution etymology
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- econo = thrifty, efficient, parsimonious
Benjamin Zimmer
- commendatory cursing, plus F-word frequency, ca1913.
Jonathan Lighter
- Ghost poop, husband-in-law, and other "family words"
Benjamin Zimmer
- Ghost poop, husband-in-law, and other "family words"
Laurence Horn
- Ghost poop, husband-in-law, and other "family words"
Doug Harris
- Ghost poop, husband-in-law, and other "family words"
Wilson Gray
- Ghost poop, husband-in-law, and other "family words"
Charles Doyle
- Ghost poop, husband-in-law, and other "family words"
Laurence Horn
- Ghost poop, husband-in-law, and other "family words"
Benjamin Zimmer
- Ghost poop, husband-in-law, and other "family words"
Wilson Gray
- From Slashdot
Wilson Gray
- Proof of pudding or other
sagehen
- "so Auxn't NP" (was: Re: "until" vs "before" or "to")
Laurence Horn
- "until" vs "before" or "to" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Monolingualism: the native language of intolerance?
Dennis Baron
- "so Auxn't NP"
Beverly Flanigan
- From Slashdot -- a bit off topic
Barnhart
- Make-under?
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Hamburger Steak ("Hamburgers") and NYC's Beefsteak John (1887) (long article)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Dry lightening and NPR
Your Name
- More on "Beefsteak John" (1895) (Sunny side up; in the dark)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Actors' names in Japan
Joel S. Berson
- till
Joan H. Hall
- so don't I
Joan H. Hall
- "This big apple we call the world" (1920, from Kansas)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Antedating of "...by the (balls) throat. Their hearts and minds will follow.(1967)
Sam Clements
- noodling and other methods of fishing (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- noodling and other methods of fishing
Grant Barrett
- "Murphy's Law" Article
Fred Shapiro
- Windy City (1856 for Green Bay, WI)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Channel Storm; Continent Isolated" (1931 & 1932)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- tampered by the knowledge
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [ADS-L] tampered by the knowledge
RonButters at AOL.COM
- homophonic slurs
Arnold M. Zwicky
- A valedictory f.w.i.w.
thomas paikeday
- blitheless
Mark Mandel
- Bop in Mad Comics 1954
Baker, John
- Other Slang in Mad Comics
Baker, John
- words starting with "ex"
Tom Zurinskas
- German Peanut Butter (March 1897)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Slight antedating of "crew(hair)cut" (1935)
Sam Clements
- "Rule of thumb" (1685)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- "of" on Language Log
Arnold M. Zwicky
- DC-area "joning"
Benjamin Zimmer
- bypass
Charles Doyle
- false negatives
Joan H. Hall
- Judge Greg
Wilson Gray
- sticktuitiveness
Benjamin Zimmer
- "so" as predicate modifier
Greg Pulliam
- beanery = cheap restaurant
George Thompson
- barker
George Thompson
- too digging
George Thompson
- Texecution/Texecuted (Re: words starting with "ex")
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- La Compagnie des Wagons-Lits
Laurence Urdang
- till (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Psst, buddy, wanna save a buck? Stop speaking English
Dennis Baron
- monetize = "use to make a profit"
Jonathan Lighter
- Google Books; Congressional Quarterly
Stephen Goranson
- [Fwd: RE: Emergency Communications]
Erin McKean
- "What goes around, comes around" (1962 by Paul Crump)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- premack (verb)
Stephen Goranson
- Lego vs. Legos: Americanism? Regionalism?
James Callan
- non-head nominals and number agreement
Laurence Horn
- Interpreting 1912 and 1920 "big apple"
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- FYI: Sporting Life digitization (early 2008)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- query: "sweet porbell"
Laurence Horn
- question, Fred Re: [ADS-L] "What goes around, comes around" (1962 by Paul Crump)
Stephen Goranson
- multiplicity
Charles Doyle
- question, Fred Re: [ADS-L] "What goes around, comes around" (1962 by Paul Crump) (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- FYI: Sporting Life digitization (early 2008) (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "Never play cards with a guy named Doc...."
Jonathan Lighter
- "Never play cards with a guy named Doc...." (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- jpeg version of diary page
Douglas G. Wilson
- Antedating of "Standard of Living"
Fred Shapiro
- Fwd: solution to "sweet porbell" puzzle accepted
Laurence Horn
- bowser: mobile water dispenser
Mark Mandel
- Antedating of chump(1934)
Sam Clements
- New "dog pile" thread(1926)
Sam Clements
- WYSIWYG in "Rescue Dawn"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Movie anachronisms: gold-digger [Was: WYSIWYG]
Joel S. Berson
- [hw-] v. [w]
Wilson Gray
- ADS-L on Language Log
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Dodging a narrow bullet
Marc Sacks
- Cave Kiss; Cave Bacon; Stalactites hold tight to the ceiling, stalagmites might
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- merry/marry/mary in Merry Olde England
Joel S. Berson
- "deck chairs on the Titanic"
Stephen Goranson
- eggcorn: "profound" (profane) words
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "Ho" & "Bitch" to be banned in NYC?
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Gender and Dolls (was Re: Lego vs. Legos: Americanism? Regionalism?)
Bradley A. Esparza
- Sure don't
Scot LaFaive
- Link to NY City Council "Bitch & Ho" Resolution
Bapopik at AOL.COM
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