June 2007 Archives by thread
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Ending: Sat Jun 30 22:20:54 UTC 2007
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- Fw: Teenage speak and beyond
Richard Vallis
- Bee Season: The annual spelling bee brings out protesters as well as nerds
Tom Zurinskas
- Another News Item -- Was RE: Breeding
Doug Harris
- Spelling counts at the Spelling Bee,
Dennis Baron
- Heard on the Judges
Margaret Lee
- another cockup and other body parts
Laurence Urdang
- stuff
Charles Doyle
- stuff (+ respectively)
Jonathan Lighter
- Teenage speak and beyond
Landau, James
- stars and ours
Beverly Flanigan
- selvyt
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Typo/ Word of the Year
Jonathan Lighter
- Eggcorn?
Wilson Gray
- Another News Item -- Was RE: Breeding (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- slanderizing
Jonathan Lighter
- nucular in British English
Paul Frank
- Modern Proverbs Appeal
Landau, James
- "Color" = "information"?!
Wilson Gray
- Revisiting the "my-eye" rhyme
Your Name
- "Ima Hogg" redux
Dave Hause
- BOLO (Be on the Look-Out)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Why aren't kids reading well
Tom Zurinskas
- "fiction novel"
Jonathan Lighter
- natural selection at work
Michael H Covarrubias
- "Self-radicalized" (2006?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "take (do) exercise"
Charles Doyle
- "Big Apple"=Broadway (1927 in Google Books)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Dippers, Crazy Eddie, Wacky Tobaccy
Jonathan Lighter
- BOLO
GLL
- SUB
Robert Wachal
- BBQ
David Bergdahl
- sexsomnia
Jonathan Lighter
- ADS-L on Language Log
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Gender identity
Landau, James
- ADS-L on Language Log/cock
Laurence Urdang
- quote/unquote
Laurence Urdang
- print requests
Catherine Klein
- Slight Further Antedating of "Ragtime"
Fred Shapiro
- Further Antedating of "Sex Appeal"
Fred Shapiro
- road-trip, v.
Jonathan Lighter
- road-trip, v.
Jesse Sheidlower
- road-trip, v.
Arnold M. Zwicky
- road-trip, v.
Doug Harris
- road-trip, v.
James Smith
- road-trip, v.
Jim Parish
- road-trip, v.
Chris F Waigl
- road-trip, v.
Jonathan Lighter
- road-trip, v.
Jonathan Lighter
- road-trip, v.
Benjamin Zimmer
- road-trip, v.
Benjamin Zimmer
- road-trip, v.
sagehen
- road-trip, v.
David Bergdahl
- road-trip, v.
Jonathan Lighter
- Putin
Laurence Urdang
- virus = "any disease-causing organism whatsoever"
Jonathan Lighter
- OT: A German faux pas: Giving a clock to someone in China
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Double eggcorn
Enid Pearsons
- FN + LN
Laurence Horn
- the "equalnox"
Jonathan Lighter
- Iss a faw in lang witch
Wilson Gray
- "cigarette bat" referred to as "schoocher"?
Sarah Lang
- desultory = wha?
Jonathan Lighter
- nerves
Charles Doyle
- Putin (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- play malaprops
Arnold M. Zwicky
- mess out
Jonathan Lighter
- No subject
Laurence Urdang
- future of "On Language"
Nathan Bierma
- pronunciations--previously [no subject]
Michael H Covarrubias
- Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities, 1550-1820
Benjamin Zimmer
- The next phase of the English language...
James A. Landau
- OT: Translation by machine
Wilson Gray
- "stockade" = stocks
Jonathan Lighter
- "Location, location, location": a proverb?
Laurence Horn
- "levied charges" for leveled charges
sagehen
- peptonizing
Darla Wells
- "Is it" appended to questions
Russ McClay
- "liquid" language
Jonathan Lighter
- F-word menace
Jonathan Lighter
- deliberate mistakes
Arnold M. Zwicky
- redundant Ps; relativizer "of which"?
Arnold M. Zwicky
- A Telegraph reader thought you would be interested in this article
Laurence Urdang
- "Never wrestle with a pig" (Lincoln??)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- McDonald ’s tells Webster, “Take this McJob and shove it”
Dennis Baron
- Federal Appeals Court rules you can swear on the air, but only for the hell of it
Dennis Baron
- modern proverbs
Jonathan Lighter
- How prevalent is the silent "t"
Tom Zurinskas
- McDonald's tells Webster, "Take this McJob and shove it"
Karl Hagen
- not kind of my shtick
William Salmon
- Beans, etc, PS: The Battle Hymn...
GLL
- Beans, etc, PS: The Battle Hymn...
Laurence Horn
- Beans, etc, PS: The Battle Hymn...
Jonathan Lighter
- Beans, etc, PS: The Battle Hymn...
Charles Doyle
- Beans, etc, PS: The Battle Hymn...
Jonathan Lighter
- Beans, etc, PS: The Battle Hymn...
Laurence Horn
- Beans, etc, PS: The Battle Hymn...
Jonathan Lighter
- Beans, etc, PS: The Battle Hymn...
Benjamin Barrett
- Beans, etc, PS: The Battle Hymn...
Grant Barrett
- Beans, etc, PS: The Battle Hymn...
Charles Doyle
- Beans, etc, PS: The Battle Hymn...
Jonathan Lighter
- Beans, etc, PS: The Battle Hymn...
Margaret Lee
- Beans, etc, PS: The Battle Hymn...
Laurence Horn
- Beans, etc, PS: The Battle Hymn...
Jim Parish
- Beans, etc, PS: The Battle Hymn...
Laurence Horn
- Beans, etc, PS: The Battle Hymn...
James Harbeck
- Beans, etc, PS: The Battle Hymn...
driver.som
- Beans, etc, PS: The Battle Hymn...
Jonathan Lighter
- Beans, etc, PS: The Battle Hymn...
Grant Barrett
- Beans, etc, PS: The Battle Hymn...
Jonathan Lighter
- Beans, etc, PS: The Battle Hymn...
Sam Clements
- Beans, etc, PS: The Battle Hymn...
Jamie Carpenter
- Beans, etc, PS: The Battle Hymn...
Laurence Horn
- pick-and-roll, v.
Benjamin Zimmer
- celebutard
Jonathan Lighter
- Poot and Putin . . .
Charles Doyle
- article
Laurence Urdang
- Greasy = dirty?
Alice Faber
- [ADS-L] Greasy = dirty?
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Antedating of "Self-Made Man"
Fred Shapiro
- Language columns and self-promotion
Mark Peters
- "Coney Island Sandwich" (1892); Sausage Sandwich (1851)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Antedating of "Lobbyist"
Fred Shapiro
- Further Antedating of "Yellow Journalism"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Sweatshop"
Fred Shapiro
- "So big a house"
Joseph Salmons
- Lick-Her Licence (1993, 2001); Google News (two Paris stories)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- pepsi offers "more happy"
Douglas Kenter
- swab >> swap
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Threequel (just about every movie these days)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- ANTEDATING OF "TENNIS, ANYONE?"
Fred Shapiro
- "Fog of War"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedatings in The Yale Book of Quotations - 28: Smoke-Filled Room
Fred Shapiro
- Antedatings in The Yale Book of Quotations - 29: Great Society
Fred Shapiro
- today's bizarre find
Arnold M. Zwicky
- beaner
Frank Abate
- Beans, etc
Joel S. Berson
- "Sam Houston made us free; Sam Colt made us equal"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Additional as verb
neil
- TV-ad voice-over
Wilson Gray
- "Many Were they" 1066?
GLL
- "count their/your ways"?
Joel S. Berson
- Dook's
Charles Doyle
- Modern Proverbs appeal (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- TEST
Neudorf, Paula
- "voiciness"
Jesse Sheidlower
- "Benign" player raiding
Joel S. Berson
- For words ending in "-ity" is it ~t or ~d
Tom Zurinskas
- how big of a problem
sagehen
- sneak peak
James Harbeck
- NewspaperArchive still is not working?; Readex/NewsBank Content
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- More Re: "Fog of War"
Fred Shapiro
- ancestors = descendants
David Bergdahl
- Another kind of buddy
Scot LaFaive
- "Gaia"
Fred Shapiro
- Modern Proverb Appeal
James A. Landau
- envehicling
Charles Doyle
- FW: Another kind of buddy
Frank Abate
- non-religious memorial "service"
Mark Mandel
- Names With Zing
Doug Harris
- Best buds
Erik Hoover
- Gaia?
GLL
- bobcats forever
Beverly Flanigan
- strum up support
Arnold M. Zwicky
- coffee pods
Mark Mandel
- mailing list problems?
Mark Mandel
- feed the crave
James Harbeck
- Out of office reply
Stefan Dollinger
- Hey, buddy!
Laurence Horn
- tort plaintiffs
William Salmon
- kaleidic
Stephen Goranson
- Another kind of [anti-]buddy -- a fellow
Joel S. Berson
- Handsight: An eggcorn?
Mark Peters
- Antedatings in The Yale Book of Quotations - 30: Global Village
Fred Shapiro
- Antedatings in The Yale Book of Quotations - 31: Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Fred Shapiro
- "Everything takes longer than it takes" (1996?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Antedatings in The Yale Book of Quotations - 32: Axe to Grind
Fred Shapiro
- The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend
Baker, John
- "Lightning never strikes twice" (1846)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Gross impoliteness
James A. Landau
- "There are no atheists in the foxholes" (1942)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Chickification; Re: "There are no atheists in the foxholes" (1942)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Another kind of buddy: ''guy''
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Re: [ADS-L] Another kind of buddy: ''guy''
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "we" [was: Another kind of buddy: ''guy'']
Joel S. Berson
- Antedatings in The Yale Book of Quotations - 33: Monkey See, Monkey Do
Fred Shapiro
- Antedatings in The Yale Book of Quotations - 34: Rock the Boat
Fred Shapiro
- The "migrant" bill
Joel S. Berson
- Antedatings in The Yale Book of Quotations - 35: Make Waves
Fred Shapiro
- "guy''
Joel S. Berson
- Antedatings in The Yale Book of Quotations - 36: Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words
Fred Shapiro
- Antedatings in The Yale Book of Quotations - 37: Rich Get Richer
Fred Shapiro
- Antedatings in The Yale Book of Quotations - 38: Late Unpleasantness
Fred Shapiro
- "guy'' NOT ''guys''
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Antedatings in The Yale Book of Quotations - 39: Silent Majority
Fred Shapiro
- VOCATIVE "guy'' - Google instances
RonButters at AOL.COM
- another parameter for guys
Laurence Horn
- "Lightning never strikes twice" (1846) (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- EasyJet says eco plane would half CO2 emissions
Landau, James
- Re: [ADS-L] "guy'' NOT ''guys''
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "boy friend/ boyfriend" [WAS a new kind of "guy"]
Jonathan Lighter
- so you won't have to
Dennis Baron
- Pillow Tax; OT: Lightning never strikes twice
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Everything takes longer than it takes"
James A. Landau
- unsubscribe
Adolf VishNu Shaastrii
- Antedating of "Societal"
Fred Shapiro
- Vocative 'Guy'
GLL
- Gotrocks
Arnold M. Zwicky
- use a bigger hammer
Jonathan Lighter
- "moose milk": antedatings and postdating
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedating of "Political Incorrectness"
Fred Shapiro
- "Commissary berries" in Paris Hilton story
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- OT: voice recognition software
Darla Wells
- "See Naples and Die" (1741, 1788 in Italian)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "See Naples and Then Die" (1770)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Donk, Box & Bubble
Benjamin Zimmer
- welcome screen
David Bergdahl
- today's best spelling correction
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "salacious" = sensational?
Jonathan Lighter
- The new voice of immigration reform: First speak English, then maybe we'll let you in
Dennis Baron
- Sacrificing factual fidelity for flow
Benjamin Barrett
- trills and thrills WAS Re: For words ending in "-ity" is it ~t or ~d
James Harbeck
- pwnt as past participle of pwn
ddr11
- The disease that defiles all medical treatment
Joel S. Berson
- O.T.: Is there some trick to subscribing to NewspaperArchive?; Readex; ProQuest
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- flu = "any set of symptoms resembling symptoms of influenza"
Jonathan Lighter
- O.T.: Is there some trick to subscribing to NewspaperArchive?; Readex; ProQuest (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- The year of candidates-speaking-Spanish. But will they forget it after the test?
Dennis Baron
- Reuben Sandwich (1953); Eighty-Six (1936)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Dirty South, dirty dirty
Darla Wells
- Creationalism
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- f**** buddy euphemism?
neil
- Reuben Sandwich (1953)
Laurence Urdang
- eighty-six or 86; short-order cookery language
Laurence Urdang
- eighty-six or 86
Darla Wells
- FW: eighty-six or 86; short-order cookery language
Frank Abate
- slew?
Hillary Brown
- FW: f**** buddy euphemism?
Frank Abate
- bolt hole
Charles Doyle
- pwnt as past participle of pwn (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- The Army Language Corps: We speak Farsi so you don ’t have to
Dennis Baron
- A style book joke
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Internal toppings
Benjamin Barrett
- Back to Attila
Your Name
- now: avoidance of "novel"
Jonathan Lighter
- Odd juxtapositions
Laurence Urdang
- "[the] peculiar institution"
Joel S. Berson
- Further Antedating of "Peculiar Institution"
Fred Shapiro
- How they say German
Tom Zurinskas
- Whole Nine Yards update(1964)?
Sam Clements
- Re: [ADS-L] How the y say German
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Whole Nine Yards update(1964)? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Ghost-Written Famous Quotations
Fred Shapiro
- Antedatings of "Blue Chip"
Fred Shapiro
- OT: Parody of speech by Yogi Berra
Wilson Gray
- OED Appeals list (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- websterspel
Tom Zurinskas
- OED Appeals list (UNCLASSIFIED); Ghost-Written Famous Quotations
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Don't call us, we'll call you" (1949)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Don't call us, we'll call you" (1949)...(1948)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "toothsome" = toothy
Jonathan Lighter
- Bouey knife (Bowie knife) (Jan. 25, 1836)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Bouey knife (Bowie knife) (Jan. 25, 1836)
Sam Clements
- Bouey knife (Bowie knife) (Jan. 25, 1836)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Bouey knife (Bowie knife) (Jan. 25, 1836)
Wilson Gray
- Bouey knife (Bowie knife) (Jan. 25, 1836)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Bouey knife (Bowie knife) (Jan. 25, 1836)
Jonathan Lighter
- Bouey knife (Bowie knife) (Jan. 25, 1836)
David Bowie
- Bouey knife (Bowie knife) (Jan. 25, 1836)
Wilson Gray
- Bouey knife (Bowie knife) (Jan. 25, 1836)
James Harbeck
- Bouey knife (Bowie knife) (Jan. 25, 1836)
Wilson Gray
- Bouey knife (Bowie knife) (Jan. 25, 1836)
sagehen
- Bouey knife (Bowie knife) (Jan. 25, 1836)
David Bowie
- Bouey knife (Bowie knife) (Jan. 25, 1836)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Bouey knife (Bowie knife) (Jan. 25, 1836)
Wilson Gray
- teachering
Paul Frank
- "to the extent that" for "to the effect that"
sagehen
- More Bay Area "jazz" (1913-16)
Benjamin Zimmer
- "to the extent that" for "to the effect that" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- pawn off
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [ADS-L] Maslow's grea t quotation
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Maslow's great quotation
Bethany Dumas
- On the non-utility of "African-American"
Wilson Gray
- yet alone
James Harbeck
- Bouey knife
sagehen
- NY Times repeats 1942 Texas State Fair "corn dog" myth
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Another 1966 appearance of "the whole nine yards"
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- "African-American"
Laurence Urdang
- Another "ancestors" = "descendants"
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- automotta
Jonathan Lighter
- San Antonio Spurs' "Drive for Five"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- growler
James Harbeck
- autonoma
Jonathan Lighter
- "consarn your tripes"; "says you"
Jonathan Lighter
- good old days
Barnhart
- weather cherries
Jonathan Lighter
- Amazon digitizes rare books; British Columbia newspapers to be digitized
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Chihuahua sandwich; South Waco Shrimp (chicken tails); NPR on hot dogs
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- bong hits 4 jesus: Court rules that students who mention drugs are pushing them
Dennis Baron
- "How much justice can you afford?" New Yorker cartoon
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Taken to the cleaners (1905)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Whole Nine Yards update--same story, earlier date +info
Sam Clements
- George S. Kaufman's "Murphy's Law" (1957)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Off and on
Your Name
- Dubious Etymologies: Dead Rabbits, Plug Uglies
Jonathan Lighter
- hatch the tan, 1886
George Thompson
- language of opium fiends, 1889
George Thompson
- Sashay eggcorn?
neil
- Latest sighting of "hairy eyeball"
Jonathan Lighter
- Dubious Etymologies: "Dead Rabbits"...
Jonathan Lighter
- query on _American Speech_ downloads
Laurence Horn
- Fwd: [Slang] International Bibliography of Lexicography
Damien Hall
- For the discerning among you ...
Robert Hartwell Fiske
- ancestors = descendants ?
Barbara Need
- Plug Ugly (1856)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Plug Ugly (1856) (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Carny Slang, 1886
George Thompson
- lexicographic bibliography
Joan H. Hall
- The Golden Age of Headline Writing
George Thompson
- "gimpy" (lame) - about 30 years earlier
George Thompson
- vaca
Charles Doyle
- OT: In the news: Kamehameha Schools critic licks his chops over opinion
Wilson Gray
- access to American Speech on-line
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Newmarket switch, Ancaster cock
Joel S. Berson
- Spears
Wilson Gray
- "Ratatouille" and health code "violations"
Joel S. Berson
- "Feel good movie" (1983, not Joel Siegel?)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Fajita (1971); O.T. personal info
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Fajita (1971); O.T. personal info (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- E.O.Wilson, Etymologist
sagehen
- red herring; passivism; Malaya
Stephen Goranson
- Malaya
Joel S. Berson
- semantic drift: "office/ power"
Jonathan Lighter
- OT: Curing AIDS
Wilson Gray
- According to an ad on Comedy Central:
Wilson Gray
- an historic WAS Re: Fajita (1971); O.T. personal info
James Harbeck
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