May 2007 Archives by thread
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- Canadians and tipping
James A. Landau
- Canadians
Wilson Gray
- MILF (was Re: change from the bottom up)
Wilson Gray
- Ghetto
Scot LaFaive
- Ghetto/nigger-rig
Sarah Lang
- Tight = drunk
Your Name
- negative "as well"
Jonathan Lighter
- Hellenistic
Baker, John
- NINJA home loan (No Income, No Job or Assets)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- evil passive on Language Log
Arnold M. Zwicky
- reanalysis or nonce blend?
Laurence Horn
- "American Taco"?
Rick Castello
- Year names
Jim Parish
- malaprop
Landau, James
- question about African-American mimicry
Darla Wells
- "May" trying to do Might's job
sagehen
- Heds Up: This headline writer was smokin'
Doug Harris
- "American Taco"? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- conclude = "to prove (the existence of something); entail"
Jonathan Lighter
- Evil passive voice
Laurence Horn
- Tight = drunk (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- MILF (was Re: change from the bottom up) (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "Pannomion"
Fred Shapiro
- yea/ yeah
Jonathan Lighter
- "early" ex. of initial "myself"
Jonathan Lighter
- Jones[es]
Joel S. Berson
- drop trou
James Harbeck
- through the ringer
James Harbeck
- another digital text archive
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "As Well."
GLL
- Irregardless on TV
Benjamin Barrett
- Mystery of living shorter
Jonathan Lighter
- Anglican bagels
Mark A. Mandel
- to "lug" = to apprehend by force of law(?)
Jonathan Lighter
- Cheese (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Historian Criticizes Google Book Search Quality
Benjamin Zimmer
- Early appearances of "irregardless"
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- Re: [ADS-L] Historian Criticizes Google Book Search Quality
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Taking Pains For Royalty
Doug Harris
- yet another newphemism?
Laurence Horn
- Embarrassingly Enough, ...
Doug Harris
- Embarrassingly Enough, ...
Benjamin Barrett
- Embarrassingly Enough, ...
sagehen
- Embarrassingly Enough, ...
Benjamin Barrett
- Embarrassingly Enough, ...
Benjamin Barrett
- Embarrassingly Enough, ...
James C Stalker
- Embarrassingly Enough, ...
Douglas G. Wilson
- Embarrassingly Enough, ...
Benjamin Barrett
- Embarrassingly Enough, ...
Jonathan Lighter
- Embarrassingly Enough, ...
Jonathan Lighter
- Embarrassingly Enough, ...
Charles Doyle
- Embarrassingly Enough, ...
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Embarrassingly Enough, ...
Doug Harris
- Embarrassingly Enough, ...
Mark A. Mandel
- Mintzing Words
Doug Harris
- Congested pedestrians
Scot LaFaive
- Coined Word(s) -- Was Congested pedestrians
Doug Harris
- Blue book
Charles Doyle
- Coined Words -- Was Congested Pedestrians
Doug Harris
- fag out
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Re: [ADS-L] Blue bo ok
RonButters at AOL.COM
- yet another newphemism? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Yumfecta
Benjamin Zimmer
- Further Antedating of "Industrial Revolution"
Fred Shapiro
- Bikini (June 1947)
Dave Wilton
- "snubbing your nose"
Jonathan Lighter
- in-your
James Harbeck
- Query: "Fort Knox" = a great amount of
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "Astroturf"
Jim Parish
- Taking the bull by the tail
sagehen
- "prom baby"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- prior = "before"
Jonathan Lighter
- The hoard speaks -- or writes?
Joel S. Berson
- Truthiness morphing
David Bowie
- (neither) nor
Beverly Flanigan
- Can sound be put in these messages?
Tom Zurinskas
- fwd: Double Modal Constructions
Mark A. Mandel
- Workshop on Language Analysis in the determination of national origin of refugees
Barnhart
- bollards, bolsters, who cares?
Arnold M. Zwicky
- bollards, bolsters, who cares?
Wilson Gray
- bollards, bolsters, who cares?
Arnold M. Zwicky
- bollards, bolsters, who cares?
Benjamin Barrett
- bollards, bolsters, who cares?
Lynne Murphy
- bollards, bolsters, who cares?
Arnold M. Zwicky
- bollards, bolsters, who cares?
James C Stalker
- bollards, bolsters, who cares?
James Harbeck
- From pencils to pixels, technologies won ’t fi x our schools
Dennis Baron
- Query: "$64,000 quesiton"
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Query: "$64,000 quesiton"
sagehen
- Query: "$64,000 quesiton"
sagehen
- Query: "$64,000 quesiton"
Sam Clements
- Query: "$64,000 quesiton"
James C Stalker
- Query: "$64,000 quesiton"
sagehen
- Query: "$64,000 quesiton"
Sam Clements
- Query: "$64,000 quesiton"
Wilson Gray
- Query: "$64,000 quesiton"
Sam Clements
- Query: "$64,000 quesiton"
sagehen
- Query: "$64,000 quesiton"
Paul Johnson
- Query: "$64,000 quesiton"
Grant Barrett
- Query: "$64,000 quesiton"
David Bowie
- Query: "$64,000 quesiton"
Laurence Horn
- Query: "$64,000 quesiton"
Jonathan Lighter
- Query: "$64,000 quesiton"
Charles Doyle
- Query: "$64,000 quesiton"
Laurence Horn
- Query: "$64,000 quesiton"
sagehen
- Query: "$64,000 quesiton"
Wilson Gray
- Query: "$64,000 quesiton"
David Bowie
- Query: "$64,000 quesiton"
Laurence Horn
- Query: "$64,000 quesiton"
Wilson Gray
- Query: "$64,000 quesiton" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- scamosphere
Arnold M. Zwicky
- X was love
Mark Peters
- coots was 64000 question
James C Stalker
- OT: Mathematics [was: The hoard speaks -- or writes?]
Joel S. Berson
- "rascalous" = rascally
Jonathan Lighter
- $64,000 question
Gerald Cohen
- Coolerator (was Re: Query: "$64,000 quesiton")
Benjamin Zimmer
- hard words used on TV!
Jonathan Lighter
- hard words on TV! Part deux
Jonathan Lighter
- Weird Links to "23 Skidoo!"
Jonathan Lighter
- Query: "$64,000 question"----(blend)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Pronouncing "species"
Charles Doyle
- Can sound be put in these messages? [concl?]
Michael H Covarrubias
- "ascribe" = subscribe
Jonathan Lighter
- Paisley's vowels
sagehen
- Special problems (or speesh impediments?)
Joel Shaver
- Tsunami Tuesday
Landau, James
- Mao's revenge
Landau, James
- Trip trap trip trap (was Re: Can sound be put in these messages?)
Scot LaFaive
- Trip trap trip trap (was Re: Can sound be put in these messages?) (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- three-item "both"
James Harbeck
- Quick help link?
GLL
- "Is it" appended to questions
Joel S. Berson
- [jiz-z krayst]
RonButters at AOL.COM
- The Great Pop vs. Soda Controversy
Russ McClay
- "You're welcome" turns 100?
bapopik at AOL.COM
- cops/donuts meme
Sam Clements
- "Show and Go" (basketball term)
bapopik at AOL.COM
- Parse this: Pentagon fields new Language Corps
Dennis Baron
- "minisodes"
David A. Daniel
- "dimunition"
sagehen
- Pentagon fields new Language Corps
Joan H. Hall
- Work on regional variation in mass/count nouns?
Joseph Salmons
- Work on regional variation in mass/count nouns? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- New EEOC categories
Landau, James
- Another memorable lesson in dialectology
Wilson Gray
- Derelict, dialect ...
Joel S. Berson
- OT musings: Re: New EEOC categories
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- cops/donuts meme (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Don't tell, don't tell: Military uploads videos to YouTube, then blocks the site
Dennis Baron
- Germans, German language in Texas
bapopik at AOL.COM
- Cops and doughnuts, cont.
Marc Sacks
- NewspaperArchive not adding new content?; NewsBank's promised content additions
bapopik at AOL.COM
- more ADS-L on Language Log
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Re: [ADS-L] cops/donu ts meme
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Rock-paper-scissors redux
Wilson Gray
- cops/donuts meme/ride the tin
Paul Johnson
- "Nappy-headed who'es" redux
Wilson Gray
- Kit and caboodle
Landau, James
- Evil passive voice (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- NewspaperArchive not adding new content?; NewsBank's promised content additions (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Ladislav Zgusta: In Memoriam; NewsBank release is for May 31
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- present = conditional perfect
Jonathan Lighter
- FYI: Glenn Beck on "snuck"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Do-Rags and Bling
Ron 'Hollywood' Parro
- Telephone pole
Landau, James
- Loose cannon (1889)
Dave Wilton
- Regime Change
Baker, John
- journals
James Harbeck
- [C18-L] vampires and the press
Joel S. Berson
- Slim jim
Joel Shaver
- more on pull up stakes
Lynne Murphy
- up sticks/up stakes: eggcorn origin? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Slim jim (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "Slim Jim" snack (Philadelphia, 1953)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Hockey
Scot LaFaive
- Antedating of "phantom limb" (1871)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- Nappy-headed Hos (Was: "Nappy-headed who'es" redux)
Reinhold (Rey) Aman
- Thanks
Charles Doyle
- Eggcorn?
Philip E. Cleary
- Info re Melvin A. Butler needed
Bethany K. Dumas
- The 40 sounds of USA English - beige fox story
Tom Zurinskas
- Hamburger sausage, with long, narrow roll and mustard (1890)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Frankfort sausage between bread at Coney Island (1884)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Amerika"
Fred Shapiro
- junkies in the news
Jonathan Lighter
- "REARRANGING DECK CHAIRS ON THE TITANIC"
Fred Shapiro
- Modern Proverbs Appeal
Fred Shapiro
- YMCA song as gay anthem; Poland
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Need for "common sense" phonetic spelling
Tom Zurinskas
- Cro-Magnons, other troglodytes, old & new.
sagehen
- pompatus not in OED
James Harbeck
- Call for Aman's banning
Scot LaFaive
- Baltimore Chop (1901); "a la Maryland" (Maryland chicken)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "parap(@)legic"
Charles Doyle
- Odd sentence in the New York Times
Marc Sacks
- some points of clarification
James Harbeck
- regift
Charles Doyle
- From Urban Dictionary
Wilson Gray
- "Make due": eggcorn?
sagehen
- curiouser
Nathan Bierma
- Hockey---(NYC pronunciation of "chocolate")
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Assorted Comments
James A. Landau
- Please don't feed the troll? [was Re: Call for Aman's banning]
Erik Hoover
- Please don't feed the troll?
GSCole
- Cioppino (1908); Ciopino (1915)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Daiquiri (1910); Southern Lunch Counter Slang (1896)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- No subject
Charles Doyle
- "parap(@)legic" - asphalt
Tom Zurinskas
- trivial English "(eh) what?"
Jonathan Lighter
- Daiquiri (1910); Southern Lunch Counter Slang (1896) (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "parap(@)legic" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Assorted Comments (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- usually always
James Harbeck
- Redux: "fact" = proposition; notion
Jonathan Lighter
- metonymy
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Assorted Comments -- Slums
Doug Harris
- Apropos of Nothing
Doug Harris
- metonymy-TRY
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Heard on the Judges
Wilson Gray
- The Great Pop vs. Soda Controversy (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Modern Proverbs Appeal (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Question about this list
Your Name
- Re: [ADS-L] metonymy- TRY
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "basket weaving" revisited
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "drug" = "dragged"
James Harbeck
- as per usual
James Harbeck
- pejoration of "stuff?"
Douglas Kenter
- Hear on TV
Wilson Gray
- intransitive "resolve"
Michael H Covarrubias
- "Mc-" prefix, 1963
Jonathan Lighter
- "Mc-" prefix, 1963
Jesse Sheidlower
- "Mc-" prefix, 1963
Jonathan Lighter
- "Mc-" prefix, 1963
Mark Peters
- "Mc-" prefix, 1963
Joseph Salmons
- "Mc-" prefix, 1963
Alice Faber
- "Mc-" prefix, 1963
Mark Peters
- "Mc-" prefix, 1963
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "Mc-" prefix, 1963
Benjamin Zimmer
- "Mc-" prefix, 1963
Hillary Brown
- "Mc-" prefix, 1963
Chris F Waigl
- "Mc-" prefix, 1963
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "Mc-" prefix, 1963
Benjamin Zimmer
- "Mc-" prefix, 1963
Benjamin Zimmer
- "Mc-" prefix, 1963
Benjamin Zimmer
- "dice with death" antedatings
Jonathan Lighter
- "purity ring"
Jonathan Lighter
- "basket weaving" revisited (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Yee-haa: End of the Trail
Jonathan Lighter
- Maslow's great quotation
Stephen Goranson
- Fwd: Eggcorn
Arnold M. Zwicky
- CSI: Quebec -- Crack French police unit still pursues English-speaking lawbreakers
Dennis Baron
- "hall" as part of a name in cities in the US.
Sam Clements
- Fwd: Re: [ADS-L] metonymy-TRY
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Army tells gay translators: don't tell, or don't translate
Dennis Baron
- Army tells gay translators: don't tell, or don't translate
Tom Zurinskas
- Army tells gay translators: don't tell, or don't translate
Wilson Gray
- Army tells gay translators: don't tell, or don't translate
Tom Zurinskas
- Army tells gay translators: don't tell, or don't translate
Your Name
- Army tells gay translators: don't tell, or don't translate
Mark A. Mandel
- Army tells gay translators: don't tell, or don't translate
Kevin Birge
- Army tells gay translators: don't tell, or don't translate
Scot LaFaive
- Army tells gay translators: don't tell, or don't translate
Kevin Birge
- Army tells gay translators: don't tell, or don't translate
Tom Zurinskas
- Army tells gay translators: don't tell, or don't translate
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Army tells gay translators: don't tell, or don't translate
Wilson Gray
- Army tells gay translators: don't tell, or don't translate
Joel S. Berson
- Army tells gay translators: don't tell, or don't translate
Mark A. Mandel
- Wordsmith.org online chat with Anne Curzan, author, professor
Wordsmith.org
- "as good a guys"
Laurence Horn
- For those who've moved on from MILFs...
Laurence Horn
- candidate word of the year - "decider"
Tom Zurinskas
- Fwd: Re: [ADS-L] metonymy-TRY
Marc Sacks
- FN + LN
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Fuzzy Math Exemplified
Doug Harris
- Weld vs Wield
Scot LaFaive
- stereotypes about African-Americans
Darla Wells
- "googling" -- I didn't know
Joel S. Berson
- "Now he belongs to the ages/angels" (Stanton on Lincoln, in The New Yorker)
bapopik at AOL.COM
- African-American stereotypes
James A. Landau
- "will shod" for will shoe
sagehen
- "slough" (etc.)
Charles Doyle
- "Color" = "information"?!
Wilson Gray
- on the subject of new (or altered) proverbs...
Laurence Horn
- Pizza "cut" for "slice"
bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Location, location, location": a proverb?
Charles Doyle
- "Location, location, location": a proverb?
Benjamin Zimmer
- "Location, location, location": a proverb?
Charles Doyle
- "Location, location, location": a proverb?
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "Location, location, location": a proverb?
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "Location, location, location": a proverb?
James Harbeck
- "Location, location, location": a proverb?
Benjamin Zimmer
- "Location, location, location": a proverb?
James Harbeck
- "Location, location, location": a proverb?
Doug Harris
- "Location, location, location": a proverb?
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "Location, location, location": a proverb?
Charles Doyle
- "Location, location, location": a proverb?
Wilson Gray
- "Location, location, location": a proverb?
Jonathan Lighter
- "Location, location, location": a proverb?
Joel S. Berson
- "Location, location, location": a proverb?
Doug Harris
- "Location, location, location": a proverb?
Jonathan Lighter
- "Location, location, location": a proverb?
Jonathan Lighter
- "Location, location, location": a proverb?
Joel S. Berson
- "Location, location, location": a proverb?
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "Ogonek" not in OED2
Joel S. Berson
- Fwd: "nary a "
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "vampire" from 1688?
Joel S. Berson
- "toxophile," "self bow"
Jonathan Lighter
- possible eggcorn: bowl/bowler
Lynne Murphy
- Pronunciation question (from L. Urdang)
Jesse Sheidlower
- Re: [ADS-L] Pronuncia tion question (from L. Urdang)
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Fwd: Overnegation and Nary (Your Language Log Post)
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "nary a "
Benjamin Zimmer
- Overnegation and Nary (Your Language Log Post)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Tense in BE
Wilson Gray
- "Location, location, location": a proverb? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Railroad cart
Victoria Neufeldt
- Lorezo Dow Turner question
Bethany K. Dumas
- Lorezo Dow Turner question (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Heard on the Judges;
Wilson Gray
- A trivial parallel
Wilson Gray
- Real better
David Borowitz
- XDRTB nothing to sneeze about
Jonathan Lighter
- nutity
Charles Doyle
- Word/typo of the year!
Laurence Urdang
- apraxignosia
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Sterling today and yesteryear [was: "Location, location, location": a proverb?]
Joel S. Berson
- Rubies and diamonds, and _The Man Who Would be King_
Joel S. Berson
- respectively
James Harbeck
- Bee Season: The annual spelling bee brings out protesters as well as nerds
Dennis Baron
- stars and ours
James Harbeck
- "Ima Hogg" redux
Wilson Gray
- Over-rotated
Landau, James
- Rubies and diamonds, and _The Man Who Would be King_ (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Breeding
Charles Doyle
- Eggcorn: "gambit" for gamut
sagehen
- Newsbank's "on or before May 31st" release
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Teenage speak and beyond
Richard Vallis
- selvyt
Mark Mandel
- Fw: Teenage speak and beyond
Richard Vallis
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