November 2007 Archives by thread
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- "ironwork" as wielding an erect penis?
Joel S. Berson
- Nominating Committee Report
Grant Barrett
- noncents
James Harbeck
- star in
Kate Daly
- BBQ Crabs (1930s, from Sabine Pass, Texas)
Barry Popik
- "ironwork" as wielding an erect penis?; Coon's Posterior Sandwich
Barry Popik
- The "Hooligan" Boys 1896
Stephen Goranson
- Wilson's St. Louis vowels . . .
Charles Doyle
- . . . plus c'est la meme chose.
Laurence Urdang
- jerry builing 1832; jerry built 1844; jerry builder 1833
Stephen Goranson
- cancellation
Laurence Urdang
- DLTDHYOTWO (Don't Let The Door Hit You On The Way Out)
Barry Popik
- what is going on?
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Eggcorn? Don't backmouth me
Mark Peters
- lilac
Charles Doyle
- Proposal: An separate antedatings list
Grant Barrett
- Proposal: A separate antedatings list
Grant Barrett
- ADS the list
Bethany K. Dumas
- ads-l
William Salmon
- Adding "ADS" to all list messages
Jesse Sheidlower
- doing blades==hot knifing
Sarah Lang
- several "new" 1966 "the whole nine yards" uses
Stephen Goranson
- ironwork
Jonathon Green
- My ADS-L solution
Bethany Dumas
- Washoe dies at 42 without signing good-bye
Dennis Baron
- Competing forms: tased vs. tasered
Clai Rice
- he-vage = male cleavage
James Harbeck
- [Technical issue] changing email address
Scot LaFaive
- "Moist": sexually aroused, of a woman
Wilson Gray
- [Technical issue]
Scot LaFaive
- Notable Quotations of 2007
Shapiro, Fred
- Competing forms: swiffed vs swiffered (was: tased vs tasered)
Damien Hall
- "bride-elect" -- an odd term
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- gut = "gut feeling"
Jonathan Lighter
- Texas Coffee & Texas Toast (1944); O.T.: Election wagering
Barry Popik
- Notable Quotations of 2007; ADS-L issues; Coon's Posterior Sandwich (Coon-ass)
Barry Popik
- antedating of capitalism
JAMES A. LANDAU Netscape. Just the Net You Need.
- antedating of capitalism, Google's help with
Joel S. Berson
- Waterless words . . .
Charles Doyle
- "scumble" [Was: Inconsistent taboos on Fox News]
Mark Mandel
- Clarification of "Capitalism"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Speech note] Pronouncing Oregon
Scot LaFaive
- Adspeak Word: Epsonality
Doug Harris
- "Drouth"
Wilson Gray
- Eggcorn: *mooted* > *muted*
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Drouth
sagehen at westelcom.com
- Sorry, Dr. House. Study correlates neat handwriting with academic success
Dennis Baron
- seven 1966 "the whole nine yards" in Wings of the Tiger
Stephen Goranson
- AD: card game terms from 1734 (finesse, remise)
Joel S. Berson
- AD: card game terms from 1734 (finesse, remise) (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "Blue Laws" in 1755
George Thompson
- Another newspaper archive
Michael Quinion
- Texas Coffee & Texas Toast (1944); O.T.: Election wagering (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Putative "jazzbo" in 1918 NYT?
Jesse Sheidlower
- Putative "jazzbo" in 1918 NYT? (solved)
Jesse Sheidlower
- "Drouth"/Drouthy
William Salmon
- AD: to run (a candidate) 1765 antedates 1789-
Joel S. Berson
- "Railway"
Wilson Gray
- jasbo band (1914)
Benjamin Zimmer
- unfortunate Gapping
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Hi!
Wilson Gray
- Hi!
Jesse Sheidlower
- Hi!
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Hi!
Wilson Gray
- Hi!
Kate Daly
- Hi!
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Hi! (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "Railway" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Hawking red-hot newspapers [Was "Blue Laws"] in 1755
Joel S. Berson
- Dan'l Schorr's"dubious Congress"
sagehen at westelcom.com
- NYT on Daniel Cassidy
Benjamin Zimmer
- cheap access to digitized newspapers
George Thompson
- Lebanese iced tea (from Baton Rouge or New Orleans?)
Barry Popik
- Ezine for phones (perhaps OT)
Benjamin Barrett
- Can you imagine that you are healthy?
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Bandit Signs (Street Spam; Vertical Litter; Snipe Signs; Stuff On a Stick or SOS)
Barry Popik
- Language Log/eggcorn database media sighting
David Bowie
- Eggcorn lexicalization?
David Bowie
- fraudulate
Arnold M. Zwicky
- NYT on Daniel Cassidy (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Fwd: NYT on Daniel Cassidy
Grant Barrett
- vl cluster spotting
Benjamin Barrett
- Texas Bird of Paradise (two different birds -- plus a plant!)
Barry Popik
- NYT on Daniel Cassidy--("Big Onion" = NYC)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Re: [ADS-L] vl clus ter spotting
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Cautions in using datings from Early American Newspapers
Joel S. Berson
- Ranch Dressing (in M-W but not OED?)
Barry Popik
- Is it true what they say about Dixie?
Jonathan Lighter
- NYT--slightly OT--Gaelic
Geoff Nathan
- NYT on Daniel Cassidy--("Big Onion" = NYC); first follow-up
Gerald Cohen
- NYT on Daniel Cassidy--("Big Onion" = NYC); second follow-up
Gerald Cohen
- Buy the farm
neil
- Curliness eggcorn?
neil
- AD: "lobby man" 1827 antedates 1938; also "lobby member", "lobby manager"
Joel S. Berson
- unbrick, v.
Chris F Waigl
- "Locavore" is Oxford Word-of-the-Year
Barry Popik
- [Antedating] "All nine yards" [1962]
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- ranchburger, Big Onion antedating (sort of), eggcorns
JAMES A. LANDAU Netscape. Just the Net You Need.
- thee for the
James Harbeck
- Standing novation
Grant Barrett
- OT: Cassidy and Academic malpractice
Amy West
- "... Hit with _the ugly stick_."
Wilson Gray
- Heard on the Judges
Wilson Gray
- "chomp at/on the bit": eggcorn?
Joel S. Berson
- contrastive stress on "an"
Dennis R. Preston
- NYT on Daniel Cassidy---( "big shot")
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Irish accents [Was: NYT on Daniel Cassidy ...]
Joel S. Berson
- Three Sisters (Corn, Beans, Squash)
Barry Popik
- WD-40 (White Democrat, over 40)
Barry Popik
- Heard on the Judges (SWANG)
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Contact info for John McWhorter?
Grant Barrett
- Turducken & Churkendoose; WD-40
Barry Popik
- No mo' "ho ho ho"
Charles Doyle
- fruitist
Charles Doyle
- China "Toycott" (toy + boycott)
Barry Popik
- The ZeuSeugoose (me) [Was: ... Churkendoose]
Joel S. Berson
- "Elope" from a nursing home?
Joel S. Berson
- "Heynabonics. Kina funny, hey na?"
Wilson Gray
- Sniplet
Benjamin Barrett
- Pasta monster gets academic attention - Science- msnbc.com
Paul
- "high yeller" revisited
Laurence Horn
- New "lumpkin," "girney"
Jonathan Lighter
- New "lumpkin," "girney"
Dennis Preston
- New "lumpkin," "girney"
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- New "lumpkin," "girney"
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- New "lumpkin," "girney"
Laurence Horn
- New "lumpkin," "girney"
Charles Doyle
- New "lumpkin," "girney"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- New "lumpkin," "girney"
Laurence Horn
- New "lumpkin," "girney"
Charles Doyle
- New "lumpkin," "girney"
Mark Mandel
- New "lumpkin," "girney"
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- New "lumpkin," "girney"
Joel S. Berson
- New "lumpkin," "girney"
Charles Doyle
- New "lumpkin," "girney"
Joel S. Berson
- Nominate your 2007 Word of the Year
Grant Barrett
- "Onions and garlic"?
Joel S. Berson
- "Ropers and Dopers" (Austin & Willie Nelson); "Rope-a-Dope" (Mohammad Ali)
Barry Popik
- Spoken by a football-game commentator
Wilson Gray
- Turn-of-Century (20th) Dude Siting
Doug Harris
- Query: "like the nitrous"
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "sucks to high heaven"
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Velvet Rut (1950s, from The New Yorker?)
Barry Popik
- I say persona, he says personum?
Joel S. Berson
- ANTEDATING OF "ZERO POPULATION GROWTH"
Shapiro, Fred
- "comma intonation" cite, anyone?
Laurence Horn
- "Heynabonics. Kina funny, hey na?" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- The Onion on U.K. slang
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "onions and garlic"
Amy West
- FW: [ADS-L] The Onion on U.K. slang
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Biblical source for "onions and garlic"
Joel S. Berson
- Heard on the Mad Dog
Laurence Horn
- gnarly (was Re: Pasta monster gets academic attention - Science- msnbc.com)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Big Onion (Re: The Onion on U.K. slang)
Barry Popik
- Name of the year
Terry Irons
- Antedating of "Filmography"
Shapiro, Fred
- SPLASH or SLASH?
RonButters at AOL.COM
- An eggcorn that's been lying doormat?
Mark Peters
- Big Onion (Re: The Onion on U.K. slang) (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- dates of "make money"
Mark Mandel
- Semi-OT: Wikipedia's "Big Apple" vandalized again
Barry Popik
- SPLASH or SLASH? [brass tacks]
neil
- Good Food Movement (1966, at Berkeley?; 1985, at Farm Aid?)
Barry Popik
- Mess Wagon/Mess Box = Chuck Wagon/Chuck Box
Barry Popik
- ADS luncheon speaker
Allan A Metcalf
- Transitive "think"
Alice Faber
- Not just freedom fries at this English-only drive-in?
Dennis Baron
- Big Onion; Origin of "Paul Bunyan" (1904? 1906?)
Barry Popik
- "No More Bullshit!" (Norman Mailer's 1969 campaign slogan)
Barry Popik
- [antedating] "snuck" 1881
Jonathan Lighter
- "Mexican Pizza" revisited (1953?)
Barry Popik
- Pavarotte lives in infamy
Mark Mandel
- "Unchartered waters"
Laurence Horn
- "supposively"
Jonathan Lighter
- "Gotcha!" (or, William Safire is beyond hope)
Barry Popik
- dude = "infected follicle in the rear pelvic or anal area of a member of the genus _Elephas_"
Jonathan Lighter
- you dudes = "you guys"
Jonathan Lighter
- "Forcing" for "divorcing?"
Dan Goodman
- ADS-L Digest - 24 Nov 2007 to 25 Nov 2007 (#2007-330)
Chris Kern
- African-American Women's Language Conf. Mar. 7-8, 2008
Grant Barrett
- ADS Annual Meeting: Slight Change of Venue - No Change of Plans
Allan A Metcalf
- "Al Pastor" (Tacos al pastor; Cabrito al pastor)
Barry Popik
- "Unring" Not in OED
Shapiro, Fred
- Fwd: word-watch
Arnold M. Zwicky
- recoing
James Harbeck
- unring
Charles Doyle
- "Forcing" for "divorcing?" (now going off topic)
Mark Mandel
- Fwd: -ckx consonant cluster?
Grant Barrett
- (Phiily? Kyoto? Texas? Mexican?) "Fried Ice Cream," from Philyototexico
Barry Popik
- [antedating] ghost, v. "to write something anonymously for someone else"
Jonathan Lighter
- Request for assistance on American slang from a Russian colleague
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Sope (1947)
Barry Popik
- unrUng, etc. and googling
Barnhart
- Sope (1947) (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- wittiness of proverbs
RonButters at AOL.COM
- -ckx consonant cluster?
Paul Johnston
- "Miss Television" in 1933
Laurence Horn
- [anecdote] misuse of slang in 1828
Jonathan Lighter
- "Walking Taco" (Taco-in-a-Bag; Frito Pie; Petro's from Knoxville, TN)
Barry Popik
- ADS-L Digest - 27 Nov 2007 to 28 Nov 2007 (#2007-333)
Geoff Nathan
- Mexican Chocolate & Molinillo
Barry Popik
- Heard on "Today on NBC"
Wilson Gray
- [anecdote] misuse of slang in 1828 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "Miss Television" in 1933 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "Walking Taco" (Taco-in-a-Bag; Frito Pie; Petro's from Knoxville, TN) (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Mexican Chocolate & Molinillo (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Draft of Checklist of Electronic Resources (Version 4)
James Smith
- the Cupertino effect
Arnold M. Zwicky
- new "such as" revisited
Laurence Horn
- Slang from WWI (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- [antedtating] slumgully
Jonathan Lighter
- disco ball
James Harbeck
- Heard on "Today on NBC"---(meaning of RC)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Fwd: Re: early instances of the word "television"
Amy West
- [antedating] "trench coat" [Was Re: Slang from WWI (UNCLASSIFIED)]
Jonathan Lighter
- "whala
sagehen at westelcom.com
- "whala" for voila
sagehen at westelcom.com
- Double eggcorn? Raptious
Dave Hause
- "butt-crack" = stupid or obnoxious person
Jonathan Lighter
- Eggcorn?
Wilson Gray
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