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- No time to make it shorter?
Joel S. Berson
- Mixed Bathing (East Texas); Mixed Swimming (West Texas)
George Thompson
- Fwd: Mixed Bathing (East Texas); Mixed Swimming (West Texas)
Barry Popik
- Believe on me: WTF?
James Harbeck
- Further antedating of hydrant (1801)
sagehen
- new antedating of hydrant (1800)
Stephen Goranson
- CORRECTION Re: [ADS-L] new antedating of hydrant (1800)
Stephen Goranson
- boondoggle (1929)
Stephen Goranson
- Further antedating of hydrant (1800)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- one-time "whenever", live
Laurence Horn
- one-time "whenever", live
Alice Faber
- one-time "whenever", live
Douglas G. Wilson
- one-time "whenever", live
Laurence Horn
- one-time "whenever", live
Laurence Horn
- one-time "whenever", live
Alice Faber
- one-time "whenever", live
Beverly Flanigan
- one-time "whenever", live
Laurence Horn
- one-time "whenever", live
Laurence Horn
- one-time "whenever", live
Montgomery Michael
- one-time "whenever", live
Montgomery Michael
- one-time "whenever", live
Laurence Horn
- one-time "whenever", live
Jonathan Lighter
- one-time "whenever", live
Bethany Dumas
- one-time "whenever", live
Laurence Horn
- one-time "whenever", live
Charles Doyle
- one-time "whenever", live
Mark Sacks
- one-time "whenever", live
Douglas G. Wilson
- one-time "whenever", live
Montgomery Michael
- one-time "whenever", live
Jonathan Lighter
- one-time "whenever", live
Laurence Urdang
- Chupacabra (goat sucker)
Barry Popik
- Christians, Nazarenes, etc., was: [ADS-L] Believe on me
Stephen Goranson
- antedating of fiasco (1842, 1844)
Stephen Goranson
- one-time "whenever", live - isogloss
Tom Zurinskas
- antedating (?) of "by a fluke" (1854)
Stephen Goranson
- antedating of papiros(a) (1852)
Stephen Goranson
- antedating of shindig (1846)
Stephen Goranson
- 1842 Re: [ADS-L] antedating of shindig (1846)
Stephen Goranson
- When[ever] the Boston Globe cleans up a quote
Alice Faber
- lexical query
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Salty Dog (1947); Baptist tea (1962)
Barry Popik
- hash marks
Douglas G. Wilson
- [ADS-L] lexical query
RonButters at AOL.COM
- kneck and kneck
James Harbeck
- thou WAS Believe on me: WTF?
James Harbeck
- Pron. of "pathos"
Mark Mandel
- "confuses X for Y"
Mark Mandel
- Arnold, where art thou? (was Re: "confuses X for Y")
Mark Mandel
- Huck-a-buck/huck-n-buck
Sam Clements
- "Au fait"
Douglas G. Wilson
- DogGONE!!
Doug Harris
- old-time religion (1892)
Barnhart
- [ADS-L] Re: † † † Re: [ADS-L] lexical query
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Fwd: lexical query
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Re: [ADS-L] Fwd: le xical query
RonButters at AOL.COM
- 'mixed blessing'
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "reticent" abuse
sagehen
- Texas lawyer jokes (three kick rule; skid marks)
Barry Popik
- OFFLIST Re: [ADS-L] old-time religion (1892)
Stephen Goranson
- Prepone
Mark Mandel
- Won't fixing the problem
Mark Mandel
- Page numbers (Was: Re: [ADS-L] antedating of papiros(a) (1852))
Jesse Sheidlower
- . . . times lower than . . .
Laurence Urdang
- Hood Rats and slang
Scot LaFaive
- antedating of tangram (1855-56)
Stephen Goranson
- Loco-Foco
Stephen Goranson
- Iraqi slang (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- How do I see my own postings?
Your Name
- heat/cold ratios [Was: times lower than]
Joel S. Berson
- kraaled 1825 antedates 1865-
Joel S. Berson
- Re: [ADS-L] Iraqi s lang (UNCLASSIFIED)
RonButters at AOL.COM
- antedating euchre (1841, 1842, 1845))
Stephen Goranson
- a simple phonetic system
Tom Zurinskas
- . . . times lower than . . . (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- heat/cold ratios [Was: times lower than] (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Yale hot dog story (April 1899)
Barry Popik
- Eggcorn: picky-uny
James Callan
- hurdling for hurtling
Mark Mandel
- root, n. = "forceful kick"
Jonathan Lighter
- Another one bites the dust?
Wilson Gray
- Chester, PA "Italian Sandwiches/Hoagies/Submarines" (1925)
Barry Popik
- rift
Joan H. Hall
- rift
Jonathan Lighter
- rift
Charles Doyle
- rift
Benjamin Zimmer
- autobiographer
Jonathan Lighter
- flip the script
davemarc
- I'm are
Scot LaFaive
- Texification (Texify)
Barry Popik
- Texification (Texify) -- also Texafication (Texafy)
Barry Popik
- Audrey Duckert
Joan H. Hall
- CRITERION CRITERIA CRITERIUM(S)
RonButters at AOL.COM
- antedating of tangram (1855-56) (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "Hail" = "prospective taxicab customer"?
Joel S. Berson
- muck, v.
Jonathan Lighter
- to "niff"
Jonathan Lighter
- "novel" again
Jonathan Lighter
- Siberian town bans "I don't know." Violators will be sent to . . . Siberia
Dennis Baron
- some Ballyhoo
Stephen Goranson
- Is the OED using a citation from James Russell Lowell that is a plagiary?
Joel S. Berson
- bad joke
Paul
- antedating jamboree (1858)
Stephen Goranson
- antedating of 'ish'?
Lynne Murphy
- some Ballyhoo (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- ballyhoo
sagehen
- Learn to speak Wisconsin
Tom Zurinskas
- : Learn to speak Wisconsin
Susan Rosine
- Re: [ADS-L] : Learn to speak Wisconsin
RonButters at AOL.COM
- NewspaperArchive problems; O.T. I give Google free advertising?
Barry Popik
- English-only rules Univision's Spanish-language presidential debate
Dennis Baron
- Google Books' Biggest Screw-Up Danger??
Jonathan Lighter
- Draft of Checklist of Electronic Resources (Version 4)
Shapiro, Fred
- Swedish influence on South Jersey speech?
JAMES A. LANDAU Netscape. Just the Net You Need.
- Jan Freeman on preposition dropping
Benjamin Zimmer
- X marrying Y <> Y marrying X?
Benjamin Barrett
- Re: [ADS-L] Learn t o speak Wisconsin
RonButters at AOL.COM
- update -- English-only rules Univision's Spanish-language presidential debate
Dennis Baron
- Tangram (1829-30)
Douglas G. Wilson
- Tangram (?) (1819)
Douglas G. Wilson
- antedating catawampus (1839)
Stephen Goranson
- Tangram (now 1809 -- or 1712?)
Joel S. Berson
- Google Books' Biggest Screw-Up Danger?? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "shunpike" antedatings
Benjamin Zimmer
- Donkey Tails (hot dogs with cheddar cheese in a tortilla, then fried)
Barry Popik
- test post - please ignore
Benjamin Zimmer
- late-entry
Mark Mandel
- wager 'bid'
Mark Mandel
- Tangram (now 1809 -- or 1712?) (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- a new eggcorn:preannual
Mark Mandel
- primary (v)
Alan Knutson
- factual > factional
James Harbeck
- Eggcorn: jar-dropping, jar-dropper
Erik Hoover
- 2007 WOTY
Mark Peters
- New Hotmail
Scot LaFaive
- Runglish
Laurence Urdang
- British Army linguistic etiquette, 1916
Jonathan Lighter
- bunny hug (bunny-hug)
Sarah Lang
- Bad company?
Dennis R. Preston
- Re: [ADS-L] Runglish
RonButters at AOL.COM
- (Redacted) Jobs
RonButters at AOL.COM
- beet soup
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Re: [ADS-L] X marry ing Y <> Y marrying X?
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Fries
Matthew Gordon
- the meaning of REDACTED
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Name of God
Joel S. Berson
- 1961 article on teen slang
Benjamin Zimmer
- ADS-L] the meaning of REDACTED
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Elvises -> Elvi(i) PLUS -oon
Jonathan Lighter
- 1961 article on teen slang (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Elvises -> Elvi(i) PLUS -oon (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- maroon
Joel S. Berson
- Trick or Treat (1927)
Barry Popik
- Bunny hug (dance?) (1902)
Douglas G. Wilson
- Readex/Newsbank just doesn't give a damn about its customers
Barry Popik
- "Check us in"
Ron Silliman
- "come to pass" construed as "cease"?
Stephen Goranson
- Fwd: bunny hug (bunny-hug)
Sarah Lang
- or such as = "or such; or the like; or something similar"
Jonathan Lighter
- Semantic drift: "khaki"
Jonathan Lighter
- antedating (?) cagey (1892)
Stephen Goranson
- Thank you
JAMES A. LANDAU Netscape. Just the Net You Need.
- Slight antedating of "bafflegab"?
Joel S. Berson
- Coiner of "gobbledygook"?
Joel S. Berson
- Eggcorns? We don't need no stinkin' eggcorns
Laurence Horn
- Coiner of "gobbledygook"?; Palestine (East Texas) joke
Barry Popik
- Violent agreement
Michael Quinion
- Schnorrer (1897); Falafel, Chumus, Peeta (1949)
Barry Popik
- old factory < olefactory
David Bergdahl
- Injun
Laurence Urdang
- southmore
Arnold M. Zwicky
- explicitives
Jonathan Lighter
- Inj*n
RonButters at AOL.COM
- calcined vs. calcinated
Benjamin Barrett
- Jazz from Teas
Baker, John
- Mx for intersexed people?
Benjamin Barrett
- WOTY candidate: "previvor"
Laurence Horn
- mad heads, type funny, dumb stupid
Benjamin Zimmer
- "Buda" (TX) origin mystery (Spanish? Hungarian? Something else?)
Barry Popik
- "Texas Dogae" 1891
Stephen Goranson
- antedating flub v. (1896)
Stephen Goranson
- slight antedating of hobo (1888)
Stephen Goranson
- Indian English
Laurence Urdang
- Golden Sombrero and Other Baseball Terms
davemarc
- cunny-thumb
George Thompson
- antedating sweat shop (1884)
Stephen Goranson
- antedating (slavery-related) peculiar institutions (1829)
Stephen Goranson
- jig/gig
Laurence Urdang
- consort, n. = "person one consorts with; associate"
Jonathan Lighter
- "Trick or Treat" on FirstMention.com
Barry Popik
- "Trick and/or Treat" (1925, 1935, 1938)
Barry Popik
- "If you think you can, you can" (Henry Ford? Mary Kay? Anonymous?)
Barry Popik
- Fwd: Vowel surgery: brain op boy baffles doctors after waking up with 'posh' RP accent
James Harbeck
- Gism (1901): something odd
Douglas G. Wilson
- The boy who spoke . . . Muggle awakes from brain surgery with new accent
Dennis Baron
- antedating chain gang (1813)
Stephen Goranson
- antedating Freudian slip (1927)
Stephen Goranson
- Fwd: feignt of heart
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Gism (1901): something odd (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Slight antedating of chain gang (1813)
Joel S. Berson
- Vowel surgery: brain op boy baffles doctors after waking up with 'posh
Tom Zurinskas
- The living will envy the dead (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Self-promotion and poopy-plops
Mark Peters
- Fwd: Re: southmore
Laurence Horn
- rigor/vigor confusion
Erik Hoover
- Huh?
Wilson Gray
- Bush
Charles Doyle
- Mr. Gadjet?
Stephen Goranson
- Thanks, ads-l!
Laurence Horn
- milk-walk (1872)
Barnhart
- Lunch lady
Scot LaFaive
- Huh? II
Wilson Gray
- Who are you and what have you done with...
Arnold M. Zwicky
- hypocoristic "-o"
Jonathan Lighter
- hell's bells = "hell-for-leather"
Jonathan Lighter
- slight antedating of "crib" = to grumble
Jonathan Lighter
- antedating of "pool"
Jonathan Lighter
- O'Grady says antedating; slap-neck
Jonathan Lighter
- Further antedating of "O'Grady Says"; "Kelly says"; "Tony says"
Jonathan Lighter
- Christian Sci Monitor on "Southern drawl"
Benjamin Zimmer
- Heel or Boot (end slice of bread); NewspaperArchive not updating?
Barry Popik
- medicaL revelation
Laurence Urdang
- antedating "kangaroo court" (1848-9)
Stephen Goranson
- retronym: JUG
Jonathan Lighter
- Japan's government politely lobbies to return English words
Dennis Baron
- Finally!
Wilson Gray
- antedating (?) "mad as a hatter" (1829)
Stephen Goranson
- an early "take care of your Ps and Qs" (1782)
Stephen Goranson
- sore grapes (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Having cake . . .
Charles Doyle
- Unnoticed sense of "Pope"
Jonathan Lighter
- "a slice off a cut loaf"
Jonathan Lighter
- "not worth a goddamn" (1793?)
Jonathan Lighter
- antedating of "jib-boom" (1741-43)
Jonathan Lighter
- Yee-haa, Rebel Yell Redux
Jonathan Lighter
- Aikman's Texan English
Laurence Horn
- Stoop in DARE
Nadia Pazolis-Gabriel
- antedating "light at the end of the tunnel" (1883)
Stephen Goranson
- Fixing "Squaw" Names
Grant Barrett
- Whiz
Robert Wachal
- Jonas Bronck - Danish
Barnhart
- Heard on the Judges
Wilson Gray
- demographics of this listserv
Sarah Lang
- jib, gib, jib-boom
Laurence Urdang
- Found in? / on? Google
Wilson Gray
- In? On? Google
Your Name
- Spanish Hamburger
Barry Popik
- Whiz & names
Paul
- Spanish Hamburger (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Tashlich
JAMES A. LANDAU Netscape. Just the Net You Need.
- Whiz & names (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- slight antedating of "yellow journalism" (1897)
Stephen Goranson
- English derivational morphology--not really dialectal
Geoffrey S. Nathan
- Spanish Hamburger; Cuban Hamburger; Picadillo
Barry Popik
- Whiz (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Pronoun [was Finally!]
Jonathan Lighter
- "No war without Egypt, no peace without Syria" (Henry Kissinger?)
Barry Popik
- OT query: "honor roll" in Latin
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- antedating "face the music" (1834)
Stephen Goranson
- antedating "face the music" (1834); and "vetoite"
Joel S. Berson
- George Bush Hooked on Phonics at U.N. (that's YOO-en)
Dennis Baron
- Heard on the Judges:
Wilson Gray
- Biblical quote
Wilson Gray
- snowclone: A by B, C by D
James Harbeck
- Pronoun [was Finally!] (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Heimlich Remover
John M. Spartz
- US Law: comprised of = comprising
Benjamin Barrett
- "A Way with Words" announcement
Grant Barrett
- antedating reinikaboo (1898)
Stephen Goranson
- George Bush Hooked on Phonics at U.N. (that's YOO-en) (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "Fuddle", meaning sexual congress
George Thompson
- Probably too late, now
Wilson Gray
- Probably too late, now
Jonathan Lighter
- Probably too late, now
Mark Mandel
- Probably too late, now
Jonathan Lighter
- Probably too late, now
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Probably too late, now
Dennis R. Preston
- Probably too late, now
Jonathan Lighter
- Probably too late, now
Tom Zurinskas
- Probably too late, now
Wilson Gray
- Probably too late, now
Laurence Horn
- Probably too late, now
Benjamin Zimmer
- Probably too late, now
Laurence Horn
- Probably too late, now
Wilson Gray
- "Spanjo" sandwich from Ann Arbor, MI now in NYC
Barry Popik
- antedate for 'taboo', "linguistic prohibition"
Geoffrey Nunberg
- Two other countries separated by a common language
Wilson Gray
- Capital Crime
Dave Wilton
- a 1938 "bob's yer uncle"? etc.
Stephen Goranson
- malachy, malaky, malarkey?
Stephen Goranson
- malachy, malaky, malarkey?
Jonathan Lighter
- malachy, malaky, malarkey?
Stephen Goranson
- malachy, malaky, malarkey?
Tom Zurinskas
- malachy, malaky, malarkey?
Benjamin Zimmer
- malachy, malaky, malarkey?
Wilson Gray
- malachy, malaky, malarkey?
Stephen Goranson
- ass, balls, etc.
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Isiah Thomas on the "b-word"
Jonathan Lighter
- No subject
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "Drown the rat"?
Joel S. Berson
- Gold Tooth Guy
Michael H Covarrubias
- "Nothing to lose"
Wilson Gray
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