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- zink/sink
sagehen
- Owner of veggie fast food stand bans English
Dennis Baron
- William Safire on the kitchen sink
Tom Zurinskas
- you yahoo
Amy West
- 'Top Words from 2007': _hybrid_, _surge_, _climate change_
Damien Hall
- yahoo (was: 'Top Words from 2007'...)
Damien Hall
- UN to eliminate "unnecessary" languages
Tom Zurinskas
- some persimmons
Jonathan Lighter
- NYT: "blather" from Pa.?
Benjamin Zimmer
- Little Italy, &c. & the Mayor of where-ever
Wilson Gray
- Meltdown as temper tantrum
Mark Peters
- NYT: "blather" from Pa.? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- another April fool
sagehen
- dialects in movies
urszula majchrzak
- yahoo
Paul
- "drive-by shooting"--- query from National Geographic research editor
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Questions put in the negative
Wilson Gray
- "drive-by shooting"--- query from National Geographic researc
Barnhart
- EUPH OF THE DAY?
Jonathan Lighter
- "drive-by shooting"--- query from National Geographic research editor (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Heard on The Judges
Wilson Gray
- Mild Heard on The Judges humor
Wilson Gray
- Missing PREP differing by dialect
Wilson Gray
- Missing apostrophe
Barbara Need
- "drive-by shooting" query; note of thanks from Robin Reid
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- type of rhyme?
david donnell
- "Ellis Island special"?
Joel S. Berson
- Dittlers and dits
Wilson Gray
- Subjunctive(?): not critical that
JAMES A. LANDAU Netscape. Just the Net You Need.
- Variation on 'Pissed Myself"
Doug Harris
- Fred Shapiro
George Thompson
- Camels vs. dromedaries?
Joel S. Berson
- A "fifty-six"?
Joel S. Berson
- Camels vs. dromedaries? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Heard on The Judges II
Wilson Gray
- Heard on The Judges II (_liftes_)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Blogging
Shapiro, Fred
- The littlest Popik
Benjamin Zimmer
- The moon; was Re: Camels vs. dromedaries?
Barbara Need
- Cross-post from FL-LIST: British accent stereotypes - 'news'
Laurence Horn
- British accent stereotypes - 'news'
Gillian Kyles
- [ADS-L] Cross-post fr om FL-LIST: British accent stereotypes - 'new s'
RonButters at AOL.COM
- forehead: the little girl with a little curl right in the middle of hers
RonButters at AOL.COM
- forehead: the little girl with a litt le curl right in the middle of hers
RonButters at AOL.COM
- British? "[make someone's] teeth water"
Joel S. Berson
- zed, zee, forehead, cupboard, etc.
RonButters at AOL.COM
- BBC excerpt
Douglas G. Wilson
- "his Fallopian tubes"
Mark Mandel
- Bulgarian rendition of English
James Harbeck
- English dictionaries of the 18th century?
Joel S. Berson
- FW: Crescent Moon Alert
David A. Daniel
- Barry Popik namecheck
Michael Quinion
- English dictionaries of the 18th century
Joel S. Berson
- perilous beauty [Was: Crescent Moon Alert]
Joel S. Berson
- Extension of Tourette's
Benjamin Barrett
- Plugging one's own product on the web
Joel S. Berson
- Error in Truespel dictionary?
Benjamin Barrett
- yahoo&spelling
Paul
- Ad in neo-blaxploitation movie
Wilson Gray
- ADS-L Digest - 4 Apr 2008 to 5 Apr 2008 (#2008-97)
Your Name
- Octavius, Quintus (was Re: Barry Popik namecheck)
Mark Mandel
- Roman numerals (was Re: Barry Popik namecheck)
Benjamin Barrett
- Rhymes (was forehead)
Neal Whitman
- Decimus et Ultimus Barziza
Joel S. Berson
- vulturing (n)
Joel S. Berson
- Names for brackets (was: Extension of Tourette's)
Damien Hall
- Headlines roll by; heads will roll by
Joel S. Berson
- Research opportunity relating to the perception of talker characteristics
Benjamin Munson
- Heard on The Judges (embedded question)
Wilson Gray
- Heard on The Judges (loss of reflexive)
Wilson Gray
- OT: Spanish syntax
Wilson Gray
- eggcorn: shill > shrill
Benjamin Zimmer
- Spanish syntax
RonButters at AOL.COM
- buy/by the poound
RonButters at AOL.COM
- base at
Andrea Morrow
- Heard on The Judges: sE > to BE
Wilson Gray
- OT: Spanish syntax & vocabulary
Wilson Gray
- assanine--a new eggcorn?
Herb Stahlke
- Man & male
LanDi Liu
- Voiceless vowels in English
Benjamin Barrett
- Ahsome
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Hi!
Wilson Gray
- Hi!
Brenda Lester
- Hi!
Erik Hoover
- A dead distinction, if there ever was one?
Wilson Gray
- Standard non-standardisms (was: Heard on The Judges: sE > to BE)
Damien Hall
- Missing PREP - redux
Damien Hall
- languages across USA
Tom Zurinskas
- [Fine] dinering
Joel S. Berson
- New way to misinterpret OED; "democide"
Jonathan Lighter
- Extension(?) of tough-movement
Damien Hall
- [Fwd: books on varieties of (Am)E]
Terry Irons
- WOTY candidate: schadenfreude
JAMES A. LANDAU Netscape. Just the Net You Need.
- Heard on The Judges: "sucks"
Wilson Gray
- ADS-L Digest - 9 Apr 2008 to 10 Apr 2008 (#2008-102)
Amy West
- Dieing languages and "easy to learn" spelling
Tom Zurinskas
- Heard on The Judges: crack
Wilson Gray
- Dieing languages and "easy to learn" spelling (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- [ADS-L] Heard on Th e Judges: "sucks"
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Call for Papers: American Dialect Society 2009 Annual Meeting in Portland
Grant Barrett
- Fwd: Call for Papers: American Dialect Society 2009 Annual Meeting in Portland
Grant Barrett
- "easy to learn" spelling
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Keep the Meeting in Portland
RonButters at AOL.COM
- semantic drift: "officer" PLUS bonus anecdote AND....
Jonathan Lighter
- "Like" abuse redivivus
Jonathan Lighter
- 26th Century American English [was: semantic drift: "officer" PLUS bonus anecdote AND....]
Joel S. Berson
- Standard US English Dialect?
chris bennett
- gentile = ethnonymic (was: Heard on The Judges: crack)
Mark Mandel
- http://www.engrish.com/
Tom Zurinskas
- gentile = ethnonymic
Joel S. Berson
- "trump up" = inflate
Jonathan Lighter
- "trump up"
Jonathan Lighter
- Two vulgar, witty pop quotations
Jonathan Lighter
- "Like" abuse redivivus/ to "be all"
Jonathan Lighter
- pensive = to think
Joel S. Berson
- Linguist's X-WOTY: phoneme morphs
RonButters at AOL.COM
- inarticulate youth?
RonButters at AOL.COM
- The hambone redux
Wilson Gray
- Yahoo!
Wilson Gray
- dwarfs vs dwarves
sagehen
- Yahoo! and
Paul
- Yahoo! -- Band Leader
Doug Harris
- Lucky Strike brand cigarettes
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- OT: Linguist's X-WOTY: phoneme morphs
Joel S. Berson
- Re: [ADS-L] OT: Linguist's X-WOTY: phoneme morphs
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Eveerybody loves Arnold
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Heard on The Judges: joning
Wilson Gray
- Lg and media (was "Like" abuse redivivus)
Dennis Preston
- social status of "conflagration"
Jonathan Lighter
- Positive anymore in upper midwest?
Alice Faber
- black hole antedating (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- New from Vocabula Books
Robert Hartwell Fiske
- wrong English
RonButters at AOL.COM
- a free-range Wampus
George Thompson
- the coiner of "black hole"
Mark Mandel
- eggcorn alert: "alma motto"
Laurence Horn
- lawyer/liar confluence
Jonathan Lighter
- Saying 'pope' (was standard US English Dialect)
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Further Antedating of "Black Hole"
Shapiro, Fred
- Heard on The Judges: weird coincidence
Wilson Gray
- Dealing with Disruptive Posters
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Sullivan's "show"
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Further Antedating of "Black Hole" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- New jargon?
Wilson Gray
- Ed Sullivan namesake
Joel S. Berson
- "made of money"
Jonathan Lighter
- New jargon? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "you love yourself some me"
Benjamin Zimmer
- "mosquito" = annoying buzzing person
Joel S. Berson
- "acre" = measure of length
Joel S. Berson
- "flying fuck"
Joel S. Berson
- "mosquito" = annoying buzzing person (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- What do pros do ...?
Wilson Gray
- Heard on The Judges: expansion of "sex-neutral they"
Wilson Gray
- Noah Webster's American Spelling Book
Tom Zurinskas
- Excellent 'Think Piece' on Americans' Ways of Speaknig
Doug Harris
- Re: [ADS-L] Further Antedating of "Black Hole"
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Noah Webster's American Spelling Book (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- [?] Re: "flying fuck"
Barnhart
- Origin of "hoopie"
Patti Kurtz
- HDAS: Origin of "hoopie"
Barnhart
- sources and flying fuck
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "flying fuck"--something of negligible value
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Faustian Illeism
Jonathan Lighter
- sources and flying fuck (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- English rocks French
Dennis Baron
- sources and flying fuck; OED3 question
Joel S. Berson
- Re: [ADS-L] "flying fuck"--something of negligible value
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Even The Simpsons know better
Wilson Gray
- Sophia, Maria (was: What do pros do ...?)
Damien Hall
- gen/d/re
Mark Mandel
- eggcorn?
JAMES A. LANDAU Netscape. Just the Net You Need.
- Sophia, Maria
Joel S. Berson
- IPA diphthongs
LanDi Liu
- sounds
Katharine The Grate
- American Literacy Rates
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Re: [ADS-L] sounds
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Fwd: eggcorn?
Arnold M. Zwicky
- More on adult literacy in the USA
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "send s.o. over"
Geoffrey Nunberg
- killed to death
Barnhart
- Another theta-role transcendentalism
Geoff Nathan
- If you couldve wrote any book...
david donnell
- More on Spelling
David Metevia
- Rosa/rowz@
Joel S. Berson
- Origins of "Blog" and "Blogger"
Baker, John
- "shrew" eggcorn?
Joel S. Berson
- Query: Does "piece of cake" (sth. easy) derive ultimately from "cakewalk"?
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Arppies ("asset rich, penny poor")
Benjamin Zimmer
- The prejudice store
Joel S. Berson
- What's The Good Word? choho in Samala, New Dictionary Notes
Doug Harris
- "age oneself" = to date oneself
Jonathan Lighter
- A instead of ER
Barbara Need
- "or eiher"?
sagehen
- A debriefing on camels and dromedaries
Joel S. Berson
- "or either"?
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "Wolfing"
Wilson Gray
- "Simplified Spelling"
Joel S. Berson
- A instead of ER (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Weird comparative now fit to print
Laurence Horn
- CAVEMAN TALKFEST!!!!
Jonathan Lighter
- Heard on The Judges: variant of slang phrase
Wilson Gray
- ghoti = fish
Matthew Gordon
- It had to happen
Wilson Gray
- WOTS
sagehen
- "both vying"
Mark Mandel
- "Us ourselves"
Wilson Gray
- New York minute
JAMES A. LANDAU Netscape. Just the Net You Need.
- "fiasco"
Stephen Goranson
- "drudge up"
Benjamin Zimmer
- stealth and firewall antedatings (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- heirhead
david donnell
- firewall antedatings
Joel S. Berson
- "conducive to"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "my Ghossips cock", 1641?
Joel S. Berson
- Heard on The Judges: old-school, *real* "reverse racism"
Wilson Gray
- firewall antedatings (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- IPA Diphthongs--repost
Herb Stahlke
- [1966] "Black Friday" (day after Thanksgiving)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- "Jewfro"
Wilson Gray
- origin of the ASCII smiley?
Mark Mandel
- "open o" loss
Charles Doyle
- hypercorrection and gender
Laurence Horn
- respectively = for each
James Harbeck
- "open o" loss -- "Ahh" (as in --berry)
Doug Harris
- another query
Laurence Horn
- wackadoodle
Jonathan Lighter
- "Word" words?
Guy Letourneau
- Getter Better
Doug Harris
- their own language
Tom Zurinskas
- Researchers: IM definitely infectious, but associated linguistic damage short-lived, haha
Dennis Baron
- "getter better"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "close enough for government work" 1965
Jonathan Lighter
- F-word acronyms
Jonathan Lighter
- cliche': "all in the wrist"
Jonathan Lighter
- Query: ten-foot pole
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- X to Y: Recency illusion?
Neal Whitman
- Fogged Up Message
Doug Harris
- 'word' words
Geoffrey S. Nathan
- Consistent punctuation oddities
Grant Barrett
- pudding = "stuffing; daylights"
Jonathan Lighter
- WOTW = Word of the WITHOUT
Doug Harris
- Heard on The Judges: Asian proverb
Wilson Gray
- Congressman Gets In/Into Trouble With In/Into
Doug Harris
- Heard on The Judges II: rare (to me) name; instance of code-switching(?)
Wilson Gray
- "explicit implication"
Mark Mandel
- Rock and roll singin' in 1865
Jonathan Lighter
- ascribe to = "subscribe to"
Jonathan Lighter
- "baby mama" does not mean what they thought it means
Mark Mandel
- Eggcorn or Malapropism?
Philip E. Cleary
- Kia Motors America
Paul
- a New York Times article about a single word
Robert Greenman
- More pronunciation change
Wilson Gray
- DARE etym & def for scrod
Joan H. Hall
- possibly-useful ebook
Dan Goodman
- Gas meters and flips
Grant Barrett
- on the eggcorn beat
Arnold M. Zwicky
- cardshark
Herb Stahlke
- Outrage (was: a New York Times article about a single word)
Damien Hall
- "suave"
Charles Doyle
- French punctuation oddities (was: Consistent punctuation oddities)
Damien Hall
- Lesbos-ite?
Brenda Lester
- Heard on The Judges: more influence of Forrest Gump's "BUH tock_s_"?
Wilson Gray
- => OT: French punctuation oddities
Joel S. Berson
- "thing/think" [was: on the eggcorn beat]
Joel S. Berson
- "biobigotry" -- coined by Natalie Angier?
Joel S. Berson
- a save
Arnold M. Zwicky
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