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- Defending the language with bullets: If you can read this in English, thank a soldier
Dennis Baron
- catch-fart
Stephen Goranson
- "in which" = to which; plus BONUS!
Jonathan Lighter
- As A Metaphor, It's Maybe a 3-and-a-Half
Laurence Horn
- You say sommelier, I say barista
Laurence Horn
- Re: [ADS-L] You say sommelier, I say barista
RonButters at AOL.COM
- URGENT antedating needed: "the race card"
Laurence Horn
- URGENT antedating needed: "the race card" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Antedate of 'wax' = 'speak emotionally'
Neal Whitman
- "short," n. antedating
Jonathan Lighter
- "on the double"
Jonathan Lighter
- "McGrady says"
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedating of "Nutritionist"
Shapiro, Fred
- Further Antedating of "Nutritionist"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedatings of "Softball"
Shapiro, Fred
- spontaneous = "amorous"
Jonathan Lighter
- medical abbreviations in notes
Mark Mandel
- story of english/american tongues
Timothy C Frazer
- Antedating of "Play the ---- Card"
Shapiro, Fred
- legended
Jonathan Lighter
- Whenever I hear a good example
Alice Faber
- o-dawn-hundred
Jonathan Lighter
- Whenever I hear a good example (who/whoever)
Mark Davies
- God only gave me two hands. The rest he gave to the Indians.
Grant Barrett
- Names for small bodies of water and small valleys
Grant Barrett
- blaze of glory
Jonathan Lighter
- heterogram, not in OED
Mark Mandel
- "identify . . . from"
Charles Doyle
- Another aural clich é meets the digital literal
Seán Fitzpatrick
- who's ever
Joan H. Hall
- "Early" syntactical screwup
Jonathan Lighter
- Bodacious Baristas Bomb in Belfair
Doug Harris
- "double gotcha" in court ruling
Mark Mandel
- [Slight antedating] Soul food (1960)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- Heard on Futurama: semantic drift?
Wilson Gray
- Verb tense
Wilson Gray
- Ron Paul & David Brooks Quotes
Shapiro, Fred
- Kenneth Starr & Stanley Fish Quotes
Shapiro, Fred
- [ADS-L] Kenneth Starr & Stanley Fish Quotes
RonButters at AOL.COM
- PREP-addition
Wilson Gray
- It takes a native-speaker ...
Wilson Gray
- slang = "slang expression"
Jonathan Lighter
- Kenneth Starr & Stanley Fish Quotes (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "ass" as pronominal emphasizer, 1863
Jonathan Lighter
- Jailbreak, v.
Wilson Gray
- British academic acts to decriminalize bad spelling
Dennis Baron
- Heard on MSNBC
Herb Stahlke
- Antedating of "Jitterbug"
Shapiro, Fred
- Transitive verbs ruled not inherently argumentative
Benjamin Barrett
- "Cheap plow" = "cheap shot, low blow"?
Wilson Gray
- stance?
sagehen
- Heard on the Olympics broadcast
Wilson Gray
- Beaver car
Barbara Need
- Drenched on
Barbara Need
- "V.D." antedating
Jonathan Lighter
- Hugo Award to Jeff Prucher
Grant Barrett
- ADS-L on Language Log
Arnold M. Zwicky
- What The Hail???
Doug Harris
- Odd Speculation from Pentagon
Doug Harris
- "barbecue pit"
Mark Mandel
- Popes and potatoes
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- all booze and no clothes
Benjamin Zimmer
- on your own bill
Jonathan Lighter
- Re: [ADS-L] ADS-L o n Language Log
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Draft of Checklist of Electronic Resources (Version 5)
Shapiro, Fred
- Heard on the Olympics broadcast (OT: Russian pronunciation)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Draft of Checklist of Electronic Resources (Version 5) (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- degree-of-difficulties
Mark Mandel
- It's obvious
Joel S. Berson
- At the Olympics: time reference
Barbara Need
- Know Jack? Some do, some don't. This Company Do (do) [o.t.]
RonButters at AOL.COM
- NBC (Pea)cocks a Snook At Olympics Audience?
Joel S. Berson
- Heard on The Judges: "bum-rush"
Wilson Gray
- more on "grow"
Jonathan Lighter
- Heard on The Judges: "Belgian block"
Wilson Gray
- It's obvious (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- What The Hail??? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Fwd: [FANYI-L] "Tall test" for university entrance exam
Benjamin Barrett
- deter 'prevent'; OED Online references
Mark Mandel
- Afghanistan, where sword remains mightier than pen, can't even decide whether to use the Pashtu or the Dari word for 'university'
Dennis Baron
- [FANYI-L] "Tall test" for university entrance exam
LanDi Liu
- "barbecue pit" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Southern Cooking
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- "substitute with" (again)
Charles Doyle
- Southern Cuisine: shrimp and grits
RonButters at AOL.COM
- E Gads! Two Simultaneous 'Gadflys' in NYT Headline News Service
Doug Harris
- Yo, Have You All Heard 'We All'?
Doug Harris
- Capitalizing Web and Internet
Benjamin Barrett
- Re: [ADS-L] Capitaliz ing Web and Internet
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Re: [ADS-L] Yo, Hav e You All Heard 'We All'?
RonButters at AOL.COM
- shrimp and grits in Italy
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Block that metaphor!
Laurence Horn
- more on recency
James Harbeck
- Heard on the Olympics: "uphill and downdale"
Wilson Gray
- "war" [wor]
Charles Doyle
- OT Campaign slogans [was: "war" [wor] ]
Joel S. Berson
- more degendered usage in English
Marc Velasco
- Political labels
Mark Peters
- "bot herder"
Joel S. Berson
- jammer(s)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Alternative pronuncations of SHRIMP
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "we-all"
Jonathan Lighter
- NS > NTS (was: Re: "war" [wor])
Benjamin Barrett
- [life of?] Riley Grannan? "dead game sport"
Stephen Goranson
- Problems with messages
Barbara Need
- "Question Authority"
Shapiro, Fred
- Age and gender confusion at the Olympics
Joel S. Berson
- I hope WE ALL can move on to something else
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Blount Not Blunt re Pronunciations, Accents Suggestions
Doug Harris
- All steak, no sizzle.
Jonathan Lighter
- 'Talking while Spanish' on trial in Wichita
Dennis Baron
- "Rhythm and blues"; "rhythm blue(s)"
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- NS > NTS (was: Re: "war" [wor]); Machiavelli's "The Prints"
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Boston Globe style rules
Joel S. Berson
- annals of countification
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Cackalacky (1972), "Calinky" (1974)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- Age and gender _and further_ confusion at the Olympics
Doug Harris
- 'help the genocide'
Charles Doyle
- Shaking his head "yes" (heard on the Olympics)
Barbara Need
- Re: [ADS-L] 'help t he genocide'
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Court rules 'Talking while Spanish' grounds for expulsion at Kansas school
Dennis Baron
- more time-delay issues on the Olympic front
Laurence Horn
- anise
Charles Doyle
- "Business takes Vi[z]a"
Wilson Gray
- AUX+NEG-Fronting
Wilson Gray
- Pronouncing names; was Re: "Business takes Vi[z]a"
Barbara Need
- "go to plan" (1936, UK)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Munincipality
Benjamin Barrett
- Pro Bono Publico and Constant Reader
Sam Clements
- "minocky dust"
Jonathan Lighter
- ADS-L Digest - 16 Aug 2008 to 17 Aug 2008 (#2008-231)
Your Name
- "let one's hair down" antedating
Jonathan Lighter
- phobia = "neurotic symptom; neurosis; mania"
Jonathan Lighter
- "three-alarm fire"
Jonathan Lighter
- "go black"
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedating of "Jackpot" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Antedating of "draw poker" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "go black" (racist meaning)
RonButters at AOL.COM
- fly-slicer
Jonathan Lighter
- OED SF database (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Say what? It must be catching!
Wilson Gray
- "Begging the answer"
Wilson Gray
- more ADS-L on Language Log
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Poker Antedatings
Shapiro, Fred
- "on the county"
Geoffrey Nunberg
- Hi!
Wilson Gray
- Hi!
Wilson Gray
- Hi!
Charles Doyle
- Hi!
Mark Mandel
- Hi!
Benjamin Zimmer
- Hi!
Doug_Harris
- Hi!
Wilson Gray
- Hi!
Mark Mandel
- Q: Selling the skin before the bear was caught
Joel S. Berson
- No "lobster back" in the OED?
Joel S. Berson
- malice of forethought
JAMES A. LANDAU Netscape. Just the Net You Need.
- Shart (n., v.)
Scot LaFaive
- Madman Muntz and TV
Baker, John
- Antedating of "Founding Fathers"
Shapiro, Fred
- Chinglish
LanDi Liu
- Intrusive drug testing at the Olympics?
Joel S. Berson
- Words of One Syllable department
Laurence Horn
- "Taiwaner" - Taiwanese - Any Thoughts
Russ McClay
- "The covers of this book are too far apart" source? (+ Riley)
Stephen Goranson
- "rain harvesting"
Charles Doyle
- deaccenting
Arnold M. Zwicky
- ORIGIN OF "BEAT GOES ON"
Shapiro, Fred
- "Stars and Bars"
Jonathan Lighter
- "Freedom isn't free."
Jonathan Lighter
- "trouble and strife"
Jonathan Lighter
- "Mistress"
Joel S. Berson
- Fred Shapiro, On Language
Baker, John
- indice
Herb Stahlke
- "lobster back", dates from 1812
Joel S. Berson
- "lobster back", puzzling meaning
Joel S. Berson
- News reader:
Wilson Gray
- Heard on NBC: 'go to the 'Hurt' locker"
Wilson Gray
- lobster back, puzzling meaning
sagehen at westelcom.com
- Suggestions by Mark & Chris re: Hi!
Wilson Gray
- co-patient
David Bergdahl
- "up most"
Mark Mandel
- Social animals
Laurence Horn
- It's 3 a.m. and someone is texting the White House . . .
Dennis Baron
- indice et al.
Arnold M. Zwicky
- matricee
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "Duchy" vs."dukedom"
Wilson Gray
- "vet" = to consider
Jonathan Lighter
- "to kill people and break things"
Jonathan Lighter
- NYT on Georgian and its relatives...
Laurence Horn
- Antedating of "TV"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Abolitionism"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Spoonerism"
Shapiro, Fred
- "bury the lede"
Charles Doyle
- Antedating of "Musicology"
Shapiro, Fred
- Cher effect
David A. Daniel
- to pin
David A. Daniel
- For your double-take collections...
Laurence Horn
- impositionalism
Jonathan Lighter
- Ignore that. Read this
Jonathan Lighter
- Munslow on Carr
Joel S. Berson
- Larry Urdang
Grant Barrett
- "to kill people and break things" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Cher effect (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "not in your widest dreams"
Mark Mandel
- akilter
Mark Mandel
- "bury the lede" And, Eventually, End The Story
Doug_Harris
- Michelle Obama's anticipatory retroflexion
Herb Stahlke
- anachronism on "Mad Men"?
Laurence Horn
- "That's no biggie"-- anachronism on "Mad Men"?
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- ADS-L Digest - 24 Aug 2008 to 25 Aug 2008 (#2008-239)
Your Name
- RIP Laurence Urdang
Jonathan Lighter
- Fwd: "bring Route 40"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "bring Route 40"
Doug_Harris
- "Moist" in pop culture
David Bowie
- ADS-L Digest - 25 Aug 2008 to 26 Aug 2008 (#2008-240)
Nancy Friedman
- Unusual (first) names
Joel S. Berson
- Unusual (first) names (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Tomayto, Tomahto, Yamamamo, Yanomamo
Joel S. Berson
- LPGA requires English
Joel S. Berson
- Yanomamo names
Joel S. Berson
- vendettily?
Hillary Brown
- Australia National Dictionary now online at no cost
Grant Barrett
- antedating of "shoot the breeze" 1930
Sam Clements
- LPGA to golfers: speak English or get off the tour
Dennis Baron
- "Barack"
Wilson Gray
- Re: [ADS-L] "bring Route 40"
RonButters at AOL.COM
- further looking for "biggie" = 'something impressive'
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Tie that bull outside.
Jonathan Lighter
- Sister Society
Allan A Metcalf
- "no biggie"
Jonathan Lighter
- Re" "no biggie" PLUS Beware....
Jonathan Lighter
- Re" Beware....
Joel S. Berson
- Re: [ADS-L] Chinglish
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Google Books--dates
Charles Doyle
- "Bullshit" ca1879
Jonathan Lighter
- Chinglish and childishness
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "biggie" and negative polarity items
RonButters at AOL.COM
- words of one syllable dept. revisited
Laurence Horn
- (re)analysis of 'speed-read'
Matthew Gordon
- OK, someone's gotta post it
Laurence Horn
- audacity - Chinglish
Tom Zurinskas
- Chinglish and Childishness--one last try
RonButters at AOL.COM
- tusk-hoister
Jonathan Lighter
- "saditty" (snobbish) from "Saturday"?
Wilson Gray
- knuckle knife
Jonathan Lighter
- Correct: acceptable to certain people
Benjamin Barrett
- adheed
Benjamin Zimmer
- those consort names again
Laurence Horn
- subscribe
Katharine The Grate
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