December 2008 Archives by date
Starting: Mon Dec 1 00:28:00 UTC 2008
Ending: Wed Dec 31 22:18:39 UTC 2008
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- "Can / May I ask you a question?"
David Gignilliat
- "wise, holy, just. and good"
Baker, John
- "Can / May I ask you a question?"
Benjamin Barrett
- Queen Mary = wire-rack rolling cart; names of TV shows or characters, used as verbs
Marc Velasco
- Queen Mary = wire-rack rolling cart; names of TV shows or characters, used as verbs
Laurence Horn
- "devil his do"!
Alison Murie
- "devil his do"!
Benjamin Zimmer
- "gerrymander" antedatings (by about 2 months)
Joel S. Berson
- "coach potato" another possible eggcorn?
Herb Stahlke
- "coach potato" another possible eggcorn?
Benjamin Barrett
- "Can / May I ask you a question?"
Wilson Gray
- "Can / May I ask you a question?"
Benjamin Barrett
- "gerrymander" again
Joel S. Berson
- "coach potato" another possible eggcorn?
Herb Stahlke
- A "camera" in 1818?
Joel S. Berson
- ADS-L Digest - 25 Nov 2008 to 26 Nov 2008 (#2008-331)
Your Name
- ADS-L Digest - 29 Nov 2008 to 30 Nov 2008 (#2008-335)
Your Name
- A "camera" in 1818?
Chris Waigl
- A "camera" in 1818?
Michael Quinion
- Preposition deletion
Lynne Murphy
- Preposition deletion
Randy Alexander
- Preposition deletion
Chris Waigl
- Preposition deletion
Randy Alexander
- Queen Mary = wire-rack rolling cart; names of TV shows or characters, used as verbs
Arnold Zwicky
- A "camera" in 1818?
Joel S. Berson
- Pass é Comitatus Act
Dan Goodman
- Pass é Comitatus Act
Joel S. Berson
- "don" = to wear; (hence) to bear on the exterior. (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Friday the 13th and the Templars
Mark Mandel
- "long from" for "far from"
Arnold Zwicky
- "devil his do"!
Mark Mandel
- "Can / May I ask you a question?"
Mark Mandel
- "little/few but" (was: "long from" for "far from")
Arnold Zwicky
- ADS-L Digest - 29 Nov 2008 to 30 Nov 2008 (#2008-335)
Mark Mandel
- Queen Mary = wire-rack rolling cart; names of TV shows or characters, used as verbs
Mark Mandel
- "Can / May I ask you a question?"
Charles Doyle
- Friday the 13th and the Templars
Barbara Need
- Friday the 13th and the Templars
Benjamin Barrett
- "Can / May I ask you a question?"
Ann Burlingham
- Webster ’s New World College Dictionary announces its word-of-the-year candidates
Benjamin Zimmer
- "Can / May I ask you a question?"
Doug Harris
- Broken News
Doug Harris
- "Can / May I ask you a question?"
Joel S. Berson
- "Can / May I ask you a question?"
Wilson Gray
- "the listening-to of Christmas music"
Your Name
- "Can / May I ask you a question?"
Mark Mandel
- Queen Mary = wire-rack rolling cart; names of TV shows or characters, used as verbs
Mark Mandel
- "the listening-to of Christmas music"
Wilson Gray
- A "camera" in 1818?
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- "coach potato" another possible eggcorn?
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Queen Mary = wire-rack rolling cart; names of TV shows or characters, used as verbs
Arnold Zwicky
- "Can / May I ask you a question?"
Benjamin Zimmer
- "Can / May I ask you a question?"
Laurence Horn
- "Can / May I ask you a question?"
Joel S. Berson
- "Can / May I ask you a question?"
Wilson Gray
- "Can / May I ask you a question?"
Benjamin Barrett
- Japanese WOTY
Douglas G. Wilson
- "Can / May I ask you a question?"
Katharine The Grate
- "Can / May I ask you a question?"
Geoffrey Nathan
- Further Major Antedating of "Linguistic"
Shapiro, Fred
- Further Antedating of "Photographer"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Conservatism"
Shapiro, Fred
- Further minor Antedating of "Linguistic" (adj)
Joel S. Berson
- "Can / May I ask you a question?"
Laurence Horn
- Antedating of "Conservatism"
Jesse Sheidlower
- Antedating of "Conservatism"
Stephen Goranson
- Webster ’s New World College Dictionary announces its word-of-the-year candidates
Benjamin Zimmer
- "call someone out of their name"
Jesse Sheidlower
- Further Antedating of "Photographer" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- aborigine / aubergine
Mark Mandel
- Significant Antedating for "beaver" and "bearded clam" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Antedating of "Cocaine"
Shapiro, Fred
- "Can / May I ask you a question?"
Wilson Gray
- "Can / May I ask you a question?"
Tom Zurinskas
- Significant Antedating for "beaver" and "bearded clam"
Joel S. Berson
- Significant Antedating for "beaver" and "bearded clam"
Sam Clements
- Significant Antedating for "beaver" and "bearded clam"
Joel S. Berson
- Significant Antedating for "beaver" and "bearded clam"
Sam Clements
- good morning
Paul
- good morning
Paul
- more back-formed shopping
Arnold Zwicky
- good morning
Mark Mandel
- more back-formed shopping
Arnold Zwicky
- Antedating of "Cocaine"
Stephen Goranson
- good morning
Jesse Sheidlower
- call one out of one's name
Joan H. Hall
- good morning
Wilson Gray
- good morning
Wilson Gray
- trunch
Jonathan Lighter
- Heard on The Judges: an anomalous claim
Wilson Gray
- Significant Antedating for "beaver" and "bearded clam" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Significant Antedating for "beaver" and "bearded clam" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Joel S. Berson
- more back-formed shopping
Wilson Gray
- more back-formed shopping
Marc Velasco
- Heard on The Judges: "nigger" = person, man
Wilson Gray
- Heard on The Judges: "nigger" = person, man
Benjamin Zimmer
- Heard on The Judges: an anomalous claim
Doug Harris
- more back-formed shopping
Neal Whitman
- more back-formed shopping
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- more back-formed shopping
Neal Whitman
- more back-formed shopping
Arnold Zwicky
- more back-formed shopping
Benjamin Zimmer
- more back-formed shopping
Arnold Zwicky
- Most Notable Quotations of 2008
Shapiro, Fred
- [PW] Most Notable Quotations of 2008
Shapiro, Fred
- Most Notable Quotations of 2008
Ann Burlingham
- Most Notable Quotations of 2008
Benjamin Zimmer
- [PW] Most Notable Quotations of 2008
Mark Mandel
- [PW] Most Notable Quotations of 2008
Baker, John
- Further minor Antedating of "Linguistic" (adj)
Shapiro, Fred
- Most Notable Quotations of 2008
Wilson Gray
- Most Notable Quotations of 2008
Joel S. Berson
- Heard on tonight's CSI: standard English "Lord" > "Lard"
Wilson Gray
- Most Notable Quotations of 2008
Robert Berman
- Most Notable Quotations of 2008
Laurence Horn
- Most Notable Quotations of 2008
Laurence Horn
- "Inventative"
Wilson Gray
- more back-formed shopping
Wilson Gray
- ADS-L Digest - 3 Dec 2008 to 4 Dec 2008 (#2008-339)
Your Name
- ADS-L Digest - 2 Dec 2008 to 3 Dec 2008 (#2008-338)
Your Name
- Heard on The Judges: "nigger" = person, man
Wilson Gray
- _discover himself to me_
David Metevia
- more back-formed shopping
Geoff Nathan
- ADS-L Digest - 3 Dec 2008 to 4 Dec 2008 (#2008-339)
Joel S. Berson
- _discover himself to me_
Joel S. Berson
- _discover himself to me_
Arnold Zwicky
- Q: No reflexive sense defined for "discover, v.)?
Joel S. Berson
- more back-formed shopping
Wilson Gray
- Heard on tonight's CSI: standard English "Lord" > "Lard"
David Bowie
- Slang as something other than language
Grant Barrett
- Eggorn? Different cattle of fish
Michael Quinion
- Slang as something other than language
Jesse Sheidlower
- more back-formed shopping
Arnold Zwicky
- more back-formed shopping
Ann Burlingham
- Slang as something other than language
Grant Barrett
- more back-formed shopping
Arnold Zwicky
- ADS-L Digest - 3 Dec 2008 to 4 Dec 2008 (#2008-339)
Mark Mandel
- bran(d)-new
Benjamin Zimmer
- ADS-L Digest - 3 Dec 2008 to 4 Dec 2008 (#2008-339)
Laurence Horn
- bran(d)-new
Mark Mandel
- Slang as something other than language
Laurence Horn
- Eggorn? Different cattle of fish
Laurence Horn
- ADS-L Digest - 3 Dec 2008 to 4 Dec 2008 (#2008-339) (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- bran(d)-new
Benjamin Zimmer
- Slang as something other than language
Arnold Zwicky
- Heard on tonight's CSI: standard English "Lord" > "Lard"
Wilson Gray
- Slang as something other than language
Laurence Horn
- another round on "to X-shop"
Arnold Zwicky
- first things first and Palin
Joel S. Berson
- Slang as something other than language
Joel S. Berson
- Most Notable Quotations of 2008 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- v/l reversal - revelation
Benjamin Barrett
- the danger of slang (courtesy of Sarah Silverman)
Laurence Horn
- the danger of slang (courtesy of Sarah Silverman)
Benjamin Zimmer
- ADS-L Digest - 3 Dec 2008 to 4 Dec 2008 (#2008-339) (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mark Mandel
- bran(d)-new
Wilson Gray
- unsubscribe
Hifa Al-moamir
- the danger of slang (courtesy of Sarah Silverman)
Dave Wilton
- newly-wed(s) and nearly-dead(s)
Benjamin Zimmer
- newly-wed(s) and nearly-dead(s)
Joel S. Berson
- pirates in the Gulf of X
Arnold Zwicky
- "last October"
Arnold Zwicky
- "last October"
Doug Harris
- "last October"
Laurence Horn
- pirates in the Gulf of X
Joel S. Berson
- newly-wed(s) and nearly-dead(s)
Sam Clements
- pirates in the Gulf of X
Wilson Gray
- "Can / May I ask you a question?"
Mark Mandel
- pirates in the Gulf of X
Joel S. Berson
- v/l reversal - revelation
Randy Alexander
- v/l reversal - revelation
Laurence Horn
- v/l reversal - revelation
Arnold Zwicky
- Snowclones
Mark Peters
- "Can / May I ask you a question?"
Wilson Gray
- v/l reversal - revelation
Wilson Gray
- another for the QOTY archive
Laurence Horn
- B-word broadens further; "knocking" beers
Jonathan Lighter
- ADS-L Digest - 3 Dec 2008 to 4 Dec 2008 (#2008-339) (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- [SPAM:####] "depend NP on X" 'depend on NP for X'
Arnold Zwicky
- ADS-L Digest - 3 Dec 2008 to 4 Dec 2008 (#2008-339) (UNCLASSIFIED)
Baker, John
- pirates in the Gulf of X
Mark Mandel
- ADS webpage
Arnold Zwicky
- [SPAM:####] Fwd: "depend NP on X" 'depend on NP for X'
Arnold Zwicky
- ADS webpage
Jesse Sheidlower
- ADS webpage
Grant Barrett
- ADS webpage
Michael Quinion
- ADS webpage
Arnold Zwicky
- [SPAM:####] Fwd: "depend NP on X" 'depend on NP for X'
Mark Mandel
- pirates in the Gulf of X
Mark Mandel
- pirates in the Gulf of X
Joel S. Berson
- faced with a problem mixed with bomb dropping?
Michael Covarrubias
- faced with a problem mixed with bomb dropping?
Matthew Gordon
- faced with a problem mixed with bomb dropping?
Laurence Horn
- faced with a problem mixed with bomb dropping?
Doug Harris
- PREP-Drop: "conceive" v. "conceive of"
Wilson Gray
- ADS-L Digest - 3 Dec 2008 to 4 Dec 2008 (#2008-339) (UNCLASSIFIED)
Wilson Gray
- Constitutional issues
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Constitutional issues
Andrea Morrow
- Constitutional issues
Baker, John
- Failure to fail to apply @-Insertion
Wilson Gray
- four-footed males, females, and children
Joel S. Berson
- Failure to fail to apply @-Insertion
Mark Mandel
- four-footed males, females, and children
Mark Mandel
- PREP-Drop: "conceive" v. "conceive of"
Laurence Horn
- four-footed males, females, and children
Laurence Horn
- Failure to fail to apply @-Insertion
Wilson Gray
- Constitutional issues
Wilson Gray
- "the listening-to of Christmas music"
Scott
- Constitutional issues
Baker, John
- more back-formed shopping
Scott
- Constitutional issues
RonButters at AOL.COM
- [ADS-L] faced with a problem mixed with bomb dropping?
RonButters at AOL.COM
- faced with a problem mixed with bomb dropping?
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "the listening-to of Christmas music"
Joel S. Berson
- four-footed males, females, and children
Joel S. Berson
- "the listening-to of Christmas music"
Scott
- Constitutional issues
Wilson Gray
- ADS-L Digest - 7 Dec 2008 to 8 Dec 2008 (#2008-343)
Your Name
- glide path
Benjamin Zimmer
- "the listening-to of Christmas music"
Joel S. Berson
- sweat equity (1950)
Benjamin Zimmer
- "conceive (of)"
Arnold Zwicky
- Fwd: interesting metaphor
Arnold Zwicky
- Wednesday 10 December: "Day Without a Gay"
Arnold Zwicky
- "conceive (of)"
Wilson Gray
- Heard on The Judges: call one out of one's name
Wilson Gray
- "conceive (of)"
Arnold Zwicky
- interesting metaphor
Marc Velasco
- "the listening-to of Christmas music"
Arnold Zwicky
- Fwd: interesting metaphor
Arnold Zwicky
- "the listening-to of Christmas music"
Arnold Zwicky
- OT: Vocab tester & rice donor
Benjamin Barrett
- Wednesday 10 December: "Day Without a Gay"
Benjamin Zimmer
- Magazine initiative from Google Book Search
Benjamin Zimmer
- Magazine initiative from Google Book Search
Benjamin Zimmer
- Magazine initiative from Google Book Search
Jesse Sheidlower
- interesting metaphor
Joel S. Berson
- Fwd: interesting metaphor
Joel S. Berson
- Magazine initiative from Google Book Search
Joel S. Berson
- Wednesday 10 December: "Day Without a Gay"
Laurence Horn
- Magazine initiative from Google Book Search
Benjamin Zimmer
- Fwd: interesting metaphor
Laurence Horn
- Wednesday 10 December: "Day Without a Gay"
Benjamin Zimmer
- four-footed males, females, and children
Ann Burlingham
- "conceive (of)"
Mark Mandel
- four-footed males, females, and children
Mark Mandel
- four-footed males, females, and children
Joel S. Berson
- Magazine initiative from Google Book Search
Benjamin Zimmer
- interesting metaphor
Chris Waigl
- Magazine initiative from Google Book Search
Jesse Sheidlower
- A very chavvy Christmas
James Harbeck
- A very chavvy Christmas
Chris Waigl
- four-footed males, females, and children
Wilson Gray
- A very chavvy Christmas
Doug Harris
- four-footed males, females, and children
Doug Harris
- "conceive (of)"
Arnold Zwicky
- "conceive (of)"
Wilson Gray
- mailer/archive problems
Arnold Zwicky
- "conceive (of)"
Arnold Zwicky
- mailer/archive problems
Herb Stahlke
- "conceive (of)"
Laurence Horn
- "conceive (of)"
Alison Murie
- "conceive (of)"
Laurence Horn
- A very chavvy Christmas
Wilson Gray
- Most Notable Quotations of 2008
Benjamin Zimmer
- Did indicted Illinois governor skip online ethics training that he mandated for all state employees?
Dennis Baron
- Most Notable Quotations of 2008
Shapiro, Fred
- Most Notable Quotations of 2008
Grant Barrett
- Did indicted Illinois governor skip online ethics training thathe m andated for all state employees?
Doug Harris
- Most Notable Quotations of 2008
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- substitution of X with Y
Wilson Gray
- Most Notable Quotations of 2008
Michael Covarrubias
- Most Notable Quotations of 2008
Wilson Gray
- substitution of X with Y
Arnold Zwicky
- "word to mother" (1985)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Most Notable Quotations of 2008
Joel S. Berson
- substitution of X with Y
Wilson Gray
- Talk You Up
Gerald Walton
- Test message (sorry for the possible duplication)
Laurence Horn
- Most Notable Quotations of 2008
Benjamin Zimmer
- Dizzy Blondes
Jonathan Lighter
- Most Notable Quotations of 2008
William Salmon
- Did indicted Illinois governor skip online ethics training ...
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Q: Meaning of "ringer"?
Joel S. Berson
- Q: Meaning of "ringer"?
Benjamin Zimmer
- "Diphthong" in the mouth of the South
Wilson Gray
- four-footed males, females, and children
Ann Burlingham
- more political language
Laurence Horn
- Cupboard Food
Doug Harris
- "Diphthong" in the mouth of the South
Scot LaFaive
- "he" and "he or she"
Lisa Minnick
- "Diphthong" in the mouth of the South
Wilson Gray
- Store-Bought
Gerald Walton
- Q: Meaning of "ringer"?
N2life4
- Store-Bought
Wilson Gray
- Most Notable Quotations of 2008
Wilson Gray
- a hog-backed molligrubber
Jonathan Lighter
- honest politicians
Jonathan Lighter
- substitution of X with Y
Arnold Zwicky
- W örter des Jahres
Benjamin Zimmer
- TWAIN QUOTE
Shapiro, Fred
- Most Notable Quotations of 2008
Barbara Need
- W örter des Jahres
Chris Waigl
- Most Notable Quotations of 2008
Barbara Need
- Most Notable Quotations of 2008
Laurence Horn
- W örter des Jahres
Chris Waigl
- W ärter des Jahres
Joel S. Berson
- today's (bilingual) holiday pun
Arnold Zwicky
- W ärter des Jahres
Chris Waigl
- Q: Meaning of "ringer"?
David A. Daniel
- W ärter des Jahres
Chris Waigl
- today's (bilingual) holiday pun
Laurence Horn
- ADS-L on Language Log
Arnold Zwicky
- ADS-L on Language Log
Laurence Horn
- W örter des Jahres
Joel S. Berson
- ADS-L on Language Log
Arnold Zwicky
- progressista (NYT, 1872)
Benjamin Zimmer
- TWAIN QUOTE (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- antedate: vog (volcanic smog), 1991
Mark Mandel
- Talk You Up
Mark Mandel
- antedate: vog (volcanic smog), 1991
Mark Mandel
- TWAIN QUOTE (UNCLASSIFIED)
Benjamin Zimmer
- eggcorn alert: forgiving those who trustpass against us
Laurence Horn
- More re: fleece
Geoff Nathan
- TWAIN QUOTE (UNCLASSIFIED)
Stephen Goranson
- Heard on The Judges: BE BIN ...
Wilson Gray
- TWAIN QUOTE (UNCLASSIFIED)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Heard on The Judges: BE BIN ...
Wilson Gray
- Talk You Up
Wilson Gray
- TWAIN QUOTE (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- More re: fleece
Laurence Horn
- TWAIN QUOTE (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Merriam-Webster Words of the Year 2008
Chris Waigl
- New OED notes (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- New OED notes (UNCLASSIFIED)
Joel S. Berson
- Merriam-Webster Words of the Year 2008
Benjamin Zimmer
- New OED notes (UNCLASSIFIED)
Wilson Gray
- Most Notable Quotations of 2008
Grant Barrett
- Merriam-Webster Words of the Year 2008
Chris Waigl
- "Better Dead Than Red"
Shapiro, Fred
- StL BE [D^r] : non-sE [Dar] :: "clerk" [kl^rk] : "Cl[a]rk" [klark]? [NT]
Wilson Gray
- WOTY candidate for most outrageous category?
Laurence Horn
- Finnish meatballs
Victor
- "Better Dead Than Red"
Sam Clements
- Finnish meatballs
Victor
- Vocabula: Free to New Readers
Robert Hartwell Fiske
- Finnish meatballs
Laurence Horn
- Finnish meatballs
Joel S. Berson
- "Better Dead Than Red"
Joel S. Berson
- F-Word update: Want to help?
Jesse Sheidlower
- "Better Dead Than Red"
Stephen Goranson
- Finnish meatballs
Alison Murie
- Habas de refried
Dan Goodman
- SbaCL words of the year
Lynne Murphy
- "Better Dead Than Red"
Victor
- No subject
Douglas Wilson
- "Better Dead Than Red"
Victor
- Google Book Search misdating (was Re: "Better Dead Than Red")
Benjamin Zimmer
- Google Book Search misdating (was Re: "Better Dead Than Red") (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "sloppy seconds"
Arnold Zwicky
- [ADS-L] "sloppy secon ds"
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "sloppy seconds"
Wilson Gray
- "sloppy seconds"
Alice Faber
- "sloppy seconds"
Laurence Horn
- Our Fred on Quotes of the Year
Laurence Horn
- Dutch word of the year: swaffelen
Grant Barrett
- Heard on The Judges: "compromise"
Wilson Gray
- Dutch word of the year: swaffelen
Wilson Gray
- Dutch word of the year: swaffelen
Doug Harris
- Heard on The Judges: "compromise"
Laurence Horn
- Heard on The Judges: "compromise"
Mark Mandel
- Heard on The Judges: "compromise"
Laurence Horn
- Maledicta ends publication
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "sloppy seconds" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "sloppy seconds" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Wilson Gray
- "sloppy seconds" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Laurence Horn
- "sloppy seconds" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Wilson Gray
- Heard on The Judges: "compromise"
Wilson Gray
- ADS-L Digest - 15 Dec 2008 to 16 Dec 2008 (#2008-351)
Your Name
- ADS-L Digest - 15 Dec 2008 to 16 Dec 2008 (#2008-351)
Wilson Gray
- antedate for "blue collar" (OED: 1950)
Geoffrey Nunberg
- antedate for Johnny (John) Doughboy, 1892 (RHDAS: 1918)
Geoffrey Nunberg
- "let's play two" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Project Management Lingo (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- A dialect split
Wilson Gray
- A dialect split
Laurence Horn
- A dialect split
Randy Alexander
- A dialect split
Randy Alexander
- A dialect split
David Bowie
- A dialect split
Wilson Gray
- dialect jokes
Tom Zurinskas
- 2010
Joel S. Berson
- 2010
Grant Barrett
- 2010
Laurence Horn
- W örter des Jahres
Benjamin Zimmer
- singular "small fry"
Alison Murie
- 2010
Wilson Gray
- singular "small fry"
Arnold Zwicky
- What the Buck?
Doug Harris
- What the Buck?
Jesse Sheidlower
- just deserts--again
Victor
- singular "small fry"
Laurence Horn
- What the Buck?
Laurence Horn
- singular "small fry"
Mark Mandel
- What the Buck?
Baker, John
- singular "small fry"
Laurence Horn
- singular "small fry"
Ann Burlingham
- singular "small fry"
Laurence Horn
- DARE on Google Books
Joan H. Hall
- [ADS-L] DARE on Goo gle Books
RonButters at AOL.COM
- [ADS-L] DARE on Google Books
Dave Wilton
- cuff/cup eggcorns?
Herb Stahlke
- not quite eggcorns
Victor
- single father
Victor
- single father
Benjamin Barrett
- single father
Dave Wilton
- single father
Andrea Morrow
- single father
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- political catchphrases of the year
Benjamin Zimmer
- single father
Victor
- single father
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- political catchphrases of the year
Chris Waigl
- "limerick"
Jonathan Lighter
- antedating "limerick" (1888) ? OED
John-Patrick
- singular "small fry"
Laurence Horn
- singular "small fry"
Wilson Gray
- antedating "limerick" (1888) ? OED
Stephen Goranson
- Grant's new words in NYT
Jesse Sheidlower
- antedating "limerick" (1888) ? OED
Shapiro, Fred
- Grant's new words in NYT
Grant Barrett
- antedating "limerick" (1888) ? OED
Shapiro, Fred
- Grant's new words in NYT
Jesse Sheidlower
- All Words Pronounced - forvo.com
David Metevia
- snow- words
Arnold Zwicky
- snow- words
David Bergdahl
- snow- words
Doug Harris
- Truly Scary Quote
Doug Harris
- Truly Scary Quote
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Truly Scary Quote
Laurence Horn
- CNN Suggests Parents Can Prevent a Syndrome
Doug Harris
- CNN Suggests Parents Can Prevent a Syndrome
Laurence Horn
- CNN Suggests Parents Can Prevent a Syndrome
James Harbeck
- Truly Scary Quote
David Metevia
- Test
David Metevia
- Truly Scary Quote
RonButters at AOL.COM
- [ADS-L] Truly Scary Quote
RonButters at AOL.COM
- More on Alleged 1888 "Limerick" Occurrence
Shapiro, Fred
- Truly Scary Quote
Mark Mandel
- not quite eggcorns
Arnold Zwicky
- not quite eggcorns
Arnold Zwicky
- not quite eggcorns
Arnold Zwicky
- cuff/cup eggcorns?
Arnold Zwicky
- cuff/cup eggcorns?
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- not quite eggcorns
Doug Harris
- cuff/cup eggcorns?
Laurence Horn
- No snail mail in colonial Maine
Joel S. Berson
- antedating: "staging area"
Jonathan Lighter
- my new blog
Arnold Zwicky
- cuff/cup
Arnold Zwicky
- not quite eggcorns
Mark Mandel
- resend not quite eggcorns
Mark Mandel
- side-straddle hop
Jonathan Lighter
- cuff/cup and misremembering
RonButters at AOL.COM
- cuff/cup and misremembering
Herb Stahlke
- Heard on The Judges: BE "distributive _be_"
Wilson Gray
- Festivus
Jonathan Lighter
- cuff/cup and misremembering
Tom Zurinskas
- Festivus
Scot LaFaive
- Festivus
RonButters at AOL.COM
- not quite eggcorns
Wilson Gray
- opportYOUnity
Tom Zurinskas
- opportYOUnity
Scot LaFaive
- opportYOUnity
Benjamin Barrett
- opportYOUnity
Joel S. Berson
- opportYOUnity
Benjamin Barrett
- opportYOUnity
Randy Alexander
- opportYOUnity
Tom Zurinskas
- opportYOUnity
Joel S. Berson
- opportYOUnity
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Early 2008 WOTY Nominations Posted
Grant Barrett
- OED update
Mark Peters
- side-straddle hop
Charles Doyle
- opportYOUnity
Benjamin Barrett
- opportYOUnity
Tom Zurinskas
- distinguishing
Arnold Zwicky
- A "twofer"
Wilson Gray
- not quite eggcorns
Victor
- ADS-L Digest - 23 Dec 2008 to 24 Dec 2008 (#2008-359)
Your Name
- bare pasts
Arnold Zwicky
- ADS-L Digest - 23 Dec 2008 to 24 Dec 2008 (#2008-359)
Benjamin Barrett
- zero vs. "that" relatives
Arnold Zwicky
- zero vs. "that" relatives
Wilson Gray
- ADS-L Digest - 21 Dec 2008 to 22 Dec 2008 (#2008-357)
Your Name
- A "twofer"
Mark Mandel
- New military strategy: if you can't teach GI's to conjugate in Arabic, try teaching linguists to kill
Dennis Baron
- ADS-L Digest - 23 Dec 2008 to 24 Dec 2008 (#2008-359)
Chris Waigl
- All talking photoplay 1928
Benjamin Barrett
- "Twofer"
Prof. Roland Sussex
- zero vs. "that" relatives
Arnold Zwicky
- ADS-L Digest - 23 Dec 2008 to 24 Dec 2008 (#2008-359)
Laurence Horn
- Antedating of "Rock Opera"
Shapiro, Fred
- Further Antedating of "Rhythm and Blues"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Split Infinitive"
Shapiro, Fred
- zero vs. "that" relatives
Paul Johnston
- eggcorn
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- zero vs. "that" relatives
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Antedating of "Split Infinitive"
Joel S. Berson
- Antedating of "Split Infinitive"
Arnold Zwicky
- zero vs. "that" relatives
Tom Zurinskas
- zero vs. "that" relatives
David Bowie
- zero vs. "that" relatives
David Bowie
- Antedating of "Darwinism"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Split Infinitive"
Chris Waigl
- Antedating of "Googol" and "Googolplex"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Jewish American Princess"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Split Infinitive"
Chris Waigl
- Antedating of "JAP"
Shapiro, Fred
- Fwd: eggcorn
Mark Mandel
- Fwd: eggcorn
Joel S. Berson
- Fwd: eggcorn
Laurence Horn
- Antedating of "Split Infinitive"
david hughes
- Antedating of "Split Infinitive"
Benjamin Zimmer
- Antedating of "Yuppie"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Split Infinitive"
Benjamin Zimmer
- Antedating of "Deadhead"
Shapiro, Fred
- widower
Victor
- Antedating of "Split Infinitive"
Mark Mandel
- Antedating of "Disco"
Shapiro, Fred
- "winders of the circuit of circuits"
Geoffrey Nunberg
- More on "Googol" and "Googolplex"
Shapiro, Fred
- "winders of the circuit of circuits"
Grant Barrett
- Variation in AmE (was: zero vs. "that" relatives)
Damien Hall
- WOTY preview (Philly Inquirer)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Differences that people make but can't hear
Damien Hall
- "winders of the circuit of circuits"
Joel S. Berson
- "winders of the circuit of circuits"
Stephen Goranson
- "winders of the circuit of circuits"
Mark Mandel
- macaronic wordplay
Mark Mandel
- Fwd: Re: "winders of the circuit of circuits"
Joel S. Berson
- macaronic wordplay
Laurence Horn
- "winders of the circuit of circuits"
Joel S. Berson
- Antedating of "Disco"
Jesse Sheidlower
- "wide asleep"
Arnold Zwicky
- "winders of the circuit of circuits"
Andrea Morrow
- "wide asleep"
Laurence Horn
- antedating of golf "Mulligan" 1936
Sam Clements
- macaronic wordplay
Wilson Gray
- Antedating of "Yuppie"
Baker, John
- "winders of the circuit of circuits"
Wilson Gray
- Antedating of "Yuppie"
Grant Barrett
- macaronic wordplay
Doug Harris
- macaronic wordplay
Mark Mandel
- Antedating of "Yuppie"
Jesse Sheidlower
- macaronic wordplay
Bruce Hunter
- macaronic wordplay
Mark Mandel
- Antedating of "JAP"
Alison Murie
- "winders of the circuit of circuits"
Alison Murie
- macaronic wordplay
Joel S. Berson
- Antedating of "JAP"
Jerome Foster
- Antedating of "JAP"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "JAP"
Douglas G. Wilson
- Antedating of "JAP"
Victor
- Antedating of "JAP"
Jerome Foster
- More on "Googol" and "Googolplex"
Wilson Gray
- Ancient eggcorn?
Michael Quinion
- Antedating of "Jaywalker" and "Jaywalking"
Shapiro, Fred
- "tot mom"
Charles Doyle
- Zero vs. "that" relatives
Mark Davies
- Ancient eggcorn?
Laurence Horn
- "tot mom"
Laurence Horn
- "tot mom"
Arnold Zwicky
- Antedating of "Snuff Film / Movie"
Shapiro, Fred
- Fwd: Zero vs. "that" relatives
Arnold Zwicky
- Fwd: Zero vs. "that" relatives
Arnold Zwicky
- Fwd: Zero vs. "that" relatives
Arnold Zwicky
- Zero vs. "that" relatives
Benjamin Zimmer
- Ancient eggcorn?
Arnold Zwicky
- Heard on The Judges: embedded question
Wilson Gray
- Heard on The Judges: eggcorn or tip of the slung?
Wilson Gray
- Fwd: Re: "winders of the circuit of circuits"
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- zero vs. "that" relatives
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Heard on The Judges: embedded question
Laurence Horn
- More 2008 WOTY nominations added
Grant Barrett
- SOTA alert
Laurence Horn
- Antedating of "Snuff Film / Movie"
Jonathan Lighter
- An RCN ad: "For TV _how_ you like it ..."
Wilson Gray
- WOTY preview (Canwest)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Defuse: not quite an eggcorn?
Joel S. Berson
- SOTA alert
Arnold Zwicky
- zero vs. "that" relatives
Wilson Gray
- More on "Googol" and "Googolplex"
Mark Mandel
- More on "Googol" and "Googolplex"
Victor
- Fwd: Re: "winders of the circuit of circuits"
Geoffrey Nunberg
- Just in!!
David Barnhart
- zero vs. "that" relatives
David Bowie
- Zero vs. "that" relatives (and TIME Corpus)
Mark Davies
- Merrill-Lynch econo-speak: ringfence, premia
David Bergdahl
- Just in!!
David Barnhart
- Zero vs. "that" relatives (and TIME Corpus) (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- pronunciation encountered
David Barnhart
- pronunciation encountered
Arnold Zwicky
- Heard on The Judges: "_an_ harassment"
Wilson Gray
- pronunciation encountered ("oxymoron")
Charles Doyle
- Zero vs. "that" relatives (and TIME Corpus) (UNCLASSIFIED)
Randy Alexander
- Zero vs. "that" relatives (and TIME Corpus)
Mark Davies
- pronunciation encountered
Laurence Horn
- Heard on The Judges: "_an_ harassment"
Laurence Horn
- Antedating of "Disco"
Shapiro, Fred
- antedating of golf "Mulligan" 1936
Gerald Cohen
- Antedating of "JAP" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Antedating of "JAP" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Jesse Sheidlower
- Antedating of "JAP" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- pronunciation encountered
Doug Harris
- "work construction" 'do construction work'
Arnold Zwicky
- "work construction" 'do construction work'
Benjamin Zimmer
- "work construction" 'do construction work'
Laurence Horn
- "work construction" 'do construction work'
Douglas G. Wilson
- "work construction" 'do construction work'
Wilson Gray
- "winders of the circuit of circuits"
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Heard on The Judges: "_an_ harassment"
Wilson Gray
- economics
Victor
- economics
Arnold Zwicky
- brownie point (1952)
Dave Wilton
- Heard on The Judges: "grudge-hold against"
Wilson Gray
- economics
Herb Stahlke
- antedating of "Murphy's Law" Sept. 1953
Stephen Goranson
- header should read 1952 was Re: [ADS-L] antedating of "Murphy's Law" Sept. 1953
Stephen Goranson
- Heard on The Judges: "grudge-hold against"
Arnold Zwicky
- antedating of "Murphy's Law" Sept. 1952
Shapiro, Fred
- "work construction" 'do construction work'
Arnold Zwicky
- Antedating of "Sod's Law"
Shapiro, Fred
- antedating of "Murphy's law" May, 1951
Stephen Goranson
- antedating of "Murphy's law" May, 1951
Jesse Sheidlower
- antedating of "Murphy's law" May, 1951
Shapiro, Fred
- antedating of "Murphy's law" May, 1951
Stephen Goranson
- antedating of "Murphy's law" May, 1951
Jesse Sheidlower
- A note on black naming practices
Wilson Gray
- WOTY - now fortified with Grant Barrett!
Rex W. Stocklin
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