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