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- DARE---(George Thompson's extensive notes)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- OT: Bronx
Tom Zurinskas
- Orange, forest, etc.
Mark Mandel
- "Blawg"
Mark Mandel
- Pickett on "MarketPlace"
Barnhart
- Non-Muslims can't say "Allah" in Malaysia
Dennis Baron
- Grossly OT (was: DARE--)
Dave Hause
- Definition of parkhouse
Benjamin Barrett
- spread-option offense
Barnhart
- to "expense"
Jonathan Lighter
- LSSU Banished Words list, 2008
Benjamin Zimmer
- LSSU Banished Words list, 2008
Baker, John
- LSSU Banished Words list, 2008
Arnold M. Zwicky
- LSSU Banished Words list, 2008
Joel S. Berson
- LSSU Banished Words list, 2008
Laurence Horn
- LSSU Banished Words list, 2008
Dennis Preston
- LSSU Banished Words list, 2008
Dennis Preston
- LSSU Banished Words list, 2008
Laurence Horn
- LSSU Banished Words list, 2008
Dennis Preston
- LSSU Banished Words list, 2008
Alice Faber
- LSSU Banished Words list, 2008
Laurence Horn
- LSSU Banished Words list, 2008
Dave Wilton
- LSSU Banished Words list, 2008
Doug Harris
- LSSU Banished Words list, 2008
Baker, John
- LSSU Banished Words list, 2008
Dennis Preston
- LSSU Banished Words list, 2008
James Harbeck
- LSSU Banished Words list, 2008
Baker, John
- LSSU Banished Words list, 2008
Dennis Preston
- LSSU Banished Words list, 2008
Chris F Waigl
- LSSU Banished Words list, 2008
James Harbeck
- LSSU Banished Words list, 2008
Laurence Horn
- LSSU Banished Words list, 2008
James Harbeck
- LSSU Banished Words list, 2008
Baker, John
- LSSU Banished Words list, 2008
Dennis Preston
- LSSU Banished Words list, 2008
Dennis Preston
- LSSU Banished Words list, 2008
Mark Mandel
- LSSU Banished Words list, 2008
Benjamin Zimmer
- LSSU Banished Words list, 2008
Mark Mandel
- LSSU Banished Words list, 2008
Benjamin Zimmer
- LSSU Banished Words list, 2008
Evan Bradley
- A few newspaper databases
Joel S. Berson
- Struck (adj)
Scot LaFaive
- Re: [ADS-L] LSSU Ba nished Words list, 2008
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Eggcorn: Be around the bush
Mark Peters
- Possibly OT: FW: "Peacemaker" as a food term
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- AmSp article about a new gender-neutral pronoun is getting some play
Grant Barrett
- "jeffing" for drinks
George Thompson
- "hot corn"
George Thompson
- Now you see it, now you don't
George Thompson
- kible
George Thompson
- Just deserves
Michael Quinion
- Allan Metcalf interview at Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus
Grant Barrett
- WOTY coverage in the Philadelphia Inquirer
Grant Barrett
- [ADS-L] Allan Metcalf interview at Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus
Allan A Metcalf
- Next! ... No, not you!
Mark Mandel
- Possibly OT: FW: Japs (for "jalapenos")
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- SECOL abstract deadline Jan. 7
Grant Barrett
- decimating DECIMATE
RonButters at AOL.COM
- rake over the coals
Joel S. Berson
- well-quaffed hair
William Salmon
- de-served "hot corn"
Joel S. Berson
- blends? eggcorns?
JAMES A. LANDAU Netscape. Just the Net You Need.
- "Read My Lips"
Shapiro, Fred
- WOTY nominations posted
Grant Barrett
- FW: blends? eggcorns?
Baker, John
- hackleschmackle; was: Re: FW: blends? eggcorns?
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- 2007 WOTY is "subprime"
Grant Barrett
- Pundents
ddr11
- Safire on "Long Pole in the Tent"
Shapiro, Fred
- left & right in politics
Jan Kammert
- "webinar"
Mark Mandel
- de-served desserts
Joel S. Berson
- hackleschmackle
Joel S. Berson
- DECIMATE (one more time)
RonButters at AOL.COM
- VS in dialog
Jim Parish
- Query or Quibble?
Geraldine Hizer
- FW: Politiqueras (OED? DARE? Anywhere??)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Bucket List
John M. Spartz
- begun greatly
David Sarokin
- VS in dialog (correction)
Mark Sacks
- ADS-L Digest - 3 Jan 2008 to 4 Jan 2008 (#2008-5)
Amy West
- Antedating of the Term "Murphy's Law"
Baker, John
- hot corn/powder
Joel S. Berson
- from the movie Dragonfly (2002)
Arnold M. Zwicky
- ADS WOTY on Weekend America
Benjamin Zimmer
- FW: Politiquera, Pachanga, Palanca (OED? DARE? Double-Tongued? Anywhere?)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- long pole in the tent
Joan H. Hall
- Evidence for DECIMATE ('one in ten')
RonButters at AOL.COM
- vegangelical, retrovore
Benjamin Zimmer
- Evidence for DECIMATE ('one in ten')
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Arnold's sabbatical
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Contemporary examples of DECIMATE used in prescriptivist sense
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Gray and Cohen on "Crips"
Michael Adams
- [ADS- L] Ev idence for DECIMATE ( 'one in ten')
Jesse Sheidlower
- Jagwire
Sam Clements
- dog's letter
Tom Zurinskas
- More early "Murphy-ish" citations (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "he said, s/he said"
Laurence Horn
- OT Evidence for DECIMATE ( 'one in ten')
Joel S. Berson
- OT woodchucks
Joel S. Berson
- OT Evidence for DECIMATE ( 'one in ten')
Benjamin Barrett
- Yo! A new gender-neutral pronoun from, of all places, Baltimore
Dennis Baron
- A little feedback ...
David Gignilliat
- Contemporary example of DECIMATE
Chris Kern
- ADS-L Digest - 7 Jan 2008 to 8 Jan 2008 (#2008-9)
Geraldine Hizer
- Dictionary POS
LanDi Liu
- [ADS- L] Ev id ence for DECIMATE ( 'one in ten')
Jonathan Lighter
- Heard on the Judges
Wilson Gray
- semantic drift: "high-ranking"
Jonathan Lighter
- Macquarie WOTY candidates
Benjamin Zimmer
- Fwd: Sporting Life progress?
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- history of "subprime"
Benjamin Zimmer
- hexakosi...oh, forget it
Jonathan Lighter
- Actionable Offenses
George Thompson
- psitta ... Oh, I remember now
Joel S. Berson
- Actionable Offenses (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- WOTY Aussie Style
Doug Harris
- disband/reband
Benjamin Zimmer
- Laws and Sausages
Shapiro, Fred
- shralp!
James Harbeck
- Decimate: the real meaning
George Thompson
- future-forward
Jonathan Lighter
- Dictionary POS (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "intelligence office", 1768
Joel S. Berson
- 2 queries: 'dilemna' and Jared Diamond's accent
William Salmon
- (no subject)
Paul
- expensing, WSJ
David Bergdahl
- "change agent," 1950 (1949)
Geoffrey Nunberg
- the big pumpernickel
James Harbeck
- Laws and Sausage
David Sarokin
- Probably little-known, but hopefully interesting, OT fact
Wilson Gray
- rehaul
James Harbeck
- fact = "idea; notion"
Jonathan Lighter
- Eggcorns? Malaprops?
JAMES A. LANDAU Netscape. Just the Net You Need.
- rushing up, passing down
Benjamin Zimmer
- whip cream in the cherry, wide soul
Benjamin Zimmer
- Bon appetit! (was Laws and Sausage)
George Thompson
- "double negative"; name "Johnjoe"
Jonathan Lighter
- amenable = "understandable(?); comprehensible?"
Jonathan Lighter
- "and nor"
Jonathan Lighter
- "double negative" (P.S.)
Laurence Horn
- Dilemna
Douglas G. Wilson
- sassinger (was: Bon appetit! (was Laws and Sausage))
Mark Mandel
- "double negative"; name "Johnjoe" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Probable etymology of "top-notch", "top-hole"
Douglas G. Wilson
- Don't let's
LanDi Liu
- waxing
Charles Doyle
- Vocabula free for students
Robert Hartwell Fiske
- Estonia to crown world's most beautiful language
Dennis Baron
- Ziff Market: Did I hear it right?
Barbara Need
- ADS-L Digest - 14 Jan 2008 to 15 Jan 2008 (#2008-16)
Geraldine Hizer
- Info required
Kevin Mulvina
- Shank's mare
Scot LaFaive
- Message recieved
Kevin
- Procedural criteria
Kevin Mulvina
- Credit to Barry Popik
Shapiro, Fred
- Credit to Barry Popik (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- The meaning of "ungrammatical"
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Must needs
Benjamin Barrett
- Mine's
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- New movie
Wilson Gray
- twoth
Hillary Brown
- Mine's (again)
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- "a dark and stormy night"
Joel S. Berson
- "a dark and stormy night" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Jim Mullen on WOTY
Benjamin Zimmer
- "merkin" 1682 [not the wig; not "Amerkin"]
Joel S. Berson
- "merkin" 1682
Laurence Horn
- Loaferism, gutterhorn, soaplock, shortboy: 1851 American politics
Joel S. Berson
- "Memex" Not in OED
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Workaholic"
Shapiro, Fred
- When "a" means one or more - patentese
Benjamin Barrett
- Antedating of "Workaholic" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- (Shank's mare) rack/wrack
Geraldine Hizer
- big-up, v.
Benjamin Zimmer
- semantic drift: "disrupt"
Jonathan Lighter
- From today's NYT
Wilson Gray
- semantic drift: "disrupt" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Question: Bob Dylan's performance dialect
Dan Goodman
- Scientology Terms
davemarc
- A language kept alive on life support, literally
Dennis Baron
- "tactical vest"/
Jonathan Lighter
- Junker/Junko/Junco Partner
Wilson Gray
- Whisperer (OED)
Scot LaFaive
- the spread of adjective-licensed "of"
Laurence Horn
- which would take longer to say /ae/ or /ai/
Tom Zurinskas
- The duration of /ae/ and /ai/
Joseph Salmons
- English words beginning with <j> pronounced [Z]?
Nadia Gabriel
- Amos, Andy, and "unlax"
Laurence Horn
- Amos, Andy, and "unlax"
Wilson Gray
- Amos, Andy, and "unlax"
Scot LaFaive
- Amos, Andy, and "unlax"
Jonathan Lighter
- Amos, Andy, and "unlax"
Wilson Gray
- Amos, Andy, and "unlax"
Jonathan Lighter
- Amos, Andy, and "unlax"
Laurence Horn
- Amos, Andy, and "unlax"
Benjamin Zimmer
- The origin of the etymology of "news" from the four compass points?
Joel S. Berson
- Q: "oil the dog's wig"?
Joel S. Berson
- Welsh "hur"?
Joel S. Berson
- "tarriwag", 1784
Joel S. Berson
- "seragg" in 1784?
Joel S. Berson
- A "bit" in 1784?
Joel S. Berson
- Behated
Grant Barrett
- Third person neutral pronoun!
James Smith
- "tarriwag", 1784 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Ash-tensing in *ANAE* (was: The duration of /ae/ and /ai/)
Damien Hall
- "hur": the new 3rd (and 2nd) person neutral pronoun!
Joel S. Berson
- Check out my Favorites on StumbleUpon
Val éria Souza
- Another case of negative = positive?
Wilson Gray
- Obama warns of the "old okey-doke"
Benjamin Zimmer
- honest to blog
Benjamin Zimmer
- Jump sturdy (was Re: New movie)
Mark Mandel
- An early (so to speak) and unmistakable "cock" = penis
Joel S. Berson
- Apology [was: Obama warns of the "old okey-doke"]
Joel S. Berson
- Early taboo, subclass sexual, words
Joel S. Berson
- semantic drift: "platoon"
Jonathan Lighter
- Versus
Scot LaFaive
- Prescriptive linguists
Geoff Nathan
- "Big Apple" antedating
Jesse Sheidlower
- expressionate, adj.
Jonathan Lighter
- info on ChattanoogaSpeak?
David Donnell
- ADS-L Digest - 23 Jan 2008 to 24 Jan 2008 (#2008-25)
Geraldine Hizer
- Odd BE pronunciations (was "Jump Study")
Wilson Gray
- signature as a verb
Hillary Brown
- Self-promotion time: I mean, free beer and chicken, woohoo!
Mark Peters
- Murphy's Law and Clausewitz (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Mommanem
Geoff Nathan
- Use of Gaelic by Irish immigrants to the U.S., early 19th century?
Joel S. Berson
- deceptively simple
Benjamin Barrett
- funny character in SF Citations for OED
Mark Mandel
- wol template
Dennis Baron
- Is the internet killing literacy, or pumping new life into it?
Dennis Baron
- semantic drift: "platoon" and blundiferous
Barnhart
- Terms for familys; was Re: Heard on The Judges
Barbara Need
- puns (e.g., WHICH vs. WITCH et al.)
RonButters at AOL.COM
- I lately lost a preposition
Mark Mandel
- -anem etc.
Arnold M. Zwicky
- isoglosses for hw/w
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "Canadian" as crypto-racist term (again)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Eggcorn?
Wilson Gray
- Today's most misleading headline
Mark Mandel
- Lost in translation
Chris Kern
- isoglosses
Tom Zurinskas
- neurobics, n. (like areobics for your brain)
Jonathan Lighter
- To 'droll on (and on)'
Rebekah
- out of context
JAMES A. LANDAU Netscape. Just the Net You Need.
- Delta airline's guaranteed lowest fare?
Joel S. Berson
- punning
Barnhart
- hw/w in performance
Damien Hall
- Heard on the Today Show
Wilson Gray
- Heard on the Today Show (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- ADS-L Digest - 27 Jan 2008 to 28 Jan 2008 (#2008-29) "WHICH HUNT"
Geraldine Hizer
- Q: "David's ruffians" and "Our tongues are our own, who shall control us?"
Joel S. Berson
- Pronouncing drug names
Barbara Need
- *Lush* life > *luxe* life?
Wilson Gray
- Definition
Christine Ricks
- "Billy Ned"
Joel S. Berson
- rout (Re: out of context)
Mark Mandel
- Tribute to Barry Popik for his research on food terminology
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- conceptionmoon
Benjamin Zimmer
- "to boldly go"
Joel S. Berson
- Google Books: Another Shortcoming
Jonathan Lighter
- Pronouncing drug names (w. note for Wilson)
Damien Hall
- Cross-linguistic borrowing; was Re: Prescriptive Linguists
Barbara Need
- Tribute to Barry Popik for his research on food terminology (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Re: [ADS-L] Tribute to Barry Popik for his research on food t erminology (UNCLASSIFIED)
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Re: [ADS-L] "to bol dly go"
RonButters at AOL.COM
- one word per line in quotes (was Re: "to boldly go")
Mark Mandel
- Classless
Michael Quinion
- baby bump [was: conceptionmoon]
Joel S. Berson
- Classless (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- baby bump [was: conceptionmoon] (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Tribute to Barry Popik
RonButters at AOL.COM
- to boldly go"
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- eggcorns? semantic drift?
JAMES A. LANDAU Netscape. Just the Net You Need.
- to boldly go where no linguist should
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Go Fractal [was Re: "to boldly go"]
Russ McClay
- subprime and "The Born Loser"
Charles Doyle
- Words in the news
Michael Quinion
- dative uses (was Re: Prescriptive Linguists)
Mark Mandel
- Liddell (was: Pronouncing drug names (w. note for Wilson))
Damien Hall
- Brainchild
Damien Hall
- And now The Verbs
Mark Mandel
- narrators (was "to boldly go")
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Re: [ADS-L] Pronounci ng drug names (w. note for Wilson)
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "pisspot" as opprobrious term
Jonathan Lighter
- what-all (1861)
Jonathan Lighter
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