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- another item for Dennis B's Web of Language?
Laurence Horn
- Fw: Second person singular (Spanish)
Dave Hause
- "Gay" vs. "Homosexual": bad search-and-replace move
Benjamin Zimmer
- More praise for the excellent Yale Book of Quotations
Joel S. Berson
- cot/caught on the street
Arnold M. Zwicky
- r to l dissimilation in "infrastructure"?
Nancy Hall
- racial slur database
Benjamin Lukoff
- Heard on The Judges: "altercating"
Wilson Gray
- Ragtime and coded slurs in the Chicago Tribune
Laurence Horn
- Dialect variation in the Times
Marc Velasco
- Louisiana school district may require English-only valedictory addresses
Dennis Baron
- Fw: Re: Louisiana school district may require English-only valedictory addresses
Janis Vizier Nihart
- How dare them!
Jonathan Lighter
- cot/caught/Don/Dawn
Rebecca Shapiro
- Heard on The Judges: "exuded" = "told"
Wilson Gray
- r to l dissimilation in infrastructure?
sagehen at westelcom.com
- chau gong
Benjamin Barrett
- Fwd: Fulbright Awards in Linguistics/TEFL 2009-10
Jesse Sheidlower
- "hot dog" T.A. Dorgan story in St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- X's, crosses as kisses and as blessings
Stephen Goranson
- X's, crosses as kisses and as blessings
Wilson Gray
- X's, crosses as kisses and as blessings
Stephen Goranson
- X's, crosses as kisses and as blessings
Mark Mandel
- X's, crosses as kisses and as blessings
Laurence Horn
- X's, crosses as kisses and as blessings
James Harbeck
- X's, crosses as kisses and as blessings
Benjamin Zimmer
- X's, crosses as kisses and as blessings
David A. Daniel
- X's, crosses as kisses and as blessings
Arnold M. Zwicky
- X's, crosses as kisses and as blessings
Stephen Goranson
- X's, crosses as kisses and as blessings
Mark Mandel
- X's, crosses as kisses and as blessings
Laurence Horn
- "hot dog" T.A. Dorgan story in St. Louis Post-Dispatch (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Heard on The Judges: "in play" = "in place"
Wilson Gray
- Q: Dating of "Columbia" = America
Joel S. Berson
- Dating of "Columbia" = America
Dave Wilton
- 1738 Dating of "Columbia" = America
Joel S. Berson
- transitive interfere
James Harbeck
- Fwd: phonological features; was What's in a Name? The Black Panthers in Israel
Wilson Gray
- 1741 "Columbian" (adj) = American
Joel S. Berson
- Silence, Language, & Society
Robert Hartwell Fiske
- Ben Zimmer's new column on word/phrase origins
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "mux-ip"
Jonathan Lighter
- Fwd: canard
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "Best by..."
Jonathan Lighter
- phonological features; was What's in a Name? The Black Panthers in Israel
Mark Mandel
- Heard on The Judges: "documentary"
Wilson Gray
- Best by...
sagehen at westelcom.com
- canard
Doug Harris
- "Kosher Nostra"
Dan Goodman
- frickinfracker
Jonathan Lighter
- frickinfrackin
Jonathan Lighter
- OT: descendants of Frick and Frack
Joel S. Berson
- hairy (1917)
Jonathan Lighter
- "mess about," v.t. (1917)
Jonathan Lighter
- idle etymological query
Jonathan Lighter
- scupper, 1917
Jonathan Lighter
- The exercise, "jumping jacks"
Wilson Gray
- FW: Dap (Dignity And Pride?); Fist Bump; Pound or Fist Pound
Benjamin Zimmer
- Most enigmatic word in OED?
Jonathan Lighter
- thestral
Jonathan Lighter
- a wiener is not a hot dog
RonButters at AOL.COM
- phonological features [etc.]
RonButters at AOL.COM
- FW: "OK" cites in 1839
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "covered wagon", 1754, and not the American West
Joel S. Berson
- "covered wagon", 1754, and not the American West
David Donnell
- "covered wagon", 1754, and not the American West
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "covered wagon", 1754, and not the American West
Wilson Gray
- "covered wagon", 1754, and not the American West
Laurence Horn
- "covered wagon", 1754, and not the American West
Dave Hause
- "covered wagon", now 1727, and still not the American West
Joel S. Berson
- Staycation
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- singular "yez"
Jonathan Lighter
- fine-tuning the antihibernian ethnonym: an emic view
Jonathan Lighter
- Joel provides the example:
Wilson Gray
- Barry, as forwarded by G,
Wilson Gray
- bumper
Joel S. Berson
- Heard on VH1: 'n'em
Wilson Gray
- Actionable Offenses: Scrouge
Baker, John
- ADS in the news...
William Salmon
- "Cock," again
Wilson Gray
- Early American Newspapers
Joel S. Berson
- eggcornish?
Brenda Lester
- Antedating of Flea Market
Sam Clements
- The New Math
Doug Harris
- frightmare
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedating of Flea Market (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Thomas Disch obituary
Mark Mandel
- A million English words, or only 600,000? Either way, it's a language packed with more words than you'll ever need
Dennis Baron
- A million English words, or only 600,000? Either way, it's a language packed with more words than you'll ever need
Joel S. Berson
- A million English words, or only 600,000? Either way, it's a language packed with more words than you'll ever need
Benjamin Barrett
- A million English words, or only 600,000? Either way, it's a language packed with more words than you'll ever need
Tom Zurinskas
- A million English words, or only 600,000? Either way, it's a language packed with more words than you'll ever need
LanDi Liu
- A million English words, or only 600,000? Either way, it's a language packed with more words than you'll ever need
Joel S. Berson
- A million English words, or only 600,000? Either way, it's a language packed with more words than you'll ever need
Joel S. Berson
- A million English words, or only 600,000? Either way, it's a language packed with more words than you'll ever need
LanDi Liu
- A million English words, or only 600,000? Either way, it's a language packed with more words than you'll ever need
Laurence Horn
- A million English words, or only 600,000? Either way, it's a language packed with more words than you'll ever need
Benjamin Zimmer
- A million English words, or only 600,000? Either way, it's a language packed with more words than you'll ever need
Dave Wilton
- A million English words, or only 600,000? Either way, it's a language packed with more words than you'll ever need
Dennis Baron
- A million English words, or only 600,000? Either way, it's a language packed with more words than you'll ever need
LanDi Liu
- A million English words, or only 600,000? Either way, it's a language packed with more words than you'll ever need
Benjamin Barrett
- A million English words, or only 600,000? Either way, it's a language packed with more words than you'll ever need
Joel S. Berson
- A million English words, or only 600,000? Either way, it's a language packed with more words than you'll ever need
Dennis Baron
- A million English words, or only 600,000? Either way, it's a language packed with more words than you'll ever need
Arnold M. Zwicky
- A million English words, or only 600,000? Either way, it's a language packed with more words than you'll ever need
Dennis Baron
- A million English words, or only 600,000? Either way, it's a language packed with more words than you'll ever need
Arnold M. Zwicky
- A million English words, or only 600,000? Either way, it's a language packed with more words than you'll ever need
Baker, John
- A million English words, or only 600,000? Either way, it's a language packed with more words than you'll ever need
Benjamin Zimmer
- A million English words, or only 600,000? Either way, it's a language packed with more words than you'll ever need
Dennis Baron
- Grant Barrett Antedates "Jet Lag" in Boingboing.net (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- flea circus
Arnold M. Zwicky
- embaterion
Jonathan Lighter
- number; statistic
Jonathan Lighter
- number; statistic; Corpus of American English
Mark Davies
- Corpus of American English
Joel S. Berson
- Trivial observation on "Where the West Begins"
Wilson Gray
- pibroch
Jonathan Lighter
- Early(est) "Columbian" (adj) = 'American', 1738
Joel S. Berson
- Fred Shapiro and the Serenity Prayer
Benjamin Zimmer
- Terminological Resource Survey
Mark Mandel
- semantic drift: "allude" (trans.)
Jonathan Lighter
- Fred Shapiro and the Serenity Prayer (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- shamas from 1843
George Thompson
- "McHATTAN" a shiny new word?
David Donnell
- Roasteria
Benjamin Barrett
- I've bitten off more than I can eschew
Rex W. Stocklin
- I'll see your McHattan and raise you...
Laurence Horn
- English no longer the official language of New York's gas stations
Dennis Baron
- Scottish Language Dictionaries fundraiser
Grant Barrett
- Serenity Prayer in Yale Alumni Magazine
Shapiro, Fred
- live
Jonathan Lighter
- Cross-posting a query
Laurence Horn
- Who's diddling and how?
Benjamin Barrett
- "kitty whompus"
Scot LaFaive
- World English
David A. Daniel
- "of which" = "in which" = which
Jonathan Lighter
- Serenity Prayer Controversy in Time Magazine
Shapiro, Fred
- crout
Jonathan Lighter
- When Languages Die: Book Review Distributed by Powell's
Doug Harris
- Serenity Prayer - slightly OT
Bethany Dumas
- "fact" again
Jonathan Lighter
- Cross-posting a query (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- keep it real
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Re: [ADS-L] Serenity Prayer - slightly OT
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Who's diddling and how? (again)
RonButters at AOL.COM
- keep it real (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- keep it real = authentic
RonButters at AOL.COM
- [ADS-L] "fact" again
RonButters at AOL.COM
- rainbow party
Jonathan Lighter
- Heard on The Judges: "unrepenetant / unrepenitant / unrepenetent / unrepenitent"
Wilson Gray
- Serenity Prayer in Yale Alumni Magazine (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Sliceria
Geoff Nathan
- semantic drift: "grow" = to enlarge or develop (a physical object) into a larger or more complex form
Jonathan Lighter
- Heard on The Judges: "dillinger"; "baby's mother"
Wilson Gray
- "fact" again again
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Re: [ADS-L] Who's d iddling and how?
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "plenty enough" ?
sagehen
- vomitrocious
Jonathan Lighter
- on Language Log
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Not A Newbie, but Maybe Worth a Mention
Doug Harris
- Serenity prayer
Charles Doyle
- Our famouis Fred . . .
Charles Doyle
- slider in NYT
David Barnhart
- ADS members: an aggie inauguration
Allan A Metcalf
- dialoguing
Tom Zurinskas
- Cross-post from LL
Laurence Horn
- copperhead
Jonathan Lighter
- comfort woman, -girl, -station
Jonathan Lighter
- Yale Daily News digitization
Benjamin Zimmer
- Antedating of "Jewish American Princess"
Shapiro, Fred
- si non vero, e ben trovato
Jonathan Lighter
- "machine" 'car, automobile'
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "machine" 'car, automobile' (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "novel" (in the Britannica); PLUS "diary" = memoir
Jonathan Lighter
- street work
Mark Mandel
- He has discerned the Light
Joel S. Berson
- Civil law
Joel S. Berson
- Who's kissing and how?
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Canadian language police prepare for unrest as 200 attend Esperanto Congress in Montreal
Dennis Baron
- Heard on The Cartoon Network: a new(?) meaning of "standee"
Wilson Gray
- bogart
David A. Daniel
- Panty Raid
David Metevia
- Driving while Spanish nets trucker $500 fine
Dennis Baron
- "prissy," 1842 (?)
Jonathan Lighter
- "make dirt"
Rebecca Shapiro
- Pick the best ontologico-epistemological one-liner!
Jonathan Lighter
- To "maggie"
Joel S. Berson
- Query: Why the "Big Apple" Peak on Okinawa?
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "Where 'Snowmobile' Began" in the early 1910s
Joel S. Berson
- You say sommelier, I say barista
Joel S. Berson
- More on the Serenity Prayer (Hartford Courant)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- antedating of "toejam" (1866)
Sam Clements
- 'Pushing Back'
Doug Harris
- Sommelier (was to "maggie")
sagehen
- Tastes like Chicken
Ed Keer
- funny meaning gay
John M. Spartz
- "Generation Kill" glossary
Benjamin Zimmer
- "pipe dream"
Benjamin Zimmer
- Available Now -- Finally! -- Poem, Revised: 54 Poems, Revisions, Discussions
Robert Hartwell Fiske
- As A Metaphor, It's Maybe a 3-and-a-Half
Doug Harris
- Media inquiry: "a hop, skip, and a jump"
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Pushing back
Geoffrey S. Nathan
- Language Log posting on Ar(c)tic
Arnold M. Zwicky
- No subject
David Barnhart
- Media inquiry: "a hop, skip and a jump"
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- FW: Media inquiry: "a hop, skip and a jump"
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- significant antedating of U.S. "leatherneck"
Jonathan Lighter
- origin of "joint" = low place of resort
Jonathan Lighter
- preplan (was: As A Metaphor, It's Maybe a 3-and-a-Half)
Mark Mandel
- Tramp Stamp
Baker, John
- Tramp Stamp (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Heard on The Judges: "perpetrate" = "pretend"; "sporting" = something like "trying to give the impression that one is X"
Wilson Gray
- fact again
Jonathan Lighter
- More on poontang
Jonathan Lighter
- Rare support for multilingualism
Joel S. Berson
- Critics chide Obama for everything from supporting foreign languages to having a foreign-sounding name
Dennis Baron
- "serenity to accept..." from 1934
Stephen Goranson
- send in your mondegreens
Tom Zurinskas
- "troop" singular, simple denotation
Jonathan Lighter
- "cloth" = uniform
Jonathan Lighter
- Fred Shapiro subbing for Safire in NYT
Grant Barrett
- "(The) hate stare"
Wilson Gray
- "a hard puppy to fill"
Mark Mandel
- Time and geography WRT dialects
Wilson Gray
- "Decimate" once again
Joel S. Berson
- antedating: "damn-all"
Jonathan Lighter
- gives good camera
Jonathan Lighter
- pull = "police raid; mass arrest"
Jonathan Lighter
- A "plum pudding" and a "football" not in OED
Jonathan Lighter
- antedating and postdating "concertina wire"
Jonathan Lighter
- whizzbang, hot shop
Jonathan Lighter
- "top-hole" adv.
Jonathan Lighter
- Americans face new threat to English: bilingual beer. How do you say 'lite' in Flemish?
Dennis Baron
- detagging/untagging
Benjamin Zimmer
- baby daddy
Jonathan Lighter
- Heard on The Judges: "strewn" rhyming with "sewn"
Wilson Gray
- "saditty" (snobbish) from "Saturday"?
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Quotable
Jonathan Lighter
- New links
Mark Peters
- To hear oursels as ithers hear[d] us'
Jonathan Lighter
- Is it Irish to be Cuil?
Joel S. Berson
- "Ego test"
Joel S. Berson
- "affect" = result in; lead to.
Jonathan Lighter
- "saditty" and North versus South
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "staycation", "daycation"
Laurence Horn
- staycation, daycation
Jonathan Lighter
- nanobialys
Dan Goodman
- "sooner than later"
Laurence Horn
- don; turd-pusher
Jonathan Lighter
- New York "elementary"
Aaron Dinkin
- Unsubscribe
William M. Bettinelli
- sac des culs
RonButters at AOL.COM
- favourite English history/general intro texts
James Harbeck
- Favorite History of English Texts
Kathryn Remlinger
- catch-fart
Jonathan Lighter
- English history textbook
Benjamin Lukoff
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