June 2008 Archives by thread
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- "another thing coming"
Tom Zurinskas
- It begs the question: is it just me?
Wilson Gray
- "Democrat party"
David Bowie
- Antedating: bumpology, 1826 (and 1831)
Joel S. Berson
- ambiguous "to" +V
Mark Mandel
- the spoken sounds of ing/ink and ang/ank
Tom Zurinskas
- Antedating of "Yada Yada"
Laurence Horn
- Fwd: ambiguous "to" +V
Mark Mandel
- polling sample: "Democrat party"
RonButters at AOL.COM
- polling sample: "Democrat party" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- char siu, raper
Benjamin Barrett
- char siu, raper
Mark Mandel
- char siu, raper
Jim Parish
- char siu, raper
Benjamin Barrett
- char siu, raper
Douglas G. Wilson
- char siu, raper
Bradley A. Esparza
- char siu, raper
Laurence Horn
- char siu, raper
Benjamin Barrett
- char siu, raper
Mark Mandel
- char siu, raper
Benjamin Barrett
- char siu, raper
Mark Mandel
- Golf Drinks
JAMES A. LANDAU Netscape. Just the Net You Need.
- to eyeball
Lynne Murphy
- "12 step" as a verb
David Donnell
- Baseball lingo
Charles Doyle
- Re: [ADS-L] "12 ste p" as a verb
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Baseball lingo (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Humorous disease names
Mark Peters
- Humorous disease names (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- crampsome
Charles Doyle
- [ADS-L] Baseball ling o
RonButters at AOL.COM
- More Newspapers Being Digitized
Shapiro, Fred
- More Newspapers Being Digitized (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "African-American"
Joel S. Berson
- OT: New Antedating of "Movie"
Shapiro, Fred
- "Call you crazy but..."
Laurence Horn
- Please connect with me :)
Bradley Esparza
- The Financial World is Steeped in Special Lingo
Doug Harris
- "this premise"
sagehen
- OT (if that's at all possible on this list): Diseases and treatments
Joel S. Berson
- Solids and wetness - euphemisms
Benjamin Barrett
- Eggcorn?
Doug Harris
- Solids and wetness - euphemisms (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Poosaster
Mark Peters
- "gel with"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "by Ving" as topic marker
Arnold M. Zwicky
- semantic drift: "several" = many
Jonathan Lighter
- Kimchi pizza
Benjamin Barrett
- Bees do it: bilingual bees teach humans a lesson
Dennis Baron
- move over, "sleptwalked"
Laurence Horn
- diaper contexts (P.S. on solids, wetness, and euphemisms)
Laurence Horn
- FW: Dap (Dignity And Pride?); Fist Bump; Pound or Fist Pound
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Booboos, owies, and ouchies
Mark Peters
- Our government's grasp of grammar
Mark Mandel
- OT: From The 'Names Parents Lumber Their Kids With' Department
Doug Harris
- skidoosh
Jonathan Lighter
- ADS-L Digest - 7 Jun 2008 to 8 Jun 2008 (#2008-161)
Your Name
- lies, statistics, and Charles Dilke?
Stephen Goranson
- 'Tain't No Use Complainin'
Doug Harris
- "working press"/media query
Barclay Walsh
- atte abrayde
James Harbeck
- Heard on The Judges: "ripping and running"
Wilson Gray
- Dap (Dignity And Pride?); Fist Bump; Pound or Fist Pound
Grant Barrett
- "... enough for government work"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Fwd: "... enough for government work"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- New corpus
LanDi Liu
- Semi-OT: Throwing babies (etc.) in the river
Alex Steer
- Deadline antedates
Dave Wilton
- Fist Bump
Geoffrey S. Nathan
- Fwd: Re: New corpus
Jesse Sheidlower
- "cock" -- a lazy question
Joel S. Berson
- Fwd: Fist Bump
Katharine The Grate
- Which came first: prank call or crank call?
Neal Whitman
- Problem solved for New corpus
Barnhart
- "differ than"
Mark Mandel
- linkrot
James Harbeck
- [OT] McGuinness/margin in Polish Brooklyn
David Donnell
- Queen Mary = wire-rack rolling cart; names of TV shows or characters, used as verbs
Mark Mandel
- defeat to = loss to
Michael Covarrubias
- linkrot THIS ONE FITS SCREEN
Barnhart
- Tim Russert and Red State Blue State
Sam Clements
- Fwd: Re: [OT] McGuinness/margin in Polish Brooklyn
David Donnell
- "bring it on!"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "lexicious"
Joel S. Berson
- No subject
Douglas Wilson
- Urban beachcombing
Benjamin Barrett
- "Hosanna in the hIghest" as understood by a four-year-old girl
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "baby mama" (and the OED) back in the Times
Laurence Horn
- [Antedating] Seditty (1948)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- Saddity, 1894
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- thick on the subject
Marc Velasco
- "call a spade a spade"
Charles Doyle
- Language Log posting
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "bring it on!" minus the "on"
Neal Whitman
- Q: date for "bobalition"?
Joel S. Berson
- labov vs. chomsky -- ultimate smackdown
Arnold M. Zwicky
- bobolition ety ?
Barnhart
- vozme
Tom Zurinskas
- Announcing ADS-M, the email newsletter for the Society
Grant Barrett
- "bujo scam"
George Thompson
- a forerunner to Tom Zurinskas
George Thompson
- Missouri dialect
David Donnell
- call a spade a spade
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- yonder - English or Irish?
Josh Macfelder
- "black as the ace of spades"
Joel S. Berson
- American Speech Table of Contents, June 2008; Vol. 83, No. 2
Grant Barrett
- trump = 'demonstrate'
Mark Mandel
- "hot dog" origin--T.A. Dorgan etymology is still out there
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Calling 'spades' other things
Geoff Nathan
- Antedating of "Hillbilly"
Shapiro, Fred
- "spade" as ONLY a racial slur?
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- fall guy, redux
Marc Velasco
- Southern Baptists
Joel S. Berson
- Robert Darnton's "The Library in the New Age"
Joel S. Berson
- "nuke the fridge"
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Another of Maryland's English-speaking towns poised (from the French) to go English-only
Dennis Baron
- a quasi double modal on ESPN's Baseball Tonight
Laurence Horn
- ADS-L Digest - 18 Jun 2008 to 19 Jun 2008 (#2008-172)
Josh Macfelder
- a quasi double modal
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "Regional speech may be fading, but..."
Laurence Horn
- French Academy sees linguistic diversity endangering national identity
Dennis Baron
- ADS-L Digest - 19 Jun 2008 to 20 Jun 2008 (#2008-173)
Josh Macfelder
- "fall guy" antedating (1895)
Stephen Goranson
- "yonder"
Joel S. Berson
- Irish recruits [Was: French Academy ...]
Joel S. Berson
- Subject: Re: yonder - English or Irish?
JAMES A. LANDAU Netscape. Just the Net You Need.
- Fwd: Re: Irish song -- what century and which war? [Was: "yonder"]
Joel S. Berson
- Fwd: Re: Irish song -- what century and which war?
Joel S. Berson
- fake American dialects (Society Listserv?)
David Donnell
- posts getting garbled (was: Irish recruits [Was: French Academy ...])
Mark Mandel
- Get Smart?
JAMES A. LANDAU Netscape. Just the Net You Need.
- fake American dialects
Joel S. Berson
- Heard on The Judges: "toot powder"
Wilson Gray
- An unexpected occurrence of an ethnic slur
Wilson Gray
- Heard on The Judges: "seldomly" = "occasionally"
Wilson Gray
- halva 1834 antedates OED 1846-
Joel S. Berson
- in USA Today
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Fwd: Sworn to virginity and living as men in Albania
Arnold M. Zwicky
- (Relatively) great news!
Wilson Gray
- fake dialects/accents
Rebecca Shapiro
- "be hit-and-run"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "Articulated" as Verb
Doug Harris
- Etymology of "broad" = [approx.] "gal"
Douglas G. Wilson
- "be hit-and-run" (and Google counts)
Mark Davies
- STAY AT LISTSER
Wilson Gray
- shortcake
Charles Doyle
- Dialects interfere with understanding
Tom Zurinskas
- Dictionary cartoon
Barnhart
- Fwd: Second person singular
Joel S. Berson
- wonk as a verb
Marc Velasco
- Heard on The Judges: "let someone see NP" = "let someone borrow NP"
Wilson Gray
- Syntax Issue
David A. Daniel
- George Carlin and language (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Second person singular
Benjamin Barrett
- Scalia v. the linguists
Laurence Horn
- "banana oil" = nonsense, insincere talk, 1952
Joel S. Berson
- In landmark decision, Supreme Court rules that guns don't kill people
Dennis Baron
- "which" = whose
Jonathan Lighter
- for WOTY: "Talibanization"
Laurence Horn
- Fwd: Re: Second person singular
Joel S. Berson
- Skadoosh!
Benjamin Zimmer
- Second person singular (Spanish)
Barbara Need
- banana oil = nonsense, insincere talk, 1952
sagehen at westelcom.com
- Ragtime and coded slurs in the Chicago Tribune
Barbara Need
- Calling a spade. . . .
George Thompson
- Dialect variation in the Times
Laurence Horn
- "Gay" vs. "Homosexual": bad search-and-replace move
Jesse Sheidlower
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