September 2008 Archives by subject
Starting: Mon Sep 1 02:01:17 UTC 2008
Ending: Tue Sep 30 22:34:46 UTC 2008
Messages: 734
- "a billion here, a billion there"(correction)
sagehen
- "a billion here, a billion there" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "a billion here, a billion there" (UNCLASSIFIED)
sagehen
- "a billion here, a billion there" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "a billion here, a billion there" (UNCLASSIFIED)
James Smith
- "Airplan"
Wilson Gray
- "all of the sudden"
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- "all of the sudden"
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "at all" = "a tall"
Scot LaFaive
- "at all" = "a tall"
Wilson Gray
- "at all" = "a tall"
Marc Velasco
- "at all" = "a tall"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "at all" = "a tall"
Wilson Gray
- "broke" 'braked'
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "broke" 'braked'
Wilson Gray
- "burlone"
Joel S. Berson
- "burlone"
Joel S. Berson
- "burlone"
Douglas G. Wilson
- "burlone"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "burlone"
Joel S. Berson
- "Crazy quilt" (now 1878, was 1886) -- a tale of discovery and frustration
Joel S. Berson
- "double pocket book", 1739
Joel S. Berson
- "Dude" nickname (1876)
Benjamin Zimmer
- "Dude" nickname (1876)
Michael Quinion
- "Dude" nickname (1876)
Douglas G. Wilson
- "grog"
Joel S. Berson
- "grog"
Michael Quinion
- "grog"
Michael Quinion
- "grog"
Baker, John
- "grog"
Stephen Goranson
- "grog"
Michael Quinion
- "grog"
Joel S. Berson
- "grog"
Joel S. Berson
- "grog" -- not Defoe
Joel S. Berson
- "Grog' from 1761
Joel S. Berson
- "grow" = to further
Jonathan Lighter
- "grow" = to further
Brian Hitchcock
- "Hot Dog" in OED
Shapiro, Fred
- "It ain't no big thang"
Wilson Gray
- "It takes three trees to make a row"
Charles Doyle
- "Lehman"
Wilson Gray
- "Lehman"
Matthew Gordon
- "Lehman"
Mark Mandel
- "Lehman"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "Lehman"
Laurence Horn
- "Lehman"
Joel S. Berson
- "Lehman"
Laurence Horn
- "Lehman"
Wilson Gray
- "Lehman"
Joel S. Berson
- "Lehman"
Joel S. Berson
- "Lehman"
Laurence Horn
- "Lehman"
Tom Zurinskas
- "Lehman"
Chris F Waigl
- "loblolly pine"
Joel S. Berson
- "loblolly pine"
Wilson Gray
- "loblolly pine"
Joel S. Berson
- "loblolly pine"
Mark Mandel
- "loblolly pine"
sagehen
- "loblolly pine"
Wilson Gray
- "loblolly pine"
Joel S. Berson
- "long-term mediocre major-league pitchers"
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- "long-term mediocre major-league pitchers"
Laurence Horn
- "long-term mediocre major-league pitchers"
Charles Doyle
- "long-term mediocre major-league pitchers"
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- "long-term mediocre major-league pitchers"
Laurence Horn
- "made of money": 1781, not 1786
Joel S. Berson
- "mediocre"
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "mediocre"
Laurence Horn
- "mediocre"
David A. Daniel
- "mediocre"
Jim Parish
- "mediocre"
David Bowie
- "On the down-low" > "on the low-low" [NT]
Wilson Gray
- "On the down-low" > "on the low-low" [NT]
Mark Mandel
- "On the down-low" > "on the low-low" [NT]
Wilson Gray
- "On the down-low" > "on the low-low" [NT]
Mark Mandel
- "On the down-low" > "on the low-low" [NT]
Wilson Gray
- "On the down-low" > "on the low-low" [NT]
Mark Mandel
- "or so"
Jonathan Lighter
- "or so"
Mark Mandel
- "or so"
Jesse Sheidlower
- "or so"
Baker, John
- "or so"
David A. Daniel
- "or so"
Laurence Horn
- "or so"
Wilson Gray
- "or so"
LanDi Liu
- "or so"
James Smith
- "or so"
Douglas G. Wilson
- "or so"
James Harbeck
- "or so"
Mark Mandel
- "Process continuum"
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- "Process continuum"
Laurence Horn
- "Process continuum"
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- "Process continuum"
Wilson Gray
- "Process continuum"
Charles Doyle
- "Process continuum"
Laurence Horn
- "progressed" transitive
James Harbeck
- "progressed" transitive
Joel S. Berson
- "rets" = retirees?
Barbara Need
- "rets" = retirees?
Douglas G. Wilson
- "rets" = retirees?
Barbara Need
- "Rock and roll"
Wilson Gray
- "Sambo" 1657, antedates OED 1704-
Joel S. Berson
- "Sambo" 1657, antedates OED 1704-
Baker, John
- "Sambo" 1657, antedates OED 1704-
Joel S. Berson
- "Sambo" 1657, antedates OED 1704-
Baker, John
- "Sambo" 1657, antedates OED 1704-
Joel S. Berson
- "Sambo" 1657, antedates OED 1704-
Wilson Gray
- "Sambo" 1657, antedates OED 1704-
Charles Doyle
- "Sambo" 1657, antedates OED 1704-
Joel S. Berson
- "Sambo" 1657, antedates OED 1704-
Joel S. Berson
- "Sambo" 1657, antedates OED 1704-
Wilson Gray
- "Sambo" 1657, antedates OED 1704-
Wilson Gray
- "Sexual Harassment" in OED
Shapiro, Fred
- "slurvian": WOTD ... 11 years ago?
Joel S. Berson
- "slurvian": WOTD ... 11 years ago?
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "slurvian": WOTD ... 11 years ago?
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "snowball"
Joel S. Berson
- "snowball"
Wilson Gray
- "square" = "dull, rigidly conventional"
Joel S. Berson
- "tooth and neck"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "tooth and neck"
Laurence Horn
- "tooth and neck"
Chris Waigl
- "tooth and neck"
Joel S. Berson
- "tooth and neck"
Doug_Harris
- "tooth and neck"
Charles Doyle
- "tooth and neck"
Laurence Horn
- "tooth and neck"
Laurence Horn
- "war" = brief, if heated, media controversy
Jonathan Lighter
- "war" = brief, if heated, media controversy
Matthew Gordon
- "word to mother" (1985)
Benjamin Zimmer
- "word to mother" (1985)
Wilson Gray
- "word to mother" (1985)
Benjamin Zimmer
- "wore black, or eat green" in 1657 Barbados
Joel S. Berson
- "wore black, or eat green" in 1657 Barbados
Wilson Gray
- "wore black, or eat green" in 1657 Barbados
Baker, John
- "wore black, or eat green" in 1657 Barbados
Joel S. Berson
- "X's widower"
Mark Mandel
- "X's widower"
Laurence Horn
- "X's widower"
Douglas G. Wilson
- "X's widower"
David Bowie
- "X's widower"
Laurence Horn
- "X's widower"
Wilson Gray
- "X's widower"
David Bergdahl
- "X's widower"
Lynne Murphy
- "X's widower"
David Bowie
- 'hood
JAMES A. LANDAU Netscape. Just the Net You Need.
- 'Rock' meaning 'wear' or 'sport'
Neal Whitman
- 'Rock' meaning 'wear' or 'sport'
Jesse Sheidlower
- 'Rock' meaning 'wear' or 'sport'
Charles Doyle
- 'Rock' meaning 'wear' or 'sport'
Benjamin Zimmer
- 'Rock' meaning 'wear' or 'sport'
Arnold M. Zwicky
- 'Rock' meaning 'wear' or 'sport'
Charles Doyle
- 'Rock' meaning 'wear' or 'sport'
Laurence Horn
- 'Rock' meaning 'wear' or 'sport'
Mark Mandel
- 'Rock' meaning 'wear' or 'sport'
Neal Whitman
- 'Rock' meaning 'wear' or 'sport'
Benjamin Zimmer
- 'Rock' meaning 'wear' or 'sport'
Laurence Horn
- 'Rock' meaning 'wear' or 'sport'
William Salmon
- 'Rock' meaning 'wear' or 'sport'
Benjamin Zimmer
- 'Rock' meaning 'wear' or 'sport'
Benjamin Barrett
- 'Rock' meaning 'wear' or 'sport'
sagehen
- 'Rock' meaning 'wear' or 'sport'
JAMES A. LANDAU Netscape. Just the Net You Need.
- 'Rock' meaning 'wear' or 'sport'
Wilson Gray
- 'Rock' meaning 'wear' or 'sport'
Charles Doyle
- 'Rock' meaning 'wear' or 'sport'
Wilson Gray
- 'Rock' meaning 'wear' or 'sport'
Mark Mandel
- (anti-)wheeling
Benjamin Zimmer
- (anti-)wheeling
Wilson Gray
- (anti-)wheeling
Benjamin Zimmer
- (anti-)wheeling
Mark Mandel
- (anti-)wheeling
Grant Barrett
- (anti-)wheeling
Benjamin Zimmer
- (anti-)wheeling
Baker, John
- ...and including?
David A. Daniel
- ...and including?
Arnold M. Zwicky
- ...and including?
Doug_Harris
- ...and including?
Marc Velasco
- ...and including?
Doug_Harris
- ...and including?
Laurence Horn
- ...and including?
Mark Mandel
- ...and including?
Katharine The Grate
- Re: [ADS-L] A nice Southernism . . .
RonButters at AOL.COM
- [ADS-L] Austen and language change
RonButters at AOL.COM
- [ADS-L] more info m adness [Re: compound]
RonButters at AOL.COM
- [hw] v. [w]
Wilson Gray
- [hw] v. [w]
Benjamin Zimmer
- [hw] v. [w]
Wilson Gray
- accusative conjoined subject pronoun on the NYT op-ed page
Arnold M. Zwicky
- accusative conjoined subject pronoun on the NYT op-ed page
Mark Mandel
- adheed
Benjamin Zimmer
- adheed
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- ADS-L Digest - 19 Sep 2008 to 20 Sep 2008 (#2008-265)
Your Name
- ADS-L Digest - 19 Sep 2008 to 20 Sep 2008 (#2008-265)
Your Name
- ADS-L Digest - 19 Sep 2008 to 20 Sep 2008 (#2008-265)
James Harbeck
- ADS-L Digest - 21 Sep 2008 to 22 Sep 2008 (#2008-267)
Your Name
- ADS-L Digest - 21 Sep 2008 to 22 Sep 2008 (#2008-267)
Wilson Gray
- ADS-L Digest - 22 Sep 2008 to 23 Sep 2008 (#2008-268)
Your Name
- ADS-L Digest - 22 Sep 2008 to 23 Sep 2008 (#2008-268)
Wilson Gray
- ADS-L Digest - 22 Sep 2008 to 23 Sep 2008 (#2008-268)
JAMES A. LANDAU Netscape. Just the Net You Need.
- a French folk etymology: bleu-jaune
Mark Mandel
- a French folk etymology: bleu-jaune
Laurence Horn
- Alaskan accents ...
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- A letter to ABC Online News in which the writer quotes himself
Wilson Gray
- A letter to ABC Online News in which the writer quotes himself
Doug_Harris
- Amboy Dukes and other banned works
Joel S. Berson
- Amboy Dukes and other banned works
Doug_Harris
- Amboy Dukes and other banned works
Joel S. Berson
- Amboy Dukes and other banned works
David Bowie
- Amboy Dukes and other banned works
Joel S. Berson
- Amboy Dukes and other banned works
Baker, John
- Amboy Dukes and other banned works
Joel S. Berson
- A nice Southernism . . .
Charles Doyle
- A nice Southernism . . .
Doug_Harris
- A nice Southernism . . .
Arnold M. Zwicky
- A nice Southernism . . .
LanDi Liu
- A nice Southernism . . .
Arnold M. Zwicky
- A nice Southernism . . .
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- A nice Southernism . . .
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- A nice Southernism . . .
Doug_Harris
- A nice Southernism . . .
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- A nice Southernism . . .
LanDi Liu
- A nice Southernism . . .
Charles Doyle
- A nice Southernism . . .
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- A nice Southernism . . .
Wilson Gray
- A nice Southernism . . .
Laurence Horn
- A nice Southernism . . .
Wilson Gray
- A nice Southernism . . .
sagehen
- A nice Southernism . . .
Laurence Horn
- A nice Southernism . . .
LanDi Liu
- anise
Wilson Gray
- A non-AmE-speaker ...
Wilson Gray
- another 1893 Vassar fudge
Stephen Goranson
- Another Early S.F. Baseball Usage of "Jazz"
Shapiro, Fred
- Another Early S.F. Baseball Usage of "Jazz"
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- antedating (?) of "a square" (bore, pest) March 15, 1939
Stephen Goranson
- antedating (?) of "a square" (bore, pest) March 15, 1939
Wilson Gray
- antedating (?) of "a square" (bore, pest) March 15, 1939
Benjamin Zimmer
- antedating (?) of "hep" 1907
Stephen Goranson
- antedating (?) of "hep" 1907
Jesse Sheidlower
- antedating (?) of "hep" 1907
Stephen Goranson
- antedating (?) of "hep" 1907
Wilson Gray
- antedating (?) of "hep" 1907
George Thompson
- antedating (?) of "hep" 1907
Marc Velasco
- antedating (?) of "hep" 1907
Wilson Gray
- antedating (?) of "hep" 1907 (Hip and hep)
Paul
- antedating (?) of "hep" 1907 (Hip and hep)
Wilson Gray
- antedating (?) of "hep" 1907 (Hip and hep)
Paul
- antedating (?) of "hep" 1907 (Hip and hep)
Wilson Gray
- antedating (?) of "hep" 1907 (Hip and hep)
Paul
- antedating (?) of "hep" 1907 (Hip and hep)
Wilson Gray
- antedating (?) of "hep" 1907 (Hip and hep)
Paul
- Antedating of "Co-Ed"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Ethnocentric"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "frog strangler" (1922)
Sam Clements
- Antedating of "Jazz" as Verb
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Jazz" as Verb
Wilson Gray
- Antedating of "Jazz" as Verb
George Thompson
- Antedating of "Jazz" as Verb
Wilson Gray
- Antedating of "Jazz" as Verb
Baker, John
- Antedating of "Jazz" as Verb
Wilson Gray
- Antedating of "Jazz" as Verb
George Thompson
- Antedating of "Jazz" as Verb
Wilson Gray
- Antedating of "Jazz" as Verb
Jim Parish
- Antedating of "Jazz" as Verb
Wilson Gray
- Antedating of "Jazz" as Verb
George Thompson
- Antedating of "Jazz" as Verb
Wilson Gray
- Antedating of "Laser"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of pastrami[1914) and a new? Jewish newspaper database
Sam Clements
- Antedating Uncle Sam (1812)
Loiterstein, David
- Antedating Uncle Sam (1812)
Laurence Horn
- Antedating Uncle Sam (1812)
Shapiro, Fred
- At the Olympics: time reference
Doug Harris
- At the Olympics: time reference
Doug Harris
- At the Olympics: time reference
Doug Harris
- Austen and language change
Laurence Horn
- Austen and language change
Laurence Horn
- Baby's an It (call of the obstetrician?)
Joel S. Berson
- Baby's an It (call of the obstetrician?)
Laurence Horn
- Baby's an It (call of the obstetrician?)
Joel S. Berson
- Baby's an It (call of the obstetrician?)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Baby's an It (call of the obstetrician?)
Scot LaFaive
- Baby's an It (call of the obstetrician?)
Wilson Gray
- Baby's an It (call of the obstetrician?)
Benjamin Barrett
- Baby's an It (call of the obstetrician?)
Laurence Horn
- Baby's an It (call of the obstetrician?)
Mark Mandel
- Baby's an It (call of the obstetrician?)
Laurence Horn
- Baby's an It (call of the obstetrician?)
Benjamin Barrett
- Baby's an It (call of the obstetrician?)
Lynne Murphy
- Baby's an It (call of the obstetrician?)
Doug_Harris
- Baby's an It (call of the obstetrician?)
Mark Mandel
- Baby's an It (call of the obstetrician?)
Laurence Horn
- Baby's an It (call of the obstetrician?)
David Bowie
- Baby's an It (call of the obstetrician?)
sagehen
- Baby's an It (call of the obstetrician?)
Wilson Gray
- Baby's an It (call of the obstetrician?)
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Baby's an It (call of the obstetrician?)
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Baby's an It (call of the obstetrician?)
Joel S. Berson
- Baby's an It (call of the obstetrician?)
Lynne Murphy
- Baby's an It (call of the obstetrician?)
Margaret Lee
- Baby's an It (call of the obstetrician?)
Joel S. Berson
- Baby's an It (call of the obstetrician?)
David Bowie
- Baby's an It (call of the obstetrician?)
Joel S. Berson
- Baby's an It (call of the obstetrician?)
Wilson Gray
- Baby's an It (call of the obstetrician?)
Mark Mandel
- Baby's an It (call of the obstetrician?)
Wilson Gray
- Baby's an It (call of the obstetrician?)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Baby's an It (call of the obstetrician?)
Joel S. Berson
- Babydaddy
LanDi Liu
- Babydaddy
Mark Mandel
- bailout (aviation 1928, finance 1939)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Baseball..what about rounders?
amorelli
- Baseball..what about rounders?
Dave Wilton
- Baseball..what about rounders?
Lynne Murphy
- Baseball is British, oh no!
David A. Daniel
- Baseball is British, oh no!
Shapiro, Fred
- Baseball is British, oh no!
Shapiro, Fred
- Baseball is British, oh no!
Joel S. Berson
- Baseball is British, oh no!
George Thompson
- Baseball is British, oh no!
Paul Johnston
- BE "due to the fact that" & No, no! Not again!
Wilson Gray
- BE "due to the fact that" & No, no! Not again!
Arnold M. Zwicky
- BE "due to the fact that" & No, no! Not again!
Joel S. Berson
- Beau=girlfriend
Leslie Decker
- Beau=girlfriend
Gordon, Matthew J.
- Beau=girlfriend
Wilson Gray
- Beau=girlfriend
James Smith
- bejeebers (1941)
Benjamin Zimmer
- British periodicals in 1775?
Joel S. Berson
- Censure or censor?
Joel S. Berson
- Censure or censor?
Laurence Horn
- Censure or censor?
Wilson Gray
- Censure or censor?
Doug_Harris
- charismo
Jonathan Lighter
- Chinglish
Neal Whitman
- Chinglish
Tom Zurinskas
- Chinglish
Michael Covarrubias
- Chinglish
Tom Zurinskas
- Christmas tree, v. trans.
Benjamin Zimmer
- Christmas tree, v. trans.
Benjamin Zimmer
- Co-working
Benjamin Barrett
- Colorful Comparison
Doug_Harris
- Colorful Comparison
Wilson Gray
- Colorful Comparison
Joel S. Berson
- compound = "to make more difficult"
Jonathan Lighter
- Consonant Cluster Simplification is widespread
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Consonant Cluster Simplification is widespread
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Consonant Cluster Simplification is widespread
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Consonant Cluster Simplification is widespread
Matthew Gordon
- Consonant Cluster Simplification is widespread
Herb Stahlke
- Consonant Cluster Simplification is widespread
Wilson Gray
- Consonant Cluster Simplification is widespread
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Consonant Cluster Simplification is widespread
Herb Stahlke
- Consonant Cluster Simplification is widespread
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Consonant Cluster Simplification is widespread
Tom Zurinskas
- Consonant Cluster Simplification is widespread
Tom Zurinskas
- cool kind daddies, mamas, et al.
Benjamin Zimmer
- Correcting other people's English illegal
Dennis Baron
- Correcting other people's English illegal
Wilson Gray
- Creationalism
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- defeat to = loss to
Wilson Gray
- Descendents = Ancestors, again
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- Descendents = Ancestors, again
Laurence Horn
- Dickensian nightmare
Jonathan Lighter
- double-guess
Jonathan Lighter
- End of the rainbow--LPGA to golfers: speak English or get off the tour
Margaret Lee
- End of the rainbow--LPGA to golfers: speak English or get off the tour
Joel S. Berson
- End of the rainbow--LPGA to golfers: speak English or get off the tour
Marc Velasco
- End of the rainbow--LPGA to golfers: speak English or get off the tour
Arnold M. Zwicky
- English, brought to you tonight by the Republican Party
Dennis Baron
- English, brought to you tonight by the Republican Party
Joel S. Berson
- Fannie Mae/Fanny May (1938)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Fannie Mae/Fanny May (1938) (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- flivver
Stephen Goranson
- Flying Fuck (1932)?
David Marc Fischer
- Flying Fuck (1932)?
Mark Mandel
- Flying Fuck (1932)?
Jesse Sheidlower
- Flying Fuck (1932)?
Joel S. Berson
- Flying Fuck (1932)?
Wilson Gray
- Flying Fuck (1932)?
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Flying Fuck (1932)?
Wilson Gray
- Flying Fuck (1932)?
James Harbeck
- Flying Fuck (1932)?
Joel S. Berson
- Flying Fuck (1932)?
James Harbeck
- Flying Fuck (1932)?
Mark Mandel
- friend, the verb
Marc Velasco
- friend, the verb
Benjamin Zimmer
- friend, the verb
Wilson Gray
- from my inbox
JAMES A. LANDAU Netscape. Just the Net You Need.
- from my inbox
Lynne Murphy
- from my inbox
Andrea Morrow
- from my inbox
David A. Daniel
- from my inbox
Doug_Harris
- from my inbox
Laurence Horn
- from my inbox
Doug_Harris
- from my inbox
Joel S. Berson
- from my inbox
Andrea Morrow
- from my inbox
Doug_Harris
- from my inbox
Joel S. Berson
- from my inbox
Mark Mandel
- fundit (1985)
Benjamin Zimmer
- funjoyment
Hillary Brown
- funjoyment
Wilson Gray
- Further Antedating of "Nitty Gritty"
Shapiro, Fred
- Further Antedating of "Nitty Gritty"
Wilson Gray
- Fwd: "all of the sudden"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Fwd: Medical slang
James Harbeck
- Fwd: Medical slang
Laurence Horn
- Fwd: Microsoftian jargon
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Fwd: My vote for word of the year: unfriend
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Fwd: My vote for word of the year: unfriend
Laurence Horn
- Fwd: My vote for word of the year: unfriend
D Harris
- glottal "y"
Tom Zurinskas
- glottal "y"
Yoram Meroz
- glottal "y"
Wilson Gray
- glottal "y"
RonButters at AOL.COM
- glottal "y"
Tom Zurinskas
- glottal "y"
Yoram Meroz
- glottal "y"
Tom Zurinskas
- glottal "y"
RonButters at AOL.COM
- glottal "y"
Tom Zurinskas
- glottalized intervocalic /y/?
Yoram Meroz
- glottalized intervocalic /y/?
Wilson Gray
- glottalized intervocalic /y/?
Mark Mandel
- glottalized intervocalic /y/?
Wilson Gray
- glottalized intervocalic /y/?
LanDi Liu
- glottalized intervocalic /y/?
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- glottalized intervocalic /y/?
Mark Mandel
- glottalized intervocalic /y/?
Alice Faber
- gonna
Geoff Nathan
- Google Newspaper Initiative
Grant Barrett
- Gov Palin
Marc Velasco
- Gov Palin
Joseph Salmons
- Gov Palin
Tom Zurinskas
- Heard on The Judges: "stay, stayed" > "stay, stood" & BE "stay" = always be in a given condition, etc.
Wilson Gray
- Heard on The Judges: "Wheelie"
Wilson Gray
- Heard on The Judges: BE "not feel" = older StL BE "not appreciate" = sE "not like"
Wilson Gray
- Heard on The Judges: BE "not feel" = older StL BE "not appreciate" = sE "not like"
Dave Hause
- Heard on The Judges: extended version of old idiom
Wilson Gray
- Heard on The Judges: stay, stood
Wilson Gray
- Hi!
Wilson Gray
- Hi!
Erik Hoover
- Hi!
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Hockey-mommin' like Tutankhamun
Jonathan Lighter
- Hockey-mommin' like Tutankhamun
Laurence Horn
- Kaka (not the soccer player)
Joel S. Berson
- Kaka (not the soccer player)
Wilson Gray
- Kaka (not the soccer player)
Marc Velasco
- Kaka (not the soccer player)
Wilson Gray
- Know Jack? Some do, some don't. This Company Do (do)
Doug Harris
- Larry Urdang
Robert Hartwell Fiske
- Larry Urdang
Benjamin Zimmer
- Legislating cruelty -- the origin of the SPCA
Joel S. Berson
- Legislating cruelty -- the origin of the SPCA
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Legislating cruelty -- the origin of the SPCA
Joel S. Berson
- lipstick on a pig
Benjamin Zimmer
- lipstick on a pig
Charles Doyle
- lipstick on a pig
David A. Daniel
- lipstick on a pig
Grant Barrett
- lipstick on a pig
Scot LaFaive
- lipstick on a pig
Scot LaFaive
- lipstick on a pig
Benjamin Barrett
- lipstick on a pig
Benjamin Zimmer
- lipstick on a pig
Joel S. Berson
- lipstick on a pig
Wilson Gray
- lipstick on a pig
Benjamin Zimmer
- lipstick on a pig
Doug_Harris
- lipstick on a pig
Benjamin Zimmer
- lipstick on a pig
Benjamin Zimmer
- lipstick on a pig
David A. Daniel
- lipstick on a pig
Scot LaFaive
- lipstick on a pig
Benjamin Zimmer
- lipstick on a pig
Scot LaFaive
- lipstick on a pig (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- lipstick on a pig (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- LPGA to golfers: speak English or get off the tour
Benjamin Zimmer
- Madman Muntz and TV
Wilson Gray
- Madman Muntz and TV
Doug_Harris
- McCainian "oversight"
Benjamin Zimmer
- McCainian "oversight"
Dave Wilton
- McCainian "oversight"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- more Harlemese (1940)
Benjamin Zimmer
- more Harlemese (1940)
Wilson Gray
- more Harlemese (1940)
Mark Mandel
- more info madness
Jonathan Lighter
- more info madness [Re: compound]
Jonathan Lighter
- more info madness [Re: compound]
JAMES A. LANDAU Netscape. Just the Net You Need.
- more info madness [re statistics]
Joel S. Berson
- National Punctuation Day -- unanticipated here?
Joel S. Berson
- National Punctuation Day -- unanticipated here?
Arnold M. Zwicky
- National Punctuation Day -- unanticipated here?
Joel S. Berson
- NBC (Pea)cocks a Snook At Olympics Audience?
Doug Harris
- new euphemistic replacement
Laurence Horn
- New word? "Clickjack(ing)"
Wilson Gray
- notable quotable on post-retirement plans
Laurence Horn
- notable quotable on post-retirement plans
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- notable quotable on post-retirement plans
Laurence Horn
- notable quotable on post-retirement plans
David A. Daniel
- Odd Speculation from Pentagon
Doug Harris
- Odd Speculation from Pentagon
Doug Harris
- OED Appeals (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- OED Appeals: "rotten apple in every barrel"
Joel S. Berson
- OED Appeals: "rotten apple in every barrel"
Laurence Horn
- OED Appeals: "rotten apple in every barrel"
Charles Doyle
- OED Appeals: "rotten apple in every barrel"
Laurence Horn
- OED Appeals: "rotten apple in every barrel"
Charles Doyle
- OED Appeals: "rotten apple in every barrel"
Laurence Horn
- OED Appeals: "rotten apple in every barrel"
Jesse Sheidlower
- OED Appeals: "rotten apple in every barrel"
Wilson Gray
- OED Appeals: "rotten apple in every barrel"
Laurence Horn
- OED Appeals: "rotten apple in every barrel"
Wilson Gray
- OED Appeals: "rotten apple in every barrel"
sagehen
- OED Appeals List: Nonblocking
Baker, John
- OED Appeals List: Nonblocking
JAMES A. LANDAU Netscape. Just the Net You Need.
- OED September additions for "March"
Joel S. Berson
- Only English... the Yiddish version
David Bergdahl
- Only English... the Yiddish version
Dennis Baron
- Oops
Joanne M. Despres
- origin of quotation (Sucker born every minute/hour/day) (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- origin of quotation (Sucker born every minute/hour/day) (UNCLASSIFIED)
Douglas Wilson
- origin of quotation (Sucker born every minute/hour/day) (UNCLASSIFIED)
Douglas Wilson
- origin of quotation (Sucker born every minute/hour/day) (UNCLASSIFIED)
Wilson Gray
- OT: the cost of living
Lynne Murphy
- OT; politics: Veterans for Obama
Wilson Gray
- Palin's speech
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Palin's speech
Wilson Gray
- Palin's speech
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Palin's speech
Laurence Horn
- Palin's speech
Alice Faber
- Palin's speech
Benjamin Zimmer
- Palin's speech
James Smith
- Palin's speech
Wilson Gray
- Perogative
Benjamin Barrett
- Perogative
Neal Whitman
- Perogative
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Perogative
Benjamin Zimmer
- Perogative
Wilson Gray
- Pig-gate: any way you spin it, lipstick on a pig is politics as usual
Dennis Baron
- Planes in downtown NOLA
Joel S. Berson
- Planes in downtown NOLA
Doug_Harris
- push comes to shove (1940)
Benjamin Zimmer
- push comes to shove (1940)
Wilson Gray
- Query: "marvel" as an 1880 food name?
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Query: "marvel" as an 1880 food name?
Douglas G. Wilson
- R: Re: Baseball..what about rounders?
amorelli
- Re-"uppity"
Laurence Horn
- Re-"uppity"
Wilson Gray
- Re-"uppity"
Joel S. Berson
- Real linguistics (sort of) on CNN
geoffnatha
- Real linguistics (sort of) on CNN
LanDi Liu
- Reversonyms?
Mark Peters
- Reversonyms?
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Reversonyms?
Benjamin Zimmer
- Revisiting 'To Get Along, Go Along" And Variations on Same
Doug_Harris
- Revisiting 'To Get Along, Go Along" And Variations on Same
sagehen
- Revisiting 'To Get Along, Go Along" And Variations on Same
Doug_Harris
- Revisiting 'To Get Along, Go Along" And Variations on Same
Charles Doyle
- Should of etc.
Geoff Nathan
- Skin in the Game
David Metevia
- Skin in the Game
Marc Velasco
- Skin in the Game
Neal Whitman
- Skin in the Game
Douglas G. Wilson
- Skin in the Game
Baker, John
- Skin in the Game
Marc Velasco
- soccer mom (1973)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Source of "better than 50/50 chance of being cured or improved"?
Joel S. Berson
- Source of "better than 50/50 chance of being cured or improved"?
Stephen Goranson
- Source of "better than 50/50 chance of being cured or improved"?
Joel S. Berson
- SpinSpotter
Baker, John
- SpinSpotter
Michael Covarrubias
- SpinSpotter
Laurence Horn
- spotting spin
Arnold M. Zwicky
- square from Delaware (1939)
Benjamin Zimmer
- square from Delaware (1939)
Jesse Sheidlower
- square from Delaware (1939)
Benjamin Zimmer
- square from Delaware (1939)
Benjamin Zimmer
- square from Delaware (1939)
Baker, John
- square from Delaware (1939)
Wilson Gray
- square from Delaware (1939)
Benjamin Zimmer
- square from Delaware (1939)
Douglas G. Wilson
- square from Delaware (1939)
Benjamin Zimmer
- square from Delaware (1939)
Laurence Horn
- square from Delaware (1939)
Stephen Goranson
- square from Delaware (1939)
Wilson Gray
- square from Delaware (1939)
Joel S. Berson
- square from Delaware (1939)
Benjamin Zimmer
- square from Delaware (1939)
sagehen
- square from Delaware (1939)
Wilson Gray
- square from Delaware (1939)
Benjamin Zimmer
- square from Delaware (1939)
Wilson Gray
- square from Delaware (1939)
Mark Mandel
- square from Delaware (1939)
Wilson Gray
- square from Delaware (1939)
Tom Dalzell
- square from Delaware (1939)
Benjamin Zimmer
- square from Delaware (1939)
Baker, John
- square from Delaware (1939)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Square from Delaware, etc
Brian Hitchcock
- Square from Delaware, etc
Laurence Horn
- Square from Delaware, etc
David A. Daniel
- Square from Delaware, etc
Laurence Horn
- Square from Delaware, etc
Joel S. Berson
- Square from Delaware, etc
Joel S. Berson
- Square from Delaware, etc
Laurence Horn
- Square from Delaware, etc
Laurence Horn
- Square from Delaware, etc
Benjamin Zimmer
- Square from Delaware, etc
Laurence Horn
- Square from Delaware, etc
Tom Zurinskas
- Square from Delaware, etc
Margaret Lee
- Square from Delaware, etc
George Thompson
- Square from Delaware, etc
Joel S. Berson
- Square from Delaware, etc --- Spo-KANN
Brian Hitchcock
- street cred (adj. 1979, n. 1982)
Benjamin Zimmer
- street cred (adj. 1979, n. 1982)
Mark Mandel
- street cred (adj. 1979, n. 1982)
Benjamin Zimmer
- street cred (adj. 1979, n. 1982)
Mark Mandel
- sucker born every minute (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- sucktacular
Jonathan Lighter
- swing vote (1944), swing voter (1949), swing state (1952)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Swiss exonerate Europe's last executed witch (1782)
Joel S. Berson
- t/d deletion
Arnold M. Zwicky
- t/d deletion
Tom Zurinskas
- t/d deletion
RonButters at AOL.COM
- t/d deletion
Mark Mandel
- t/d deletion
Arnold M. Zwicky
- t/d deletion
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- t/d deletion
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Tapping
Scot LaFaive
- the cost of living
Doug_Harris
- the cost of living
Lynne Murphy
- The Hathi Trust
Benjamin Zimmer
- The Hathi Trust
Joel S. Berson
- The Hathi Trust
Stephen Goranson
- The Hathi Trust
Benjamin Zimmer
- those consort names again
Geoff Nathan
- those consort names again
Joel S. Berson
- those consort names again
Laurence Horn
- those consort names again
Doug_Harris
- those consort names again
Baker, John
- those consort names again
Joel S. Berson
- those consort names again
Joel S. Berson
- those consort names again
Mark Mandel
- those consort names again
Joel S. Berson
- Those frightful Republicans
Joel S. Berson
- Those frightful Republicans
Paul Johnston
- Those frightful Republicans
Joel S. Berson
- Treacle Tart (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Typo vigilantes answer to letter of the law
Benjamin Barrett
- Typo vigilantes answer to letter of the law
William Salmon
- uppity
Susan Tamasi
- uppity
Gregory McNamee
- uppity
Gregory McNamee
- uppity
Laurence Horn
- uppity
Laurence Horn
- uppity
Charles Doyle
- verbage
Jonathan Lighter
- verbage
Jonathan Lighter
- verbage
Laurence Horn
- verbage
Doug_Harris
- verbage
Joel S. Berson
- verbage
Benjamin Zimmer
- Vocabula Bound 2: Our Wresting, Writhing Tongue
Robert Hartwell Fiske
- Voiceover for a local TV ad
Wilson Gray
- Wapiti, elk and moose
Benjamin Barrett
- Wapiti, elk and moose
Wilson Gray
- Wapiti, elk and moose
Mark Mandel
- Wapiti, elk and moose
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Wapiti, elk and moose
Wilson Gray
- Wapiti, elk and moose
Laurence Horn
- Washington Post on Alaskan accents ... if there is such a thing
William Salmon
- Washington Post on Alaskan accents ... if there is such a thing
Doug_Harris
- Washington Post on Alaskan accents ... if there is such a thing
Andrea Morrow
- Washington Post on Alaskan accents ... if there is such a thing
Tom Zurinskas
- Washington Post on Alaskan accents ... if there is such a thing
James Harbeck
- Washington Post on Alaskan accents ... if there is such a thing
David Bowie
- wasteses
Benjamin Zimmer
- wasteses
Mark Mandel
- wasteses
Bradley A. Esparza
- wasteses
Benjamin Zimmer
- wasteses
Arnold M. Zwicky
- wasteses
Mark Mandel
- wasteses
Arnold M. Zwicky
- wasteses
Mark Mandel
- Websters dictionary mandates no "r" at the end of words
Tom Zurinskas
- Websters dictionary mandates no "r" at the end of words
Paul Johnston
- Websters dictionary mandates no "r" at the end of words
Tom Zurinskas
- what make it so cool (was Re: Zimmer Linguistlist)
Benjamin Zimmer
- what make it so cool (was Re: Zimmer Linguistlist)
Wilson Gray
- What The Hail???
sagehen
- What The Hail???
Doug_Harris
- What The Hail???
LanDi Liu
- What The Hail???
Doug Harris
- What The Hail???
Doug Harris
- What The Hail???
Doug Harris
- Who is Rosetta Stone?
Jonathan Lighter
- Who is Rosetta Stone?
Dennis Baron
- Who is Rosetta Stone?
Wilson Gray
- Who is Rosetta Stone?
Dennis Baron
- Who is Rosetta Stone?
Wilson Gray
- Who is Rosetta Stone?
Laurence Horn
- Words don't lie: semantic mapping of presidential candidates shows what's really on their minds
Dennis Baron
- words of one syllable dept. revisited
Mark Mandel
- words of one syllable dept. revisited
Marc Velasco
- words of one syllable dept. revisited
Neal Whitman
- Words That Don't But SHOULD Exist -- Daily Candy says
Doug_Harris
- Words That Don't But SHOULD Exist -- Daily Candy says
Mark Mandel
- woty
Marc Velasco
- woty
Erik Hoover
- woty
John McChesney-Young
- woty
Marc Velasco
- woty
Joel S. Berson
- woty (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Written by a (spiritual) descendant of Dickens?
Wilson Gray
- Written by a (spiritual) descendant of Dickens?
Joel S. Berson
- Written by a (spiritual) descendant of Dickens?
Marc Velasco
- Written by a (spiritual) descendant of Dickens?
Joel S. Berson
- Written by a (spiritual) descendant of Dickens?
Mark Mandel
- Written by a (spiritual) descendant of Dickens?
Marc Velasco
- Yankee eggcorn
Benjamin Zimmer
- Yankee eggcorn
Benjamin Zimmer
- Yankee eggcorn
Laurence Horn
- Yankee eggcorn
sagehen
- Yankee eggcorn
Wilson Gray
- Yankee eggcorn
Laurence Horn
- Yankee eggcorn
Laurence Horn
- Yankee eggcorn
N2life4
- Yankee eggcorn
Neal Whitman
- Yankee eggcorn
Laurence Horn
- Yankee eggcorn
Mark Mandel
- YBQ in WSJ
Shapiro, Fred
- YBQ in WSJ
Jesse Sheidlower
- YBQ in WSJ
Joel S. Berson
- YBQ in WSJ / "bottle in front of me" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- YBQ in WSJ / "bottle in front of me" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Shapiro, Fred
- YBQ in WSJ / "bottle in front of me" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Gregory McNamee
- Zimmer Linguistlist
Wilson Gray
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