August 2009 Archives by thread
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- r-less in Gaza
David A. Daniel
- "congressional meat-puppet"..........!
Tom Zurinskas
- rhubard
Herb Stahlke
- error
Herb Stahlke
- marriage equality
Arnold Zwicky
- out in
David A. Daniel
- feeble position
M Covarrubias
- earlobe > earlope
James Harbeck
- An African American proverb (?)
Wilson Gray
- I'd've
Tom Zurinskas
- "Least child"
Bill Palmer
- "pertain toward"; transitive "progress"
Arnold Zwicky
- I'm all about that
Ann Burlingham
- Heard on The Judges: "_for_ to"
Wilson Gray
- least child
Joan H. Hall
- NCTE Public Language Awards -- call for nominations
Dennis Baron
- /t/ allophones - was Re: An African American proverb (?)
Matthew Gordon
- "Black Friday" (day after Thanksgiving), 1951
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- bushmeat
Tom Zurinskas
- beknown
Jonathan Lighter
- more country talk, 1829
George Thompson
- "for to" in DARE
Joan H. Hall
- stymied
Herb Stahlke
- Fwd: Re: beknown
Laurence Horn
- Trivial note on pronunciation: forehead
Wilson Gray
- Stress on "donate"
Tony Au
- BE & TV
Wilson Gray
- Trivial note on pronunciation: forehead (and 'weskit')
Damien Hall
- Trivial note o pronunciation: forehead
Geoffrey S. Nathan
- Heard on The Judges: BIN
Wilson Gray
- WOTY Reference
Baker, John
- Village Voice / "X sucks" (1967)
Benjamin Zimmer
- BE _dah-dah-dah_
Wilson Gray
- "tuchus" hits the mainstream
Mark Mandel
- "don't hold me to that" = "don't blame me for that"
Mark Mandel
- Trivial note on pronunciation: forehead (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "congressional meat-puppet"..........! (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- BE _dah-dah-dah_ (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Internet addiction: deadly pathology or just a nice substitute for TV?
Dennis Baron
- another fake quote
Jonathan Lighter
- how to say this?
Arnold Zwicky
- prion
Charles Doyle
- 196 years o' braggin'
Jonathan Lighter
- "It comes at _the_ fraction of the cost." [NT]
Wilson Gray
- antedating (?) "Cheshire cat"
Stephen Goranson
- More on "moist"
Jonathan Lighter
- FAIL in the NYT Mag
Benjamin Zimmer
- "coming up roses" (OED)
Charles Doyle
- vend n. - backform?
Alison Murie
- A slightly-different wording:
Wilson Gray
- How we spoke back then
Tom Zurinskas
- More on "moist" OT - spelling
M Covarrubias
- Burchfield's Fowler
Arnold Zwicky
- "astroturf" as euphemism?
Laurence Horn
- Obama: National Socialist?
Jonathan Lighter
- M*A*S*H (was Re: More on "moist")
Benjamin Zimmer
- "sexual" (adj)
Joel S. Berson
- "Shape up or ship out"
Charles Doyle
- caron in 1978
Randy Alexander
- caron in 1978 and 1967
Joel S. Berson
- "It was a day like any other."
Jonathan Lighter
- coke a cola
Victor Steinbok
- [SPAM:###] "moist" searches
Arnold Zwicky
- "moist" searches
Arnold Zwicky
- demise
Jonathan Lighter
- Q: "It's" as the possessive?
Joel S. Berson
- "haunting ground" = stomping ground
Jonathan Lighter
- waxing_____________?
Victor Steinbok
- slang
Victor Steinbok
- Fry's English Delight
Damien Hall
- preggers
Damien Hall
- eggcorn?
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Fwd: preggers
Arnold Zwicky
- Eggcorn: "cudboard"
Doug Harris
- cupboard
Alison Murie
- eggcorn "cudboard"
Alison Murie
- New eponym
Mark Peters
- swivel room
Victor Steinbok
- evangelical verbs
Lynne Murphy
- a 1937 "Bobs your uncle"
Stephen Goranson
- Antedating of "Racism"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Racist"
Shapiro, Fred
- Help wanted: Scottish dialect
aallan at AOL.COM
- Cell phones make kids faster, dumber
Dennis Baron
- post-humus? Pronunciation and possible eggcorn
Joel S. Berson
- web of language software update
Dennis Baron
- Weird negation?
Wilson Gray
- Jackson police
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Burchfield's Fowler (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Antedating of "Racial"
Shapiro, Fred
- "at the helm" = playing the most important role?/ "allegorical" = allusive; suggestive; referential
Jonathan Lighter
- Why Is Dick a nickname for Richard
Russ McClay
- slang is mandatory sometimes
David K. Barnhart
- Why Is Dick a nickname for Richard (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- crosspost from LinguistList on kissing in texts
Laurence Horn
- Another name question
Herb Stahlke
- Very OT: woodchuck au vin
Alison Murie
- A Cow's grass in heaven and other items
Peter Grund
- Very OT: woodchuck au vin (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Electronically generated speech with accents (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Woodchuck au vin (Not OT? see last sentence)
Joel S. Berson
- Tinbern barrow
Joel S. Berson
- iller
Victor Steinbok
- trellis table--eggcorn?
Herb Stahlke
- Possible eggcorn
Arnold Zwicky
- Fwd: Re:A Cow's grass in heaven and other items
Joel S. Berson
- An almost eggcorn
Joel S. Berson
- Fwd: A Cow's grass in heaven
Joel S. Berson
- more Chinese-to-English translation fail(ure)
Mark Mandel
- jackpot
George Thompson
- OT: remedial search
Joel S. Berson
- Political dysphemisms
Mark Peters
- due=do
Alison Murie
- another one from a post!
David A. Daniel
- Nutter (was: preggers)
Damien Hall
- Foreboding -- possible eggcorn?
Joel S. Berson
- I don't take lightly to X
Neal Whitman
- "bully pulpit"
Jonathan Lighter
- Tar heels [1846]
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- "opener" as comparative adj.
Alison Murie
- Is this an eggcorn?
Your Name
- certainly not an eggcorn ...
Victor Steinbok
- deixis
Randy Alexander
- Being inebriated
Joel S. Berson
- OED CD
Joel S. Berson
- [C18-L] Help with Latin translations
Joel S. Berson
- Being inebriated; and a question
Joel S. Berson
- on the other hand
Wilson Gray
- Fwd: [lg policy] If You Dance With No Pants, a Well-Defined Body (of Slang) Helps
Damien Hall
- "Brass Ring"
Shapiro, Fred
- "iron-ass"
Jonathan Lighter
- "POPULATION IS GROWING" SAYING
Shapiro, Fred
- a locus classicus for fronted "anymore"
Laurence Horn
- "and which" = of which; and
Jonathan Lighter
- "POPULATION IS GROWING" SAYING (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "mezzotone" = mezzotint
Jonathan Lighter
- Oz--one f or two?
Victor Steinbok
- bang-utot
Jonathan Lighter
- "makebayte" -- the crime of being a, 1652
Joel S. Berson
- hagiopic
Jonathan Lighter
- Chapters on a web site
Barbara Need
- "the whole schlemiel"
Jim Parish
- Rhetoric, department of duplicative redundancy
Joel S. Berson
- wee-weed up
Benjamin Zimmer
- Pickle
David Metevia
- OT, in fact, NT (no topic)
David A. Daniel
- Rhetoric, department of duplicative redundancy (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- wee-weed up (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- OED access (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- First film title in Inglish
Jonathan Lighter
- cut to the wick
Herb Stahlke
- spicket and spigot
Herb Stahlke
- OED access
David Bowie
- Another success (not!) for Google Books search
Joel S. Berson
- "Hobson's Choice"
Shapiro, Fred
- locus classicus for fronted "anymore"
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Pickle(r)
RonButters at AOL.COM
- OT personal note
Wilson Gray
- Crack the door
nwhitman at ameritech.net
- The (former) president's reading lesson
Dennis Baron
- web of language (free) subscriptions now up and running
Dennis Baron
- Glenn Moon Video
Dave Wilton
- Misquoting Homer
Jonathan Lighter
- "deconstruct" = criticize so as to discredit; debunk.
Jonathan Lighter
- Herf?
Michael Quinion
- hopefully/hopedly
Joan H. Hall
- spigot/spicket
Joan H. Hall
- New spam low
Victor Steinbok
- watch = "(of a motion picture) to seem through viewing"
Jonathan Lighter
- New spam low (slightly OT)
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Cheers
Peter McGraw
- eggcorn dynamics
Victor Steinbok
- a new low
Victor Steinbok
- feminine name: "Stuart"
Jonathan Lighter
- Noun "spend" (n.1) does offend
Joel S. Berson
- another eggcorn?
Victor Steinbok
- Warming down (was Re: Crack the door)
Neal Whitman
- "moist..." again
Alison Murie
- South Georgiaisms
Bill Palmer
- South Georgiaisms (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Wikipedia too condemns "moist"
Joel S. Berson
- to "overtake" a computer
Joel S. Berson
- to "overtake" a computer (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Hello!
David A. Daniel
- crash blossom
Chris Waigl
- Los Angeles
Wilson Gray
- California must ban language discrimination
Dennis Baron
- "cow down" = bow down
Alison Murie
- in Filipino English: "glitz" for "glitch"; "presidentiable"
Mark Mandel
- more semantic slidin' around
Jonathan Lighter
- "Norval" ... How do *you* pronounce it?
Wilson Gray
- Early "mis[s]"(1652) as title?
Joel S. Berson
- boost<burst/bust?
M Covarrubias
- "First and Only"
Bill Palmer
- speaking of Norville Barnes...
Victor Steinbok
- "athletic" and schwa insertion
Scot LaFaive
- an interesting obituary
Mark Mandel
- Moot > mute (point) eggcorn redux
Damien Hall
- G.K.Chesterton quotation---appropriate for YBQ?
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "athletic" and schwa insertion (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- visual, n. = "visual impression; appearance"
Jonathan Lighter
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