December 2009 Archives by thread
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- New Academia.edu feature for ADS-L
Richard Price
- OT: The Prison Breaker
Robin Hamilton
- who's ever next
Joan H. Hall
- more on -er (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "Your opinion of me..."
Jonathan Lighter
- burny
victor steinbok
- shamen
Kari Castor
- More on "soft-core pornography" antedating (1961)
Garson O'Toole
- Antedatings from 1754: corner (in whist) 1825-; epergne 1761-
Joel S. Berson
- Language lessons: It ’s time for English teachers to stop teaching that the earth is flat
Dennis Baron
- twinkie defense antedating (23 May 1979)
Garson O'Toole
- Ungendered "he said-she said"?
David Bowie
- "B-----y" and "f------g"
Jonathan Lighter
- forever less one day (copyright term 1998 attrib Jack Valenti) live forever less a day (1917)
Garson O'Toole
- Language lessons: It's time for English teachers to stop teaching that the earth is flat
Seán Fitzpatrick
- Q-Tips for Snowbirds
Murrah Lee
- Cougars, Pumas, and Cheetahs (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- More bad (and I mean bad) language from olden days.
Jonathan Lighter
- gatecrashergate
victor steinbok
- "Hiking the Appalachian Trail"
Shapiro, Fred
- Hiking the Appalachian Trail"
RonButters at AOL.COM
- More bad (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- gatecrashergate & balloon boy
Joel S. Berson
- The culinary significance of accents
Joel S. Berson
- Teabag (was RE: more on -er (UNCLASSIFIED))
Gordon, Matthew J.
- "Keep your eye peeled" slight antedating (1848) "keep your eyes skinned" (1831)
Garson O'Toole
- partycrasher and gatecrasher
David Barnhart
- boo-hoovianism
Jonathan Lighter
- wanly and slavering
Joel S. Berson
- eerie
Jonathan Lighter
- "for" = of
Jonathan Lighter
- floggings will continue until morale improves (1988) firing (1977) no liberty (1966)
Garson O'Toole
- From the annals of bizarre metaphors
victor steinbok
- Bad girls speak
Jonathan Lighter
- OT: Adm. Byng -- reputed or disreputed?
Joel S. Berson
- shawoman
Jonathan Lighter
- Earliest "jazz" composition? (May 18, 1916)
Benjamin Zimmer
- SNAFU
Jonathan Lighter
- Age [was: SNAFU]
Wilson Gray
- Snasu (Situation normal: all screwed up) (1941 Aug 18) (early snafu variant)
Garson O'Toole
- Heard on the judges, with apologies to Wilson
Herb Stahlke
- what
Brenda Lester
- what
Gordon, Matthew J.
- what
Joel S. Berson
- what
Eric Nielsen
- what
Garson O'Toole
- floggings will continue until morale improves
Joel S. Berson
- OED on "Jazz": all jazzed up
George Thompson
- An Expression of Civic Pride
George Thompson
- "spox"
Dan Goodman
- "Keep your eye peeled" slight antedating (1848) "keep your eyes skinned" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- ambiguous sentence example
Neal Whitman
- Heard on The Judges: new-to-me trivial slang variant
Wilson Gray
- Mau-Mauing
Baker, John
- whipping words
Laurence Horn
- Of course, the attached is attached, duh.
David Barnhart
- More information on NE Regional Meeting: April 2010
David Barnhart
- assimilation?!?!
David Barnhart
- penmanship = "authorial skill"
Jonathan Lighter
- WOTY nominee: Salahi, v.
Benjamin Zimmer
- Where's the mondegreen database?
Joel S. Berson
- btdub(s)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Call for papers: American Dialect Society Northeast Regional Meeting, Apr. 14-17, 2010
Grant Barrett
- Your word of the year/decade nominations?
Grant Barrett
- dub
Joan H. Hall
- mondegreens / Jackson beans
Joel S. Berson
- mondegreens & Starbucks
Joel S. Berson
- gump
Randy Alexander
- Pre-Historic Evolution of the Bee's Knees
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedating of "Television"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of Plot "Spoiler"
Shapiro, Fred
- Dub again
David A. Daniel
- tin ear department
Alison Murie
- Antedating Quote "history is written by the victor" (1919)
Garson O'Toole
- Art Hickman, Boyes Springs & Jazz -- long note
George Thompson
- You got your X and you got your Y
Grant Barrett
- attribute . . . as"
Charles Doyle
- yippee, yipee antedating (the exclamation not the political group) (1906)
Garson O'Toole
- "regaling in"
Herb Stahlke
- "scoff" (tr.)
Charles Doyle
- regional "most the CN"?
Laurence Horn
- Odd rhyme claim
Jonathan Lighter
- Say goodbye to the decade with no name
Dennis Baron
- Antedating Proverb "once bit twice shy" (1806) "singed" (1837)
Garson O'Toole
- Fred's list of QOTY
Laurence Horn
- Fred's list of QOTY (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- eggcorn candidate: "center meters"
Laurence Horn
- CATO -- acronym?
wordmall
- Odd rhyme claim - stress
Tom Zurinskas
- hierophany
Jonathan Lighter
- "centre metres" (was: eggcorn candidate: "center meters")
Damien Hall
- "centre metres"
Joel S. Berson
- "center meters"
Joel S. Berson
- A new collective noun: "astonishment"
Joel S. Berson
- "like none other"
Jonathan Lighter
- Dialexicon: map of US accents by county
Damien Hall
- A new collective noun: "astonishment"---(venery)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- OT: Dialexicon: map of US accents by county
Joel S. Berson
- atheist
Herb Stahlke
- Yale Book of Quotations in New York Times
Shapiro, Fred
- Fronted high back vowel /u/
Randall Gess
- BrE/AmE words of the year
Lynne Murphy
- Genesisic
Jonathan Lighter
- rhyme
Charles Doyle
- BrE/AmE "go missing"
Joel S. Berson
- Not-quite new word: snowpocalypse
Alice Faber
- Buzzwords of 2009
Grant Barrett
- pronunciation of letter "t" in USA
Tom Zurinskas
- lexicological progress at the end of the double-aughts
Laurence Horn
- eggcorn alert
Victor Steinbok
- Early 2009 WOTY nominations posted
Grant Barrett
- oops
Laurence Horn
- Affix of the decade
Scot LaFaive
- Neutrality is spreading
Wilson Gray
- Re: [ADS-L] oops
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- new -er
Victor Steinbok
- antedating "black hole" - coined by Robert Dicke?
Jonathan Lighter
- Heard on CNBC
Michael Sheehan
- Heard on NFL Blackhawks vs. Redwings
Michael Sheehan
- "eggnog" roundup
Benjamin Zimmer
- Ben Zimmer in U.S.News
Walsh, Barclay
- Christmas Eve Antedating : "Humbug"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Hooligan"
Shapiro, Fred
- I before E except when it's not
David A. Daniel
- How collaborative is the OED?
Joel S. Berson
- "quick" and "the quick" = living
Joel S. Berson
- What Yiddish usage tells us about American Jewry
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- WOTY candidate: _fracket_
Laurence Horn
- "The whole nine yards of uniform" [1965]
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- slight antedating of Benedictine's slogan
Laurence Horn
- College commencement needs phonetic names of Hooders
Tom Zurinskas
- TSA bans reading on international flights
Dennis Baron
- some key words of the decade
Tom Zurinskas
- The Noughties
David A. Daniel
- Verbs and nouns of the decade in NYT
Damien Hall
- The Cock o' The South
Wilson Gray
- some key words of the decade (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- How collaborative is the OED? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Further Antedating of "Real McCoy"
Shapiro, Fred
- The Quick and the Dead
Eric Nielsen
- Seen in thread on "fracket"
David Barnhart
- doughboy = "British soldier of World War I."
Jonathan Lighter
- Singular or plural?
Bill Palmer
- in/on the cards
Randy Alexander
- Job Opening in Linguistics / Applied Linguistics
Margaret Lee
- Fwd: Ouakaka or Ouakalke
Joel S. Berson
- "gun play"?
Chris Waigl
- Quick meaning alive (was: Heard on NFL Blackhawks vs. Redwings)
David Bowie
- assorted comments
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Fred Shapiro on NPR's "All Things Considered" (12/30/09)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- "equal access"
Joel S. Berson
- Connotation loss
Seán Fitzpatrick
- "equal access" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Art Hickman, Boyes Springs & Jazz
George Thompson
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