February 2009 Archives by thread
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- "Break bad": 2; "break nasty": 0
Wilson Gray
- Heard on The Boondocks: "go for the okey-doke'
Wilson Gray
- Nouns into Intransitive Verbs-Hoover and Beaver
Carter Rila
- "Dan Ratherisms"
Carter Rila
- volcano-ologist
Jonathan Lighter
- "close line"
Arnold Zwicky
- New txtspeak dictionary
Damien Hall
- 1955 "-wise" vector; antedatings of "misty" and "Enjoy!"
Jonathan Lighter
- ... is mentioned
Arnold Zwicky
- "stan" = obsessive fan
Benjamin Zimmer
- new excremental proverb
Jonathan Lighter
- "dungarees"
Dan Goodman
- Definition of "Netbook"
Shapiro, Fred
- Punxutawney Phil
Tom Zurinskas
- "Away" > "way"
Wilson Gray
- Australian WOTY nominees (Macquarie)
Benjamin Zimmer
- "(c)overalls" (was: "dungarees")
Damien Hall
- Dungarees
Janet Marting
- Fwd: Re: "(c)overalls" (was: "dungarees")
Damien Hall
- Lyric to Dungaree Doll
Paul
- Lyric to Dungaree Doll -- X rated?
Joel S. Berson
- dangers of dialect
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Origin of the American Use of Dungarees
Carter Rila
- Can a have an A, men?
Rex W. Stocklin
- Can a have an A, men?
Salikoko Mufwene
- Can a have an A, men?
Wilson Gray
- Can a have an A, men?
Rex W. Stocklin
- Can a have an A, men?
Mark Mandel
- Can a have an A, men?
Jonathan Lighter
- Can a have an A, men?
Charles Doyle
- Can a have an A, men?
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Can a have an A, men?
Wilson Gray
- Can a have an A, men?
Rex W. Stocklin
- Can a have an A, men?
Jocelyn Limpert
- Can a have an A, men?
Arnold Zwicky
- Can a have an A, men?
Dan Goodman
- Can a have an A, men?
Margaret Lee
- Can a have an A, men?
Arnold Zwicky
- Can a have an A, men?
M Covarrubias
- Can a have an A, men?
Arnold Zwicky
- Can a have an A, men?
Jocelyn Limpert
- Can a have an A, men?
Arnold Zwicky
- Can a have an A, men?
Jocelyn Limpert
- Fw: [ADS-L] Can a have an A, men?
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- George Carlin: "Modern Man"
Mark Mandel
- hopium
Benjamin Zimmer
- shamockery, shank-a-potamus
Benjamin Zimmer
- take one's lumps (1928)
Benjamin Zimmer
- the toll of inflation
George Thompson
- moment
Victor
- Twitter
Victor
- New Jersey High School bans foreign languages, then eats its words
Dennis Baron
- mustang court; kangaroo court
Stephen Goranson
- rats, correction Re: [ADS-L] mustang court; kangaroo court
Stephen Goranson
- IQ Plunge Spawns Acronym!!
Jonathan Lighter
- Eggcorn? countless > "countly"
Wilson Gray
- Naomi: how is it pronounced?
Wilson Gray
- Israel
Randy Alexander
- porkulus
Benjamin Zimmer
- "Jay walker" etc.: etymology
Douglas G. Wilson
- last laugh on awe-dropping
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- LaGuardia, La Bomba
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Heard on The Judges: "bartend(e)ress"
Scott
- Eggcorn? "warn" > "worn"
Wilson Gray
- talk about dialect restriction!
Laurence Horn
- Naomi (was: how is it pronounced)
Nancy Friedman
- Re: [ADS-L] last la ugh on awe-dropping
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Re: [ADS-L] LaGuardia , La Bomba
RonButters at AOL.COM
- LaGuardia ", La Bomba"
Laurence Horn
- "Viral" as noun for 'viral video'
Mark Mandel
- La
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "bodge"
Joel S. Berson
- LaGuardia, La Bomba 2
RonButters at AOL.COM
- The Sporting News (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- mangled messages
Mark Mandel
- phonetic teaching systems (was "warn" > "worn")
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Re: [ADS-L] mangled messages
RonButters at AOL.COM
- LaGuardia, La Bomba, cabana
RonButters at AOL.COM
- The real (and the realer)
Charles Doyle
- ADS on my blog
Arnold Zwicky
- Duck Duck ... Chicken?
Victor
- No compensatory lengthening in Bostonian?
Wilson Gray
- Emoticons and parentheses
Damien Hall
- "Laid" PPP > "laid" N
Wilson Gray
- Most common sound for words ending in letter "a"
Tom Zurinskas
- [ADS-L] LaGuardia, La Bomba, cabana
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Hi! III
Wilson Gray
- Heard on The Judges: "It's all bad!"
Wilson Gray
- My apologies for Hi! III
Wilson Gray
- upkeep as verb
Hillary Brown
- Second Kennedy Round
Benjamin Barrett
- Fwd: adopt a word!
Benjamin Barrett
- adopt a word!
Benjamin Zimmer
- looking for tim frazer
Edward Callary
- Over 100 words for snow?
Joel S. Berson
- All 40 USA English phonemes (Was Re: Eggcorn? "warn" > "worn")
Neal Whitman
- The Barry White of the Apocalypse
Mark Peters
- Barry Popik sends 1890's information on "Hot Dog"
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Mail order brides
Scot LaFaive
- Re: [ADS-L] All 40 USA English phonemes (Was Re: Eggcorn? "war n" > "worn")
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "Obamasiah" [NT]
Wilson Gray
- Naming conventions for vowel mergers (Was Re: Eggcorn? "warn" > "worn")
Neal Whitman
- letter "a" in unstressed syllables
Tom Zurinskas
- "Coffee" as the name of a female slave
Joel S. Berson
- ADS-L Digest - 10 Feb 2009 to 11 Feb 2009 (#2009-43)
David Bowie
- To "cath"
Wilson Gray
- Wilson brags O.T.
Wilson Gray
- Lincoln the writer at 200: the statesman and orator constantly revised his prose
Dennis Baron
- (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Eggcorn? "warn" > "worn" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- tricks of the trade
George Thompson
- "endorse" as medicalese for '(patient) report (symptom)'
Mark Mandel
- Eggcorn: own goal >> home goal
Damien Hall
- Eggcorn: brute force >> brut force
Damien Hall
- This trend must stop!
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- preposition - zero variation
Arnold Zwicky
- All 40 USA English phonemes (Was Re: Eggcorn? "warn" > "worn") (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "Thousands of cattle"
Wilson Gray
- autogol, 2d try
Laurence Horn
- love pumpkin; secret-spend
Jonathan Lighter
- the fevvers on a frush's froat
Jonathan Lighter
- name droppingness
Benjamin Barrett
- "the reveal"
Arnold Zwicky
- "take by storm" = command the attention of
Jonathan Lighter
- drive it over the hill
Victor
- caninality, felinality, murality
Jonathan Lighter
- Fwd: lol theory
Joel S. Berson
- "East St. Louis Toodle-oo"
Wilson Gray
- lol theory
Wilson Gray
- Surprise
Randy Alexander
- porcinality
Joel S. Berson
- "false accept", "false reject"
Mark Mandel
- Many schwas
Grant Barrett
- Fwd: Y'know, there are typos and there are TYPOS!
Joel S. Berson
- Y'know, there are typos and there are TYPOS!
Jonathan Lighter
- "allatration" 1701, 1724, 1907, and others
Joel S. Berson
- "grind X to a halt" = 'bring X to a standstill'
Benjamin Zimmer
- Eggcorn?: gnashing? > mashing
Wilson Gray
- Expression "hand over fist" -- A History Channel folk etymology?
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- ~
Tom Zurinskas
- Italian spaghetti
Herb Stahlke
- Italian spaghetti again
Herb Stahlke
- making money hand over fist
Amy West
- ~ (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Expression "hand over fist" -- A History Channel folk etymology? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- shred of doubt, benefit of -
M Covarrubias
- extraposition from "it" in object position
Herb Stahlke
- "vegetarian" redux
Arnold Zwicky
- ticktock
George Thompson
- Re: [ADS-L] Surprise
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Dyslexia and English Orthography was "surprise"
Gordon, Matthew J.
- Surprise (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- a right to your own facts
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "quel fromage"
Joel S. Berson
- relative "that" again
Herb Stahlke
- "short-skirt", v. = 'to shortchange, give short shrift to'
Laurence Horn
- "short-skirt", v. = 'to shortchange, give short shrift to'
Neal Whitman
- "short-skirt", v. = 'to shortchange, give short shrift to'
Wilson Gray
- "short-skirt", v. = 'to shortchange, give short shrift to'
Joel S. Berson
- "short-skirt", v. = 'to shortchange, give short shrift to'
Laurence Horn
- "short-skirt", v. = 'to shortchange, give short shrift to'
Joel S. Berson
- "short-skirt", v. = 'to shortchange, give short shrift to'
Laurence Horn
- "short-skirt", v. = 'to shortchange, give short shrift to'
Barbara Need
- /u/: merger vs. split
Mark Davies
- suffice(d) (it) to say
Gordon, Matthew J.
- It's International Mother Language Day -- send your mother tongue a card
Dennis Baron
- de Tocqueville; was Re: ~ (UNCLASSIFIED)
Barbara Need
- Re: [ADS-L] Dyslexia and English Orthography was "surprise"
RonButters at AOL.COM
- not uncommon
Tom Zurinskas
- ADS-L Digest - 20 Feb 2009 to 21 Feb 2009 (#2009-53)
Your Name
- Rare Dialects
David Metevia
- antedating mariguana [marijuana] 1874
Stephen Goranson
- "slurring"?
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Fw: [ADS-L] Dyslexia and English Orthography was "surprise"
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- recall upon
Victor
- Fw: [ADS-L] "slurring"?
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Using/Mentioning Obscene Words
Gerald Walton
- Allegro vs. casual speech (was "slurring"?)
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Careless writing
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "momanem" at the Oscars
Benjamin Zimmer
- Pres. T Roosevelt on spelling reform
Tom Zurinskas
- Barbara Walters
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Survival of the Diverse
David Metevia
- Heard on The Judges: "conversate"
Wilson Gray
- Is "Disaffirm" a Euphemism?
Baker, John
- "shade-tree mechanic", not in (some) dictionaries
Laurence Horn
- "shade-tree mechanic", not in (some) dictionaries
Benjamin Zimmer
- "shade-tree mechanic", not in (some) dictionaries
Laurence Horn
- "shade-tree mechanic", not in (some) dictionaries
Douglas G. Wilson
- "shade-tree mechanic", not in (some) dictionaries
Stephen Goranson
- "shade-tree mechanic", not in (some) dictionaries
Bill Palmer
- "shade-tree mechanic", not in (some) dictionaries
Wilson Gray
- "shade-tree mechanic", not in (some) dictionaries
Laurence Horn
- "shade-tree mechanic", not in (some) dictionaries
Benjamin Zimmer
- "shade-tree mechanic", not in (some) dictionaries
Paul
- "shade-tree mechanic", not in (some) dictionaries
Mark Mandel
- "shade-tree mechanic", not in (some) dictionaries
Gerald Walton
- "shade-tree mechanic", not in (some) dictionaries
Benjamin Zimmer
- "shade-tree mechanic", not in (some) dictionaries
Alison Murie
- "shade-tree mechanic", not in (some) dictionaries
Jeff Prucher
- The MacWheel - not just dicking around
Tom Zurinskas
- ADS-L Digest - 22 Feb 2009 to 23 Feb 2009 (#2009-55)
Amy West
- shade tree mechanics
Amy West
- ety. of "gilligan hitch"
Jonathan Lighter
- pronunciation of "Worcester" (Mass.) (was: ADS-L Digest - 22 Feb 2009 to 23 Feb 2009 (#2009-55))
Mark Mandel
- unrounded [u] versus "barred-i"
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Correction: unrounded [u] versus "barred-i"
RonButters at AOL.COM
- non-ASCII characters in OED
Mark Mandel
- Heard on The Judges: "thug" eggcorn? tip of the slung?
Wilson Gray
- twitterati
Herb Stahlke
- Antedating of "break a leg" (1940)
Sam Clements
- Antedating of "break a leg" (1940)--correction, now 1925
Sam Clements
- Oldest words in English?
Michael Quinion
- Shade Tree Mechanic
Murrah Lee
- Q: Vertically printed text & Google Books
Joel S. Berson
- Steve Parillo's Jerusalem
Doug Harris
- Ethnic-based terms of contempt
Bill Palmer
- house shoes
Paul
- "shade-tree mechanic"
Amy West
- pron of Worcester, MA
Amy West
- antedating of "break a leg"
Amy West
- The incredible shrinking English vocabulary: Evolutionary biologist predicts that some of the words you used today are going extinct
Dennis Baron
- One snowclone to rule them all
Mark Mandel
- chinese whispers
Lynne Murphy
- antedating tib (verb) 1839
Stephen Goranson
- antedating "Molly Maguires" 1844
Stephen Goranson
- antedating (?) "Nip-and-tuck" 1843
Stephen Goranson
- "Soldier"
Bill Palmer
- antedating "scalawag" 1844
Stephen Goranson
- 'Associate' with no PP?
Damien Hall
- Heard on The Judges: BE "down [someone]" = sE "put [someone] down"
Wilson Gray
- pron. of just
Matthew Gordon
- pie alamo
Herb Stahlke
- Song Lyrics Appearing First as Poems
Shapiro, Fred
- antedating "Loco-Foco" 1834
Stephen Goranson
- Re: [ADS-L] pron. o f just
RonButters at AOL.COM
- French folk etymology: bleu-jaune
RonButters at AOL.COM
- WOTY nomination
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Query; was: WOTY nomination
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Syllabic consonants
Geoffrey Nathan
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