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- "A hard road to hoe"
 
Wilson Gray
 - "A hard road to hoe"
 
Mark Mandel
 - "A hard road to hoe"
 
Herb Stahlke
 - "A hard road to hoe"
 
Mark Mandel
 - "A hard road to hoe"
 
Wilson Gray
 - "A hard road to hoe"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "A hard road to hoe"
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - "A hard road to hoe"
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - "A hard road to hoe"
 
Alice Faber
 - "A hard road to hoe"
 
Laurence Horn
 - "A hard road to hoe"
 
Ann Burlingham
 - "A hard road to hoe"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "Apple likes _jailbroken iPhones_, too."
 
Wilson Gray
 - "Apple likes _jailbroken iPhones_, too."
 
Sylvia Swift
 - "Apple likes _jailbroken iPhones_, too."
 
Mark Mandel
 - "Apple likes _jailbroken iPhones_, too."
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - "as lousy as a coot"
 
Stephen Goranson
 - "as lousy as a coot"
 
Baker, John
 - "as lousy as a coot"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "as lousy as a coot"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "as lousy as a coot"
 
Wilson Gray
 - "as lousy as a coot"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "as lousy as a coot"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "as lousy as a coot"
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - "as lousy as a coot"
 
James Smith
 - "bald case" -- an eggcorn?
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "bald case" -- an eggcorn?
 
Baker, John
 - "bald case" -- an eggcorn?
 
Mark Mandel
 - "beer summit"  -- phrase of the year?
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "bone marror"
 
Laurence Horn
 - "bone marror"
 
Wilson Gray
 - "bone marror"
 
Laurence Horn
 - "bone marror"
 
Damien Hall
 - "bone marror"
 
Geoff Nathan
 - "bone marror"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "bone marror"
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - "bone marror"
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 - "bone marror"
 
Wilson Gray
 - "comparing me of"
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - "congressional meat-puppet"..........!
 
Alison Murie
 - "congressional meat-puppet"..........!
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - "congressional meat-puppet"..........!
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "congressional meat-puppet"..........!
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - "congressional meat-puppet"..........!
 
Dave Wilton
 - "congressional meat-puppet"..........!
 
Dave Wilton
 - "congressional meat-puppet"..........!
 
Ann Burlingham
 - "congressional meat-puppet"..........!
 
Alison Murie
 - "congressional meat-puppet"..........!
 
Laurence Horn
 - "congressional meat-puppet"..........!
 
Alison Murie
 - "congressional meat-puppet"..........!
 
Baker, John
 - "cootie" Australian slang? 1917-18?
 
Stephen Goranson
 - "cootie" Australian slang? 1917-18?
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "Cooty. Lousy..." "in the Great War"
 
Stephen Goranson
 - "Cooty. Lousy..." "in the Great War"
 
JohnPatrick
 - "exterminator" (was Re: "Cooty. Lousy..." "in the Great War")
 
Mark Mandel
 - "fuckery"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "fuckery"
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - "fuckery"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "fuckery"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "fuckery"
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - "fuckery"
 
Russ McClay
 - "fuckery"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "fuckery"
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - "fuckery"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "fuckery"
 
Mark Mandel
 - "fuckery" (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 - "Fung guy"
 
Wilson Gray
 - "Fung guy"
 
Victor
 - "Fung guy"
 
Laurence Horn
 - "Fung guy"
 
James Harbeck
 - "Fung guy"
 
Victor
 - "Fung guy"
 
James Harbeck
 - "Fung guy"
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - "Fung guy"
 
Laurence Horn
 - "Fung guy"
 
Tom Zurinskas
 - "guttural" = of the gutter
 
Alison Murie
 - "guttural" = of the gutter
 
Mark Mandel
 - "guttural" = of the gutter
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - "guttural" = of the gutter
 
Wilson Gray
 - "hiking the Appalachian trail" as a second-order euphemism
 
Laurence Horn
 - "Hiking the Appalachian Trail" redux
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - "Hot Dog" (1893, 1897); Hamburgers & Trilby Sandwich
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - "Hot Dog" (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 - "ice[d] tea" -- and a fourth for ... furze?
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "in phonetics"
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - "in phonetics"
 
Wilson Gray
 - "in phonetics"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "in phonetics"
 
Bill Palmer
 - "in phonetics"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "in phonetics"
 
Scot LaFaive
 - "in phonetics"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "in phonetics"
 
Wilson Gray
 - "in phonetics"
 
Laurence Horn
 - "in phonetics" - golf/gulf
 
Tom Zurinskas
 - "It's _away_ better than fast food! It's Wendy's!" [NT}
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - "It's _away_ better than fast food! It's Wendy's!" [NT}
 
Scot LaFaive
 - "It's _away_ better than fast food! It's Wendy's!" [NT}
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - "It's _away_ better than fast food! It's Wendy's!" [NT}
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - "It's _away_ better than fast food! It's Wendy's!" [NT}
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - "It's _away_ better than fast food! It's Wendy's!" [NT}
 
Laurence Horn
 - "It's _away_ better than fast food! It's Wendy's!" [NT}
 
Laurence Horn
 - "It's _away_ better than fast food! It's Wendy's!" [NT}
 
Wilson Gray
 - "It's _away_ better than fast food! It's Wendy's!" [NT}
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - "It's _away_ better than fast food! It's Wendy's!" [NT}
 
Laurence Horn
 - "It's _away_ better than fast food! It's Wendy's!" [NT}
 
Wilson Gray
 - "It's _away_ better than fast food! It's Wendy's!" [NT}
 
Laurence Horn
 - "It's _away_ better than fast food! It's Wendy's!" [NT}
 
Paul A Johnston, Jr.
 - "It's _away_ better than fast food! It's Wendy's!" [NT}
 
Victor
 - "It's _away_ better than fast food! It's Wendy's!" [NT}
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - "Le-a"
 
Wilson Gray
 - "Le-a"
 
Mark Mandel
 - "Le-a"
 
Wilson Gray
 - "Le-a"
 
Laurence Horn
 - "Le-a"
 
Wilson Gray
 - "mannery"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "mannery"
 
Scot LaFaive
 - "mannery"
 
Laurence Horn
 - "mannery"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "mannery"
 
Scot LaFaive
 - "mannery"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "mannery"
 
Laurence Horn
 - "mannery"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "mannery"
 
Laurence Horn
 - "mannery"
 
Mark Mandel
 - "mannery"
 
Wilson Gray
 - "mannery"
 
Laurence Horn
 - "mannery"
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - "mannery"
 
Mark Mandel
 - "mannery"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "mannery"
 
Wilson Gray
 - "mannery"
 
Mark Mandel
 - "mannery"
 
Mark Mandel
 - "New Journalism"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "New Orleans," pronunciation thereof
 
Wilson Gray
 - "New Orleans," pronunciation thereof
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "New Orleans," pronunciation thereof
 
Mark Mandel
 - "New Orleans," pronunciation thereof
 
Laurence Horn
 - "New Orleans," pronunciation thereof
 
Andrea Morrow
 - "New Orleans," pronunciation thereof
 
Tom Zurinskas
 - "New Orleans," pronunciation thereof
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "Only dead fish go with the flow"
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - "Only dead fish go with the flow"
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - "Only dead fish go with the flow"
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - "Only dead fish go with the flow"
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - "palfrey" = medieval warhorse; charger
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "palfrey" = medieval warhorse; charger
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "palfrey" = medieval warhorse; charger
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "palfrey" = medieval warhorse; charger
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "palfrey" = medieval warhorse; charger
 
Wilson Gray
 - "real-time" = ?(of a message) instantaneous; "palfrey" = medieval warhorse; charger
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "real-time" = ?(of a message) instantaneous; "palfrey" = medieval              warhorse; charger
 
Baker, John
 - "real-time" = ?(of a message) instantaneous; "palfrey" = medieval warhorse; charger
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - "real-time" = ?(of a message) instantaneous; "palfrey" = medieval warhorse; charger
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "real-time" = ?(of a message) instantaneous; "palfrey" = medieval warhorse; charger
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "real-time" = ?(of a message) instantaneous; "palfrey" = medieval warhorse; charger
 
Mark Mandel
 - "real-time" = ?(of a message) instantaneous; "palfrey" = medieval warhorse; charger
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - "real-time" = ?(of a message) instantaneous; "palfrey" = medieval warhorse; charger
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - "real-time" = ?(of a message) instantaneous; "palfrey" = medieval warhorse; charger
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "refrigerator" = "vessel", 1793 & 1803; antedates OED 1824-
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "refrigerator" = "vessel", 1793 & 1803; antedates OED 1824-
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - "signature dish"
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - "signature dish"
 
Laurence Horn
 - "slang" (1746); favorable insults
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "slang" (1746); favorable insults
 
Wilson Gray
 - "slang" (1746); favorable insults
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "slang" (1746); favorable insults
 
Wilson Gray
 - "slang" (1746); favorable insults
 
Jocelyn Limpert
 - "slang" (1746); favorable insults
 
Laurence Horn
 - "slang" (1746); favorable insults
 
Alice Faber
 - "slang" (1746); favorable insults
 
Alison Murie
 - "slang" (1746); favorable insults
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "slang" (1746); favorable insults
 
Wilson Gray
 - "slang" (1746); insults - V. Popular Culture
 
Arun K Raman
 - "slang" etymology (? mere speculation)
 
Stephen Goranson
 - "Take gas"
 
Wilson Gray
 - "terminally" = utterly; extraordinarily
 
Tom Zurinskas
 - "terminally" = utterly; extraordinarily
 
Amy West
 - "terminally" = utterly; extraordinarily
 
Amy West
 - "to ice cream" antedating the OED's 1744 for "ice cream"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "truth be told"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "truth be told"
 
Mark Mandel
 - "Twinterview"
 
Laurence Horn
 - "Twinterview"
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - "Twinterview"
 
Laurence Horn
 - "use" = to write (a line of literary interest)
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "who" vs. "that"
 
Bill Palmer
 - "who" vs. "that"
 
Heather Marie Kosur
 - "who" vs. "that"
 
Laurence Horn
 - "who" vs. "that"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "who" vs. "that"
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - "who" vs. "that"
 
Wilson Gray
 - "who" vs. "that"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "who" vs. "that"
 
Laurence Horn
 - "who" vs. "that"
 
Paul Johnston
 - "who" vs. "that"
 
Lynne Murphy
 - "who" vs. "that"
 
Amy West
 - "who" vs. "that"
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - "who" vs. "that"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "who" vs. "that"
 
Laurence Horn
 - 'Bow' = "introduce"?
 
Damien Hall
 - 'Bow' = "introduce"?
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - 'Bow' = "introduce"?
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - 'Bow' = "introduce"?
 
Joel S. Berson
 - 'grab the wrong end of the stick"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - 'grab the wrong end of the stick"
 
Baker, John
 - 'grab the wrong end of the stick"
 
ronbutters at AOL.COM
 - 'grab the wrong end of the stick"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - 'grab the wrong end of the stick"
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - 'grab the wrong end of the stick"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - 'grab the wrong end of the stick"
 
David A. Daniel
 - 'Jazz" discussed in baseball research group -- supposed musical antedatings in Newspaper Archives
 
Gerald Cohen
 - 'Jazz" discussed in baseball research group -- supposed musical antedatings in Newspaper Archives
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - 'Jazz" discussed in baseball research group -- supposed musical antedatings in Newspaper Archives
 
Sam Clements
 - 'Jazz" discussed in baseball research group -- supposed musical antedatings in Newspaper Archives
 
Gerald Cohen
 - 'Jazz" discussed in baseball research group -- supposed musical antedatings in Newspaper Archives
 
Wilson Gray
 - 'Jazz" discussed in baseball research group -- supposed musical              antedatings in Newspaper Archives (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 - 'Jazz" discussed in baseball research group -- supposed musical antedatings in Newspaper Archives (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mark Mandel
 - 'Jazz" discussed in baseball research group -- supposed musical              antedatings in Newspaper Archives (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Laurence Horn
 - ... another sign of the decline of English
 
RonButters at AOL.COM
 - ... another sign of the decline of English
 
Mark Mandel
 - ... another sign of the decline of English
 
Wilson Gray
 - ... another sign of the decline of English
 
Wilson Gray
 -        Re: [ADS-L] Bogarting, the real story?
 
RonButters at AOL.COM
 - a "visual look"
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - acronym for
 
Chris Waigl
 - acronym for
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - ADS-L Digest - 18 Jul 2009 to 19 Jul 2009 (#2009-201)
 
Your Name
 - ADS-L Digest - 18 Jul 2009 to 19 Jul 2009 (#2009-201)
 
Wilson Gray
 - ADS-L Digest - 25 Jul 2009 to 26 Jul 2009 (#2009-208)
 
Amy West
 - A house of cards?
 
Brian Hitchcock
 - A local use for DARE
 
Wilson Gray
 - Amazon Fail 2.0: Bookseller's Big Brother removes Orwell's Big Brother from Kindles everywhere
 
Dennis Baron
 - An African American proverb (?)
 
Charles Doyle
 - An African American proverb (?)
 
Joel S. Berson
 - A new direction for Gresham's Law
 
Joel S. Berson
 - annother  reign = rein
 
Alison Murie
 - another connective "which"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - another connective "which"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - another connective "which"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - another connective "which"
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - antedating (?) coot, cooty (cootie, vermin...) 1916
 
Stephen Goranson
 - Antedating of Hall of Fame
 
Baker, John
 - Assertion:  Earliest "ice-tea" is 1842
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Assertion:  Earliest "ice-tea" is 1842
 
Victor
 - Assertion:  Earliest "ice-tea" is 1842
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Assertion: Earliest "ice-tea" is 1842
 
Wilson Gray
 - Assorted comments
 
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
 - Assorted comments
 
Victor
 - avuncular (1823)
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - avuncular (formerly 1823)
 
Joel S. Berson
 - avuncular (formerly 1823)
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - avuncular (formerly 1823)
 
Mark Mandel
 - avuncular (formerly 1823)
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - Awesome linguistic gymnastics
 
Bill Palmer
 - Awesome linguistic gymnastics
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Awesome linguistic gymnastics
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Awesome linguistic gymnastics
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - Awesome linguistic gymnastics
 
John McChesney-Young
 - bangomen
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - bangomen
 
Joel S. Berson
 - bangomen
 
Amy West
 - bangomen
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - bangomen
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - bangomen
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - bangomen
 
Joel S. Berson
 - bangomen
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - BBC Text Spelling
 
Tom Zurinskas
 - BBC Text Spelling
 
Tom Zurinskas
 - bidirectional slip of the tongue
 
Mark Mandel
 - black talk, 1825
 
George Thompson
 - black talk, 1825
 
Wilson Gray
 - Blind, Deaf, and Haw [sp]
 
Michael Sheehan
 - Blow smoke up someone's ass
 
Michael Sheehan
 - Blow smoke up someone's ass
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Blow smoke up someone's ass
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - Blow smoke up someone's ass
 
Sam Clements
 - Blow smoke up someone's ass
 
Margaret Lee
 - Blow smoke up someone's ass
 
Randy Alexander
 - Blow smoke up someone's ass
 
Wilson Gray
 - Blow smoke up someone's ass
 
Victor
 - Blow smoke up someone's ass
 
Laurence Horn
 - Bogarting
 
Ron Silliman
 - Bogarting
 
Wilson Gray
 - Bogarting, the REAL real story
 
RonButters at AOL.COM
 - Bogarting, the real story?
 
ronbutters at AOL.COM
 - Bogarting, the real story?
 
David A. Daniel
 - Bogarting, the real story?
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Bogarting, the real story?
 
Dave Wilton
 - Bogarting, the real story?
 
Scot LaFaive
 - Chanel protects its trademark
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - classical malapropism / mishearing
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - classical malapropism / mishearing
 
Mark Mandel
 - classical malapropism / mishearing
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - cootie catchers
 
Joel S. Berson
 - cooties
 
Joel S. Berson
 - cooties
 
Bill Palmer
 - cooties
 
Joel S. Berson
 - cooties
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - cooties
 
Laurence Horn
 - cooties
 
Geoff Nathan
 - cooties
 
Amy West
 - cooties
 
Joel S. Berson
 - cooties
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - cooties
 
Alice Faber
 - cooties
 
Sam Clements
 - cooties
 
Geoffrey Nathan
 - cooties
 
Seán Fitzpatrick
 - country talk, 1829
 
George Thompson
 - courie(d)
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - cry fowl
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - cry fowl
 
George Thompson
 - Dagger
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Dagger
 
Mark Mandel
 - Dagger
 
Geoff Nathan
 - Discussion on clerihews
 
Randy Alexander
 - doing stupid
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - doing stupid
 
Laurence Horn
 - doing stupid
 
Laurence Horn
 - doing stupid
 
Joel S. Berson
 - doing stupid
 
Laurence Horn
 - doing stupid
 
Alison Murie
 - doing stupid
 
Laurence Horn
 - doing stupid
 
Alison Murie
 - doing stupid
 
Wilson Gray
 - doing stupid -- but it's not sex
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Double passives (was Re: "long" and "short" vowels)
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - dragged/dredged eggcorn?
 
Victor
 - dragged/dredged eggcorn?
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - Dueling dialects
 
Wilson Gray
 - Dueling dialects
 
James Harbeck
 - Dueling dialects
 
Wilson Gray
 - Dueling dialects
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - Dueling dialects
 
Alison Murie
 - Dueling dialects
 
Wilson Gray
 - Dueling dialects
 
Wilson Gray
 - Dueling dialects
 
Laurence Horn
 - Eggcorn
 
Wilson Gray
 - Eggcorn
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - Eggcorn
 
ronbutters at AOL.COM
 - Eggcorn
 
Laurence Horn
 - Eggcorn
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - Eggcorn
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - Eggcorn
 
Laurence Horn
 - Eggcorn
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - Eggcorn
 
Chris Waigl
 - Eggcorn
 
ronbutters at AOL.COM
 - Eggcorn
 
ronbutters at AOL.COM
 - Eggcorn
 
Wilson Gray
 - Eggcorn
 
Doug Harris
 - Eggcorn?
 
Wilson Gray
 - Eggcorn?
 
Laurence Horn
 - Eggcorn?
 
Mark Mandel
 - error
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - Explosive eggcorn
 
Bill Palmer
 - Explosive eggcorn
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - Explosive eggcorn
 
Chris Waigl
 - Fail as an adjective
 
Karl Hagen
 - Fail as an adjective
 
Lynne Murphy
 - Fail as an adjective
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Fail as an adjective
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - Fail as an adjective
 
Karl Hagen
 - Fail as an adjective
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - Fail as an adjective
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Fail as an adjective
 
Karl Hagen
 - Fail as an adjective
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - Fail as an adjective
 
Mark Mandel
 - Fail as an adjective
 
Karl Hagen
 - Fail as an adjective
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Fail as an adjective
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Fail as an adjective
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - Fail as an adjective
 
Gerald Cohen
 - Fail as an adjective
 
ronbutters at AOL.COM
 - Fail as an adjective
 
Kari Castor
 - first ever!
 
Victor
 - first ever!
 
Laurence Horn
 - first ever!
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - first ever!
 
Victor
 - first ever!
 
Mark Mandel
 - first ever!
 
Laurence Horn
 - first ever!
 
Seán Fitzpatrick
 - first ever!
 
Joel S. Berson
 - first ever!
 
Mark Mandel
 - frienemies
 
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
 - frienemies, to bogart
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - frienemies, to bogart
 
Victor
 - frienemies, to bogart
 
Wilson Gray
 - Fucking shut the fuck up
 
Russ McClay
 - Fucking shut the fuck up
 
Russ McClay
 - Fucking shut the fuck up
 
Paul A Johnston, Jr.
 - Fucking shut the fuck up
 
Dennis Baron
 - Fucking shut the fuck up
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - Fucking shut the fuck up
 
Alice Faber
 - Fucking shut the fuck up
 
Laurence Horn
 - Fucking shut the fuck up
 
Barbara Need
 - Fucking shut the fuck up
 
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
 - Fucking shut the fuck up
 
Laurence Horn
 - Fwd:
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - Fwd: 'Bow' = "introduce"?
 
Damien Hall
 - Fwd: [ADS-L] The eighteenth century, academia, and Gresham's Law
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Fwd: drinking kool-ade
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - Fwd: drinking kool-ade
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - Fwd: Eggcorn
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - Fwd: Eggcorn
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Fwd: New book from McGill-Queen's Univ. Pr.
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - Fwd: sound/meaning interaction in English words
 
Grant Barrett
 - Haverhill and tonic
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Haverhill and tonic
 
Wilson Gray
 - Heard on The Judges: eggcorn.
 
Wilson Gray
 - Heard on The Judges: eggcorn.
 
Laurence Horn
 - Heard on The Judges: eggcorn.
 
Alison Murie
 - Heard on The Judges: eggcorn.
 
Mark Mandel
 - Heard on The Judges: new extension?
 
Wilson Gray
 - Heard on The Judges: new extension?
 
Laurence Horn
 - Heard on The Judges: new extension?
 
Laurence Horn
 - Heard on The Judges: new extension?
 
Wilson Gray
 - Heard on the street:
 
Wilson Gray
 - Heard on the street:
 
Geoff Nathan
 - how to represent a phoneme
 
Tom Zurinskas
 - how to represent a phoneme
 
Damien Hall
 - how to represent a phoneme
 
ronbutters at AOL.COM
 - how to represent a phoneme
 
Damien Hall
 - HTML and avuncular (formerly 1823)
 
Joel S. Berson
 - I'd've
 
Tom Zurinskas
 - I'd've
 
Laurence Horn
 - I'd've
 
Neal Whitman
 - I'd've
 
Tom Zurinskas
 - ick [Was: to bogart]
 
Joel S. Berson
 - ick [Was: to bogart]
 
Mark Mandel
 - ick [Was: to bogart]
 
Wilson Gray
 - ick [Was: to bogart]
 
Bill Palmer
 - ick [Was: to bogart]
 
Sam Clements
 - ick [Was: to bogart]
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - ick [Was: to bogart]
 
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
 - ick [Was: to bogart]
 
Laurence Horn
 - ick [Was: to bogart]
 
Wilson Gray
 - ick [Was: to bogart]
 
Bill Palmer
 - ick [Was: to bogart]
 
Alison Murie
 - ick [Was: to bogart]
 
Mark Mandel
 - ick [Was: to bogart]
 
Wilson Gray
 - ick [Was: to bogart]
 
Laurence Horn
 - ick [Was: to bogart]
 
Wilson Gray
 - ick [Was: to bogart]
 
Sam Clements
 - infefeferno
 
Joel S. Berson
 - interstate highway to Cupertino?
 
Laurence Horn
 - interstate highway to Cupertino?
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - interstate highway to Cupertino?
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - interstate highway to Cupertino?
 
Victor
 - interstate highway to Cupertino?
 
Laurence Horn
 - interstate highway to Cupertino?
 
Geoff Nathan
 - interstate highway to Cupertino?
 
Laurence Horn
 - interstate highway to Cupertino?
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - interstate highway to Cupertino?
 
Joel S. Berson
 - interstate highway to Cupertino?
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - interstate highway to Cupertino?
 
Victor
 - Intransitive 'fraught' one more time...
 
Geoff Nathan
 - Irish joke
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - Irish joke
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Irish joke
 
Wilson Gray
 - London area: jog 'hedgehog' (was Re: urchin)
 
Mark Mandel
 - madeleine (cake) Fr. 1755
 
Stephen Goranson
 - Marais and Miranda
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Marais and Miranda
 
Wilson Gray
 - Marais and Miranda
 
Geoff Nathan
 - momentary misreading
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - Monkey grammar
 
Dennis Baron
 - Monkey grammar
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Monkey grammar
 
Wilson Gray
 - Monkey grammar
 
Joel S. Berson
 - More "cut ice" vs. "cut figure"
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - more black talk. 1826; with some white talk
 
George Thompson
 - more black talk. 1826; with some white talk
 
Joel S. Berson
 - more black talk. 1826; with some white talk
 
Wilson Gray
 - motherese
 
Tom Zurinskas
 - New formal definition of cloud computing
 
Victor
 - New formal definition of cloud computing
 
Mark Mandel
 - New formal definition of cloud computing
 
Geoff Nathan
 - New Orleans, again
 
Wilson Gray
 - next and last
 
Joel S. Berson
 - non-chuck (1972), nunchuck (1974)
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - non-chuck (1972), nunchuck (1974)
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - non-chuck (1972), nunchuck (1974)
 
Victor
 - non-chuck (1972), nunchuck (1974)
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - non-chuck (1972), nunchuck (1974)
 
Victor
 - non-chuck (1972), nunchuck (1974)
 
Victor
 - non-chuck (1972), nunchuck (1974)
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - non-chuck (1972), nunchuck (1974)
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - No Spin zone
 
Bill Palmer
 - No Spin zone
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - No Spin zone
 
Laurence Horn
 - No Spin zone
 
Baker, John
 - No Spin zone (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 - No subject
 
Mark Mandel
 - No subject
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - No subject
 
Wilson Gray
 - NYT avoidance
 
Victor
 - One "sponsored link" I don't trust
 
Mark Mandel
 - One "sponsored link" I don't trust
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - OT (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 - OT (was Re: Monkey grammar)
 
Mark Mandel
 - OT (was Re: Monkey grammar)
 
Joel S. Berson
 - OT (was Re: Monkey grammar)
 
Victor
 - OT: "Ai kama zimba zimba zayo"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - OT: "Ai kama zimba zimba zayo"
 
Wilson Gray
 - OT: "Ai kama zimba zimba zayo"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - OT: "Ai kama zimba zimba zayo"
 
Mark Mandel
 - OT: "Ai kama zimba zimba zayo"
 
Wilson Gray
 - OT: "Ai kama zimba zimba zayo"
 
Mark Mandel
 - OT: "Ai kama zimba zimba zayo"
 
Wilson Gray
 - OT: "Ai kama zimba zimba zayo"
 
Mark Mandel
 - OT: "Ai kama zimba zimba zayo"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - OT:  "It's _away_ better than fast food! It's Wendy's!" [NT}
 
Joel S. Berson
 - OT: "sour lesson" a calque of German idiom?
 
Amy West
 - OT: "sour lesson" a calque of German idiom?
 
Chris Waigl
 - OT: Barnaby (was Re: Pairing "biased" media)
 
Mark Mandel
 - OT: Marais and Miranda
 
Joel S. Berson
 - OT:  Missing from the National Archives
 
Joel S. Berson
 - OT:  Missing from the National Archives
 
Alison Murie
 - Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang [1992, 2005] ...
 
Wilson Gray
 - Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang [1992, 2005] ...
 
Mark Mandel
 - Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang [1992, 2005] ...
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang [1992, 2005] ...
 
Wilson Gray
 - Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang [1992, 2005] ...
 
Mark Mandel
 - Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang [1992, 2005] ...
 
Laurence Horn
 - Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang [1992, 2005] ...
 
Wilson Gray
 - Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang [1992, 2005] ...
 
Mark Mandel
 - Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang [1992, 2005] ...
 
Charles Doyle
 - Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang [1992, 2005] ...
 
Randy Alexander
 - Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang [1992, 2005] ...
 
Alison Murie
 - Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang [1992, 2005] ...
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - Pairing "biased" media
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Pairing "biased" media
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Pairing "biased" media
 
Victor
 - Pairing "biased" media
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Pairing "biased" media
 
Wilson Gray
 - Pairing "biased" media
 
ronbutters at AOL.COM
 - Pairing "biased" media
 
Baker, John
 - Pairing "biased" media
 
George Thompson
 - Pairing "biased" media
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Pairing "biased" media
 
Mark Mandel
 - Pairing "biased" media
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Pairing "biased" media
 
Tom Zurinskas
 - parsing issues
 
Victor
 - perfect synonyms
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - perfect synonyms
 
Jim Parish
 - perfect synonyms
 
Joel S. Berson
 - perfect synonyms
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - perfect synonyms
 
Victor
 - perfect synonyms
 
Joel S. Berson
 - perfect synonyms
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - perfect synonyms
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - perfect synonyms
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - perfect synonyms
 
Wilson Gray
 - perfect synonyms
 
Lynne Murphy
 - perfect synonyms
 
Laurence Horn
 - perfect synonyms (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 - perfect synonyms (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 - perfect synonyms--chamber pot
 
Margaret Lee
 - perfect synonyms--chamber pot
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - perfect synonyms--chamber pot
 
Wilson Gray
 - perfect synonyms--chamber pot
 
Barbara Need
 - perfect synonyms--chamber pot
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Piece for Slate on "anchorman"
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - PM and "Barnaby"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - PM and "Barnaby"
 
Wilson Gray
 - PM and "Barnaby" (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 - PM and "Barnaby" (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Wilson Gray
 - Political language
 
Bill Palmer
 - Political language
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Political language
 
Joel S. Berson
 - privy = latrine = privy?
 
Joel S. Berson
 - privy = latrine = privy?
 
Wilson Gray
 - privy = latrine = privy?
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - pronunciation of New Orleans
 
Janis Vizier Nihart
 - pronunciation spelling, respelling, BBC text spelling, BBC phonetic (modified) spelling
 
Tom Zurinskas
 - Proof of Sapir-Whorf!
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Q:  "iced tea" -- 18th century?
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Q:  "Your review ... will shortly be behind me"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Q:  "Your review ... will shortly be behind me"
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - Q: Best source for debunking 1904 "iced tea"?
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Q: Best source for debunking 1904 "iced tea"?
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - Q: Best source for debunking 1904 "iced tea"?
 
Laurence Horn
 - Q: Best source for debunking 1904 "iced tea"?
 
Mark Mandel
 - Q: Best source for debunking 1904 "iced tea"?
 
Laurence Horn
 - r-less in Gaza
 
Ischool
 - r-less in Gaza
 
David A. Daniel
 - r-less in Gaza
 
Mark Mandel
 - r-less in Gaza
 
David A. Daniel
 - r-less in Gaza
 
Mark Mandel
 - Rappin' and Stylin' Out
 
Wilson Gray
 - Rappin' and Stylin' Out
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Rappin' and Stylin' Out
 
Wilson Gray
 - Rappin' and Stylin' Out
 
Margaret Lee
 - Rein/range/reign
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Reporter's query on "give the shirt off one's back"
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - Reporter's query on "give the shirt off one's back"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Reporter's query on "give the shirt off one's back"
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - Request:  1971 cartoon with "la grande pomme" (The Big Apple)
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - Request:  1971 cartoon with "la grande pomme" (The Big Apple)
 
David A. Daniel
 - RES-ISLAND
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - RES-ISLAND
 
David A. Daniel
 - RES-ISLAND
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - RES-ISLAND
 
Mark Mandel
 - RES-ISLAND
 
Randy Alexander
 - Researchers find swearing has health (and productivity) benefits
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Researchers find swearing has health benefits
 
Dennis Baron
 - Researchers find swearing has health benefits
 
Laurence Horn
 - Researchers find swearing has health benefits
 
Dennis Baron
 - rhubard
 
Victor
 - secesh (1862); nickel [coin] (1863); Knight of the Golden Circle (1863); black-snake [Republican] (1863)
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - sharing
 
Randy Alexander
 - sharing
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - sharing
 
Mark Mandel
 - sharing
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - sharing
 
Mark Mandel
 - sharing
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - sharing
 
Mark Mandel
 - sharing
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - sharing
 
Mark Mandel
 - sharing
 
Wilson Gray
 - shirting
 
Joel S. Berson
 - shkeevy; bubbies; more!
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - shkeevy; bubbies; more!
 
Mark Mandel
 - shkeevy; bubbies; more!
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - shkeevy; bubbies; more!
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - shkeevy; bubbies; more!
 
Laurence Horn
 - shkeevy; bubbies; more!
 
Wilson Gray
 - shkeevy; bubbies; more!
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - shkeevy; bubbies; more!
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - shkeevy; bubbies; more!
 
Mark Mandel
 - shkeevy; bubbies; more!
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - shkeevy; bubbies; more!
 
Laurence Horn
 - slang...
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - slapjack
 
Joel S. Berson
 - slapjack
 
Wilson Gray
 - slapjack
 
Paul
 - Sociolinguistc rule?
 
Wilson Gray
 - sound/meaning interaction in English words
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - stOr@ Drive
 
Joel S. Berson
 - stOr@ Drive
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - stOr@ Drive
 
Laurence Horn
 - stOr@ Drive
 
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
 - stOr@ Drive
 
Laurence Horn
 - stOr@ Drive
 
Victor
 - strangled
 
Tom Zurinskas
 - strangled
 
Dave Wilton
 - strangled
 
Wilson Gray
 - strangled
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - strangled
 
Joel S. Berson
 - strangled
 
Laurence Horn
 - strangled
 
ronbutters at AOL.COM
 - strangled
 
Scot LaFaive
 - strangled
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - strangled
 
Wilson Gray
 - strangled
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Supporters of official English in the United States can learn from Slovakia
 
Dennis Baron
 - Supporters of official English in the United States can learn from Slovakia
 
Mark Mandel
 - Supporters of official English in the United States can learn from Slovakia
 
Wilson Gray
 - Supporters of official English in the United States can learn from Slovakia
 
Tom Zurinskas
 - Supporters of official English in the United States can learn from Slovakia
 
Barbara Need
 - that = "where"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - that = "where"
 
Laurence Horn
 - that = "where"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - The devil and the best tunes
 
Joel S. Berson
 - The devil and the best tunes
 
Joel S. Berson
 - The Don's early light.
 
Tom Zurinskas
 - The eighteenth century, academia, and Gresham's Law
 
Joel S. Berson
 - the pronunciation of "patio"
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - the pronunciation of "patio"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - the pronunciation of "patio"
 
Mark Mandel
 - the pronunciation of "patio"
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - the pronunciation of "patio"
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - the pronunciation of "patio"
 
Laurence Horn
 - the pronunciation of "patio"
 
Alison Murie
 - the pronunciation of "patio"
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - the pronunciation of "patio"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - the pronunciation of "patio"
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - the pronunciation of "patio"
 
Tom Zurinskas
 - Things that crawl inside you
 
Joel S. Berson
 - This'un's prolly old as me: "unkempt" > "unkept" [No Text]
 
Wilson Gray
 - This week / Next Week,  Anymore <-> Nowadays
 
Guy Letourneau
 - This week / Next Week,  Anymore <-> Nowadays
 
Laurence Horn
 - to bogart
 
Joel S. Berson
 - to bogart
 
Joel S. Berson
 - to bogart
 
Alison Murie
 - two cliches
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - two cliches
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - two cliches
 
Wilson Gray
 - two cliches
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - urchin
 
Clai Rice
 - urchin
 
Amy West
 - urchin
 
George Thompson
 - urchin
 
Joel S. Berson
 - urchin
 
Laurence Horn
 - urchin
 
Wilson Gray
 - urchin
 
Tom Zurinskas
 - vivacious
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - vivacious
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - vivacious
 
Benjamin Zimmer
 - vivacious
 
Wilson Gray
 - vivacious
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - vivacious
 
Laurence Horn
 - vivacious
 
ronbutters at AOL.COM
 - vivacious
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - Wackipedia goes Anglish!
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Wackipedia goes Anglish!
 
Wilson Gray
 - Wackipedia goes Anglish!
 
Mark Mandel
 - Wackipedia goes Anglish!
 
Wilson Gray
 - What does SOTA mean?
 
Joel S. Berson
 - What does SOTA mean?
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - What does SOTA mean?
 
Joel S. Berson
 - What does SOTA mean?
 
Mark Mandel
 - When you think you have a really crappy job
 
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
 - which idioma?
 
Mark Mandel
 - Why English needs protection: an example
 
Wilson Gray
 - wikipedia pronunciation
 
Tom Zurinskas
 - wikipedia pronunciation
 
David Bowie
 - wikipedia pronunciation
 
Scot LaFaive
 - wikipedia pronunciation
 
Tom Zurinskas
 - wikipedia pronunciation
 
Laurence Horn
 - wikipedia pronunciation
 
Tom Zurinskas
 - Yet another sign of the decline of English
 
Wilson Gray
    
 
    
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