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