March 2009 Archives by thread
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- pron. of just
M Covarrubias
- Re: [ADS-L] pron. o f just
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Re: [ADS-L] French folk etymology: bleu-jaune
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Song Lyrics Appearing First as Poems
Laurence Horn
- WOTY nomination
Mark Mandel
- French folk etymology: bleu-jaune
Mark Mandel
- pie alamo
Mark Mandel
- Paul Harvey obit (not off topic)
Mark Mandel
- British scientists warn, if Facebook doesn't kill you, it'll drive you nuts
Dennis Baron
- Ethnic-based terms of contempt
Wilson Gray
- *correction*! Re: [ADS-L] antedating "Loco-Foco" 1834
Stephen Goranson
- antedating honk-a-tonk 1890
Stephen Goranson
- Wiskinkie etymology
Stephen Goranson
- pron. of just, etc.
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- "Soldier"
Jonathan Lighter
- Oldest words in English?
Jonathan Lighter
- what is a schwa? (was "just")
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Change My Subscription to The ADS List
Carter Rila
- Snow
Bill Palmer
- Assorted comments
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Paul Harvey Re Ducks
Doug Harris
- ADS-L Digest - 27 Feb 2009 to 28 Feb 2009 (#2009-60)
Your Name
- quare
George Thompson
- Toward more picturesque Congressional speech
Jonathan Lighter
- Aengus and X's for kisses?
Joel S. Berson
- paper of/and pins
Arnold Zwicky
- Re: [ADS-L] ADS-L D igest - 27 Feb 2009 to 28 Feb 2009 (#20 09-60)
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "There Ain't No Such Thing as Free Lunch" (1938)
Shapiro, Fred
- Re: [ADS-L] Toward more picturesque Congressional speech
RonButters at AOL.COM
- If I don't like the weather now, where should I wait?
Joel S. Berson
- "jewels" as "family jewels" (genitals) in 1450?
Joel S. Berson
- use of "sunshine" as a racial slur against blacks
Jocelyn Limpert
- BOOKS FROM COLLECTION OF AUDREY R. DUCKERT
Peter L. Masi - books
- English spelt phonetically? [cf Truespel]
Russ McClay
- complement marking
Arnold Zwicky
- dollar sign placement
David K. Barnhart
- Song Lyrics Appearing First as Poems (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Syllabic consonants
Paul Johnston
- Marines < soldiers
Joel S. Berson
- Snow Job
RonButters at AOL.COM
- quare -- back by popular demand
George Thompson
- Quoted without comment
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Re-Quoted with comment
Joel S. Berson
- distract/detract
Alison Murie
- The False Possessive
Baker, John
- Why the *s
Bill Palmer
- inanimate possessives
Arnold Zwicky
- Overheard; peripheral interest only, prolly
Wilson Gray
- on the other hand
Victor
- Q: "coffy" as a material (cloth?) in 1743
Joel S. Berson
- politics and language--again
Victor
- "coffy" as an antedating in 1743
Joel S. Berson
- Heard on The Judges: "hit on [someone]" = suggest to [someone]"
Wilson Gray
- Heard on The Judges: "KEEP" = always have; "on-the-corner" = whoring
Wilson Gray
- Heard on The Judges II: "confront" like "consult"
Wilson Gray
- playbourer, n.
Chris Waigl
- velarized /l/ and Billy Holiday
Herb Stahlke
- I Sync My iPod; You Sank Yours
Neal Whitman
- linking -i-
Arnold Zwicky
- Dorothy Parker and Vassar girls?
Joel S. Berson
- velarized /l/ and Billie Holiday
Arnold Zwicky
- odd-on favorite
Victor
- "nauseous" redux
Benjamin Zimmer
- sexting hits big time
Victor
- decession
Jonathan Lighter
- diction (was velarized /l/ and Billy Holiday)
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Running out of stones
George Thompson
- [forwarded from 19cBB] Huzzah now in modern usage
George Thompson
- Iowa, "the English-only State," suspends student for refusing English proficiency test
Dennis Baron
- "Morning has broken"; was Re: ADS-L Digest - 27 Feb 2009 to 28 Feb 2009 (#2009-60)
Barbara Need
- racism of older linguists
RonButters at AOL.COM
- linguist list posting on acquisition of English /l/
Herb Stahlke
- "All Creatures Strange Come to Our Church"
Joel S. Berson
- Unemployment lingo
Mark Peters
- Mini-Madoff scheme
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- No subject
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- "to stay" vs. "to live" (reside)
Bill Palmer
- "Limerick rhyme" Feb. 11, 1895
Stephen Goranson
- antedating ceriph (serif) 1825
Stephen Goranson
- by far and away
Arnold Zwicky
- Wedge and schwa
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Q: Poem "Negro Cuffee"?
Joel S. Berson
- R.I.F., more stuff
David K. Barnhart
- RIF again
David K. Barnhart
- awfully/awful
Alison Murie
- operativeness
Arnold Zwicky
- has the use of "frankly" ever been discussed here?
Jocelyn Limpert
- Re: [ADS-L] has the use of "frankly" ever been discussed here?
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "of a TIMESPAN"
Arnold Zwicky
- "They all know each other / one another"; was, racism of older linguists
Wilson Gray
- Q: Origin and extension of "Finger-Fehler"
Joel S. Berson
- Boston/Worcester "cahn't"
Amy West
- top or bottom?
RonButters at AOL.COM
- March 10: The telephone is 133 years old today. Call me.
Dennis Baron
- Rules against most?
Barbara Need
- Eggcorn?
Margaret Lee
- Abbott and Costello routine
Scot LaFaive
- word sought
Mark Mandel
- Shrimp(s) and prawns
Wilson Gray
- Mother Popcorn
Scot LaFaive
- velarized /l/ again
Herb Stahlke
- Uvular /l/ (Was: velarized /l/ again)
Neal Whitman
- birther
Benjamin Zimmer
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Wilson Gray
- (Al)most (was: Rules against most?)
Damien Hall
- Sorbet
Bill Palmer
- Heard on Maury: "for" > [fo]
Wilson Gray
- texted
Arnold Zwicky
- either
Tom Zurinskas
- music genres
Victor
- The N-word at the time of Huck Finn
Barbara Need
- The N-word and Asian Indians
Joel S. Berson
- IPA converter
Tom Zurinskas
- the grass-mud horse
Mark Mandel
- Great Recession
Baker, John
- Re: [ADS-L] The N-w ord at the time of Huck Finn
RonButters at AOL.COM
- aunt
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "upper-shelf" = 'high quality' not in OED?
Joel S. Berson
- Hardly ... not
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- RIF
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- top-posting
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "troll" -- an English Internet term enters German
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Another blend: "Pree-zackly"; (earlier message was Re: Hardly ... not)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Oh OED, where is "hen-tailor"?
Joel S. Berson
- more on "most"
Arnold Zwicky
- [Antedating] Triskaidekaphobia (1908)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- "dew-eyed innocent"
Benjamin Zimmer
- "ironyms"
Laurence Horn
- towards "Limerick" verse
Stephen Goranson
- copesettee is not copasetic
Stephen Goranson
- from my inbox
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Irish English "treaty"
Arnold Zwicky
- more on "break a leg"
Victor
- more on "break a leg" --- (about Yiddish kunna hurra)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- CANDY and JUNK
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "Morning has broken"
Laurence Horn
- Possible eggcorn
Bill Palmer
- Possible eggcorn (and tuckass)
Mark Peters
- Shotgun house
James Smith
- slurs on the Polish
Arnold Zwicky
- Heard on The Judges: BE "aunt"
Wilson Gray
- CANDY and JUNK (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- jitney 1912 etc.
Stephen Goranson
- antedating jitney 1899
Stephen Goranson
- "Passive Voice" in the New Yorker
Baker, John
- finif (was Re: jitney 1912 etc.)
Mark Mandel
- Amy Walker speaks many accents
Tom Zurinskas
- ? 1960-1964 "the whole nine yards" ?
Stephen Goranson
- low blow
Charles Doyle
- Without a net: Judges tell jurors with smart phones, "No surfing allowed"
Dennis Baron
- spelling pronunciation--words in -or
Herb Stahlke
- Dictionaries recognize same-sex marriage; opponents allege plot
Dennis Baron
- Eggcorn in the Wild
Doug Harris
- Eggcorn in the Wild2
RonButters at AOL.COM
- 1962 "the whole nine yards"
Joel S. Berson
- why overseas-outsourced transcription requires close editing
Mark Mandel
- 1937 emper-or
Joel S. Berson
- levy X at
Arnold Zwicky
- Praise for Stephen Goranson
Shapiro, Fred
- 1962 "the whole nine yards" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- 1937 emper-or (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- emper-or
Charles Doyle
- What's a "bap"?
George Thompson
- Fwd: had did
Arnold Zwicky
- what's a bap
Jonathon GREEN
- Possible WOTY (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- LOL conference
Tom Zurinskas
- "wildly ramifying" -- eggcorn?
Joel S. Berson
- to run [something] into the ground
George Thompson
- 1909 use of slang "cool"?
Grant Barrett
- straw purchase(r)/buyer
Arnold Zwicky
- Heard in Barbershop II
Wilson Gray
- rickroll
Mark Mandel
- AP article on DARE
Benjamin Zimmer
- IT Terms
David Marc Fischer
- act of show
Arnold Zwicky
- the three "n" s
Tom Zurinskas
- eggcorns and other wild beasts--the Bernei Madoff edition
Victor
- article about DARE
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Not descriptivistly correct, but...
Laurence Horn
- ecosocionomic
Benjamin Zimmer
- Eggcorn in the Wild -- Matrices
Doug Harris
- 'Learn' As in Biblical 'Know'
Doug Harris
- shrink
Charles Doyle
- Is the Pope Catholic?
Jonathan Lighter
- Many schwas
Tom Zurinskas
- sexting
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Biblical Knowledge
Geoff Nathan
- foamer
Arnold Zwicky
- Was: Biblical Knowledge, Now "Lay"
James Smith
- eggcorn candidate? "come into place" for "come into play"
Amy West
- google-shmoogle: a query on a hard to search item (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Schott's Vocab
Damien Hall
- "The Whole Nine Yard" Again
Murrah Lee
- OMG/sigh
Mark Mandel
- hand over fist/foot
Benjamin Zimmer
- "Brit" (OED: 1901)
Jonathan Lighter
- Reuters
Victor
- spelling essay recommendation for TZ
Amy West
- "factual tv" vs. "reality tv"
Amy West
- "---- choice"
Charles Doyle
- snowclone: [X] porn
James Harbeck
- [X] porn
Arnold Zwicky
- "encyclopedology"?
Joel S. Berson
- Misplaced modifiers yet again
Joel S. Berson
- UK to teach proper BBC English
Tom Zurinskas
- "schvindler"
Jocelyn Limpert
- hypercorrect pluralization of attributives
Jonathan Lighter
- Letter from London: Brits fear Facebook friends are really bombers
Dennis Baron
- sumetary
Tom Zurinskas
- "craps game"
Joel S. Berson
- snowclone: [X] porn (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "daguerreotype" from 1830?
Joel S. Berson
- Folklorist Archie Green (91) dies
Gerald Cohen
- -stans
Charles Doyle
- Labov
RonButters at AOL.COM
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