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- Walk the Walk
Benjamin Zimmer
- distinguished alum
Arnold Zwicky
- themselfs / themselve
Arnold Zwicky
- "restaurant"
Arnold Zwicky
- the imparseable dream
Mark Mandel
- quoted with comments
Mark Mandel
- literally
Victor
- Dirt Nap
Murrah Lee
- "in charged of"
Arnold Zwicky
- eggcorn "signal out"
Gordon, Matthew J.
- Jesse S. et al. v. Antonin S. et al. on fleeting expletives
Laurence Horn
- spelling pronunciation
Tom Zurinskas
- Fwd: "fuse box" eggcorn?
Arnold Zwicky
- contorted medicalese
Mark Mandel
- which sound is more prevalent in USA English, short a (as in cat) or "ah" sound
Tom Zurinskas
- Katherine Connor Martin
Arnold Zwicky
- Grammatical twist in yet another SCOTUS opinion
Victor
- Katherine Martin
Arnold Zwicky
- toe-rag and toe-bag
Arnold Zwicky
- NSAID
Arnold Zwicky
- WOTY candidate: hyperlocal (news)
Benjamin Zimmer
- A new(?), old-time pronunciation
Wilson Gray
- "fuse box" eggcorn?
Alison Murie
- losing steam
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- New Book on word myths/misconceptions: Origin of the Speciious
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "Cut no ice": etymological hypothesis
Douglas G. Wilson
- Confusing Headlines
Baker, John
- Was: distinguished alum
James Smith
- Fred leads off in NYT
Jesse Sheidlower
- number format
Michael Sheehan
- ADS-L Digest - 5 May 2009 to 6 May 2009 (#2009-127)
Betsy Lowe
- "Slights of hand"
Joel S. Berson
- number format and semantic hairsplitting in China
Randy Alexander
- One Right Way
Arnold Zwicky
- autonym
Mark Mandel
- Bolinger's Dictum and One Right Way
Arnold Zwicky
- Re: [ADS-L] "Slights of hand"
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Pronunciation of "Ngaio"
Herb Stahlke
- Heard on MSNBC
Herb Stahlke
- "Bobalition" -- "still" not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- "Bobalition" etymology
Joel S. Berson
- "mink" (n.) = 'a black, a Negro'?
Joel S. Berson
- "mink" (n.) = 'a black, a Negro'?
Douglas G. Wilson
- "mink" (n.) = 'a black, a Negro'?
Wilson Gray
- "mink" (n.) = 'a black, a Negro'?
Joel S. Berson
- "mink" (n.) = 'a black, a Negro'?
Arnold Zwicky
- "mink" (n.) = 'a black, a Negro'?
Laurence Horn
- "mink" (n.) = 'a black, a Negro'?
George Thompson
- "mink" (n.) = 'a black, a Negro'?
Joel S. Berson
- "mink" (n.) = 'a black, a Negro'?
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "mink" (n.) = 'a black, a Negro'?
Joel S. Berson
- "mink" (n.) = 'a black, a Negro'?
Wilson Gray
- 'people' (was: Re: autonym)
Lynne Murphy
- 1837 "nigger" -- a useful context?
Joel S. Berson
- Boston Morning Post page?
Grant Barrett
- "midriff" v.
Arnold Zwicky
- "fuck like a mink" [Was: "mink" (n.) = 'a black, a Negro'?]
Joel S. Berson
- "fuck like a mink" [Was: "mink" (n.) = 'a black, a Negro'?]
Wilson Gray
- "fuck like a mink" [Was: "mink" (n.) = 'a black, a Negro'?]
James Harbeck
- "fuck like a mink" [Was: "mink" (n.) = 'a black, a Negro'?]
James Harbeck
- "fuck like a mink" [Was: "mink" (n.) = 'a black, a Negro'?]
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "fuck like a mink" [Was: "mink" (n.) = 'a black, a Negro'?]
Joel S. Berson
- "fuck like a mink" [Was: "mink" (n.) = 'a black, a Negro'?]
Charles Doyle
- "fuck like a mink" [Was: "mink" (n.) = 'a black, a Negro'?]
Laurence Horn
- "fuck like a mink" [Was: "mink" (n.) = 'a black, a Negro'?]
Bill Palmer
- "fuck like a mink" [Was: "mink" (n.) = 'a black, a Negro'?]
Randy Alexander
- on the day
Michael Sheehan
- Of minks and stoats
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Re: [ADS-L] "mink" (n.) = 'a black, a Negro'?
RonButters at AOL.COM
- ADS-L Digest - 8 May 2009 to 9 May 2009 (#2009-130)
Betsy Lowe
- Tesla
Tom Zurinskas
- Tesla
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- 2nd Re: [definition of declension]
Dave Hause
- Of minks and stoats (and ferrets, Oh my)
Joel S. Berson
- caron
Arnold Zwicky
- caron (and stresica -- aceents omitted)
Joel S. Berson
- Of "pop" goes the weasel and the OED
Joel S. Berson
- Fwd: The Next Age of Discovery (WSJ May 8)
Joel S. Berson
- "name-check" v.
Arnold Zwicky
- addendum to "name-check" v. posting
Arnold Zwicky
- Early "albino", 1781
Joel S. Berson
- clunker, junker (1936)
Benjamin Zimmer
- lookit
Wilson Gray
- "and" in numerical expressions
Arnold Zwicky
- shift in "refute": another example
Laurence Horn
- shift in "refute": another example
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "and" in numerical expressions (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Query: Let George do it
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- WOTY candidate, euphemism division
Laurence Horn
- Query: Let George do it (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- caron and my 1959 find (not)
Joel S. Berson
- Written Language Disorder: Medical researchers fear there's no cure for bad writing
Dennis Baron
- Heard on "Aqua Team Hunger Force"
Wilson Gray
- The Colbert Report: "soda water"
Wilson Gray
- Back to the shrimp/prawn debate
Victor
- tea, herbal tea, and tea-tea
Mark Mandel
- Con Man's Adage (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "The meek shall inherit the earth"?
Joel S. Berson
- milk and milk-milk [Was: tea, herbal tea, and tea-tea]
Joel S. Berson
- Possible antedating of "nigger", n., used by blacks?
Joel S. Berson
- being a guy and girl
Arnold Zwicky
- "Plume in his vestments"
Joel S. Berson
- My html tags
Joel S. Berson
- Selzer water (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- The Colbert Report: "soda water" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Chronicle article on sentence diagramming
Matthew Gordon
- Big Apples and Red Herrings
George Thompson
- The "famously" epidemic
George Thompson
- New England-style eggcorn: winning/losing the "trifector"
Laurence Horn
- columnbarium
Herb Stahlke
- OT, but grotesquely amusing
Wilson Gray
- Eggcorn?
Margaret Lee
- numerical "and"
Arnold Zwicky
- write-only memory
Darla Wells
- dictionaric
Benjamin Zimmer
- Eggcorn: ease dropping
Dave Wilton
- Squat copping
David A. Daniel
- Mark Phelps rusty?
Arnold Zwicky
- sherpas, sherpa guide
Herb Stahlke
- "Slights of hand" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
Baker, John
- awe vs ah - qlippit
Tom Zurinskas
- roller derby naming conventions
Darla Wells
- This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- collateral damage
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- kaboodle
Mark Mandel
- Q: Shakespeare "is full of quotations"
Joel S. Berson
- Prescriptivism and Descriptivism: What Are They at Root?
Robert Hartwell Fiske
- 90
Randy Alexander
- 90
Mark Mandel
- 90
Tom Zurinskas
- 90
M Covarrubias
- 90
Herb Stahlke
- comment out (1975)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Farewell, SCOTUS
Pat O'Conner
- kaboodle turns up "yanky doodle"
Joel S. Berson
- WOTY candidate, but only because it's misspelled
Laurence Horn
- Going forward (was SCOTUS)
Randy Alexander
- Heard on [adult swim]: "clique" > [klik]
Wilson Gray
- Heard on [adult swim]: "street" to "alley"?
Wilson Gray
- Shout outs and hard ons
Neal Whitman
- walker-talker
Arnold Zwicky
- Re: [ADS-L] walker-talker
RonButters at AOL.COM
- empretzeled
Benjamin Zimmer
- HuffPo interview with Geoff Nunberg
Benjamin Zimmer
- "proliferate" as adjective"
Herb Stahlke
- Finale
David Bowie
- supermax (1975)
Benjamin Zimmer
- "Mop" in Caldonia (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- some more on McCafe
Arnold Zwicky
- ...they just smell that way
Jonathan Lighter
- escalate
Victor
- "Murphy's Law," H. P. Robertson, 1949?
Stephen Goranson
- Five times lwss
Bill Palmer
- Five times less
Arnold Zwicky
- query on usage (a not quite clear result)
Laurence Horn
- saddlebacking
Arnold Zwicky
- Refute='contest' in the wild
Geoffrey Nathan
- An interesting way of expressing a failure
Wilson Gray
- Seen in the wild:
Wilson Gray
- 300% decline
Joel S. Berson
- Fewer salary/slaries
Joel S. Berson
- "increased by 500 percent"
Joel S. Berson
- Heard on The Aqua Teen Hunger Force (Number one in the 'hood, G!)
Wilson Gray
- "can do so much"
Arnold Zwicky
- caron redux (the new American icon)
Joel S. Berson
- the dissappearing "awe" sound
Tom Zurinskas
- Of minor interest, at best
Wilson Gray
- "drown like kittens"
Joel S. Berson
- cloud computing
Tom Zurinskas
- more pop language books...
Laurence Horn
- antedating "hobo" 1885
Stephen Goranson
- contiguous/contagious
Bill Palmer
- "could care less"
Arnold Zwicky
- medspeak
Mark Mandel
- Phrase of the year? "Arlen Specter disorder"
Joel S. Berson
- "contagious" 'contiguous'
Arnold Zwicky
- Like an infix, but...
Mark Peters
- I'll trade yours for mine
Jonathan Lighter
- Analyze word and phrase frequency
Tom Zurinskas
- spreadsheet friendly (was: antedating "hobo" 1885)
Mark Mandel
- the dissappearing "awe" sound (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- pronouncing "hobo" et al. today
Joel S. Berson
- Not in OED: "in-between(s) (n.) and "inbetweener"
Joel S. Berson
- Not in OED: "in-between(s) (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- the dangerously dissappearing [sic] "awe" sound
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Each one Adj-er than the next
Randy Alexander
- IPA in spreadsheets (was: antedating "hobo" 1885)
David Bowie
- technical titles
Arnold Zwicky
- Big Antedating of "Different Strokes for Different Folks"
Shapiro, Fred
- the precisely Adj N
Randy Alexander
- Whom Hispanics call "Hispanic" -- or not
Joel S. Berson
- "People of color" was; Re: Whom Hispanics call "Hispanic" -- or not
Barbara Need
- Uses of electronic version of DARE
Joan H. Hall
- Spam from ak47popcorn
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- russel(l)ing
Arnold Zwicky
- teacherpreneur
Darla Wells
- bridle/bridal
Arnold Zwicky
- reticent/reluctant
Michael Sheehan
- "report" 'someone reporting to a manager'
Arnold Zwicky
- "majorly" adjective [sic]?
Jesse Sheidlower
- use of "my bad"
Jocelyn Limpert
- "stuck on stupid"
Jonathan Lighter
- "stuck on stupid" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- DILLIGAF
Jonathan Lighter
- soft-petal (was: bridle/bridal)
Laurence Horn
- "clinker" (n.3), 1940
Joel S. Berson
- Eggcorn: Conjugate for Congregate
Doug Harris
- arms length relative
Herb Stahlke
- "full of win"
Scot LaFaive
- Fwd: arms length relative
Chris Waigl
- the NYT fixes an error
Arnold Zwicky
- technical terminology in ordinary language
Arnold Zwicky
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