October 2009 Archives by thread
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- vook (video + book)
Benjamin Zimmer
- fl- verbs
wordmall
- evidence for an eggcorn: "far gone conclusion"
Laurence Horn
- "hoodlum" antedating and self-designation (?)
Stephen Goranson
- Celebrate Banned Books Week: read now, before it's too late
Dennis Baron
- question on grammar
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Siberian tiger
Wilson Gray
- qvetch
Benjamin Zimmer
- Is the Hudson Valley Dialect still alive?
Dan Goodman
- BE arrives at the Boston Globe?
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Pre-Halloween Horror
Jonathan Lighter
- Randy: Does Anyone Actually _say_ This?
Doug Harris
- Fwd (plaintext): Randy: Does Anyone Actually _say_ This?
Randy Alexander
- From an email joke: "You're from the Deep South, if ...
Wilson Gray
- Portuguese language changes
Tom Zurinskas
- Query About Etymological Discoveries
Douglas G. Wilson
- stand up
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Supreme Court redux
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- "hooker" 1835 (NY Transcript) -- Red Hook?
Joel S. Berson
- porcinality
Joel S. Berson
- porcinality (and synchronicity)
Laurence Horn
- Job Opening in Linguistics / Applied Linguistics
Victor Steinbok
- Red Hook and hookers
Joel S. Berson
- mm-hmm /hmm-mm: antedatings?
Jonathan Lighter
- punchinality (and synchronicity)
Joel S. Berson
- "Murphy's Law" antedating 1943
Stephen Goranson
- "Murphy's Law" antedating 1943 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- possible additional"Murphy's Law" uses during WWII
Stephen Goranson
- Whole Nine Yards 1966; statement of Murphy's Law 1957 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Punch, brothers, punch
Joel S. Berson
- "Hooker" vs. "[r]accrocheuse"
Douglas G. Wilson
- jesse and ihe
Dennis Baron
- more blends
Laurence Horn
- Vocabula Press Release
Robert Hartwell Fiske
- Animal Farm defense
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- blogging for pay
Dennis Baron
- "clack" [Was: blogging for pay]
Joel S. Berson
- "You got a mouse (etc.) in your pocket?"
Benjamin Zimmer
- interim comment on "Murphy's Law" antedating 1943
Stephen Goranson
- I'm up
Paul
- Cure for Bad Language
Jonathan Lighter
- lunatic fringe
Victor Steinbok
- American Dialect Society Presidential Honorary Memberships: Call for Nominations
Grant Barrett
- saying "umlaut"
Tom Zurinskas
- New Rubbish on CNN
Geoffrey S. Nathan
- part 3, "Murphy's Law" antedating 1943
Stephen Goranson
- Best blend yet?
Jonathan Lighter
- diaeresis (dieresis for hotmail spellcheck)
Tom Zurinskas
- saying "umlaut" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- pissed on
Victor Steinbok
- ["punt" - Word of the Day from the OED]
Victor Steinbok
- antedating (?) noogie and tough noogies
Wilson Gray
- dune buggy, buggies, 1940s??
Stephen Goranson
- Fred?
Wilson Gray
- an unexpected comparative
Mark Mandel
- The President as English teacher
Tom Zurinskas
- ain't = don't
Jonathan Lighter
- ZDNet: "Managing a single piece of media ..."
Wilson Gray
- half-shaved
George Thompson
- Whatever is, you know, the word that Americans hate most
Dennis Baron
- simoleons 1881 antedating
Stephen Goranson
- half-shaved --1803, 1804
Joel S. Berson
- Ledasha redux
Benjamin Zimmer
- A euphonious euphemism for "hidden fees"?
Joel S. Berson
- More AAVE in sports reporting?
Randy Alexander
- Black English
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Black English (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- another "moment" for WOTY consideration
Laurence Horn
- cougar (UNCLASSIFIED)
Grant Barrett
- *correction* "Murphy's Law" 1943, not
Stephen Goranson
- *correction* "Murphy's Law" 1943, not
Shapiro, Fred
- *correction* "Murphy's Law" 1943, not
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- *correction* "Murphy's Law" 1943, not
Shapiro, Fred
- *correction* "Murphy's Law" 1943, not
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- *correction* "Murphy's Law" 1943, not
Dave Wilton
- *correction* "Murphy's Law" 1943, not
Jonathan Lighter
- *correction* "Murphy's Law" 1943, not
Benjamin Zimmer
- *correction* "Murphy's Law" 1943, not
Joel S. Berson
- *correction* "Murphy's Law" 1943, not
Joel S. Berson
- *correction* "Murphy's Law" 1943, not
Dave Wilton
- *correction* "Murphy's Law" 1943, not
Mark Mandel
- *correction* "Murphy's Law" 1943, not
Dave Wilton
- *correction* "Murphy's Law" 1943, not
Mark Mandel
- The F Word (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- another "moment" for WOTY consideration (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Registration & conference info for 2010 annual meeting in Baltimore
Grant Barrett
- "zilch" antedating (1956)
Stephen Goranson
- Trusting one's experience and instincts
Joel S. Berson
- *correction* "Murphy's Law" 1943, not (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "zorch" (was Re: "zilch" antedating (1956))
Mark Mandel
- Heard on The Judges: intune = "overhear"; a comment on ahruh.
Wilson Gray
- Re: [ADS-L] *correction* "Murphy's Law" 1943, not (UNCLASSIFIED)
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "bupkis" antedating (1937)
Stephen Goranson
- scrimshaw: proposed etymology
Stephen Goranson
- How Grammar Did Its Bit
Jonathan Lighter
- Q: Source of a quotation
Joel S. Berson
- Source of a quotation
Shapiro, Fred
- Heard on The Judges: _sneak_ > "sucker-punch"
Wilson Gray
- "incredubility" -- an aggcorn, or a blend, or what?
Joel S. Berson
- "incredubility" -- an aggcorn, or a blend, or a mistyping?
Joel S. Berson
- Befitting names redux
Joel S. Berson
- "Bob's your uncle" antedating (1932)
Stephen Goranson
- [FL-LIST]
Joel S. Berson
- ben thinking
Randy Alexander
- "Bob's your uncle" antedating (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- more on "None" (was: Ledasha redux)
Mark Mandel
- "Wendy" vs "Windy" redux
Wilson Gray
- "The unwilling doing the unnecessary...."
Jonathan Lighter
- Socrates misattribution – bad manners of children – proposed origin 1907
Garson O'Toole
- Socrates misattribution ? bad manners of children ? proposed origin 1907
Stephen Goranson
- better to light the candle than to curse the darkness - 1907
Garson O'Toole
- joke, apocrypha, or eggcorn?
Laurence Horn
- OT "Windy"
Joel S. Berson
- "doldrum" antedating (1765)
Stephen Goranson
- "defecting"
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- "clad" (was Re: "defecting")
Mark Mandel
- Hollywood and "SIR!"
Jonathan Lighter
- Kinky sex with electronic devices?
Joel S. Berson
- national writing day
Dennis Baron
- For all Klingon fans, forwarded from my daughter: defies description
James Smith
- Democracy has been described as four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch (1990)
Garson O'Toole
- OT: Hollywood and "SIR!"
Joel S. Berson
- national writing day (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- OT: national writing day
Joel S. Berson
- [Not about] national writing day
Joel S. Berson
- Further evidence of the fall of English?
Wilson Gray
- Why is it that a free lunch is never free (1898 Oct 22) and other citations
Garson O'Toole
- space eggs; psyience
Jonathan Lighter
- God / United States of America Saying
Shapiro, Fred
- feed of what???
Jonathan Lighter
- "southpaw" = 'left hand' (1813)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Quotation: How a man should clothe himself, his children, & his wife (1717)
Joel S. Berson
- Searching inside quotation books such as YBQ and other references
Garson O'Toole
- Searching inside quotation books such as YBQ and other references (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Talmudic source for Quotation: How a man should clothe himself, his children, & his wife (1717)
Mark Mandel
- Talmudic source for (1617) Quotation: How a man should clothe himself, his children, & his wife
Joel S. Berson
- another moment
Laurence Horn
- OT: "Baby Einstein" videos
Joel S. Berson
- forbearer
Jonathan Lighter
- No subject
Charles Doyle
- The Noun Game
Dennis Baron
- the rainbow passage
Tom Zurinskas
- a worm at one end and a fool at the other (1805) maggot variant (1788) and other citations
Garson O'Toole
- TMI
Jonathan Lighter
- from = for, of.
Jonathan Lighter
- MSM. was Re: TMI
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- 2 thumbs up? Reachers predict by 2013 we'll all be tweeting
Dennis Baron
- "allegory" = parable
Jonathan Lighter
- "trouble" = to complicate; problematize.
Jonathan Lighter
- :-) from = for, of.
Joel S. Berson
- One cannot make omelettes without breaking eggs (1856 attrib Pelissier) pancakes (1804 attrib Charette)
Garson O'Toole
- "conspiracy theory" antedating
Stephen Goranson
- "over" = (in comparisons) to; PLUS "apples-to-apples"
Jonathan Lighter
- "...and then I found five dollars/bucks."
Jim Fitzpatrick
- Fined for driving while Spanish in Dallas, fired for working while Spanish in Taos
Dennis Baron
- Antedating of "Hot Dog"
Shapiro, Fred
- FW: Re: Antedating of "Hot Dog"--message from Barry Popik
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "Rush Hour" & "Carnegie Hall joke" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Fwd: "Tom Private"?
Joel S. Berson
- "new" masculine name: Farrah
Jonathan Lighter
- OT: The three Darrels
Joel S. Berson
- Q: soixante neuf
Joel S. Berson
- Q: soixante neuf (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- The Internet: It was 40 years ago today . . .
Dennis Baron
- Influences on the Construction of the Serenity Prayer - Maybe OT
Garson O'Toole
- "Bob's your uncle" antedating (Glaswegian?)
Stephen Goranson
- Q: "jewgaged"
Laurence Horn
- Non-Latin domain names
Randy Alexander
- Sam Hall
Robin Hamilton
- _Dubious_ > "infamous"
Wilson Gray
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