September 2009 Archives by thread
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- "drunk riding"
Jonathan Lighter
- "Norval" ... How do *you* pronounce it?
Laurence Horn
- "athletic" and schwa insertion (UNCLASSIFIED)
Wilson Gray
- sweatxedo
James Harbeck
- crash blossom
Wilson Gray
- Night of a Thousand Waterfalls
Scot LaFaive
- "scire facias" in OED 1989
Joel S. Berson
- an interesting obituary
Mark Mandel
- Clarke's Laws (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- from my inbox
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- bogus = "illegal'
Jonathan Lighter
- Grammar suggestions from MS Word
Joel S. Berson
- " to shod " !!
Alison Murie
- H1N1 flu
Laurence Horn
- Okra as a count noun
Bill Palmer
- "Li'l Abner"
Wilson Gray
- real estate?
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- when "t" becomes ~d or glottalized
Tom Zurinskas
- A sanitized eggcorn
Alice Faber
- "Freedom of stench"
Joel S. Berson
- wierd acronym
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- new to me: "flag up"
Barbara Need
- bogus = "illegal' (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- persons of cover (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- From NYTimes.com: "A Mannah of Speaking"
Wilson Gray
- "Back to school" as a noun phrase
Neal Whitman
- cot/caught
James Smith
- Master Quang; was Re: wierd acronym
Barbara Need
- Protestors shouting "Apples are red!" demand an end to state-sponsored schools
Dennis Baron
- tout = "to boast (about)"
Jonathan Lighter
- coinage: "broadband ecology"
Mark Mandel
- Re: [ADS-L] Master Quang; was Re: wierd acronym
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "burning their cakes"
Amy West
- uppermost--not yet an eggcorn
Herb Stahlke
- trutherism?
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Contraception at Revere High School
Joel S. Berson
- "serve one's way out of a bagel"
Laurence Horn
- semantic drift: "armistice"
Jonathan Lighter
- cutlery
Mark Mandel
- -ery (was: cutlery)
Damien Hall
- in loom of
James Harbeck
- bacabre
Jonathan Lighter
- Tennyson's "Not!"
Jonathan Lighter
- This one's for Fred
George Thompson
- New eggcorn?
Bill Palmer
- Diphthongs gone wild
Bill Palmer
- "can screw" = be gratifying
Jonathan Lighter
- He Who Beats His Sword into a Plowshare ends up plowing for those who kept their swords (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- no l'oeuf lost
Laurence Horn
- shawty
Tom Zurinskas
- This is called juncture, I think?
George Thompson
- Society Mavens
George Thompson
- shawty (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "collateral damage"
Jonathan Lighter
- Geoff N. speaks out!
Wilson Gray
- nuclear option
Herb Stahlke
- Geoff N. speaks out! (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Query: What does "rone" mean in "The Rafters Song"?
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- A possible insight into "posh."
Evan Morris
- Antedating of "Firmware"
Shapiro, Fred
- brigadier
Jonathan Lighter
- fear itself
Jonathan Lighter
- "oldcomer" 1652, not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- Melons
David Bowie
- Cucumbers/Pickles
Steve Kl.
- fvck (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- fvck
Joel S. Berson
- Montreal bus driver celebrates 40 years of official bilingualism by throwing English-speaking passenger off her bus
Dennis Baron
- appropose
Jonathan Lighter
- The OED and "adulterous" & "adultery"
Joel S. Berson
- "um-weird"
Joel S. Berson
- Netscape -> Firefox?
Joel S. Berson
- "The time has come to _uplift our spirits_!"
Wilson Gray
- "particular"
Joel S. Berson
- "transliteration " = a derived form; "occlude" = to hide from sight or knowledge; obscure
Jonathan Lighter
- "Hut!" redux
Benjamin Zimmer
- "um-weird" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Storms are breaking
Geoffrey Nathan
- Conflating one into two
Joel S. Berson
- a new breed of "retrosexual"
Benjamin Zimmer
- "oldcomer" now 1640 and 1641; not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- lustworthy
Jonathan Lighter
- to demagogue him/them
M Covarrubias
- Eggcorn: carousel >> carousal
Damien Hall
- "couch" = to hedge
Jonathan Lighter
- Can you say "parlance"?
Jonathan Lighter
- No pain, no g ähn?
Joel S. Berson
- Something else!
Wilson Gray
- cat
Victor Steinbok
- cat
Wilson Gray
- cat
Tom Zurinskas
- Nutrium
Herb Stahlke
- Teenglish from England
Tom Zurinskas
- "Lord Alfred" or "Alfred, Lord"?
Jonathan Lighter
- TAN: cat
Amy West
- "Laurence, Lord Horn"
Joel S. Berson
- Off-list
Charles Doyle
- whom in OED inaccuracy
Randy Alexander
- A birthday card for Samuel Johnson
Dennis Baron
- The Uniqueness of Man
Joel S. Berson
- "advocate for"
Jonathan Lighter
- Eggcorn? Malaprop?
Doug Harris
- The un-verb makes the Times
Laurence Horn
- AfPak
Victor Steinbok
- "broken English"
Jonathan Lighter
- Tenther
Victor Steinbok
- donkey hole
James Harbeck
- "on the IMprove"
Laurence Horn
- get vs. receive/become
Jonathan Lighter
- New word?
Wilson Gray
- contemptoraries
Tom Zurinskas
- New word? Perhaps!?
David K. Barnhart
- eerie, blistering cold
Jonathan Lighter
- Oklahoma [Was: eerie, blistering cold]
Joel S. Berson
- Query About Etymological Discoveries
Shapiro, Fred
- Query About Etymological Discoveries (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Fwd:: Fiction and / Fiction about Grammar
Joel S. Berson
- Job Opening in Linguistics / Applied Linguistics
Beth Simon
- long e - short i sounds
Tom Zurinskas
- Space craft antedating (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Fwd:: Fiction and / Fiction about Grammar (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Smathers vs. Pepper, 1950
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- "The _tidy_ (~) denotes your 'Home' folder." [NT]
Wilson Gray
- gravy train
wordmall
- Amazoned (was Re: Fwd:: Fiction and / Fiction about Grammar (UNCLASSIFIED))
Scot LaFaive
- "common night walker"
Joel S. Berson
- "squeeze worth the juice"
Alison Murie
- Off-gliding to G
Grant Barrett
- cover dish
Herb Stahlke
- Searching for the right word
Bill Palmer
- chemical bomb
Victor Steinbok
- Further signs of the demise of English as a world power
Wilson Gray
- Crash blossom of the week
Laurence Horn
- cougar
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- nightwalking
Joel S. Berson
- cougar (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- pale in comparison to
Herb Stahlke
- "pale in comparison to" meaning reversal
hfwstahlke
- Amazon Sales Rank: "A Better Pencil" outsold by a book on tattoos
Dennis Baron
- "Apple Gets _a_ Green Light to Block Palm from iTunes"
Wilson Gray
- 1983/1984 "the full Monty" antedating
Stephen Goranson
- OT (German, not American): Julius Echter Hefe-Weisse
Joel S. Berson
- Is the Hudson Valley Dialect still alive?
Dan Goodman
- A new use for the OED?
George Thompson
- "there's" + <plural noun>
Grant Barrett
- Why Indonesians have difficulty with English
Grant Barrett
- How's that again?
Wilson Gray
- William Safire dead at 79
Grant Barrett
- William Safire has died
Sam Clements
- Achilles' Knee
Michael Sheehan
- Siberian tiger
Victor Steinbok
- Siberian Husky
Victor Steinbok
- Siberian Husky (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- BE arrives at the Boston Globe?
Joel S. Berson
- antedating (?) noogie and tough noogies
Stephen Goranson
- antedating (?) "zits" 1965?
Stephen Goranson
- Is there Negative Inversion without Negative Concord?
Kelly Nedwick
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