April 2010 Archives by thread
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Ending: Fri Apr 30 23:37:22 UTC 2010
Messages: 773
- do these guys think we are idiots or what?
Joel S. Berson
- OT: language origin and creationism
Dave Wilton
- full text databases (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mark Mandel
- Taking candy from a baby
Neal Whitman
- teeyota and IPod
Herb Stahlke
- "funny" language; was Re: No more "Christian name, sir?" in Kent, UK
Barbara Need
- "funny" language; was Re: No more "Christian name, sir?" in Kent, UK
Judy Prince
- "funny" language; was Re: No more "Christian name, sir?" in Kent, UK
Barbara Need
- "funny" language; was Re: No more "Christian name, sir?" in Kent, UK
Judy Prince
- "funny" language; was Re: No more "Christian name, sir?" in Kent, UK
Arnold Zwicky
- "funny" language; was Re: No more "Christian name, sir?" in Kent, UK
victor steinbok
- "funny" language; was Re: No more "Christian name, sir?" in Kent, UK
Arnold Zwicky
- "funny" language; was Re: No more "Christian name, sir?" in Kent, UK
Judy Prince
- No more "Christian name, sir?" in Kent, UK
Barbara Need
- ADS-L Digest - 30 Mar 2010 to 31 Mar 2010 (#2010-91)
Amy West
- Spam, virus, phishing etc. (was: do these guys think we are idiots or what?
Geoffrey Nathan
- OT: language origin and creationism (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- tripartisan
Victor Steinbok
- The book, the scroll, and the web
Dennis Baron
- American Speech Table of Contents for Supplement 94, No. 1
Grant Barrett
- "... takes a lightly different _tact_." [NT]
Wilson Gray
- eggcorn: puddlefish
Victor Steinbok
- Twain quote about his father's ignorance and surprising maturation (update 1915 December)
Garson O'Toole
- :-) Twain quote about his father's ignorance and surprising maturation (update 1915 December)
Joel S. Berson
- protest = 'demonstrate in public to draw attention to'
Jonathan Lighter
- OT:Heard on American Dad: daughter Hayley singing a song about...
Wilson Gray
- CLS in the 1930s?
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- No subject
Darla Wells
- : Spam
Robin Hamilton
- Popsicle
Damien Hall
- scrudgeon
Jonathan Lighter
- Fwd: Re: Popsicle
Damien Hall
- not from Darla Wells
Arnold Zwicky
- Old aphorism: Put your money where it will do the most good
victor steinbok
- "to ring changes", sexual, 1736
Joel S. Berson
- "to ring changes", sexual, 1736
Laurence Horn
- "to ring changes", sexual, 1736
Wilson Gray
- "to ring changes", sexual, 1736
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "to ring changes", sexual, 1736
Tom Zurinskas
- "to ring changes", sexual, 1736
Joel S. Berson
- "to ring changes", sexual, 1736
Jonathan Lighter
- "to ring changes", sexual, 1736
Joel S. Berson
- "to ring changes", sexual, 1736
Jonathan Lighter
- "to ring changes", sexual, 1736
Joel S. Berson
- "to ring changes", sexual, 1736
Jonathan Lighter
- short takes: fly on the wall
victor steinbok
- the great "cool" debate
George Thompson
- collateral damage
Jonathan Lighter
- Query: "I've got your [ouse] number."
victor steinbok
- Popsicle (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Broadcast journalism
Bill Palmer
- pimpin'
Victor Steinbok
- International English
Wilson Gray
- waxing rhapsodic
Victor Steinbok
- REMOVE ME FROM LIST
Kelli Slimp
- Spanish ex-, Spanish liberals?
Federico Escobar
- Globish
James Harbeck
- The loo &c.
Joel S. Berson
- The iPad: What is a Gutenberg moment, anyway?
Dennis Baron
- Fwd: Popsicle
nwhitman at ameritech.net
- semantic drift: charismatic
Jonathan Lighter
- source = 'to obtain (as a part) from elsewhere'
Jonathan Lighter
- Country talk, 1840
George Thompson
- Call For Editorial Board Members
Info CSC Journals
- Those who live in the past...
nwhitman at ameritech.net
- Pitch and feathers, 1737
Joel S. Berson
- invading Pearl Harbor
Jonathan Lighter
- ADS in New Paltz
George Thompson
- another "could(n't) care less" variation
victor steinbok
- The "puss and mew", 1738 -- not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- a would-be classic
Victor Steinbok
- Antedating :: journalism--and a personal note (OT) [Was: The iPad: What is a Gutenberg moment, anyway?]
Victor Steinbok
- distributive law
Victor Steinbok
- Pullum in Providence
Amy West
- Northeast Regional
David Barnhart
- AAARGGGHHH!--Google and spelling
victor steinbok
- Pensieve
Federico Escobar
- Maxim: Figures don't lie, but liars do figure (1884 February 29)
Garson O'Toole
- OT: improvement in paper was Re: The iPad: What is a Gutenberg moment, anyway?
Amy West
- OT: Youneverknow. Was "Maxim"
Wilson Gray
- Jinks Hoodoo again
Douglas G. Wilson
- turn of the century
Victor Steinbok
- Boughten
Michael Quinion
- Q: Origin of "dumb-bell"?
Joel S. Berson
- _Americans Speaking_
Bethany Dumas
- short takes: Dachshund (and a bit on basset)
Victor Steinbok
- Short takes: "guestbook" - WOTD-OED + visitors' book + soup house/shop/kitchen
Victor Steinbok
- long-s confusion
Jonathan Lighter
- "tarrel" in Hammett?
Jesse Sheidlower
- 'just a lot of Malarkey" (1925)
Stephen Goranson
- etymology of "etymology"
Tom Zurinskas
- plant names and other oddities
Victor Steinbok
- Short take: "multidrug" - WOTD from the OED
Victor Steinbok
- "800 pounds of process"
Arnold Zwicky
- awkward turtle
Amy West
- Pullum at BC at 3:30
medievalist at W-STS.COM
- "processed" n.
Arnold Zwicky
- Short take: penguin, information
Victor Steinbok
- Heard on The Judges:_dude_,slight semantic shift
Wilson Gray
- Heard on The Judges: _BIN done_
Wilson Gray
- Eyjafjallajokull “Hey, ya fergot La Yogurt.”
Tom Zurinskas
- Short takes: "melodica" - WOTD OED
Victor Steinbok
- "teabonics"
Amy West
- ego not amigo
Jonathan Lighter
- Decline of English: further evidence
Wilson Gray
- On Orbit
Dave Wilton
- "trip" (pleasure excursion), 1739; antedates c1749-
Joel S. Berson
- old proverb
Victor Steinbok
- Frequency of stressed syllables in USA English
Tom Zurinskas
- "heb[r]onics"
Joel S. Berson
- Harpoonics
Joel S. Berson
- weasels
victor steinbok
- Call For Papers
Info CSC Journals
- Pullum at MIT this afternoon
Amy West
- OED/business
Victor Steinbok
- Westconsin
Herb Stahlke
- Heard on Jerrih Spranger: Hillbilly talk
Wilson Gray
- Metaphor Melange
Michael Sheehan
- Fwd: Westconsin
Dennis Baron
- "eat lunch on" something
Joel S. Berson
- Lost their "head (of)"
Wilson Gray
- AP changes to 'website'
Taylor Kate Brown
- wet job
Victor Steinbok
- different planet
Victor Steinbok
- Phlebonics
Joel S. Berson
- AP changes to 'website' (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- used by himself
Victor Steinbok
- "Yes, we want" -- who owns global English?
Dennis Baron
- Call for papers for 2011 American Dialect Society Conference in Pittsburgh
Grant Barrett
- tree of liberty, again
victor steinbok
- Evolution as tinkerer, not engineer: need help
victor steinbok
- Supper with the devil . . .
Charles Doyle
- wet job (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Eyjafjallajokull from an icelander
Tom Zurinskas
- "eat lunch on" (& "dine out on")
Mailbox
- Evolution as tinkerer, not engineer: need help (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "attenuation"
Charles Doyle
- Eyjafjallajokull from an icelander (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- I am what I am ....
David Barnhart
- Elvii
James Harbeck
- Bard...
Victor Steinbok
- fuster-cluck
Victor Steinbok
- Tautophrases
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- "When you're in a hole . . ."
Charles Doyle
- "I cannot emphasize"
Joel S. Berson
- Russian /tl/
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- I am what I am .... (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Shawty / shorty
Neal Whitman
- pulling the wool
George Thompson
- ACE commercial
victor steinbok
- Songs without words
Benjamin Barrett
- Q: Writing to The Onion?
Joel S. Berson
- prince and prints
Tom Zurinskas
- Mixed euphemisms, or, Rest stops redux
Joel S. Berson
- Attenuator
Guy Letourneau
- Electrical vs Electronic
Guy Letourneau
- shakespeare pronunciation - audio
Tom Zurinskas
- Pachelbel's Canon
Michael Sheehan
- Sharing happiness ！！
Arun K Raman
- Further evidence of the decline of English
Wilson Gray
- word endings "nce" "nse" and "ns"
Tom Zurinskas
- "in the car" = '[customer] has rented the car and not yet returned it'
Mark Mandel
- Deltas 802
Herb Stahlke
- Imma / Ima / I'mma / I'ma / I'm a
Neal Whitman
- Plural subj., sing v.
Jonathan Lighter
- "optic" = seeming "narrative" PLUS "Wall Street"
Jonathan Lighter
- Rocks for Jocks, etc. (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Rocks for Jocks, etc. (UNCLASSIFIED)
Baker, John M.
- Rocks for Jocks, etc. (UNCLASSIFIED)
Gregory McNamee
- Rocks for Jocks, etc. (UNCLASSIFIED)
Laurence Horn
- Rocks for Jocks, etc. (UNCLASSIFIED)
Laurence Horn
- Rocks for Jocks, etc. (UNCLASSIFIED)
Dave Wilton
- Rocks for Jocks, etc. (UNCLASSIFIED)
Garson O'Toole
- Rocks for Jocks, etc. (UNCLASSIFIED)
Victor Steinbok
- Rocks for Jocks, etc. (UNCLASSIFIED)
Charles Doyle
- Rocks for Jocks, etc. (UNCLASSIFIED)
Jonathan Lighter
- Rocks for Jocks, etc. (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Rocks for Jocks, etc. (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Rocks for Jocks, etc. (UNCLASSIFIED)
Laurence Horn
- Rocks for Jocks, etc. (UNCLASSIFIED)
Laurence Horn
- Rocks for Jocks, etc. (UNCLASSIFIED)
Benjamin Zimmer
- Rocks for Jocks, etc. (UNCLASSIFIED)
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Rocks for Jocks, etc. (UNCLASSIFIED)
Jonathan Lighter
- Rocks for Jocks, etc. (UNCLASSIFIED)
Laurence Horn
- Rocks for Jocks, etc. (UNCLASSIFIED)
Jonathan Lighter
- boobquake and taboo avoidance, anti-fan page (unrelated)
Victor Steinbok
- Electrical vs Electronic (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "Crip course"?!
Wilson Gray
- OED pre-dating -- "jump cut"
Robin Hamilton
- Typical writing mistakes by L2 English speakers
Grant Barrett
- "Crip course"?! (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- X to Y : Plato to NATO, Monkeys to Junkies (Was Re: Rocks for Jocks, etc.)
Neal Whitman
- Q: What is "torture"?
Joel S. Berson
- Salmon -- bicycle slang (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- genetics
victor steinbok
- expired equines
victor steinbok
- You say crip, I say gut
Joel S. Berson
- You say crip, I say gut (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- A bit of current military jargon
Wilson Gray
- Sing. subj., sing v.-- and therefore sing. obj. of prep. phr.?
Joel S. Berson
- how is the prefix "ex" really spoken
Tom Zurinskas
- "tolerance"
Herb Stahlke
- how is the prefix "ex" really spoken (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- legend of kung-fu
Jonathan Lighter
- one more tautology
Laurence Horn
- Off the ol' hookeroo
Lisa Galvin
- searching ADS-L archives--some random thoughts
Victor Steinbok
- "Wop" in 1908?
Jonathan Lighter
- "What are you doing in _those_ underwear?" [NT]
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- "Whf are you doing in _those_ underwear?" [NT]
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Q: "New Guinea" in Hawthorne's Salem?
Joel S. Berson
- genetics (non-linguistic aside)
Michael Covarrubias
- (Off Topic) genetics and baldness
Garson O'Toole
- syntax texts
James Harbeck
- climate quotes (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- A calque?
Wilson Gray
- "Inside of a dog"
Laurence Horn
- Nunberg radio broadcasts
Amy West
- spam
Mark Mandel
- my bad
Paul Frank
- my bad (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "my bad"
Arnold Zwicky
- The Daily Show last
Wilson Gray
- "my bad" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away
Baker, John M.
- Heard on The Judges: _on the street_ "helpful, assistive, available," etc.
Wilson Gray
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