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- Christmas Eve Antedating : "Humbug"
Joel S. Berson
- Smile when you say that in the 17th Century
Jonathan Lighter
- dialectology in linguistics
Wilson Gray
- More evidence, etc.
Wilson Gray
- renaming because of illness
Dave Hause
- Is my accent a crime?
Tom Zurinskas
- "tom-cod", 1769, U.S., antedates OED2; ? = "small fry"?
Joel S. Berson
- one fish, two fishes
Joel S. Berson
- Submariner (was "thousand-yard stare")
Mark Mandel
- Submariner [was "thousand-yard stare"] (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mark Mandel
- A quick note
Eric Nielsen
- another man-blend
Laurence Horn
- gender-neutral pronouns as epic fails
Dennis Baron
- In tune with his inner euphemism
Victor Steinbok
- Is my accent a crime? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "the apocryphal HDAS III"
George Thompson
- Irish mockers of the Irish
Joel S. Berson
- "the apocryphal HDAS III" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Jokes about colleges
Joel S. Berson
- Rsum for R ésumé
Michael McKernan
- Maurer
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- warism; (also) warist (n. & adj.)
Jonathan Lighter
- Whom Hispanics call "Hispanic" -- or not
Wilson Gray
- "mores" with silent E
Neal Whitman
- moola prospects (?), or no
Stephen Goranson
- Maurer (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- gender-neutral pronouns as epic fails (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- antedating: buffer
Jonathan Lighter
- Heard on The Judges: St. Louis BE
Wilson Gray
- protecting Brigliish
Tom Zurinskas
- clever by half
Victor Steinbok
- queen = "male homosexual", 1729
Joel S. Berson
- "Time flies ... like a banana"
Joel S. Berson
- blurb (antedating 1907 May 16)
Garson O'Toole
- Request for help on a quote: "Revolutions, before they happen,..."
Gerald Cohen
- _of_ > _on_ in BE
Wilson Gray
- irregardless, AND MISFEASANCE?!?!?
Mark Mandel
- Pressure Suit antedating (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Serious oops!; was Re: blurb (antedating 1907 May 16)
Barbara Need
- "break <someone's> eggs"
Joel S. Berson
- queenie = "male homosexual", 1736
Joel S. Berson
- Secret OED files uncovered
Michael Quinion
- "hot dog" again -- recent article in New York Times
Gerald Cohen
- "zero g" antedating (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "zero g" antedating OT
Paul
- massacring Queenglish
Tom Zurinskas
- proxies = reasons?
Herb Stahlke
- Proverb: Give a man a fish versus teach a man to fish (antedating variants starting in 1885)
Garson O'Toole
- earworm (was Re: Secret OED files uncovered)
Mark Mandel
- earworm (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- on the Economist blog
Arnold Zwicky
- Get your X on, Tweet
Rick Barr
- Watermelons are long to grow
Damien Hall
- Watermelons are long to grow AND getting used to
Damien Hall
- On messing wth Texas . . .
Charles C Doyle
- Quote: Kind to her inferiors. And where does she find them? (antedating Dorothy Parker 1941 January 4)
Garson O'Toole
- Quote: Age before beauty. And pearls before swine (antedating Dorothy Parker 1941 January 4)
Garson O'Toole
- illegitemate state interest
victor steinbok
- another -gate
Victor Steinbok
- a burning question
Victor Steinbok
- "the (unnatural) trade"; bonus: James Dalton's _A Genuine Narrative_ (1728; ECCO)
Joel S. Berson
- uhm August!!!
David Barnhart
- Quote: No matter how thin you slice it: bologna (antedating 1926 May 9, attrib Al Smith 1928 Jul 22)
Garson O'Toole
- OT: another -gate
Joel S. Berson
- Where "down" is in New England.
Joel S. Berson
- another -gate (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- review of _German: Biography of a Language_
Mark Mandel
- Antedating of "Been There, Done That"
Garson O'Toole
- Quote: Run the gamut of human emotion from A to B (Dorothy Parker 1934 Feb 19)
Garson O'Toole
- Where "down" is in Old England
Joel S. Berson
- shotgun, camelback house (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Fool's Errand
wordmall
- "high cockney rorum"
George Thompson
- "Fog in English Channel: Continent Isolated" antedated to 1931
Stephen Goranson
- dough boy (infantryman) antedated to 1835
Stephen Goranson
- Magic Quotations (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- real time = 'a point or period of time in actuality'; (also adj.)
Jonathan Lighter
- "ticket spitter"
Joel S. Berson
- Dueling dialects
Wilson Gray
- Quote: useful idiot (antedating attrib Vladimir Lenin 1961)
Garson O'Toole
- The slow month(s)
Joel S. Berson
- (A little OT) Re: "Fog in English Channel: Continent Isolated" antedated to 1931
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- Ticket Spitter
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- "Fog in English Channel: Continent Isolated" antedated to 1931 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "Hell is the impossibility of reason"
Jonathan Lighter
- non-native medical dictation and transcription
Mark Mandel
- OT: Is this likely to be any parts of true? Origin of boogie-woogie
Wilson Gray
- "screw" = "copulate with", 1719
Joel S. Berson
- Long s
Joel S. Berson
- (now almost wholly OT) Re: "Fog in English Channel: Continent Isolated" antedated to 1931
Mark Mandel
- "typo"
Charles C Doyle
- past perfect for past
Moore, John
- nut bar
Victor Steinbok
- Dry-Erase Girl and the etymology of HOPA
Victor Steinbok
- looking for a new word to go with the story
Victor Steinbok
- Why subjunctive?
Bill Palmer
- Wikipedia
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- "PIN"
Charles C Doyle
- looking for a new word to go with the story (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Quote: Even nostalgia isn't what it used to be (antedating 1963 Oct 8) Punch is not what it used to be (1901 Jan)
Garson O'Toole
- chiselo
Joan H. Hall
- antedating "dead stick" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- VERY GRAPHIC IMAGERY
David Barnhart
- OT: Impending death of a language
Wilson Gray
- Phrase: smart as a box of rocks (1982 Nov 3) dumb as a box of rocks (1973 Oct 29)
Garson O'Toole
- advocate
Jonathan Lighter
- "PIN" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- controversial hyphen (and apostrophe)
Ronald Butters
- "quitter"
Charles C Doyle
- refute = 'repudiate'; catastrophic = 'extraordinarily severe'
Jonathan Lighter
- Dr. Laura and the N-word; etymology and the N-word
Jonathan Lighter
- Where's HDAS III? (was: Re: "the apocryphal HDAS III")
Mailbox
- "the (unnatural) trade", 1728
Joel S. Berson
- drink the kool-aid (1982, 1985)
Benjamin Zimmer
- refute = 'repudiate'; catastrophic = 'extraordinarily severe' (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Heard on Springer: old-school BE; BE "BIN"
Wilson Gray
- go-to = 'frequently or most commonly chosen' PLUS "strategery" gets serious
Jonathan Lighter
- Heard on Springer: old-school BE; BE "BIN" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- go-to = 'frequently or most commonly chosen' PLUS "strategery" gets serious (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- a put-out dog
George Thompson
- A saying: the oyster and the crab
Joel S. Berson
- Typos on ABC
Barbara Need
- a put-out dog (corrected)
George Thompson
- Yet More Bad Girl Talk
Jonathan Lighter
- fanboy and its progeny
Victor Steinbok
- Q: "bite" = "to cheat"?
Joel S. Berson
- Q: "bazzil strings"?
Joel S. Berson
- 'low-life (adj) 1728, antedates OED2 1794
Joel S. Berson
- manopause; to advocate
Jonathan Lighter
- the Macks
Jonathan Lighter
- "make NP sing and dance"
Wilson Gray
- oldhood = 'old age'
Jonathan Lighter
- "take a Dixie"
George Thompson
- Another Dialect Notes 1909 note
Wilson Gray
- The artist, the shoemaker, and the sandal
Joel S. Berson
- New e-mail list on variationist sociolinguistics
Damien Hall
- bump (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- illegal sojourners
Victor Steinbok
- The financial wit and wisdom of Zsa Zsa Gabor
Victor Steinbok
- quote = 'say or write (something memorable)'
Jonathan Lighter
- Quote: until the electorate discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury (antedating 1946 Jun 1)
Garson O'Toole
- OED's US pron. of "minion": optional schwa?
Mark Mandel
- The plural of "moose" is ...
Joel S. Berson
- "penalties" = "violations"
Joel S. Berson
- "stronger as"
Joel S. Berson
- "See at" = see to, check; "see in" = look at
Wilson Gray
- Further evidence, etc.
Wilson Gray
- entitled
Paul Frank
- More on early txtng
Laurence Horn
- Really, really alone
Bill Palmer
- "blowing on one's fingers"
Joel S. Berson
- Q: "pull straws", figuratively?
Joel S. Berson
- "the (unnatural) trade", c1693/1694
Joel S. Berson
- dead to rights
victor steinbok
- plausibility check
victor steinbok
- commingle(d) = 'stuff to recycle'
Mark Mandel
- comingle
Joel S. Berson
- a hot mess
Jonathan Lighter
- Retronym?
David Metevia
- B = bedbug
Jonathan Lighter
- "Thanks! I Needed That!"
Jonathan Lighter
- a book of possible interest
Laurence Horn
- -gate
Joel S. Berson
- Antedating of "Latin America"
Shapiro, Fred
- a crash of rhinos
Jonathan Lighter
- jack-all PLUS suck
Jonathan Lighter
- Further evidence of the demise of English as world language
Wilson Gray
- Further Antedating of "Latin America"
Shapiro, Fred
- Still Further Antedating of "Latin America"
Shapiro, Fred
- "Latin America" An Anomaly in OED
Shapiro, Fred
- "reek"?
Charles C Doyle
- a crash of rhinos (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- perch jerking
Darla Wells
- recording of inland Maine accent
Lynne Murphy
- "Beef and Stake"
Dan Goodman
- "small", the verb
Joel S. Berson
- "mush" #5, HDAS, is alive & well
George Thompson
- Wilson's Wide World of Spam
Wilson Gray
- to "stage"
Jonathan Lighter
- to "stage" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "miss-nancying"
George Thompson
- Bronx children talking, 1954
George Thompson
- Loosening a "fixed expression"
Wilson Gray
- comingling revisited
Laurence Horn
- Fw: DEA wants to hire Ebonics translators
Margaret Lee
- timely as an adverb (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "Thanks! I Needed That!" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Fw: DEA wants to hire Ebonics translators (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Woman-hitting by Sean Connery
Joel S. Berson
- findability--a real word?!
David Barnhart
- coining words in the age of the Internet
Paul Frank
- Dylan Ratigan on Ebonics
Herb Stahlke
- Star-Ledger video on NJ accents
Ben Zimmer
- sensitivities (pl.)
geoffrey nunberg
- "wh" words - was "no subject" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Wilson Gray
- "Intercept" > prevent?
Wilson Gray
- Dan Burley
Wilson Gray
- Fwd: crow bites
Arnold Zwicky
- Kibosh origin?
Michael Quinion
- reget--a real word?
Joel S. Berson
- No subject
Brandon
- "gay" in "Bringing Up Baby"
Joel S. Berson
- odd error
Victor Steinbok
- crow bites
Mark Mandel
- OT: What is old is new, again.
Wilson Gray
- hauntology
Jonathan Lighter
- abrogate = 'arrogate'
Jonathan Lighter
- "jockey", 1632 [published 1637], antedates 1670-; also "masty"
Joel S. Berson
- "jockey", 1632 [published 1637], antedates 1670-; also "masty"
Wilson Gray
- "jockey", 1632 [published 1637], antedates 1670-; also "masty"
Joel S. Berson
- "jockey", 1632 [published 1637], antedates 1670-; also "masty"
Wilson Gray
- "jockey", 1632 [published 1637], antedates 1670-; also "masty"
Shapiro, Fred
- "jockey", 1632 [published 1637], antedates 1670-; also "masty"
Joel S. Berson
- "jockey", 1632 [published 1637], antedates 1670-; also "masty"
Jesse Sheidlower
- alive and kicking
George Thompson
- "go for the downs"
George Thompson
- co-equal
Wilson Gray
- slash
Randy Alexander
- Kibosh origin?-- etcetera
Stephen Goranson
- Linguistic diversity index per country
Tom Zurinskas
- infectious = 'imparting excitement, enjoyment, etc.'
Jonathan Lighter
- mumu
Jonathan Lighter
- Eponymous Baseball-Related Disease Names Not in OED
Shapiro, Fred
- "boffin" invades America
Ronald Butters
- three-sixty = 'comprehensive and even-handed'
Jonathan Lighter
- Bad Girls Speak
Jonathan Lighter
- William Blake or Jim Morrison Quote
Shapiro, Fred
- _Teaser_ = "preview of a coming attraction" > _tease_ = "prepare a preview of a coming attraction"
Wilson Gray
- "rally"; "restore honor"
Jonathan Lighter
- Personal seedless watermelons
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- humanly raised family farm meats
Joel S. Berson
- For the eggcorn file: "halo ground"
geoffrey nunberg
- Man-words
Mark Peters
- Oxford English Dictionary 'will not be printed again'
Tom Zurinskas
- Hamlet in translation
Jonathan Lighter
- "mauve Hungarian band/music"
Joel S. Berson
- More 1908 Dialect Notes on E 'Bama (white) English
Wilson Gray
- OUP statement on future of print OED
Jesse Sheidlower
- OUP statement on future of print OED (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Hamlet in translation (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- More on "You don't say!"
David Barnhart
- from the country of the blend: "acq-hire"
geoffrey nunberg
- In memory of Captain Moroni
Joel S. Berson
- [Personal pan] pizza
Joel S. Berson
- titty
Joel S. Berson
- "First Rough Draft of History"
Shapiro, Fred
- "off of" in NYT headline
David Wake
- Webelos was Re: "outside of a dog"
Neal Whitman
- cold cuts.
Joel S. Berson
- The plural of weetabix" is ...
Joel S. Berson
- Dewey Cheatham and Howe (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- discover
Victor Steinbok
- A new (to me, IAC) spelling rule
Wilson Gray
- in the water = 'exerting a significant but mysterious influence'
Jonathan Lighter
- A term for how the internet affects English?
Joel S. Berson
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