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- New Spelling System in Spanish
Tom Zurinskas
- shoot blanks
Wilson Gray
- fresh off the boat
Wilson Gray
- Junk terms (UNCLASSIFIED)
Wilson Gray
- one-drop rule
Paul Frank
- to fumfer
Paul Frank
- sci-fi western and space western
Paul Frank
- decimate
Jonathan Lighter
- groinal
Jonathan Lighter
- Singing in a dialect and "Authentic pronunciation" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Eric Nielsen
- The new on-line OED -- quotations missing?
Joel S. Berson
- flip, bounce (drinks); coaster (coastal sailor); 1702
Joel S. Berson
- "chit chat way", 1766
Joel S. Berson
- The Telegraph and the OED
Shapiro, Fred
- zoonymy
Jonathan Lighter
- gone parabolic
Victor Steinbok
- datascape
Paul Frank
- rigged/kabuki
Victor Steinbok
- bubkes/bupkis, etc.
Victor Steinbok
- cables
Neal Whitman
- Fwd: groinal
Arnold Zwicky
- gone parabolic (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Ballal ballar
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- bubkes/bupkis, etc. (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Earliest Acronym
Shapiro, Fred
- The new on-line OED -- quotations missing? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Quick search & View full entry (OED Nov. 2010)
Joel S. Berson
- "Timeline of entries in the OED"
Joel S. Berson
- Quote: To err is human, to really foul things up requires a computer (William E. Vaughan 1969 April 2)
Garson O'Toole
- pink taco
Ronald Butters
- More on rapping and rolling
Laurence Horn
- symphony = long classical work?
Herb Stahlke
- wetwork (semantic drift)
Robin Hamilton
- Yips
David A. Daniel
- groinal and loinal
Joel S. Berson
- Sign-in to new OED
Joel S. Berson
- Acronyms and pronouncability
Joel S. Berson
- real-time (UNCLASSIFIED)
Jonathan Lighter
- it's Coke and Pepsi
Paul Frank
- pink taco etc.
Ronald Butters
- New OED and mistyping
Joel S. Berson
- loinal
Arnold Zwicky
- "swamp" as reflexive verb -- which sense?
Joel S. Berson
- wetwork (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- plumed serpent
Ronald Butters
- More on rapping and rolling (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- antedating bitching (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Tube Steak WAS Re: pink taco (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- BE a la the UD
Wilson Gray
- "cohoop", v., = "to whoop", 1676; also 1766-1770; 1909
Joel S. Berson
- "cohoop", v., = "to whoop", 1676
Joel S. Berson
- Q: "scrug", a noun from circa 1676?
Joel S. Berson
- Request: Match p-l-y in 1756 document
Garson O'Toole
- Graffito: "What if the Hokey-Pokey IS what it's all about?" [NT]
Wilson Gray
- chuckie
Paul Frank
- "Jay" as female name
Jonathan Lighter
- Caingorms
Joel S. Berson
- Quote: What if the Hokey-Pokey really is what it's all about? (1998 February 21)
Garson O'Toole
- changes to oed
David Barnhart
- chuckie appears to be un-American
Ronald Butters
- "bulls and bears" - antedatings to 1725
Joel S. Berson
- Obsolete words ripe for revival
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Wilson waves the white flag
Wilson Gray
- acronym antedated to 1940
Stephen Goranson
- Antedating of "Initialism"
Shapiro, Fred
- OT :-) Antedating of "Initialism"
Joel S. Berson
- Further Antedating of "Initialism"
Shapiro, Fred
- dialect in the comics
Arnold Zwicky
- Thinking of WOTY?
David Barnhart
- Backformation: uprise
Neal Whitman
- Nominations: Separated by a Common Language Words of the Year
Lynne Murphy
- Agnostic (non-theological)
Federico Escobar
- OT: Youneverknow.
Wilson Gray
- Antedating of "Spanglish"
Shapiro, Fred
- Hypenated [Was: Agnostic (non-theological)]
Victor Steinbok
- "I have absolutely no control over my _public_ muscles."
Wilson Gray
- Yet one more case of "bitching"
Victor Steinbok
- fun with pronouns
Victor Steinbok
- Further Antedating of "Spanglish"
Shapiro, Fred
- Still Further Antedating of "Spanglish"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Orientalism"
Shapiro, Fred
- Further Antedating of "Spanglish" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Flavorwire: The Year in Rap Neologisms
Ben Zimmer
- (no subject)
Robert Hartwell Fiske
- Flavorwire: The Year in Rap Neologisms (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Antedating of "Palaeography"
Shapiro, Fred
- suggestive business names
Arnold Zwicky
- no fun with pronouns
Ronald Butters
- still baffled about fun with pronouns
Ronald Butters
- EOTY -- "food-insecure"?
Joel S. Berson
- way goose, wake goose?
Stephen Goranson
- Fear of "His"
Jonathan Lighter
- odd form
David Barnhart
- "Representing Justice": Exciting Book & Exciting Website
Shapiro, Fred
- Wrong List Serv
Shapiro, Fred
- Saint Yankey's day
Joel S. Berson
- more gendered inanimates
Laurence Horn
- "With tombstones in NP's eyes"
Wilson Gray
- WikiLeakable
Paul Frank
- the Machine
Paul Frank
- face
Victor Steinbok
- the syntax and semantics of pronouns
Ronald Butters
- freshman comp
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- the Machine (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Dilinger's
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Dislodge its hold
Federico Escobar
- freshman comp (UNCLASSIFIED)
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- absolute clarity
Arnold Zwicky
- "swamp" verb, 1675, 1677 (and noun)
Joel S. Berson
- Quote: If it ain't broke, don't fix it! (antedating1973 October 25)
Garson O'Toole
- Idiot Quote by Cultural Luminary
Jonathan Lighter
- thanatical; status orgasticus; attribute with
Jonathan Lighter
- vishing, phishing, spoofing, using social engineering
Tom Zurinskas
- "Sweet Science" Not in OED
Shapiro, Fred
- Another "Chinese proverb"
Jonathan Lighter
- Quote: Meretricious and a Happy New Year (1930 December 6)
Garson O'Toole
- square WAS "Sweet Science" Not in OED (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- abreevs
Joel S. Berson
- Bad Girls Ride Again (UNCLASSIFIED)
Jonathan Lighter
- well, adj.; new light on "diva"
Jonathan Lighter
- Q: "coocally", adj. in 1669?
Joel S. Berson
- "Instrument of nature", a euphemism, 1655
Joel S. Berson
- Slight Antedating of "Conservatism"
Shapiro, Fred
- HSAS and -boo
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Antedating of "Classicism"
Shapiro, Fred
- ciggieboo (unverified 1957) was Re: abreevs
Garson O'Toole
- funny pronouns
Ronald Butters
- "yanky" as applied to ships
Joel S. Berson
- HDAS and -boo
Ronald Butters
- "Yankee", 1777, antedates 1784--
Joel S. Berson
- A Latin bugalu
Wilson Gray
- Antedating of "Biomedical"
Shapiro, Fred
- _Splib_ redux
Wilson Gray
- Antedating of "Biophysical"
Victor Steinbok
- kettling
Paul Frank
- YBQ on CNN
Jonathan Lighter
- _Splib_ redux (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- ciggie (antedating 1913 October) ciggy (antedating 1914 December)
Garson O'Toole
- stop loss
Paul Frank
- Yankee clippers etc.
Joel S. Berson
- Legal Blogger takes pride in OED cites (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- calzone, bench press (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Clever company names
Joel S. Berson
- "not so much"
Jonathan Lighter
- Quote: 640K ought to be enough for anyone (attrib Bill Gates 1990 January 1)
Garson O'Toole
- "on the radar" as "aware of surrondings"
Herb Stahlke
- antedating scampi (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- kizarney (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- another old-timey (double-)ethnic slur
Laurence Horn
- antedating scampi
Joel S. Berson
- Advanced search with online OED
Joel S. Berson
- spherification
victor steinbok
- OT? [ADS-L] antedating scampi
Joel S. Berson
- incestuous = 'objectionably reciprocal in social or intellectual terms'
Jonathan Lighter
- gypsy (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- OED Advanced search
Joel S. Berson
- embargo
Paul Frank
- alphabet soup
Paul Frank
- Thank you for having me (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Full Text Newspaper databases (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- alphabet soup (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Correction: Thank you for having me
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- "Memex" Not in OED
Shapiro, Fred
- brittle, adj.
Jonathan Lighter
- Linguistic dark matter
Michael Quinion
- "acronym" redux
Ben Zimmer
- Earliest Acronym (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- dark matter matters
David Barnhart
- dark matter matters (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Siring [was: Linguistic dark matter]
Joel S. Berson
- Modern Proverb: Eye for eye, tooth for tooth - result: blind and toothless (1914 February 5)
Garson O'Toole
- tailgaiting, truck, trucker and a few other assorted pointers
Victor Steinbok
- Quip: Dangers of modern foods; The worst thing in the world for us? - Wedding Cake
Garson O'Toole
- cosmesis
Paul Frank
- hunt and peck
Paul Frank
- Linguistic dark matter - obsolete words
Tom Zurinskas
- dark matter matters -word counts
Tom Zurinskas
- OT: Behaviorists
Joel S. Berson
- Chuckies revisited -- Was: Re: Linguistic dark matter
Robin Hamilton
- Quote: little bridegroom on a wedding cake (Nancy Hale 1943) (applied to Dewey - Ruth Hanna McCormick 1944 June 29)
Garson O'Toole
- Google Ngram on "Christmas tree"
Joel S. Berson
- "fashionmonger", 1729; interdates OED 1624 -- 1782
Joel S. Berson
- faced paced
Victor Steinbok
- Linguistic dark matter - culturomics
Tom Zurinskas
- Should Dictionaries Include Common Confusions?
Shapiro, Fred
- "Separates" of mid-18th-century Connecticut
Joel S. Berson
- Nominations for WOTYs??
David Barnhart
- Linguistic dark matter - search for pre-1843 "shyster"
Gerald Cohen
- tschazm
Jonathan Lighter
- "with all four feet"
Jonathan Lighter
- "fighting through inadversity"
Laurence Horn
- Google's metadata mish-mash
geoffrey nunberg
- Stupid reading-comprehension query: "abuse"
Jesse Sheidlower
- Nominations for WOTYs?? - It's "austerity" for M-W for 2010
Tom Zurinskas
- underwater
Victor Steinbok
- underwater (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- culturomics - word lens
Tom Zurinskas
- chicken hawk
Paul Frank
- dredged/drenched
Victor Steinbok
- chicken v. twink
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Pedophilia and chicken
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Expressive Matter Vendors
Dan Goncharoff
- 2010 WOTY nominations open
Grant Barrett
- Fwd: LSA Annual Meeting Deadlines/Overflow Hotel
Grant Barrett
- gleeking (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "Myself ... 'shock and awed' him"
Joel S. Berson
- "information is the currency of democracy"
geoffrey nunberg
- SbaCL words of the year
Lynne Murphy
- Ngrams and proper nouns
Joel S. Berson
- Is Google improving its metadata?
Joel S. Berson
- "pluche" not in the OED
Joel S. Berson
- (Another bogus in?) Google's metadata mish-mash
Joel S. Berson
- Connecticut is no longer in New England -- or perhaps anywhere?
Joel S. Berson
- "shyster" [was: Linguistic dark matter]
Joel S. Berson
- "spitten image" goes mainstream
Laurence Horn
- New format of OED Online; finding keys
Mark Mandel
- signature, adj.
Paul Frank
- New OED interface -- Advanced search
Joel S. Berson
- Velvet Elvis
Victor Steinbok
- QOTY? - "I am not promiscuous. ...
Joel S. Berson
- surf-bathing
Paul Frank
- T-bone, the verb (and corresponding noun)
Joel S. Berson
- Barnhart's Words
David Barnhart
- ADS-L Digest - 22 Dec 2010 to 23 Dec 2010 (#2010-358) [AutoReply]
Damien Hall
- Happy Christmas vs. Merry Christmas
Paul Frank
- trash
Jonathan Lighter
- incredulous
Jonathan Lighter
- whatever = "you're welcome"
Jonathan Lighter
- "Indian" joins "Negro"
Jonathan Lighter
- "public library", 1674
Joel S. Berson
- Possible WOTY: HMU
Baker, John
- violence
Jonathan Lighter
- Happy Christmas heard
David Barnhart
- WOL's WOTY
Alison Murie
- more Happy Christmases
David Barnhart
- minor OED annoyance
Victor Steinbok
- Equal opportunity: more Happy [and Merry] Christmases
Joel S. Berson
- [dZ&gwar], [dZ&gjuwar], and [dZ&gwaIr]
Herb Stahlke
- [dZ&gwar], [dZ&gjuwar], and [dZ&gwaIr]
Douglas G. Wilson
- [dZ&gwar], [dZ&gjuwar], and [dZ&gwaIr]
Douglas G. Wilson
- [dZ&gwar], [dZ&gjuwar], and [dZ&gwaIr]
Tom Zurinskas
- [dZ&gwar], [dZ&gjuwar], and [dZ&gwaIr]
Laurence Horn
- [dZ&gwar], [dZ&gjuwar], and [dZ&gwaIr]
Herb Stahlke
- [dZ&gwar], [dZ&gjuwar], and [dZ&gwaIr]
Tom Zurinskas
- [dZ&gwar], [dZ&gjuwar], and [dZ&gwaIr]
Tom Zurinskas
- WOTY in Philadelphia Inquirer on Christmas
David Barnhart
- handcrafted
Jonathan Lighter
- blendmaster
Jonathan Lighter
- rich
Jonathan Lighter
- antedating boxing day (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- How Geezers are Said to Talk
Jonathan Lighter
- refudiate in the news again
Victor Steinbok
- Made in China
Victor Steinbok
- Which Chikun? Was: -- Re: handcrafted
Robin Hamilton
- recent nominations
David Barnhart
- North American English Dialects, Based on Pronunciation Patterns
Russ McClay
- off topic--not (was "China")
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Chicken Little, Chicken-Licken, Henny-Penny, Hen Pen and other characters
Garson O'Toole
- a gay
Victor Steinbok
- Made in China (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- it must be earlier
David Barnhart
- Which Chikun?
Joel S. Berson
- Caspar Milquetoast
Victor Steinbok
- "Damn You, Auto Correct!"
Mark Mandel
- live, adj. = "(of entertainment) thrilling"
Jonathan Lighter
- live, adj. = "(of entertainment) thrilling"
Dan Goncharoff
- live, adj. = "(of entertainment) thrilling"
Laurence Horn
- live, adj. = "(of entertainment) thrilling"
Laurence Horn
- live, adj. = "(of entertainment) thrilling"
Margaret Lee
- live, adj. = "(of entertainment) thrilling"
Jonathan Lighter
- live, adj. = "(of entertainment) thrilling"
Dan Goncharoff
- live, adj. = "(of entertainment) thrilling"
Jonathan Lighter
- live, adj. = "(of entertainment) thrilling"
Joel S. Berson
- live, adj. = "(of entertainment) thrilling"
Charles C Doyle
- live, adj. = "(of entertainment) thrilling"
Dan Goncharoff
- live, adj. = "(of entertainment) thrilling"
Joel S. Berson
- NTWOTY -- connectome/connectomics
Joel S. Berson
- "bogge", v., = "boggle, balk,hesitate (at)", 1700
Joel S. Berson
- "beyond the pall"
Joel S. Berson
- marking
Victor Steinbok
- "refudiate" (v.) repudiate (adj,)
Joel S. Berson
- Proud flesh and proud door panels
Michael Sheehan
- "chucking" = "noisy vocalization by humans", 1692
Joel S. Berson
- WOTY candidate: "prehab" (gratia Charlie Sheen)
Laurence Horn
- Antedating of "Accident-Proneness"
Shapiro, Fred
- "(speech) balloon", as in the comics
Joel S. Berson
- Ben Z on NPR today
Laurence Horn
- "beyond the pale"
Joel S. Berson
- pronunciation of "Syracuse"
Charles C Doyle
- Query: "Frog and Toe" (London; New York City; 19C. cant)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Creaky voice: Invitation to be part of my research project
Ikuko Patricia Yuasa
- ADS Membership glitch
Tom Zurinskas
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