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- "crash blossoms" redux
Benjamin Zimmer
- New-to-me change in BE
Wilson Gray
- Sambo -- not 1861 or 1704, but 1657
Wilson Gray
- Sawney
Joel S. Berson
- Jock = a Scotsman, 1587 (antedates OED 1788-?)
Joel S. Berson
- More on Jock = a Scotsman
Robin Hamilton
- Yale Alumni Magazine Article on Stephen Goranson & Serenity Prayer
Shapiro, Fred
- language Web sites for student assignment
Amy West
- 1587 Jock = a Scotsman, or a horseman -- or "Jacky"?
Joel S. Berson
- generic names
Charles Doyle
- lawyer up antedating 1995-->1990 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Heard on The Judges: POSS = 0; trivial
Wilson Gray
- Wilson Gray wants to chat
Wilson Gray
- autopsy on zealot
Jonathan Lighter
- OT: research proposals
Amy West
- Wilson Gray wants to chat (OT?)
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- arsenal = collection = store
Joel S. Berson
- language web sites
Joan H. Hall
- denialism, denialist
Jonathan Lighter
- A Modester Proposal?
Joel S. Berson
- OT: denialism, denialist
Joel S. Berson
- singular "do" after "any...or"
Jonathan Lighter
- "Pants on The Ground" redux
Wilson Gray
- dip
victor steinbok
- Twitter/Facebook <noun>[ing]
Joel S. Berson
- Limerick (poem) antedating Nov. 30, 1880
Stephen Goranson
- The first French "restaurat" was in New York, in 1821?
Joel S. Berson
- OT: Wise and/or Otherwise [Was: Limerick (poem) antedating Nov. 30, 1880]
victor steinbok
- more on "allegory"
Jonathan Lighter
- "coony" adj. = sly, cunning, 1910
Joel S. Berson
- "coony" adj. = sly, cunning, 1910
Alison Murie
- "coony" adj. = sly, cunning, 1910
Alison Murie
- "coony" adj. = sly, cunning, 1910
Joel S. Berson
- "coony" adj. = sly, cunning, 1910
Jonathan Lighter
- "coony" adj. = sly, cunning, 1910
Jonathan Lighter
- "coony" adj. = sly, cunning, 1910
Joel S. Berson
- "coony" adj. = sly, cunning, 1910
DanG
- "coony" adj. = sly, cunning, 1910
Jonathan Lighter
- "coony" adj. = sly, cunning, 1910
George Thompson
- "coony" adj. = sly, cunning, 1910
Darla Wells
- "coony" adj. = sly, cunning, 1910
Bill Palmer
- "coony" adj. = sly, cunning, 1910
Joel S. Berson
- "coony" adj. = sly, cunning, 1910
Darla Wells
- coony
George Thompson
- 18th century "was" vs. "had been"
Joel S. Berson
- FW: The first French "restaurat" was in New York, in 1821? -- (message from Barry Popik)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- soldier = sailor
Jonathan Lighter
- historical-present tense for literature
Jonathan Lighter
- Gibbeting
Joel S. Berson
- invading Pearl Harbor
Jonathan Lighter
- battle-immature
Jonathan Lighter
- "Restaurant" (re message from Barry Popik)
Joel S. Berson
- OT: 'coons
Joel S. Berson
- soldier = sailor (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Origin of "Gitmo"
Jonathan Lighter
- Origin of "Gitmo" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- excited = enthusiastic; not in OED, AHD
Benjamin Barrett
- wreck and ruin
Jonathan Lighter
- "take offense to"; the "R-word"
Jonathan Lighter
- Request for books/articles on gender words
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- crude = crude oil, petroleum
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Quote: It is not enough to succeed; others must fail (antedating Iris Murdoch 1973; variant attrib Somerset Maugham 1959)
Garson O'Toole
- Bad Girls speak
Jonathan Lighter
- Q: "jag" (n) & "dun" (n), 1930
Joel S. Berson
- It is not enough to succeed; friends must fail and La Rochefoucauld
Garson O'Toole
- to = for
Jonathan Lighter
- Memoirs -- plus ça change ... (and "facticide", 1845 & 1870)
Joel S. Berson
- OT: (possums & pistol-packin' mamas; was: crude = crude oil, petroleum)
Mark Mandel
- "Missing T" revisited: Super Bowl edition
Neal Whitman
- Seen on DSL Reports letters: "sense" > _since_
Wilson Gray
- verbing the noun
Randy Alexander
- ffolliott
Jonathan Lighter
- OT: name porn
Victor Steinbok
- Botany
Bill Palmer
- apocryphal = archetypal? unbelievable?
Jonathan Lighter
- to X and ruin
Arnold Zwicky
- Fwd: Request for help (restaurant related)
Jesse Sheidlower
- Etc., etc.
Jonathan Lighter
- the "R-word"
Charles Doyle
- new research into semantic categories
James Harbeck
- Limitations on Number of Postings
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Etc., etc. (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Antedating of "Socialism"
Shapiro, Fred
- another language bites the dust
James Harbeck
- "as such"
Jonathan Lighter
- Quote: In two words: im-possible (antedating 1928)
Garson O'Toole
- Random notes on "The Bizarre notes and queries" 1890 - Google Books
Victor Steinbok
- Random notes on "The Bizarre notes and queries" 1890 - Google Books (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Quote: In two words: im-possible (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- FW: Big Easy (1969)-- message from Barry Popik
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- FW: Big Easy (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Son of snowpocalypse
Alice Faber
- Mexican jumping beans (was Re: Random notes on "The Bizarre notes and queries" 1890 - Google Books)
Benjamin Zimmer
- the then, the late, and in the room of
Joel S. Berson
- ffolliott (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Thorn
Lisa Galvin
- ffolliott (UNCLASSIFIED)--thorn
Geoff Nathan
- Thorn (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Heard on The Judges: and yet they live!
Wilson Gray
- bayoneteer
Jonathan Lighter
- dominionism; dominionist
Jonathan Lighter
- Do you mind if I look?
Victor Steinbok
- OT: Dirty politics, but legal, apparently: faux Census form
Wilson Gray
- British Black English (was: "as such")
Damien Hall
- "shocking"
Jonathan Lighter
- the then, the late, and in the room of (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- OT: ffolliott
Joel S. Berson
- hopey changey
Benjamin Zimmer
- Facebook has redefined via (?)
Barbara Need
- praxological
Jonathan Lighter
- the flip side of euphemisms and insults--polling data
Victor Steinbok
- Arabic flashcards bump student from plane
Dennis Baron
- Correction
Victor Steinbok
- OT: new research into semantic categories
Joel S. Berson
- Theriomorphism in a Los Angeles Gay Community
Jonathan Lighter
- Rip Van Winkles/Sleeping Beauties
Mark Peters
- Fwd: Theriomorphism in a Los Angeles Gay Community
Arnold Zwicky
- where i've been
Arnold Zwicky
- Poss. Ety. of "twink" [Was Re: Theriomorphism in a Los Angeles Gay Community]
Jonathan Lighter
- "strand" = strain
Jonathan Lighter
- OT: "strand" = strain
Joel S. Berson
- "justify": another reversal
Jonathan Lighter
- "-free" goes neutral
Jonathan Lighter
- Now we have literary "mixing" too
Joel S. Berson
- TWINK
RonButters at AOL.COM
- erotics
Jonathan Lighter
- "Collagiste" [Was: Now we have literary "mixing" too]
Joel S. Berson
- a side note on twink
Victor Steinbok
- "Hasty Pud Tickets"
Wilson Gray
- Proverb: Two is company, three is a crowd (1856)
Garson O'Toole
- Google Books -- nothing new, but nicely phrased
Joel S. Berson
- phobophilia
Jonathan Lighter
- Listserve postings "empty of content"
Wilson Gray
- Fwd: Re: British Black English (was: "as such")
Damien Hall
- mythopathic
Jonathan Lighter
- spurious Lincoln quotes
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- "war to end war"
Jonathan Lighter
- Head over heels
wordmall
- -philia
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "as much as"
Charles Doyle
- "worm's-eye view" antedating
Jonathan Lighter
- poss. antedating of "shrapnel" (exploding fragments)
Jonathan Lighter
- -ista
Victor Steinbok
- Quote about schooling interfering with education (Grant Allen 1894) (attrib Mark Twain 1907)
Garson O'Toole
- OT: Was: Now we have literary "mixing" too
Amy West
- antedating: "birdboy"
Jonathan Lighter
- legendary = believe it (verificatory) or not (fabulatory)
Joel S. Berson
- OT: Paleography Fwd: RE: Re: ffolliott
Amy West
- Q: The term for sections of Pope's "Essay on Man"
Joel S. Berson
- Was: Now we have literary "mixing" too
Seán Fitzpatrick
- Word boundaries
Bill Palmer
- student slang
Victor Steinbok
- "cellar door"
Stephen Goranson
- nexus ' 'connection'
Jonathan Lighter
- firefight = 'an instance of trying to extinguish a large fire'
Jonathan Lighter
- Between he and she
Joel S. Berson
- Back to you and I (who went to row the boat ashore)
Robin Hamilton
- "laugh with friends, at enemies"
Joel S. Berson
- "don't think zebras"
Joel S. Berson
- "let ourselves off the hook"?
Joel S. Berson
- subversive, adj.
Jonathan Lighter
- What is winter?
Tom Zurinskas
- sand
victor steinbok
- Singularity
Robin Hamilton
- Tiger
Bill Palmer
- Back to you and I
Joel S. Berson
- more nomconjobj references
Arnold Zwicky
- nomconjobj: MWDEU
Arnold Zwicky
- use and utility
victor steinbok
- In a rectangular grid, all roads lead where?
Joel S. Berson
- Back to you and I (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- nomconjobj: MWDEU (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- double-take words
Laurence Horn
- harshing the squee
James Harbeck
- performance murder
Benjamin Zimmer
- letter bomb
Victor Steinbok
- OT: Icelandic calendar was Re: What is winter?
Amy West
- Guido x 2
Benjamin Zimmer
- Quote: better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool (antedating 1907)
Garson O'Toole
- shoaling porpoises
George Thompson
- Alexander Haig
Bill Palmer
- Alexander Haig, continued
Bill Palmer
- Most Famous Haigisms
Shapiro, Fred
- the grapevine
George Thompson
- non-paternity event
George Thompson
- Poilice reporter
George Thompson
- Oympic sport "contested"
Eric Nielsen
- non-paternity event (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Another "old Irish saying"
victor steinbok
- MWDEU
Arnold Zwicky
- antedating: jarhead
Jonathan Lighter
- grapevine (quoting from "jarhead")
George Thompson
- more novel metaphors that people don't even notice they invent
Victor Steinbok
- nomconjobjs: some factors
Arnold Zwicky
- nomconjobjs: between you and me/I
Arnold Zwicky
- Sliced Bread 2.0
Dennis Baron
- Leatherneck [Was: antedating: jarhead]
Victor Steinbok
- What do you call a sex maniac?
Mark Peters
- nomconjobjs: between you and me/I (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Dangerous labels
David A. Daniel
- What do you call a sex maniac? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- One of the ten most beautiful sounding words: cellophane (1940)
Garson O'Toole
- COCA Corpus of Contemporary American English
Tom Zurinskas
- COCA Corpus of Contemporary American English (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- OT: What do you call a sex maniac?
Joel S. Berson
- a note on terminology
Arnold Zwicky
- nomconjobjs: wider comments
Arnold Zwicky
- ffoliott again -- OT :-)
Joel S. Berson
- "call him George"/"call me Shorty"
Benjamin Zimmer
- nomconjobjs: snide comment
Joel S. Berson
- nouning "predict"
Joel S. Berson
- "call him George"/"call me Shorty" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Use of hyphen in "New-York"
Jesse Sheidlower
- ADS-L nouning
Arnold Zwicky
- ADS-L nouning & SBOTY's
Joel S. Berson
- What is winter? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Ending with OK might not be OK. OK
Tom Zurinskas
- Non-Standard conjoined subject noun phrases
Robin Hamilton
- "outchance"
Laurence Horn
- Quote: Everything should be as simple as it can be, but not simpler (antedating attrib Albert Einstein 1950)
Garson O'Toole
- a wee predating of hotdog - if true - to circa 1870
David A. Daniel
- a wee predating of hotdog - if true - to circa 1870 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- OT: Toyota
Joel S. Berson
- Toyoda/Toyota (was: a wee predating of hotdog - if true - to circa 1870 )
Lisa Galvin
- Toyoda/Toyota
Salikoko Mufwene
- language at the Health Care Summit
victor steinbok
- novel
Jonathan Lighter
- Quote: Everything should be as simple as it can be, but not simpler (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "Make Way for Ducklings" [Was: novel]
Joel S. Berson
- Can't see the wood for the trees
Eoin C. Bairéad
- OT -- the WIKI Model
Robin Hamilton
- "investigated" for 'under investigation'
Mark Mandel
- schizoid
Jonathan Lighter
- "dropped on" (Non-Standard conjoined subject noun phrases)
George Thompson
- posting on NomConjObjs
Arnold Zwicky
- Matsuda
Joel S. Berson
- "dropped on"
Joel S. Berson
- push comes to shove (1924)
Benjamin Zimmer
- "At the drop of a hat", now 1837
Joel S. Berson
- so, that happened
Ann Burlingham
- Fun with Early American Newspapers
Joel S. Berson
- Carrying pole
Randy Alexander
- "no less" for "much less"
Alison Murie
- push comes to shove (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- quotes found on the internet (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "dropped on" (was: NSCSNP) -- *1914 - 1916
Robin Hamilton
- quotes found on the internet
Joel S. Berson
- "lob-lolly boy"
George Thompson
- "lob-lolly boy", 1773 & 1807
Joel S. Berson
- Living ass / dead lion, 1773
Joel S. Berson
- *tsunamus
Jonathan Lighter
- damaged leather-heads
George Thompson
- chill-LAY/chee-Lay
Herb Stahlke
- Antedating of "Tsunami"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of _doo(-)wop_
Wilson Gray
- "mint drop"
Joel S. Berson
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