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- Connotation loss
 
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Swordplay
 
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Quoted without comment
 
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- "Bindlestiff" in Blish
 
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- An odd use of the N-word
 
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Sambo
 
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
-        [ADS-L] Heard on local NE PA news
 
RonButters at AOL.COM
- _To_? Or _for_?
 
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Quick meaning alive
 
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Quick meaning alive
 
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Mark Twain quote about his father's surprising maturation (antedating attrib circa 1915) (req paper verification)
 
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- least likely to succeed?  really?
 
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- least likely to succeed? really?
 
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- least likely to succeed? really?
 
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Antedating of "Junior High School"
 
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Antedating of "Junior High School"
 
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- "politics"
 
ronbutters at AOL.COM
-        Re: [ADS-L] 1909
 
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- white and black and tan and red
 
ronbutters at AOL.COM
-        Re: [ADS-L] vagazzle/vajazzle
 
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- political correctn
 
ronbutters at AOL.COM
-        Re: [ADS-L] political correctn
 
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Census usage/racial terms
 
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- sunset
 
Randy Alexander
- A new collective noun: "astonishment"
 
Randy Alexander
- WOTY 2009 nominations
 
Baker, John
- gin game
 
Baker, John
- Proprietary WOTY and WOTD
 
Baker, John
- "Bindle"
 
Baker, John
- Kryponite and garlic
 
Baker, John
- Antedating of "Junior High School"
 
Baker, John
- Antedating of "Junior High School"
 
Baker, John
- Antedating of "Junior High School"
 
Baker, John
- gin game
 
Baker, John
- gin game
 
Baker, John
- Another new old saying
 
Baker, John
- Time and banned words
 
Baker, John
- comic 1860s pronunciation?
 
Baker, John
- Misdirected posts Re: McWhorter....
 
Baker, John
- Einstein said it?
 
Baker, John
- Quote: Two things are infinite, as far as we know - the universe and human stupidity (antedating 1947 attrib Einstein 1969)
 
Baker, John
- a deadly game of cat and mouse
 
Baker, John
- a deadly game of cat and mouse
 
Baker, John
- ears peeled
 
Baker, John
- not particularly new, but...
 
David Barnhart
- macquarie nominations,
 
David Barnhart
- Time and banned words
 
David Barnhart
- REVISED Call For Papers ADS NORTHEAST REGION
 
David Barnhart
- that article
 
David Barnhart
- out-Xing X
 
David Barnhart
- PC-ness
 
David Barnhart
- guido and guidette
 
David Barnhart
- Britain's Communication Champion blames parents for kids not talking
 
Dennis Baron
- Language-related twitter account?
 
Dennis Baron
- Request for member withdrawal
 
Dennis Baron
- Multitasking: learning to text and teach at the same time
 
Dennis Baron
- Webster ’s  banned for too much sex
 
Dennis Baron
- Will the iPad change your life?
 
Dennis Baron
- Amazon stops selling books published by Macmillan
 
Dennis Baron
- Quick meaning alive (was: Heard on NFL Blackhawks vs. Redwings)
 
Benjamin Barrett
- Quick meaning alive
 
Benjamin Barrett
- Quick meaning alive
 
Benjamin Barrett
- Fictional Materials for OED
 
Benjamin Barrett
- Quick meaning alive
 
Benjamin Barrett
- "quorum" -- early 19th C children's game
 
Benjamin Barrett
- Sandscript-eggcorn?
 
Benjamin Barrett
- Sandscript-eggcorn?
 
Benjamin Barrett
- "Negro" in the news
 
Benjamin Barrett
- China Inc.
 
Benjamin Barrett
- "Negro" in the news
 
Benjamin Barrett
- "politics"
 
Benjamin Barrett
- dying a death
 
Benjamin Barrett
- Request for member withdrawal
 
Benjamin Barrett
- In drag = disguised
 
Benjamin Barrett
- Omission of definite article
 
Benjamin Barrett
- Request for member withdrawal
 
Benjamin Barrett
- word of the year: tweet; word of the decade: google
 
Grant Barrett
- least likely to succeed?  really?
 
Grant Barrett
- 1909
 
Grant Barrett
- Language-related twitter account?
 
Grant Barrett
- Call for Papers: Language Variation and Change in the US and Canada 2010
 
Grant Barrett
- New Zealand 1881 article on American Drink Slang
 
Grant Barrett
- "broderick a confession"
 
Grant Barrett
- anglo-saxon
 
David Bergdahl
- OT: 'Pied noir' [was: McWhorter on "Negro"]
 
David Bergdahl
- Fwd:  Ouakaka or Ouakalke
 
Joel S. Berson
- "point-device"
 
Joel S. Berson
- "point-device"
 
Joel S. Berson
- OT: Further Antedating of "Real McCoy"
 
Joel S. Berson
- "the real McKay" 1875
 
Joel S. Berson
- Kryponite and garlic
 
Joel S. Berson
- Kryponite and garlic
 
Joel S. Berson
- Kryponite and garlic
 
Joel S. Berson
- Kryponite and garlic
 
Joel S. Berson
- Kryponite and garlic
 
Joel S. Berson
- Kryponite and garlic
 
Joel S. Berson
- COOTY of the year?
 
Joel S. Berson
- Kryponite and garlic
 
Joel S. Berson
- Quick(lime) to point out.
 
Joel S. Berson
- Quick(lime) to point out.
 
Joel S. Berson
- Quick(lime) to point out.
 
Joel S. Berson
- Sandscript-eggcorn?
 
Joel S. Berson
- Mark Twain quote about his father's surprising maturation (antedating attrib circa 1915) (req paper verification)
 
Joel S. Berson
- New old saying: "90% of the work...."
 
Joel S. Berson
- sunset
 
Joel S. Berson
- OT: sunset
 
Joel S. Berson
- Paul Dickson still thinks Benjamin Franklin collected the "Drinker's Dictionary"
 
Joel S. Berson
- Mark Twain quote about his father's surprising maturation (antedating attrib circa 1915) (req paper verification)
 
Joel S. Berson
- Paul Dickson still thinks Benjamin Franklin collected the "Drinker's Dictionary"
 
Joel S. Berson
- Junior High
 
Joel S. Berson
- The 2000s
 
Joel S. Berson
- Junior High
 
Joel S. Berson
- "Bindlestiff" in Blish
 
Joel S. Berson
- Kryponite and garlic
 
Joel S. Berson
- Apology for HTML in my messages
 
Joel S. Berson
- Antedating of "Junior High School"
 
Joel S. Berson
- must of have??
 
Joel S. Berson
- "African American Newspapers, 1827-1998"
 
Joel S. Berson
- McWhorter on "Negro English"
 
Joel S. Berson
- McWhorter on "cast the mote"
 
Joel S. Berson
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"]
 
Joel S. Berson
- "[chimpanzee] politics"
 
Joel S. Berson
- "politics"
 
Joel S. Berson
- "[chimpanzee] politics"
 
Joel S. Berson
- (Further) antedating quote about spelling
 
Joel S. Berson
- (chimpanzee) "politics"
 
Joel S. Berson
- :-)  mostly -- McWhorter on "standard English"
 
Joel S. Berson
- Fear of eels
 
Joel S. Berson
- "Cullen skink"
 
Joel S. Berson
- (Further) antedating quote about spelling
 
Joel S. Berson
- Still  :-) mostly -- McWhorter on "standard English"
 
Joel S. Berson
- McWhorter on "Negro English"
 
Joel S. Berson
- Antedating of James Joyce quote
 
Joel S. Berson
- New meaning of "competitive"?
 
Joel S. Berson
- The 2000s
 
Joel S. Berson
- Heard on The Judges: _kickback_, n: new meaning
 
Joel S. Berson
- 1909
 
Joel S. Berson
- Antedating of James Joyce quote
 
Joel S. Berson
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"]
 
Joel S. Berson
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"]
 
Joel S. Berson
- OT:  copasetic 1920
 
Joel S. Berson
- African-American newspapers
 
Joel S. Berson
- New meaning of "competitive"?
 
Joel S. Berson
- OT: 1909
 
Joel S. Berson
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"]
 
Joel S. Berson
- Identifying persons by race or ethnicity in newspapers
 
Joel S. Berson
- Burney Collection
 
Joel S. Berson
- OT: 1909
 
Joel S. Berson
- OT: "officially" misnumbered centuries
 
Joel S. Berson
- OT: "officially" misnumbered centuries
 
Joel S. Berson
- "Nor'easter" -- missing definition? and an antedating
 
Joel S. Berson
- Alasdair Gray mainly
 
Joel S. Berson
- "Old Folks at Home"
 
Joel S. Berson
- "idiocentric" and should it be in the OED [Was: Alasdair Gray mainly]
 
Joel S. Berson
- "idiocentric" and should it be in the OED [Was: Alasdair Gray mainly]
 
Joel S. Berson
- "Nor'easter" -- missing definition? and an antedating
 
Joel S. Berson
- "Nor'easter" -- missing definition? and an antedating
 
Joel S. Berson
- "Nor'easter" -- missing definition? and an antedating
 
Joel S. Berson
- unfriend/ontvrienden
 
Joel S. Berson
- Omission of definite article
 
Joel S. Berson
- apple davy?
 
Joel S. Berson
- [Once again] "Nor'easter"
 
Joel S. Berson
- "Blue Northern" [was "Nor'easter"]
 
Joel S. Berson
- apple davy?
 
Joel S. Berson
- apple davy?
 
Joel S. Berson
- apple davy?
 
Joel S. Berson
- apple davy?
 
Joel S. Berson
- apple davy?
 
Joel S. Berson
- College / university (was: branch of 'Omission of definite article')
 
Joel S. Berson
- Illnesses [branch of Omission of definite article]
 
Joel S. Berson
- Outing Hamlet [was: out-Xing X]
 
Joel S. Berson
- Request for member withdrawal
 
Joel S. Berson
- Outing Hamlet [was: out-Xing X]
 
Joel S. Berson
- Who coined "irony deficiency"?
 
Joel S. Berson
- Request for member withdrawal
 
Joel S. Berson
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"]
 
Joel S. Berson
- "flight", verb intr.?
 
Joel S. Berson
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"]
 
Joel S. Berson
- Race [was: political correctn]
 
Joel S. Berson
- Who coined "irony deficiency"?
 
Joel S. Berson
- Nursery/Reception and Pupil/Student {lowered from: University / College / School]
 
Joel S. Berson
- The law of conservation of "the"
 
Joel S. Berson
- gashouse [was: Is this correct for anyone?]
 
Joel S. Berson
- Census usage/racial terms
 
Joel S. Berson
- A little more from the Jersey Shore
 
Joel S. Berson
- The law of conservation of "the"
 
Joel S. Berson
- "Yankee Doodle" - from whence and when, and how in the OED?
 
Joel S. Berson
- The 1650s "macaroni" and the OED
 
Joel S. Berson
- a deadly game of cat and mouse
 
Joel S. Berson
- ears peeled
 
Joel S. Berson
- An a-thornic bot
 
Joel S. Berson
- Q:  Translate the "Yanker didel" lyrics?
 
Joel S. Berson
- House(s)
 
Joel S. Berson
- sand-blind /gravel-blind
 
Joel S. Berson
- "Cheap date" redux
 
Joel S. Berson
- "Cheap date" redux
 
Joel S. Berson
- Q: Translate the "Yanker didel" lyrics?
 
Joel S. Berson
- Q: Translate the "Yanker didel" lyrics?
 
Joel S. Berson
- iPad, iTampon...
 
Joel S. Berson
- Q: Translate the "Yanker didel" lyrics?
 
Joel S. Berson
- Q: Translate the "Yanker didel" lyrics?
 
Joel S. Berson
- make best
 
Joel S. Berson
- make best
 
Joel S. Berson
- "spiffy" and "spiffing"
 
Joel S. Berson
- Sambo -- not 1861 or 1704, but 1657
 
Joel S. Berson
- Weather and other conversation topics
 
Joel S. Berson
- Everybody talks about the weather
 
Joel S. Berson
- Sambo -- not 1861 or 1704, but 1657
 
Joel S. Berson
- least likely to succeed?  really?
 
David Bowie
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"]
 
Ann Burlingham
- PC-ness (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Ann Burlingham
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"]
 
Ann Burlingham
- Mark Twain quote about his father's surprising maturation (antedating attrib circa 1915) (req paper verification)
 
Sam Clements
- Junior High
 
Sam Clements
- "crash blossoms" redux
 
Sam Clements
- Kryponite and garlic--(Why the hair-salon name "Krytonnite"?)
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Request for information about a quote
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Question about slang " Tango" (=enemy)
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Kryponite and garlic
 
Michael Covarrubias
- Heard on local NE PA news
 
Michael Covarrubias
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"]
 
David A. Daniel
- vagazzle/vajazzle
 
David A. Daniel
- semantic shift: "shrapnel"
 
David A. Daniel
- semantic shift: "shrapnel"
 
David A. Daniel
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"]
 
David A. Daniel
- Request for member withdrawal
 
David A. Daniel
- "shit in a seabag"
 
David A. Daniel
- 1909
 
Leslie Decker
- Heard on local NE PA news
 
Leslie Decker
- Kryponite and garlic
 
Charles Doyle
- Kryponite and garlic
 
Charles Doyle
- Kryponite and garlic
 
Charles Doyle
- Antedating of "Junior High School"
 
Charles Doyle
- must of have??
 
Charles Doyle
- Omission of definite article
 
Charles Doyle
- Omission of definite article
 
Charles Doyle
- None of us washes our rental cars (antedating 1985)
 
Charles Doyle
- Omission of definite article
 
Charles Doyle
- norther
 
Charles Doyle
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"]
 
Charles Doyle
- Guido x 2
 
Charles Doyle
- Bad Girls speak
 
Charles Doyle
- precipee
 
Charles Doyle
- precipee
 
Charles Doyle
- Proverb enlargement!
 
Charles Doyle
- the meat and the motion
 
Charles Doyle
- the meat and the motion
 
Charles Doyle
- make best
 
Charles Doyle
- "Blue Northern" [was "Nor'easter"]
 
Alice Faber
- Guido x 2
 
Alice Faber
- Kryponite and garlic--(Why the hair-salon name "Krytonnite"?)
 
Seán Fitzpatrick
- Paul Dickson still thinks Benjamin Franklin collected the "Drinker's         Dictionary"
 
Seán Fitzpatrick
- Pied noir: an American connection? or maybe not...
 
Seán Fitzpatrick
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"]
 
Seán Fitzpatrick
- PC-ness (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Seán Fitzpatrick
- Fw: guido guidette
 
Seán Fitzpatrick
- Sports Subjunctive Indicative
 
Seán Fitzpatrick
- New Paltz, NY Re: NE Regional Meeting: April 2010
 
Dan Goodman
- "Bindle"
 
Dan Goodman
- Heard on local NE PA news
 
Dan Goodman
- "ride that goat"
 
Dan Goodman
- "The real Mackay..." 1846
 
Stephen Goranson
- McKay not MacKay was Re: [ADS-L] "The real Mackay..." 1846
 
Stephen Goranson
- McKay not MacKay was Re: [ADS-L] "The real Mackay..." 1846
 
Stephen Goranson
- McKay not MacKay was Re: [ADS-L] "The real Mackay..." 1846
 
Stephen Goranson
- McKay not MacKay was Re: [ADS-L] "The real Mackay..." 1846
 
Stephen Goranson
- "the real McKay" 1875
 
Stephen Goranson
- "the real McKay" 1875
 
Stephen Goranson
- the "real Mackay" 1866
 
Stephen Goranson
- she sells sea...
 
Stephen Goranson
- Antedating quote about spelling (attrib Mark Twain 1895) (attrib              Hiram Runnels 1855)
 
Stephen Goranson
- copasetic, was Re: [ADS-L] Readex Newspapers
 
Stephen Goranson
- copasetic 1920 and Re: [ADS-L] copasetic, was Re: [ADS-L] Readex Newspapers
 
Stephen Goranson
- copasetic 1920 and Re: [ADS-L] copasetic, was Re: [ADS-L] Readex Newspapers
 
Stephen Goranson
- Quote: everybody talks about the weather (1897) (antedating attrib Charles Dudley Warner 1901, attrib Mark Twain 1915)
 
Stephen Goranson
- Quote: everybody talks about the weather (1897) (antedating attrib Charles Dudley Warner 1901, attrib Mark Twain 1915)
 
Stephen Goranson
- McWhorter on "Negro English"
 
Gordon, Matthew J.
- :-)  mostly -- McWhorter on "standard English"
 
Gordon, Matthew J.
- Heard on local NE PA news
 
Gordon, Matthew J.
- Heard on local NE PA news
 
Gordon, Matthew J.
- "equal access" (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Wilson Gray
- _To_? Or _for_?
 
Wilson Gray
- "gun play"?
 
Wilson Gray
- Swordplay
 
Wilson Gray
- "the real McKay" 1875
 
Wilson Gray
- Quick meaning alive
 
Wilson Gray
- "gun play"?
 
Wilson Gray
- Kryponite and garlic
 
Wilson Gray
- Kryponite and garlic
 
Wilson Gray
- talisman
 
Wilson Gray
- unisex diva
 
Wilson Gray
- More RE: Further Antedating of "Real McCoy"
 
Wilson Gray
- Singular or plural?
 
Wilson Gray
- "take a stump"
 
Wilson Gray
- Quick(lime) to point out.
 
Wilson Gray
- "Bindle"
 
Wilson Gray
- "Bindle"
 
Wilson Gray
- "Negro" in the news
 
Wilson Gray
- Junior High
 
Wilson Gray
- "Bindle"
 
Wilson Gray
- Sandscript-eggcorn?
 
Wilson Gray
- "Bindlestiff" in Blish
 
Wilson Gray
- Sandscript-eggcorn?
 
Wilson Gray
- must of have??
 
Wilson Gray
- McWhorter on "Negro English"
 
Wilson Gray
- McWhorter on "Negro English"
 
Wilson Gray
- Still :-) mostly -- McWhorter on "standard English"
 
Wilson Gray
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"]
 
Wilson Gray
- Heard on The Judges: _kickback_, n: new meaning
 
Wilson Gray
- 1909
 
Wilson Gray
- copasetic, was Re: [ADS-L] Readex Newspapers
 
Wilson Gray
- Heard on The Judges: _kickback_, n: new meaning
 
Wilson Gray
- semantic shift: "shrapnel"
 
Wilson Gray
- comic 1860s pronunciation?
 
Wilson Gray
- comic 1860s pronunciation?
 
Wilson Gray
- "Nor'easter" -- missing definition? and an antedating
 
Wilson Gray
- Random observations on oskie (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Wilson Gray
- "Old Folks at Home"
 
Wilson Gray
- "Blue Northern" [was "Nor'easter"]
 
Wilson Gray
- Census usage/racial terms
 
Wilson Gray
- "_Auroch_, aurochs"?!
 
Wilson Gray
- Is this correct for anyone?
 
Wilson Gray
- _Dittybopper_
 
Wilson Gray
- Heard on The Judges: _dry-beg_ "a kind of con game"
 
Wilson Gray
- _Dittybopper_
 
Wilson Gray
- Guido x 2
 
Wilson Gray
- _Skank_ = "female slut"?!
 
Wilson Gray
- strange use
 
Wilson Gray
- Borderline antisemitism [follow-up] (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Wilson Gray
- back-formed verb "informate"
 
Wilson Gray
- "shit in a seabag"
 
Wilson Gray
- "Eat" = _scoff_ or _scarf_?
 
Wilson Gray
- PC-ness (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Wilson Gray
- scoff/scarf
 
Wilson Gray
- scoff/scarf
 
Wilson Gray
- HDAS: another undocumented/undocumentable antedating
 
Wilson Gray
- Heard on local NE PA news
 
Wilson Gray
- Bad Girls speak
 
Wilson Gray
- Heard on local NE PA news
 
Wilson Gray
- Stuffed green bell peppers
 
Wilson Gray
- "Cheap date" redux
 
Wilson Gray
- Q: Translate the "Yanker didel" lyrics?
 
Wilson Gray
- "Cheap date" redux
 
Wilson Gray
- "_Auroch_, aurochs"?!
 
Wilson Gray
- Nursery/Reception and Pupil/Student {lowered from: University / College / School]
 
Wilson Gray
- Q: Translate the "Yanker didel" lyrics?
 
Wilson Gray
- Q: Translate the "Yanker didel" lyrics?
 
Wilson Gray
- the meat and the motion
 
Wilson Gray
- Pants on the Ground
 
Wilson Gray
- Sambo -- not 1861 or 1704, but 1657
 
Wilson Gray
- _Wash-wash_ : a part of the Nigerian Letter game
 
Wilson Gray
- "AAVE"
 
Wilson Gray
- 'repose' (v) in telic sense - not in OED or MW
 
Damien Hall
- OT: 'Pied noir' [was: McWhorter on "Negro"]
 
Damien Hall
- Winston Churchill, KBO
 
Damien Hall
- Omission of definite article
 
Damien Hall
- Omission of definite article
 
Damien Hall
- Omission of definite article
 
Damien Hall
- College / university (was: branch of 'Omission of definite article')
 
Damien Hall
- University / College / School (was: College / university)
 
Damien Hall
- "gun play"?
 
Robin Hamilton
- "point-device"
 
Robin Hamilton
- Swordplay
 
Robin Hamilton
- "gun play"?
 
Robin Hamilton
- Fictional Materials for OED
 
Robin Hamilton
- "Bindle"
 
Robin Hamilton
- "Bindle"
 
Robin Hamilton
- optics (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Robin Hamilton
- :-) mostly -- McWhorter on "standard English"
 
Robin Hamilton
- Still  :-) mostly -- McWhorter on "standard English"
 
Robin Hamilton
- Still :-) mostly -- McWhorter on "standard English"
 
Robin Hamilton
- :-) mostly -- McWhorter on "standard English"
 
Robin Hamilton
- :-) mostly -- McWhorter on "standard English"
 
Robin Hamilton
- :-) mostly -- McWhorter on "standard English"
 
Robin Hamilton
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"]
 
Robin Hamilton
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"]
 
Robin Hamilton
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"]
 
Robin Hamilton
- :-) mostly -- McWhorter on "standard English"
 
Robin Hamilton
- :-) mostly -- McWhorter on "standard English"
 
Robin Hamilton
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"]
 
Robin Hamilton
- semantic shift: "shrapnel"
 
Robin Hamilton
- semantic shift: "shrapnel"
 
Robin Hamilton
- Burney Collection
 
Robin Hamilton
- dying a death
 
Robin Hamilton
- apple davy?
 
Robin Hamilton
- apple davy?
 
Robin Hamilton
- apple davy?
 
Robin Hamilton
- apple davy?
 
Robin Hamilton
- apple davy?
 
Robin Hamilton
- apple davy?
 
Robin Hamilton
- apple davy?
 
Robin Hamilton
- College / university (was: branch of 'Omission of definite article')
 
Robin Hamilton
- Request for member withdrawal
 
Robin Hamilton
- a deadly game of cat and mouse
 
Robin Hamilton
- ears peeled
 
Robin Hamilton
- ears peeled
 
Robin Hamilton
- ears peeled
 
Robin Hamilton
- sand-blind /gravel-blind
 
Robin Hamilton
- ears peeled
 
Robin Hamilton
- make best
 
Robin Hamilton
- make best
 
Robin Hamilton
- Sambo -- not 1861 or 1704, but 1657
 
Robin Hamilton
- Mark Twain quote about his father's surprising maturation (antedating attrib circa 1915) (req paper verification)
 
Ken Hirsch
- Misplaced modifier of the...well, end of the decade
 
Laurence Horn
- Misplaced modifier of the...well, end of the decade
 
Laurence Horn
- Front page!
 
Laurence Horn
- MOTY as a category?
 
Laurence Horn
- Fictional Materials for OED
 
Laurence Horn
- Quick meaning alive
 
Laurence Horn
- Kryponite and garlic
 
Laurence Horn
- Kryponite and garlic
 
Laurence Horn
- Kryponite and garlic
 
Laurence Horn
- Kryponite and garlic
 
Laurence Horn
- Kryponite and garlic--(Why the hair-salon name "Krytonnite"?)
 
Laurence Horn
- 2009 quotes (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Laurence Horn
- Quick(lime) to point out.
 
Laurence Horn
- least likely to succeed?  really?
 
Laurence Horn
- Junior High
 
Laurence Horn
- must of have??
 
Laurence Horn
- McWhorter on "Negro English"
 
Laurence Horn
- "[chimpanzee] politics"
 
Laurence Horn
- Fear of eels
 
Laurence Horn
- McWhorter on "Negro English"
 
Laurence Horn
- Retroflexion [was: McWhorter on "Negro English"]
 
Laurence Horn
- 1909
 
Laurence Horn
- 1909
 
Laurence Horn
- 1909
 
Laurence Horn
- :-) mostly -- McWhorter on "standard English"
 
Laurence Horn
- :-) mostly -- McWhorter on "standard English"
 
Laurence Horn
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"]
 
Laurence Horn
- :-) mostly -- McWhorter on "standard English"
 
Laurence Horn
- Retroflexion [was: McWhorter on "Negro English"]
 
Laurence Horn
- OT: 'Pied noir' [was: McWhorter on "Negro"]
 
Laurence Horn
- Pied noir: an American connection? or maybe not...
 
Laurence Horn
- None of us washes our rental cars (antedating 1985)
 
Laurence Horn
- Pied noir: an American connection? or maybe not...
 
Laurence Horn
- Pied noir: an American connection? or maybe not...
 
Laurence Horn
- Pied noir: an American connection? or maybe not...
 
Laurence Horn
- "Old Folks at Home"
 
Laurence Horn
- "idiocentric" and should it be in the OED [Was: Alasdair Gray mainly]
 
Laurence Horn
- Omission of definite article
 
Laurence Horn
- dying a death
 
Laurence Horn
- unfriend/ontvrienden
 
Laurence Horn
- "Blue Northern" [was "Nor'easter"]
 
Laurence Horn
- out-Xing X
 
Laurence Horn
- political correctn
 
Laurence Horn
- Is this correct for anyone?
 
Laurence Horn
- Guido x 2
 
Laurence Horn
- _Dittybopper_
 
Laurence Horn
- Guido x 2
 
Laurence Horn
- Fw: guido guidette
 
Laurence Horn
- "Have" redux: the rare triple-aux
 
Laurence Horn
- Fw: guido guidette
 
Laurence Horn
- Language Log post (with links) on sex-known indefinite "they"
 
Laurence Horn
- Sports Subjunctive Indicative
 
Laurence Horn
- Bad Girls speak
 
Laurence Horn
- scoff/scarf
 
Laurence Horn
- precipee
 
Laurence Horn
- Bad Girls speak
 
Laurence Horn
- Heard on local NE PA news
 
Laurence Horn
- Heard on local NE PA news
 
Laurence Horn
- ears peeled
 
Laurence Horn
- Heard on local NE PA news
 
Laurence Horn
- Heard on local NE PA news
 
Laurence Horn
- ears peeled
 
Laurence Horn
- Heard on local NE PA news
 
Laurence Horn
- the meat and the motion
 
Laurence Horn
- the meat and the motion
 
Laurence Horn
- the meat and the motion
 
Laurence Horn
- The Times discovers growlers (and selectarians)
 
Laurence Horn
- "crash blossoms" redux
 
Laurence Horn
- "crash blossoms" redux
 
Laurence Horn
- McWhorter on "Negro English"
 
Terry Irons
- McWhorter on "Negro English"
 
Terry Irons
- Retroflexion [was: McWhorter on "Negro English"]
 
Paul Johnston
- :-) mostly -- McWhorter on "standard English"
 
Paul Johnston
-        Re: [ADS-L] 1909
 
Paul Johnston
- "Old Folks at Home"
 
Paul Johnston
- Antedating of "New York Mets" (OED 1964)
 
Paul Johnston
- Heard on local NE PA news
 
Paul Johnston
- "_Auroch_, aurochs"?!
 
Paul Johnston
- Q: Translate the "Yanker didel" lyrics?
 
Paul Johnston
- COOTY of the year?
 
Steve Kl.
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"] (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Steve Kl.
- Language-related twitter account?
 
Heather Marie Kosur
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"]
 
Margaret Lee
- Omission of definite article
 
Margaret Lee
- "gun play"?
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Further Antedating of "Real McCoy"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "gun play"?
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "gun play"?
 
Jonathan Lighter
- More RE: Further Antedating of "Real McCoy"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- unisex diva
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "gun play"?
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "the real McKay" 1875
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Fictional Materials for OED
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Fictional Materials for OED
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Fictional Materials for OED
 
Jonathan Lighter
- emotional roller-coaster
 
Jonathan Lighter
- emotional roller-coaster
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "the real McKay" 1875
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Kryponite and garlic
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "gun play"?
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Kryponite and garlic
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "take a stump"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Singular or plural?
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Kryponite and garlic
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Kryponite and garlic--(Why the hair-salon name "Krytonnite"?)
 
Jonathan Lighter
- 2009 quotes (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Jonathan Lighter
- 2009 quotes (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Jonathan Lighter
- tear-jerking = "profoundly moving"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- optics
 
Jonathan Lighter
- sunset
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "Bindle"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- New old saying: "90% of the work...."
 
Jonathan Lighter
- sunset
 
Jonathan Lighter
- sunset
 
Jonathan Lighter
- gin game
 
Jonathan Lighter
- to "reference": Kafkaesque
 
Jonathan Lighter
- gin game
 
Jonathan Lighter
- a word you just shouldn't use
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Bad Girls Speak
 
Jonathan Lighter
- to "reference": Kafkaesque
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Quoted without comment
 
Jonathan Lighter
- hyparistic; oneiristic
 
Jonathan Lighter
- gin game
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "politics"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "politics"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "politics"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- McWhorter on "Negro English"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- :-) mostly -- McWhorter on "standard English"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Still :-) mostly -- McWhorter on "standard English"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- McWhorter on "Negro English"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Still :-) mostly -- McWhorter on "standard English"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- :-) mostly -- McWhorter on "standard English"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- 1909
 
Jonathan Lighter
- 1909
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "murder" routinely applied to animals
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedating of James Joyce quote
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedating of James Joyce quote
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Heard on The Judges: _kickback_, n: new meaning
 
Jonathan Lighter
- 1909
 
Jonathan Lighter
- New meaning of "competitive"?
 
Jonathan Lighter
- :-) mostly -- McWhorter on "standard English"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedating of James Joyce quote
 
Jonathan Lighter
- :-) mostly -- McWhorter on "standard English"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Winston Churchill, KBO
 
Jonathan Lighter
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"]
 
Jonathan Lighter
- :-) mostly -- McWhorter on "standard English"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Heard on The Judges: _kickback_, n: new meaning
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Random observations on oskie
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Another new old saying
 
Jonathan Lighter
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"]
 
Jonathan Lighter
- None of us washes our rental cars (antedating 1985)
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Pied noir: an American connection? or maybe not...
 
Jonathan Lighter
- vagazzle/vajazzle
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Time and banned words
 
Jonathan Lighter
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"]
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "officially" misnumbered centuries
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Time and banned words
 
Jonathan Lighter
- semantic shift: "shrapnel"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Pied noir: an American connection? or maybe not...
 
Jonathan Lighter
- old new saying
 
Jonathan Lighter
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"]
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Pied noir: an American connection? or maybe not...
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Omission of definite article
 
Jonathan Lighter
- semantic shift: "shrapnel"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- semantic shift: "shrapnel"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"]
 
Jonathan Lighter
- comic 1860s pronunciation?
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "officially" misnumbered centuries
 
Jonathan Lighter
- comic 1860s pronunciation?
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Pied noir: an American connection? or maybe not...
 
Jonathan Lighter
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"]
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Burney Collection
 
Jonathan Lighter
- OT: "officially" misnumbered centuries
 
Jonathan Lighter
- None of us washes our rental cars (antedating 1985)
 
Jonathan Lighter
- semantic shift: "shrapnel"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "Nor'easter" -- missing definition? and an antedating
 
Jonathan Lighter
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"]
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "Old Folks at Home"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- comic 1860s pronunciation?
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "Nor'easter" -- missing definition? and an antedating
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Random observations on oskie (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Omission of definite article
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Omission of definite article
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "Blue Northern" [was "Nor'easter"]
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Misdirected posts Re: McWhorter....
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "Blue Northern" [was "Nor'easter"]
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "Blue Northern" [was "Nor'easter"]
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Request for member withdrawal
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Einstein said it?
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Census usage/racial terms
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Borderline antisemitism [follow-up]
 
Jonathan Lighter
- PC-ness (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "_Auroch_, aurochs"?!
 
Jonathan Lighter
- PC-ness (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Is this correct for anyone?
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Question about slang " Tango" (=enemy)
 
Jonathan Lighter
- _Dittybopper_
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Heard on The Judges: _dry-beg_ "a kind of con game"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- _Dittybopper_
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "shit in a seabag"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Guido x 2
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Guido x 2
 
Jonathan Lighter
- a deadly game of cat and mouse
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "shit in a seabag"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- a deadly game of cat and mouse
 
Jonathan Lighter
- a deadly game of cat and mouse
 
Jonathan Lighter
- ears peeled
 
Jonathan Lighter
- scoff/scarf
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Bad Girls speak
 
Jonathan Lighter
- scoff/scarf
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Bad Girls speak
 
Jonathan Lighter
- precipee
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Sports Subjunctive Indicative
 
Jonathan Lighter
- scoff/scarf
 
Jonathan Lighter
- precipee
 
Jonathan Lighter
- presipee
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Sorry!
 
Jonathan Lighter
- HDAS: another undocumented/undocumentable antedating
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Bad Girls speak
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Proverb enlargement!
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Guido x 2
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Q: Translate the "Yanker didel" lyrics?
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Q: Translate the "Yanker didel" lyrics?
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "Cheap date" redux
 
Jonathan Lighter
- iPad, iTampon...
 
Jonathan Lighter
- the meat and the motion
 
Jonathan Lighter
- meaningless-do from Welsh and medieval English military history
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Heard over Thanksgiving
 
Jonathan Lighter
- meaningless-do from Welsh and medieval English military history
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "spiffy" and "spiffing"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Sambo
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "ride that goat"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Sambo -- not 1861 or 1704, but 1657
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Request for member withdrawal
 
Jocelyn Limpert
- Misplaced modifier of the...well, end of the decade
 
Mark Mandel
- Fictional Materials for OED
 
Mark Mandel
- Kryponite and garlic--(Why the hair-salon name "Krytonnite"?)
 
Mark Mandel
- PRI story: Paging Dr. Esperanto, and what not to say in Ireland ’s  parliament
 
Mark Mandel
- New old saying: "90% of the work...."
 
Mark Mandel
- to "reference": Kafkaesque
 
Mark Mandel
- "Bindlestiff" in Blish
 
Mark Mandel
- "Bindlestiff" in Blish
 
Mark Mandel
- "[chimpanzee] politics"
 
Mark Mandel
- 1909
 
Mark Mandel
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"]
 
Mark Mandel
- What's the Muslim equivalent of "hecksher"?
 
Mark Mandel
- OT: 1909
 
Mark Mandel
- "officially" misnumbered centuries
 
Mark Mandel
- Omission of definite article
 
Mark Mandel
- "officially" misnumbered centuries
 
Mark Mandel
- comic 1860s pronunciation?
 
Mark Mandel
- "Nor'easter" -- missing definition? and an antedating
 
Mark Mandel
- "Blue Northern" [was "Nor'easter"]
 
Mark Mandel
- apple davy?
 
Mark Mandel
- "Blue Northern" [was "Nor'easter"]
 
Mark Mandel
- What's the Muslim equivalent of "hecksher"?
 
Mark Mandel
- Is this correct for anyone?
 
Mark Mandel
- "shit in a seabag"
 
Mark Mandel
- Guido x 2
 
Mark Mandel
- precipee
 
Mark Mandel
- font help wanted (was: Translate the "Yanker didel" lyrics?)
 
Mark Mandel
- Now, THIS is a nutcase! (not a listmember)
 
Mark Mandel
- "crash blossoms" redux
 
Mark Mandel
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"] (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Russ McClay
- New Zealand 1881 article on American Drink Slang
 
Michael McKernan
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"]
 
Salikoko Mufwene
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"]
 
Salikoko Mufwene
- OT: 'Pied noir' [was: McWhorter on "Negro"]
 
Salikoko Mufwene
- OT: 'Pied noir' [was: McWhorter on "Negro"]
 
Salikoko Mufwene
- Pied-Noir
 
Salikoko Mufwene
- Pied noir: an American connection? or maybe not...
 
Salikoko Mufwene
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"] (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Salikoko Mufwene
- Request for member withdrawal
 
Salikoko Mufwene
- political correctn
 
Salikoko S. Mufwene
- political correctn
 
Salikoko S. Mufwene
- political correctn
 
Salikoko S. Mufwene
- 2009 quotes (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Foolish Democratic Quotations of 2009 (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Kryponite and garlic--(UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- optics (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Supreme Court having minute trouble with "orthogonal" (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- New York Times Magazine Article (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Random observations on oskie (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"] (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Random observations on oskie (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- FW:      Re: Request for member withdrawal (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- PC-ness (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Request for member withdrawal (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Borderline antisemitism [follow-up] (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Fw: guido guidette
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "gun play"?
 
Alison Murie
- Quick meaning alive
 
Alison Murie
- "the real McKay" 1875
 
Alison Murie
- Help
 
Alison Murie
- Connotation loss
 
Lynne Murphy
- anglo-saxon
 
Lynne Murphy
- College / university (was: branch of 'Omission of definite article')
 
Lynne Murphy
- The law of conservation of "the"
 
Lynne Murphy
- Quoted without comment
 
Geoff Nathan
- Retroflexion [was: McWhorter on "Negro English"]
 
Geoff Nathan
- New meaning of "competitive"?
 
Geoff Nathan
- "Blue Northern" [was "Nor'easter"]
 
Geoff Nathan
- "Blue Northern" [was "Nor'easter"]
 
Geoff Nathan
- iPad, iTampon... now viral
 
Geoff Nathan
- meaningless-do from Welsh and medieval English military history
 
Geoff Nathan
- Retroflexion [was: McWhorter on "Negro English"]
 
Geoffrey Nathan
- "Blue Northern" [was "Nor'easter"]
 
Geoffrey Nathan
- "Blue Northern" [was "Nor'easter"]
 
Geoffrey Nathan
- iPad, iTampon...
 
Geoffrey S. Nathan
- McWhorter on "Negro English"
 
Geoffrey Steven Nathan
- "the real McKay" 1875
 
Eric Nielsen
- Quick(lime) to point out.
 
Eric Nielsen
- Pied noir: an American connection? or maybe not...
 
Geoffrey Nunberg
- Pied noir: an American connection? or maybe not...
 
Geoffrey Nunberg
- Connotation loss
 
Garson O'Toole
- 'repose' (v) in telic sense - not in OED or MW
 
Garson O'Toole
- Mark Twain quote about his father's surprising maturation (antedating attrib circa 1915) (req paper verification)
 
Garson O'Toole
- Mark Twain quote about his father's surprising maturation (antedating attrib circa 1915) (req paper verification)
 
Garson O'Toole
- WOTY 2009 nominations
 
Garson O'Toole
- Mark Twain quote about his father's surprising maturation (antedating attrib circa 1915) (req paper verification)
 
Garson O'Toole
- Mark Twain quote about his father's surprising maturation (antedating attrib circa 1915) (req paper verification)
 
Garson O'Toole
- time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time (1912)
 
Garson O'Toole
- New old saying: "90% of the work...."
 
Garson O'Toole
- "[chimpanzee] politics"
 
Garson O'Toole
- Antedating quote about spelling (attrib Mark Twain 1895) (attrib Hiram Runnels 1855)
 
Garson O'Toole
- (Further) antedating quote about spelling
 
Garson O'Toole
- "[chimpanzee] politics"
 
Garson O'Toole
- Another new old saying
 
Garson O'Toole
- None of us washes our rental cars (antedating 1985)
 
Garson O'Toole
- None of us washes our rental cars (antedating 1985)
 
Garson O'Toole
- None of us washes our rental cars (antedating 1985)
 
Garson O'Toole
- semantic shift: "shrapnel"
 
Garson O'Toole
- None of us washes our rental cars (antedating 1985)
 
Garson O'Toole
- None of us washes our rental cars (antedating 1985)
 
Garson O'Toole
- Quote: writing (talking) about music is like dancing about architecture (1983) (singing about football 1982) (singing about economics 1918)
 
Garson O'Toole
- Who coined "irony deficiency"?
 
Garson O'Toole
- Quote: Two things are infinite, as far as we know - the universe and human stupidity (antedating 1947 attrib Einstein 1969)
 
Garson O'Toole
- Quote: writing (talking) about music is like dancing about architecture (1983) (singing about football 1982) (singing about economics 1918)
 
Garson O'Toole
- a deadly game of cat and mouse
 
Garson O'Toole
- Quote: everybody talks about the weather (1897) (antedating attrib Charles Dudley Warner 1901, attrib Mark Twain 1915)
 
Garson O'Toole
- Quote: everybody talks about the weather (1897) (antedating attrib Charles Dudley Warner 1901, attrib Mark Twain 1915)
 
Garson O'Toole
- Quote: everybody talks about the weather (1897) (antedating attrib Charles Dudley Warner 1901, attrib Mark Twain 1915)
 
Garson O'Toole
- Quote: everybody talks about the weather (1897) (antedating attrib Charles Dudley Warner 1901, attrib Mark Twain 1915)
 
Garson O'Toole
- Quote: everybody talks about the weather (1897) (antedating attrib Charles Dudley Warner 1901, attrib Mark Twain 1915)
 
Garson O'Toole
- Idiom: gnomes of Zurich: little gnomes sitting over ticker tapes in Zurich (antedating 1956 March 7)
 
Garson O'Toole
- Idiom: gnomes of Zurich: little gnomes sitting over ticker tapes in Zurich (antedating 1956 March 7)
 
Garson O'Toole
- sneak preview
 
Garson O'Toole
- "ride that goat"
 
Garson O'Toole
- Quote: to play golf is to spoil an otherwise enjoyable walk (antedating 1903)
 
Garson O'Toole
- New old saying: "90% of the work...."
 
Bill Palmer
- Junior High
 
Bill Palmer
- 2010's Banned Words
 
Bill Palmer
- Game Change
 
Bill Palmer
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"]
 
Bill Palmer
- Omission of definite article
 
Bill Palmer
- Omission of definite article
 
Bill Palmer
- "Nor'easter" -- missing definition? and an antedating
 
Bill Palmer
- Request for member withdrawal
 
Bill Palmer
- "Blue Northern" [was "Nor'easter"]
 
Bill Palmer
- Request for member withdrawal
 
Bill Palmer
- Request for member withdrawal
 
Bill Palmer
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"] (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Bill Palmer
- "shit in a seabag"
 
Bill Palmer
- "shit in a seabag"
 
Bill Palmer
- "shit in a seabag"
 
Bill Palmer
- Stuffed green bell peppers
 
Bill Palmer
- Pants on the Ground
 
Bill Palmer
- "spiffy" and "spiffing"
 
Bill Palmer
- Kryponite and garlic
 
Jim Parish
- Pied noir: an American connection? or maybe not...
 
Jim Parish
- Pied noir: an American connection? or maybe not...
 
Jim Parish
- :-) mostly -- McWhorter on "standard English"
 
Judy Prince
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"]
 
Judy Prince
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"]
 
Judy Prince
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"]
 
Judy Prince
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"]
 
Judy Prince
- dying a death
 
Judy Prince
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"] (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Judy Prince
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"] (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Judy Prince
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"] (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Judy Prince
- "spiffy" and "spiffing"
 
Judy Prince
- Fictional Materials for OED
 
Jeff Prucher
- Request for member withdrawal
 
Michael Quinion
- Fictional Materials for OED
 
William Salmon
- Further Antedating of "Real McCoy"
 
Shapiro, Fred
- More RE: Further Antedating of "Real McCoy"
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Fictional Materials for OED
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Fictional Materials for OED
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Fictional Materials for OED
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Fictional Materials for OED
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Mark Twain quote about his father's surprising maturation (antedating attrib circa 1915) (req paper verification)
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Junior High School"
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Readex Newspapers
 
Shapiro, Fred
- FW: Readex Adding New Material to Early American Imprints
 
Shapiro, Fred
- New York Times Magazine Article
 
Shapiro, Fred
- New York Times Magazine Article (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Shapiro, Fred
- copasetic 1920 and Re: [ADS-L] copasetic, was Re: [ADS-L] Readex Newspapers
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Quote: writing (talking) about music is like dancing about architecture (1983) (singing about football 1982) (singing about economics 1918)
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "New York Mets" (OED 1964)
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "New York Mets" (OED 1964)
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Quote: Two things are infinite, as far as we know - the universe and human stupidity (antedating 1947 attrib Einstein 1969)
 
Shapiro, Fred
- AP Story on Obama Oratory
 
Shapiro, Fred
- lawyer up antedating 1995-->1990
 
Shapiro, Fred
- apple davy?
 
Michael Sheehan
- apple davy
 
Michael Sheehan
- ears peeled
 
Michael Sheehan
- Fictional Materials for OED
 
Jesse Sheidlower
- emotional roller-coaster
 
Jesse Sheidlower
- emotional roller-coaster
 
Jesse Sheidlower
- WOTY 2009 nominations
 
Jesse Sheidlower
- optics (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Jesse Sheidlower
- Game Change
 
Jesse Sheidlower
- Language-related twitter account?
 
Jesse Sheidlower
- "Nor'easter" -- missing definition? and an antedating
 
Jesse Sheidlower
- In drag = disguised
 
Jesse Sheidlower
- Fwd: Re: Request for member withdrawal
 
Jesse Sheidlower
- "Blue Northern" [was "Nor'easter"]
 
Jesse Sheidlower
- out-Xing X
 
Jesse Sheidlower
- Outing Hamlet [was: out-Xing X]
 
Jesse Sheidlower
- lawyer up antedating 1995-->1990
 
Jesse Sheidlower
- lawyer up antedating 1995-->1990
 
Jesse Sheidlower
- Help
 
Jesse Sheidlower
- Omission of definite article
 
Kelli Slimp
- Omission of definite article
 
Kelli Slimp
- Omission of definite article
 
Kelli Slimp
- "Nor'easter" -- missing definition? and an antedating
 
Kelli Slimp
- Omission of definite article
 
Kelli Slimp
- Omission of definite article
 
Kelli Slimp
- sunset
 
Herb Stahlke
- OT: sunset
 
Herb Stahlke
- Kryponite and garlic
 
Herb Stahlke
- must of have??
 
Herb Stahlke
- must of have??
 
Herb Stahlke
- must of have??
 
Herb Stahlke
- McWhorter on "cast the mote"
 
Herb Stahlke
- McWhorter on "Negro English"
 
Herb Stahlke
- Retroflexion [was: McWhorter on "Negro English"]
 
Herb Stahlke
- :-) mostly -- McWhorter on "standard English"
 
Herb Stahlke
- :-) mostly -- McWhorter on "standard English"
 
Herb Stahlke
- Retroflexion [was: McWhorter on "Negro English"]
 
Herb Stahlke
- Retroflexion [was: McWhorter on "Negro English"]
 
Herb Stahlke
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"] (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Herb Stahlke
- Request for member withdrawal
 
Herb Stahlke
- Request for member withdrawal
 
Herb Stahlke
- Race [was: political correctn]
 
Herb Stahlke
- retroflexion again
 
Herb Stahlke
- scoff/scarf
 
Herb Stahlke
- Heard on local NE PA news
 
Herb Stahlke
- Heard on local NE PA news
 
Herb Stahlke
- House(s)
 
Herb Stahlke
- Quick meaning alive
 
Victor Steinbok
- Quick meaning alive
 
Victor Steinbok
- talisman
 
Victor Steinbok
- The Quick and The Dead
 
Victor Steinbok
- WOTY 2009 nominations
 
Victor Steinbok
- Mark Twain quote about his father's surprising maturation (antedating attrib circa 1915) (req paper verification)
 
Victor Steinbok
- Mark Twain quote about his father's surprising maturation (antedating attrib circa 1915) (req paper verification)
 
Victor Steinbok
- Mark Twain quote about his father's surprising maturation (antedating attrib circa 1915) (req paper verification)
 
Victor Steinbok
- must of have??
 
Victor Steinbok
- Paterson slams Reid comments -- Page 1 -- Times Union - Albany NY
 
Victor Steinbok
- "repetitive"--cupertino?
 
Victor Steinbok
- Supreme Court having minute trouble with "orthogonal"
 
Victor Steinbok
- grow horse
 
Victor Steinbok
- sane and insane conservatives on racism
 
Victor Steinbok
- sane and insane conservatives on racism
 
Victor Steinbok
- sane and insane conservatives on racism
 
Victor Steinbok
- McWhorter on "Negro English"
 
Victor Steinbok
- (Further) antedating quote about spelling
 
Victor Steinbok
- (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Victor Steinbok
- McWhorter on "Negro English"
 
Victor Steinbok
-        Re: [ADS-L] 1909
 
Victor Steinbok
- Random observations on oskie
 
Victor Steinbok
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"]
 
Victor Steinbok
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"]
 
Victor Steinbok
- None of us washes our rental cars (antedating 1985)
 
Victor Steinbok
- None of us washes our rental cars (antedating 1985)
 
Victor Steinbok
- comic 1860s pronunciation?
 
Victor Steinbok
- None of us washes our rental cars (antedating 1985)
 
Victor Steinbok
- Random observations on oskie (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Victor Steinbok
- dying a death
 
Victor Steinbok
- dying a death
 
Victor Steinbok
- Request for member withdrawal
 
Victor Steinbok
- Borderline antisemitism [follow-up]
 
Victor Steinbok
- strange use
 
Victor Steinbok
- Quote: writing (talking) about music is like dancing about architecture (1983) (singing about football 1982) (singing about economics 1918)
 
Victor Steinbok
- in/of two minds about
 
Victor Steinbok
- Guido x 2
 
Victor Steinbok
- liften/lighten
 
Victor Steinbok
- Borderline antisemitism [follow-up] (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Victor Steinbok
- Quote: writing (talking) about music is like dancing about architecture (1983) (singing about football 1982) (singing about economics 1918)
 
Victor Steinbok
- ears peeled
 
Victor Steinbok
- Quote: everybody talks about the weather (1897) (antedating attrib Charles Dudley Warner 1901, attrib Mark Twain 1915)
 
Victor Steinbok
- sneak preview
 
Victor Steinbok
- sneak preview
 
Victor Steinbok
- Guido x 2
 
Victor Steinbok
- Guido x 2
 
Victor Steinbok
- sneak preview
 
Victor Steinbok
- lawyer up antedating 1995-->1990
 
Victor Steinbok
- lawyer up antedating 1995-->1990
 
Victor Steinbok
- Omission of definite article
 
Stone, William
- University / College / School (was: College / university)
 
Stone, William
- optics (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- Further Antedating of "Real McCoy"
 
George Thompson
- "quorum" -- early 19th C children's game
 
George Thompson
- "take a stump"
 
George Thompson
- "quorum" -- early 19th C children's game
 
George Thompson
- PRI story: Paging Dr. Esperanto, and what not to say in Ireland ’s  parliament
 
George Thompson
- yet more on Art Hickman
 
George Thompson
- gin game
 
George Thompson
- a fair boast, probably
 
George Thompson
- gin game
 
George Thompson
- gin game
 
George Thompson
- Pied noir: an American connection? or maybe not...
 
George Thompson
- Pied noir: an American connection? or maybe not...
 
George Thompson
- from today's NYTimes foodie section
 
George Thompson
- markers and rats
 
George Thompson
- markers and rats
 
George Thompson
- Who coined "irony deficiency"?
 
George Thompson
- Guido x 2
 
George Thompson
- "Cheap date" redux
 
George Thompson
- Q: Translate the "Yanker didel" lyrics?
 
George Thompson
- sneak preview
 
George Thompson
- Idiom: gnomes of Zurich: little gnomes sitting over ticker tapes in Zurich (antedating 1956 March 7)
 
George Thompson
- meaningless-do from Welsh and medieval English military history
 
George Thompson
- Quote: everybody talks about the weather (1897) (antedating attrib Charles Dudley Warner 1901, attrib Mark Twain 1915)
 
George Thompson
- sunset
 
Towse
- "broderick a confession"
 
Towse
- "broderick a confession"
 
Towse
- WOTY 2009 nominations
 
Chris Waigl
- Census usage/racial terms
 
Walsh, Barclay
- "gun play"?
 
Amy West
- Misplaced modifier of the...well, end of the decade
 
Amy West
- Swordplay
 
Amy West
- "gun play"?
 
Amy West
- "Negro dialect" part 2
 
Amy West
- McWhorter on "Negro English"
 
Amy West
- McWhorter on "Negro English"
 
Amy West
- :-)  mostly -- McWhorter on "standard English"
 
Amy West
- :-) mostly -- McWhorter on "standard English"
 
Amy West
- :-) mostly -- McWhorter on "standard English"
 
Amy West
- Who coined "irony deficiency"?
 
Amy West
- Proverb enlargement!
 
Amy West
- meaningless-do from Welsh and medieval English military history
 
Amy West
- McWhorter's _Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue_ Re: meaningless-do from Welsh and medieval English military history
 
Amy West
- tear-jerking = "profoundly moving"
 
Neal Whitman
- Retroflexion [was: McWhorter on "Negro English"]
 
Neal Whitman
- Bad Girls speak
 
Neal Whitman
- McWhorter's _Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue_
 
Neal Whitman
- McWhorter's _Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue_
 
Neal Whitman
- Fwd:  Ouakaka or Ouakalke
 
Douglas G. Wilson
- Fwd:  Ouakaka or Ouakalke
 
Douglas G. Wilson
- "take a stump"
 
Douglas G. Wilson
- "quorum" -- early 19th C children's game
 
Douglas G. Wilson
- Antedating of "Junior High School"
 
Douglas G. Wilson
- "Cullen skink"
 
Douglas G. Wilson
- apple davy?
 
Douglas G. Wilson
- "gun play"?
 
Dave Wilton
- "gun play"?
 
Dave Wilton
- Fictional Materials for OED
 
Dave Wilton
- sunset
 
Dave Wilton
- None of us washes our rental cars (antedating 1985)
 
Dave Wilton
- None of us washes our rental cars (antedating 1985)
 
Dave Wilton
- Time and banned words
 
Dave Wilton
- None of us washes our rental cars (antedating 1985)
 
Dave Wilton
- semantic shift: "shrapnel"
 
Dave Wilton
- political correctn
 
Dave Wilton
- Guido x 2
 
Dave Wilton
- not particularly new, but...
 
Benjamin Zimmer
- Quick meaning alive
 
Benjamin Zimmer
- Fictional Materials for OED
 
Benjamin Zimmer
- Kryponite and garlic
 
Benjamin Zimmer
- Kryponite and garlic
 
Benjamin Zimmer
- Macquarie WOTY nominees
 
Benjamin Zimmer
- Kryponite and garlic
 
Benjamin Zimmer
- Fictional Materials for OED
 
Benjamin Zimmer
- optics (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Benjamin Zimmer
- WOTY 2009 nominations
 
Benjamin Zimmer
- word of the year: tweet; word of the decade: google
 
Benjamin Zimmer
- least likely to succeed? really?
 
Benjamin Zimmer
- least likely to succeed? really?
 
Benjamin Zimmer
- "Team Conan" and the "Team X" meme
 
Benjamin Zimmer
- "Team Conan" and the "Team X" meme
 
Benjamin Zimmer
- McWhorter on "Negro English"
 
Benjamin Zimmer
- 1909
 
Benjamin Zimmer
- 1909
 
Benjamin Zimmer
- vagazzle/vajazzle
 
Benjamin Zimmer
- unfriend/ontvrienden
 
Benjamin Zimmer
- In drag = disguised
 
Benjamin Zimmer
- out-Xing X
 
Benjamin Zimmer
- Google (v.), Bing (v.)
 
Benjamin Zimmer
- "broderick a confession"
 
Benjamin Zimmer
- Heard on local NE PA news
 
Benjamin Zimmer
- the meat and the motion
 
Benjamin Zimmer
- "crash blossoms" redux
 
Benjamin Zimmer
- Singular or plural?
 
Tom Zurinskas
- Misplaced modifier of the...well, end of the decade
 
Tom Zurinskas
- netlingo.com
 
Tom Zurinskas
- m-w speaker accents
 
Tom Zurinskas
- Supreme Court having minute trouble with "orthogonal"
 
Tom Zurinskas
- :-) mostly -- McWhorter on "standard English"
 
Tom Zurinskas
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"]
 
Tom Zurinskas
- :-) mostly -- McWhorter on "standard English"
 
Tom Zurinskas
- Random observations on oskie
 
Tom Zurinskas
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"]
 
Tom Zurinskas
- :-) mostly -- McWhorter on "standard English"
 
Tom Zurinskas
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"]
 
Tom Zurinskas
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"]
 
Tom Zurinskas
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"] (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Tom Zurinskas
- McWhorter on "Negro" [Was: on "Negro English"] (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Tom Zurinskas
- Request for member withdrawal
 
Tom Zurinskas
- Request for member withdrawal
 
Tom Zurinskas
- Census usage/racial terms
 
Tom Zurinskas
- Borderline antisemitism [follow-up]
 
Tom Zurinskas
- Heard on local NE PA news
 
Tom Zurinskas
- English phonetic keys - this one for the Bible
 
Tom Zurinskas
- AP Story on Obama Oratory
 
Tom Zurinskas
- "Cheap date" redux
 
Tom Zurinskas
- Pants on the Ground
 
Tom Zurinskas
- sunset
 
Arnold Zwicky
- must of have??
 
Arnold Zwicky
- 2010's Banned Words
 
Arnold Zwicky
- McWhorter on "Negro English"
 
Arnold Zwicky
- Retroflexion [was: McWhorter on "Negro English"]
 
Arnold Zwicky
- 1909
 
Arnold Zwicky
- 1909
 
Arnold Zwicky
- Time and banned words
 
Arnold Zwicky
- comic 1860s pronunciation?
 
Arnold Zwicky
- Alasdair Gray mainly
 
Arnold Zwicky
- comic 1860s pronunciation?
 
Arnold Zwicky
- "Blue Northern" [was "Nor'easter"]
 
Arnold Zwicky
- that article
 
Arnold Zwicky
- In drag = disguised
 
Arnold Zwicky
- In drag = disguised
 
Arnold Zwicky
- "Blue Northern" [was "Nor'easter"]
 
Arnold Zwicky
- "I was a consulting."
 
Arnold Zwicky
- Einstein said it?
 
Arnold Zwicky
- Einstein said it?
 
Arnold Zwicky
- Einstein said it?
 
Arnold Zwicky
- "flight", verb intr.?
 
Arnold Zwicky
- Illnesses [branch of Omission of definite article]
 
Arnold Zwicky
- The law of conservation of "the"
 
Arnold Zwicky
- out-Xing X
 
Arnold Zwicky
- back-formed verb "informate"
 
Arnold Zwicky
- guido guidette
 
Arnold Zwicky
- ears peeled
 
Arnold Zwicky
- liften/lighten
 
Arnold Zwicky
- guido guidette
 
Arnold Zwicky
- guido guidette
 
Arnold Zwicky
- "Have" redux: the rare triple-aux
 
Arnold Zwicky
- Heard on local NE PA news
 
Arnold Zwicky
- Heard on local NE PA news
 
Arnold Zwicky
- Troy Aikman
 
Arnold Zwicky
- ears peeled
 
Arnold Zwicky
- Heard on local NE PA news
 
Arnold Zwicky
- sneak preview
 
Arnold Zwicky
- sneak preview
 
Arnold Zwicky
- the meat and the motion
 
Arnold Zwicky
- Pants on the Ground
 
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