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