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Starting: Thu Jul 1 04:48:19 UTC 2010
Ending: Sat Jul 31 23:19:01 UTC 2010
Messages: 989

• from my inbox   James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
• another eggcorn   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• In McDonald v. Chicago, Supreme Court offers handguns as affirmative action for the poor and oppressed   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• Antedating of "Suck"   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• cast-iron becomes lead-pipe   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• blame (was: Prescriptivism and the cinema)   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• another inanimate "she"   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• journey   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• decimate   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• decimate   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• Further evidence of the demise of English as world language   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• former Beatle   Randy Alexander
• Financial Jargon Glossary   Baker, John
• "shoot" = " have a (male) orgasm, 'come' " in 1772?   Baker, John M.
• "on the Fritz"   Baker, John M.
• 'looks like'   Baker, John M.
• racial epithet makes news   Baker, John M.
• Racial epithet makes news   Baker, John M.
• Racial epithet makes news   Baker, John M.
• Otto von Bismarck and Rudolf Virchow proposed duel with sausages (ref 1867)   Baker, John M.
• "playboy" [Was: article on the name "America"]   Baker, John M.
• "playboy" [Was: article on the name "America"]   Baker, John M.
• "playboy" [Was: article on the name "America"]   Baker, John M.
• "playboy" [Was: article on the name "America"]   Baker, John M.
• apostrophe   David Barnhart
• Another take on Jeep.   David Barnhart
• irregardless, AND MISFEASANCE?!?!?   David Barnhart
• MIS- /MAL-feasance   David Barnhart
• In McDonald v. Chicago, Supreme Court offers handguns as affirmative action for the poor and oppressed   Dennis Baron
• some additional sources for research on Ms   Dennis Baron
• "blergh" (and "argh")   Rick Barr
• "anoint"; "sublime"   Rick Barr
• Wall Street Journal discovers linguistic relativism   Rick Barr
• Wall Street Journal discovers linguistic relativism   Rick Barr
• Reminder: Aug. 9 deadline for 2011 American Dialect Society conference   Grant Barrett
• sped = special ed   Joel S. Berson
• "Hanoi Jane"   Joel S. Berson
• pundojournalist   Joel S. Berson
• "Hanoi Jane"   Joel S. Berson
• pundojournalist   Joel S. Berson
• Antedating of "Suck"   Joel S. Berson
• sped = special ed   Joel S. Berson
• "Hanoi Jane"   Joel S. Berson
• Antedating of "Suck"   Joel S. Berson
• "shoot" = " have a (male) orgasm, 'come' " in 1772?   Joel S. Berson
• "shoot" = " have a (male) orgasm, 'come' " in 1772?   Joel S. Berson
• OT: "shoot" = " have a (male) orgasm, 'come' " in 1772?   Joel S. Berson
• Crime at the Old Bailey   Joel S. Berson
• Sports headlines   Joel S. Berson
• cetacean sexism   Joel S. Berson
• "yard" and "prick"   Joel S. Berson
• Subject: cetacean sexism   Joel S. Berson
• Racial epithet makes news   Joel S. Berson
• Racial epithet makes news   Joel S. Berson
• "Gay" in 1713   Joel S. Berson
• former Beatle   Joel S. Berson
• "Gay" in 1713   Joel S. Berson
• "Gay" in 1713   Joel S. Berson
• The "fribler"   Joel S. Berson
• The "fribler" (and bonus: "Not in dignified use")   Joel S. Berson
• OT: small biggies   Joel S. Berson
• "Shaker" 1781, antedates OED sense 4.b. 1784-   Joel S. Berson
• "Shaker" 1781, antedates OED sense 4.b. 1784-   Joel S. Berson
• What Mark Twain really meant -- or said?   Joel S. Berson
• History Channel: Origin of gang name, "Crips"   Joel S. Berson
• History Channel: Origin of gang name, "Crips"   Joel S. Berson
• "letter[-]boxing" -- revival of a sport?   Joel S. Berson
• Q: Possible 1727 "queen" = male homosexual?   Joel S. Berson
• Q: Possible 1727 "queen" = male homosexual?   Joel S. Berson
• Mojo in science. Latin continues to expand its vocabulary.   Joel S. Berson
• He says "overpass", I say ...   Joel S. Berson
• "lead-pipe cinch" (antedating to 1888 July 29)   Joel S. Berson
• He says "overpass", I say ...   Joel S. Berson
• He says "overpass", I say ...   Joel S. Berson
• "Open a side door", 1773, antedates 1930   Joel S. Berson
• [NOT] "Open a side door", 1773, antedates 1930   Joel S. Berson
• Progress (of sorts) on hot dogs   Joel S. Berson
• hot dog days   Joel S. Berson
• FW: Assassination euphemisms   Joel S. Berson
• "Acceptable" for a hazardous material   Joel S. Berson
• Prescriptivism and the cinema   Joel S. Berson
• "playboy" [Was: article on the name "America"]   Joel S. Berson
• crash blossom of the morning   Joel S. Berson
• "Till Death Do They Part"?   Joel S. Berson
• "Till Death Do They Part"?   Joel S. Berson
• "Till Death Do They Part"?   Joel S. Berson
• Whilst   Joel S. Berson
• spit-bath [& bird bath]   Joel S. Berson
• Quote: "under the host"   Joel S. Berson
• Republican Subterfuge [was Whilst]   Joel S. Berson
• Quote: [Remark on death of Calvin Coolidge] How can they tell? (antedating Dorothy Parker 1936)   Joel S. Berson
• "Base ball"   Joel S. Berson
• "Base ball", (2)   Joel S. Berson
• hep (two, three, four)   Joel S. Berson
• Mama Grizzly   Joel S. Berson
• FW: Sarah Palin's "refudiate" (blend: refute + repudiate)   Joel S. Berson
• "Base ball"   Joel S. Berson
• "Base ball"   Joel S. Berson
• commingle(d) = 'stuff to recycle'   Joel S. Berson
• "get ones ashes hauled", and sweeping ones (or someones) chimney   Joel S. Berson
• Quote: the toast of two continents   Joel S. Berson
• "get ones ashes hauled", and sweeping ones (or someones) chimney   Joel S. Berson
• "get ones ashes hauled"   Joel S. Berson
• "Base ball"   Joel S. Berson
• Freud and chimney sweeping   Joel S. Berson
• glitch antedated to 1948 [was 1955]   Joel S. Berson
• "How could they tell"?   Joel S. Berson
• The "downword facing dog"   Joel S. Berson
• Google and set theory [was: "loafs" (npl.)]   Joel S. Berson
• farmer & peasant   Joel S. Berson
• decimate   Joel S. Berson
• decimate   Joel S. Berson
• farmer & peasant   Joel S. Berson
• The helpful Google search engine   Joel S. Berson
• "quiet deploration"   Joel S. Berson
• "capitalize on" = 'correct'? 'make up for'?   Joel S. Berson
• Sam Hell   Joel S. Berson
• Was you ever stung ...   Joel S. Berson
• Another [not] suspect quote: Ira Hayes   Joel S. Berson
• "knock" vt. = 'copulate with' 1702 interdates OED   Joel S. Berson
• semantic drift: squadron   Joel S. Berson
• Proquest's Boston (Daily) Globe -- or not   Joel S. Berson
• "knock" vt. = 'copulate with' 1702 interdates OED   Joel S. Berson
• Paternity in the good old days   Joel S. Berson
• Q: "pimpon", 1702?   Joel S. Berson
• "knock" vt. & esp. n. (1560 antedates 1933?)   Joel S. Berson
• "pedestrian" = 'traveler on the sidewalk'   Joel S. Berson
• OT: participles in the NYT Mag   Joel S. Berson
• "pedestrian" = 'traveler on the sidewalk'   Joel S. Berson
• "pedestrian" = 'traveler on the sidewalk'   Joel S. Berson
• "anoint"; "sublime"   Joel S. Berson
• OT: For whom the bear eats   Joel S. Berson
• "thousand-yard stare"   Joel S. Berson
• today's profundity   Joel S. Berson
• OT: Wall Street Journal discovers linguistic relativism   Joel S. Berson
• "privilege"; "exempt"   Joel S. Berson
• Wall Street Journal discovers linguistic relativism   Joel S. Berson
• OT: Wall Street Journal discovers linguistic relativism   Joel S. Berson
• "thousand-yard stare"   Joel S. Berson
• OT: For whom the bear eats (UNCLASSIFIED)   Joel S. Berson
• OT: Wall Street Journal discovers linguistic relativism   Joel S. Berson
• OT: Wall Street Journal discovers linguistic relativism   Joel S. Berson
• OT: Wall Street Journal discovers linguistic relativism   Joel S. Berson
• If you're French, you're stuck with your name   Joel S. Berson
• to tree = hide oneself behind one   Joel S. Berson
• hacker   Joel S. Berson
• hacker   Joel S. Berson
• hacker   Joel S. Berson
• hacker - golf player of limited proficiency (1934 September 5)   Joel S. Berson
• hacker - golf player of limited proficiency (1934 September 5)   Joel S. Berson
• hacker   Joel S. Berson
• hacker   Joel S. Berson
• hacker   Joel S. Berson
• "Time flies ... like a banana" [Was: antedate hacker]   Joel S. Berson
• plaidoyer [WAS: dialectology in linguistics]   Joel S. Berson
• irregardless, AND MISFEASANCE?!?!?   Joel S. Berson
• irregardless, AND MISFEASANCE?!?!?   Joel S. Berson
• FW: "Unchartered waters" or "uncharted waters" for Austin City Council?   Joel S. Berson
• "a dead" (n. sing.), c1861 -- where does this fit?   Joel S. Berson
• OT: "Produced water" [Was: learning words]   Joel S. Berson
• Heard on The Judges: _for to_ VP (UNCLASSIFIED)   David Bowie
• _for to_ VP   David Bowie
• "wh" words - was "no subject" (UNCLASSIFIED)   David Bowie
• Bad Taste Breakthrough! PLUS New Phoneme! (UNCLASSIFIED)   David Bowie
• another euphemism   Ann Burlingham
• The "fribler" (and bonus: "Not in dignified use")   Ann Burlingham
• "Till Death Do They Part"?   Ann Burlingham
• former Beatle   Ronald Butters
• "Gay" in 1713   Ronald Butters
• _for to_ VP   Ronald Butters
• History Channel: Origin of gang name, "Crips"   Ronald Butters
• email problem   Ronald Butters
• Whilst   Ronald Butters
• "get ones ashes hauled", and sweeping ones (or someones) chimney   Ronald Butters
• "Hanoi Jane"   Sam Clements
• email problem   Sam Clements
• Quote: [Remark on death of Calvin Coolidge] How can they tell? (antedating Dorothy Parker 1936)   Sam Clements
• History Channel: Origin of gang name, "Crips"   Gerald Cohen
• evil, v.; suckful, adj.   Gerald Cohen
• Progress (of sorts) on hot dogs   Gerald Cohen
• FW: Assassination euphemisms   Gerald Cohen
• _for to_ VP   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• Assassination euphemisms   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• "Base ball" (UNCLASSIFIED)   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• FW: Sarah Palin's "refudiate" (blend: refute + repudiate)   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• again, a reversal   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• FW: "Unchartered waters" or "uncharted waters" for Austin City Council?   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• renaming because of illness   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• Chicagoisms   David A. Daniel
• Racial epithet makes news   David A. Daniel
• Racial epithet makes news (UNCLASSIFIED)   David A. Daniel
• article on the name "America"   David A. Daniel
• Jeep   David A. Daniel
• Whilst   David A. Daniel
• Whilst   David A. Daniel
• Republican Subterfuge [was Whilst]   David A. Daniel
• Republican Subterfuge [was Whilst]   David A. Daniel
• Republican Subterfuge [was Whilst]   David A. Daniel
• "Base ball"   David A. Daniel
• "How could they tell"?   David A. Daniel
• "How could they tell"?   David A. Daniel
• farmer & peasant   David A. Daniel
• decimate   David A. Daniel
• decimate   David A. Daniel
• decimate   David A. Daniel
• Palindrome   David A. Daniel
• Palindrome   David A. Daniel
• epidumbic   David A. Daniel
• Submariner [was "thousand-yard stare"]   David A. Daniel
• Nothing to see, here: Different strokes   Charles C Doyle
• undewater basket weaving (UNCLASSIFIED)   Charles C Doyle
• Racial epithet makes news   Charles C Doyle
• Racial epithet makes news   Charles C Doyle
• Racial epithet makes news   Charles C Doyle
• former Beatle   Charles C Doyle
• query on poetic figure   Charles C Doyle
• blame (was: Prescriptivism and the cinema)   Charles C Doyle
• The man in the mirror . . .   Charles C Doyle
• query on poetic figure   Charles C Doyle
• Quote: the toast of two continents (antedating Dorothy Parker variant 1956 October 15)   Charles C Doyle
• "get ones ashes hauled", and sweeping ones (or someones) chimney   Charles C Doyle
• "get ones ashes hauled", and sweeping ones (or someones) chimney   Charles C Doyle
• Bad Taste Breakthrough! PLUS New Phoneme!   Charles C Doyle
• more from Language Log   Charles C Doyle
• another query about formulas/quotes   Charles C Doyle
• "privilege"; "exempt"   Charles C Doyle
• spiel   Charles C Doyle
• another query about formulas/quotes   Charles C Doyle
• Juan Crow, et al.   Charles C Doyle
• hacker   Alice Faber
• Shifting negative   Seán Fitzpatrick
• Assassination euphemisms   Jerome Foster
• English, Spanish, and Spanglish   Paul Frank
• The language of marriage   Paul Frank
• bird bath   Paul Frank
• "Base ball"   Paul Frank
• decimate   Paul Frank
• farmer & peasant   Paul Frank
• Jugaad   Paul Frank
• plaidoyer [WAS: dialectology in linguistics]   Paul Frank
• learning words   Paul Frank
• undewater basket weaving   Lisa Galvin
• Jon's 1901 "A Dictionary of everyday twentieth century slang" (UNCLASSIFIED)   Lisa Galvin
• Sports headlines   Dan Goncharoff
• racial epithet makes news   Dan Goncharoff
• racial epithet makes news   Dan Goncharoff
• Racial epithet makes news   Dan Goncharoff
• former Beatle   Dan Goncharoff
• History Channel: Origin of gang name, "Crips"   Dan Goncharoff
• Assassination euphemisms   Dan Goncharoff
• Assassination euphemisms   Dan Goncharoff
• springing a leak   Dan Goncharoff
• blame   Dan Goncharoff
• Modern Proverb: Be nice to those you meet on the way up. They're the same folks you'll meet on the way down (antedating Walter Winchell 1932 July 8)   Dan Goncharoff
• commingle(d) = 'stuff to recycle'   Dan Goncharoff
• Modern Proverb: Be nice to those you meet on the way up. They're the same folks you'll meet on the way down (antedating Walter Winchell 1932 July 8)   Dan Goncharoff
• Jugaad   Dan Goncharoff
• Shouldn't it be "Jailbroken"?   Dan Goncharoff
• hacker   Dan Goncharoff
• hacker   Dan Goncharoff
• email problem   Dan Goodman
• Quote: [Remark on death of Calvin Coolidge] How can they tell? (antedating Dorothy Parker 1936)   Dan Goodman
• "Kybosh" as a tool or weapon? (1860)   Stephen Goranson
• "on the Fritz"   Stephen Goranson
• "lead-pipe cinch" antedated to 1888   Stephen Goranson
• "Buckley's chance" antedated--in New Zealand   Stephen Goranson
• "rookie" from "recruit"   Stephen Goranson
• jomo bag 1925, before OED's mojo & mojo hand   Stephen Goranson
• Tonton Macoute   Stephen Goranson
• article on the name "America"   Stephen Goranson
• "Ya gotta love it!"   Stephen Goranson
• glitch antedated to 1955   Stephen Goranson
• moola antedated to 1937   Stephen Goranson
• Off-list Re: Hoarse, four, mourning etc. (UNCLASSIFIED)   Wilson Gray
• "All those nights that I _lied_ awake, waiting for you!"   Wilson Gray
• "Kye bosh" by Dickens (1835)   Wilson Gray
• Hoarse, four, mourning etc.   Wilson Gray
• "It was rainin' _wif_ *bullicks*!"   Wilson Gray
• "At dat time, if I'd a knew betta, we'd a copyrighted that shxt!"   Wilson Gray
• "At dat time, if I'd a knew betta, we'd a copyrighted that shxt!"   Wilson Gray
• 'looks like'   Wilson Gray
• cetacean sexism   Wilson Gray
• Nothing to see, here: Different strokes   Wilson Gray
• Heard on The Judges: _for to_ VP   Wilson Gray
• undewater basket weaving (UNCLASSIFIED)   Wilson Gray
• Heard on The Judges: _for to_ VP (UNCLASSIFIED)   Wilson Gray
• History Channel: Origin of gang name, "Crips"   Wilson Gray
• Heard on The Judges: _for to_ VP (UNCLASSIFIED)   Wilson Gray
• _for to_ VP   Wilson Gray
• History Channel: Origin of gang name, "Crips"   Wilson Gray
• rhythmic blends   Wilson Gray
• jomo bag 1925, before OED's mojo & mojo hand   Wilson Gray
• Q: Possible 1727 "queen" = male homosexual?   Wilson Gray
• He says "overpass", I say ...   Wilson Gray
• He says "overpass", I say ...   Wilson Gray
• Mojo in science. Latin continues to expand its vocabulary.   Wilson Gray
• He says "overpass", I say ...   Wilson Gray
• Metaphors: trivia   Wilson Gray
• another euphemism   Wilson Gray
• "lead-pipe cinch" (antedating to 1888 July 29)   Wilson Gray
• Metaphors: trivia   Wilson Gray
• article on the name "America"   Wilson Gray
• Prescriptivism and the cinema   Wilson Gray
• FYI: http://www.internetslang.com/ [NT]   Wilson Gray
• Prescriptivism and the cinema   Wilson Gray
• Prescriptivism and the cinema   Wilson Gray
• blame (was: Prescriptivism and the cinema)   Wilson Gray
• Prescriptivism and the cinema   Wilson Gray
• The man in the mirror . . .   Wilson Gray
• Jeep   Wilson Gray
• "Till Death Do They Part"?   Wilson Gray
• "Life's a garden. Dig it."   Wilson Gray
• Dan Burley   Wilson Gray
• spit-bath [& bird bath]   Wilson Gray
• No subject   Wilson Gray
• commingle(d) = 'stuff to recycle'   Wilson Gray
• "wh" words - was "no subject" (UNCLASSIFIED)   Wilson Gray
• Dan Burley   Wilson Gray
• Dan Burley/ hep/hip   Wilson Gray
• "Ya gotta love it!"   Wilson Gray
• "How could they tell"?   Wilson Gray
• "Rock The Mic"   Wilson Gray
• Chicagoisms   Wilson Gray
• OT: Even a broken clock is right twice a day   Wilson Gray
• Jon's 1901 "A Dictionary of everyday twentieth century slang"   Wilson Gray
• decimate   Wilson Gray
• brogue   Wilson Gray
• Further evidence of the demise of English as world language   Wilson Gray
• Another [not] suspect quote: Ira Hayes   Wilson Gray
• "soft baked"; and "no great kicks"   Wilson Gray
• "knock" vt. = 'copulate with' 1702 interdates OED   Wilson Gray
• Bad Taste Breakthrough! PLUS New Phoneme!   Wilson Gray
• Paternity in the good old days   Wilson Gray
• more from Language Log   Wilson Gray
• Paternity in the good old days   Wilson Gray
• Further evidence of the demise of English as world language   Wilson Gray
• _Unapt_   Wilson Gray
• handwaving   Wilson Gray
• query: a cock and cock story   Wilson Gray
• "thousand-yard stare" (UNCLASSIFIED)   Wilson Gray
• "hay foot straw foot" (was Re: OT: Wall Street Journal discovers linguistic relativism)   Wilson Gray
• Shouldn't it be "Jailbroken"?   Wilson Gray
• query: a cock and cock story   Wilson Gray
• today's profundity   Wilson Gray
• "thousand-yard stare" (UNCLASSIFIED)   Wilson Gray
• moola antedated to 1937   Wilson Gray
• jackwagon   Wilson Gray
• antedate hacker (UNCLASSIFIED)   Wilson Gray
• jackwagon   Wilson Gray
• Dialect notes. v.3, 1908-09   Wilson Gray
• Further evidence of the demise of English as a world language   Wilson Gray
• Juan Crow, et al.   Wilson Gray
• "Crip walk" redux   Wilson Gray
• Language and thinking   Wilson Gray
• Language and thinking   Wilson Gray
• Naughty Fawn - awe-droppers poem   Damien Hall
• dialectology in linguistics   Damien Hall
• dialectology in linguistics   Damien Hall
• plaidoyer [WAS: dialectology in linguistics]   Damien Hall
• Racial epithet makes news   Robin Hamilton
• Racial epithet makes news   Robin Hamilton
• Racial epithet makes news   Robin Hamilton
• "Base ball"   Robin Hamilton
• "Base ball"   Robin Hamilton
• "reverse graffiti"   James Harbeck
• Jon's 1901 "A Dictionary of everyday twentieth century slang" (UNCLASSIFIED)   Dave Hause
• Hoarse, four, mourning etc.   Laurence Horn
• Hoarse, four, mourning etc.   Laurence Horn
• "Ignoranus" as eggcorn?   Laurence Horn
• Subject: cetacean sexism   Laurence Horn
• undewater basket weaving (UNCLASSIFIED)   Laurence Horn
• Racial epithet makes news   Laurence Horn
• Racial epithet makes news   Laurence Horn
• Racial epithet makes news   Laurence Horn
• Racial epithet makes news   Laurence Horn
• "reverse graffiti"   Laurence Horn
• former Beatle   Laurence Horn
• "Gay" in 1713   Laurence Horn
• Three silly pieces   Laurence Horn
• Three silly pieces   Laurence Horn
• Shifting negative   Laurence Horn
• Q: Possible 1727 "queen" = male homosexual?   Laurence Horn
• He says "overpass", I say ...   Laurence Horn
• Metaphors: trivia   Laurence Horn
• Progress (of sorts) on hot dogs   Laurence Horn
• Assassination euphemisms   Laurence Horn
• article on the name "America"   Laurence Horn
• Assassination euphemisms   Laurence Horn
• springing a leak   Laurence Horn
• crash blossom of the morning   Laurence Horn
• blame (was: Prescriptivism and the cinema)   Laurence Horn
• query on poetic figure   Laurence Horn
• "Till Death Do They Part"?   Laurence Horn
• Whilst   Laurence Horn
• blame   Laurence Horn
• "Till Death Do They Part"?   Laurence Horn
• Whilst   Laurence Horn
• "Till Death Do They Part"?   Laurence Horn
• Quote: If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research (antedating 1938)   Laurence Horn
• another inanimate "she"   Laurence Horn
• Whilst   Laurence Horn
• another inanimate "she"   Laurence Horn
• "Dish It Out But Can't Take It"   Laurence Horn
• Whilst   Laurence Horn
• Quote: the toast of two continents (antedating Dorothy Parker variant 1956 October 15)   Laurence Horn
• "get ones ashes hauled", and sweeping ones (or someones) chimney   Laurence Horn
• "get ones ashes hauled", and sweeping ones (or someones) chimney   Laurence Horn
• More on mojo   Laurence Horn
• "capitalize on" = 'correct'? 'make up for'?   Laurence Horn
• Sam Hell   Laurence Horn
• decimate   Laurence Horn
• Sam Hell   Laurence Horn
• Sam Hell   Laurence Horn
• Bad Taste Breakthrough! PLUS New Phoneme!   Laurence Horn
• Bad Taste Breakthrough! PLUS New Phoneme! (UNCLASSIFIED)   Laurence Horn
• "soft baked"; and "no great kicks"   Laurence Horn
• "knock" vt. = 'copulate with' 1702 interdates OED   Laurence Horn
• "soft baked"; and "no great kicks"   Laurence Horn
• "soft baked"; and "no great kicks"   Laurence Horn
• Paternity in the good old days   Laurence Horn
• participles in the NYT Mag   Laurence Horn
• query: a cock and cock story   Laurence Horn
• query: a cock and cock story   Laurence Horn
• another query about formulas/quotes   Laurence Horn
• playboy   Laurence Horn
• "only X (and) only Y"   Laurence Horn
• jackwagon   Laurence Horn
• moola antedated to 1937   Laurence Horn
• jackwagon   Laurence Horn
• hacker   Laurence Horn
• hacker   Laurence Horn
• irregardless, still earlier yet   Laurence Horn
• Language and thinking   Laurence Horn
• irregardless, 1876 (OED: 1912)   Laurence Horn
• irregardless, AND MISFEASANCE?!?!?   Laurence Horn
• No subject   Michael Israel
• Hoarse, four, mourning etc.   Paul Johnston
• Hoarse, four, mourning etc.   Paul Johnston
• "wh" words - was "no subject" (UNCLASSIFIED)   Paul Johnston
• decimate   Steve Kl.
• decimate   Steve Kl.
• Hoarse, four, mourning etc.   Margaret Lee
• Hoarse, four, mourning etc.   Margaret Lee
• Heard on The Judges: _for to_ VP   Margaret Lee
• Dan Burley   Margaret Lee
• Dan Burley   Margaret Lee
• Bad Taste Breakthrough! PLUS New Phoneme!   Margaret Lee
• co-equal   Jonathan Lighter
• co-equal   Jonathan Lighter
• exploitainment   Jonathan Lighter
• "Hanoi Jane"   Jonathan Lighter
• pundojournalist   Jonathan Lighter
• "shoot" = " have a (male) orgasm, 'come' " in 1772?   Jonathan Lighter
• "shoot" = " have a (male) orgasm, 'come' " in 1772?   Jonathan Lighter
• "shoot" = " have a (male) orgasm, 'come' " in 1772?   Jonathan Lighter
• "At dat time, if I'd a knew betta, we'd a copyrighted that shxt!"   Jonathan Lighter
• racial epithet makes news   Jonathan Lighter
• cetacean sexism   Jonathan Lighter
• Nothing to see, here: Different strokes   Jonathan Lighter
• Subject: cetacean sexism   Jonathan Lighter
• Subject: cetacean sexism   Jonathan Lighter
• undewater basket weaving (UNCLASSIFIED)   Jonathan Lighter
• Subject: cetacean sexism   Jonathan Lighter
• Subject: cetacean sexism   Jonathan Lighter
• racial epithet makes news   Jonathan Lighter
• Subject: cetacean sexism   Jonathan Lighter
• Racial epithet makes news   Jonathan Lighter
• Racial epithet makes news   Jonathan Lighter
• Eggcorn   Jonathan Lighter
• Racial epithet makes news   Jonathan Lighter
• Racial epithet makes news   Jonathan Lighter
• Racial epithet makes news   Jonathan Lighter
• Racial epithet makes news (UNCLASSIFIED)   Jonathan Lighter
• Honest injun (antedating 1867)   Jonathan Lighter
• "youse guys" in the 1890s.   Jonathan Lighter
• How British sailors were expected to talk in 1909   Jonathan Lighter
• overlooked 1901 slang glossary   Jonathan Lighter
• Racial epithet makes news   Jonathan Lighter
• Racial epithet makes news   Jonathan Lighter
• "Gay" in 1713   Jonathan Lighter
• "lead-pipe cinch" (antedating to 1888 July 29)   Jonathan Lighter
• "rookie" from "recruit"   Jonathan Lighter
• "rookie" from "recruit"   Jonathan Lighter
• Q: Possible 1727 "queen" = male homosexual?   Jonathan Lighter
• BS on "battle-axe"   Jonathan Lighter
• rhythmic blends   Jonathan Lighter
• son of "is-is"?   Jonathan Lighter
• rhythmic blends   Jonathan Lighter
• rhythmic blends   Jonathan Lighter
• Mojo in science. Latin continues to expand its vocabulary.   Jonathan Lighter
• Mojo in science. Latin continues to expand its vocabulary.   Jonathan Lighter
• KJ; space boots   Jonathan Lighter
• Metaphors: trivia   Jonathan Lighter
• evil, v.; suckful, adj.   Jonathan Lighter
• Assassination euphemisms   Jonathan Lighter
• Assassination euphemisms   Jonathan Lighter
• Assassination euphemisms   Jonathan Lighter
• Prescriptivism and the cinema   Jonathan Lighter
• "Acceptable" for a hazardous material   Jonathan Lighter
• article on the name "America"   Jonathan Lighter
• article on the name "America"   Jonathan Lighter
• "playboy" [Was: article on the name "America"]   Jonathan Lighter
• "playboy" [Was: article on the name "America"]   Jonathan Lighter
• "playboy" [Was: article on the name "America"]   Jonathan Lighter
• fighting for punk   Jonathan Lighter
• "playboy" [Was: article on the name "America"]   Jonathan Lighter
• "playboy" [Was: article on the name "America"]   Jonathan Lighter
• blame (was: Prescriptivism and the cinema)   Jonathan Lighter
• fighting for punk   Jonathan Lighter
• The man in the mirror . . .   Jonathan Lighter
• Whilst   Jonathan Lighter
• yet more GB caveats   Jonathan Lighter
• Jeep   Jonathan Lighter
• "Till Death Do They Part"?   Jonathan Lighter
• "Till Death Do They Part"?   Jonathan Lighter
• Dan Burley   Jonathan Lighter
• Dan Burley   Jonathan Lighter
• Another take on Jeep.   Jonathan Lighter
• Another take on Jeep.   Jonathan Lighter
• "Dish It Out But Can't Take It"   Jonathan Lighter
• "Dish It Out But Can't Take It"   Jonathan Lighter
• another inanimate "she"   Jonathan Lighter
• Whilst   Jonathan Lighter
• More on mojo   Jonathan Lighter
• More on mojo   Jonathan Lighter
• OED. MW on "alienated," etc.   Jonathan Lighter
• "Life's a garden. Dig it."   Jonathan Lighter
• "Life's a garden. Dig it."   Jonathan Lighter
• "Life's a garden. Dig it."   Jonathan Lighter
• Dan Burley   Jonathan Lighter
• Republican Subterfuge [was Whilst]   Jonathan Lighter
• Republican Subterfuge [was Whilst]   Jonathan Lighter
• Quote: [Remark on death of Calvin Coolidge] How can they tell? (antedating Dorothy Parker 1936)   Jonathan Lighter
• Dan Burley   Jonathan Lighter
• "Base ball"   Jonathan Lighter
• "Base ball"   Jonathan Lighter
• Mama Grizzly   Jonathan Lighter
• hep (two, three, four)   Jonathan Lighter
• FW: Sarah Palin's "refudiate" (blend: refute + repudiate)   Jonathan Lighter
• FW: Sarah Palin's "refudiate" (blend: refute + repudiate)   Jonathan Lighter
• "Base ball"   Jonathan Lighter
• Quote: What fresh hell can this be? (antedating Dorothy Parker - probably 1970)   Jonathan Lighter
• "playboy" [Was: article on the name "America"]   Jonathan Lighter
• Quote: the toast of two continents (antedating Dorothy Parker variant 1956 October 15)   Jonathan Lighter
• "Base ball"   Jonathan Lighter
• Quote: the toast of two continents (antedating Dorothy Parker variant 1956 October 15)   Jonathan Lighter
• "get ones ashes hauled", and sweeping ones (or someones) chimney   Jonathan Lighter
• Quote: the toast of two continents   Jonathan Lighter
• "Base ball"   Jonathan Lighter
• "get ones ashes hauled", and sweeping ones (or someones) chimney   Jonathan Lighter
• Freud and chimney sweeping   Jonathan Lighter
• "get ones ashes hauled", and sweeping ones (or someones) chimney   Jonathan Lighter
• FW: Sarah Palin's "refudiate" (blend: refute + repudiate)   Jonathan Lighter
• Quote: lead a whore to culture (antedating Dorothy Parker 1962 July) (Folklore 1963 March)   Jonathan Lighter
• Sam Hell   Jonathan Lighter
• "Ya gotta love it!"   Jonathan Lighter
• glitch antedated to 1955   Jonathan Lighter
• a "fence", as a business, not a person   Jonathan Lighter
• Further Antedating of "Glitch"   Jonathan Lighter
• "Ya gotta love it!"   Jonathan Lighter
• decimate   Jonathan Lighter
• journey   Jonathan Lighter
• Another suspect quote: Ira Hayes   Jonathan Lighter
• decimate   Jonathan Lighter
• brogue   Jonathan Lighter
• decimate   Jonathan Lighter
• Jon's 1901 "A Dictionary of everyday twentieth century slang" (UNCLASSIFIED)   Jonathan Lighter
• Jon's 1901 "A Dictionary of everyday twentieth century slang"   Jonathan Lighter
• Bad Taste Breakthrough! PLUS New Phoneme!   Jonathan Lighter
• "capitalize on" = 'correct'? 'make up for'?   Jonathan Lighter
• decimate   Jonathan Lighter
• Another suspect quote: Ira Hayes   Jonathan Lighter
• obesogens   Jonathan Lighter
• "quiet deploration"   Jonathan Lighter
• more from Language Log   Jonathan Lighter
• Bad Taste Breakthrough! PLUS New Phoneme!   Jonathan Lighter
• Bad Taste Breakthrough! PLUS New Phoneme!   Jonathan Lighter
• Bad Taste Breakthrough! PLUS New Phoneme! (UNCLASSIFIED)   Jonathan Lighter
• Palindrome   Jonathan Lighter
• Bad Taste Breakthrough! PLUS New Phoneme! (UNCLASSIFIED)   Jonathan Lighter
• semantic drift: squadron   Jonathan Lighter
• sponsor   Jonathan Lighter
• semantic drift: squadron   Jonathan Lighter
• "soft baked"; and "no great kicks"   Jonathan Lighter
• Bad Taste Breakthrough! PLUS New Phoneme! (UNCLASSIFIED)   Jonathan Lighter
• Palindrome   Jonathan Lighter
• sponsor   Jonathan Lighter
• semantic drift: squadron   Jonathan Lighter
• Another [not] suspect quote: Ira Hayes   Jonathan Lighter
• Bad Taste Breakthrough! PLUS New Phoneme! (UNCLASSIFIED)   Jonathan Lighter
• "knock" vt. = 'copulate with' 1702 interdates OED   Jonathan Lighter
• more from Language Log   Jonathan Lighter
• Another [not] suspect quote: Ira Hayes   Jonathan Lighter
• more from Language Log   Jonathan Lighter
• more from Language Log   Jonathan Lighter
• participles in the NYT Mag   Jonathan Lighter
• again, a reversal   Jonathan Lighter
• "pedestrian" = 'traveler on the sidewalk'   Jonathan Lighter
• "privilege"; "exempt"   Jonathan Lighter
• "anoint"; "sublime"   Jonathan Lighter
• query: a cock and cock story   Jonathan Lighter
• handwaving   Jonathan Lighter
• "anoint"; "sublime"   Jonathan Lighter
• new specif. sense: "abuse"   Jonathan Lighter
• new specif. sense: "abuse"   Jonathan Lighter
• today's profundity   Jonathan Lighter
• "thousand-yard stare"   Jonathan Lighter
• playboy   Jonathan Lighter
• playboy   Jonathan Lighter
• "privilege"; "exempt"   Jonathan Lighter
• Wall Street Journal discovers linguistic relativism   Jonathan Lighter
• "thousand-yard stare" (UNCLASSIFIED)   Jonathan Lighter
• "privilege"; "exempt"   Jonathan Lighter
• query: a cock and cock story   Jonathan Lighter
• OT: Wall Street Journal discovers linguistic relativism   Jonathan Lighter
• Submariner [was "thousand-yard stare"] (UNCLASSIFIED)   Jonathan Lighter
• Submariner [was "thousand-yard stare"]   Jonathan Lighter
• jackwagon   Jonathan Lighter
• jackwagon   Jonathan Lighter
• allegory   Jonathan Lighter
• moola antedated to 1937   Jonathan Lighter
• jackwagon   Jonathan Lighter
• plaidoyer [WAS: dialectology in linguistics]   Jonathan Lighter
• plaidoyer [WAS: dialectology in linguistics]   Jonathan Lighter
• Language and thinking   Jonathan Lighter
• Language and thinking   Jonathan Lighter
• learning words   Jonathan Lighter
• Antedating of "Suck"   Mark Mandel
• sped = special ed   Mark Mandel
• Hoarse, four, mourning etc.   Mark Mandel
• Antedating of "Suck"   Mark Mandel
• Hoarse, four, mourning etc.   Mark Mandel
• "All those nights that I _lied_ awake, waiting for you!"   Mark Mandel
• Hoarse, four, mourning etc.   Mark Mandel
• Subject: cetacean sexism   Mark Mandel
• Subject: cetacean sexism   Mark Mandel
• Subject: cetacean sexism   Mark Mandel
• The "fribler"   Mark Mandel
• "rookie" from "recruit"   Mark Mandel
• "lead-pipe cinch" (antedating to 1888 July 29)   Mark Mandel
• "rookie" from "recruit"   Mark Mandel
• Assassination euphemisms   Mark Mandel
• springing a leak   Mark Mandel
• springing a leak   Mark Mandel
• blame   Mark Mandel
• "Base ball", (2)   Mark Mandel
• commingle(d) = 'stuff to recycle'   Mark Mandel
• commingle(d) = 'stuff to recycle'   Mark Mandel
• Sam Hell   Mark Mandel
• "loafs" (npl.)   Mark Mandel
• Sam Hell   Mark Mandel
• No subject   Mark Mandel
• Quote: What fresh hell can this be? (antedating Dorothy Parker - probably 1970)   Mark Mandel
• Sam Hell   Mark Mandel
• more from Language Log   Mark Mandel
• Further evidence of the demise of English as world language   Mark Mandel
• Bad Taste Breakthrough! PLUS New Phoneme! (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mark Mandel
• Bad Taste Breakthrough! PLUS New Phoneme! (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mark Mandel
• Bad Taste Breakthrough! PLUS New Phoneme!   Mark Mandel
• "Acceptable" for a hazardous material   Mark Mandel
• new specif. sense: "abuse"   Mark Mandel
• Further evidence of the demise of English as world language   Mark Mandel
• another query about formulas/quotes   Mark Mandel
• "thousand-yard stare" (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mark Mandel
• "only X (and) only Y"   Mark Mandel
• (unscholarly post) Latin roots are a Bad Thing   Mark Mandel
• "Hanoi Jane"   John McChesney-Young
• sped = special ed (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• undewater basket weaving (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• sequins (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• undewater basket weaving (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• Racial epithet makes news (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• Racial epithet makes news (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• Heard on The Judges: _for to_ VP (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• Racial epithet makes news (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• rhythmic blends (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• Assassination euphemisms (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• query on poetic figure (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• "playboy" [Was: article on the name "America"] (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• Modern Proverb: Be nice to those you meet on the way up. They're the same folks you'll meet on the way down (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• yet more GB caveats (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• "Base ball" (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• "wh" words - was "no subject" (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• Jon's 1901 "A Dictionary of everyday twentieth century slang" (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• farmer & peasant (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• Bad Taste Breakthrough! PLUS New Phoneme! (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• Bad Taste Breakthrough! PLUS New Phoneme! (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• Bad Taste Breakthrough! PLUS New Phoneme! (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• OT: Wall Street Journal discovers linguistic relativism (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• OT: For whom the bear eats (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• query: a cock and cock story (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• "thousand-yard stare" (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• Submariner [was "thousand-yard stare"] (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• antedate hacker (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• Antedating of "Been There, Done That" (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• "Gay" in 1713   Alison Murie
• 'looks like'   Lynne Murphy
• apostrophe   Barbara Need
• Mojo in science. Latin continues to expand its vocabulary.   Eric Nielsen
• decimate   Eric Nielsen
• decimate   Eric Nielsen
• decimate   Eric Nielsen
• Palindrome   Eric Nielsen
• Bad Taste Breakthrough! PLUS New Phoneme! (UNCLASSIFIED)   Eric Nielsen
• Bad Taste Breakthrough! PLUS New Phoneme! (UNCLASSIFIED)   Eric Nielsen
• irregardless, 1876 (OED: 1912)   Geoffrey Nunberg
• irregardless, still earlier   Geoffrey Nunberg
• irregardless, still earlier yet   Geoffrey Nunberg
• irregardless, still earlier yet"   Geoffrey Nunberg
• Concerning the whip made from hippo hide : corbage, korbadj, kurbash, corbash, and kibosh   Garson O'Toole
• on the carpet (antedating 1694); to be carpeted in a French-English dictionary   Garson O'Toole
• another eggcorn   Garson O'Toole
• kibosh (2. Nonsense. Antedating 1860)   Garson O'Toole
• Legal advice: pound the facts, the law, the table (variant 1911)   Garson O'Toole
• Legal advice: pound the facts, the law, the table (variant 1911)   Garson O'Toole
• Honest injun (antedating 1867)   Garson O'Toole
• Three silly pieces   Garson O'Toole
• "lead-pipe cinch" (antedating to 1888 July 29)   Garson O'Toole
• "rookie" from "recruit"   Garson O'Toole
• Otto von Bismarck and Rudolf Virchow proposed duel with sausages (ref 1867)   Garson O'Toole
• Assassination euphemisms   Garson O'Toole
• Assassination euphemisms   Garson O'Toole
• Assassination euphemisms   Garson O'Toole
• Modern Proverb: Be nice to those you meet on the way up. They're the same folks you'll meet on the way down (antedating Walter Winchell 1932 July 8)   Garson O'Toole
• Quote: If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research (antedating 1938)   Garson O'Toole
• Quote: [Remark on death of Calvin Coolidge] How can they tell? (antedating Dorothy Parker 1936)   Garson O'Toole
• Modern Proverb: Be nice to those you meet on the way up. They're the same folks you'll meet on the way down (antedating Walter Winchell 1932 July 8)   Garson O'Toole
• Quote: [Remark on death of Calvin Coolidge] How can they tell? (antedating Dorothy Parker 1936)   Garson O'Toole
• Quote: It is not a novel to be thrown aside lightly (Dorothy Parker) (cite in Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations)   Garson O'Toole
• Quote: the toast of two continents (antedating Dorothy Parker variant 1956 October 15)   Garson O'Toole
• Quote: What fresh hell can this be? (antedating Dorothy Parker - probably 1970)   Garson O'Toole
• Quote: I'm too fucking busy and vice versa (antedating Dorothy Parker 1967 September)   Garson O'Toole
• Quote: lead a whore to culture (antedating Dorothy Parker 1962 July) (Folklore 1963 March)   Garson O'Toole
• Quote: What fresh hell can this be? (antedating Dorothy Parker - probably 1970)   Garson O'Toole
• "Ya gotta love it!"   Garson O'Toole
• Another suspect quote: Ira Hayes   Garson O'Toole
• Another suspect quote: Ira Hayes   Garson O'Toole
• Another suspect quote: Ira Hayes   Garson O'Toole
• Another [not] suspect quote: Ira Hayes   Garson O'Toole
• "soft baked"; and "no great kicks"   Garson O'Toole
• handwaving   Garson O'Toole
• "pedestrian" = 'traveler on the sidewalk'   Garson O'Toole
• another query about formulas/quotes   Garson O'Toole
• hay-foot, straw-foot (antedating 1841)   Garson O'Toole
• Quote: Change one letter in that phrase and you have my life story (antedating 1957 Dorothy Parker)   Garson O'Toole
• Quote: Justice delayed is justice denied (Variations on a theme)   Garson O'Toole
• Quote: Justice delayed is justice denied (Variations on a theme)   Garson O'Toole
• Quote: Justice delayed is justice denied (Variations on a theme)   Garson O'Toole
• hacker (antedating Tech Model Railroad Club of MIT - TMRC Dictionary 1959) (Should be checked in original document)   Garson O'Toole
• hacker (antedating Tech Model Railroad Club of MIT - TMRC Dictionary 1959) (Should be checked in original document)   Garson O'Toole
• hacker   Garson O'Toole
• hacker   Garson O'Toole
• hacker - golf player of limited proficiency (1934 September 5)   Garson O'Toole
• hacker - golf player of limited proficiency (1934 September 5)   Garson O'Toole
• hacker - golf player of limited proficiency (1934 September 5)   Garson O'Toole
• irregardless, 1876 (OED: 1912)   Garson O'Toole
• Antedating of "Been There, Done That"   Garson O'Toole
• renaming because of illness   Garson O'Toole
• "playboy" [Was: article on the name "America"]   Bill Palmer
• "playboy" [Was: article on the name "America"]   Bill Palmer
• bird bath   Bill Palmer
• Whilst   Bill Palmer
• Another take on Jeep.   Bill Palmer
• Republican Subterfuge [was Whilst]   Bill Palmer
• Republican Subterfuge [was Whilst]   Bill Palmer
• No subject   Bill Palmer
• Republican Subterfuge [was Whilst]   Bill Palmer
• "How could they tell"?   Bill Palmer
• semantic drift: squadron   Bill Palmer
• semantic drift: squadron   Bill Palmer
• more from Language Log   Bill Palmer
• query: a cock and cock story   Bill Palmer
• Submariner [was "thousand-yard stare"]   Bill Palmer
• Submariner [was "thousand-yard stare"]   Bill Palmer
• Submariner [was "thousand-yard stare"] (UNCLASSIFIED)   Bill Palmer
• Submariner [was "thousand-yard stare"] (UNCLASSIFIED)   Bill Palmer
• Racial epithet makes news   Jim Parish
• Assassination euphemisms   Paul
• Dan Burley/ hep/hip   Paul
• Assassination euphemisms   Mark Peters
• "letter[-]boxing" -- revival of a sport?   Michael Quinion
• Whilst   Michael Quinion
• dilemna   Michael Quinion
• query: a cock and cock story   Charles C Rice
• Legal advice: pound the facts, the law, the table (variant 1911)   Shapiro, Fred
• Peter Cook Quotation Query   Shapiro, Fred
• Antedating of "Skateboard"   Shapiro, Fred
• Dan Burley   Shapiro, Fred
• Antedating of Cinematic "Daily"   Shapiro, Fred
• "Dish It Out But Can't Take It"   Shapiro, Fred
• Quote: [Remark on death of Calvin Coolidge] How can they tell? (antedating Dorothy Parker 1936)   Shapiro, Fred
• "Base ball"   Shapiro, Fred
• "Base ball"   Shapiro, Fred
• Quote: [Remark on death of Calvin Coolidge] How can they tell? (antedating Dorothy Parker 1936)   Shapiro, Fred
• glitch antedated to 1955   Shapiro, Fred
• Further Antedating of "Glitch"   Shapiro, Fred
• Antedating of "Sociolect"   Shapiro, Fred
• antedate hacker (UNCLASSIFIED)   Shapiro, Fred
• Antedating of "Been There, Done That"   Shapiro, Fred
• "shoot" = " have a (male) orgasm, 'come' " in 1772?   Jesse Sheidlower
• "reverse graffiti"   Jesse Sheidlower
• Racial epithet makes news   Jesse Sheidlower
• "rookie" from "recruit"   Jesse Sheidlower
• [NOT] "Open a side door", 1773, antedates 1930   Jesse Sheidlower
• query on poetic figure   Jesse Sheidlower
• hacker (antedating Tech Model Railroad Club of MIT - TMRC Dictionary 1959) (Should be checked in original document)   Jesse Sheidlower
• hacker (antedating Tech Model Railroad Club of MIT - TMRC Dictionary 1959) (Should be checked in original document)   Jesse Sheidlower
• irregardless, 1876 (OED: 1912)   Jesse Sheidlower
• Heard on The Judges: _for to_ VP   Herb Stahlke
• Assassination euphemisms   Herb Stahlke
• Another instance of "literally"   Victor Steinbok
• another eggcorn   Victor Steinbok
• another eggcorn   Victor Steinbok
• more from soccer gamecasts   Victor Steinbok
• More comments from Gamecast   Victor Steinbok
• "on the Fritz"   Victor Steinbok
• Racial epithet makes news   Victor Steinbok
• Racial epithet makes news   Victor Steinbok
• Racial epithet makes news   Victor Steinbok
• Racial epithet makes news   Victor Steinbok
• Racial epithet makes news   Victor Steinbok
• sports jargon   Victor Steinbok
• Three silly pieces   Victor Steinbok
• Three silly pieces   Victor Steinbok
• Three silly pieces   Victor Steinbok
• He says "overpass", I say ...   Victor Steinbok
• He says "overpass", I say ...   Victor Steinbok
• He says "overpass", I say ...   Victor Steinbok
• Assassination euphemisms   Victor Steinbok
• Assassination euphemisms   Victor Steinbok
• Assassination euphemisms   Victor Steinbok
• Assassination euphemisms   Victor Steinbok
• Assassination euphemisms   Victor Steinbok
• Assassination euphemisms   Victor Steinbok
• FW: Assassination euphemisms   Victor Steinbok
• Assassination euphemisms   Victor Steinbok
• springing a leak   Victor Steinbok
• well-dressed gentleman   Victor Steinbok
• "playboy" [Was: article on the name "America"]   Victor Steinbok
• springing a leak   Victor Steinbok
• "playboy" [Was: article on the name "America"]   Victor Steinbok
• crash blossom of the morning   Victor Steinbok
• Modern Proverb: Be nice to those you meet on the way up. They're the same folks you'll meet on the way down (antedating Walter Winchell 1932 July 8)   Victor Steinbok
• Quote: [Remark on death of Calvin Coolidge] How can they tell? (antedating Dorothy Parker 1936)   Victor Steinbok
• commingle(d) = 'stuff to recycle'   Victor Steinbok
• commingle(d) = 'stuff to recycle'   Victor Steinbok
• "How could they tell"?   Victor Steinbok
• Jon's 1901 "A Dictionary of everyday twentieth century slang"   Victor Steinbok
• more from Language Log   Victor Steinbok
• Wall Street Journal discovers linguistic relativism   Victor Steinbok
• OT: Wall Street Journal discovers linguistic relativism   Victor Steinbok
• OT: For whom the bear eats (UNCLASSIFIED)   Victor Steinbok
• OT: Wall Street Journal discovers linguistic relativism   Victor Steinbok
• hacker (antedating Tech Model Railroad Club of MIT - TMRC Dictionary 1959) (Should be checked in original document)   Victor Steinbok
• hacker (antedating Tech Model Railroad Club of MIT - TMRC Dictionary 1959) (Should be checked in original document)   Victor Steinbok
• hacker   Victor Steinbok
• jackwagon   Victor Steinbok
• hacker   Victor Steinbok
• hacker - golf player of limited proficiency (1934 September 5)   Victor Steinbok
• hacker   Victor Steinbok
• irregardless, 1876 (OED: 1912)   Victor Steinbok
• irregardless, 1876 (OED: 1912)   Bonnie Taylor-Blake
• Christmas Eve Antedating : "Humbug"   Bonnie Taylor-Blake
• Racial epithet makes news   George Thompson
• Heard on The Judges: _for to_ VP   George Thompson
• "lead-pipe cinch" (antedating to 1888 July 29)   George Thompson
• misplaced faith in a lexicographer   George Thompson
• fighting for punk   George Thompson
• fighting for punk   George Thompson
• Quote: [Remark on death of Calvin Coolidge] How can they tell? (antedating Dorothy Parker 1936)   George Thompson
• Quote: [Remark on death of Calvin Coolidge] How can they tell? (antedating Dorothy Parker 1936)   George Thompson
• "Base ball"   George Thompson
• Republican Subterfuge [was Whilst]   George Thompson
• sorry about that (was Republican Subterfuge [was Whilst])   George Thompson
• commingle(d) = 'stuff to recycle'   George Thompson
• "Base ball"   George Thompson
• "Base ball"   George Thompson
• "Base ball"   George Thompson
• a "fence", as a business, not a person   George Thompson
• farmer & peasant   George Thompson
• decimate   George Thompson
• "soft baked"; and "no great kicks"   George Thompson
• "soft baked"; and "no great kicks"   George Thompson
• "thousand-yard stare"   George Thompson
• Hoarse, four, mourning etc.   David Wake
• Whilst   David Wake
• No subject   David Wake
• "wh" words - was "no subject" (UNCLASSIFIED)   David Wake
• FW: "Unchartered waters" or "uncharted waters" for Austin City Council?   David Wake
• sped = special ed   Amy West
• sped = special ed   Amy West
• Subject: cetacean sexism   Amy West
• Language and mild language (was: Racial epithet...)   Neal Whitman
• Addictive and addicting   Neal Whitman
• query on poetic figure   Neal Whitman
• "Till Death Do They Part"?   Neal Whitman
• "put the 'Kibosh on 'em" (antedating, 1834)   Douglas G. Wilson
• "Kybosh" as a tool or weapon? (1860)   Douglas G. Wilson
• "Kye bosh" by Dickens (1835)   Douglas G. Wilson
• "on the Fritz"   Douglas G. Wilson
• 'looks like'   Douglas G. Wilson
• "rookie" from "recruit"   Douglas G. Wilson
• "lead-pipe cinch" (antedating to 1888 July 29)   Douglas G. Wilson
• "lead-pipe cinch" (antedating to 1888 July 29)   Douglas G. Wilson
• Q: "pimpon", 1702?   Douglas G. Wilson
• query: a cock and cock story   Douglas G. Wilson
• rhythmic blends   Dave Wilton
• Assassination euphemisms   Dave Wilton
• "Base ball"   Dave Wilton
• semantic drift: squadron   Dave Wilton
• Submariner [was "thousand-yard stare"]   Dave Wilton
• Submariner [was "thousand-yard stare"]   Dave Wilton
• Submariner [was "thousand-yard stare"] (UNCLASSIFIED)   Dave Wilton
• Subject: cetacean sexism   Benjamin Zimmer
• Racial epithet makes news   Benjamin Zimmer
• Racial epithet makes news   Benjamin Zimmer
• Heard on The Judges: _for to_ VP   Benjamin Zimmer
• springing a leak   Benjamin Zimmer
• crash blossom of the morning   Benjamin Zimmer
• Dan Burley   Benjamin Zimmer
• More on mojo   Benjamin Zimmer
• Dan Burley   Benjamin Zimmer
• Another [not] suspect quote: Ira Hayes   Benjamin Zimmer
• Another [not] suspect quote: Ira Hayes   Benjamin Zimmer
• participles in the NYT Mag   Benjamin Zimmer
• jackwagon   Benjamin Zimmer
• irregardless, 1876 (OED: 1912)   Benjamin Zimmer
• springing a leak   Benjamin Zimmer
• DARE in Newsweek   Benjamin Zimmer
• "Hanoi Jane"   Tom Zurinskas
• Hoarse, four, mourning etc.   Tom Zurinskas
• email problem   Tom Zurinskas
• email problem   Tom Zurinskas
• Dialect wars   Tom Zurinskas
• email problem   Tom Zurinskas
• email problem   Tom Zurinskas
• English gains   Tom Zurinskas
• springing a leak   Tom Zurinskas
• Whilst   Tom Zurinskas
• No subject   Tom Zurinskas
• "wh" words - was "no subject"   Tom Zurinskas
• "wh" words - was "no subject" (UNCLASSIFIED)   Tom Zurinskas
• "Base ball"- BAY-zuh-ball   Tom Zurinskas
• "wh" words - was "no subject" (UNCLASSIFIED)   Tom Zurinskas
• "wh" words - was "no subject"   Tom Zurinskas
• Naughty Fawn - awe-droppers poem   Tom Zurinskas
• Jugaad   Tom Zurinskas
• hw words.   Tom Zurinskas
• hacker   Tom Zurinskas
• Language and thinking   Tom Zurinskas
• co-equal   Arnold Zwicky
• co-equal   Arnold Zwicky
• apostrophe   Arnold Zwicky
• Racial epithet makes news   Arnold Zwicky
• Racial epithet makes news   Arnold Zwicky
• Racial epithet makes news   Arnold Zwicky
• former Beatle   Arnold Zwicky
• blame (was: Prescriptivism and the cinema)   Arnold Zwicky
• query on poetic figure   Arnold Zwicky
• blame (was: Prescriptivism and the cinema)   Arnold Zwicky
• query on poetic figure   Arnold Zwicky
• Fwd: [ADS-L] query on poetic figure   Arnold Zwicky
• query on poetic figure   Arnold Zwicky
• query on poetic figure   Arnold Zwicky
• "Till Death Do They Part"?   Arnold Zwicky
• spam   Arnold Zwicky
• more from Language Log   Arnold Zwicky
• more from Language Log   Arnold Zwicky
• dilemna   Arnold Zwicky
• "La, sir, how you do go on"   Arnold Zwicky
• another query about formulas/quotes   Arnold Zwicky
• "hay foot straw foot" (was Re: OT: Wall Street Journal discovers linguistic relativism)   Arnold Zwicky
• dialectology in linguistics   Arnold Zwicky
• Antedating of "Suck"   victor steinbok
• Legal advice: pound the facts, the law, the table (variant 1911)   victor steinbok
• springing a leak   victor steinbok
• springing a leak   victor steinbok
• Prescriptivism and the cinema   victor steinbok
• Prescriptivism and the cinema   victor steinbok
• "playboy" [Was: article on the name "America"]   victor steinbok
• Quote: [Remark on death of Calvin Coolidge] How can they tell? (antedating Dorothy Parker 1936)   victor steinbok
• "Life's a garden. Dig it."   victor steinbok
• "Life's a garden. Dig it."   victor steinbok
• Quote: [Remark on death of Calvin Coolidge] How can they tell? (antedating Dorothy Parker 1936)   victor steinbok
• Quote: [Remark on death of Calvin Coolidge] How can they tell? (antedating Dorothy Parker 1936)   victor steinbok
• Quote: [Remark on death of Calvin Coolidge] How can they tell? (antedating Dorothy Parker 1936)   victor steinbok
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• in the Army now   victor steinbok

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