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