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• how to classify?   James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
• how to classify?   James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
• further adventures of "ironic"   RonButters at AOL.COM
• Old Norse (was The magistrate said "Merry")   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• The magistrate said "Merry", the defendant said "Mary"   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• Stage English (was The magistrate said "Merry", the defendant said "Mary")   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• Old Norse and Earlier English Pronunciation   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• Old Norse and Earlier English Pronunciation   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• Small and Little   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• Small and Little   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• Three pairs of pronunciation   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• "C" = 'is'?   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• Dialects: Rel. clause subj. in interr.?   Randy Alexander
• Dialects: Rel. clause subj. in interr.?   Randy Alexander
• Dialects: Rel. clause subj. in interr.?   Randy Alexander
• I guaran-god-damn-tee it   Randy Alexander
• I guaran-god-damn-tee it   Randy Alexander
• I guaran-god-damn-tee it   Randy Alexander
• bite one's finger tips   Baker, John M.
• Dialects: Rel. clause subj. in interr.?   Baker, John M.
• As American as Apple Pie   Baker, John M.
• Margaret Thatcher Quotes   Baker, John M.
• "outside of a dog"   Baker, John M.
• Old Norse and Earlier English Pronunciation   Baker, John M.
• "outside of a dog"   Baker, John M.
• Possible 1933 Date for "All Nine Yards"   Baker, John M.
• 1933 "all nine yards"   Baker, John M.
• "failed victim"   Baker, John M.
• tenderpreneur and the like   David Barnhart
• Kaplan College fires English-only president   Dennis Baron
• AP: Spelling Bee protesters   Dennis Baron
• Language Police flunk teachers from Estonia to Arizona   Dennis Baron
• GM recalls every Chevy ever made, then says “Oops, never mind.”   Dennis Baron
• Barack Obama wants to know, “Are you smarter than a ninth-grader?”   Dennis Baron
• Don ’t read this: What Kindle’s most-highlighted passages tell us about popular taste   Dennis Baron
• mullahed   Dennis Baron
• mullahed   Dennis Baron
• travesty   Rick Barr
• AP: Spelling Bee protesters   Rick Barr
• Seeing   Rick Barr
• Seeing   Rick Barr
• further adventures of "ironic"   Rick Barr
• getting his freak   Rick Barr
• Grammar, Usage, Standards: Passe?   Rick Barr
• how to classify?   Rick Barr
• another meaning reversal   Rick Barr
• another meaning reversal   Rick Barr
• American Speech table of contents June 2010; Vol. 85, No. 2   Grant Barrett
• Walking the cat   Joel S. Berson
• Howitzer (earlier points 1739 and 1759)   Joel S. Berson
• Q: "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."   Joel S. Berson
• Walking the cat   Joel S. Berson
• I say howitzer, Google and the Gentleman (1738) say nowitzer   Joel S. Berson
• The marble banks   Joel S. Berson
• Q: "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."   Joel S. Berson
• Q: "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."   Joel S. Berson
• Q: "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."   Joel S. Berson
• The marble banks   Joel S. Berson
• crash blossom, sort of   Joel S. Berson
• Dialects: Rel. clause subj. in interr.?   Joel S. Berson
• AP: Spelling Bee protesters   Joel S. Berson
• AP: Spelling Bee protesters   Joel S. Berson
• center-embedding   Joel S. Berson
• Proverb: Two wrongs will not make one right (antedating 1768)   Joel S. Berson
• Proverb: Two wrongs will not make one right (antedating 1768)   Joel S. Berson
• "joining giblets" [and "stubble," adj.], 1812   Joel S. Berson
• further adventures of "ironic"   Joel S. Berson
• "joining giblets"   Joel S. Berson
• Language Police flunk teachers from Estonia to Arizona   Joel S. Berson
• The magistrate said "Merry", the defendant said "Mary"   Joel S. Berson
• The magistrate said "Merry", the defendant said "Mary"   Joel S. Berson
• The magistrate said "Merry", the defendant said "Mary"   Joel S. Berson
• Irish cars [was about "car-drivingest" from 1843 & 1869]   Joel S. Berson
• OT: the crust of the matter   Joel S. Berson
• "outside of a dog"   Joel S. Berson
• "Restaurant"   Joel S. Berson
• What is Camilla Lackberg thanking American publishers for?   Joel S. Berson
• What is Camilla Lackberg thanking American publishers for?   Joel S. Berson
• "courbash", 1835 [Was: putting kibosh questions]   Joel S. Berson
• "Hispanic" in the U.S.   Joel S. Berson
• T.A. Dorgan "hot dog" story-- discredited but still out there   Joel S. Berson
• commenter vs. commentator   Joel S. Berson
• Earlier English Pronunciation   Joel S. Berson
• commenter vs. commentator   Joel S. Berson
• athalete   Joel S. Berson
• Irony   Joel S. Berson
• more information on the kibosh, qirbach, kurbash   Joel S. Berson
• more information on the kibosh, qirbach, kurbash   Joel S. Berson
• "That old 'distract the goalie' trick"   Joel S. Berson
• Özil's magic left foot -- or was it Oezil's?   Joel S. Berson
• Özil's magic left foot -- or was it Oezil's ?   Joel S. Berson
• Chuffed: the (kitty) poop   Joel S. Berson
• Özil 's magic left foot - - orwas it Oezil's?   Joel S. Berson
• [ADS-L] Özil 's magic left foot - - or was it O ezil's?   Joel S. Berson
• Özil's magic left foot -- or was it Oezil's ?   Joel S. Berson
• more information on the kibosh, qirbach, kurbash   Joel S. Berson
• Language notes from the slopes of E-15.   Joel S. Berson
• The narrowing of vocabulary   Joel S. Berson
• The Vatican is in a stupor   Joel S. Berson
• another meaning reversal   Joel S. Berson
• The Vatican is in a stupor   Joel S. Berson
• oblong   Joel S. Berson
• Gathering Eggcorns   Joel S. Berson
• Three pairs of pronunciation   Joel S. Berson
• Language notes from the slopes of E-15.   Joel S. Berson
• mullahed   Joel S. Berson
• Gathering Eggcorns   Joel S. Berson
• ? antedating ? of Rowdy? ? to 1693?   Joel S. Berson
• Three pairs of pronunciation   Joel S. Berson
• "atmospheric," n.   Joel S. Berson
• The Vatican is in a stupor   Joel S. Berson
• Three pairs of pronunciation   Joel S. Berson
• Three pairs of pronunciation   Joel S. Berson
• Three pairs of pronunciation   Joel S. Berson
• The new rating scale   Joel S. Berson
• Hoarse, four, mourning etc.   Joel S. Berson
• "haggard" = ? a stack-yard, 1999-2009   Joel S. Berson
• Antedating of "Suck"   Joel S. Berson
• Speakers of AmE needed for 5-min web-recording survey   Claire Bowern
• AP: Spelling Bee protesters   David Bowie
• herikan [sp?]   David Bowie
• another euphemism   Ann Burlingham
• Leapin' Lizards!   Sam Clements
• Leapin' Lizards!   Sam Clements
• putting kibosh questions   Sam Clements
• putting kibosh questions   Sam Clements
• Possible 1933 Date for "All Nine Yards"   Sam Clements
• New Book on Word Origins   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• Small and Little   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• how to classify? ("I don't want to beat it with a dead horse.")   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• T.A. Dorgan "hot dog" story-- discredited but still out there   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• A book that repays rereading   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• travesty   Michael Covarrubias
• Q: "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."   David A. Daniel
• Acronymic Mockery, Folk Acronyms   David A. Daniel
• Webelos was Re: "outside of a dog" (UNCLASSIFIED)   David A. Daniel
• straddle   David A. Daniel
• Chuffed   David A. Daniel
• Özil's magic left foot -- or was it Oezil's ?   David A. Daniel
• Grammar, Usage, Standards: Passe?   James Dawson
• Grammar, Usage, Standards: Passe   James Dawson
• another euphemism   Leslie Decker
• When do we want to not have it?   Charles Doyle
• boom   Charles Doyle
• The magistrate said "Merry", the defendant said "Mary"   Charles Doyle
• Dialects of poetry (Old Norse, Middle English, Shakespearean, etc.)   Charles Doyle
• Dialects of poetry (Old Norse, Middle English, Shakespearean, etc.)   Charles Doyle
• "blergh" (and "argh")   Charles Doyle
• how to classify?   Charles Doyle
• sped = special ed   Charles C Doyle
• eleventy-seven   Alice Faber
• another euphemism   Alice Faber
• "my bad" revisited one more time   Alice Faber
• wide right (was RE: "That old 'distract the goalie' trick")   Alice Faber
• Language Craven: A Definition   Robert Hartwell Fiske
• Q: "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."   Seán Fitzpatrick
• getting his freak   Paul Frank
• longtime professor   Paul Frank
• Grammar, Usage, Standards: Passe?   Paul Frank
• Margaret Thatcher Quotes   Paul Frank
• Pull the boots up   Paul Frank
• Old Norse and Earlier English Pronunciation   Paul Frank
• percentage   Paul Frank
• Chuffed   Paul Frank
• I guaran-god-damn-tee it   Paul Frank
• Don ’t read this: What Kindle’s most-highlighted passages tell us about popular taste   Paul Frank
• Language notes from the slopes of E-15.   Paul Frank
• tenderpreneur   Paul Frank
• another euphemism   Lisa Galvin
• Özil's magic left foot -- or was it Oezil's ?   Lisa Galvin
• Howitzer (earlier points 1739 and 1759)   Dan Goncharoff
• bite one's finger tips   Dan Goncharoff
• further adventures of "ironic"   Dan Goncharoff
• As American as Apple Pie   Dan Goncharoff
• eleventy-seven   Dan Goncharoff
• "outside of a dog"   Dan Goncharoff
• -est x3   Dan Goncharoff
• Pull the boots up   Dan Goncharoff
• Margaret Thatcher Quotes   Dan Goncharoff
• Irish cars [was about "car-drivingest" from 1843 & 1869]   Dan Goncharoff
• What is Camilla Lackberg thanking American publishers for?   Dan Goncharoff
• "blergh" (and "argh")   Dan Goncharoff
• another query (re catch phrases)   Dan Goncharoff
• another query (re catch phrases)   Dan Goncharoff
• how to classify? ("I don't want to beat it with a dead horse.")   Dan Goncharoff
• Further Antedating of "Hot Dog" (I Left Out Citation in Previous E-mail)   Dan Goncharoff
• commenter vs. commentator   Dan Goncharoff
• From the Travelers Recond April 1889   Dan Goncharoff
• Quote: History never repeats itself but it rhymes (attrib Mark Twain 1970) plus question regarding John Robert Colombo   Dan Goncharoff
• Earlier English Pronunciation   Dan Goncharoff
• fly in the ointment (UNCLASSIFIED)   Dan Goncharoff
• Özil's magic left foot -- or was it Oezil's ?   Dan Goncharoff
• wide right (was RE: "That old 'distract the goalie' trick")   Dan Goncharoff
• rectangle vs. square   Dan Goncharoff
• "atmospheric," n.   Dan Goncharoff
• rectangle vs. square   Dan Goncharoff
• Gathering Eggcorns   Dan Goncharoff
• oblong   Dan Goncharoff
• "How about opening up a can of getting-things-done?"   Dan Goncharoff
• he spit in his hands   Dan Goncharoff
• rectangle vs. square   Dan Goncharoff
• Three pairs of pronunciation   Dan Goncharoff
• "failed victim"   Dan Goncharoff
• "atmospheric," n.   Dan Goncharoff
• Three pairs of pronunciation   Dan Goncharoff
• "C" = 'is'?   Dan Goncharoff
• Three pairs of pronunciation   Dan Goncharoff
• Three pairs of pronunciation   Dan Goncharoff
• co-equal   Dan Goncharoff
• Antedating of "Suck"   Dan Goncharoff
• odd usages in _Mister Roberts_   Dan Goodman
• The magistrate said "Merry", the defendant said "Mary"   Dan Goodman
• "failed victim"   Dan Goodman
• Three pairs of pronunciation   Dan Goodman
• Three pairs of pronunciation   Dan Goodman
• putting kibosh questions   Stephen Goranson
• putting kibosh questions   Stephen Goranson
• minor 9 yds. questions   Stephen Goranson
• minor 9 yds. questions (UNCLASSIFIED)   Stephen Goranson
• a 1965 "whole 9 yards"   Stephen Goranson
• Possible 1933 Date for "All Nine Yards"   Stephen Goranson
• more information on the kibosh, qirbach, kurbash   Stephen Goranson
• more information on the kibosh, qirbach, kurbash   Stephen Goranson
• 1933 "all nine yards"   Stephen Goranson
• "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" (antedated to 1895)   Stephen Goranson
• ? antedating ? of Rowdy?   Stephen Goranson
• ? antedating ? of Rowdy?   Stephen Goranson
• more kybosh & kurbash quotes   Stephen Goranson
• "I got a woman / Way ...   Gordon, Matthew J.
• 'popline' was Re: boom   Gordon, Matthew J.
• Language notes from the slopes of E-15.   Gordon, Matthew J.
• Hoarse, four, mourning etc.   Gordon, Matthew J.
• "Don't get mad! Get Glad!"   Wilson Gray
• "... _in highn-sight_, that source is still around ..."   Wilson Gray
• papa; also: flashy looking   Wilson Gray
• odd usages in _Mister Roberts_   Wilson Gray
• "Don't get mad! Get Glad!"   Wilson Gray
• More PREP-Drop   Wilson Gray
• When do we want to not have it?   Wilson Gray
• turn-about   Wilson Gray
• "I got a woman / Way ...   Wilson Gray
• OT: First, they came for our complexions ...   Wilson Gray
• Dialects: Rel. clause subj. in interr.?   Wilson Gray
• AP: Spelling Bee protesters   Wilson Gray
• Not exactly a crash blossom, but...   Wilson Gray
• Seeing   Wilson Gray
• "Named after NP" vs. "named for NP"   Wilson Gray
• herikan [sp?]   Wilson Gray
• Proverb: Two Blacks make not a White (antedating 1713)   Wilson Gray
• From ZDNet:   Wilson Gray
• herikan [sp?]   Wilson Gray
• herikan [sp?]   Wilson Gray
• getting his freak   Wilson Gray
• Heard on Springer: an unnecessarily-snarky remark   Wilson Gray
• Language Police flunk teachers from Estonia to Arizona   Wilson Gray
• eleventy-seven   Wilson Gray
• 'popline' was Re: boom   Wilson Gray
• The magistrate said "Merry", the defendant said "Mary"   Wilson Gray
• Language Police flunk teachers from Estonia to Arizona (UNCLASSIFIED)   Wilson Gray
• turn-about   Wilson Gray
• The magistrate said "Merry", the defendant said "Mary"   Wilson Gray
• turn-about   Wilson Gray
• another euphemism   Wilson Gray
• neglected literature on "so don't I"?   Wilson Gray
• another euphemism   Wilson Gray
• Slang: to raise sand (antedating 1887)   Wilson Gray
• another query (re catch phrases)   Wilson Gray
• Proverbial Parachutes   Wilson Gray
• "blergh" (and "argh")   Wilson Gray
• getting his freak   Wilson Gray
• how to classify? ("I don't want to beat it with a dead horse.")   Wilson Gray
• percentage   Wilson Gray
• commenter vs. commentator   Wilson Gray
• J. R. Ware   Wilson Gray
• I guaran-god-damn-tee it   Wilson Gray
• he spit in his hands   Wilson Gray
• fly in the ointment (UNCLASSIFIED)   Wilson Gray
• Özil's magic left foot -- or was it Oezil's ?   Wilson Gray
• Combination: kangaroo court (antedating 1841 August 24)   Wilson Gray
• Language notes from the slopes of E-15.   Wilson Gray
• A book that repays rereading   Wilson Gray
• another query (re catch phrases)   Wilson Gray
• The narrowing of vocabulary   Wilson Gray
• The narrowing of vocabulary   Wilson Gray
• rectangle vs. square   Wilson Gray
• The narrowing of vocabulary   Wilson Gray
• "How about opening up a can of getting-things-done?"   Wilson Gray
• Gathering Eggcorns   Wilson Gray
• Another brilliant observation   Wilson Gray
• rectangle vs. square   Wilson Gray
• anosognosia (was: Another brilliant observation)   Wilson Gray
• I guaran-god-damn-tee it   Wilson Gray
• Language notes from the slopes of E-15.   Wilson Gray
• Language notes from the slopes of E-15.   Wilson Gray
• Another brilliant observation   Wilson Gray
• I guaran-god-damn-tee it   Wilson Gray
• Another brilliant observation   Wilson Gray
• On "sauntering" blacks   Wilson Gray
• Hoarse, four, mourning etc.   Wilson Gray
• Q: "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."   Damien Hall
• Q: "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."   Damien Hall
• Margaret Thatcher Quotes   Damien Hall
• the crust of the matter   Damien Hall
• Speakers of AmE needed for 5-min web-recording survey   Damien Hall
• I guaran-god-damn-tee it   Damien Hall
• Old Norse and Earlier English Pronunciation   Robin Hamilton
• Chuffed   Robin Hamilton
• Language notes from the slopes of E-15.   Robin Hamilton
• rectangle vs. square   Robin Hamilton
• rectangle vs. square   Robin Hamilton
• rectangle vs. square   Robin Hamilton
• rectangle vs. square   Robin Hamilton
• rectangle vs. square   Robin Hamilton
• rectangle vs. square   Robin Hamilton
• I guaran-god-damn-tee it   Robin Hamilton
• ? antedating ? of Rowdy?   Robin Hamilton
• "haggard" = ? a stack-yard, 1999-2009   Robin Hamilton
• "I got a woman / Way ...   Dave Hause
• Acronymic Mockery, Folk Acronyms   Dave Hause
• Walking the cat   Laurence Horn
• Walking the cat   Laurence Horn
• gymnick   Laurence Horn
• Fwd: Re: gymnick   Laurence Horn
• Walking the cat   Laurence Horn
• papa; also: flashy looking   Laurence Horn
• Walking the cat   Laurence Horn
• "Don't get mad! Get Glad!"   Laurence Horn
• Q: "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."   Laurence Horn
• Q: "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."   Laurence Horn
• two new ones on me   Laurence Horn
• "Don't get mad! Get Glad!"   Laurence Horn
• Q: "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."   Laurence Horn
• The marble banks   Laurence Horn
• Q: "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."   Laurence Horn
• The marble banks   Laurence Horn
• When do we want to not have it?   Laurence Horn
• "I got a woman / Way ...   Laurence Horn
• travesty   Laurence Horn
• travesty   Laurence Horn
• getting his freak   Laurence Horn
• "I got a woman / Way ...   Laurence Horn
• Dialects: Rel. clause subj. in interr.?   Laurence Horn
• Dialects: Rel. clause subj. in interr.?   Laurence Horn
• Dialects: Rel. clause subj. in interr.?   Laurence Horn
• Not exactly a crash blossom, but...   Laurence Horn
• Proverb: Two wrongs will not make one right (antedating 1768)   Laurence Horn
• Proverb: Two wrongs will not make one right (antedating 1768)   Laurence Horn
• longtime professor   Laurence Horn
• The magistrate said "Merry", the defendant said "Mary"   Laurence Horn
• The magistrate said "Merry", the defendant said "Mary"   Laurence Horn
• The magistrate said "Merry", the defendant said "Mary"   Laurence Horn
• turn-about   Laurence Horn
• turn-about   Laurence Horn
• another (unintentional) idiom blend   Laurence Horn
• Acronymic Mockery, Folk Acronyms   Laurence Horn
• "outside of a dog"   Laurence Horn
• Quote magnets revisited   Laurence Horn
• Quote magnets revisited   Laurence Horn
• -est x3   Laurence Horn
• Webelos was Re: Re: "outside of a dog"   Laurence Horn
• neglected literature on "so don't I"?   Laurence Horn
• another query (re catch phrases)   Laurence Horn
• another euphemism   Laurence Horn
• another euphemism   Laurence Horn
• another euphemism   Laurence Horn
• Small and Little   Laurence Horn
• Small and Little   Laurence Horn
• Small and Little   Laurence Horn
• another query (re catch phrases)   Laurence Horn
• Proverbial Parachutes   Laurence Horn
• "to-done list": candidate for least-likely-to-succeed category?   Laurence Horn
• how to classify?   Laurence Horn
• Proverbial Parachutes (UNCLASSIFIED)   Laurence Horn
• how to classify? ("I don't want to beat it with a dead horse.")   Laurence Horn
• "blergh" (and "argh")   Laurence Horn
• "Hispanic" in the U.S.   Laurence Horn
• the ol' hookeroo revisited   Laurence Horn
• Never Mind on "Hot Dog"   Laurence Horn
• commenter vs. commentator   Laurence Horn
• "my bad" revisited one more time   Laurence Horn
• "my bad" revisited one more time   Laurence Horn
• "That old 'distract the goalie' trick"   Laurence Horn
• Obvious Word of the Year Suggestion   Laurence Horn
• Name Game   Laurence Horn
• eggcorn (grading on the curb)   Laurence Horn
• Name Game   Laurence Horn
• another meaning reversal   Laurence Horn
• The Vatican is in a stupor   Laurence Horn
• rectangle vs. square   Laurence Horn
• rectangle vs. square   Laurence Horn
• rectangle vs. square   Laurence Horn
• I guaran-god-damn-tee it   Laurence Horn
• Gathering Eggcorns   Laurence Horn
• rectangle vs. square   Laurence Horn
• mullahed   Laurence Horn
• I guaran-god-damn-tee it   Laurence Horn
• Three pairs of pronunciation   Laurence Horn
• Three pairs of pronunciation   Laurence Horn
• Three pairs of pronunciation   Laurence Horn
• controversy NOT!   Laurence Horn
• Antedating of "Suck" (UNCLASSIFIED)   Laurence Horn
• commenter vs. commentator   Bruce Hunter
• rectangle vs. square   Terry Irons
• Small and Little   Norm Jensen
• Dialects: Rel. clause subj. in interr.?   Paul Johnston
• AP: Spelling Bee protesters   Paul Johnston
• Grammar, Usage, Standards: Passe?   Paul Johnston
• The magistrate said "Merry", the defendant said "Mary"   Paul Johnston
• Old Norse and Earlier English Pronunciation   Paul Johnston
• getting his freak   Steve Kleinedler
• Q: "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."   Margaret Lee
• Slang: pitch a tent connection to Pitch-A-Tent record label (1986)   Margaret Lee
• "Don't get mad! Get Glad!"   Jonathan Lighter
• odd usages in _Mister Roberts_   Jonathan Lighter
• "Don't get mad! Get Glad!"   Jonathan Lighter
• odd usages in _Mister Roberts_   Jonathan Lighter
• to shit in one's own mess-kit   Jonathan Lighter
• odd usages in _Mister Roberts_   Jonathan Lighter
• travesty   Jonathan Lighter
• travesty   Jonathan Lighter
• herikan [sp?]   Jonathan Lighter
• further adventures of "ironic"   Jonathan Lighter
• boom   Jonathan Lighter
• further adventures of "ironic"   Jonathan Lighter
• "blergh" (and "argh")   Jonathan Lighter
• Language notes from the slopes of E-15.   Jonathan Lighter
• I guaran-god-damn-tee it   Jonathan Lighter
• Irony   Jonathan Lighter
• I guaran-god-damn-tee it   Jonathan Lighter
• Language notes from the slopes of E-15.   Jonathan Lighter
• I guaran-god-damn-tee it   Jonathan Lighter
• another query (re catch phrases)   Jonathan Lighter
• Language notes from the slopes of E-15.   Jonathan Lighter
• T.A. Dorgan "hot dog" story-- discredited but still out there   Jonathan Lighter
• The narrowing of vocabulary   Jonathan Lighter
• Webelos was Re: "outside of a dog"   Jonathan Lighter
• Webelos was Re: "outside of a dog" (UNCLASSIFIED)   Jonathan Lighter
• Another brilliant observation   Jonathan Lighter
• Webelos was Re: "outside of a dog"   Jonathan Lighter
• "atmospheric," n.   Jonathan Lighter
• "atmospheric," n.   Jonathan Lighter
• Antedating of "Suck"   Jonathan Lighter
• Language notes from the slopes of E-15.   Jonathan Lighter
• ? antedating ? of Rowdy?   Jonathan Lighter
• "atmospheric," n.   Jonathan Lighter
• "atmospheric," n.   Jonathan Lighter
• Antedating of "Suck"   Jonathan Lighter
• co-equal   Jonathan Lighter
• Antedating of "Suck"   Jonathan Lighter
• co-equal   Jonathan Lighter
• Antedating of "Suck"   Jonathan Lighter
• Antedating of "Suck" (UNCLASSIFIED)   Jonathan Lighter
• The magistrate said "Merry", the defendant said "Mary"   Mailbox
• "upright" = "highest"   Mark Mandel
• When do we want to not have it?   Mark Mandel
• turn-about   Mark Mandel
• "Worker Present" (instead of the usual "Men Working")   Mark Mandel
• AP: Spelling Bee protesters   Mark Mandel
• Resend (Paulescu, etc.)   Mark Mandel
• further adventures of "ironic"   Mark Mandel
• The magistrate said "Merry", the defendant said "Mary"   Mark Mandel
• Acronymic Mockery, Folk Acronyms   Mark Mandel
• Acronymic Mockery, Folk Acronyms   Mark Mandel
• "outside of a dog"   Mark Mandel
• "outside of a dog" (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mark Mandel
• Old Norse and Earlier English Pronunciation   Mark Mandel
• neglected literature on "so don't I"?   Mark Mandel
• "indigenous" 'intrinsic'   Mark Mandel
• "blergh" (and "argh")   Mark Mandel
• Bolinger on noncontrastive stress on function words   Mark Mandel
• getting his freak   Mark Mandel
• T.A. Dorgan "hot dog" story-- discredited but still out there   Mark Mandel
• T.A. Dorgan "hot dog" story-- discredited but still out there   Mark Mandel
• commenter vs. commentator   Mark Mandel
• Özil's magic left foot -- or was it Oezil's ?   Mark Mandel
• Language notes from the slopes of E-15.   Mark Mandel
• Name Game   Mark Mandel
• Irony   Mark Mandel
• Name Game   Mark Mandel
• Irony   Mark Mandel
• The Vatican is in a stupor   Mark Mandel
• Gathering Eggcorns   Mark Mandel
• rectangle vs. square   Mark Mandel
• Another brilliant observation   Mark Mandel
• rectangle vs. square   Mark Mandel
• Gathering Eggcorns   Mark Mandel
• Another brilliant observation   Mark Mandel
• co-equal   Mark Mandel
• sped = special ed   Mark Mandel
• sped = special ed   Mark Mandel
• controversy NOT!   Mark Mandel
• Antedating of "Suck"   Mark Mandel
• Antedating of "Suck"   Mark Mandel
• "Tubing"   John McChesney-Young
• Webelos was Re: "outside of a dog" (UNCLASSIFIED)   John McChesney-Young
• Language Police flunk teachers from Estonia to Arizona (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• Language Police flunk teachers from Estonia to Arizona (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• The magistrate said "Merry", the defendant said "Mary" (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• Acronymic Mockery, Folk Acronyms (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• -est x3 (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• "outside of a dog" (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• Webelos was Re: "outside of a dog" (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• Charley Horse early cites (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• Proverbial Parachutes (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• minor 9 yds. questions (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• fly in the ointment (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• sped = special ed (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• Antedating of "Suck" (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• "... _in highn-sight_, that source is still around ..."   Alison Murie
• Pull the boots up   Alison Murie
• "Named after NP" vs. "named for NP"   Lynne Murphy
• Small and Little   Lynne Murphy
• Hoarse, four, mourning etc.   Geoff Nathan
• The magistrate said "Merry", the defendant said "Mary"   Barbara Need
• Walking the cat   Eric Nielsen
• Walking the cat   Garson O'Toole
• Q: "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."   Garson O'Toole
• Q: "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."   Garson O'Toole
• Q: "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."   Garson O'Toole
• Proverb: Two wrongs will not make one right (antedating 1768)   Garson O'Toole
• Proverb: Two Blacks make not a White (antedating 1713)   Garson O'Toole
• herikan [sp?]   Garson O'Toole
• further adventures of "ironic"   Garson O'Toole
• eleventy-seven   Garson O'Toole
• Political figure resigning to spend more time with his family (1972 Sept 2) (was Margaret Thatcher Quotes)   Garson O'Toole
• Margaret Thatcher Quotes   Garson O'Toole
• Quote: In politics, if you want anything said ask a man, if you want anything done ask a woman (Margaret Thatcher 1965 May 20)   Garson O'Toole
• "outside of a dog"   Garson O'Toole
• Leapin' Lizards!   Garson O'Toole
• Leapin' Lizards!   Garson O'Toole
• Leapin' Lizards!   Garson O'Toole
• Acronymic Mockery, Folk Acronyms (UNCLASSIFIED)   Garson O'Toole
• -est x3   Garson O'Toole
• -est x3   Garson O'Toole
• -est x3   Garson O'Toole
• another euphemism   Garson O'Toole
• another euphemism   Garson O'Toole
• another euphemism   Garson O'Toole
• Slang: to raise sand (antedating 1887)   Garson O'Toole
• putting kibosh questions   Garson O'Toole
• Slang: pitch a tent connection to Pitch-A-Tent record label (1986)   Garson O'Toole
• another query (re catch phrases)   Garson O'Toole
• "blergh" (and "argh")   Garson O'Toole
• Quote: History never repeats itself but it rhymes (attrib Mark Twain 1970) plus question regarding John Robert Colombo   Garson O'Toole
• "my bad" revisited one more time   Garson O'Toole
• more information on the kibosh, qirbach, kurbash   Garson O'Toole
• Combination: kangaroo court (antedating 1841 August 24)   Garson O'Toole
• Combination: kangaroo court (antedating 1841 August 24)   Garson O'Toole
• A book that repays rereading   Garson O'Toole
• rectangle vs. square   Garson O'Toole
• rectangle vs. square   Garson O'Toole
• rectangle vs. square   Garson O'Toole
• Gathering Eggcorns   Garson O'Toole
• Quote: I do not think I have a tape-worm; therefore I have no claim to call myself 'WE' (George Horatio Derby 1855 November)   Garson O'Toole
• controversy NOT!   Garson O'Toole
• "Don't get mad! Get Glad!"   Bill Palmer
• odd usages in _Mister Roberts_   Bill Palmer
• "... _in highn-sight_, that source is still around ..."   Bill Palmer
• "I got a woman / Way ...   Bill Palmer
• "I got a woman / Way ...   Bill Palmer
• boom   Bill Palmer
• Margaret Thatcher Quotes   Bill Palmer
• Acronymic Mockery, Folk Acronyms   Bill Palmer
• Small and Little   Bill Palmer
• Irony   Bill Palmer
• fly in the ointment (UNCLASSIFIED)   Bill Palmer
• Name Game   Bill Palmer
• Irony   Bill Palmer
• Irony   Bill Palmer
• another meaning reversal   Bill Palmer
• Webelos was Re: "outside of a dog"   Bill Palmer
• eleventy-seven   Jim Parish
• another euphemism   Jim Parish
• Özil's magic left foot -- or was it Oezil's ?   Jim Parish
• Özil's magic left foot -- or was it Oezil's ?   Jim Parish
• rectangle vs. square   Jim Parish
• rectangle vs. square   Jim Parish
• Acronymic Mockery, Folk Acronyms   Paul
• A book that repays rereading   Paul
• Gathering Eggcorns   Paul
• Acronymic Mockery, Folk Acronyms   Mark Peters
• Acronymic Mockery, Folk Acronyms   Mark Peters
• commenter vs. commentator   Judy Prince
• commenter vs. commentator   Judy Prince
• more information on the kibosh, qirbach, kurbash   Michael Quinion
• more information on the kibosh, qirbach, kurbash   Michael Quinion
• wide right (was RE: "That old 'distract the goalie' trick")   Charles C Rice
• Dialects: Rel. clause subj. in interr.?   RonButters
• AP: Spelling Bee protesters   RonButters
• AP: Spelling Bee protesters   RonButters
• AP: Spelling Bee protesters   RonButters
• Resend (Paulescu, etc.)   RonButters
• longtime professor   RonButters
• further adventures of "ironic"   RonButters
• boom   RonButters
• Dialects: Rel. clause subj. in interr.?   William Salmon
• Q: "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."   Shapiro, Fred
• Margaret Thatcher Quotes   Shapiro, Fred
• Leapin' Lizards!   Shapiro, Fred
• "outside of a dog"   Shapiro, Fred
• "Intersectionality"   Shapiro, Fred
• Further Antedating of "Hot Dog"   Shapiro, Fred
• Further Antedating of "Hot Dog" (I Left Out Citation in Previous E-mail)   Shapiro, Fred
• Further Antedating of "Hot Dog" (Corrected Citation)   Shapiro, Fred
• Never Mind on "Hot Dog"   Shapiro, Fred
• Possible 1933 Date for "All Nine Yards"   Shapiro, Fred
• Obvious Word of the Year Suggestion   Shapiro, Fred
• Antedating of "Suck"   Shapiro, Fred
• Antedating of "Knuckleball"   Shapiro, Fred
• herikan [sp?]   Michael Sheehan
• "My bad" and "1980" quote   Jesse Sheidlower
• "my bad" revisited one more time   Jesse Sheidlower
• Three pairs of pronunciation   Jesse Sheidlower
• Grammar, Usage, Standards: Passe?   Herb Stahlke
• "Restaurant" (re message from Barry Popik)   Herb Stahlke
• Dialects of poetry (Old Norse, Middle English, Shakespearean, etc.)   Herb Stahlke
• Dialects of poetry (Old Norse, Middle English, Shakespearean, etc.)   Herb Stahlke
• Dialects of poetry (Old Norse, Middle English, Shakespearean, etc.)   Herb Stahlke
• Bolinger on noncontrastive stress on function words   Herb Stahlke
• Howitzer (minor point)   Victor Steinbok
• turn-about   Victor Steinbok
• Q: "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."   Victor Steinbok
• Q: "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."   Victor Steinbok
• crash blossom, sort of   Victor Steinbok
• AP: Spelling Bee protesters   Victor Steinbok
• longtime professor   Victor Steinbok
• herikan [sp?]   Victor Steinbok
• As American as Apple Pie   Victor Steinbok
• Another brilliant observation   Victor Steinbok
• Lolcats, memes and Fail all in one   Victor Steinbok
• Acronymic Mockery, Folk Acronyms   Victor Steinbok
• -like   Victor Steinbok
• Slang: pitch a tent connection to Pitch-A-Tent record label (1986)   Victor Steinbok
• putting kibosh questions   Victor Steinbok
• Another Facebook portmanteau   Victor Steinbok
• -like   Victor Steinbok
• percentage   Victor Steinbok
• commenter vs. commentator   Victor Steinbok
• "That old 'distract the goalie' trick"   Victor Steinbok
• Chuffed   Victor Steinbok
• Combination: kangaroo court (antedating 1841 August 24)   Victor Steinbok
• T.A. Dorgan "hot dog" story-- discredited but still out there   Victor Steinbok
• another "he or she"   Victor Steinbok
• Antedating of "Suck"   Victor Steinbok
• double reverse   Victor Steinbok
• Kanye West and the plagiarism suit   Victor Steinbok
• controversy NOT!   Victor Steinbok
• controversy NOT!   Victor Steinbok
• Antedating of "Suck"   Victor Steinbok
• Walking the cat   George Thompson
• gymnick   George Thompson
• Walking the cat   George Thompson
• papa; also: flashy looking   George Thompson
• bite one's finger tips   George Thompson
• papa; also: flashy looking   George Thompson
• to shit in one's own mess-kit   George Thompson
• The marble banks   George Thompson
• The marble banks   George Thompson
• bite one's finger tips   George Thompson
• "I got a woman / Way ...   George Thompson
• Seeing   George Thompson
• further adventures of "ironic"   George Thompson
• "joining giblets"   George Thompson
• further adventures of "ironic"   George Thompson
• further adventures of "ironic"   George Thompson
• eleventy-seven   George Thompson
• eleventy-seven   George Thompson
• As American as Apple Pie   George Thompson
• Proverbial Parachutes   George Thompson
• T.A. Dorgan "hot dog" story-- discredited but still out there   George Thompson
• Irony   George Thompson
• J. R. Ware   George Thompson
• so he says, anyway. . . .   George Thompson
• he spit in his hands   George Thompson
• more information on the kibosh, qirbach, kurbash   George Thompson
• Combination: kangaroo court (antedating 1841 August 24)   George Thompson
• A book that repays rereading   George Thompson
• Language notes from the slopes of E-15.   George Thompson
• Chuffed   Chris Waigl
• "Named after NP" vs. "named for NP"   David Wake
• The magistrate said "Merry", the defendant said "Mary"   David Wake
• The magistrate said "Merry", the defendant said "Mary"   David Wake
• The magistrate said "Merry", the defendant said "Mary"   David Wake
• Dialects of poetry (Old Norse, Middle English, Shakespearean, etc.)   David Wake
• Dialects of poetry (Old Norse, Middle English, Shakespearean, etc.)   David Wake
• Özil 's magic left foot - - or was it Oezil's?   David Wake
• Özil's magic left foot -- or was it Oezil's ?   David Wake
• Hoarse, four, mourning etc.   David Wake
• Hoarse, four, mourning etc.   David Wake
• Grammar, Usage, Standards: Passe?   Amy West
• The magistrate said "Merry", the defendant said "Mary"   Amy West
• OT: Re: Old Norse (was The magistrate said "Merry")   Amy West
• Webelos was Re: Re: "outside of a dog"   Amy West
• Old Norse and Earlier English Pronunciation   Amy West
• Webelos was Re: "outside of a dog" (UNCLASSIFIED)   Amy West
• another query (re catch phrases)   Amy West
• commenter vs. commentator   Amy West
• commenter vs. commentator   Amy West
• sped = special ed   Amy West
• Awesome, Awful ... Awe-striking?   Neal Whitman
• Webelos was Re: "outside of a dog"   Neal Whitman
• -like   Neal Whitman
• -like   Neal Whitman
• I guaran-god-damn-tee it   Neal Whitman
• Called on the carpet   Neal Whitman
• sped = special ed   Neal Whitman
• ADS-L Digest - 14 Jun 2010 to 15 Jun 2010 (#2010-167)   Rose Wilkerson
• putting kibosh questions   Douglas G. Wilson
• more information on the kibosh, qirbach, kurbash   Douglas G. Wilson
• "put the 'Kibosh on 'em" (antedating, 1834)   Douglas G. Wilson
• "atmospheric," n.   Douglas G. Wilson
• Old Norse and Earlier English Pronunciation   Dave Wilton
• Old Norse and Earlier English Pronunciation   Dave Wilton
• "Hispanic" in the U.S.   Dave Wilton
• "Hispanic" in the U.S.   Dave Wilton
• "atmospheric," n.   Dave Wilton
• Antedating of "Suck"   Dave Wilton
• travesty   Benjamin Zimmer
• getting his freak   Benjamin Zimmer
• AP: Spelling Bee protesters   Benjamin Zimmer
• "Fraught" and "revert" (was Re: travesty)   Benjamin Zimmer
• herikan [sp?]   Benjamin Zimmer
• getting his freak   Benjamin Zimmer
• turn-about   Benjamin Zimmer
• Acronymic Mockery, Folk Acronyms   Benjamin Zimmer
• -est x3   Benjamin Zimmer
• "Restaurant" (re message from Barry Popik)   Benjamin Zimmer
• another euphemism   Benjamin Zimmer
• Proverbial Parachutes   Benjamin Zimmer
• Proverbial Parachutes   Benjamin Zimmer
• From the Travelers Recond April 1889   Benjamin Zimmer
• "my bad" revisited one more time   Benjamin Zimmer
• "my bad" revisited one more time   Benjamin Zimmer
• Chuffed   Benjamin Zimmer
• "blergh" (and "argh")   Benjamin Zimmer
• Language notes from the slopes of E-15.   Benjamin Zimmer
• Gathering Eggcorns   Benjamin Zimmer
• "atmospheric," n.   Benjamin Zimmer
• different + P   Benjamin Zimmer
• sped = special ed (UNCLASSIFIED)   Benjamin Zimmer
• sped = special ed   Benjamin Zimmer
• Vocabulary tally   Tom Zurinskas
• Phonemes now in first grade   Tom Zurinskas
• AP: Spelling Bee protesters   Tom Zurinskas
• AP: Spelling Bee protesters   Tom Zurinskas
• AP: Spelling Bee protesters   Tom Zurinskas
• Awesome, Awful ... Awe-striking?   Tom Zurinskas
• The magistrate said "Merry", the defendant said "Mary"   Tom Zurinskas
• Margaret Thatcher Quotes   Tom Zurinskas
• The magistrate said "Merry", the defendant said "Mary"   Tom Zurinskas
• the crust of the matter   Tom Zurinskas
• Old Norse and Earlier English Pronunciation   Tom Zurinskas
• putting kibosh questions   Tom Zurinskas
• Don ’t read this: What Kindle’s most-highlighted passages tell us about popular taste   Tom Zurinskas
• another meaning reversal   Tom Zurinskas
• The Vatican is in a stupor   Tom Zurinskas
• rectangle vs. square   Tom Zurinskas
• Three pairs of pronunciation   Tom Zurinskas
• Hoarse, four, mourning etc.   Tom Zurinskas
• Dialects: Rel. clause subj. in interr.?   Arnold Zwicky
• center-embedding (was Re: Dialects: Rel. clause subj. in interr.?)   Arnold Zwicky
• Dialects: Rel. clause subj. in interr.?   Arnold Zwicky
• "Named after NP" vs. "named for NP"   Arnold Zwicky
• "outside of a dog"   Arnold Zwicky
• "outside of a dog"   Arnold Zwicky
• -est x3   Arnold Zwicky
• Webelos was Re: "outside of a dog" (UNCLASSIFIED)   Arnold Zwicky
• ADS-L on my blog   Arnold Zwicky
• Özil's magic left foot -- or was it Oezil's ?   Arnold Zwicky
• rectangle vs. square   Arnold Zwicky
• anosognosia (was: Another brilliant observation)   Arnold Zwicky
• Another brilliant observation   Arnold Zwicky
• different + P   Arnold Zwicky
• Three pairs of pronunciation   Arnold Zwicky
• morning coats (was Re: Three pairs of pronunciation)   Arnold Zwicky
• different + P   Arnold Zwicky
• different + P   Arnold Zwicky
• tenderpreneur   Arnold Zwicky
• Margaret Thatcher Quotes   david hughes
• Chuffed   david hughes
• Acronymic Mockery, Folk Acronyms   nwhitman at ameritech.net
• Paulescu etc.   ronbutters
• center-embedding   ronbutters
• Howitzer (earlier points 1739 and 1759)   victor steinbok
• "Don't get mad! Get Glad!"   victor steinbok
• to shit in one's own mess-kit   victor steinbok
• Q: "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."   victor steinbok
• two new ones on me   victor steinbok
• Language Police flunk teachers from Estonia to Arizona   victor steinbok
• Quote magnets revisited   victor steinbok
• Pull the boots up   victor steinbok
• another euphemism   victor steinbok
• "Hispanic" in the U.S.   victor steinbok
• -like   victor steinbok
• more information on the kibosh, qirbach, kurbash   victor steinbok
• rectangle vs. square   victor steinbok
• rectangle vs. square   victor steinbok
• Another brilliant observation   victor steinbok

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