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