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• Who cares about National Grammar Day? Or is it whom?   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• Who cares about National Grammar Day? Or is it whom?   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• postvocalic /l/   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• postvocalic /l/   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• hurt locker (1966)   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• postvocalic /l/   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• postvocalic /l/   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• "... a shed load ..."   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• Do's and don'ts for singular 'they'   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• Bullhorn as a Verb   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• The New York Times' New Language Columnist   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• "folk" with an L   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• low back merger--austentacious   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• Heard on South Park: _prevalent_ > "widely-known"   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• ept   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• Terlet not a hypercorrection?   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• Terlet   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• Terlet   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• Northeastern University and Vocabula is JUNK MAIL   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• "prostitude" = giggolo   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• "prostitude" = giggolo   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• Who cares about National Grammar Day? Or is it whom?   Randy Alexander
• The New York Times' New Language Columnist   Randy Alexander
• Proverb: time is money (antedating exact phrase 1719 May 18)   Randy Alexander
• "prostitude" = giggolo   Randy Alexander
• No more "Christian name, sir?" in Kent, UK   Randy Alexander
• If U Seek Amy   Randy Alexander
• No more "Christian name, sir?" in Kent, UK   Randy Alexander
• regional names   Eoin C. Bairéad
• Antedating of "Tsunami" (UNCLASSIFIED)   Baker, John
• a wee predating of hotdog - if true - to circa 1870 (UNCLASSIFIED)   Baker, John
• Antedating of Wild West   Baker, John
• The New York Times' New Language Columnist   Baker, John
• di Napoli, a Watertown   Baker, John
• Girdle String --> G-string?   Baker, John
• Girdle String --> G-string?   Baker, John
• Save April 15-17   David Barnhart
• "to podium"   David Barnhart
• Who cares about National Grammar Day? Or is it whom?   Dennis Baron
• Should everybody write? Or is there enough junk already on the internet?   Dennis Baron
• Wikipedia: write first, ask questions later   Dennis Baron
• Extendible porn   Benjamin Barrett
• Extendible porn   Benjamin Barrett
• Extendible porn   Benjamin Barrett
• whilst = 'whether'   Benjamin Barrett
• postvocalic /l/   Grant Barrett
• The New York Times' New Language Columnist   Grant Barrett
• "folk" with an L   David Bergdahl
• "leatherhead"   Joel S. Berson
• "fork *up*" (July 1837), and other slang   Joel S. Berson
• Jimmy Ducks, 1835   Joel S. Berson
• "fork *up*" (July 1837), and other slang   Joel S. Berson
• "leatherhead"   Joel S. Berson
• "leatherhead"= "watchman", now 1831   Joel S. Berson
• "fork *up*" (July 1837), and other slang   Joel S. Berson
• "as the crow flies", ? 1789   Joel S. Berson
• "liberty tree", 1765, 1766 (antedating 1776)   Joel S. Berson
• OT "liberty tree"   Joel S. Berson
• "tree of liberty", 1765 (OED, also 1765)   Joel S. Berson
• "tree of liberty", 1765, a little earlier (OED, also 1765)   Joel S. Berson
• "liberty tree", 1765, 1766 (antedating 1776)   Joel S. Berson
• Pamela in 1842   Joel S. Berson
• "tree of liberty" and "liberty tree"   Joel S. Berson
• [Liberty] Tree and not tree   Joel S. Berson
• Singular effigies   Joel S. Berson
• Great [Liberty] Trees and elms, etc.   Joel S. Berson
• "Refer" directions   Joel S. Berson
• Great [Liberty] Trees and elms, etc.   Joel S. Berson
• "corpii" as plural of "corpus"   Joel S. Berson
• creeper   Joel S. Berson
• creeper   Joel S. Berson
• low back merger--austentacious   Joel S. Berson
• Liberty -- tree, tree of, & sons of   Joel S. Berson
• Who collected "Benjamin Franklin's 'Drinker's Dictionary'"   Joel S. Berson
• low back merger--austentacious   Joel S. Berson
• creeper   Joel S. Berson
• low back merger--austentacious   Joel S. Berson
• "Restaurant" -- or "Restaurat"?   Joel S. Berson
• "as the crow flies", 1757 (antedates OED 1810-)   Joel S. Berson
• "keep a tight eye on"   Joel S. Berson
• "folk" with an L   Joel S. Berson
• Still Earlier Antedating of "Restaurant"   Joel S. Berson
• OT: The first restaurat sign   Joel S. Berson
• OT: Still Earlier Antedating of "Restaurant"   Joel S. Berson
• OT: Still Earlier Antedating of "Restaurant"   Joel S. Berson
• "gold dust", 1785; interdates OED 1705-1879   Joel S. Berson
• OT: Communicating with Google about errors in the Google Books archive   Joel S. Berson
• prompt n.   Joel S. Berson
• OT: Extendible porn   Joel S. Berson
• hoop (v) "allusive of copulation" -- not in OED?   Joel S. Berson
• "Hoop her barrel"?   Joel S. Berson
• Q: Coiner of "power nap"?   Joel S. Berson
• "out of tribal experience"   Joel S. Berson
• Query: "I've got your number."   Joel S. Berson
• Query: "I've got your number."   Joel S. Berson
• Q: Coiner of "power nap"?   Joel S. Berson
• Q: Coiner of "power nap"?   Joel S. Berson
• Testing -- no reply necessary   Joel S. Berson
• Query: "I've got your number."   Joel S. Berson
• Respelling a city name in an English way   Joel S. Berson
• Q: Coiner of "power nap"?   Joel S. Berson
• Query: "I've got your [ouse] number."   Joel S. Berson
• OT: Short takes: Blind-man's bluff   Joel S. Berson
• OT: Polka folk   Joel S. Berson
• "beaner-hopping", "Mexican-hopping"   Joel S. Berson
• M is for meridian   Joel S. Berson
• long-s confusion   Joel S. Berson
• Q: "Leaguer" in Cooper's title?   Joel S. Berson
• Q: "Leaguer" in Cooper's title?   Joel S. Berson
• Q: "Leaguer" in Cooper's title?   Joel S. Berson
• Negative Nancies and other related musings   Joel S. Berson
• Negative Nancies and other related musings   Joel S. Berson
• Negative Nancies and other related musings   Joel S. Berson
• di Napoli, a Watertown   Joel S. Berson
• Antedating "Virginia ham" to 1795 & 1803   Joel S. Berson
• Antedating "Jonathan[s]" to 1781 -- & a different sense in 1756?   Joel S. Berson
• regional names   Joel S. Berson
• ept   Joel S. Berson
• Negative Nancies and other related musings   Joel S. Berson
• Terlet   Joel S. Berson
• Terlet   Joel S. Berson
• Antedating "Virginia ham" to 1795 & 1803   Joel S. Berson
• Antedating "Virginia ham" to 1795 & 1803 (UNCLASSIFIED)   Joel S. Berson
• Early cowskin -- (n.), 1738; and (v.), 1810, 1831   Joel S. Berson
• Other early "cowskin"s, as verb   Joel S. Berson
• Early anticicipation?   Joel S. Berson
• Q: "tories" -- what did William Wood mean in 1634?   Joel S. Berson
• to femivores add hegans   Joel S. Berson
• Once again, think horses   Joel S. Berson
• When a bad cop is indicted, the good ones receive an affront too   Joel S. Berson
• When a bad cop is indicted, the good ones receive an affront too   Joel S. Berson
• Q: "gold dust" used figuratively?   Joel S. Berson
• Q: "gold dust" used figuratively?   Joel S. Berson
• Q: "gold dust" used figuratively?   Joel S. Berson
• "gold dust" -- fig. (not in OED) 1739; concrete 1704   Joel S. Berson
• No more "Christian name, sir?" in Kent, UK   Joel S. Berson
• No more "Christian name, sir?" in Kent, UK   Joel S. Berson
• "gold dust" -- fig.1739   Joel S. Berson
• "Virginia ham", now 1786   Joel S. Berson
• Deacon Eliot, his Great Elms, and the Tree of Liberty   Joel S. Berson
• No more "Christian name, sir?" in Kent, UK   Joel S. Berson
• Once again, think horses   Joel S. Berson
• No more "Christian name, sir?" in Kent, UK   Joel S. Berson
• No more "Christian name, sir?" in Kent, UK   Joel S. Berson
• "prostitude" = gigolo   Joel S. Berson
• If U Seek Amy   Joel S. Berson
• Sexual meaning of chimney and chimney sweeps in the 18th century?   Joel S. Berson
• OT: txt abrvs in speech?   Joel S. Berson
• Moses with horns (UNCLASSIFIED)   Joel S. Berson
• OT: txt abrvs in speech? (UNCLASSIFIED)   Joel S. Berson
• Short takes: INITIALISM   Joel S. Berson
• "folk" with an L   David Bowie
• Foobie   Ann Burlingham
• M is for meridian   Ann Burlingham
• Q: Coiner of "power nap"?   C.Braham/H.Hankin
• The New York Times' New Language Columnist   Sam Clements
• Terlet   Sam Clements
• Terlet   Sam Clements
• Girdle String --> G-string?   Sam Clements
• Query: "I've got your number."   Gerald Cohen
• Search for quote: "A man dies, is remembered for ten years..."   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• On the brink of kneeling   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• regional names   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• Terlet   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• Dallas Morning News article about Barry Popik   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• Moses with horns --- PIE and Semitic word for "horn"   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• lamestream   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• Short takes: INITIALISM   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• OT: language origin and creationism   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• OT: language origin and creationism   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• "folk" with an L   Michael Covarrubias
• "tree of liberty" and "liberty tree"   DanG
• The New York Times' New Language Columnist   DanG
• chill-LAY/chee-Lay   David A. Daniel
• "folk" with an L   David A. Daniel
• Etiquet   David A. Daniel
• Interest Amateur Self-Introduction   James Dawson
• low back merger--austentacious   Leslie Decker
• low back merger--austentacious   Leslie Decker
• act out   Charles Doyle
• postvocalic /l/   Charles Doyle
• "as the crow flies"   Charles Doyle
• died and gone to heaven   Charles Doyle
• Modern Proverb: Sacred cows make the best hamburger (antedating attrib Aardvark magazine 1965)   Charles Doyle
• v. breakneck   Charles Doyle
• low back merger--austentacious   Charles Doyle
• stor[e]y   Charles Doyle
• stor[e]y   Charles Doyle
• Bumper Sticker: Chicken Little was right (antedating 1965 December 16) (1956)   Charles Doyle
• hoof beats   Charles Doyle
• prompt n.   Charles Doyle
• "folk" with an L   Charles Doyle
• On the brink of kneeling   Charles Doyle
• pr0n (1994) gamerpr0n pr0n* - words constructed from letters, numbers, and other characters   Charles Doyle
• "folk" with an L   Charles Doyle
• OT: Polka folk   Charles Doyle
• Modern Proverb: Life is just one damn thing after another (slight antedating 1909 July 20)   Charles Doyle
• Modern Proverb: Life is just one damn thing after another (slight antedating 1909 July 20)   Charles Doyle
• Negative Nancies and other related musings   Federico Escobar
• No more "Christian name, sir?" in Kent, UK   Federico Escobar
• Negative Nancies and other related musings   Alice Faber
• txt abrvs in speech? (UNCLASSIFIED)   Alice Faber
• Northeastern University and Vocabula   Robert Hartwell Fiske
• ept   Paul Frank
• Antedating of "Tsunami" (UNCLASSIFIED)   Dan Goncharoff
• The bird   Dan Goncharoff
• prompt n.   Dan Goncharoff
• Q: Coiner of "power nap"?   Dan Goncharoff
• Query: "I've got your number."   Dan Goncharoff
• Heard on South Park: _prevalent_ > "widely-known"   Dan Goncharoff
• Modern Proverb: Life is just one damn thing after another (slight antedating 1909 July 20)   Dan Goncharoff
• Modern Proverb: Life is just one damn thing after another (slight antedating 1909 July 20)   Dan Goncharoff
• Terlet   Dan Goncharoff
• Levying violence   Dan Goncharoff
• Once again, think horses   Dan Goncharoff
• neo   Dan Goodman
• No more "Christian name, sir?" in Kent, UK   Dan Goodman
• The New York Times' New Language Columnist   Stephen Goranson
• "a Restaurateur's" 1793; "The British Restaurateur" 1785 etc.   Stephen Goranson
• "a Restaurateur's" 1793; "The British Restaurateur" 1785 etc.   Stephen Goranson
• Idiom or Modern Proverb: Put your money where your mouth is (antedating 1921 April 26)   Stephen Goranson
• lamestream   Stephen Goranson
• Do's and don'ts for singular 'they'   Gordon, Matthew J.
• postvocalic /l/   Gordon, Matthew J.
• postvocalic /l/   Gordon, Matthew J.
• "Refer" directions   Gordon, Matthew J.
• creeper   Gordon, Matthew J.
• prompt n.   Gordon, Matthew J.
• Northeastern University and Vocabula is JUNK MAIL   Gordon, Matthew J.
• txt abrvs in speech?   Gordon, Matthew J.
• Antedating of _doo(-)wop_   Wilson Gray
• The bird   Wilson Gray
• The bird   Wilson Gray
• "... a shed load ..."   Wilson Gray
• crazy/insane gradation   Wilson Gray
• Do's and don'ts for singular 'they'   Wilson Gray
• eggcorn? Baskinet   Wilson Gray
• caught in the wild--random finds   Wilson Gray
• postvocalic /l/   Wilson Gray
• Name of a local cable-TV program   Wilson Gray
• "... there is reason to _have_ pause and expect the worst." [NT]   Wilson Gray
• "the goose"   Wilson Gray
• bathinet/baskinet   Wilson Gray
• skeeter eaters   Wilson Gray
• "the goose"   Wilson Gray
• creeper   Wilson Gray
• Babbity Bowster   Wilson Gray
• low back merger--austentacious   Wilson Gray
• low back merger--austentacious   Wilson Gray
• eggcorn? Baskinet (UNCLASSIFIED)   Wilson Gray
• "folk" with an L   Wilson Gray
• low back merger--austentacious   Wilson Gray
• "folk" with an L   Wilson Gray
• Extendible porn   Wilson Gray
• Short takes: Blind-man's bluff   Wilson Gray
• beat it up   Wilson Gray
• Etiquet   Wilson Gray
• "folk" with an L   Wilson Gray
• beat it up   Wilson Gray
• Heard on South Park: _prevalent_ > "widely-known"   Wilson Gray
• "folk" with an L   Wilson Gray
• Terlet   Wilson Gray
• regional names   Wilson Gray
• Heard on The Judges: "_reach_ havoc"   Wilson Gray
• chocolate   Wilson Gray
• Girdle String --> G-string?   Wilson Gray
• Moses with horns   Wilson Gray
• "prostitude" = gigolo   Wilson Gray
• No more "Christian name, sir?" in Kent, UK   Wilson Gray
• No more "Christian name, sir?" in Kent, UK   Wilson Gray
• Moses with horns   Wilson Gray
• chocolate   Wilson Gray
• Girdle String --> G-string?   Wilson Gray
• If U Seek Amy   Wilson Gray
• Heard on The Judges: A genuine Amos-&-Andy-ism   Wilson Gray
• Sexual meaning of chimney and chimney sweeps in the 18th century?   Wilson Gray
• chill-LAY/chee-Lay   Damien Hall
• Is texting good for the English language   Damien Hall
• 'have / has the right away'   Damien Hall
• ept   Damien Hall
• Fwd: Re: ept   Damien Hall
• ept   Damien Hall
• Terlet not a hypercorrection?   Damien Hall
• "fork *up*" (July 1837), and other slang   Robin Hamilton
• OT: Re: "fork *up*" (July 1837), and other slang   Robin Hamilton
• "fork *up*" (July 1837), and other slang   Robin Hamilton
• "fork *up*" (July 1837), and other slang   Robin Hamilton
• "fork *up*" (July 1837), and other slang   Robin Hamilton
• "fork *up*" (July 1837), and other slang   Robin Hamilton
• What is winter?   Robin Hamilton
• died and gone to heaven   Robin Hamilton
• The bird   Robin Hamilton
• The bird   Robin Hamilton
• The bird   Robin Hamilton
• "liberty tree", 1765, 1766 (antedating 1776)   Robin Hamilton
• "liberty tree", 1765, 1766 (antedating 1776)   Robin Hamilton
• "liberty tree", 1765, 1766 (antedating 1776)   Robin Hamilton
• "liberty tree", 1765, 1766 (antedating 1776)   Robin Hamilton
• Pamela in 1842   Robin Hamilton
• Pamela in 1842   Robin Hamilton
• Pamela in 1842   Robin Hamilton
• Pamela in 1842   Robin Hamilton
• postvocalic /l/   Robin Hamilton
• postvocalic /l/   Robin Hamilton
• postvocalic /l/   Robin Hamilton
• postvocalic /l/   Robin Hamilton
• neo   Robin Hamilton
• neo   Robin Hamilton
• postvocalic /l/   Robin Hamilton
• crazy/insane gradation   Robin Hamilton
• crazy/insane gradation   Robin Hamilton
• crazy/insane gradation   Robin Hamilton
• postvocalic /l/   Robin Hamilton
• crazy/insane gradation   Robin Hamilton
• crazy/insane gradation   Robin Hamilton
• postvocalic /l/   Robin Hamilton
• crazy/insane gradation   Robin Hamilton
• postvocalic /l/   Robin Hamilton
• "corpii" as plural of "corpus"   Robin Hamilton
• "corpii" as plural of "corpus"   Robin Hamilton
• Modern Proverb: Sacred cows make the best hamburger (antedating attrib Aardvark magazine 1965)   Robin Hamilton
• low back merger--austentacious   Robin Hamilton
• low back merger--austentacious   Robin Hamilton
• low back merger--austentacious   Robin Hamilton
• Babbity Bowster   Robin Hamilton
• Respelling a city name in an English way   Robin Hamilton
• Q: Coiner of "power nap"? (UNCLASSIFIED)   Robin Hamilton
• regional names   Robin Hamilton
• regional names   Robin Hamilton
• regional names   Robin Hamilton
• OED antedating -- nick v2   Robin Hamilton
• OED antedating -- cigarette   Robin Hamilton
• No more "Christian name, sir?" in Kent, UK   Robin Hamilton
• No more "Christian name, sir?" in Kent, UK   Robin Hamilton
• No more "Christian name, sir?" in Kent, UK   Robin Hamilton
• Sexual meaning of chimney and chimney sweeps in the 18th century?   Robin Hamilton
• Sexual meaning of chimney and chimney sweeps in the 18th century?   Robin Hamilton
• Sexual meaning of chimney and chimney sweeps in the 18th century?   Robin Hamilton
• Sexual meaning of chimney and chimney sweeps in the 18th century?   Robin Hamilton
• crazy/insane gradation   James Harbeck
• crazy/insane gradation   James Harbeck
• crazy/insane gradation   James Harbeck
• wicked WAS crazy/insane gradation   James Harbeck
• "corpii" as plural of "corpus"   James Harbeck
• "folk" with an L   James Harbeck
• Taboo avoidance of the day   James Harbeck
• black and gus   James Harbeck
• language at the Health Care Summit   Laurence Horn
• What do you call a sex maniac? (UNCLASSIFIED)   Laurence Horn
• Who cares about National Grammar Day? Or is it whom?   Laurence Horn
• From the Department of Shrimp Scampi   Laurence Horn
• "liberty tree", 1765, 1766 (antedating 1776)   Laurence Horn
• crazy/insane gradation (UNCLASSIFIED)   Laurence Horn
• "corpii" as plural of "corpus"   Laurence Horn
• eggcorn? Baskinet   Laurence Horn
• "corpii" as plural of "corpus"   Laurence Horn
• eggcorn? Baskinet   Laurence Horn
• Bullhorn as a Verb   Laurence Horn
• The New York Times' New Language Columnist   Laurence Horn
• "folk" with an L [re-send]   Laurence Horn
• Query: "I've got your number."   Laurence Horn
• Query: "I've got your number."   Laurence Horn
• Query: "I've got your number."   Laurence Horn
• beat it up   Laurence Horn
• Heard on South Park: _prevalent_ > "widely-known"   Laurence Horn
• Least likely to succeed?   Laurence Horn
• Least likely to succeed?   Laurence Horn
• Negative Nancies and other related musings   Laurence Horn
• homosociality   Laurence Horn
• Negative Nancies and other related musings   Laurence Horn
• Negative Nancies and other related musings   Laurence Horn
• Negative Nancies and other related musings   Laurence Horn
• regional names   Laurence Horn
• Terlet   Laurence Horn
• Terlet   Laurence Horn
• Terlet   Laurence Horn
• "embroid(e)led"   Laurence Horn
• to femivores add hegans   Laurence Horn
• Fwd: transitive 'flow'   Laurence Horn
• Fwd: transitive 'flow'   Laurence Horn
• When a bad cop is indicted, the good ones receive an affront too   Laurence Horn
• No more "Christian name, sir?" in Kent, UK   Laurence Horn
• No more "Christian name, sir?" in Kent, UK   Laurence Horn
• Modern Proverb: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. (antedating exact 1916)   Laurence Horn
• "prostitude" = giggolo   Laurence Horn
• "prostitude" = gigolo   Laurence Horn
• Moses with horns   Laurence Horn
• "prostitude" = gigolo   Laurence Horn
• Girdle String --> G-string?   Laurence Horn
• Sexual meaning of chimney and chimney sweeps in the 18th century?   Laurence Horn
• txt abrvs in speech?   Laurence Horn
• txt abrvs in speech?   Laurence Horn
• "prostitude" = giggolo   Laurence Horn
• Short takes: INITIALISM   Laurence Horn
• Short takes: INITIALISM   Laurence Horn
• Short takes: INITIALISM   Laurence Horn
• Short takes: INITIALISM   Laurence Horn
• postvocalic /l/   Paul Johnston
• postvocalic /l/   Paul Johnston
• chantey, shanty: pronun. query   Paul Johnston
• postvocalic /l/   Paul Johnston
• The New York Times' New Language Columnist   Paul Johnston
• Babbity Bowster   Paul Johnston
• Babbity Bowster   Paul Johnston
• Babbity Bowster   Paul Johnston
• "folk" with an L   Paul Johnston
• "folk" with an L   Paul Johnston
• Terlet   Paul Johnston
• regional names   Paul Johnston
• Terlet   Paul Johnston
• regional names   Paul Johnston
• Moses with horns --- PIE and Semitic word for "horn"   Paul Johnston
• "folk" with an L   Steve Kl.
• "folk" with an L   Steve Kl.
• The New York Times' New Language Columnist   Steve Kleinedler
• Knight-Thompson Speechwork   Dudley Knight
• Query--switching of sounds   Margaret Lee
• "fork *up*" (July 1837), and other slang   Jonathan Lighter
• Antedating of "Tsunami" (UNCLASSIFIED)   Jonathan Lighter
• "fork *up*" (July 1837), and other slang   Jonathan Lighter
• "fork *up*" (July 1837), and other slang   Jonathan Lighter
• "fork *up*" (July 1837), and other slang   Jonathan Lighter
• Antedating of "Tsunami" (UNCLASSIFIED)   Jonathan Lighter
• "fork *up*" (July 1837), and other slang   Jonathan Lighter
• "fork *up*" (July 1837), and other slang   Jonathan Lighter
• "fork *up*" (July 1837), and other slang   Jonathan Lighter
• act out   Jonathan Lighter
• act out   Jonathan Lighter
• subversive, adj.   Jonathan Lighter
• The bird   Jonathan Lighter
• died and gone to heaven   Jonathan Lighter
• The bird   Jonathan Lighter
• neo   Jonathan Lighter
• chantey, shanty: pronun. query   Jonathan Lighter
• crazy/insane gradation   Jonathan Lighter
• "the goose"   Jonathan Lighter
• skeeter eaters   Jonathan Lighter
• "the goose"   Jonathan Lighter
• The New York Times' New Language Columnist   Jonathan Lighter
• creeper   Jonathan Lighter
• whilst = 'whether'   Jonathan Lighter
• creeper   Jonathan Lighter
• "keep a tight eye on"   Jonathan Lighter
• "folk" with an L   Jonathan Lighter
• Taboo avoidance of the day   Jonathan Lighter
• mayhem = "chaos; (hence) extraordinary clutter"   Jonathan Lighter
• Extendible porn   Jonathan Lighter
• prompt n.   Jonathan Lighter
• antihero = 'anti-establishment hero'   Jonathan Lighter
• "folk" with an L   Jonathan Lighter
• Short takes: Blind-man's bluff   Jonathan Lighter
• "folk" with an L   Jonathan Lighter
• "Hoop her barrel"?   Jonathan Lighter
• Q: Coiner of "power nap"?   Jonathan Lighter
• Q: Coiner of "power nap"?   Jonathan Lighter
• Q: Coiner of "power nap"?   Jonathan Lighter
• Q: Coiner of "power nap"?   Jonathan Lighter
• Query: "I've got your number."   Jonathan Lighter
• Q: Coiner of "power nap"?   Jonathan Lighter
• Q: Coiner of "power nap"? (UNCLASSIFIED)   Jonathan Lighter
• M is for meridian   Jonathan Lighter
• "folk" with an L   Jonathan Lighter
• homosociality   Jonathan Lighter
• Negative Nancies and other related musings   Jonathan Lighter
• Negative Nancies and other related musings   Jonathan Lighter
• Q: "Leaguer" in Cooper's title?   Jonathan Lighter
• Negative Nancies and other related musings   Jonathan Lighter
• Negative Nancies and other related musings   Jonathan Lighter
• Terlet   Jonathan Lighter
• Terlet   Jonathan Lighter
• Terlet   Jonathan Lighter
• outsource   Jonathan Lighter
• Terlet   Jonathan Lighter
• swankin'   Jonathan Lighter
• Modern Proverb: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. (antedating exact 1916)   Jonathan Lighter
• Girdle String --> G-string?   Jonathan Lighter
• lamestream   Jonathan Lighter
• lamestream   Jonathan Lighter
• OT: language origin and creationism   Jonathan Lighter
• postvocalic /l/   Mark Mandel
• "tree of liberty", 1765, a little earlier (OED, also 1765)   Mark Mandel
• "corpii" as plural of "corpus"   Mark Mandel
• "corpii" as plural of "corpus"   Mark Mandel
• crazy/insane gradation   Mark Mandel
• The New York Times' New Language Columnist   Mark Mandel
• whilst = 'whether'   Mark Mandel
• Query: "I've got your number."   Mark Mandel
• M is for meridian   Mark Mandel
• pr0n (1994) gamerpr0n pr0n* - words constructed from letters, numbers, and other characters   Mark Mandel
• Q: "Leaguer" in Cooper's title?   Mark Mandel
• Negative Nancies and other related musings   Mark Mandel
• pr0n (1994) gamerpr0n pr0n* - words constructed from letters, numbers, and other characters   Mark Mandel
• M is for meridian   Mark Mandel
• M is for meridian (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mark Mandel
• Negative Nancies and other related musings   Mark Mandel
• di Napoli, a Watertown   Mark Mandel
• Fwd: "phonetic transcript"   Mark Mandel
• ept   Mark Mandel
• Terlet   Mark Mandel
• Northeastern University and Vocabula   Mark Mandel
• Northeastern University and Vocabula is JUNK MAIL   Mark Mandel
• Northeastern University and Vocabula is JUNK MAIL   Mark Mandel
• chocolate   Mark Mandel
• chocolate   Mark Mandel
• Girdle String --> G-string?   Mark Mandel
• No more "Christian name, sir?" in Kent, UK   Mark Mandel
• No more "Christian name, sir?" in Kent, UK   Mark Mandel
• Moses with horns   Mark Mandel
• Bullhorn as a Verb   Russ McClay
• The New York Times' New Language Columnist   Russ McClay
• The bird   Peter McGraw
• Foobie   Peter McGraw
• prompt n.   David Metevia
• Query--switching of sounds   Salikoko Mufwene
• OT: language origin and creationism   Salikoko S. Mufwene
• OT: language origin and creationism   Salikoko S. Mufwene
• OT: language origin and creationism   Salikoko S. Mufwene
• Antedating of _doo(UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• Jimmy Ducks (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• FW: Jimmy Ducks (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• Antedating of "Tsunami" (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• act out   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• act out   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• The bird   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• crazy/insane gradation (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• eggcorn? Baskinet (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• Extendible porn (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• Cheerlore WAS Re: "folk" with an L (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• Q: Coiner of "power nap"? (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• Modern Proverb: Life is just one damn thing after another (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• M is for meridian (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• Antedating "Virginia ham" to 1795 & 1803 (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• Negative Nancies and other related musings (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• Talk Like William Shatner Day (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• Antedating "Virginia ham" to 1795 & 1803 (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• Dallas Morning News article about Barry Popik (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• What do you call a sex maniac? (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• Moses with horns (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• txt abrvs in speech? (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• Moses with horns (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• OT: txt abrvs in speech? (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• full text databases (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• language at the Health Care Summit   Alison Murie
• crazy/insane gradation   Alison Murie
• Extendible porn   Alison Murie
• "folk" with an L   Alison Murie
• M is for meridian   Alison Murie
• Modern Proverb: Life is just one damn thing after another (slight antedating 1909 July 20)   Alison Murie
• Terlet   Alison Murie
• Terlet   Alison Murie
• to femivores add hegans   Alison Murie
• "corpii" as plural of "corpus"   Geoff Nathan
• transitive 'flow'   Geoff Nathan
• Moses with horns   Geoff Nathan
• Proverb: time is money (antedating exact phrase 1719 May 18)   Geoffrey Nathan
• postvocalic /l/   Barbara Need
• wicked; was Re: crazy/insane gradation   Barbara Need
• whilst = 'whether'   Barbara Need
• Squinting agreement   Barbara Need
• Squinting agreement   Barbara Need
• No more "Christian name, sir?" in Kent, UK   Barbara Need
• What do you call a sex maniac? (UNCLASSIFIED)   Eric Nielsen
• skeeter eaters   Eric Nielsen
• "folk" with an L   Eric Nielsen
• "folk" with an L   Eric Nielsen
• "folk" with an L   Eric Nielsen
• "folk" with an L   Eric Nielsen
• M is for meridian (UNCLASSIFIED)   Eric Nielsen
• Quote: one can do a great deal of good if one does not care who gets the credit (antedating attrib Strickland 1863)   Eric Nielsen
• Q: "gold dust" used figuratively?   Eric Nielsen
• No more "Christian name, sir?" in Kent, UK   Eric Nielsen
• Antedating of _doo(-)wop_   Geoffrey Nunberg
• "the cuckolds of one's heart"   Geoffrey Nunberg
• Quote: better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool (antedating 1907)   Garson O'Toole
• Antedating of _doo(-)wop_   Garson O'Toole
• Quote: up with which I will not put (1942) (antedating attrib Winston Churchill 1945 Sept 15)   Garson O'Toole
• Quote: never could make a good impromptu speech without several hours to prepare it (Mark Twain 1879)   Garson O'Toole
• Foobie   Garson O'Toole
• Quote: fool born every minute (antedating earliest variant) (1806) (attrib P. T. Barnum 1890)   Garson O'Toole
• Foobie   Garson O'Toole
• Pamela in 1842   Garson O'Toole
• Modern Proverb: Sacred cows make the best hamburger (antedating attrib Aardvark magazine 1965)   Garson O'Toole
• Search for quote: "A man dies, is remembered for ten years..."   Garson O'Toole
• Search for quote: "A man dies, is remembered for ten years..."   Garson O'Toole
• Modern Proverb: Sacred cows make the best hamburger (antedating attrib Aardvark magazine 1965)   Garson O'Toole
• Bumper Sticker: Chicken Little was right (antedating 1965 December 16) (1956)   Garson O'Toole
• Squinting agreement   Garson O'Toole
• OT: Communicating with Google about errors in the Google Books archive   Garson O'Toole
• prompt n.   Garson O'Toole
• Bumper Sticker: Chicken Little was right (antedating 1965 December 16) (1956)   Garson O'Toole
• OT: Communicating with Google about errors in the Google Books archive   Garson O'Toole
• Q: Coiner of "power nap"?   Garson O'Toole
• pr0n (1994) gamerpr0n pr0n* - words constructed from letters, numbers, and other characters   Garson O'Toole
• pr0n (1994) gamerpr0n pr0n* - words constructed from letters, numbers, and other characters   Garson O'Toole
• Modern Proverb: Life is just one damn thing after another (slight antedating 1909 July 20)   Garson O'Toole
• Modern Proverb: Life is just one damn thing after another (UNCLASSIFIED)   Garson O'Toole
• Quote: bad money drives out the good money (antedating Thomas Babington Macaulay 1855)   Garson O'Toole
• Negative Nancies and other related musings   Garson O'Toole
• Modern Proverb: Life is just one damn thing after another (1909 March 5)   Garson O'Toole
• Idiom or Modern Proverb: Put your money where your mouth is (antedating 1921 April 26)   Garson O'Toole
• Idiom or Modern Proverb: Put your money where your mouth is (antedating 1921 April 26)   Garson O'Toole
• Quote: one can do a great deal of good if one does not care who gets the credit (antedating attrib Strickland 1863)   Garson O'Toole
• Q: "gold dust" used figuratively?   Garson O'Toole
• Q: "gold dust" used figuratively?   Garson O'Toole
• Q: "gold dust" used figuratively?   Garson O'Toole
• Proverb: time is money (antedating exact phrase 1719 May 18)   Garson O'Toole
• No more "Christian name, sir?" in Kent, UK   Garson O'Toole
• Modern Proverb: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. (antedating exact 1916)   Garson O'Toole
• Modern Proverb: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. (antedating exact 1916)   Garson O'Toole
• Modern Proverb: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. (antedating exact 1916)   Garson O'Toole
• Sexual meaning of chimney and chimney sweeps in the 18th century?   Garson O'Toole
• Sexual meaning of chimney and chimney sweeps in the 18th century?   Garson O'Toole
• txt abrvs in speech?   Garson O'Toole
• lamestream   Garson O'Toole
• lamestream   Garson O'Toole
• Short takes: INITIALISM   Garson O'Toole
• Etiquet   Bill Palmer
• Fwd: transitive 'flow'   Bill Palmer
• Q: "gold dust" used figuratively?   Bill Palmer
• Q: "gold dust" used figuratively?   Bill Palmer
• Modern Proverb: Sacred cows make the best hamburger (antedating attrib Aardvark magazine 1965)   Jim Parish
• Terlet   Jim Parish
• The New York Times' New Language Columnist   Patty
• The bird   Paul
• Babbity Bowster   Judy Prince
• Babbity Bowster   Judy Prince
• Babbity Bowster   Judy Prince
• Babbity Bowster   Judy Prince
• No more "Christian name, sir?" in Kent, UK   Judy Prince
• No more "Christian name, sir?" in Kent, UK   Judy Prince
• No more "Christian name, sir?" in Kent, UK   Judy Prince
• Sexual meaning of chimney and chimney sweeps in the 18th century?   Judy Prince
• Sexual meaning of chimney and chimney sweeps in the 18th century?   Judy Prince
• No more "Christian name, sir?" in Kent, UK   Judy Prince
• neo   Jeff Prucher
• neo   Jeff Prucher
• Negative Nancies and other related musings   Michael Quinion
• Library of Congress   Michael Quinion
• Quote: never could make a good impromptu speech without several hours to prepare it (Mark Twain 1879)   Shapiro, Fred
• The New York Times' New Language Columnist   Shapiro, Fred
• The New York Times' New Language Columnist   Shapiro, Fred
• "Restaurant" (re message from Barry Popik)   Shapiro, Fred
• Still Further Antedating of "Restaurant"   Shapiro, Fred
• Yet Further Antedating of "Restaurant"   Shapiro, Fred
• Still Earlier Antedating of "Restaurant"   Shapiro, Fred
• Yet Further Antedating of "Restaurant"   Shapiro, Fred
• Yet Further Antedating of "Restaurant"   Shapiro, Fred
• "a Restaurateur's" 1793; "The British Restaurateur" 1785 etc.   Shapiro, Fred
• Yale Alumni Magazine Article   Shapiro, Fred
• Q: Coiner of "power nap"? (UNCLASSIFIED)   Shapiro, Fred
• Library of Congress   Shapiro, Fred
• Making due   Michael Sheehan
• Antedating of _doo(-)wop_   Jesse Sheidlower
• Antedating of "Tsunami" (UNCLASSIFIED)   Jesse Sheidlower
• "fork *up*" (July 1837), and other slang   Jesse Sheidlower
• act out   Jesse Sheidlower
• The New York Times' New Language Columnist   Jesse Sheidlower
• Taboo avoidance of the day   Jesse Sheidlower
• "a Restaurateur's" 1793; "The British Restaurateur" 1785 etc.   Jesse Sheidlower
• Taboo avoidance of the day   Jesse Sheidlower
• OED antedating -- nick v2   Jesse Sheidlower
• Idiom or Modern Proverb: Put your money where your mouth is (antedating 1921 April 26)   Jesse Sheidlower
• M is for meridian (UNCLASSIFIED)   James Smith
• eggcorn? Baskinet   Herb Stahlke
• "corpii" as plural of "corpus"   Herb Stahlke
• bathinet/baskinet   Herb Stahlke
• low back merger--austentacious   Herb Stahlke
• low back merger--austentacious   Herb Stahlke
• prompt n.   Herb Stahlke
• whilst = 'whether'   Herb Stahlke
• "folk" with an L   Herb Stahlke
• "folk" with an L   Herb Stahlke
• Neugebauer   Herb Stahlke
• Moses with horns   Herb Stahlke
• Moses with horns   Herb Stahlke
• Moses with horns   Herb Stahlke
• *tsunamus   Victor Steinbok
• "leatherhead"   Victor Steinbok
• Antedating of "Tsunami" (UNCLASSIFIED)   Victor Steinbok
• "fork *up*" (July 1837), and other slang   Victor Steinbok
• chrissakes   Victor Steinbok
• The bird   Victor Steinbok
• Foobie   Victor Steinbok
• Foobie   Victor Steinbok
• a favor   Victor Steinbok
• From the Department of Shrimp Scampi   Victor Steinbok
• caught in the wild--random finds   Victor Steinbok
• "corpii" as plural of "corpus"   Victor Steinbok
• "corpii" as plural of "corpus"   Victor Steinbok
• eggcorn? Baskinet   Victor Steinbok
• Fake pilot   Victor Steinbok
• wicked; was Re: crazy/insane gradation   Victor Steinbok
• Modern Proverb: Sacred cows make the best hamburger (antedating attrib Aardvark magazine 1965)   Victor Steinbok
• "dollar per" and sacred cows   Victor Steinbok
• "dollar per" and sacred cows   Victor Steinbok
• "folk" with an L   Victor Steinbok
• the Gatsby   Victor Steinbok
• Negative Nancies and other related musings   Victor Steinbok
• long-s confusion   Victor Steinbok
• Negative Nancies and other related musings   Victor Steinbok
• "folk" with an L   Victor Steinbok
• di Napoli, a Watertown   Victor Steinbok
• Negative Nancies and other related musings   Victor Steinbok
• regional names   Victor Steinbok
• ept   Victor Steinbok
• Fwd: "phonetic transcript"   Victor Steinbok
• Negative Nancies and other related musings   Victor Steinbok
• regional names   Victor Steinbok
• Modern Proverb: Life is just one damn thing after another (UNCLASSIFIED)   Victor Steinbok
• Negative Nancies and other related musings   Victor Steinbok
• Antedating "Virginia ham" to 1795 & 1803 (UNCLASSIFIED)   Victor Steinbok
• Levying violence   Victor Steinbok
• literally   Victor Steinbok
• literally   Victor Steinbok
• literally   Victor Steinbok
• Idiom or Modern Proverb: Put your money where your mouth is (antedating 1921 April 26)   Victor Steinbok
• When a bad cop is indicted, the good ones receive an affront too   Victor Steinbok
• chocolate   Victor Steinbok
• chocolate   Victor Steinbok
• chocolate   Victor Steinbok
• chocolate   Victor Steinbok
• Girdle String --> G-string?   Victor Steinbok
• Proverb: time is money (antedating exact phrase 1719 May 18)   Victor Steinbok
• chocolate   Victor Steinbok
• "gold dust" -- fig. (not in OED) 1739; concrete 1704   Victor Steinbok
• "gold dust" -- fig. (not in OED) 1739; concrete 1704   Victor Steinbok
• No more "Christian name, sir?" in Kent, UK   Victor Steinbok
• "gold dust" -- fig.1739   Victor Steinbok
• No more "Christian name, sir?" in Kent, UK   Victor Steinbok
• if you died, please call   Victor Steinbok
• Modern Proverb: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. (antedating exact 1916)   Victor Steinbok
• If U Seek Amy   Victor Steinbok
• txt abrvs in speech?   Victor Steinbok
• txt abrvs in speech? (UNCLASSIFIED)   Victor Steinbok
• Ironic Acronym of the day   Victor Steinbok
• Ironic Acronym of the day   Victor Steinbok
• Short takes: INITIALISM   Victor Steinbok
• copy of A Few Words Not in the Dictionaries   Victor Steinbok
• Short takes: functionality   Victor Steinbok
• Short takes: INITIALISM   Victor Steinbok
• evolving language   Victor Steinbok
• evolving language   Victor Steinbok
• OT: language origin and creationism   Stone, William
• Jimmy Ducks   George Thompson
• "leatherhead"   George Thompson
• "leatherhead"= "watchman", now 1831   George Thompson
• "leatherhead"= "watchman", now 1831   George Thompson
• Query: "I've got your number."   George Thompson
• Query: "I've got your number."   George Thompson
• Query: "I've got your number."   George Thompson
• regional names   George Thompson
• eggcorn? Baskinet   Darla Wells
• skeeter eaters   Darla Wells
• crazy/insane gradation   Amy West
• crazy/insane gradation   Amy West
• bathinet/baskinet   Amy West
• eggcorn? Baskinet   Amy West
• bathinet/baskinet   Amy West
• bathinet/baskinet   Amy West
• creeper   Amy West
• The New York Times' New Language Columnist   Amy West
• bathinet/baskinet   Amy West
• prompt n.   Amy West
• prompt n.   Amy West
• Short takes: Blind-man's bluff   Amy West
• pr0n (1994) gamerpr0n pr0n* - words constructed from letters, numbers, and other characters   Amy West
• Negative Nancies and other related musings   Amy West
• to femivores add hegans   Amy West
• Debbie Downer   Amy West
• "prostitude" = giggolo   Amy West
• creeper = lurker   Amy West
• txt abrvs in speech?   Amy West
• OT: language origin and creationism   Amy West
• Who cares about National Grammar Day? Or is it whom?   Neal Whitman
• Do's and don'ts for singular 'they'   Neal Whitman
• Retroflexion   Neal Whitman
• Negative Nancies and other related musings   Neal Whitman
• Levying violence   Neal Whitman
• txt abrvs in speech?   Neal Whitman
• Girdle String --> G-string?   Douglas G. Wilson
• Girdle String --> G-string?   Douglas G. Wilson
• Antedating of _doo(-)wop_   Benjamin Zimmer
• Antedating of _doo(-)wop_   Benjamin Zimmer
• language at the Health Care Summit   Benjamin Zimmer
• hurt locker (1966)   Benjamin Zimmer
• hurt locker (1966)   Benjamin Zimmer
• "Kanye('d)" redux   Benjamin Zimmer
• "corpii" as plural of "corpus"   Benjamin Zimmer
• Bullhorn as a Verb   Benjamin Zimmer
• "dollar per" and sacred cows   Benjamin Zimmer
• The New York Times' New Language Columnist   Benjamin Zimmer
• "Restaurant" (re message from Barry Popik)   Benjamin Zimmer
• eggcorn? Baskinet (UNCLASSIFIED)   Benjamin Zimmer
• Taboo avoidance of the day   Benjamin Zimmer
• Extendible porn   Benjamin Zimmer
• Least likely to succeed?   Benjamin Zimmer
• Negative Nancies and other related musings   Benjamin Zimmer
• literally   Benjamin Zimmer
• transitive 'flow'   Benjamin Zimmer
• Making due   Benjamin Zimmer
• "prostitude" = giggolo   Benjamin Zimmer
• txt abrvs in speech?   Benjamin Zimmer
• "prostitude" = giggolo   Benjamin Zimmer
• lamestream   Benjamin Zimmer
• Short takes: INITIALISM   Benjamin Zimmer
• *tsunamus   Tom Zurinskas
• Antedating of _doo(-)wop_   Tom Zurinskas
• *tsunamus   Tom Zurinskas
• What is winter?   Tom Zurinskas
• What is winter?   Tom Zurinskas
• Who cares about National Grammar Day? Or is it whom?   Tom Zurinskas
• postvocalic /l/   Tom Zurinskas
• postvocalic /l/   Tom Zurinskas
• postvocalic /l/   Tom Zurinskas
• postvocalic /l/   Tom Zurinskas
• postvocalic /l/   Tom Zurinskas
• Is texting good for the English language   Tom Zurinskas
• low back merger--austentacious   Tom Zurinskas
• low back merger--austentacious   Tom Zurinskas
• "folk" with an L   Tom Zurinskas
• "folk" with an L   Tom Zurinskas
• "folk" with an L   Tom Zurinskas
• "folk" with an L   Tom Zurinskas
• whilst = 'whether'   Tom Zurinskas
• whilst = 'whether'   Tom Zurinskas
• low back merger--austentacious   Tom Zurinskas
• Respelling a city name in an English way   Tom Zurinskas
• On the brink of kneeling   Tom Zurinskas
• Boys trail girls in reading - no phonetic instruction   Tom Zurinskas
• Moses with horns   Tom Zurinskas
• txt abrvs in speech?   Tom Zurinskas
• Moses with horns   Tom Zurinskas
• Moses with horns (UNCLASSIFIED)   Tom Zurinskas
• Who cares about National Grammar Day? Or is it whom?   Arnold Zwicky
• eggcorn? Baskinet   Arnold Zwicky
• eggcorn? Baskinet   Arnold Zwicky
• bathinet/baskinet   Arnold Zwicky
• eggcorn? Baskinet   Arnold Zwicky
• creeper   Arnold Zwicky
• X forward   Arnold Zwicky
• "folk" with an L   Arnold Zwicky
• stor[e]y   Arnold Zwicky
• Extendible porn   Arnold Zwicky
• Extendible porn   Arnold Zwicky
• homosociality   Arnold Zwicky
• Negative Nancies and other related musings   Arnold Zwicky
• Linguist List (2010)!   Arnold Zwicky
• "prostitude" = gigolo   Arnold Zwicky
• Short takes: INITIALISM   false
• The New York Times' New Language Columnist   ronbutters
• Neugebauer   ronbutters
• Northeastern University and Vocabula is JUNK MAIL   ronbutters
• "prostitude" = gigolo   ronbutters
• do these guys think we are idiots or what?   ronbutters
• act out   victor steinbok
• language at the Health Care Summit   victor steinbok
• What is winter?   victor steinbok
• Just more slang [Was: "fork *up*" (July 1837), and other slang]   victor steinbok
• The bird   victor steinbok
• "tree of liberty", 1765 (OED, also 1765)   victor steinbok
• OT "liberty tree"   victor steinbok
• From the Department of Shrimp Scampi   victor steinbok
• "liberty tree", 1765, 1766 (antedating 1776)   victor steinbok
• Pamela in 1842   victor steinbok
• Pamela in 1842   victor steinbok
• Pamela in 1842   victor steinbok
• "liberty tree", 1765, 1766 (antedating 1776)   victor steinbok
• Pamela in 1842   victor steinbok
• "tree of liberty" and "liberty tree"   victor steinbok
• [Liberty] Tree and not tree   victor steinbok
• [Liberty] Tree and not tree   victor steinbok
• crazy/insane gradation   victor steinbok
• caught in the wild--random finds   victor steinbok
• Great [Liberty] Trees and elms, etc.   victor steinbok
• crazy/insane gradation (UNCLASSIFIED)   victor steinbok
• crazy/insane gradation   victor steinbok
• creeper   victor steinbok
• Search for quote: "A man dies, is remembered for ten years..."   victor steinbok
• Yet Further Antedating of "Restaurant"   victor steinbok
• Yet Further Antedating of "Restaurant"   victor steinbok
• Still Earlier Antedating of "Restaurant"   victor steinbok
• OT: The first restaurat sign   victor steinbok
• OT: Still Earlier Antedating of "Restaurant"   victor steinbok
• Taboo avoidance of the day   victor steinbok
• Bumper Sticker: Chicken Little was right (antedating 1965 December 16) (1956)   victor steinbok
• Bumper Sticker: Chicken Little was right (antedating 1965 December 16) (1956)   victor steinbok
• "folk" with an L   victor steinbok
• OT: Communicating with Google about errors in the Google Books archive   victor steinbok
• prompt n.   victor steinbok
• prompt n.   victor steinbok
• whilst = 'whether'   victor steinbok
• prompt n.   victor steinbok
• antihero = 'anti-establishment hero'   victor steinbok
• Short takes: Blind-man's bluff   victor steinbok
• prompt n.   victor steinbok
• Short takes: Blind-man's bluff   victor steinbok
• Short takes: Blind-man's bluff   victor steinbok
• Query: "I've got your number."   victor steinbok
• Query: "I've got your number."   victor steinbok
• Query: "I've got your number."   victor steinbok
• Short takes: Blind-man's bluff   victor steinbok
• Query: "I've got your number."   victor steinbok
• Q: Coiner of "power nap"?   victor steinbok
• Q: Coiner of "power nap"?   victor steinbok
• Query: "I've got your number."   victor steinbok
• pr0n (1994) gamerpr0n pr0n* - words constructed from letters, numbers, and other characters   victor steinbok
• Query: "I've got your number."   victor steinbok
• M is for meridian   victor steinbok
• beat it up   victor steinbok
• "folk" with an L   victor steinbok
• "folk" with an L   victor steinbok
• OT: Polka folk   victor steinbok
• pr0n (1994) gamerpr0n pr0n* - words constructed from letters, numbers, and other characters   victor steinbok

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