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