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- Ben's rando, Virginia's retronyms
Ben Zimmer
- meta
Paul Frank
- "Rookies are _taksed_ with learning many new things." [NT]
Wilson Gray
- Heard on The Judges: "tell [NP] say"
Wilson Gray
- IsLAHM
Jonathan Lighter
- lightning in a bottle
Jonathan Lighter
- zealious
Jonathan Lighter
- fling poo
Charles C Doyle
- real-time (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- fling poo (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Ben's rando, Virginia's retronyms (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Price of OED online (was: Re: meta)
Neal Whitman
- lightning in a bottle (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Price of OED online (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Content Farms
Federico Escobar
- meta (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- OT: It *could* happen in this country!!! Or not. IAC, those French are a caution!
Wilson Gray
- a fake quotation misattributed
Jonathan Lighter
- Has "congressman" ALWAYS meant "representative, not senator"?
Neal Whitman
- Cool new verb: redensify
Geoff Nathan
- Scottish verdict
Paul Frank
- Heard on Jerry
Wilson Gray
- How many fingers?
Joel S. Berson
- "mashmallow", the confection
Joel S. Berson
- "mashmallow", the confection
Wilson Gray
- "mashmallow", the confection
Charles C Doyle
- "mashmallow", the confection
Charles C Doyle
- "mashmallow", the confection
Jonathan Lighter
- "mashmallow", the confection
Joel S. Berson
- "mashmallow", the confection
Laurence Horn
- "mashmallow", the confection
Joel S. Berson
- "mashmallow", the confection
Jonathan Lighter
- "mashmallow", the confection
Laurence Horn
- "mashmallow", the confection
Jonathan Lighter
- "mashmallow", the confection
Charles C Doyle
- "mashmallow", the confection
Jonathan Lighter
- "mashmallow", the confection
Joel S. Berson
- "mashmallow", the confection
Laurence Horn
- "mashmallow", the confection
Laurence Horn
- "mashmallow", the confection
Wilson Gray
- loose cannon antedating?
Jonathan Lighter
- for the zero-conversion file
geoffrey nunberg
- Partially Off Topic: Article: Can We Create a National Digital Library? by Robert Darnton
Garson O'Toole
- 2011 ADS Annual Meeting Schedule and Abstracts
Grant Barrett
- in the suck
Paul Frank
- cromulent
Paul Frank
- And in (additional) honor of the Giants' World Series win...
Laurence Horn
- post-mortem human subjects
Paul Frank
- Quote: For evil men to accomplish their purpose, it is only necessary that good men do nothing (attrib Charles F. Aked 1920 June)
Garson O'Toole
- Chinese opium dens [Was: And in (additional) honor of the Giants' World Series win...]
Joel S. Berson
- sweet talk
Victor Steinbok
- cancer as a metaphor
Victor Steinbok
- a baby with a hammer
Wilson Gray
- outro
Wilson Gray
- reach (?)
George Thompson
- To "Make" a Statement
Baker, John
- And in (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- When did we start referring to elections as "landslides"? - By Brian Palmer - Slate Magazine
Victor Steinbok
- shellacking
Ben Zimmer
- the whole nine yards
Jonathan Lighter
- George Mason University has bought a Vocabula Review site license
Robert Hartwell Fiske
- ogreeches
George Thompson
- What I said.
Wilson Gray
- "mashmallow", the confection (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- OT: WTF has Obama done?
Wilson Gray
- "Junges Girl mit Mama und Papa" [NT]
Wilson Gray
- Bad Girls Ride Again
Jonathan Lighter
- another (over)negation?
Victor Steinbok
- Quote: this is deja vu all over again (antedating attrib Yogi Berra 1984 July 20)
Garson O'Toole
- Millionaire Matchmaker
Jonathan Lighter
- Backronym
Shapiro, Fred
- "... you will be able to _crypt_ your data..."
Wilson Gray
- "_Gist_: Revista colombiana de educacion Bilingue" [NT]
Wilson Gray
- Pirates paid $9m ransom
Paul Frank
- Quote: By three methods we may learn wisdom (attrib Confucius 1893)
Garson O'Toole
- tragically - 'ironically'
Jonathan Lighter
- begibees
George Thompson
- Ichthyotherapy
Paul Frank
- Bad Girls Ride Again (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Quote: By three methods we may learn wisdom (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Shellacking (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Millionaire Matchmaker (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- What can you do? From yesterday's NYTM:
Wilson Gray
- Lepore on slurs
Laurence Horn
- Ulster County/Hudson Valley and westward
Dan Goodman
- The n/N-word
Joel S. Berson
- peek-a-boob
Victor Steinbok
- "cut", v., sense 33
Wilson Gray
- "Divan"
Wilson Gray
- A nation divided by a common language
Wilson Gray
- Epicene avoidance?
Damien Hall
- 'gong' = "trophy (explicitly not a medal)"
Damien Hall
- HDAS on TV
Charles C Doyle
- zealious & mischievious
Joel S. Berson
- misch[i]evious
Joel S. Berson
- autumn vs. fall
Paul Frank
- New Spelling System in Spanish
Federico Escobar
- I got your number
Paul Frank
- emerita
Jonathan Lighter
- EPA subpoenas Halliburton over fracking fluids | Reuters
Victor Steinbok
- return to teabagging
Victor Steinbok
- "Interface with" X "connect to" =
Wilson Gray
- return to teabagging (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- polaltes?
Joel S. Berson
- "Contribute"
Wilson Gray
- "Shoot beaver"?
Wilson Gray
- Stupid Pun Tricks
Jonathan Lighter
- RE "Shoot beaver"?
Charles C Doyle
- [ar at z]
Charles C Doyle
- RE "Shoot beaver"? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- lit-crit "appropriation"
Jonathan Lighter
- shebang
George Thompson
- What I said, again.
Wilson Gray
- litigate = 'argue tediously or at length over'
Jonathan Lighter
- pregame = 'occurring before a scheduled meeting'
Jonathan Lighter
- Response to JL
Ronald Butters
- response to Sam
Ronald Butters
- sauce (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Special Sauce
Eric Nielsen
- drug
Victor Steinbok
- chip on the shoulder
Victor Steinbok
- "drug" and irregulation
Joel S. Berson
- Return of the Big Kahuna(s)
Laurence Horn
- violence = 'personal or social domination of any kind'
Jonathan Lighter
- I can't believe this isn't already in the eggcorn database (mole hair)
Alice Faber
- "... they're time as come and gone long ago." [NT]
Wilson Gray
- come full circle = 'to fulfil one's potential; attain distinction'
Jonathan Lighter
- deconstruct = 'undermine or discredit (an artistic work), as by parody, locating in an antithetical context, etc.'
Jonathan Lighter
- optical = '(of persons or works) sensitive or attentive to the artistic possibilities of scenes and images'
Jonathan Lighter
- Such pronunciations as "Eye-rack"
Charles C Doyle
- Aw, naw he di?n'!
Wilson Gray
- Such pronunciations as "Eye-rack" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Wick-ed
Michael Sheehan
- violence = 'personal or social domination of any kind' (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Hubba-hubba [Was: Aw, naw he di?n'!]
Victor Steinbok
- It's Official: NOAD Demeans Self for PR Gold
Jonathan Lighter
- Bad Girls Ride Again PLUS hooyay; cragly
Jonathan Lighter
- Quote: Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts
Victor Steinbok
- new rude word
Eoin C. Bairéad
- belly and body shots
Joel S. Berson
- It's Official: NOAD Demeans Self for PR Gold (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- NOAD Demeans Self for PR Gold--like ADS?
Ronald Butters
- NOAD criticism
David Barnhart
- "canvas" = ? riot :-), 1768 -- not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- chatter
Paul Frank
- "I'm not a doctor but I play one on TV"
Jonathan Lighter
- an X to end all Xes
Jonathan Lighter
- DARE on Twitter
Joan H. Hall
- 'turning of age'
Lynne Murphy
- ProQuest Trials
Shapiro, Fred
- "Don't retreat! Reload!"
Jonathan Lighter
- Auctioneering speech (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Reply strategy
Joel S. Berson
- "I'm not a doctor but I play one on TV" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Mad magazine collection searchability
Garson O'Toole
- words of the year
Albert E. Krahn
- upcoming snowclone alert
James Harbeck
- WAITING
David Barnhart
- dramarama
Paul Frank
- "track record"
Charles C Doyle
- Track(ed) record
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Mad magazine collection searchability (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Hubba-hubba [Was: Aw, naw he di?n'!] (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "track record" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "Gossip and the news are the same, anymore."
Wilson Gray
- "slip tier"
George Thompson
- "Where is the wisdom?"
Mark Mandel
- "Fleed" vs. "fleed"
Wilson Gray
- OK
Arnold Zwicky
- OK
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- OK
Laurence Horn
- OK
Jonathan Lighter
- OK
aallan at AOL.COM
- underwears
Jonathan Lighter
- "track record" by feet
Joel S. Berson
- bullpup (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- baby daddy
Victor Steinbok
- Full text databases (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Antedating of "Tarheel" Meaning North Carolinian
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- Most Notable Quotations of 2010
Shapiro, Fred
- "baby daddy," etc.
Wilson Gray
- Singing in a dialect and "Authentic pronunciation" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Wilson Gray
- "baby daddy," "underwears," etc.
Ronald Butters
- "gang" = "company of slaves", 1739 (antedates 1790)
Joel S. Berson
- bomb mot
Paul Frank
- Antedating of "POTUS"
Shapiro, Fred
- Lumpen Intellectual
James Dawson
- throwup, n.
Jonathan Lighter
- freegan
Victor Steinbok
- officially = 'conclusively; definitively'
Jonathan Lighter
- pizza place
Victor Steinbok
- Most Notable Quotations of 2010 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- FW: Rap Lyrics (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Antedating SCOTUS (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- antedating 30 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Q: The "(Eastern) Argus" (Portland, Maine), for 1835
Joel S. Berson
- church and state
Joel S. Berson
- A Christian nation
Joel S. Berson
- church and state (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Q: The "(Eastern) Argus" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Bill Mullins & This Thread I Started
Shapiro, Fred
- Q: The "(Eastern) Argus"
Joel S. Berson
- Heard on the judges
Herb Stahlke
- teabagger redux (was Re: Most Notable Quotations of 2010 (UNCLASSIFIED))
Ben Zimmer
- [my] junk
Victor Steinbok
- TSA words
Paul Frank
- narrative
Jonathan Lighter
- another good political coinage
Victor Steinbok
- Players
Geoffrey S. Nathan
- Metro-syntactical: "runs through"
Joel S. Berson
- "row back" -- eggcorn?
Joel S. Berson
- eco asceticism
Paul Frank
- kill fee
Paul Frank
- griffin 2 (new arrival) antedated (?) to 1791
Stephen Goranson
- what and what not
Victor Steinbok
- Metcalf's _OK_
Arnold Zwicky
- Can one ever overcome a bad reputation?
Joel S. Berson
- up-sum
Paul Frank
- Squinkies
Tom Zurinskas
- griffin 4 (betting tip, signal) antedated to 1866
Stephen Goranson
- procrastubatory
Paul Frank
- I forgot ...
David Barnhart
- Call for Nominations for Names of the Year
Cleve Evans
- habilitation
Paul Frank
- "Word of the year losing its meaning" (Mark Abley)
Ben Zimmer
- The "peculiar institution", from 1828 through 1847
Joel S. Berson
- DOTI (downgrading of text initialisms)
Benjamin Barrett
- "What is old is new, again."
Wilson Gray
- not a new word, but...
Laurence Horn
- to contracept
Paul Frank
- contracepted
David Barnhart
- contraceive
David Barnhart
- _Hussif_: this meaning may not be in the OED
Wilson Gray
- cables
Paul Frank
- Junk terms (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- McGuffin
Joel S. Berson
- screwgie
Paul Frank
- the big tsimmis
Victor Steinbok
- "given name"
Charles C Doyle
- infamous = 'talked-about; popular'
Jonathan Lighter
- document = 'to designate through legal or other official procedure; name officially'
Jonathan Lighter
- dog and pony show (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Fwd: Bartism and Lisanity
Joel S. Berson
- Partially Off Topic: Legal Status of Excerpts in Dictionaries and Quotation Books
Garson O'Toole
- new online OED interface
Paul Frank
- shoot blanks
Paul Frank
- "as close as lips to teeth" (heard on NPR)
Barbara Need
- FW: [ADS-L] dog and pony show (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- The Telegraph and the OED
Ben Zimmer
- Jugendwort 2010: Niveaulimbo
Ben Zimmer
- fresh off the boat
Paul Frank
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