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- _Populate_ > computer jargon, "make non-empty"
Joel S. Berson
- "to bilk" with object not a person
Joel S. Berson
- Q: Two "cabinnes" in the same "rowme" (1674)
George Thompson
- It had to happen.
Wilson Gray
- Antedating "the yips" OED 1963-->1943 :: Fwd: "yips" - Word of the Day from the OED
Victor Steinbok
- Sliced and diced
wordmall
- "blue laws"
Joel S. Berson
- Mulish faith and the salt of existence
Joel S. Berson
- goldilocks planet
Tom Zurinskas
- Obscenities
Eric Nielsen
- Green's Dictionary of Slang
Ben Zimmer
- QOTY? "Charles Foster Kane with Asperger's"
Joel S. Berson
- Singing in a dialect and "Authentic pronunciation"
Eric Nielsen
- destination = "website"
Jonathan Lighter
- OT: Where New York is
Joel S. Berson
- "Authentic pronunciation" - but does she creak?
Tom Zurinskas
- Bad translation
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedating "the yips" OED 1963-->1943
Joel S. Berson
- Antedating "the [baseball] yips"
Joel S. Berson
- So, how long ago was it?
Wilson Gray
- teenager doing accents
Paul Frank
- "Authentic pronunciation"
Joel S. Berson
- Still More Bad Girl Talk
Jonathan Lighter
- The [1749 Cleland "freak out"] and friends
Joel S. Berson
- It's all over, now.
Wilson Gray
- previvor
Jonathan Lighter
- "bully pulpit"
Jonathan Lighter
- Peeves
Jonathan Lighter
- query: the chain of wedlock
Charles C Rice
- respectively
Victor Steinbok
- beat to do
Davis, Boyd
- posthumously
Victor Steinbok
- Taking the piss (was: teenager doing accents)
Damien Hall
- an American "Cholmondeley"?
Jonathan Lighter
- "Authentic pronunciation" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Singing in a dialect and "Authentic pronunciation" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Hurty Sanchez
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedating "the yips" OED 1963-->1943 :: Fwd: "yips" - Word of the Day from the OED (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- antedating boondock (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- eggcorn glimpsed in the wild
Laurence Horn
- What are "(silk) rases"?
Joel S. Berson
- A new(?) solitaire game
Wilson Gray
- "Pride feels no cold"
Joel S. Berson
- Je recuse.
Jonathan Lighter
- real-time
Jonathan Lighter
- Headline: "[NP] cites _hypocracy_"
Wilson Gray
- ont/ahnt
Joel S. Berson
- ont/ahnt (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- 'Ministers Do More Than Lay People'
Joel S. Berson
- father-bother [Was: ont/ahnt]
Joel S. Berson
- In defense of local dialects. Or not.
Wilson Gray
- How the OED pronounces "lot" and "cloth"
Joel S. Berson
- OT: Hot tamales
Joel S. Berson
- Meet Koro
Jonathan Lighter
- Aunt; was Re: "Authentic pronunciation" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Barbara Need
- Je recuse
Ronald Butters
- Chile
Jonathan Lighter
- hearst
Jonathan Lighter
- Je recuse (correction)
Ronald Butters
- France {was: Chile]
Joel S. Berson
- hog/hawg
Joel S. Berson
- hog/hawg (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "white wine"
George Thompson
- Dons Quixote and Juan (was: Chile)
Damien Hall
- Anglicization
Joel S. Berson
- Fwd: LSA Update on hotel for 2011 meeting
Laurence Horn
- Mallard Fillmore
Bill Palmer
- the magoffin?
Jonathan Lighter
- Brryan
Jonathan Lighter
- _Enthuse_
Wilson Gray
- dejected
David Barnhart
- excitotoxins
Jonathan Lighter
- "Stop digging."
Jonathan Lighter
- Herb, please accept my apologies!
Wilson Gray
- Stop digging
Neal Whitman
- The yips--again
Victor Steinbok
- "Don't rock the boat!"
Joel S. Berson
- OT: "Stop digging."
Joel S. Berson
- Terrific malapropism
Geoff Nathan
- letter string "ou" and phonemes it spells in USA English.
Tom Zurinskas
- "Turn-about is fair play": StL hip-hop/rap BE
Wilson Gray
- Boink, boinking (evidence for Moonlighting 1985 March 19)
Garson O'Toole
- net-net
Jonathan Lighter
- the (new) wh-word
Laurence Horn
- "sort've"
Michael Covarrubias
- time out of mind = "old and unchanged"
Jonathan Lighter
- "A Quaker hates a parrot"
Joel S. Berson
- Fwd: Quaker hating parrots
Joel S. Berson
- local boy made good
Jim WALKER
- strand = 'strain'
Jonathan Lighter
- rhymes with urinal
Jonathan Lighter
- "hessian hide" and "hessian cloth", not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- "apology" -- stretched again
Joel S. Berson
- "casualty"
Jonathan Lighter
- Awkward!
Wilson Gray
- "recuse" = "disqualify"
Joel S. Berson
- Chilly/Chillay
Joel S. Berson
- Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary
Grant Barrett
- Unicode 6.0 - font
Chris Waigl
- remove
Joseph Nardoni
- lockstep and barrel
Michael Covarrubias
- 5 years of "truthiness"
Ben Zimmer
- Sol Steinmetz
Shapiro, Fred
- Question: Contacting authors of quotation book series - Stupidest Things Ever Said
Garson O'Toole
- immappancy
Paul Frank
- immappancy (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Q: "travelling lady"?
Joel S. Berson
- "travelling lady"?
David A. Daniel
- Marine; soldier = 'naval seaman'; his-story = 'history focused on men'; etc.
Jonathan Lighter
- "man up" (v) makes the NYTimes
Joel S. Berson
- "man up" (v) [and a new "vociferously"]
Laurence Horn
- "_M'_Cullogh"
Wilson Gray
- Q: "travelling lady"? (and "goal"0
Joel S. Berson
- Marine [and] his-story; rape; "Negro"
Joel S. Berson
- SECOL 2011
Terry Lynn Irons
- Supposed Orwell Quote
Shapiro, Fred
- In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act (1984 Jan-Feb; David Hoffman attributes to George Orwell)
Garson O'Toole
- Hitchcock's McGuffin story possibly derived from a story about an imaginary mongoose
Garson O'Toole
- precocious = 'mischievous'?
Jonathan Lighter
- running out of context
Victor Steinbok
- "Brick-and-mortars [churches]" 1872
Wilson Gray
- gripe
Victor Steinbok
- OT: Singing in a dialect and "Authentic pronunciation"
Joel S. Berson
- sock poet
Jonathan Lighter
- diary = 'chronological memoir; personal chronicle'
Jonathan Lighter
- Heard on The Judges: "tight like that"
Wilson Gray
- Proverb: When you're in a hole, stop digging - On the dangers of digging (Joel Chandler Harris 1889)
Garson O'Toole
- grue and bleen
Joel S. Berson
- "We are the standard barriers"
Laurence Horn
- New York
Paul Frank
- Strange case of Russell Williams
Victor Steinbok
- Did with/did to (heard on NPR)
Barbara Need
- Fred Mish
Joanne Despres
- Still More Bad Girl Talk (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- survey on sandwich names in NJ
Michael Newman
- fear-mongering = 'inducing legitimate fear'
Jonathan Lighter
- Has "congressman" ALWAYS meant "representative, not senator"?
Neal Whitman
- Has "congressman" ALWAYS meant "representative, not senator"? [And "congressmen" from 1777]
Joel S. Berson
- Synonyms for sex organs in Spanish (cp. to English)
Federico Escobar
- flummox antedated (?) to 1832
Stephen Goranson
- passive "kowtowed" for "cowed"
Herb Stahlke
- a well-traveled eggcorn ("Roaming Catholic")
Laurence Horn
- Fwd: a well-traveled eggcorn ("Roaming Catholic")
Laurence Horn
- Fwd: Faye Vaughn-Cooke passed away today
Arnold Zwicky
- well-traveled snowclone
Victor Steinbok
- Trope: Chinese word for crisis is composed of elements danger and opportunity (maybe 1937)
Garson O'Toole
- Fwd: Faye Vaughn-Cooke: Address for sympathy cards, and 2 calls to action
Arnold Zwicky
- on nativity
Jonathan Lighter
- comments from the peanut gallery
Victor Steinbok
- more / greater
Charles C Doyle
- Trope: Chinese word for crisis is composed of elements danger and opportunity (maybe 1937) or 1934
Stephen Goranson
- To "biff out"?
Joel S. Berson
- "thunder-stone" = "thunderbolt" in the 18th century
Joel S. Berson
- Grammar Girl goes Gricean
Neal Whitman
- Photo of Harlem's Big Apple jazz club
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- mixing metaphors
Victor Steinbok
- kype
Victor Steinbok
- further to = "in addition to; besides" ?
Jonathan Lighter
- File under: Say it ain't so
Paul Frank
- another "Negro" in quotes
Jonathan Lighter
- between 7 to 10
Victor Steinbok
- gendercide
Jonathan Lighter
- origin of the "Ayn Rand and God" line
Mark Mandel
- "kype"
Mailbox
- mixing metaphors (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Shakespeare as originally pronounced (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Wacht am Rhein
Joel S. Berson
- buck?
Paul Frank
- Quote: Writing about music is like dancing about architecture (close variant attrib Martin Mull 1980 July)
Garson O'Toole
- Delusional grandeur
Neal Whitman
- Sol Steinmetz Obituary
Shapiro, Fred
- outro
Victor Steinbok
- rout = 'complete and decisive victory'
Jonathan Lighter
- "God shot"
Jonathan Lighter
- buck -- more antedatings (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- megilla
Jonathan Lighter
- a baby with a hammer
Jonathan Lighter
- Chiclone / Windpocalypse
Ben Zimmer
- "cut", v., sense 33
Joel S. Berson
- [C18-L] imaginary grammars
Joel S. Berson
- Spanish accent
Tom Zurinskas
- printing money
Paul Frank
- out of hand
Jonathan Lighter
- lardcore
Ben Zimmer
- bawdy = 'rowdily humorous; slapstick'
Jonathan Lighter
- deleriously = 'so as to impart delirium or ecstasy in the beholder or hearer; intoxicatingly; (hence, _broadly_) extravangantly; extraordinarily'
Jonathan Lighter
- I don't give a stuff
Paul Frank
- Fwd: Death of Former LSA President Ellen Prince
Arnold Zwicky
- service revolver == sidearm/service weapon
Victor Steinbok
- access = '(_trivially_) to obtain; get.'
Jonathan Lighter
- WOTY
David Barnhart
- Fwd: Radio 4 Today programme on British Library pronunciation project
Arnold Zwicky
- doofus (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- service revolver == sidearm/service weapon (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- antedating "service revolver" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Goofus - an idiot (antedating - used by Arthur Baer 1916)
Garson O'Toole
- maguffin ( probably dated 1935)
Garson O'Toole
- old snowclone strikes again ...
Victor Steinbok
- color<>structure
Victor Steinbok
- "jeezum crow"
Arnold Zwicky
- plausible deniability
Jonathan Lighter
- "illiterate"
Arnold Zwicky
- subliterate
Joel S. Berson
- letterbombing
Ben Zimmer
- creeper/rando/sketchball + "off of" redux
Ben Zimmer
- "staking" = 'a wager' (not in OED?)
Joel S. Berson
- fact = 'idea; notion'
Jonathan Lighter
- Quote: Writing about music is like dancing about architecture (attrib Martin Mull 1979 Oct)
Garson O'Toole
- Bad Girls Ride Again
Jonathan Lighter
- fling poo
Jonathan Lighter
- "moist" yet again
Joel S. Berson
- random quote
Victor Steinbok
- OT: Knowledge of the local dialect would have been helpful.
Wilson Gray
- The new goatee
Joel S. Berson
- praat 5.2
Tom Zurinskas
- Ben's rando, Virginia's retronyms
Laurence Horn
- A nation divided by a common language
Jonathan Lighter
- Immortal Horror Flick Quotations
Jonathan Lighter
- feint
Victor Steinbok
- "The yips" applied to football
Joel S. Berson
- Dog walker and scoop - broadening / slight shift
Benjamin Barrett
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