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- A new (to me, IAC) spelling rule
Laurence Horn
- A new (to me, IAC) spelling rule
Wilson Gray
- A new (to me, IAC) spelling rule
Garson O'Toole
- A new (to me, IAC) spelling rule
Arnold Zwicky
- A new (to me, IAC) spelling rule
Laurence Horn
- A new (to me, IAC) spelling rule
Douglas G. Wilson
- A new (to me, IAC) spelling rule
Robin Hamilton
- A new (to me, IAC) spelling rule
Eric Nielsen
- A new (to me, IAC) spelling rule
Victor Steinbok
- A new (to me, IAC) spelling rule
Eric Nielsen
- A new (to me, IAC) spelling rule
Jonathan Lighter
- in the water = 'exerting a significant but mysterious influence'
Wilson Gray
- A term for how the internet affects English?
Tom Zurinskas
- titty
Bruce Hunter
- The things you learn on NPR
Bill Palmer
- Dewey Cheatham and Howe (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Fwd: Re: The things you learn on NPR
Laurence Horn
- The plural of "moose" is ...
Mark Mandel
- The things you learn on the OED [was: NPR]
Joel S. Berson
- shagging & fucking
George Thompson
- "long" and "bigness" in 1694
Joel S. Berson
- "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- it doesn't behoove you
Paul Frank
- deconstruct = 'refudiate'
Jonathan Lighter
- folk aphorisms
Ronald Butters
- behoove
Ronald Butters
- 1938 (?) attribution of Courage/Serenity prayer to R. Niebuhr
Stephen Goranson
- "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle"
Charles C Doyle
- the oncoming slaught
Tom Zurinskas
- plug-in
Victor Steinbok
- shit! (coarse exclamation of annoyance or disgust)
George Thompson
- manning up!
Laurence Horn
- shagging & fucking (once more)
George Thompson
- mental health
Victor Steinbok
- "People of color"
Wilson Gray
- "for to" in DARE
Wilson Gray
- Modern Proverb: The future is already here, it's just unevenly distributed (attrib William Gibson 1995 Sept 1)
Garson O'Toole
- Princeton buys a Vocabula site license
Robert Hartwell Fiske
- s--t!
Joel S. Berson
- s--t and b-----
Joel S. Berson
- Don't give (or get off your) rat's ass/arse/horse
Joel S. Berson
- rat's tale
Joel S. Berson
- "rat's ass" (Was: shit!)
Laurence Horn
- Sheriff's Hotel
George Thompson
- slash
Ben Zimmer
- s---k pot, 1805 (?)
George Thompson
- s---k pot, 1805 (?)
Bruce Hunter
- s---k pot, 1805 (?)
Laurence Horn
- s---k pot, 1805 (?)
Garson O'Toole
- s---k pot, 1805 (?)
Joel S. Berson
- s---k pot, 1805 (?)
Garson O'Toole
- s---k pot, 1805 (?)
Joel S. Berson
- s---k pot, 1805 (?)
Joel S. Berson
- s---k pot, 1805 (?)
Laurence Horn
- s---k pot, 1805 (?)
Joel S. Berson
- s---k pot, 1805 (?)
Mark Mandel
- s---k pot, 1805 (?)
Jonathan Lighter
- s---k pot, 1805 (?)
Jim Parish
- s---k pot, 1805 (?)
Joel S. Berson
- s---k pot, 1805 (?)
Ronald Butters
- s---k pot, 1805 (?)
Laurence Horn
- s---k pot, 1805 (?)
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- s---k pot, 1805 (?)
George Thompson
- s---k pot, 1805 (?)
Joel S. Berson
- s---k pot, 1805 (?)
Laurence Horn
- Kooky Neo-Kennings, Melodrama, Neologisms, More!
Jonathan Lighter
- McWhorter interview
Paul Frank
- (sigh)
Mark Mandel
- Fwd: Urgent News: LSA 2011 Annual Meeting
Grant Barrett
- Urgent News: LSA 2011 Annual Meeting
Tom Zurinskas
- Whilst
Jonathan Lighter
- "Led down the garden web of the Internet"
Joel S. Berson
- tenant = 'tenor'; archive = 'to achieve'
Jonathan Lighter
- persay = per se
Herb Stahlke
- The plural of "hero"
Joel S. Berson
- Heard on Jerry Springer: European-American _BIN + PrP
Wilson Gray
- TIME quoting Putin
Wilson Gray
- OT: Can money buy happiness?
Wilson Gray
- Eggcorn or overactive spelling checking?
Dan Goodman
- DARE: "Mean enough to ...."
Wilson Gray
- "playboy" [Was: article on the name "America"]
Jonathan Lighter
- Heard on [adult swim]: "Japan" > [dZei p&n]
Jonathan Lighter
- Fwd: [Corpora-List] Corpus of *Historical* American English (400 million words, 1810-2009)
Barbara Need
- "jumping the shark": a bum rap?
Geoffrey Nunberg
- Chomskian linguistics
Joel S. Berson
- Quote: Our earth is degenerate in these latter days (antedating attrib Assyrian tablet 1922)
Garson O'Toole
- The OED's "e/Enlilghtenment, sense 2
Joel S. Berson
- "I'm cool, calm, and _collective_." [NT]
Wilson Gray
- effort = "to try to obtain by effort; to obtain by effort"
Jonathan Lighter
- Fwd: McWhorter interview
Ronald Butters
- Chomskian linguistics and human uniqueness
Joel S. Berson
- Paging Dr. Freud
Laurence Horn
- medical malapropism: "in lieu of" for "in light of"
Mark Mandel
- Quote: an independent woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle (antedating 1976 May 5)
Garson O'Toole
- Anomalous and unreliable database behavior
Garson O'Toole
- Quote: Doris Day - before she became a virgin (antedating Oscar Levant 1965)
Garson O'Toole
- gamesmanship = 'sportsmanship'
Jonathan Lighter
- "salting"
George Thompson
- "cat-head" = large apple
George Thompson
- spell by numbers with google scribe
Tom Zurinskas
- Gold Medal for Antedating
Shapiro, Fred
- those otherwise
Victor Steinbok
- No Such Word
George Thompson
- Hard wired
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- service = 'benefit afforded by animal activity'; synchronicity = 'conjunction; intertwining'
Jonathan Lighter
- service = 'benefit afforded by animal activity'
Joel S. Berson
- definantly
Jonathan Lighter
- Bert Kelly's Jaz Band
Baker, John
- Slight Antedating of "Pizzazz"
Shapiro, Fred
- Not a teddy bear
Barbara Need
- WOTY and _refudiate_
David Barnhart
- Democrat Party
Jonathan Lighter
- "kinetic event"
Jonathan Lighter
- lithium eon batteries
Herb Stahlke
- now, avoidance of "novel"
Jonathan Lighter
- Teddy Bear, etc.
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- lithium eon batteries (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Surveying the millions
Joel S. Berson
- "cat-head" = large apple (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Don't give (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Bert Kelly's Jaz Band (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Further evidence, etc.
Wilson Gray
- an historical (pronouncing the h)
Paul Frank
- better with each passing day
Paul Frank
- better with each passing day (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Jass; old Jass; Jass nine
Stephen Goranson
- "hot dog" in Salt Lake City (1895- )
Ben Zimmer
- "born again" and "rebirth" (n)
Joel S. Berson
- Overheard on NPR
Barbara Need
- WOTY 2010 (in 2011)
David Barnhart
- Blushing in 1915
Joel S. Berson
- JEEP again
David A. Daniel
- Off-topic: Blackboard
Geoff Nathan
- "Cheating yeast help group"
Laurence Horn
- of cat-heads and catenaries
victor steinbok
- A "Quotable Quote" in RD sense?
Wilson Gray
- pencilneck antedating
Jonathan Lighter
- LGBTQQ/SGL
Mark Mandel
- LGBTQ*Q*/SGL (P.S.)
Laurence Horn
- to code
Jonathan Lighter
- honey hole
George Thompson
- Proofiness
George Thompson
- OED definition of eggcorn is wrong
Mark Peters
- an historical (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- possible "raffia" antedatings (OED has 1850)?
Joel S. Berson
- whitescreened
Charles C Rice
- kibosh (lash) ca. 1830
Stephen Goranson
- OT: Felons returning from Australia
Joel S. Berson
- Memorable movie lines
Joel S. Berson
- Memorable movie lines (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- I cleep, you cleep, he cleeps
George Thompson
- I cleep, you cleep, he cleeps
Joel S. Berson
- I cleep, you cleep, he cleeps
George Thompson
- I cleep, you cleep, he cleeps
Joel S. Berson
- I cleep, you cleep, he cleeps
Dave Wilton
- I cleep, you cleep, he cleeps
Laurence Horn
- I cleep, you cleep, he cleeps
Joel S. Berson
- I cleep, you cleep, he cleeps
Joel S. Berson
- I cleep, you cleep, he cleeps
Wilson Gray
- I cleep, you cleep, he cleeps
Douglas G. Wilson
- I cleep, you cleep, he cleeps
Joel S. Berson
- I cleep, you cleep, he cleeps
Douglas G. Wilson
- recently found
David Barnhart
- Blended word?
Bill Palmer
- Remarks About the "Usage Notes" in the New Oxford American Dictionary
Robert Hartwell Fiske
- he might well could of
Paul Frank
- Collective nouns
Bill Palmer
- QOTY
Jonathan Lighter
- QOTY
Jonathan Lighter
- QOTY
Joel S. Berson
- propulse and ink
Joel S. Berson
- teadiots
victor steinbok
- SALON: The Trouble with Google Books
Joel S. Berson
- Dialect Notes 1903: Word-List from East Alabama
Wilson Gray
- OT, but perhaps interesting
Wilson Gray
- Was CLEEP
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Advice for prescriptivists
Paul Frank
- Advice for prescriptivists, & translating Aurelius
Joel S. Berson
- exasperating the situation
Jonathan Lighter
- wisdom effectively recycled
Jonathan Lighter
- the (ambivalent) schneid
Laurence Horn
- Dialect clash
Wilson Gray
- Proofiness (the book)
Joel S. Berson
- snipe hunts
Joel S. Berson
- propulse and ink (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- of cat-heads and catenaries (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- JEEP again (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- OFF LIST RE: Dialect clash (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- QOTY (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Dialect Notes 1903: Word-List from East Alabama (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "Rough men stand ready . . ." (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- The plural of snipe is ...
Joel S. Berson
- New OED words (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Quote: When you take stuff from one writer it ’s plagiarism, but when you take from many writers it’s called research (attrib Wilson Mizner 1938)
Garson O'Toole
- schneid and snipe oddities
Victor Steinbok
- earworm (was Re: Secret OED files uncovered)
Ann Burlingham
- sponsor
Jonathan Lighter
- another undernegation?
Victor Steinbok
- Eggcorn? Simple error?
Wilson Gray
- Jeep Bibliography -- (information from Jonathan Lighter)
Gerald Cohen
- spurious nicknaming
Victor Steinbok
- REM song is most misheard - Telegraph
Victor Steinbok
- on this suspicious occasion...
Victor Steinbok
- Jeep species, bat Genus?
Joel S. Berson
- "just one letter away"
Jonathan Lighter
- Wombat
David A. Daniel
- "just one letter away" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Jeep Bibliography -- (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "scald miserable" (scurrilous compound adjective), 1741
Joel S. Berson
- "egg cream", 1841 -- same year, different recipe
Joel S. Berson
- RSVPing yes
Victor Steinbok
- dinging (solicit a quick quotable statement)
Victor Steinbok
- "Anti-social behaviour cuts fear"
Dan Goodman
- Green's Dictionary of Slang
Grant Barrett
- Annual meeting will go ahead at Pittsburgh Hilton
Grant Barrett
- invigyurating
Jonathan Lighter
- tousled
Jonathan Lighter
- Internet electrical resistance
Joel S. Berson
- Beckett
Joel S. Berson
- Refutation of Chomsky?*
Joel S. Berson
- How NOT to write a teach-yourself grammar
Wilson Gray
- tedious
Victor Steinbok
- derry-do
Jonathan Lighter
- Refutation of Chomsky
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Refutation of Chomsky?
Joel S. Berson
- more expletives not [quite] deleted
Victor Steinbok
- "blue laws", 1755
Joel S. Berson
- "blue laws", 1755
Shapiro, Fred
- "blue laws", 1755
Joel S. Berson
- "blue laws", 1755
Shapiro, Fred
- "blue laws", 1755
Laurence Horn
- "blue laws", 1755
Shapiro, Fred
- "blue laws", 1755
Garson O'Toole
- "blue laws", 1755
Joel S. Berson
- "blue laws", 1755
Joel S. Berson
- "blue laws", 1755
Wilson Gray
- "blue laws", 1755
Wilson Gray
- "blue laws", 1755
Laurence Horn
- "blue laws", 1755
Dan Goncharoff
- "blue laws", 1755
Barbara Need
- "blue laws", 1755
Geoffrey Nunberg
- "blue laws", 1755
Joel S. Berson
- OED definition of "entry"
Joel S. Berson
- Abbreviation, pronunciation of Green's dict.
Jesse Sheidlower
- Youneverknow.
Wilson Gray
- "in the day"
Jonathan Lighter
- "clean the place" as in "let's get together"
Ry Rivard
- "fruit leather"
Joel S. Berson
- Three guys from Iwo Jima
Joel S. Berson
- "sucrye of strabyrs", 1683
Joel S. Berson
- oed monkeywrench (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "strawbryes" intended in "sucrye of strabyrs", 1683?
Joel S. Berson
- hundreds of thousand(s)
Randy Alexander
- Third-place
Charles C Doyle
- classic crash blossom (avant la lettre)
Laurence Horn
- "blue laws"
Joel S. Berson
- "to bilk" with object not a person
Joel S. Berson
- "comptroller" redux
Ben Zimmer
- The Internet Generation
Ann Burlingham
- Final Four, the NCAA, trademarks and antedating
Garson O'Toole
- star = 'splendid person'
Jonathan Lighter
- "blue laws" & extraneous spaces
Joel S. Berson
- revert, OED 4b
Jonathan Lighter
- compulsive, OED 2
Jonathan Lighter
- Q. "How often did [your girlfriend's daughter] stay with you-all?"
Wilson Gray
- I'm probably late to the party, but...
Wilson Gray
- hermeneut
Joel S. Berson
- Q: Two "cabinnes" in the same "rowme" (1674)
Joel S. Berson
- "gurly", 1652, antedates OED2 sense 2, 1721
Joel S. Berson
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