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- "Ching-chong"
Laurence Horn
- Oh, well
Wilson Gray
- The antecedent of "Hell is where the English are the chefs"?
Dan Goncharoff
- open vs. open
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- noodleback
Jonathan Lighter
- "... stood _at_ like the _preverbal_ sore thumb ..." [NT]
Wilson Gray
- SNL's Kenan Thompson...
Wilson Gray
- bouquet and bosquet antedating 1706
victor steinbok
- "You are what you speak"
Laurence Horn
- And more from the NYTBR
Laurence Horn
- sad news
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- anymore
Gordon, Matthew J.
- oops, sorry about that
Laurence Horn
- "... a wry _smurk_ came over his face ..."
Wilson Gray
- "Five features that the iPod Nano needs _over_ a camera"
Wilson Gray
- fellow
Victor Steinbok
- Q: "dame" in U.S. slang --1862, antedating 1902?
Joel S. Berson
- "fellow" = "A black man"; also "secesh' noun & adj. 1862; and "nub" 1728
Joel S. Berson
- "fellow" = "A black man" in the U.S. -- the statistics
Joel S. Berson
- caviar
victor steinbok
- ketchup
victor steinbok
- "fellow" = "A black man"; also "secesh' noun & adj. 1862; and "nub"
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- "fellow" = "A black man"; also "secesh' noun & adj. 1862; and "nub" 1728 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- parochial school (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- parochial school
Joel S. Berson
- Google book settlement -- DENIED
Ken Hirsch
- "fellow" = "A black man"
Joel S. Berson
- Legal exams posted (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Accent/dialect inquiry from National Geographic
Salikoko Mufwene
- the police beat dilemma
Victor Steinbok
- negatives
Victor Steinbok
- spear phishing
victor steinbok
- ice cream cake
victor steinbok
- "Comp Time" Not in Dictionaries
Shapiro, Fred
- "O.K." in Green's Dictionary of Slang
Shapiro, Fred
- Google book settlement -- DENIED (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Bimbo bread!
Laurence Horn
- Heard on The Judges: _front NP off_
Wilson Gray
- "Close, but no cigar."
Wilson Gray
- "Close, but no cigar."
Jonathan Lighter
- "Close, but no cigar."
Laurence Horn
- "Close, but no cigar."
Jonathan Lighter
- "Close, but no cigar."
Baker, John
- "Close, but no cigar."
Charles C Doyle
- "Close, but no cigar."
Jonathan Lighter
- "Close, but no cigar."
Laurence Horn
- "Close, but no cigar."
Stephen Goranson
- "Close, but no cigar."
Garson O'Toole
- "Close, but no cigar."
Jesse Sheidlower
- "Close, but no cigar."
Garson O'Toole
- "Close, but no cigar."
victor steinbok
- "Close, but no cigar."
Laurence Horn
- "Close, but no cigar."
victor steinbok
- "Close, but no cigar."
Jonathan Lighter
- "Close, but no cigar."
victor steinbok
- plugs and opposites
victor steinbok
- Close, but no cigar.
taylor-blake at nc.rr.com
- "It is crispy and ridiculous!"
Neal Whitman
- Republican People
victor steinbok
- "The N-Word of the Narcissus." By Joseph Conrad
Wilson Gray
- bogus Aeschylus quote?
Jonathan Lighter
- Short takes: Marasca, Maraschino, meringue, genoise
victor steinbok
- Stanford University
Robert Hartwell Fiske
- Radio reporter says, "You're welcome."
Neal Whitman
- Radio reporter says, "You're welcome." (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Shakespeare as inventor of new words
Charles C Doyle
- "drugstore" 1771, 1772; antedates 1810 --
Joel S. Berson
- "fellow" = "A black man" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- mara[s]chino, Chianti (antedating), manna -- 1783
Joel S. Berson
- Genoise -- 1838
Joel S. Berson
- Virgil and context
Victor Steinbok
- Genoises -- 1845
Joel S. Berson
- trolls
victor steinbok
- South African lingo from CNN
Jonathan Lighter
- watermelon thumping
Joel S. Berson
- Shakespeare's "new" words
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- "Schrodinger's Cat" not in OED
Shapiro, Fred
- _Reboot_: a semantic extension thereof
Wilson Gray
- Einsteins
Joel S. Berson
- not quite crash blossom
victor steinbok
- Disingenuine
Neal Whitman
- the jig is up
victor steinbok
- "Tell me something good!"
Wilson Gray
- play pepper
victor steinbok
- Bob Dylan
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- ADS call for proposals: Portland 2012
aallan at AOL.COM
- "pepper game"; "play[ed] pepper"
Joel S. Berson
- rat prices
George Thompson
- rat prices; rat office; rat it; rat off (again 1850)
Joel S. Berson
- LOL (1989)
Garson O'Toole
- "baseball" in 1827
Joel S. Berson
- A good save in 1746?
Joel S. Berson
- "upcycling", but not "up cycling"
Joel S. Berson
- Coming in November 2011 from Simon & Schuster
Robert Hartwell Fiske
- new words to me; "impactful" "God wars"
Tom Zurinskas
- _That's Fat, Jack_
Wilson Gray
- "1823" OK
Jonathan Lighter
- brown-bagging
victor steinbok
- Aeschylus, G.B. Shaw at it again
Jonathan Lighter
- Aeschylus, G.B. Shaw at it again
Garson O'Toole
- Aeschylus, G.B. Shaw at it again
victor steinbok
- Aeschylus, G.B. Shaw at it again
victor steinbok
- Aeschylus, G.B. Shaw at it again
victor steinbok
- Aeschylus, G.B. Shaw at it again
victor steinbok
- Aeschylus, G.B. Shaw at it again
Shapiro, Fred
- Aeschylus, G.B. Shaw at it again
Jonathan Lighter
- Aeschylus, G.B. Shaw at it again
victor steinbok
- Aeschylus, G.B. Shaw at it again
Jonathan Lighter
- Aeschylus, G.B. Shaw at it again
Shapiro, Fred
- grill
victor steinbok
- ravish = 'to ravage'
Jonathan Lighter
- Football
victor steinbok
- know-nothing and no-nothing
Garson O'Toole
- Random find
victor steinbok
- ass-dial
victor steinbok
- FYI
victor steinbok
- assorted comments
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Q re "lynching"
Joel S. Berson
- LANSI Call for Paper (Deadline in One Month)
Rebekah Johnson
- bad rap
victor steinbok
- Antedating of American "Football"
Shapiro, Fred
- new given name; more on "diva"
Jonathan Lighter
- Subject: ravish = 'to ravage'
Mailbox
- heterostereotype; autostereotype
Jonathan Lighter
- antedating "empathy"
Jonathan Lighter
- Whet the hell is this?, pts. I & II
George Thompson
- very minor note on "lady"
Jonathan Lighter
- "rerun of a bad movie"
Jonathan Lighter
- first impression
victor steinbok
- "a schlemiel of" meaning 'a lot of'
Barbara Need
- fact = proposition, nonfact
Jonathan Lighter
- to parentify
Jonathan Lighter
- another unlisted proverb
Jonathan Lighter
- survivor guilt
Jonathan Lighter
- "moon-curser" 1807, antedates 1812; "mooncusser", not in OED3
Joel S. Berson
- "cuss", noun, 1771, and not U.S.; antedates 1848
Joel S. Berson
- moonraker
Joel S. Berson
- "soursop" = "sourpuss, killjoy", not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- it-getter
Jonathan Lighter
- more Millionaire Matchmaker novelties
Jonathan Lighter
- Who knew?! ;-)
Wilson Gray
- Genoise -- 1834
victor steinbok
- spoof of royal wedding "goes viral"
Tom Zurinskas
- false-flag operation
Jonathan Lighter
- Dorothy Parker profile in Hearst's International-Cosmopolitan (1933 August)
Garson O'Toole
- legal mouth-flapping: circumstantial evidence, smoking gun, active house
victor steinbok
- "Repugnican" = repugnant Republican
Tom Zurinskas
- Viral marketing, going viral - Dawkins and Hofstadter
Garson O'Toole
- postdating of "heroicism"
Jonathan Lighter
- ancestor
Jonathan Lighter
- "suppress agent" -- WOTY? Or for 1923?
Joel S. Berson
- kurwa/color(ed) revolution
victor steinbok
- "The charity works with soldiers' families that were killed in combat." [NT]
Wilson Gray
- Downsizing the N-pound gorilla
Wilson Gray
- couturier
victor steinbok
- more TV lingo
Jonathan Lighter
- "potatohead"
Joel S. Berson
- momtrepeneur
Jonathan Lighter
- When life hands you lemons
Mark Peters
- "wrecker", someone causing a shipwreck -- 1797; 1807, 1819; antedate 1820
Joel S. Berson
- "racking", n.5, 1807 -- now certain, and half as rare as before
Joel S. Berson
- very minor note on "lady" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Quby[X]
Joel S. Berson
- monstrous
Victor Steinbok
- "Gregorian Chant Chill-Out": title of a CD. [NT]
Wilson Gray
- parkin
Victor Steinbok
- science of "science"
Victor Steinbok
- "false flag[s]" in Google Books, "false colours" [not] in OED
Joel S. Berson
- "detectorist" / "detectionist"
Joel S. Berson
- "unsuck"
Ben Zimmer
- "I'm annoyed by three-legged dog-owners." [NT]
Wilson Gray
- "false flag[s]" -- and "false colours" from 1703 & 1794
Joel S. Berson
- eating at his craw
Ben Zimmer
- more "X sucks" (1967)
Ben Zimmer
- suck
Ronald Butters
- The new (old?) "specialize
Joel S. Berson
- humble brag
Ben Zimmer
- "unsuck" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- more "X sucks"
Joel S. Berson
- "Steven Tyler Swears On American Idol"
Wilson Gray
- Intra-dialect dissonance: recordings
Wilson Gray
- above the fold/below the fold
George Thompson
- What's this about?
George Thompson
- Pregnant in Heels
aallan at AOL.COM
- ho = 'eager or gullible enthusiast, usu. female (for); "sucker" (for).'
Jonathan Lighter
- ho = 'eager or gullible enthusiast, usu. female (for); "sucker" (for).'
Wilson Gray
- ho = 'eager or gullible enthusiast, usu. female (for); "sucker" (for).'
Jonathan Lighter
- ho = 'eager or gullible enthusiast, usu. female (for); "sucker" (for).'
Victor Steinbok
- ho = 'eager or gullible enthusiast, usu. female (for); "sucker" (for).'
Wilson Gray
- ho = 'eager or gullible enthusiast, usu. female (for); "sucker" (for).'
Eric Nielsen
- ho = 'eager or gullible enthusiast, usu. female (for); "sucker" (for).'
Ben Zimmer
- ho = 'eager or gullible enthusiast, usu. female (for); "sucker" (for).'
Victor Steinbok
- ho = 'eager or gullible enthusiast, usu. female (for); "sucker" (for).'
Jonathan Lighter
- ho = 'eager or gullible enthusiast, usu. female (for); "sucker" (for).'
Wilson Gray
- ho = 'eager or gullible enthusiast, usu. female (for); "sucker" (for).'
Laurence Horn
- ho = 'eager or gullible enthusiast, usu. female (for); "sucker" (for).'
Jonathan Lighter
- ho = 'eager or gullible enthusiast, usu. female (for); "sucker" (for).'
Laurence Horn
- ho = 'eager or gullible enthusiast, usu. female (for); "sucker" (for).'
Jonathan Lighter
- ho = 'eager or gullible enthusiast, usu. female (for); "sucker" (for).'
Victor Steinbok
- "This sucks"
Joel S. Berson
- Heard on Springer: _baby daddy_, etc.
Wilson Gray
- Heard on Springer: _baby daddy_, etc. (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- ho = 'eager or gullible enthusiast, usu. female (for); "sucker" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- *Corns?
Wilson Gray
- Not yet in the UD in the relevant sense: _scorched-earth_ as a verb
Wilson Gray
- It and Those
Baker, John
- quotemine
Victor Steinbok
- of eggcorns and Eskimos
Laurence Horn
- "Palpebral Slant" not in OED
Ronald Butters
- "epicanthal fold" not in OED
Ronald Butters
- "steam boat" 1786, antedates 1787
Joel S. Berson
- "noise" = reputation, fame, in 1786; postdating --1556
Joel S. Berson
- oozing guilt
victor steinbok
- moments in sports
victor steinbok
- in double French
Stephen Goranson
- Prepositions: words that you should never end a sentence!
Jonathan Lighter
- half of decimal; decimal for "decimal point"
Victor Steinbok
- backwards "substitute" (again)
Charles C Doyle
- Beck Dissects Huckabee=?windows-1252?Q?=92s_Curious=2C_Mysterious_=91Booger_Bears=92_?=| The Blaze
victor steinbok
- Beck Dissects Huckabee's Curious, Mysterious 'Booger Bears' | The Blaze (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- The Gazelle Theory
victor steinbok
- "this sucks" (and more)
Arnold Zwicky
- "Beck Dissects Huckabee's Curious, Mysterious 'Bo" oger Bears' | The Blaze
Laurence Horn
- "like pickles and ice cream"
Mark Mandel
- "Let's get you that tattoo finished." [NT]
Wilson Gray
- boogerbear
Joan H. Hall
- the verbs SUBSTITUTE
Arnold Zwicky
- the fight over "app store"
Ben Zimmer
- Heard on Judge Mathis
Wilson Gray
- German Coast Guard using English
Tom Zurinskas
- "He needed _for_ me to tell him..."
Wilson Gray
- miscalendared
victor steinbok
- Fw: [ADS-L] "this sucks" (and more)
Joel Berson
- "hone through"
Herb Stahlke
- "Let's get you that tattoo finished."
Damien Hall
- Headline and grouping
Joel S. Berson
- dropped 's
Tom Zurinskas
- "Coalspeak"
Wilson Gray
- For better go
victor steinbok
- _Motrin_: hard to hear; consequently, hard to pronounce
Wilson Gray
- Call for Papers: 2012 American Dialect Society Meeting in Portland
Grant Barrett
- Obama II
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- tornado advisory terms
Charles C Doyle
- Quote: wheel that squeaks the loudest ... gets the grease (Cal Stewart as Josh Weathersby 1903)
Garson O'Toole
- Subject: Headline and grouping
Brian Hitchcock
- killing people and breaking things
Neal Whitman
- "He began to drink _immodestly_." [NT]
Wilson Gray
- "'Gluttony'?! Is that even a word?!"
Wilson Gray
- another "reversal"
Charles C Doyle
- Heard on Springer: the "Bubba" defense
Wilson Gray
- "euphemism for" 'word for'
Arnold Zwicky
- "block" ~= street, and the OED?
Joel S. Berson
- (across the) "block" ~= street, and the OED?
Joel S. Berson
- (across the) "block" ~= street, and the OED?
Dan Goncharoff
- (across the) "block" ~= street, and the OED?
Jonathan Lighter
- (across the) "block" ~= street, and the OED?
Joel S. Berson
- (across the) "block" ~= street, and the OED?
Jonathan Lighter
- (across the) "block" ~= street, and the OED?
Dan Goncharoff
- (across the) "block" ~= street, and the OED?
Jonathan Lighter
- (across the) "block" ~= street, and the OED?
victor steinbok
- (across the) "block" ~= street, and the OED?
Dan Goncharoff
- (across the) "block" ~= street, and the OED?
Joel S. Berson
- (across the) "block" ~= street, and the OED?
Joel S. Berson
- (across the) "block" ~= street, and the OED?
Laurence Horn
- (across the) "block" ~= street, and the OED?
Jonathan Lighter
- (across the) "block" ~= street, and the OED?
Dan Goncharoff
- Heard on The judges: "Ripping and running"
Wilson Gray
- New political tone in America
Jonathan Lighter
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