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- more taboo avoidance
 
ronbutters at AOL.COM
 - "and nor" -- British, or foot-in-mouth?
 
ronbutters at AOL.COM
 - The manner in which it was arrived
 
Randy Alexander
 - The manner in which it was arrived
 
Randy Alexander
 - The manner in which it was arrived
 
Randy Alexander
 - "The dog ate my ..."
 
Randy Alexander
 - Stupefication
 
Randy Alexander
 - Stupefication
 
Randy Alexander
 - A conundrum
 
Baker, John
 - Perplexing Proverb
 
Baker, John
 - "tar baby" in the news
 
Baker, John
 - Housing/financial haircut
 
Baker, John
 - Concept of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
 
Baker, John
 - "Cock"
 
Baker, John
 - "Cock"
 
Baker, John
 - "Cock"
 
Baker, John
 - "Cock"
 
Baker, John
 - Because X
 
Baker, John
 - Vocabula Spam
 
Baker, John
 - obscene vs. profane
 
David Barnhart
 - noun attributive
 
David Barnhart
 - Qisas
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - Qisas
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - Qisas
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - A conundrum
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - A conundrum
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - A conundrum
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - Hibakusha
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - Hibakusha
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - Follow-up on sluff - play hooky, slack off
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - Follow-up on sluff - play hooky, slack off
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - Follow-up on sluff - play hooky, slack off
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - Follow-up on sluff - play hooky, slack off
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - Follow-up on sluff - play hooky, slack off
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - Follow-up on sluff - play hooky, slack off
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - Apparently a poor attempt at :-) [Was: Follow-up on sluff ...]
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - Jook (1932), juk (1939) and juk (1993)
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - Throat singing
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - more taboo avoidance
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - Lionized
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - Throat singing
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - Tsuyu (dipping broth, 1914)
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - Throat singing
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - Throat singing
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - Tsuyu (dipping broth, 1914)
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - Tsuyu (dipping broth, 1914)
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - "Cock"
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - "Cock"
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - hum bao and humbao (1990)
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - Dim sum =? savory snack
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - Dim sum =? savory snack
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - "I deleted a sentence _on accident_." [NT]
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - Dim sum =? savory snack
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - Dim sum =? savory snack
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - Dim sum =? savory snack
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - hum bao and humbao (1990)
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - Dim sum =? savory snack
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - Dim sum =? savory snack
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - hum bao and humbao (1990)
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - Dim sum =? savory snack
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - Dim sum =? savory snack
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - More lo fan(s) (1948)
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - cookies and related stuff
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - Atari (1908)
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - "Antarctica's Ice _Flow_ Fully Mapped For the First Time" [NT]
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - Apostrophe Debacle
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - Hibachi - North America meaning missing
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - Lo mein (1957)
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - baby bump
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - It's [still] alive! "_tow_ the party line" [NP]
 
Joel S. Berson
 - ink
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Quotation about golf and a question about a word with missing letters W-m-n
 
Joel S. Berson
 - A process called "serendipity"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Fwd: The manner in which it was arrived
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "Fluxus happening"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - A conundrum
 
Joel S. Berson
 - infected by radiation poisoning
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Perplexing Proverb
 
Joel S. Berson
 - infected by radiation poisoning
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "tar baby" in the news
 
Joel S. Berson
 - (fairly) new (but unlisted) "benefits"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Frogs in hot water
 
Joel S. Berson
 - (fairly) new (but unlisted) "benefits"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - (fairly) new (but unlisted) "benefits"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Frogs in hot water
 
Joel S. Berson
 - (fairly) new (but unlisted) "benefits"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - (fairly) new (but unlisted) "benefits"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - (fairly) new (but unlisted) "benefits"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Antedating of "John Doe"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - postmodern approaches [Was: More on substituting]
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "Narrative" again
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "chairman" gets neutered
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "notorious" goes neutral
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Follow-up on sluff - play hooky, slack off
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Follow-up on sluff - now "hearts"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Follow-up on sluff - play hooky, slack off
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Apparently a poor attempt at :-) [Was: Follow-up on sluff ...]
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "As with"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - support from, or for?
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "flying horses"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "flying horses", "exercise", "quadrille" -- and "fandango" 1831
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Fwd: Re:  "flying horses"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - more taboo avoidance
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Flying coaches, 1776 and possible interpretation
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "flying horses" depicted in 1721
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "flying horses" depicted in 1721
 
Joel S. Berson
 - More on substituting
 
Joel S. Berson
 - OT:  (fairly) new (but unlisted) "benefits"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Somewhat amusing typo -- "altering" for "alerting"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Lionized
 
Joel S. Berson
 - dead man's switch
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Reversed "avowal"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "and nor" -- British, or foot-in-mouth?
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Dim sum =? savory snack
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Dim sum =? savory snack
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "and nor" -- British, or foot-in-mouth?
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "and nor" -- British, or foot-in-mouth?
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Dim sum =? savory snack
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Dim sum =? savory snack
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "and nor" -- British, or foot-in-mouth?
 
Joel S. Berson
 - new nadoes
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Reversed "avowal"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Dim sum =? savory snack
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Reversed "avowal"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Dim sum =? savory snack
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Dim sum =? savory snack
 
Joel S. Berson
 - profanity vs. obscenity
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Maine is _down_ east of Massachusetts.
 
Joel S. Berson
 - work 'plastic surgery'
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Sorting the IPA alphabet
 
Joel S. Berson
 - IPA[lphabet] alphabet
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "cheek music"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "cheek music"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "cheek music", 1800, 1802
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "dim <someone's> daylights", 1800
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "true blue", 1800
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Boxing slang from 1802, including "darken his daylights"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "Antarctica's Ice _Flow_ Fully Mapped For the First Time" [NT]
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "dim <someone's> daylights", 1800 (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "Antarctica's Ice _Flow_ Fully Mapped For the First Time" [N[Y]T]
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Interesting phrasing
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "The dog ate my ..."
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "The dog ate my ..."
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Apostrophe Debacle
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Red state, blue state
 
Joel S. Berson
 - on reversed "substitute" (intransitive version)
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Hurricanes
 
Joel S. Berson
 - amateur of the day: anti-clockwise (and counter-clockwise)
 
Joel S. Berson
 - on reversed "substitute" (intransitive version)
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "critter"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - reversed "blame"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - amateur of the day: anti-clockwise (and counter-clockwise)
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Crash blossom of the week (thanks to Michael Quinion)
 
Joel S. Berson
 - auteur of the day: anti-clockwise (and counter-clockwise)
 
Joel S. Berson
 - reversed "blame"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - batter (or shooes, or the sun) "half a quarter high"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - OT:  -ify and -ification
 
Joel S. Berson
 - A school system's dirty-word spreadsheet
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Stupefication
 
Joel S. Berson
 - choppergate
 
Joel S. Berson
 - choppergate
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Fwd: [ADS-L] batter (or shooes, or the sun) "half a quarter high"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "eighth" and the OED
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Borrowed-a names (was: Re: Youneverknow.)
 
David Bowie
 - nom, nomming, nom nom
 
Ann Burlingham
 - Housing/financial haircut
 
Ann Burlingham
 - Housing/financial haircut
 
Ann Burlingham
 - "tar baby" in the news
 
Ron Butters
 - Request about famous rejoinder: I shall be sober to-morrow, whereas you will remain the fool you are to-day. (1882) (Later examples by W. C. Fields and Winston Churchill) (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Ron Butters
 - More on substituting
 
Ron Butters
 - More on substituting
 
Ron Butters
 - More on substituting
 
Ron Butters
 - "Cock"
 
Ron Butters
 - "Cock"
 
Ron Butters
 - Freudian
 
Ron Butters
 - open-ended hurricane headline
 
Ron Butters
 - "tar baby" in the news
 
Ronald Butters
 - "flying horses", "exercise", "quadrille" -- and "fandango" 1831
 
Ronald Butters
 - More on substituting
 
Ronald Butters
 - "Cock"
 
Ronald Butters
 - arm:leg =? penis:vagina
 
Ronald Butters
 - arm:leg =? penis:vagina
 
Ronald Butters
 - Freudian
 
Ronald Butters
 - Interesting phrasing
 
Ronald Butters
 - Green's Dictionary: "top apple" and one more "big apple" attestation
 
Gerald Cohen
 - Fwd: The manner in which it was arrived
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - Two books of possible interest
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - "As with"
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - hot dog article in NY Times
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - hot dog article in NY Times
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - hot dog article in NY Times
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - Query: Source of a Roman Jakobson quote
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - A conundrum
 
David A. Daniel
 - "notorious" goes neutral
 
David A. Daniel
 - hot dog article in NY Times
 
David A. Daniel
 - hot dog article in NY Times
 
David A. Daniel
 - Uzbek Language
 
Botir Djuraev
 - "tar baby" in the news
 
Charles C Doyle
 - narrative; graphic
 
Charles C Doyle
 - Perplexing Proverb
 
Charles C Doyle
 - work 'plastic surgery'
 
Charles C Doyle
 - "P.S."
 
Charles C Doyle
 - "notorious" goes neutral
 
Charles C Doyle
 - Aphorism: Mode passes; style remains. (Coco Chanel 1965) Question              about French version
 
Charles C Doyle
 - Concept of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
 
Charles C Doyle
 - "love it or leave it"
 
Charles C Doyle
 - "critter"
 
Charles C Doyle
 - Terry Irons
 
Bethany Dumas
 - Follow-up on sluff - now "hearts"
 
Alice Faber
 - pearl-clutching
 
Alice Faber
 - Interesting phrasing
 
Alice Faber
 - No subject
 
Robert Fiske
 - a missing "fast"?
 
Nancy Friedman
 - Quotation about golf and a question about a word with missing letters W-m-n
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - The manner in which it was arrived
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - The manner in which it was arrived
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - The manner in which it was arrived
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - The manner in which it was arrived
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - Perplexing Proverb
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - narrative; graphic
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - (fairly) new (but unlisted) "benefits"
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - "chairman" gets neutered
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - "professor" = piano-player
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - "hourly", noun, "public conveyance that runs every hour", antedated nearly 50 years
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - Request about famous rejoinder: I shall be sober to-morrow, whereas you will remain the fool you are to-day. (1882) (Later examples by W. C. Fields and Winston Churchill) (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - Follow-up on sluff - play hooky, slack off
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - "As with"
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - Off on the wrong track
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - Off on the wrong track
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - "flying horses"
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - Housing/financial haircut
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - More on substituting
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - Concept of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - tranche = 'an installment of any kind'
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - tranche = 'an installment of any kind'
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - dead man's switch
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - Reversed "avowal"
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - Reversed "avowal"
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - "love it or leave it"
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - "cheek music", 1800, 1802
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - down economy
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - a missing "fast"?
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - a missing "fast"?
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - Recency illusion: today's example
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - on reversed "substitute" (intransitive version)
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - choppergate
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - "gink"?
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - Sorting the IPA alphabet
 
Gordon, Matthew J.
 - After Discovery, State Quietly Moves to Purge N-word From Official Documents
 
Wilson Gray
 - On "Maury" heard unexpectedly:
 
Wilson Gray
 - Misinterpretation of name of a Civil War bullet (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Wilson Gray
 - Misinterpretation of name of a Civil War bullet (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Wilson Gray
 - On "Maury" heard unexpectedly:
 
Wilson Gray
 - It's [still] alive! "_tow_ the party line" [NP]
 
Wilson Gray
 - Misinterpretation of name of a Civil War bullet (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Wilson Gray
 - It's [still] alive! "_tow_ the party line" [NP]
 
Wilson Gray
 - Misinterpretation of name of a Civil War bullet
 
Wilson Gray
 - Ii's been happening for quite some time, now
 
Wilson Gray
 - "tar baby" in the news
 
Wilson Gray
 - guesstimate (was Paul Harvey and language)
 
Wilson Gray
 - A conundrum
 
Wilson Gray
 - A conundrum
 
Wilson Gray
 - "tar baby" in the news
 
Wilson Gray
 - infected by radiation poisoning
 
Wilson Gray
 - A conundrum
 
Wilson Gray
 - A conundrum
 
Wilson Gray
 - Perplexing Proverb
 
Wilson Gray
 - Perplexing Proverb
 
Wilson Gray
 - "tar baby" in the news
 
Wilson Gray
 - "tar baby" in the news
 
Wilson Gray
 - Perplexing Proverb
 
Wilson Gray
 - "Early-Bird[ Reservation]s Almost Sold _Through_."
 
Wilson Gray
 - A conundrum
 
Wilson Gray
 - "tar baby" in the news
 
Wilson Gray
 - Two books of possible interest
 
Wilson Gray
 - "... which of these two hypotheses is more _nearly_ correct ..."
 
Wilson Gray
 - Caption:
 
Wilson Gray
 - "tar baby" in the news
 
Wilson Gray
 - perMIT, n.
 
Wilson Gray
 - Heard on Springer: _give it up_
 
Wilson Gray
 - More on substituting
 
Wilson Gray
 - Is "tar baby" in "All in the Family"?
 
Wilson Gray
 - "notorious" goes neutral
 
Wilson Gray
 - postmodern approaches [Was: More on substituting]
 
Wilson Gray
 - Misinterpretation of name of a Civil War bullet
 
Wilson Gray
 - nom, nomming, nom nom (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Wilson Gray
 - Is "tar baby" in "All in the Family"?
 
Wilson Gray
 - "chairman" gets neutered
 
Wilson Gray
 - "Some taxicab run _me_ right over my foot." [NT]
 
Wilson Gray
 - Follow-up on sluff - play hooky, slack off
 
Wilson Gray
 - "The Bob Edwards Show"
 
Wilson Gray
 - *Again* with the wrong word!
 
Wilson Gray
 - Follow-up on sluff - play hooky, slack off
 
Wilson Gray
 - Youneverknow.
 
Wilson Gray
 - Follow-up on sluff - play hooky, slack off
 
Wilson Gray
 - support from, or for?
 
Wilson Gray
 - _Symbian_
 
Wilson Gray
 - Semantic drift: pornographic = 'characterized in any way by sexual acts'
 
Wilson Gray
 - more taboo avoidance
 
Wilson Gray
 - more taboo avoidance
 
Wilson Gray
 - "nerd" etymythology
 
Wilson Gray
 - More on substituting
 
Wilson Gray
 - Concept of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
 
Wilson Gray
 - Lionized
 
Wilson Gray
 - Concept of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
 
Wilson Gray
 - Concept of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
 
Wilson Gray
 - "Cock"
 
Wilson Gray
 - "Cock"
 
Wilson Gray
 - treating ugly
 
Wilson Gray
 - arm:leg =? penis:vagina
 
Wilson Gray
 - "Cock"
 
Wilson Gray
 - "I deleted a sentence _on accident_." [NT]
 
Wilson Gray
 - OT: "Dirty" pictures referendum on W:pedia [NT]
 
Wilson Gray
 - Maine is _down_ east of Massachusetts.
 
Wilson Gray
 - Jersey-Shore-isms
 
Wilson Gray
 - "love it or leave it"
 
Wilson Gray
 - "You'll get the _top-of-the-notch_ audio quality." [NT]
 
Wilson Gray
 - "love it or leave it"
 
Wilson Gray
 - Judge Judy: "There was a gate. They had somebody there in a _stiff collar_. Nobody got past that gate."
 
Wilson Gray
 - "=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=A6talk_?=about me and say all *kinds* of this, that, and the _third_!"
 
Wilson Gray
 - "Save Growlery! The Social Networks Built of Old Words"
 
Wilson Gray
 - "Save Growlery! The Social Networks Built of Old Words"
 
Wilson Gray
 - Dialect variation in the Times
 
Wilson Gray
 - fouter, n. (antedating)
 
Wilson Gray
 - "Save Growlery! The Social Networks Built of Old Words"
 
Wilson Gray
 - Dialect variation in the Times
 
Wilson Gray
 - "=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=A6_?=at a future time-point."
 
Wilson Gray
 - "Antarctica's Ice _Flow_ Fully Mapped For the First Time" [NT]
 
Wilson Gray
 - Heard on Springer: _what =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=A6_?=for_ = "why"?
 
Wilson Gray
 - "cheek music", 1800, 1802
 
Wilson Gray
 - no laughing aside
 
Wilson Gray
 - Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance - Question about old time radio
 
Wilson Gray
 - "The dog ate my ..."
 
Wilson Gray
 - "Start your conversion from _a far_!"
 
Wilson Gray
 - Heard on Springer: _strewn_ [stroUn]
 
Wilson Gray
 - Apostrophe Debacle
 
Wilson Gray
 - Heard on Springer: _strewn_ [stroUn]
 
Wilson Gray
 - Nounjective?
 
Wilson Gray
 - on reversed "substitute" (intransitive version)
 
Wilson Gray
 - _-jacking_
 
Wilson Gray
 - noun attributive
 
Wilson Gray
 - Heard on Springer: _strewn_ [stroUn]
 
Wilson Gray
 - amateur of the day: anti-clockwise (and counter-clockwise)
 
Wilson Gray
 - "What's this software? Like, 9 years old?"
 
Wilson Gray
 - "critter"
 
Wilson Gray
 - reversed "blame"
 
Wilson Gray
 - "Uncle Tomming"
 
Wilson Gray
 - Recency illusion: today's example
 
Wilson Gray
 - Recency illusion: today's example
 
Wilson Gray
 - "What's this software? Like, 9 years old?"
 
Wilson Gray
 - "critter"
 
Wilson Gray
 - Hurricanes
 
Wilson Gray
 - "What's this software? Like, 9 years old?"
 
Wilson Gray
 - Recency illusion: today's example
 
Wilson Gray
 - "critter"
 
Wilson Gray
 - A school system's dirty-word spreadsheet
 
Wilson Gray
 - -ify and -ification
 
Wilson Gray
 - batter (or shooes, or the sun) "half a quarter high"
 
Wilson Gray
 - Stupefication
 
Wilson Gray
 - Heard on Springer: _voluntell_
 
Wilson Gray
 - Lyric: _shortage_ = "short circuit"
 
Wilson Gray
 - OT: Heard on Judge Greg Mathis's show: "Racism!"
 
Wilson Gray
 - "gink"?
 
Wilson Gray
 - swear word
 
Damien Hall
 - obscene vs. profane
 
Damien Hall
 - steep learning curve
 
Robin Hamilton
 - double hashtag
 
James Harbeck
 - Request for SF mag verification of Modern Fable Lions and gazelles (antelopes, humans)
 
Dave Hause
 - Misinterpretation of name of a Civil War bullet
 
Dave Hause
 - Follow-up on sluff - play hooky, slack off (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Dave Hause
 - "The dog ate my ..."
 
Dave Hause
 - "critter"
 
Dave Hause
 - Misinterpretation of name of a Civil War bullet
 
Brian Hitchcock
 - (fairly) new (but unlisted) "benefits"
 
Brian Hitchcock
 - hot dog article in NY Times
 
Brian Hitchcock
 - A school system's dirty-word spreadsheet
 
Brian Hitchcock
 - On "Maury" heard unexpectedly:
 
Laurence Horn
 - On "Maury" heard unexpectedly:
 
Laurence Horn
 - Misinterpretation of name of a Civil War bullet
 
Laurence Horn
 - It's [still] alive! "_tow_ the party line" [NP]
 
Laurence Horn
 - Misinterpretation of name of a Civil War bullet
 
Laurence Horn
 - The manner in which it was arrived
 
Laurence Horn
 - "tar baby" in the news
 
Laurence Horn
 - (fairly) new (but unlisted) "benefits"
 
Laurence Horn
 - infected by radiation poisoning
 
Laurence Horn
 - Perplexing Proverb
 
Laurence Horn
 - (fairly) new (but unlisted) "benefits"
 
Laurence Horn
 - Perplexing Proverb
 
Laurence Horn
 - (fairly) new (but unlisted) "benefits"
 
Laurence Horn
 - (fairly) new (but unlisted) "benefits"
 
Laurence Horn
 - (fairly) new (but unlisted) "benefits"
 
Laurence Horn
 - (fairly) new (but unlisted) "benefits"
 
Laurence Horn
 - (fairly) new (but unlisted) "benefits"
 
Laurence Horn
 - (fairly) new (but unlisted) "benefits"
 
Laurence Horn
 - (fairly) new (but unlisted) "benefits"
 
Laurence Horn
 - a blend for Jerry (and anyone else who collects them)
 
Laurence Horn
 - stealed
 
Laurence Horn
 - (fairly) new (but unlisted) "benefits"
 
Laurence Horn
 - nom, nomming, nom nom
 
Laurence Horn
 - Concept of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
 
Laurence Horn
 - Concept of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
 
Laurence Horn
 - Concept of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
 
Laurence Horn
 - "Cock"
 
Laurence Horn
 - "Cock"
 
Laurence Horn
 - arm:leg =? penis:vagina
 
Laurence Horn
 - arm:leg =? penis:vagina
 
Laurence Horn
 - Dim sum =? savory snack
 
Laurence Horn
 - "and nor" -- British, or foot-in-mouth?
 
Laurence Horn
 - Dim sum =? savory snack
 
Laurence Horn
 - Dim sum =? savory snack
 
Laurence Horn
 - Dim sum =? savory snack
 
Laurence Horn
 - Reversed "avowal"
 
Laurence Horn
 - Dim sum =? savory snack
 
Laurence Horn
 - Maine is _down_ east of Massachusetts.
 
Laurence Horn
 - Maine is _down_ east of Massachusetts.
 
Laurence Horn
 - "love it or leave it"
 
Laurence Horn
 - "love it or leave it"
 
Laurence Horn
 - Sorting the IPA alphabet
 
Laurence Horn
 - Sorting the IPA alphabet
 
Laurence Horn
 - "Save Growlery! The Social Networks Built of Old Words"
 
Laurence Horn
 - Dialect variation in the Times
 
Laurence Horn
 - "Save Growlery! The Social Networks Built of Old Words"
 
Laurence Horn
 - fouter, n. (antedating)
 
Laurence Horn
 - Dialect variation in the Times
 
Laurence Horn
 - Dialect variation in the Times
 
Laurence Horn
 - "cheek music"
 
Laurence Horn
 - Dialect variation in the Times
 
Laurence Horn
 - a bit more on the Coors Light example...
 
Laurence Horn
 - Dialect variation in the Times
 
Laurence Horn
 - no laughing aside
 
Laurence Horn
 - Interesting phrasing
 
Laurence Horn
 - a missing "fast"?
 
Laurence Horn
 - a missing "fast"?
 
Laurence Horn
 - a missing "fast"?
 
Laurence Horn
 - WOTY candidate: "spaghetti model"
 
Laurence Horn
 - Nounjective?
 
Laurence Horn
 - on reversed "substitute" (intransitive version)
 
Laurence Horn
 - on reversed "substitute" (intransitive version)
 
Laurence Horn
 - _-jacking_
 
Laurence Horn
 - on reversed "substitute" (intransitive version)
 
Laurence Horn
 - Heard on Springer: _strewn_ [stroUn]
 
Laurence Horn
 - amateur of the day: anti-clockwise (and counter-clockwise)
 
Laurence Horn
 - "critter"
 
Laurence Horn
 - "What's this software? Like, 9 years old?"
 
Laurence Horn
 - Crash blossom of the week (thanks to Michael Quinion)
 
Laurence Horn
 - "critter"
 
Laurence Horn
 - Recency illusion: today's example
 
Laurence Horn
 - "critters"
 
Laurence Horn
 - open-ended hurricane headline
 
Laurence Horn
 - on reversed "substitute" (intransitive version)
 
Laurence Horn
 - -ify and -ification
 
Laurence Horn
 - A school system's dirty-word spreadsheet
 
Laurence Horn
 - Heard on Springer: _strewn_ [stroUn]
 
Laurence Horn
 - Heard on Springer: _strewn_ [stroUn]
 
Laurence Horn
 - "gink"?
 
Laurence Horn
 - "gink"?
 
Laurence Horn
 - "gink"?
 
Laurence Horn
 - One happy language!
 
Laurence Horn
 - "gink"?
 
Laurence Horn
 - "the Big [initial]"
 
Laurence Horn
 - Heard on Springer: _strewn_ [stroUn]
 
Paul Johnston
 - "Save Growlery! The Social Networks Built of Old Words"
 
Martin Kaminer
 - Misinterpretation of name of a Civil War bullet
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Fwd: The manner in which it was arrived
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Paul Harvey and language
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - narrative; graphic
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - narrative; graphic
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "tar baby" in the news
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - narrative; graphic
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - A conundrum
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "tar baby" in the news
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - perMIT, n.
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - (fairly) new (but unlisted) "benefits"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - More on substituting
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Is "tar baby" in "All in the Family"?
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - More on substituting
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - More on substituting
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "notorious" goes neutral
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - postmodern approaches [Was: More on substituting]
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "notorious" goes neutral
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - nom, nomming, nom nom (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Misinterpretation of name of a Civil War bullet
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Is "tar baby" in "All in the Family"?
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "notorious" goes neutral
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "chairman" gets neutered
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "Narrative" again
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "notorious" goes neutral
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - work 'plastic surgery'
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Follow-up on sluff - play hooky, slack off
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Semantic drift: pornographic = 'characterized in any way by sexual acts'
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Apparently a poor attempt at :-) [Was: Follow-up on sluff ...]
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "As with"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "As with"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "As with"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Obamageddon
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - hot dog article in NY Times
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - _Symbian_
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "all things + NP"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - more taboo avoidance
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - More on substituting
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - stealed
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - More on substituting
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - stiff, adv. (antedating)
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Concept of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Concept of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Concept of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Concept of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "Cock"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "Cock"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - P. Petit quote
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "Cock"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "Cock"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - tranche = 'an installment of any kind'
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "Cock"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - tranche = 'an installment of any kind'
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "Cock"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "Cock"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "Cock"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Because X
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - dead man's switch
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "Cock"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Google News Archive link is dead
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "and nor" -- British, or foot-in-mouth?
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - new nadoes
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - obscene vs. profane
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - obscene vs. profane
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "staged"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "love it or leave it"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "love it or leave it"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "love it or leave it"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "love it or leave it"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "love it or leave it"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Freudian
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - fouter, n. (antedating)
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "cheek music"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "cheek music"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - no laughing aside
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "true blue", 1800
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - no laughing aside
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - no laughing aside
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - down economy
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Interesting phrasing
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Interesting phrasing
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - the "Ishmael effect"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "The dog ate my ..."
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "The dog ate my ..."
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - perMIT, n.
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Yo!
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Apostrophe Debacle
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "critter"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "critter"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "What's this software? Like, 9 years old?"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "Uncle Tomming"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "all things + NP"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "telegraph pole" antedating
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - A school system's dirty-word spreadsheet
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - disenfranchised = 'disenchanted (about something political)'
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - oxymoron = 'redundancy; tautology'
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "gink"?
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - One happy language!
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "gink"?
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - ginchy = 'hinky; leery'
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "gink"?
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - One happy language!
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "gink"?
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "the Big [initial]"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - hot dog article in NY Times
 
Jocelyn Limpert
 - "critter"
 
Andrea Morrow
 - Richard (alias "Long Dick") Chasmore (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 - Misinterpretation of name of a Civil War bullet (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 - Misinterpretation of name of a Civil War bullet (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 - Misinterpretation of name of a Civil War bullet (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 - Frogs in hot water (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 - "tar baby" in HDAS (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 - "tar baby" in HDAS (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 - nom, nomming, nom nom (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 - Request about famous rejoinder: I shall be sober to-morrow, whereas you will remain the fool you are to-day. (1882) (Later examples by W. C. Fields and Winston Churchill) (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 - Follow-up on sluff - play hooky, slack off (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 - "Eleven Mediocre Southern Accents From Movies and How They Should Really Sound" (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 - Google News Archive link is dead (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 - "dim <someone's> daylights", 1800 (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 - Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance - Question about old time radio (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 - danseuse [post-dating 1878 --> 1926] (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 - Heard on Springer: _strewn_ [stroUn]
 
Alison Murie
 - Off topic: web page duplication and twitter manipulation
 
Lynne Murphy
 - hot dog article in NY Times
 
Michael Newman
 - A conundrum
 
Eric Nielsen
 - (fairly) new (but unlisted) "benefits"
 
Eric Nielsen
 - (fairly) new (but unlisted) "benefits"
 
Eric Nielsen
 - (fairly) new (but unlisted) "benefits"
 
Eric Nielsen
 - (fairly) new (but unlisted) "benefits"
 
Eric Nielsen
 - Throat singing
 
Eric Nielsen
 - "Cock"
 
Eric Nielsen
 - Dialect variation in the Times
 
Eric Nielsen
 - Dialect variation in the Times
 
Eric Nielsen
 - Dialect variation in the Times
 
Eric Nielsen
 - fouter, n. (antedating)
 
Janis Vizier Nihart
 - profanity vs. obscenity
 
Geoffrey Nunberg
 - "As with"
 
Megan O'Neil
 - Quotation about golf and a question about a word with missing letters W-m-n
 
Garson O'Toole
 - Famous quotation about the weather in San Francisco (Duluth in 1900) and a mystery volume with restricted access in Google Books
 
Garson O'Toole
 - Quotation about golf and a question about a word with missing letters W-m-n
 
Garson O'Toole
 - guesstimate (was Paul Harvey and language)
 
Garson O'Toole
 - narrative; graphic
 
Garson O'Toole
 - Exclamation: Great Scott (1856 December)
 
Garson O'Toole
 - infected by radiation poisoning
 
Garson O'Toole
 - Request for SF mag verification of Modern Fable Lions and gazelles (antelopes, humans)
 
Garson O'Toole
 - Metaphor: Heating water slowly to kill a frog (was Perplexing Proverb)
 
Garson O'Toole
 - More on substituting
 
Garson O'Toole
 - Request for SF mag verification of Modern Fable Lions and gazelles (antelopes, humans)
 
Garson O'Toole
 - paranoid
 
Garson O'Toole
 - Rooster makes mo' racket dan de hin w'at lay de aig (Joel Chandler Harris 1881)
 
Garson O'Toole
 - Request about famous rejoinder: I shall be sober to-morrow, whereas you will remain the fool you are to-day. (1882) (Later examples by W. C. Fields and Winston Churchill)
 
Garson O'Toole
 - work 'plastic surgery'
 
Garson O'Toole
 - Opinion piece in NYT: When Data Disappears
 
Garson O'Toole
 - steep learning curve
 
Garson O'Toole
 - Journalism Motto: A dog bites a man - that's a story; A man bites a dog - that's a good story (1899)
 
Garson O'Toole
 - Follow-up on sluff - play hooky, slack off (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Garson O'Toole
 - _Symbian_
 
Garson O'Toole
 - hot dog article in NY Times
 
Garson O'Toole
 - Follow-up on sluff - play hooky, slack off
 
Garson O'Toole
 - pearl-clutching
 
Garson O'Toole
 - pearl-clutching
 
Garson O'Toole
 - "flying horses" depicted in 1721
 
Garson O'Toole
 - "nerd" etymythology
 
Garson O'Toole
 - Aphorism: Mode passes; style remains. (Coco Chanel 1965) Question about French version
 
Garson O'Toole
 - Concept of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
 
Garson O'Toole
 - Aphorism: Mode passes; style remains. (Coco Chanel 1965) Question about French version
 
Garson O'Toole
 - Aphorism: Mode passes; style remains. (Coco Chanel 1965) Question about French version
 
Garson O'Toole
 - Aphorism: Mode passes; style remains. (Coco Chanel 1965) Question about French version
 
Garson O'Toole
 - Google News Archive link is dead
 
Garson O'Toole
 - dead man's switch
 
Garson O'Toole
 - Google News Archive link is dead
 
Garson O'Toole
 - Idiom: crawl back into the woodwork (antedating OED to 1933 August; Dorothy Parker)
 
Garson O'Toole
 - Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance - Question about old time radio
 
Garson O'Toole
 - Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance - Question about old time radio
 
Garson O'Toole
 - Phrase origin tale: waiting for the other shoe to drop (1904 June 30)
 
Garson O'Toole
 - "The dog ate my ..."
 
Garson O'Toole
 - WOTY candidate: "spaghetti model"
 
Garson O'Toole
 - Nounjective?
 
Garson O'Toole
 - Secret erotic life of lexicographers (Noah Webster 1896) (Samuel Johnson 1906)
 
Garson O'Toole
 - "Uncle Tomming"
 
Garson O'Toole
 - "Uncle Tomming"
 
Garson O'Toole
 - gamify, gamification
 
Garson O'Toole
 - batter (or shooes, or the sun) "half a quarter high"
 
Garson O'Toole
 - Off topic: web page duplication and twitter manipulation
 
Garson O'Toole
 - Off topic: web page duplication and twitter manipulation
 
Garson O'Toole
 - "gink"?
 
Garson O'Toole
 - "The dog ate my ..."
 
Jim Parish
 - "critter"
 
Jim Parish
 - "The Bob Edwards Show"
 
Michael Quinion
 - "flying horses" depicted in 1721
 
Michael Quinion
 - Nounjective?
 
Michael Quinion
 - Nounjective?
 
Michael Quinion
 - "chairman" gets neutered
 
Ry Rivard
 - nom, nomming, nom nom
 
Joseph Salmons
 - Perplexing Proverb
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - Antedating of "John Doe"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - Antedating of "Postmodern"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - Antedating of "Interdisciplinary"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - Antedating of "Zoning"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - work 'plastic surgery'
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - Antedating of "Argot"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - Concept of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - (fairly) new (but unlisted) "benefits"
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - (fairly) new (but unlisted) "benefits"
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - (fairly) new (but unlisted) "benefits"
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - (fairly) new (but unlisted) "benefits"
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - Annual meeting: proposals due Monday
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - Recency illusion: today's example
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - baby bump
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - baby bump
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - nom, nomming, nom nom
 
Indigo Som
 - as ... than ...
 
Spanbock/Svoboda-Spanbock
 - amateur of the day: anti-clockwise (and counter-clockwise)
 
Spanbock/Svoboda-Spanbock
 - amateur of the day: anti-clockwise (and counter-clockwise)
 
Spanbock/Svoboda-Spanbock
 - "tar baby" in the news
 
Herb Stahlke
 - support from, or for?
 
Victor Steinbok
 - pleeb
 
Victor Steinbok
 - pleeb
 
Victor Steinbok
 - Marie Antoinette never said, "Let them eat cake."
 
Victor Steinbok
 - "Antarctica's Ice _Flow_ Fully Mapped For the First Time" [NT]
 
Victor Steinbok
 - "dim <someone's> daylights", 1800
 
Victor Steinbok
 - "dim <someone's> daylights", 1800
 
Victor Steinbok
 - Interesting phrasing
 
Victor Steinbok
 - "The dog ate my ..."
 
Victor Steinbok
 - Off on the wrong track
 
Katy Steinmetz
 - Off on the wrong track
 
Katy Steinmetz
 - On the early days of Philadelphia's Black Friday (ca. 1960)
 
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
 - An 1838 sighting of the "brass monkey" expression
 
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
 - "hourly", noun, "public conveyance that runs every hour", antedated nearly 50 years
 
George Thompson
 - "professor" = piano-player
 
George Thompson
 - "leg before wicket"
 
George Thompson
 - "flying horses"
 
George Thompson
 - "flying horses"
 
George Thompson
 - Science Fiction at the British Library
 
George Thompson
 - "flying horses" depicted in 1721
 
George Thompson
 - Concept of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
 
George Thompson
 - Reversed "avowal"
 
George Thompson
 - Reversed "avowal"
 
George Thompson
 - darby
 
George Thompson
 - confirming "JL's Law"
 
George Thompson
 - "cheek music", 1800, 1802
 
George Thompson
 - Kittereen
 
George Thompson
 - "and nor" -- British, or foot-in-mouth?
 
Jim WALKER
 - Aphorism: Mode passes; style remains. (Coco Chanel 1965) Question about French version
 
Chris Waigl
 - "Antarctica's Ice _Flow_ Fully Mapped For the First Time" [NT]
 
Chris Waigl
 - Stupefication
 
Chris Waigl
 - One happy language!
 
Chris Waigl
 - nom, nomming, nom nom (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Darla Wells
 - arm:leg =? penis:vagina
 
Darla Wells
 - Dialect variation in the Times
 
Darla Wells
 - Fwd: The manner in which it was arrived
 
Neal Whitman
 - "tar baby" in the news
 
Neal Whitman
 - A conundrum
 
Neal Whitman
 - (fairly) new (but unlisted) "benefits"
 
Neal Whitman
 - "tar baby" in HDAS
 
Neal Whitman
 - Is "tar baby" in "All in the Family"?
 
Neal Whitman
 - nom, nomming, nom nom
 
Neal Whitman
 - Sorting the IPA alphabet
 
Neal Whitman
 - nom, nomming, nom nom
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - Borrowed-a names
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - "Could use to [infinitive]"
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - Tsuyu (dipping broth, 1914)
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - "Cock"
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - arm:leg =? penis:vagina
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - "Cock"
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - hum bao and humbao (1990)
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - "critter"
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - "critter"
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - "gink"?
 
Douglas G. Wilson
 - Paul Harvey and language
 
Ben Zimmer
 - Perplexing Proverb
 
Ben Zimmer
 - (fairly) new (but unlisted) "benefits"
 
Ben Zimmer
 - (fairly) new (but unlisted) "benefits"
 
Ben Zimmer
 - (fairly) new (but unlisted) "benefits"
 
Ben Zimmer
 - (fairly) new (but unlisted) "benefits"
 
Ben Zimmer
 - nom, nomming, nom nom
 
Ben Zimmer
 - nom, nomming, nom nom
 
Ben Zimmer
 - "the Rampture"
 
Ben Zimmer
 - "The Bob Edwards Show"
 
Ben Zimmer
 - Housing/financial haircut
 
Ben Zimmer
 - "nerd" etymythology
 
Ben Zimmer
 - Concept of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
 
Ben Zimmer
 - "chat-down"
 
Ben Zimmer
 - another "could(n't) care less" variation
 
Ben Zimmer
 - hum bao and humbao (1990)
 
Ben Zimmer
 - hum bao and humbao (1990)
 
Ben Zimmer
 - Google News Archive link is dead
 
Ben Zimmer
 - Google News Archive link is dead
 
Ben Zimmer
 - Dialect variation in the Times
 
Ben Zimmer
 - Heard on Springer: _strewn_ [stroUn]
 
Ben Zimmer
 - _-jacking_
 
Ben Zimmer
 - "nerd" etymythology
 
Ben Zimmer
 - Recency illusion: today's example
 
Ben Zimmer
 - baby bump
 
Ben Zimmer
 - "lipstick lesbian" (1972?)
 
Ben Zimmer
 - One happy language!
 
Ben Zimmer
 - preserving ancient scripts by carving them into wood
 
Tom Zurinskas
 - The manner in which it was arrived
 
Tom Zurinskas
 - A conundrum
 
Tom Zurinskas
 - Perplexing Proverb
 
Tom Zurinskas
 - "tar baby" in HDAS
 
Tom Zurinskas
 - Youneverknow.
 
Tom Zurinskas
 - What words should be imported
 
Tom Zurinskas
 - "Cock"
 
Tom Zurinskas
 - On "Maury" heard unexpectedly:
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - The manner in which it was arrived
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - The manner in which it was arrived
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - Perplexing Proverb
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - "As with"
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - "As with"
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - Fwd: pearl-clutching
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - pearl-clutching
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - pearl-clutching
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - Anna Siewierska
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - More on substituting
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - More on substituting
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - More on substituting
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - pearl-clutching
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - "and nor" -- British, or foot-in-mouth?
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - "and nor" -- British, or foot-in-mouth?
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - Dim sum =? savory snack / "and nor"
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - as ... than ...
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - "The dog ate my ..."
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - on reversed "substitute"
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - "few and far in between"
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - "critter"
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - reversed "blame"
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - "Uncle Tomming"
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - reversed "blame"
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - "critters"
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - -ify and -ification
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - -ify and -ification
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - gamify, gamification
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - Stupefication
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - A school system's dirty-word spreadsheet
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - for portmanteau lovers
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - Stupefication
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - Off topic: web page duplication and twitter manipulation
 
imwitty
 - It's [still] alive! "_tow_ the party line" [NP]
 
paul johnson
 - Perplexing Proverb
 
paul johnson
 - "tar baby" in the news
 
paul johnson
 - Request about famous rejoinder: I shall be sober to-morrow, whereas you will remain the fool you are to-day. (1882) (Later examples by W. C. Fields and Winston Churchill) (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
paul johnson
 - Misinterpretation of name of a Civil War bullet (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
victor steinbok
 - Qisas
 
victor steinbok
 - ink
 
victor steinbok
 - ink
 
victor steinbok
 - Paul Harvey and language
 
victor steinbok
 - guesstimate (was Paul Harvey and language)
 
victor steinbok
 - infected by radiation poisoning
 
victor steinbok
 - infected by radiation poisoning
 
victor steinbok
 - infected by radiation poisoning
 
victor steinbok
 - "tar baby" in the news
 
victor steinbok
 - "tar baby" in the news
 
victor steinbok
 - More on substituting
 
victor steinbok
 - Misinterpretation of name of a Civil War bullet
 
victor steinbok
 - "chairman" gets neutered
 
victor steinbok
 - nom, nomming, nom nom
 
victor steinbok
 - steep learning curve
 
victor steinbok
 - Request about famous rejoinder: I shall be sober to-morrow, whereas you will remain the fool you are to-day. (1882) (Later examples by W. C. Fields and Winston Churchill)
 
victor steinbok
 - Follow-up on sluff - play hooky, slack off
 
victor steinbok
 - more taboo avoidance
 
victor steinbok
 - pearl-clutching
 
victor steinbok
 - lobster
 
victor steinbok
 - cursade for childern books
 
victor steinbok
 - more taboo avoidance
 
victor steinbok
 - Bachmann
 
victor steinbok
 - more taboo avoidance
 
victor steinbok
 - Throat singing
 
victor steinbok
 - More on substituting
 
victor steinbok
 - Tomming
 
victor steinbok
 - More on substituting
 
victor steinbok
 - Throat singing
 
victor steinbok
 - (fairly) new (but unlisted) "benefits"
 
victor steinbok
 - Throat singing
 
victor steinbok
 - (fairly) new (but unlisted) "benefits"
 
victor steinbok
 - Tsuyu (dipping broth, 1914)
 
victor steinbok
 - Concept of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
 
victor steinbok
 - treating ugly
 
victor steinbok
 - "Cock"
 
victor steinbok
 - Aphorism: Mode passes; style remains. (Coco Chanel 1965) Question about French version
 
victor steinbok
 - dead man's switch
 
victor steinbok
 - Aphorism: Mode passes; style remains. (Coco Chanel 1965) Question about French version
 
victor steinbok
 - Aphorism: Mode passes; style remains. (Coco Chanel 1965) Question about French version
 
victor steinbok
 - dead man's switch
 
victor steinbok
 - swear word
 
victor steinbok
 - dead man's switch
 
victor steinbok
 - hum bao and humbao (1990)
 
victor steinbok
 - OT: "Dirty" pictures referendum on W:pedia [NT]
 
victor steinbok
 - Google News Archive link is dead
 
victor steinbok
 - hum bao and humbao (1990)
 
victor steinbok
 - hum bao and humbao (1990)
 
victor steinbok
 - Dim sum =? savory snack
 
victor steinbok
 - Dim sum =? savory snack
 
victor steinbok
 - Reversed "avowal"
 
victor steinbok
 - swear word
 
victor steinbok
 - solitaire
 
victor steinbok
 - obscene vs. profane
 
victor steinbok
 - Freudian
 
victor steinbok
 - cookies and related stuff
 
victor steinbok
 - cookies and related stuff
 
victor steinbok
 - cookies and related stuff
 
victor steinbok
 - Freudian
 
victor steinbok
 - Freudian
 
victor steinbok
 - as ... than ...
 
victor steinbok
 - []'s
 
victor steinbok
 - down economy
 
victor steinbok
 - wafer
 
victor steinbok
 - Interesting phrasing
 
victor steinbok
 - "The dog ate my ..."
 
victor steinbok
 - danseuse [post-dating 1878 --> 1926]
 
victor steinbok
 - Season ticket
 
victor steinbok
 - a missing "fast"?
 
victor steinbok
 - danseuse [post-dating 1878 --> 1926] (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
victor steinbok
 - amateur of the day: anti-clockwise (and counter-clockwise)
 
victor steinbok
 - Heard on Springer: _strewn_ [stroUn]
 
victor steinbok
 - Heard on Springer: _strewn_ [stroUn]
 
victor steinbok
 - _-jacking_
 
victor steinbok
 - "What's this software? Like, 9 years old?"
 
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 - "critter"
 
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 - "What's this software? Like, 9 years old?"
 
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 - reversed "blame"
 
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 - Recency illusion: today's example
 
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 - An 1838 sighting of the "brass monkey" expression
 
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 - "critter"
 
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 - Dick, Tom and Harry
 
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 - "critter"
 
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 - transfer--quick observation
 
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 - "Uncle Tomming"
 
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 - open-ended hurricane headline
 
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 - choppergate
 
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 - batter (or shooes, or the sun) "half a quarter high"
 
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 - choppergate
 
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 - choppergate
 
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 - choppergate
 
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 - baby bump
 
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 - baby bump
 
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 - headline
 
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 - One happy language!
 
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