December 2011 Archives by thread
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- most retro WOTY?
Geoffrey Nunberg
- and with thy spirit
Brenda Lester
- brand = 'public image and reputation'
Jonathan Lighter
- N-word - def. not covered
Benjamin Barrett
- We're all Keynesians now -- ("Ich bin ein Berliner")
Dan Goncharoff
- "The Heart, She Holler"
Wilson Gray
- "biting money"
Michael Sheehan
- "major wow factor"; "Anandra"
Jonathan Lighter
- Siri is female
Tom Zurinskas
- fool
victor steinbok
- We're all Keynesians now -- (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- antedating gaiter, neck gaiter
victor steinbok
- Given names, division of maintaining tradition
Joel S. Berson
- Just heard on NPR
David Barnhart
- "Since you are _fluid_ in Unix lingo, =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=A6=22_?=[NT]
Wilson Gray
- loft, n.
victor steinbok
- Past tense of beat
Dan Nussbaum
- participial form of "copyright"
Charles C Doyle
- LEME - For word looker-uppers
Tom Zurinskas
- stereotypes
Victor Steinbok
- novel
Jonathan Lighter
- Quote: Americans are the only race which passed directly from barbarism to decadence without knowing civilization. (1932 July 16 Wash Post trans of La Liberte)
Garson O'Toole
- "hawk" v.3
Charles C Doyle
- "phat slush", 1872
Joel S. Berson
- Maxim of acting: Honesty ... fake that, I'll have it made (1962 April 6)
Garson O'Toole
- swag
Wilson Gray
- "dropping the pigeon", 1895
Joel S. Berson
- words for snow
victor steinbok
- squeezed middle
victor steinbok
- "hawk" v.3 - don't allow hock for hawk.
Tom Zurinskas
- "most well-known"
Jonathan Lighter
- biting money
Michael Sheehan
- Engineering amazing
Laurence Horn
- What's shakin', bacon?
Jonathan Lighter
- up the yin-yang
Benjamin Barrett
- dogfooding
Victor Steinbok
- Fun with phrases
Jonathan Lighter
- DERRICK -- A Note
Robin Hamilton
- "I don't like to upgrade Windows, _none the less_ downgrade it." [NT]
Wilson Gray
- OT: Standardized state exams for high-schoolers
Wilson Gray
- The years of UCal budget cuts are working!
Wilson Gray
- channel = 'to speak in imitation or emulation of'
Jonathan Lighter
- Famed Reagan quote
Jonathan Lighter
- Fwd: Notify NYC - Notification
Dan Goncharoff
- May be OT, but...
Wilson Gray
- Quote: Henry Ford the banking system and a revolution tomorrow
Ken Hirsch
- A minor mondagreen
Wilson Gray
- Youneverknow: "half-black"
Wilson Gray
- Terms used for/by African-Americans in the 19th century
George Thompson
- "grinding", an academic examination
George Thompson
- weary~wary
David Barnhart
- The years of UCal budget cuts are working! ("sign-up")
Brian Hitchcock
- more on early "jeeps"
Jonathan Lighter
- In re _re_
Wilson Gray
- 5,000 workers demand jargon ban
Jonathan Lighter
- "Camden, NJ, is going to …"
Wilson Gray
- _Pull_: "recruit"
Wilson Gray
- Dips, dipshits, dipsticks, dipwads, diphthongs
Neal Whitman
- Dips, dipshits, dipsticks, dipwads, diphthongs
Geoffrey Nunberg
- Dips, dipshits, dipsticks, dipwads, diphthongs
Jonathan Lighter
- Dips, dipshits, dipsticks, dipwads, diphthongs
Neal Whitman
- Dips, dipshits, dipsticks, dipwads, diphthongs
Jonathan Lighter
- externalized inflection
Arnold Zwicky
- re "foodie"
Laurence Horn
- split serial PPs
Victor Steinbok
- Wine
Benjamin Barrett
- Wine
Ron butters
- Wine
Benjamin Barrett
- Wine
Victor Steinbok
- Wine
Benjamin Barrett
- Wine
David A. Daniel
- Wine
Victor Steinbok
- Wine
David A. Daniel
- Wine
Victor Steinbok
- Wine
Joel S. Berson
- Wine
David A. Daniel
- Wine
Victor Steinbok
- Wine
David A. Daniel
- so = 'absolutely; utterly; such'
Jonathan Lighter
- Gourmet, attributive and predicative adjective (was Re: re "foodie")
Neal Whitman
- Anecdote with punchline: Now we're just haggling over the price
Garson O'Toole
- taste in TV commercials
Jonathan Lighter
- taste in TV commercials - unurine
Tom Zurinskas
- Gourmet, attributive and predicative adjective
Joel S. Berson
- Heard on The Daily Show:
Wilson Gray
- Jerkwater Town
Evan Morris
- Linguistic Villain Charged with "Brain Control": Vowels!
Michael McKernan
- Bomb, Comb, Womb, Tomb
Martin Kaminer
- Retarded - good
Benjamin Barrett
- _hep_ vs. _hip_, trivially revisited
Wilson Gray
- " 'Vocal Fry' Creeping into U.S. Speech"
Wilson Gray
- jerk-water antedated to 1865
Stephen Goranson
- old prophesy fulfilled
Jonathan Lighter
- Problem with access to quotations in Oxford Reference Online
Garson O'Toole
- happy-pants; gangsta
Jonathan Lighter
- Commandery
Benjamin Barrett
- a nightmare for Tom Zurinskas
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- jerk-water antedated to 1865 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Throne
Benjamin Barrett
- Quip: Spent a week in Philadelphia one day
Garson O'Toole
- "suck the oxygen out"
Jonathan Lighter
- Heard on Springer: _whore_ > "dog"; woman addressed as "man"
Wilson Gray
- SECOL Deadline Extended
Cramer, Jennifer S
- nitty-gritty
Jonathan Lighter
- antedating misdirection (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- " … a hunter followin an invisible _dear_ … =?UTF-8?Q?=22_?=[NT]
Wilson Gray
- "Sorry about your luck!"
Jonathan Lighter
- monkey butt
Victor Steinbok
- phonetic profiling
Tom Zurinskas
- porcelain throne
Garson O'Toole
- jargon
Victor Steinbok
- Kefir
Benjamin Barrett
- Quote: Henry Ford the banking system and a revolution tomorrow (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Dialects from spelling
Tom Zurinskas
- the Z-word
Victor Steinbok
- "_GET "GOING"_ IN MULTIPLE MODES OF MONOPOLY PLAY!"
Wilson Gray
- kosher
Tom Zurinskas
- Dover Publications website and possibly apocryphal Mark Twain quote
Garson O'Toole
- chin strap
Benjamin Barrett
- "Billy Boy," again
Wilson Gray
- payfor
Victor Steinbok
- Change in Google Books searching?
Joel S. Berson
- franking
Victor Steinbok
- ADS WOTY on NPR
Ben Zimmer
- tempeh - antedating (1931)
Benjamin Barrett
- Searching the Unz database
Garson O'Toole
- urban
Victor Steinbok
- sweater
Victor Steinbok
- A couple of WOTYs
David Barnhart
- Further Antedating of "Smog"
Shapiro, Fred
- bad puns on ESPN
victor steinbok
- Automatic reply: ADS-L Digest - 16 Dec 2011 to 17 Dec 2011 (#2011-352)
Andrea Menz
- Slate Podcast - Is the Print Dictionary Doomed?
Garson O'Toole
- Wizard of Oz and the dictionary
Victor Steinbok
- _apricot, caramel_
Wilson Gray
- _apricot, caramel_
Benjamin Barrett
- _apricot, caramel_
Dan Goncharoff
- _apricot, caramel_
Paul Johnston
- _apricot, caramel_
V
- _apricot, caramel_
Laurence Horn
- _apricot, caramel_
Laurence Horn
- _apricot, caramel_
Herb Stahlke
- _apricot, caramel_
Douglas G. Wilson
- _apricot, caramel_
John Fitzpatrick
- _apricot, caramel_
Wilson Gray
- Neti pot
Benjamin Barrett
- "success in life .. a quarter hour before my time"
Joel S. Berson
- English pronunciation exercises
Joel S. Berson
- Vocal Fry
Jerry E Kane
- _caramel_
Joel S. Berson
- history of NYC settlement
Michael Newman
- "Femoral artery access site"
Joel S. Berson
- "the most clutch" (adjectival phrase)
Joel S. Berson
- Call for submissions for 2012 Hogg Prize
Grant Barrett
- Wizard of Oz and the dictionary (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Vocal Fry (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- crumble/crumple
Victor Steinbok
- 30 words for octopus love
Victor Steinbok
- maturely scribed
Dan Nussbaum
- Pegging days of the week to the work week
Benjamin Barrett
- Montreal Canadiens' hire of non-French-speaking Randy Cunneyworth irks Quebec official - ESPN
Victor Steinbok
- Tally - update
Benjamin Barrett
- Modern Sense of "Stalk," v.
Shapiro, Fred
- "coincidental": another reversal?
Laurence Horn
- _sleighbell_ > _jinglebell_
Wilson Gray
- Are words being tweeted out of existence?
Jerry E Kane
- More for the "bro-" files: "brony"
Neal Whitman
- Another one bites the dust
Wilson Gray
- Juche - 1953?
Benjamin Barrett
- "provenance" as a verb
Charles C Doyle
- "=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=A6_?=pass as Germans, _fore_ a while."
Wilson Gray
- 'We _are_ the CatholIc Church!" [NT]
Wilson Gray
- bracketology, braces, etc.
Victor Steinbok
- Henna - update
Benjamin Barrett
- Human flora
Benjamin Barrett
- Automatic reply: ADS-L Digest - 20 Dec 2011 to 21 Dec 2011 (#2011-356)
Katy Steinmetz
- flip-flop-flip
Victor Steinbok
- online "libraries"
Ronald Butters
- firm believer that
Neal Whitman
- _STRAC_ "gung-ho, 'GI,' 'SOP,' soldierly, in a military manner," etc.
Wilson Gray
- _STRAC_ "gung-ho, 'GI,' 'SOP,' soldierly, in a military manner," etc.
Darla Wells
- _STRAC_ "gung-ho, 'GI,' 'SOP,' soldierly, in a military manner," etc.
Dave Wilton
- _STRAC_ "gung-ho, 'GI,' 'SOP,' soldierly, in a military manner," etc.
Wilson Gray
- BOGO
Victor Steinbok
- tick-tock again
Victor Steinbok
- if you remember Perry's "ugly"...
Victor Steinbok
- euphemisms
Victor Steinbok
- little man syndrome, etc.
Benjamin Barrett
- church bloopers
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- _STRAC_ "gung-ho, 'GI,' 'SOP,' soldierly, in a military manner
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Strac[k]
W Brewer
- Fwd: alphabet games using letter tiles
Joel S. Berson
- to collapse under rubble?
Joel S. Berson
- alphabet games using letter tiles
Laurence Horn
- Misspellings in the 'Pedia
Wilson Gray
- blend (+ reclamation) of the season: "Heebster"
Laurence Horn
- _STRAC_ "gung-ho, 'GI,' 'SOP,' soldierly, in a military manner,"
John Fitzpatrick
- to ootz?
Joel S. Berson
- logistics
Victor Steinbok
- Fwd: to ootz?
Benjamin Barrett
- to ootz? (& not in the OED)
Joel S. Berson
- There is a term for giving groups of animal names.
Dan Nussbaum
- "movement" in GoogleBooks suit
Victor Steinbok
- Ron Paul
Victor Steinbok
- Fwd: Medical Indexing/News of the Weird
Joel S. Berson
- More viral nonsense
Victor Steinbok
- _Dago_
Wilson Gray
- Jesse Sheidlower on NPR for swag
Benjamin Barrett
- daylight - verb, daylighted - adj
Benjamin Barrett
- "movement" in GoogleBooks suit (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- antedating of "fundamentalism"
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Heard on Springer: _[NEG] try_ "[NEG] intend"
Wilson Gray
- fascism, racism, and Celtic crosses (was: Jesse Sheidlower on NPR for swag)
Laurence Horn
- _haystacking_, _haystack_, v. (not in dictionaries)
Laurence Horn
- First Things last (more words for snow)
Victor Steinbok
- tare - verb
Benjamin Barrett
- " … the powers-to-be of the Republican party … =?UTF-8?Q?=22_?=[NT]
Wilson Gray
- Heard on TV:_sperm-blossom_ "baby, child" etc.; "ejaculate, wad of semen," etc.
Wilson Gray
- conditional Inuit
Victor Steinbok
- tret [was: tare]
Joel S. Berson
- antedating: toddlerhood
David Barnhart
- further antedating of toddlerhood
David Barnhart
- tare (verb and adj.), tarer -- antedatings?
Joel S. Berson
- Antedating of "Homophobia"
Shapiro, Fred
- lazydazical--eggcorn?
Victor Steinbok
- earlier Boom!
Victor Steinbok
- Tricorder and tricord
Benjamin Barrett
- "Got your back"?
Tom Zurinskas
- Horatio Alger as a verb? [was: earlier Boom!]
Joel S. Berson
- Tric[h]ord
Joel S. Berson
- Fwd: "Got your back"? [from Jerry Cohen]
Laurence Horn
- "Watch" [Was: "Got"] your back"
Joel S. Berson
- "Got your back"? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- choreography (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "The Year Ahead - Technology _Predications_ for 2012 [NT]
Wilson Gray
- corrections
Victor Steinbok
- Milks - update
Benjamin Barrett
- "A cane know erupted"
Joel S. Berson
- "Graphic novel: genesi di una parola" [NT]
Wilson Gray
- weigh out (was: tare - verb)
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- FW: What do you call a person in Texas from...? [Message from Barry Popik]
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- lackadaisical -- affixal gags
Geoffrey Nunberg
- Don't be a "curater"
Tom Zurinskas
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