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- Youneverknow.
Wilson Gray
- Youneverknow.
Victor Steinbok
- "The poor guy was _pumped with four bullets_."
Wilson Gray
- Youneverknow.
Wilson Gray
- Youneverknow.
Tom Zurinskas
- Correction of "Caesarean Section" in OED?
Shapiro, Fred
- get had
Victor Steinbok
- Macquarie WOTY 2010 nominees
Ben Zimmer
- pudding
Victor Steinbok
- herring
Victor Steinbok
- herring
Robin Hamilton
- Red herring
Michael Quinion
- herring
Joel S. Berson
- herring
Michael Quinion
- "The poor guy was _pumped with four bullets_."
Seán Fitzpatrick
- "gangrene-like", "freeting", not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- herring
Wilson Gray
- Macquarie WOTY 2010 nominees
Tom Zurinskas
- Semantic shift of _knock yourself out_?
Wilson Gray
- pudding
Wilson Gray
- Correction of "Caesarean Section" in OED?
Wilson Gray
- Semantic shift of _knock yourself out_? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- No subject
Ronald Butters
- digital newspaper archive (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- digital newspaper archive
Joel S. Berson
- No subject
Lisa Galvin
- herring
Amy West
- herring
Seán Fitzpatrick
- Washington Post Style (Stale) Invitational and neologisms
Garson O'Toole
- Washington Post Style (Stale) Invitational and neologisms
Victor Steinbok
- "... test them on an _empty_ playing field." [NT}
Wilson Gray
- Semantic shift of _knock yourself out_? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Wilson Gray
- Semantic shift of _knock yourself out_? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Ronald Butters
- YouTube: "How To _Hand-Bone_"
Wilson Gray
- YouTube: "How To _Hand-Bone_"
George Thompson
- YouTube: "How To _Hand-Bone_"
Wilson Gray
- YouTube: "How To _Hand-Bone_"
Laurence Horn
- Days of Rage
Jonathan Lighter
- UKer
Jonathan Lighter
- Proverb: omlets are not made without breaking eggs (antedating 1796 May)
Garson O'Toole
- Proverb: omlets are not made without breaking eggs (antedating 1796 May)
Jesse Sheidlower
- Proverb: omlets are not made without breaking eggs (antedating 1796 May)
Charles C Doyle
- Proverb: omlets are not made without breaking eggs (antedating 1796 May)
Stephen Goranson
- Proverb: omlets are not made without breaking eggs (antedating 1796 May)
victor steinbok
- Proverb: omlets are not made without breaking eggs (antedating 1796 May)
Ken Hirsch
- Proverb: omlets are not made without breaking eggs (antedating 1796 May)
Garson O'Toole
- Proverb: omlets are not made without breaking eggs (antedating 1796 May)
Ken Hirsch
- Proverb: omlets are not made without breaking eggs (antedating 1796 May)
Jonathan Lighter
- Proverb: omlets are not made without breaking eggs (antedating 1796 May)
victor steinbok
- Proverb: omlets are not made without breaking eggs (antedating 1796 May)
victor steinbok
- UKer
Joel S. Berson
- Proverb: omlets are not made without breaking eggs (antedating 1796 May)
Laurence Horn
- query on origin of snowclone
Laurence Horn
- UKer
Herb Stahlke
- "lender/borrower" goes the way of "ancestor/descendant"?
Herb Stahlke
- UKer
Laurence Horn
- "lender/borrower" goes the way of "ancestor/descendant"?
Wilson Gray
- FIFA thinks snoods could be a danger to players' necks
Victor Steinbok
- Proverb: omlets are not made without breaking eggs (antedating 1796 May)
Paul Frank
- rugged
Jonathan Lighter
- rugged
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Proverb and "n éceflàires"
Joel S. Berson
- rugged
Wilson Gray
- rugged
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Proverb: omlets are not made without breaking eggs (antedating 1796 May)
Garson O'Toole
- rugged
Paul Frank
- radio
Victor Steinbok
- tea nonparty - RE: radio
Tom Zurinskas
- UKer
Damien Hall
- FIFA thinks snoods could be a danger to players' necks
Damien Hall
- franchise
Jonathan Lighter
- rugged
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- subversive, adj.
Jonathan Lighter
- radio
Laurence Horn
- FIFA thinks snoods could be a danger to players' necks
Neal Whitman
- stakeholder = 'a party with any sort of interest whatsoever'
Jonathan Lighter
- radio
Neal Whitman
- rugged
Laurence Horn
- radio
Jonathan Lighter
- radio
Laurence Horn
- rugged
Jonathan Lighter
- swamp yankee
Jonathan Lighter
- radio
Victor Steinbok
- swamp yankee
Paul Johnston
- stakeholder = 'a party with any sort of interest whatsoever'
David A. Daniel
- rugged
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- rugged
Joel S. Berson
- radio
Joel S. Berson
- tea nonparty - RE: radio
Joel S. Berson
- radio
Joel S. Berson
- swamp yankee
Joel S. Berson
- stakeholder = 'a party with any sort of interest whatsoever'
Joel S. Berson
- rugged
Paul Frank
- rugged
Laurence Horn
- green weenie
Clai Rice
- UKer
Robin Hamilton
- FIFA thinks snoods could be a danger to players' necks
Damien Hall
- swamp yankee
Eric Nielsen
- franchise
Jonathan Lighter
- franchise
Dan Goncharoff
- that needs painted
Michael Sheehan
- that needs painted
Ann Burlingham
- that needs painted
Gordon, Matthew J.
- bogus ety of "Canuck"
Jonathan Lighter
- that needs painted
Paul Johnston
- franchise
Garson O'Toole
- Motto: The customer is always right (antedating 1905 October 11 attrib Marshall Field)
Garson O'Toole
- research?
Ronald Butters
- UKer
Lynne Murphy
- that needs painted
Wilson Gray
- rugged
Ronald Butters
- Motto: The customer is always right (antedating 1905 October 11 attrib Marshall Field)
Wilson Gray
- swamp yankee
Wilson Gray
- that needs painted
Laurence Horn
- franchise
Jonathan Lighter
- green weenie
Wilson Gray
- that needs painted
Wilson Gray
- green weenie
Jonathan Lighter
- FIFA thinks snoods could be a danger to players' necks
Wilson Gray
- green weenie
Wilson Gray
- FIFA thinks snoods could be a danger to players' necks
James Harbeck
- rugged
Joel S. Berson
- that needs painted
Laurence Horn
- research?
Tom Zurinskas
- FIFA thinks snoods could be a danger to players' necks
Victor Steinbok
- Hello, my dear!
Wilson Gray
- that needs painted
Herb Stahlke
- that needs painted
Herb Stahlke
- rugged
Paul Frank
- FIFA thinks snoods could be a danger to players' necks
Damien Hall
- mononymous
Jonathan Lighter
- rugged
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- snirt - mergeword - snow and dirt
Tom Zurinskas
- that needs painted
Laurence Horn
- FIFA thinks snoods could be a danger to players' necks
Joel S. Berson
- FIFA thinks snoods could be a danger to players' necks
Tom Zurinskas
- mononymous
Joel S. Berson
- mongrels
Laurence Horn
- green weenie
Jonathan Lighter
- green weenie
Laurence Horn
- Heard on local TV: _Arctic_
Wilson Gray
- stakeholder = 'a party with any sort of interest whatsoever' (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- stakeholder = 'a party with any sort of interest whatsoever' (UNCLASSIFIED)
Victor Steinbok
- "Obamism"
Victor Steinbok
- "Obamism"
Ben Zimmer
- stakeholder = 'a party with any sort of interest whatsoever'
David A. Daniel
- stakeholder = 'a party with any sort of interest whatsoever' (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Self-identifying as British (was: UKer)
Damien Hall
- stakeholder = 'a party with any sort of interest whatsoever' (UNCLASSIFIED)
Jonathan Lighter
- "Obamism"
Victor Steinbok
- stakeholder = 'a party with any sort of interest whatsoever' (UNCLASSIFIED)
Tom Zurinskas
- stakeholder = 'a party with any sort of interest whatsoever' (UNCLASSIFIED)
Victor Steinbok
- awe-dropping at upodn.com
Tom Zurinskas
- stakeholder = 'a party with any sort of interest whatsoever'
David A. Daniel
- Self-identifying as British (was: UKer)
Robin Hamilton
- stakeholder = 'a party with any sort of interest whatsoever'
Victor Steinbok
- Self-identifying as British (was: UKer)
Joel S. Berson
- Self-identifying as British (was: UKer)
Paul Johnston
- "Where the camel lost _its'_ hump" [NT]
Paul
- "Where the camel lost _its'_ hump" [NT]
Joel S. Berson
- "Obamism"
Wilson Gray
- that needs painted
Wilson Gray
- patty: a bit of linguistic bureaucratic procrusteanism
James Harbeck
- "Obamism"
Victor Steinbok
- stakeholder = 'a party with any sort of interest whatsoever' (UNCLASSIFIED)
Paul Frank
- stakeholder = 'a party with any sort of interest whatsoever'
Michael Quinion
- stakeholder = 'a party with any sort of interest whatsoever' (UNCLASSIFIED)
Jonathan Lighter
- stakeholder = 'a party with any sort of interest whatsoever'
Joel S. Berson
- Interpreting a sentence
Joel S. Berson
- sonnet = 'any short poem'
Jonathan Lighter
- stakeholder = 'a party with any sort of interest whatsoever'
Jonathan Lighter
- Interpreting a sentence
Jonathan Lighter
- Interpreting a sentence
George Thompson
- Interpreting a sentence
Jonathan Lighter
- Interpreting a sentence
Victor Steinbok
- franchise
Jesse Sheidlower
- Interpreting a sentence
Joel S. Berson
- "down to"?
Joel S. Berson
- franchise
Dan Goncharoff
- franchise
Victor Steinbok
- "down to"?
Jonathan Lighter
- franchise
Jonathan Lighter
- "down to"?
Joel S. Berson
- franchise
Jonathan Lighter
- Semantic shift in progress?
Wilson Gray
- Self-identifying as British (was: UKer)
Lynne Murphy
- Semantic shift in progress?
Gordon, Matthew J.
- Self-identifying as British (was: UKer)
Joel S. Berson
- oversouling
James Harbeck
- sonnet = 'any short poem'
Wilson Gray
- oversouling
Wilson Gray
- Semantic shift in progress?
Wilson Gray
- Self-identifying as British (was: UKer)
Robin Hamilton
- "down to"?
Tom Zurinskas
- oversouling
Tom Zurinskas
- oversouling
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- oversouling
Laurence Horn
- sonnet = 'any short poem'
Victor Steinbok
- Heard on Springer
Wilson Gray
- whole nine yards
Stephen Goranson
- Interpreting a sentence
Rebecca Shapiro
- ostension
Jonathan Lighter
- Heard on Springer
Amy West
- ostension
Laurence Horn
- oversouling
Joel S. Berson
- whole nine yards (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- whole nine yards (UNCLASSIFIED)
Shapiro, Fred
- OT: Heard on "Jerry"
Wilson Gray
- verb form
Michael Sheehan
- Heard on "Jerry": "VP (PREP) _me/you/him_ NP"
Wilson Gray
- Quotable quotes from Steve Jobs
Wilson Gray
- verb form
Wilson Gray
- verb form
Herb Stahlke
- whole nine yards
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- FIFA thinks snoods could be a danger to players' necks
James Harbeck
- Fwd: "plugged, adj." - Word of the Day from the OED
Victor Steinbok
- whole nine yards (UNCLASSIFIED)
Stephen Goranson
- Heard on "Jerry": "VP (PREP) _me/you/him_ NP"
Margaret Lee
- Inpidual (was Quotable quotes from Steve Jobs)
David A. Daniel
- Murphy's Law
Stephen Goranson
- verb form
Seán Fitzpatrick
- Heard on "Jerry": "VP (PREP) _me/you/him_ NP"
Amy West
- Heard on "Jerry": "VP (PREP) _me/you/him_ NP"
William Salmon
- whole nine yards (UNCLASSIFIED)
Victor Steinbok
- Inpidual (was Quotable quotes from Steve Jobs)
Wilson Gray
- seen on CNN view of Tahrir Square
David Barnhart
- Inpidual (was Quotable quotes from Steve Jobs)
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Heard on "Jerry": "VP (PREP) _me/you/him_ NP"
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Heard on "Jerry": "VP (PREP) _me/you/him_ NP"
Wilson Gray
- Inpidual (was Quotable quotes from Steve Jobs)
David A. Daniel
- "Cock"
Wilson Gray
- WRT IIRC
Wilson Gray
- "Cock"
Laurence Horn
- "Cock"
Jonathan Lighter
- OT: See there? It ain't just none of us!
Wilson Gray
- ostension
Wilson Gray
- "Cock"
Wilson Gray
- ostension
Jonathan Lighter
- "Cock"
Jonathan Lighter
- "Cock"
Wilson Gray
- "Cock"
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- "Cock"
Laurence Horn
- "Cock"
Laurence Horn
- "Cock"
Jonathan Lighter
- "Cock"
Jonathan Lighter
- "Cock"
Laurence Horn
- Quote: a cigar is sometimes just a cigar (probably 1950 attrib Sigmund Freud, also 1954)
Garson O'Toole
- "Cock"
Amy West
- "Cock"
Joel S. Berson
- "Cock"
Jonathan Lighter
- Bring vs. Take
George Thompson
- Heard on "Jerry": "VP (PREP) _me/you/him_ NP"
Seán Fitzpatrick
- pathic
Paul Frank
- Green's Dict. of Slang in TLS, Feb. 4
George Thompson
- pathic
David A. Daniel
- Bring vs. Take
Paul Frank
- Bring vs. Take
David A. Daniel
- pathic
Ronald Butters
- Bring vs. Take
Laurence Horn
- pathic
Laurence Horn
- Bring vs. Take
David A. Daniel
- pathic
Ronald Butters
- Bring vs. Take
Ronald Butters
- Bring vs. Take
Laurence Horn
- Bring vs. Take
Wilson Gray
- "Jambalaya!"
Wilson Gray
- "Cock"
Wilson Gray
- Bring vs. Take
Neal Whitman
- OT: Well, that's settled.
Wilson Gray
- Bring vs. Take
George Thompson
- Well, that's settled.
Charles C Doyle
- OT: Well, that's settled.
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Bring vs. Take
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- "Cock"
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- From Iranian news agencies
Victor Steinbok
- come-at-ables
George Thompson
- From Iranian news agencies
Victor Steinbok
- "Jambalaya!"
Laurence Horn
- OT: Well, that's settled.
Laurence Horn
- Soap operas bring linguistic democracy to South Africa - CSMonitor.com
Victor Steinbok
- Bring vs. Take
Joel S. Berson
- bring vs. take
Rebecca Shapiro
- OT: Well, that's settled.
Wilson Gray
- Bring vs. Take
Eric Nielsen
- Bring vs. Take
Paul Johnston
- OED error
Victor Steinbok
- animals and non-animals
Victor Steinbok
- Bring vs. Take
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- animals and non-animals
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- bring vs. take
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- animals and non-animals
Charles C Doyle
- bring vs. take
David A. Daniel
- animals and non-animals
Herb Stahlke
- animals and non-animals
Victor Steinbok
- animals and non-animals
Wilson Gray
- "Love bug"
Wilson Gray
- animals and non-animals
Joel S. Berson
- animals and non-animals
Joel S. Berson
- animals and non-animals
Wilson Gray
- "Love bug"
Garson O'Toole
- "The _sneak-pick_ that we had... " WTF?!!! [NT]
Wilson Gray
- Fwd: "plugged, adj." - Word of the Day from the OED
Victor Steinbok
- bring vs. take
Ronald Butters
- bring vs. take
David A. Daniel
- animals and non-animals
Joel S. Berson
- Fwd: "plugged, adj." - Word of the Day from the OED
Joel S. Berson
- Fwd: "plugged, adj." - Word of the Day from the OED
Joel S. Berson
- abhuman
Jonathan Lighter
- abhuman
Joel S. Berson
- BE "Your ass!" = WE "Up yours!" < "[Fxck you] Up your ass!"?
Wilson Gray
- abhuman
Robin Hamilton
- Fwd: "plugged, adj." - Word of the Day from the OED
Victor Steinbok
- "plugged, adj." - Word of the Day from the OED
Wilson Gray
- abhuman
Victor Steinbok
- Fwd: "plugged, adj." - Word of the Day from the OED
Baker, John
- "The _sum total_ of the world's knowledge: 250 exabytes"
Wilson Gray
- Fwd: "plugged, adj." - Word of the Day from the OED
Wilson Gray
- BE "Your ass!" = WE "Up yours!" < "[Fxck you] Up your ass!"?
Victor Steinbok
- Fwd: "plugged, adj." - Word of the Day from the OED
Baker, John
- BE "Your ass!" = WE "Up yours!" < "[Fxck you] Up your ass!"?
Wilson Gray
- "Love bug"
Darla Wells
- asymptote, v.
Ben Zimmer
- asymptote, v.
Ben Zimmer
- BE "Your ass!" = WE "Up yours!" < "[Fxck you] Up your ass!"?
Victor Steinbok
- OT: Well, that's settled.
Laurence Horn
- OT: Well, that's settled.
Garson O'Toole
- "The _sum total_ of the world's knowledge: 250 exabytes"
Ronald Butters
- "Love bug"
Ronald Butters
- "The _sum total_ of the world's knowledge: 250 exabytes"
Laurence Horn
- "foodomics" and other omics
Laurence Horn
- "foodomics" and other omics
Ben Zimmer
- antedating "pataphysics"
Jonathan Lighter
- "The _sum total_ of the world's knowledge: 250 exabytes"
Ronald Butters
- Antedating of "Ambulance Chaser"
Shapiro, Fred
- "foodomics" and other omics
Ronald Butters
- "The _sum total_ of the world's knowledge: 250 exabytes"
Laurence Horn
- Antedating of "Ambulance Chaser"
Laurence Horn
- of coins -- "plugged", adj., 1773; "plug", verb, 1785 & 1789; "sweated" 1797
Joel S. Berson
- Antedating of "Ambulance Chaser" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- of coins -- "plugged", adj., 1773; "plug", verb, 1785 & 1789; "sweated" 1797
Victor Steinbok
- Of coins -- 1748 sweating; 1773: sweater; 1797: sweated, to sweat, plugger, plugged
Joel S. Berson
- "flying ambulance", 1814; "flying hospital, 1712
Joel S. Berson
- Sarah and the known unknowns she knows, including Donald
Joel S. Berson
- similar, prep.
Jonathan Lighter
- Ambiguous headline . . .
Charles C Doyle
- "My _soul_ purpose... "
Wilson Gray
- "My _soul_ purpose... "
Laurence Horn
- Of coins -- plugged (adj) & plug (berb)
Joel S. Berson
- Of coins -- "plug", verb: 1837; also its dual meaning
Joel S. Berson
- Call for Papers: American Dialect Society, Midwest Region, Nov. 3-6, 2001, St. Louis
Grant Barrett
- "I have put it to _its_ test with good results."
Wilson Gray
- "skeuomorphs" in the 21st century
Joel S. Berson
- "_sum total_"
geoffrey nunberg
- "I've a 24" 2.4Ghz iMac _that's_ hard drive recently packed in."
Wilson Gray
- "I've a 24" 2.4Ghz iMac _that's_ hard drive recently packed in."
Laurence Horn
- "I've a 24" 2.4Ghz iMac _that's_ hard drive recently packed in."
Dan Goncharoff
- "_sum total_"
Wilson Gray
- "I've a 24" 2.4Ghz iMac _that's_ hard drive recently packed in."
Wilson Gray
- "I've a 24" 2.4Ghz iMac _that's_ hard drive recently packed in."
Jonathan Lighter
- "I've a 24" 2.4Ghz iMac _that's_ hard drive recently packed in."
Joel S. Berson
- "_sum total_"
geoffrey nunberg
- "_sum total_"
Neal Whitman
- "I've a 24" 2.4Ghz iMac _that's_ hard drive recently packed in."
Charles C Doyle
- "I've a 24" 2.4Ghz iMac _that's_ hard drive recently packed in."
Jonathan Lighter
- "I've a 24" 2.4Ghz iMac _that's_ hard drive recently packed in."
Laurence Horn
- "I've a 24" 2.4Ghz iMac _that's_ hard drive recently packed in."
Jonathan Lighter
- contradicted
Victor Steinbok
- meranghy
Victor Steinbok
- meranghy
Laurence Horn
- meranghy
William Palmer
- Strange use of "baby daddy"
Wilson Gray
- "The _sum total_ of the world's knowledge: 250 exabytes"
Wilson Gray
- Antedating of Gin and Tonic
Baker, John
- meranghy
Wilson Gray
- "_sum total_"
Geoffrey Nunberg
- sunseeds
Victor Steinbok
- Strange use of "baby daddy"
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- sunseeds
Charles C Doyle
- Strange use of "baby daddy"
Laurence Horn
- meranghy
Joel S. Berson
- "There _are_ individuals and businesses _earning gain_ in the secondary market as well as in the primary market."
Wilson Gray
- Strange use of "baby daddy"
Wilson Gray
- "There _are_ individuals and businesses _earning gain_ in the secondary market as well as in the primary market."
Dan Goncharoff
- "I've a 24" 2.4Ghz iMac _that's_ hard drive recently packed in."
Seán Fitzpatrick
- "I've a 24" 2.4Ghz iMac _that's_ hard drive recently packed in."
Dan Goncharoff
- "I've a 24" 2.4Ghz iMac _that's_ hard drive recently packed in."
Laurence Horn
- "I've a 24" 2.4Ghz iMac _that's_ hard drive recently packed in."
Robin Hamilton
- "_sum total_"
Dan Goncharoff
- "There _are_ individuals and businesses _earning gain_ in the secondary market as well as in the primary market."
Wilson Gray
- whole nine yards
Joel S. Berson
- Auto-corrected text leads to killing
Victor Steinbok
- Strange use of "baby daddy"
Margaret Lee
- Barry, the Yale News, and Hamburgers
Victor Steinbok
- whole nine yards
Stephen Goranson
- whole nine yards
Joel S. Berson
- Strange use of "baby daddy"
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Strange use of "baby daddy"
Victor Steinbok
- Strange use of "baby daddy"
Randy Alexander
- "Unbanked"
Martin Kaminer
- "Unbanked"
Dan Goncharoff
- "Unbanked"
Laurence Horn
- Barry, the Yale News, and Hamburgers
Laurence Horn
- Strange use of "baby daddy"
Charles C Doyle
- kitchen cabinet
Victor Steinbok
- Strange use of "baby daddy"
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Heard on The Judges: _for a minute_ = "over a long period of time," etc.
Wilson Gray
- Heard on The Judges: _for a minute_ = "over a long period of time," etc.
Laurence Horn
- Strange use of "baby daddy"
Laurence Horn
- Strange use of "baby daddy"
Wilson Gray
- Strange use of "baby daddy"
Wilson Gray
- Heard on The Judges: _for a minute_ = "over a long period of time," etc.
Wilson Gray
- Heard on The Judges: _for a minute_ = "over a long period of time," etc.
Robin Hamilton
- baby daddy
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- baby daddy
Victor Steinbok
- "Clunker" not in OED?
Joel S. Berson
- "Clunker" not in OED?
Shapiro, Fred
- "Clunker" not in OED?
Shapiro, Fred
- "Clunker" not in OED?
Ben Zimmer
- "Clunker" not in OED?
Joel S. Berson
- "Clunker" not in OED?
Garson O'Toole
- "Clunker" not in OED?
Joel S. Berson
- "Clunker" not in OED?
Garson O'Toole
- baby daddy
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- cabinet
Victor Steinbok
- "Clunker" not in OED?
Sarah
- "Clunker" not in OED?
Sam Clements
- "I've a 24" 2.4Ghz iMac _that's_ hard drive recently packed in."
Mark Mandel
- "I've a 24" 2.4Ghz iMac _that's_ hard drive recently packed in."
Dan Goncharoff
- "Clunker" not in OED?
Joel S. Berson
- "Clunker" not in OED?
Garson O'Toole
- _Fag_ = "a horse for easy riding" or some such?
Wilson Gray
- baby daddy
Wilson Gray
- lolcat bible
James Harbeck
- knock down argument (1681)
Garson O'Toole
- "Thanks! I Needed That!"
Laurence Horn
- " 'Beaver' Cleaver"
Wilson Gray
- "Clunker" not in OED?
Joel S. Berson
- "I've a 24" 2.4Ghz iMac _that's_ hard drive recently packed in."
Laurence Horn
- knock down argument (1681)
Wilson Gray
- _Fag_ = "a horse for easy riding" or some such?
Joel S. Berson
- "I've a 24" 2.4Ghz iMac _that's_ hard drive recently packed in."
Dan Goncharoff
- zzz?
James Harbeck
- "I've a 24" 2.4Ghz iMac _that's_ hard drive recently packed in."
Laurence Horn
- "Thanks! I Needed That!"
Wilson Gray
- _Fag_ = "a horse for easy riding" or some such?
Wilson Gray
- zzz?
Wilson Gray
- "I've a 24" 2.4Ghz iMac _that's_ hard drive recently packed in."
Dan Goncharoff
- Murphy's Law
Stephen Goranson
- correction RE: Murphy's Law
Stephen Goranson
- "Recess Appointment" Not in OED
Shapiro, Fred
- Major Antedating of "Racism"
Shapiro, Fred
- lolcat bible
Tom Zurinskas
- _Fag_ = "a horse for easy riding" or some such?
Sarah
- Antedating of "Nazism"
Shapiro, Fred
- Another Earliest Citation for "Real McCoy"
Shapiro, Fred
- the "new normal"
Laurence Horn
- "plunging bath" and "shower(ing) bath" 1792; antedate 1794 and 1803
Joel S. Berson
- _Fag_ = "a horse for easy riding" or some such?
Dan Goncharoff
- plugging teeth, 1796
Joel S. Berson
- _Fag_ = "a horse for easy riding" or some such?
Joel S. Berson
- the "new normal"
Ben Zimmer
- Feline Lap Dogs
Victor Steinbok
- junto [interdating]
Victor Steinbok
- zzz?
Garson O'Toole
- "Clunker" not in OED?
Garson O'Toole
- genocide
Jonathan Lighter
- zzz?
Jonathan Lighter
- vise
Charles C Doyle
- bodily
Victor Steinbok
- genocide
Victor Steinbok
- genocide
Jonathan Lighter
- vise
Laurence Horn
- bodily
Wilson Gray
- genocide
Victor Steinbok
- genocide
Victor Steinbok
- zzz?
James Harbeck
- bodily
Victor Steinbok
- "Let's give _us_ a big hello to Peter and Brian!" [NT]
Wilson Gray
- bodily
Wilson Gray
- genocide
Wilson Gray
- genocide
Victor Steinbok
- genocide
Wilson Gray
- "And last but not _lease_ ..."
Wilson Gray
- "Can't be arsed"
Damien Hall
- genocide
Dave Wilton
- "The Great Recession"
Tom Zurinskas
- genocide
Jonathan Lighter
- genocide
Dan Goncharoff
- genocide
Jonathan Lighter
- genocide
Joel S. Berson
- genocide
Dan Goncharoff
- zzz? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- lolcat bible (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "rattle" = have sexual intercourse with, 2001
Joel S. Berson
- Cooler and Cold Deck (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "rattle" = have sexual intercourse with, 2001
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- zzz? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Dan Goncharoff
- zzz? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Ben Zimmer
- "And last but not _lease_ ..."
Herb Stahlke
- "rattle" = have sexual intercourse with, 2001
Neal Whitman
- "rattle" = have sexual intercourse with, 2001
Joel S. Berson
- "rattle" = have sexual intercourse with, 2001
Joel S. Berson
- Problem with citation for Dorothy Parker quote in the Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations
Garson O'Toole
- "rattle" = have sexual intercourse with, 2001
Ben Zimmer
- Problem with citation for Dorothy Parker quote in the Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations
Victor Steinbok
- "rattle" = have sexual intercourse with, 2001
Laurence Horn
- "rattle" = have sexual intercourse with, 2001
Jesse Sheidlower
- "rattle" = have sexual intercourse with, 2001
Jesse Sheidlower
- "rattle" = have sexual intercourse with, 2001
Victor Steinbok
- lolcat bible (UNCLASSIFIED)
Tom Zurinskas
- "rattle" = have sexual intercourse with, 2001
Laurence Horn
- "rattle" = have sexual intercourse with, 2001
Jesse Sheidlower
- Subject: bodily
Brian Hitchcock
- "rattle" = have sexual intercourse with, 2001
Laurence Horn
- Subject: bodily
Victor Steinbok
- "rattle" = have sexual intercourse with, 2001
Joel S. Berson
- "rattle" = have sexual intercourse with, 2001
Victor Steinbok
- Quote: Calvin Coolidge dead: How can they tell? (Wilson Mizner and Dorothy Parker)
Garson O'Toole
- "rattle" = have sexual intercourse with, 2001
Joel S. Berson
- "rattle" = have sexual intercourse with, 2001
William Salmon
- Subject: bodily
Eric Nielsen
- "rattle" = have sexual intercourse with, 2001
Garson O'Toole
- "rattle" = have sexual intercourse with, 2001
Joel S. Berson
- the "new normal"
Laurence Horn
- vise
Douglas G. Wilson
- "And last but not _lease_ ..."
Wilson Gray
- the "new normal"
Jonathan Lighter
- vise
Jonathan Lighter
- the "new normal"
Dan Goncharoff
- the "new normal"
Laurence Horn
- vise
Wilson Gray
- "rattle" = have sexual intercourse with, 2001
Wilson Gray
- Problem with citation for Dorothy Parker quote in the Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations
Shapiro, Fred
- Quote: Calvin Coolidge dead: How can they tell? (Wilson Mizner and Dorothy Parker)
Wilson Gray
- stock-jobber
Victor Steinbok
- stock-jobber
Dan Goncharoff
- stock-jobber
Victor Steinbok
- stock-jobber
Victor Steinbok
- referent
Victor Steinbok
- Problem with citation for Dorothy Parker quote in the Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations
Shapiro, Fred
- lolcat bible (UNCLASSIFIED)
Amy West
- lolcat bible (UNCLASSIFIED)
Charles C Doyle
- stock-jobber
George Thompson
- odds & ends from CNN
Jonathan Lighter
- the Sporting News
George Thompson
- the Sporting News (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- odds & ends from CNN
Laurence Horn
- the Sporting News (UNCLASSIFIED)
Wilson Gray
- does and is (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- does and is (UNCLASSIFIED)
William Salmon
- does and is (UNCLASSIFIED)
Wilson Gray
- odds & ends from CNN
Jonathan Lighter
- the Sporting News (UNCLASSIFIED)
Jonathan Lighter
- does and is (UNCLASSIFIED)
Jonathan Lighter
- odds & ends from CNN
Joel S. Berson
- "Proposer _une news_" : from a French gossip site [NT]
Wilson Gray
- does and is (UNCLASSIFIED)
Charles C Doyle
- does and is (UNCLASSIFIED)
Laurence Horn
- does and is
David A. Daniel
- the Sporting News (UNCLASSIFIED)
Wilson Gray
- does and is
Jonathan Lighter
- does and is (UNCLASSIFIED)
Garson O'Toole
- does and is
Jonathan Lighter
- does and is (UNCLASSIFIED)
Victor Steinbok
- does and is (UNCLASSIFIED)
George Thompson
- does and is (UNCLASSIFIED)
Garson O'Toole
- does and is
Victor Steinbok
- does and is
Laurence Horn
- world english
Tom Zurinskas
- lolcat bible (UNCLASSIFIED)
Amy West
- "we are two peoples separated by a common language" antedated & attributed
Stephen Goranson
- bodily
Brian Hitchcock
- bodily
Laurence Horn
- bodily
victor steinbok
- bodily
Laurence Horn
- Whose "his"?
Joel S. Berson
- Sharing reporters means they work twice as hard?
Joel S. Berson
- to shadow
Jonathan Lighter
- to shadow (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- bodily
Jonathan Lighter
- to shadow (UNCLASSIFIED)
Gordon, Matthew J.
- to shadow (UNCLASSIFIED)
Jonathan Lighter
- to shadow (UNCLASSIFIED)
Jonathan Lighter
- "we are two peoples separated by a common language" antedated & attributed
Shapiro, Fred
- have [was: bodily]
Joel S. Berson
- Queries for the List
Shapiro, Fred
- Queries for the List
Joel S. Berson
- have [was: bodily]
Jonathan Lighter
- Queries for the List
Jonathan Lighter
- Queries for the List
Laurence Horn
- "we are two peoples separated by a common language" antedated & attributed
Baker, John
- Queries for the List
Joel S. Berson
- "software" = "political environment"
Joel S. Berson
- eggcorn
Victor Steinbok
- spoofing
Victor Steinbok
- "we are two peoples separated by a common language" antedated & attributed
Stephen Goranson
- "we are two peoples separated by a common language" antedated & attributed
Garson O'Toole
- "we are two peoples separated by a common language" antedated & attributed
Stephen Goranson
- "we are two peoples separated by a common language" antedated & attributed
Joel S. Berson
- "software" = "political environment"
Jonathan Lighter
- "we are two peoples separated by a common language" antedated & attributed
Neal Whitman
- Heard on Springer: "in the _first_ beginning..."
Wilson Gray
- "we are two peoples separated by a common language" antedated & attributed
Garson O'Toole
- Heard on Springer: "in the _first_ beginning..."
Laurence Horn
- Heard on Springer: "in the _first_ beginning..."
Wilson Gray
- "we are two peoples separated by a common language" antedated & attributed
Laurence Horn
- Heard on Springer: "in the _first_ beginning..."
Laurence Horn
- Heard on Springer: "in the _first_ beginning..."
Joel S. Berson
- Heard on Springer: "in the _first_ beginning..."
Garson O'Toole
- Heard on Springer: "in the _first_ beginning..."
Garson O'Toole
- Heard on Springer: "in the _first_ beginning..."
George Thompson
- Heard on Springer: "in the _first_ beginning..."
Garson O'Toole
- Heard on Springer: "in the _first_ beginning..."
Wilson Gray
- Heard on Springer: "in the _first_ beginning..."
Joel S. Berson
- Queries for the List
Margaret Lee
- triaxial accelerometry
Jonathan Lighter
- Shame on the New York Times
Stephen Goranson
- semi-skim
Victor Steinbok
- Shame on the New York Times
Jonathan Lighter
- Shame on the New York Times
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Zit's lits
Joel S. Berson
- semi-skim
Charles C Doyle
- Shame on the New York Times
Laurence Horn
- Shame on the New York Times
Alice Faber
- Shame on the New York Times
Joel S. Berson
- Shame on the New York Times
Judy Prince
- bunga-bunga
Wilson Gray
- Shame on the New York Times
Ben Zimmer
- bunga-bunga
Jonathan Lighter
- bunga-bunga
Wilson Gray
- bunga-bunga
Laurence Horn
- bunga-bunga
Jonathan Lighter
- Shame on the New York Times
Wilson Gray
- bunga-bunga
Wilson Gray
- bunga-bunga
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Shame on the New York Times
Garson O'Toole
- semi-skim
Wilson Gray
- semi-skim
Joel S. Berson
- semi-skim
victor steinbok
- Heard on a local infomercial re jewelry:
Wilson Gray
- semi-skim
Damien Hall
- Odd baby names in "frontier" states
Jonathan Lighter
- Odd baby names in "frontier" states
Paul Johnston
- Odd baby names in "frontier" states
Michael McKernan
- The hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes (attrib Albert Einstein Feb 22 1963)
Garson O'Toole
- The hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes (attrib Albert Einstein Feb 22 1963)
Laurence Horn
- "Jew"
Charles C Doyle
- "Jew" = "lawyer"
Joel S. Berson
- "Jew"
Wilson Gray
- The hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes (attrib Albert Einstein Feb 22 1963)
Garson O'Toole
- semi-skim
Lynne Murphy
- bunga-bunga
Jonathan Lighter
- bunga-bunga
Douglas G. Wilson
- semi-skim
Chris Waigl
- tiger blood
Jonathan Lighter
- semi-skim
Victor Steinbok
- bunga-bunga
Jonathan Lighter
- semi-skim
Joel S. Berson
- semi-skim
Barbara Need
- semi-skim
Victor Steinbok
- semi-skim
Alice Faber
- "spa" = 'neighborhood grocery store', aka 'convenience store'?
Joel S. Berson
- Anglicisms
Wilson Gray
- "spa" = 'neighborhood grocery store', aka 'convenience store'?
Wilson Gray
- spa (grocery)
Joel S. Berson
- spa (grocery)
victor steinbok
- spa (grocery)
Joel S. Berson
- spa (grocery)
Wilson Gray
- "spa" = 'neighborhood grocery store', aka 'convenience store'? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- spas and convenients
Joel S. Berson
- Anglicisms
Robin Hamilton
- "spa" = 'neighborhood grocery store', aka 'convenience store'? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Joel S. Berson
- spas and convenients
Victor Steinbok
- Anglicisms
Wilson Gray
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