February 2011 Archives by thread
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- Youneverknow.
Wilson Gray
- "The poor guy was _pumped with four bullets_."
Wilson Gray
- Correction of "Caesarean Section" in OED?
Shapiro, Fred
- get had
Victor Steinbok
- Macquarie WOTY 2010 nominees
Ben Zimmer
- pudding
Victor Steinbok
- herring
Victor Steinbok
- Red herring
Michael Quinion
- "gangrene-like", "freeting", not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- Semantic shift of _knock yourself out_?
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
- Washington Post Style (Stale) Invitational and neologisms
Garson O'Toole
- "... test them on an _empty_ playing field." [NT}
Wilson Gray
- YouTube: "How To _Hand-Bone_"
Wilson Gray
- Days of Rage
Jonathan Lighter
- UKer
Jonathan Lighter
- Proverb: omlets are not made without breaking eggs (antedating 1796 May)
Garson O'Toole
- query on origin of snowclone
Laurence Horn
- "lender/borrower" goes the way of "ancestor/descendant"?
Herb Stahlke
- FIFA thinks snoods could be a danger to players' necks
Victor Steinbok
- rugged
Jonathan Lighter
- Proverb and "n éceflàires"
Joel S. Berson
- radio
Victor Steinbok
- tea nonparty - RE: radio
Tom Zurinskas
- franchise
Jonathan Lighter
- subversive, adj.
Jonathan Lighter
- stakeholder = 'a party with any sort of interest whatsoever'
Jonathan Lighter
- swamp yankee
Jonathan Lighter
- green weenie
Clai Rice
- that needs painted
Michael Sheehan
- bogus ety of "Canuck"
Jonathan Lighter
- Motto: The customer is always right (antedating 1905 October 11 attrib Marshall Field)
Garson O'Toole
- research?
Ronald Butters
- Hello, my dear!
Wilson Gray
- mononymous
Jonathan Lighter
- snirt - mergeword - snow and dirt
Tom Zurinskas
- mongrels
Laurence Horn
- Heard on local TV: _Arctic_
Wilson Gray
- stakeholder = 'a party with any sort of interest whatsoever' (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "Obamism"
Victor Steinbok
- Self-identifying as British (was: UKer)
Damien Hall
- awe-dropping at upodn.com
Tom Zurinskas
- "Where the camel lost _its'_ hump" [NT]
Paul
- patty: a bit of linguistic bureaucratic procrusteanism
James Harbeck
- Interpreting a sentence
Joel S. Berson
- sonnet = 'any short poem'
Jonathan Lighter
- "down to"?
Joel S. Berson
- Semantic shift in progress?
Wilson Gray
- oversouling
James Harbeck
- Heard on Springer
Wilson Gray
- whole nine yards
Stephen Goranson
- ostension
Jonathan Lighter
- whole nine yards (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- 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
- Fwd: "plugged, adj." - Word of the Day from the OED
Victor Steinbok
- Inpidual (was Quotable quotes from Steve Jobs)
David A. Daniel
- Murphy's Law
Stephen Goranson
- seen on CNN view of Tahrir Square
David Barnhart
- "Cock"
Wilson Gray
- WRT IIRC
Wilson Gray
- OT: See there? It ain't just none of us!
Wilson Gray
- Quote: a cigar is sometimes just a cigar (probably 1950 attrib Sigmund Freud, also 1954)
Garson O'Toole
- Bring vs. Take
George Thompson
- pathic
Paul Frank
- Green's Dict. of Slang in TLS, Feb. 4
George Thompson
- "Jambalaya!"
Wilson Gray
- OT: Well, that's settled.
Wilson Gray
- Well, that's settled.
Charles C Doyle
- From Iranian news agencies
Victor Steinbok
- come-at-ables
George Thompson
- Soap operas bring linguistic democracy to South Africa - CSMonitor.com
Victor Steinbok
- OED error
Victor Steinbok
- animals and non-animals
Victor Steinbok
- "Love bug"
Wilson Gray
- "The _sneak-pick_ that we had... " WTF?!!! [NT]
Wilson Gray
- abhuman
Jonathan Lighter
- BE "Your ass!" = WE "Up yours!" < "[Fxck you] Up your ass!"?
Wilson Gray
- "plugged, adj." - Word of the Day from the OED
Wilson Gray
- "The _sum total_ of the world's knowledge: 250 exabytes"
Wilson Gray
- asymptote, v.
Ben Zimmer
- "foodomics" and other omics
Laurence Horn
- antedating "pataphysics"
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedating of "Ambulance Chaser"
Shapiro, Fred
- of coins -- "plugged", adj., 1773; "plug", verb, 1785 & 1789; "sweated" 1797
Joel S. Berson
- Antedating of "Ambulance Chaser" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- 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
- 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
- contradicted
Victor Steinbok
- meranghy
Victor Steinbok
- Strange use of "baby daddy"
Wilson Gray
- Antedating of Gin and Tonic
Baker, John
- sunseeds
Victor Steinbok
- "There _are_ individuals and businesses _earning gain_ in the secondary market as well as in the primary market."
Wilson Gray
- Auto-corrected text leads to killing
Victor Steinbok
- Barry, the Yale News, and Hamburgers
Victor Steinbok
- "Unbanked"
Martin Kaminer
- kitchen cabinet
Victor Steinbok
- Heard on The Judges: _for a minute_ = "over a long period of time," etc.
Wilson Gray
- baby daddy
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- "Clunker" not in OED?
Joel S. Berson
- cabinet
Victor Steinbok
- _Fag_ = "a horse for easy riding" or some such?
Wilson Gray
- lolcat bible
James Harbeck
- knock down argument (1681)
Garson O'Toole
- "Thanks! I Needed That!"
Laurence Horn
- " 'Beaver' Cleaver"
Wilson Gray
- zzz?
James Harbeck
- correction RE: Murphy's Law
Stephen Goranson
- "Recess Appointment" Not in OED
Shapiro, Fred
- Major Antedating of "Racism"
Shapiro, Fred
- 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
- plugging teeth, 1796
Joel S. Berson
- Feline Lap Dogs
Victor Steinbok
- junto [interdating]
Victor Steinbok
- genocide
Jonathan Lighter
- vise
Charles C Doyle
- vise
Laurence Horn
- vise
Douglas G. Wilson
- vise
Jonathan Lighter
- vise
Wilson Gray
- bodily
Victor Steinbok
- "Let's give _us_ a big hello to Peter and Brian!" [NT]
Wilson Gray
- "And last but not _lease_ ..."
Wilson Gray
- "Can't be arsed"
Damien Hall
- "The Great Recession"
Tom Zurinskas
- zzz? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- lolcat bible (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "rattle" = have sexual intercourse with, 2001
Joel S. Berson
- "rattle" = have sexual intercourse with, 2001
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "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
- "rattle" = have sexual intercourse with, 2001
Ben Zimmer
- "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
- "rattle" = have sexual intercourse with, 2001
Laurence Horn
- "rattle" = have sexual intercourse with, 2001
Jesse Sheidlower
- "rattle" = have sexual intercourse with, 2001
Laurence Horn
- "rattle" = have sexual intercourse with, 2001
Joel S. Berson
- "rattle" = have sexual intercourse with, 2001
Victor Steinbok
- "rattle" = have sexual intercourse with, 2001
Joel S. Berson
- "rattle" = have sexual intercourse with, 2001
William Salmon
- "rattle" = have sexual intercourse with, 2001
Garson O'Toole
- "rattle" = have sexual intercourse with, 2001
Joel S. Berson
- "rattle" = have sexual intercourse with, 2001
Wilson Gray
- Cooler and Cold Deck (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Problem with citation for Dorothy Parker quote in the Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations
Garson O'Toole
- Subject: bodily
Brian Hitchcock
- Quote: Calvin Coolidge dead: How can they tell? (Wilson Mizner and Dorothy Parker)
Garson O'Toole
- stock-jobber
Victor Steinbok
- referent
Victor Steinbok
- odds & ends from CNN
Jonathan Lighter
- the Sporting News
George Thompson
- the Sporting News (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- does and is (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "Proposer _une news_" : from a French gossip site [NT]
Wilson Gray
- does and is
David A. Daniel
- world english
Tom Zurinskas
- "we are two peoples separated by a common language" antedated & attributed
Stephen Goranson
- 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
- have [was: bodily]
Joel S. Berson
- Queries for the List
Shapiro, Fred
- "software" = "political environment"
Joel S. Berson
- eggcorn
Victor Steinbok
- spoofing
Victor Steinbok
- Heard on Springer: "in the _first_ beginning..."
Wilson Gray
- triaxial accelerometry
Jonathan Lighter
- Shame on the New York Times
Stephen Goranson
- semi-skim
Victor Steinbok
- Zit's lits
Joel S. Berson
- bunga-bunga
Wilson Gray
- Heard on a local infomercial re jewelry:
Wilson Gray
- Odd baby names in "frontier" states
Jonathan Lighter
- The hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes (attrib Albert Einstein Feb 22 1963)
Garson O'Toole
- "Jew"
Charles C Doyle
- "Jew" = "lawyer"
Joel S. Berson
- tiger blood
Jonathan Lighter
- "spa" = 'neighborhood grocery store', aka 'convenience store'?
Joel S. Berson
- Anglicisms
Wilson Gray
- spa (grocery)
Joel S. Berson
- "spa" = 'neighborhood grocery store', aka 'convenience store'? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- spas and convenients
Joel S. Berson
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