January 2011 Archives by thread
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Ending: Mon Jan 31 21:14:13 UTC 2011
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- Creaky voice
Ronald Butters
- "(speech) balloon", as in the comics
Paul Frank
- advocaat
Victor Steinbok
- black-eyed peas and cashew
Victor Steinbok
- verbing error
Victor Steinbok
- Antedating of "Poker" (Card Game)
Shapiro, Fred
- In lieu of
Neal Whitman
- she as a gender-neutral pronoun
Paul Frank
- sponge
Victor Steinbok
- "poker" lore
Victor Steinbok
- "beyond the pale"
Victor Steinbok
- Tofu--not in the name
Victor Steinbok
- pollmo.com "Does the "e" in "England" sound the same as the "i" in "inch?"
Tom Zurinskas
- bone-smuggler
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedating of "Tokenism"
Shapiro, Fred
- Is aborted
Federico Escobar
- Antedating of "Librarian"
Shapiro, Fred
- Q: [Ho?]ly {T?]umpin[s?]
Joel S. Berson
- Antedating of "jack-o'-lantern", "twistified adj.", "by jiminy"
Joel S. Berson
- banished words - the "back story"
Tom Zurinskas
- My (two) messages in HTML
Joel S. Berson
- Creaky voice: Invitation to be part of my research project (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Doing-doing
Michael Quinion
- linguist
Victor Steinbok
- Fwd: Media Query: Baltimore "Hon" controversy
Grant Barrett
- Wilson Gray was Re: linguist (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- she as a gender-neutral pronoun (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- de-infest and other goodies
Victor Steinbok
- trademarking "Hon"?!
Mark Mandel
- Macquarie WOTY 2010 nominees
Ben Zimmer
- Nominations for Name of the Year
Cleve Evans
- Fwd: Grant Opportunity: Direct an NEH Summer Program in 2012
Jesse Sheidlower
- Antedatings of "Taco" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- pronunciation of "Syracuse"
Laura Ray
- GIST (was: Linguist)
Brian Hitchcock
- to switch gears
Victor Steinbok
- be
Charles C Doyle
- 2010 WOTY nominations open
Ben Zimmer
- woty thought - smartphone
Tom Zurinskas
- motorhuckle boots
Herb Stahlke
- To do meaning to impersonate
Paul Frank
- Photos of WOTY 2010 vote
Grant Barrett
- Name of the Year
geoffrey nunberg
- 2011 WOTY nomination: "robosigner"
Joel S. Berson
- Idiom: In the catbird seat (antedating 1916)
Garson O'Toole
- Silver bullet (figurative 1945)
Garson O'Toole
- "waltzing matilda" antedated to 1890; Matilda (bluey, swag) 1889
Stephen Goranson
- sketched out
Jonathan Lighter
- Nice piece by Fred in YAM
Laurence Horn
- <3 is in the air--or in NYT presses
Victor Steinbok
- "melophone" 1841, antedates OED3 1859-
Joel S. Berson
- "pale of settlement", 1840, 1868, and 1919
Joel S. Berson
- Silver bullet, literal (WAS: figurative 1945)
Joel S. Berson
- Yogi and "too crowded" [Was: Nice piece by Fred in YAM]
Joel S. Berson
- sammich
Tom Zurinskas
- Cockney Bible
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Twitter dialectology
Wilson Gray
- walkback = "a partial retraction or softening of a previous statement that has been taken as definitive."
Jonathan Lighter
- Another ancestor on NPR
Barbara Need
- Was that he was guilty obvious?
Randy Alexander
- crash blossom: "accuses critics of blood libel"
Michael Covarrubias
- Sober coach
Neal Whitman
- Try New OED
Baker, John
- X (eks)
Paul Frank
- capsule, etc. + bubble/pearl tea + tapioca pearls
Victor Steinbok
- "pet parent"
Jonathan Lighter
- Does OED3 not know its nouns from its adjectives?
Joel S. Berson
- halitosic
Jonathan Lighter
- demotive
Jonathan Lighter
- Microsoft's "app store" trademark complaint (+ WOTY)
Ben Zimmer
- Fw: Mossad and Sarah Palin
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- English lexicon too large and unwieldy?
Wilson Gray
- Descendants of prior generations
Joel S. Berson
- from "blood libel" to "pogrom"
Victor Steinbok
- further looking for "biggie" = 'something impressive'
Wilson Gray
- "warthog" with glottal stop
Neal Whitman
- Antedating of "Folkloristics"
Shapiro, Fred
- USA twitter accents in text
Tom Zurinskas
- Corrected Antedating of "Folkloristics"
Shapiro, Fred
- light-worlds
victor steinbok
- gossipology/ist + fakexpert
Victor Steinbok
- Controlling the grammar
Jonathan Lighter
- do, v.i.
Jonathan Lighter
- do, v.i.
Ronald Butters
- do, v.i.
Dave Wilton
- do, v.i.
Paul Frank
- do, v.i.
Jonathan Lighter
- do, v.i.
Jonathan Lighter
- do, v.i.
Ronald Butters
- do, v.i.
Laurence Horn
- do, v.i.
Ronald Butters
- do, v.i.
Garson O'Toole
- do, v.i.
Jonathan Lighter
- do, v.i.
Wilson Gray
- do, v.i.
Jonathan Lighter
- do, v.i.
Laurence Horn
- do, v.i.
Victor Steinbok
- do, v.i.
Laurence Horn
- do, v.i.
Victor Steinbok
- do, v.i.
Garson O'Toole
- do, v.i.
Ronald Butters
- do, v.i.
Jonathan Lighter
- do, v.i.
Dan Goncharoff
- do, v.i.
Jonathan Lighter
- do, v.i.
Herb Stahlke
- do, v.i.
Wilson Gray
- do, v.i.
David Bowie
- do, v.i.
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- do, v.i.
Joel S. Berson
- do, v.i.
Jonathan Lighter
- do, v.i.
Jonathan Lighter
- do, v.i.
Joel S. Berson
- unsubscribe
Kathryn Remlinger
- nonsense words and phonetics for kids
Tom Zurinskas
- So you thought texting-speak was new
David A. Daniel
- Another QOTY
Jonathan Lighter
- Unsubscribe me please
Gary Moore
- Mired in the past, I was tense.
Wilson Gray
- do, v.i. and Wilson's mother
Ronald Butters
- do, with cognate accusative
Eric Nielsen
- diverse = 'ethnically different'
Jonathan Lighter
- on the ground = 'in the world'
Jonathan Lighter
- antedating Steadicam (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- trash-tweeting
Charles C Rice
- family
Jonathan Lighter
- diverse => 'ethnically different'
Ronald Butters
- verse
Victor Steinbok
- doomsday device
Victor Steinbok
- OT: A tweet from Hugh Hefner
Wilson Gray
- basketball
Victor Steinbok
- "His locks have been styled to resemble pig tales." [NT]
Wilson Gray
- gazebo (antedating 1749)
Garson O'Toole
- Another Linguistics Issue at the Supreme Court
Baker, John
- bellybutton
Charles C Doyle
- feet first
Victor Steinbok
- OT Fwd: Endangered Alphabets (perhaps some of us can help)
Wilson Gray
- basketball --- (blend?)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Mike Linn
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- porch monkey
Victor Steinbok
- netroots - meaning "internet grassroots," a "netmanteau"?
Tom Zurinskas
- JK Re: verse
Amy West
- porch monkey (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- to decenter
Jonathan Lighter
- An undue bill
Joel S. Berson
- road monkey (antedating 1885 Feb 24) brush monkey (1885 Feb 24)
Garson O'Toole
- Linguistic Contributions of Batman
Shapiro, Fred
- bawdy = 'brassy-sounding; strident'
Jonathan Lighter
- q for que, x=?
Darla Wells
- Linguistic Contributions of Batman -- Ooops
Eric Nielsen
- "Toenailed": of nails
Wilson Gray
- Catalan, 0 vs. English, 2
Wilson Gray
- Univac, Multivac (1955), Microvac (1956) and fictional etymologies
Garson O'Toole
- more wild kitchen lingo
Victor Steinbok
- Determine the Plural of Prius advertising campaign - Prii, Priuses, Prius, Prium, Prien
Garson O'Toole
- bunga-bunga
Jonathan Lighter
- alienation
Jonathan Lighter
- blitz
Joel S. Berson
- shorthand
Victor Steinbok
- spotted in the wild
Victor Steinbok
- authentic = 'realistic in one's attitudes'
Jonathan Lighter
- Puzzling Antedating of "Scofflaw"
Shapiro, Fred
- Linguistic Contributions of Batman -- Ooops (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "pethy" as a dialectal variant of "pithy"; Ozarks usage
Gerald Cohen
- Old Naval Saying
Jonathan Lighter
- mudsplasher
Jonathan Lighter
- antedating of "battlewagon"
Jonathan Lighter
- "youse guys" in the 1890s.
Jonathan Lighter
- "In God We Trust...."
Jonathan Lighter
- tiger mothers
Jonathan Lighter
- Univac
Joel S. Berson
- tiger mothers and other tiggers
Robin Hamilton
- OT: q for que, x=?
Joel S. Berson
- Heard on Springer
Wilson Gray
- Heard on The Boondocks
Wilson Gray
- Quote or Proverb: My boys trust in the Lord, and keep your powder dry (antedating 1832 February 28)
Garson O'Toole
- Quote or Proverb: My boys trust in the Lord, and keep your powder dry (antedating 1832 February 28)
Dan Goncharoff
- Quote or Proverb: My boys trust in the Lord, and keep your powder dry (antedating 1832 February 28)
Garson O'Toole
- Quote or Proverb: My boys trust in the Lord, and keep your powder dry (antedating 1832 February 28)
Victor Steinbok
- Quote or Proverb: My boys trust in the Lord, and keep your powder dry (antedating 1832 February 28)
Dan Goncharoff
- Quote or Proverb: My boys trust in the Lord, and keep your powder dry (antedating 1832 February 28)
Garson O'Toole
- Quote or Proverb: My boys trust in the Lord, and keep your powder dry (antedating 1832 February 28)
Victor Steinbok
- Quote or Proverb: My boys trust in the Lord, and keep your powder dry (antedating 1832 February 28)
Joel S. Berson
- Quote or Proverb: My boys trust in the Lord, and keep your powder dry (antedating 1832 February 28)
Jonathan Lighter
- Quote or Proverb: My boys trust in the Lord, and keep your powder dry (antedating 1832 February 28)
Joel S. Berson
- Quote or Proverb: My boys trust in the Lord, and keep your powder dry (antedating 1832 February 28)
Garson O'Toole
- Quote or Proverb: My boys trust in the Lord, and keep your powder dry (antedating 1832 February 28)
Joel S. Berson
- [FORENSIC-LINGUISTICS] mobile app for detecting paedophiles
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- made up words
Victor Steinbok
- Quote or Proverb: Sleep on your matchlocks and keep your powder dry (1836)
Joel S. Berson
- kids and texting - actually helps spelling
Tom Zurinskas
- Allen Metcalf's new book on "OK"
George Thompson
- Followup Batman Question
Shapiro, Fred
- In the wild: boujie
Victor Steinbok
- Thirteen below in NE PA, last night
Wilson Gray
- LLBA for individuals?
David Bowie
- Lincoln document altered
Jesse Sheidlower
- Question about "Krio"
Bethany Dumas
- Followup Batman Question (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Book on Origin of New York City's Nickname "The Big Apple"
Gerald Cohen
- Quote or Proverb: My boys trust in the Lord, and keep your powder dry
Charles C Doyle
- "Horrible" as a noun?
Jocelyn Limpert
- Shakespearean quotation
Joel S. Berson
- "atmospheric," n.
Jonathan Lighter
- The initial "so"
Michael Sheehan
- asparagus, topinambur
Victor Steinbok
- "Horribles" (and a 1792 instance)
Joel S. Berson
- more culinary musings
Victor Steinbok
- "(Parade of the) Horribles" (1851)
Joel S. Berson
- modality = 'kind'
Jonathan Lighter
- update/upgrade confusion
Victor Steinbok
- origin of the phrase: the right to privacy
Dennis Baron
- Pauli
Victor Steinbok
- The Gentleman's Companion (1870)
Dan Goncharoff
- FW: Pauli
Seán Fitzpatrick
- hollowed-out miliitary
Tom Zurinskas
- Quote: There is no God, and Harriet is his prophet (1851 August)
Garson O'Toole
- prompt, n. = 'an intellectual or emotional stimulus to artistic creation; inspiration'
Jonathan Lighter
- googol
Joel S. Berson
- horse feathers (1925 February 25)
Garson O'Toole
- inciting violence - syntax (was from "blood libel" to "pogrom")
Brian Hitchcock
- that
Victor Steinbok
- "smash-mouth" + Univ. of Wisconsin student slang (1965)
Ben Zimmer
- homosexuality
David Barnhart
- innocent
Jonathan Lighter
- Terms for college grades, 1958; was: "smash-mouth" + Univ. of Wisconsin student slang (1965)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- the X you have never Y
George Thompson
- Fwd: Perhaps of interest
Wilson Gray
- "Big butts are the new black in Hollywood!"
Wilson Gray
- homosexuality and innocence
Joel S. Berson
- "nip X in the butt"
Laurence Horn
- political language (UK version)
Victor Steinbok
- a carpenter dog
George Thompson
- Antedating of "Medieval"
Shapiro, Fred
- whole nine yards
Stephen Goranson
- Egg corn?
Wilson Gray
- "My son must done already knew." [NT]
Wilson Gray
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