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- "... an _inciteful_ critical observer ..." [NT]
 
Wilson Gray
- "... sporting _a_ much trimmer _buttock_."
 
Wilson Gray
- "... sporting _a_ much trimmer _buttock_."
 
Laurence Horn
- "A Gymnick"
 
George Thompson
- "a nice girl like you"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "a nice girl like you"
 
Stephen Goranson
- "a nice girl like you"
 
George Thompson
- "a nice girl like you"
 
Garson O'Toole
- "a nice girl like you"
 
Garson O'Toole
- "a nice girl like you"
 
Wilson Gray
- "a nice girl like you"
 
Wilson Gray
- "a nice girl like you"
 
Dave Hause
- "a nice girl like you"
 
Joel S. Berson
- "a nice girl like you"
 
John Fitzpatrick
- "a nice girl like you"
 
Ron Butters
- "a nice girl like you"
 
Dan Goncharoff
- "a nice girl like you"
 
Laurence Horn
- "Chinese overtime" (and "textiled hikers")
 
Laurence Horn
- "Chinese overtime" (and "textiled hikers")
 
Garson O'Toole
- "Chinese overtime" (and "textiled hikers")
 
Garson O'Toole
- "Chinese overtime" (and "textiled hikers")
 
Laurence Horn
- "Chinese overtime" (and "textiled hikers")
 
Wilson Gray
- "Chinese overtime" (and "textiled hikers")
 
Victor Steinbok
- "Copyright _for_ [Name], LLC"
 
Wilson Gray
- "cynning" =? king
 
Joel S. Berson
- "cynning" =? king
 
Charles C Doyle
- "cynning" =? king
 
Paul Johnston
- "cynning" =? king
 
Dave Wilton
- "cynning" =? king
 
Laurence Horn
- "cynning" =? king
 
Gail Davidson
- "cynning" =? king
 
Wilson Gray
- "deja moo"
 
Joel S. Berson
- "deja moo"
 
Garson O'Toole
- "dudo", 1840, meaning ???
 
George Thompson
- "dudo", 1840, meaning ???
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "dudo", 1840, meaning ???
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "dudo", 1840, meaning ???
 
Laurence Horn
- "dudo", 1840, meaning ???
 
George Thompson
- "dudo", 1840, meaning ???
 
Baker, John
- "dudo", 1840, meaning ???
 
Arnold Zwicky
- "dudo", 1840, meaning ???
 
George Thompson
- "dudo", 1840, meaning ???
 
Charles C Doyle
- "dudo", 1840, meaning ???
 
Tom Zurinskas
- "due"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "due"
 
Wilson Gray
- "due"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "due"
 
Garson O'Toole
- "due"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "due"
 
Garson O'Toole
- "due"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "English" -- a verb (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "English" -- a verb (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "English" -- a verb (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Wilson Gray
- "English" -- a verb (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Jesse Sheidlower
- "English" -- a verb (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Gordon, Matthew J.
- "fact" = "supposition", "hypothesis", from 1831
 
George Thompson
- "Financials" Not in OED
 
Shapiro, Fred
- "Financials" Not in OED
 
Dan Goncharoff
- "Financials" Not in OED
 
Baker, John
- "Fizhure"
 
Douglas G. Wilson
- "Fizhure"
 
Tom Zurinskas
- "fuik" and "sea dog"
 
George Thompson
- "fuik" and "sea dog"
 
Douglas G. Wilson
- "fuik" and "sea dog"
 
Douglas G. Wilson
- "go off" [was "step out"] = die
 
Joel S. Berson
- "hashtag" = 'hash symbol'
 
Ben Zimmer
- "I don't know what all the _fuzz_ is about."
 
Wilson Gray
- "I don't know what all the _fuzz_ is about."
 
Joel S. Berson
- "It was as disappointing as all _get-go_!" [NT]
 
Wilson Gray
- "Not once but twice" triggers subj-aux inversion?
 
Neal Whitman
- "Not once but twice" triggers subj-aux inversion?
 
Laurence Horn
- "Not once but twice" triggers subj-aux inversion?
 
Dan Goncharoff
- "Not once but twice" triggers subj-aux inversion?
 
Laurence Horn
- "Not once but twice" triggers subj-aux inversion?
 
Dan Goncharoff
- "Not once but twice" triggers subj-aux inversion?
 
Wilson Gray
- "Not once but twice" triggers subj-aux inversion?
 
Dan Goncharoff
- "Not once but twice" triggers subj-aux inversion?
 
Joel S. Berson
- "Not once but twice" triggers subj-aux inversion?
 
Joel S. Berson
- "on the loom"
 
maberry at uw.edu
- "on the loom"
 
Laurence Horn
- "pumping (up) someone's tires" = 'praise, flatter'
 
Ben Zimmer
- "pumping (up) someone's tires" = 'praise, flatter'
 
Garson O'Toole
- "pumping (up) someone's tires" = 'praise, flatter'
 
Ben Zimmer
- "put" anxiety
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "Skank"
 
Wilson Gray
- "slangevity"
 
Arnold Zwicky
- "step out" = die, 1846
 
George Thompson
- "Stuck on the Van Wyck"? New York dialect
 
Joel S. Berson
- "Stuck on the Van Wyck"? New York dialect
 
Paul Johnston
- "suction about"
 
George Thompson
- "suction about"
 
Garson O'Toole
- "That's racist!" [Was Re: Missed-point dept. (origin of "Joe" (coffee)]
 
Jonathan Lighter
- "That's racist!" [Was Re: Missed-point dept. (origin of "Joe" (coffee)]
 
Arnold Zwicky
- "That's racist!" [Was Re: Missed-point dept. (origin of "Joe" (coffee)]
 
Wilson Gray
- "This is the proverbial pot that we have to shit or get off of." [NT]
 
Wilson Gray
- "This is the proverbial pot that we have to shit or get off of." [NT]
 
Neal Whitman
- "to kick the bucket", 1789
 
Joel S. Berson
- "traced to"
 
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- "traced to"
 
victor steinbok
- "traced to"
 
Joel S. Berson
- "way overpay" as a unit
 
victor steinbok
- "way overpay" as a unit
 
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- "way overpay" as a unit
 
victor steinbok
- "way overpay" as a unit
 
Tom Zurinskas
- "way overpay" as a unit
 
Dan Goncharoff
- "way overpay" as a unit
 
Laurence Horn
- "way overpay" as a unit
 
Joel S. Berson
- (temporary) SOTA
 
Laurence Horn
- (temporary) SOTA
 
Jonathan Lighter
- _G-string_
 
Wilson Gray
- _Glee_ "brag, get all all happy," etc.
 
Wilson Gray
- _Hardleg_, UD 2006:
 
Wilson Gray
- _Hardleg_, UD 2006:
 
Jonathan Lighter
- _Hardleg_, UD 2006:
 
Laurence Horn
- _Hardleg_, UD 2006:
 
Garson O'Toole
- _Hardleg_, UD 2006:
 
Wilson Gray
- _Kicks_ = "shoes" in 1941?
 
Wilson Gray
- _Kiss my grits!_
 
Jonathan Lighter
- _Kiss my grits!_ = "Kiss my ass!," by a writer for The Family Guy
 
victor steinbok
- _Kiss my grits!_ = "Kiss my ass!," by a writer for The Family Guy
 
victor steinbok
- _Kiss my grits!_ = "Kiss my ass!," by a writer for The Family Guy
 
Laurence Horn
- _Kiss my grits!_ = "Kiss my ass!," by a writer for The Family Guy
 
Dave Hause
- _Kiss my grits!_ = "Kiss my ass!," by a writer for The Family Guy
 
Margaret Lee
- _Narrative_
 
Wilson Gray
- _Narrative_
 
Laurence Horn
- _Narrative_
 
Victor Steinbok
- _Narrative_
 
Wilson Gray
- _Travel_ as TRANS
 
Wilson Gray
- _Travel_ as TRANS
 
Dan Goncharoff
- A: "I'd _rep your post a thousand times_, if I could."
 
Wilson Gray
- A: "I'd _rep your post a thousand times_, if I could."
 
Laurence Horn
- A: "I'd _rep your post a thousand times_, if I could."
 
Dan Goncharoff
- A: "I'd _rep your post a thousand times_, if I could."
 
Garson O'Toole
- A: "I'd _rep your post a thousand times_, if I could."
 
Wilson Gray
- actor, actress, star
 
Jonathan Lighter
- actor, actress, star
 
Jonathan Lighter
- actor, actress, star
 
Joel S. Berson
- actor, actress, star
 
Wilson Gray
- actor, actress, star
 
Jonathan Lighter
- actor, actress, star
 
Laurence Horn
- algarabia
 
victor steinbok
- algarabia
 
victor steinbok
- An oldie? "... hammer and tongues ..."
 
Wilson Gray
- Antedating(1906) "Brooklyn side" (bowling) and a theory
 
sclements at NEO.RR.COM
- Antedating(1906) "Brooklyn side" (bowling) and a theory
 
Laurence Horn
- A parent on verbing nouns
 
Joel Berson
- A parent on verbing nouns
 
Wilson Gray
- A quote for God, country, and Yale?
 
Garson O'Toole
- A reversed "replace"
 
Joel S. Berson
- A reversed "replace"
 
Brian Hitchcock
- baked in the cake; drawers
 
Jonathan Lighter
- baked in the cake; drawers
 
Eric Nielsen
- baked in the cake; drawers
 
Garson O'Toole
- baked in the cake; drawers
 
George Thompson
- baked in the cake; drawers
 
John McChesney-Young
- Barbara Need notes the use of...
 
Wilson Gray
- beyond words
 
victor steinbok
- beyond words
 
Wilson Gray
- beyond words
 
Tom Zurinskas
- Bilingualists are faster
 
Joel S. Berson
- Blend: "don't have the first clue about..."
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Blend: "don't have the first clue about..."
 
Garson O'Toole
- Bowie on Palin
 
Ben Zimmer
- braggadocious
 
Jonathan Lighter
- braggadocious
 
Garson O'Toole
- braggadocious
 
Jonathan Lighter
- cankle and fralp
 
Jonathan Lighter
- cankle and fralp
 
Wilson Gray
- cankle and fralp
 
Arnold Zwicky
- cold hot coffee [was: missing the concept]
 
Joel S. Berson
- cold hot coffee [was: missing the concept]
 
Wilson Gray
- cold hot coffee [was: missing the concept]
 
Joel S. Berson
- Colloquialism: to see a man about a dog
 
Joel S. Berson
- Colloquialism: to see a man about a dog
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Colloquialism: to see a man about a dog
 
Laurence Horn
- Colloquialism: to see a man about a dog
 
George Thompson
- Colloquialism: to see a man about a dog
 
Alice Faber
- Colloquialism: to see a man about a dog
 
Laurence Horn
- Colloquialism: to see a man about a dog
 
Wilson Gray
- Colloquialism: to see a man about a dog
 
Joel S. Berson
- Colloquialism: to see a man about a dog
 
Joel S. Berson
- Colloquialism: to see a man about a dog
 
Laurence Horn
- Colloquialism: to see a man about a dog
 
Ronald Butters
- Colloquialism: to see a man about a dog
 
Douglas G. Wilson
- Colloquialism: to see a man about a dog
 
Garson O'Toole
- Colloquialism: to see a man about a dog (antedating 1865 November)
 
Garson O'Toole
- Colloquialism: to see a man about a dog (antedating 1865 November)
 
Laurence Horn
- Colloquialism: to see a man about a dog (antedating 1865 November)
 
Wilson Gray
- Colloquialism: to see a man about a dog (antedating 1865 November) (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Comments thread about British accents in comics
 
Mark Mandel
- deal
 
Jonathan Lighter
- deal
 
Laurence Horn
- deal
 
Ben Zimmer
- deal
 
Arnold Zwicky
- despairing = 'discouraging'
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Does the OED oppose "contrapose"?
 
Joel S. Berson
- doughnuts = 'money'
 
Jonathan Lighter
- doughnuts = 'money'
 
Laurence Horn
- doughnuts = 'money' (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- doughnuts = 'money' (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Eric Nielsen
- doughnuts = 'money' (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Guy Letourneau
- drunk and disorderly
 
Joel S. Berson
- drunk and disorderly
 
George Thompson
- drunk and disorderly
 
Ronald Butters
- drunk and disorderly
 
Joel S. Berson
- drunk and disorderly
 
Wilson Gray
- drunk and disorderly
 
Charles C Doyle
- drunk and disorderly
 
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Eggcorn: grandeloquent
 
Neal Whitman
- Eggcorn: grandeloquent
 
Charles C Doyle
- Eggcorn: grandeloquent
 
Arnold Zwicky
- Eggcorn: grandeloquent
 
Laurence Horn
- egress/ingress
 
Victor Steinbok
- egress/ingress
 
Laurence Horn
- Eudora problem
 
Joel Berson
- foo foo rah
 
Michael Sheehan
- foo foo rah
 
Arnold Zwicky
- foo foo rah
 
Arnold Zwicky
- Foreign Accent Syndrome
 
Tom Zurinskas
- For the fans of mad prescriptivism
 
George Thompson
- Fwd: A quote for God, country, and Yale?
 
Joel S. Berson
- Fwd: Re: _Kiss my grits!_ = "Kiss my ass!," by a writer for The Family               Guy
 
Laurence Horn
- Fwd: Re: _Kiss my grits!_ = "Kiss my ass!," by a writer for The              Family               Guy
 
Alice Faber
- Fwd: Re: _Kiss my grits!_ = "Kiss my ass!," by a writer for The              Family               Guy
 
Laurence Horn
- Fwd: Request from WAMU 88.5 in Washington, D.C.
 
Grant Barrett
- Google and the BL
 
Wilson Gray
- Grammar question -- "from throughout the year"?
 
Joel S. Berson
- Grammar question -- "from throughout the year"?
 
Dan Goncharoff
- Grammar question -- "from throughout the year"?
 
Douglas G. Wilson
- Grammar question -- "from throughout the year"?
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Grammar question -- "from throughout the year"?
 
Joel S. Berson
- Grammar question -- "from throughout the year"?
 
Wilson Gray
- great lines in blog comments
 
victor steinbok
- HDAS: _kicky_ "delightful; diverting; exciting." 1942, 1966; an undocumented interdating
 
Wilson Gray
- HDAS ahead of schedule?
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Headline: "Stamping Out Low-Cost Nanodevices"
 
Wilson Gray
- Headline: "Stamping Out Low-Cost Nanodevices"
 
Eric Nielsen
- Headline: Australian ISP's To Start _Filtering_ the Internet
 
Wilson Gray
- Heard on "[Name] and Bash"
 
Wilson Gray
- Heard on "[Name] and Bash"
 
Eric Nielsen
- Heard on Futurama:
 
Wilson Gray
- Heard on Futurama:
 
Dan Goncharoff
- Heard on Futurama:
 
Laurence Horn
- Heard on Futurama:
 
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Heard on Futurama:
 
Wilson Gray
- Heard on Futurama:
 
Wilson Gray
- Heard on Springer: _cold play_. It's *not* only rock 'n' roll?
 
Wilson Gray
- Heard on Springer: in re the BIN+verb dialect-split in BE
 
Wilson Gray
- Heard on Springer: more BE _BIN_
 
Wilson Gray
- Heard on The Judges
 
Wilson Gray
- Heard on The Judges, etc.
 
Wilson Gray
- Heard on The Judges, etc.
 
Gordon, Matthew J.
- Heard on The Judges, etc.
 
Wilson Gray
- Heard on The Judges, etc.
 
Gordon, Matthew J.
- Heard on The Judges, etc.
 
Wilson Gray
- Heard on The Judges: _the gate_ = "the start, the get-go, the B-ginning, the B-go," etc.
 
Wilson Gray
- House numbering
 
Joel Berson
- House numbering
 
Joel S. Berson
- House numbering -- minor detail
 
Joel Berson
- House numbering -- minor detail
 
victor steinbok
- House numbering -- minor detail
 
Joel S. Berson
- House numbering -- minor detail
 
victor steinbok
- House numbering [1817 Boston]
 
Joel S. Berson
- House numbering in Boston -- 1784
 
Joel S. Berson
- How dare I?
 
Neal Whitman
- How do you say "associatoin" and "associate" (v) or "associated"
 
Tom Zurinskas
- How do you say "associatoin" and "associate" (v) or "associated"
 
Laurence Horn
- How do you say "associatoin" and "associate" (v) or "associated"
 
Dan Goncharoff
- How do you say "associatoin" and "associate" (v) or "associated"
 
Tom Zurinskas
- how to say "automotive" USA/UK
 
Tom Zurinskas
- Hyphens and dashes, oh my
 
Joel S. Berson
- Hyphens and dashes, oh my
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Hyphens and dashes, oh my
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Hyphens and dashes, oh my
 
Jocelyn Limpert
- Hyphens and dashes, oh my
 
Wilson Gray
- Hyphens and dashes, oh my
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Hyphens and dashes, oh my
 
Jocelyn Limpert
- Hyphens and dashes, oh my
 
Amy West
- Idiom: shake the dew off the lily (antedating 1951 probably)
 
Garson O'Toole
- Idiom: shake the dew off the lily (antedating 1951 probably)
 
Ben Zimmer
- Idiom: shake the dew off the lily (antedating 1951 probably)
 
Garson O'Toole
- Idiom: shake the dew off the lily (antedating 1951 probably)
 
Jesse Sheidlower
- Idiom: shake the dew off the lily (antedating 1951 probably)
 
Garson O'Toole
- Idiom: shake the dew off the lily (antedating 1951 probably)
 
Jesse Sheidlower
- Idiom: shake the dew off the lily (antedating 1951 probably)
 
paul johnson
- Idiom: shake the dew off the lily (antedating 1951 probably)
 
Garson O'Toole
- Idiom: shake the dew off the lily (antedating 1951 probably)
 
Jesse Sheidlower
- Idiom: shake the dew off the lily (antedating 1951 probably)
 
Garson O'Toole
- Idiom: throwing (shoving) under the bus [political sacrifice or removal] (probably 1985)
 
Garson O'Toole
- Idiom: throwing (shoving) under the bus [political sacrifice or removal] (probably 1985)
 
Charles C Doyle
- Idiom: throwing (shoving) under the bus [political sacrifice or removal] (probably 1985)
 
Garson O'Toole
- If enough people believe it, then it must be true.
 
Wilson Gray
- If you can't beat them join them (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- If you can't beat them join them (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Stephen Goranson
- If you can't beat them join them (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Garson O'Toole
- If you can't beat them join them (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Stephen Goranson
- intactivist / intactivism
 
Ben Zimmer
- intactivist / intactivism
 
Joel S. Berson
- intactivist / intactivism
 
Wilson Gray
- It's new to me:
 
Wilson Gray
- It's new to me:
 
Ben Zimmer
- Jesse, spread all over the Times
 
Laurence Horn
- Jesse, spread all over the Times
 
Baker, John
- Jesse, spread all over the Times
 
Joel S. Berson
- Jesse, spread all over the Times
 
Jesse Sheidlower
- Jesse, spread all over the Times
 
Joel S. Berson
- Jo Mama
 
victor steinbok
- Jo Mama
 
Wilson Gray
- Jo Mama
 
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Jo Mama
 
Wilson Gray
- Jo Mama
 
Ron Butters
- Jo Mama
 
Wilson Gray
- Jo Mama (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Keyser-Soeze Phenomenon
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Keyser-Soeze Phenomenon
 
Wilson Gray
- Keyser-Soeze Phenomenon
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Keyser-Soeze Phenomenon
 
Dan Goncharoff
- Keyser-Soeze Phenomenon
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Keyser-Soeze Phenomenon
 
Dan Goncharoff
- Keyser-Soeze Phenomenon
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Keyser-Soeze Phenomenon
 
Laurence Horn
- Keyser-Soeze Phenomenon
 
Amy West
- Keyser-Soeze Phenomenon
 
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Keyser-Soeze Phenomenon
 
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Keyser-Soeze Phenomenon
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Keyser-Soeze Phenomenon
 
Joel S. Berson
- Keyser-Soeze Phenomenon
 
Dave Hause
- Keyser-Soeze Phenomenon
 
Joel S. Berson
- Keyser-Soeze Phenomenon
 
Dave Hause
- Keyser-Soeze Phenomenon
 
Federico Escobar
- Kick the bucket (antedating grammatical variant 1778 February; also 1780)
 
Garson O'Toole
- Lockjaw: Locust Valley (1965), Long Island (1972), Larchmont (1973)
 
Ben Zimmer
- Lockjaw: Locust Valley (1965), Long Island (1972), Larchmont (1973)
 
Dan Goncharoff
- Lockjaw: Locust Valley (1965), Long Island (1972), Larchmont (1973)
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Lockjaw: Locust Valley (1965), Long Island (1972), Larchmont (1973)
 
Gordon, Matthew J.
- Lockjaw: Locust Valley (1965), Long Island (1972), Larchmont (1973)
 
Dan Goncharoff
- Lockjaw: Locust Valley (1965), Long Island (1972), Larchmont (1973)
 
Garson O'Toole
- Lockjaw: Locust Valley (1965), Long Island (1972), Larchmont (1973)
 
Jesse Sheidlower
- Lockjaw: Locust Valley (1965), Long Island (1972), Larchmont (1973)
 
Jesse Sheidlower
- Lockjaw: Locust Valley (1965), Long Island (1972), Larchmont (1973)
 
Joel S. Berson
- long, short, diphthongs
 
Tom Zurinskas
- masseuse = 'masseur'
 
Jonathan Lighter
- masseuse = 'masseur'
 
Wilson Gray
- MA tornadoes
 
victor steinbok
- MA tornadoes
 
Wilson Gray
- MA tornadoes
 
victor steinbok
- MA tornadoes
 
Jonathan Lighter
- MA tornadoes
 
Amy West
- MA tornadoes
 
Joanne Despres
- Memorable Quotations for 2011 - candidate courtesy of Conan O'Brien
 
Garson O'Toole
- Memorable Quotations for 2011 - candidate courtesy of Conan O'Brien
 
Wilson Gray
- menna
 
Lynne Murphy
- Meta-Quote: I really didn't say everything I said (Yogi Berra 1986 February 24)
 
Garson O'Toole
- milli-Helen, milliHelen, as a unit of beauty (1958 March 11)
 
Garson O'Toole
- milli-Helen, milliHelen, as a unit of beauty (1958 March 11)
 
Wilson Gray
- milli-Helen, milliHelen, as a unit of beauty (1958 March 11)
 
Laurence Horn
- milli-Helen, milliHelen, as a unit of beauty (1958 March 11)
 
Jesse Sheidlower
- milli-Helen, milliHelen, as a unit of beauty (1958 March 11)
 
Stephen Goranson
- milli-Helen, milliHelen, as a unit of beauty (1958 March 11)
 
Jesse Sheidlower
- milli-Helen, milliHelen, as a unit of beauty (1958 March 11)
 
Garson O'Toole
- milli-Helen, milliHelen, as a unit of beauty (1958 March 11)
 
Dave Hause
- milli-Helen, milliHelen, as a unit of beauty (1958 March 11)
 
Stephen Goranson
- Missed-point dept.
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Missed-point dept.
 
Wilson Gray
- Missed-point dept. (origin of "Joe" (coffee)
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Missed-point dept. (origin of "Joe" (coffee)
 
Wilson Gray
- Missed-point dept. (origin of "Joe" (coffee)
 
paul johnson
- Missed-point dept. (origin of "Joe" (coffee)
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Missed-point dept. (origin of "Joe" (coffee)
 
Stephen Goranson
- Missed-point dept. (origin of "Joe" (coffee)
 
Gerald Cohen
- Missed-point dept. (origin of "Joe" (coffee)
 
victor steinbok
- Missed-point dept. (origin of "Joe" (coffee)
 
Dan Goncharoff
- Missed-point dept. (origin of "Joe" (coffee)
 
Jonathan Lighter
- missing the concept
 
victor steinbok
- missing the concept
 
Jesse Sheidlower
- Modern Fable: Lions and gazelles (Dan Montano 1985 July 6)
 
Garson O'Toole
- Modern Fable: Lions and gazelles (Dan Montano 1985 July 6)
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Modern Fable: Lions and gazelles (Dan Montano 1985 July 6)
 
Dan Goncharoff
- Modern Fable: Lions and gazelles (Dan Montano 1985 July 6)
 
Laurence Horn
- Modern Fable: Lions and gazelles (Dan Montano 1985 July 6)
 
Garson O'Toole
- Modern Fable: Lions and gazelles (Dan Montano 1985 July 6)
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Modern Fable: Lions and gazelles (Dan Montano 1985 July 6)
 
Garson O'Toole
- Modern Fable: Lions and gazelles (Dan Montano 1985 July 6)
 
Dan Goncharoff
- Modern Fable: Lions and gazelles (Dan Montano 1985 July 6) (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Modern Fable: Lions and gazelles (Dan Montano 1985 July 6) (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Modern Proverb: Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill (1977 July 29)
 
Garson O'Toole
- molest, n.
 
Jonathan Lighter
- molest, n.
 
Wilson Gray
- molest, n.
 
Jonathan Lighter
- molest, n.
 
Arnold Zwicky
- molest, n.
 
Wilson Gray
- molest, n.
 
Arnold Zwicky
- molest, n.
 
Dan Goncharoff
- molest, n.
 
Arnold Zwicky
- molest, n.
 
Charles C Doyle
- molest, n.
 
Dan Goncharoff
- molest, n.
 
Laurence Horn
- molest, n.
 
Wilson Gray
- molest, n.
 
Joel S. Berson
- naughty Internet initialisms
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Non-abusive tot moms
 
Neal Whitman
- Non-abusive tot moms
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Non-abusive tot moms
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Non-abusive tot moms
 
Laurence Horn
- Non-abusive tot moms
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Non-abusive tot moms
 
Wilson Gray
- Non-abusive tot moms
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Not in HDAS?
 
Wilson Gray
- Not in HDAS?
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Not in HDAS?
 
Wilson Gray
- Not in HDAS?
 
George Thompson
- Not in HDAS?
 
Dan Goncharoff
- Not in HDAS?
 
Laurence Horn
- Not in HDAS?
 
Wilson Gray
- Not in HDAS?
 
Wilson Gray
- Not in HDAS? _brumsky_
 
Wilson Gray
- Not in HDAS? _brumsky_
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Not in HDAS? _brumsky_
 
Wilson Gray
- not new, but new to me: _Trivalry_
 
Laurence Horn
- not new, but new to me: _Trivalry_
 
victor steinbok
- not new, but new to me: _Trivalry_
 
Garson O'Toole
- not new, but new to me: _Trivalry_
 
Laurence Horn
- not new, but new to me: _Trivalry_
 
victor steinbok
- not new, but new to me: _Trivalry_
 
Garson O'Toole
- OED's "bogey" and "par"
 
Joel S. Berson
- OED's "bogey" and "par"
 
Dan Goncharoff
- OED's "bogey" and "par"
 
Joel S. Berson
- OED's "bogey" and "par"
 
Dan Goncharoff
- OED's "bogey" and "par"
 
Joel S. Berson
- OED's "bogey" and "par"
 
Dan Goncharoff
- OED's "bogey" and "par"
 
Joel S. Berson
- OED's "bogey" and "par"
 
Dan Goncharoff
- OT: Bilingualism and dementia
 
Amy West
- parasites and the body politic
 
Arnold Zwicky
- Parenthese
 
Benjamin Barrett
- Parenthese
 
Benjamin Barrett
- Parenthese
 
Arnold Zwicky
- Parenthesee
 
Neal Whitman
- Parenthesee
 
Neal Whitman
- Paul Goncharoff
 
Joel S. Berson
- Paul Goncharoff
 
Dan Goncharoff
- Paul Goncharoff
 
Wilson Gray
- Paul Goncharoff
 
victor steinbok
- PC in "It's Always Sunny in Philadephia"
 
Wilson Gray
- political blend du jour: Obamneycare
 
Ben Zimmer
- Posted to Slashdot: "Customers think the sales force is just interested in _alleviating_ them of their money!" [NT]
 
Wilson Gray
- QOTY? -- "hiding in plain sight"
 
Joel Berson
- QOTY? -- "hiding in plain sight"
 
victor steinbok
- QOTY? -- "hiding in plain sight"
 
Garson O'Toole
- QOTY? -- "hiding in plain sight"
 
Joel S. Berson
- QOTY? -- "hiding in plain sight"
 
victor steinbok
- QOTY? -- "hiding in plain sight"
 
Joel S. Berson
- Quote: Frank Zappa on rock journalism (antedating); Also a question about the Rolling Stone magazine archive
 
Garson O'Toole
- Quote: Frank Zappa on rock journalism (antedating); Also a question about the Rolling Stone magazine archive
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Quote: Frank Zappa on rock journalism (antedating); Also a question about the Rolling Stone magazine archive
 
Jesse Sheidlower
- Quote: Frank Zappa on rock journalism (antedating); Also a question about the Rolling Stone magazine archive
 
Jesse Sheidlower
- Quote: Frank Zappa on rock journalism (antedating); Also a question about the Rolling Stone magazine archive
 
Garson O'Toole
- Quote: Frank Zappa on rock journalism (antedating); Also a question about the Rolling Stone magazine archive
 
Garson O'Toole
- Quote: If you want something very, very badly, let it go free (1972 edition question)
 
Garson O'Toole
- Quote: If you want something very, very badly, let it go free (1972 edition question)
 
Laurence Horn
- Quote: If you want something very, very badly, let it go free (1972 edition question)
 
Garson O'Toole
- Quote: If you want something very, very badly, let it go free (1972 edition question)
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Quote: If you want something very, very badly, let it go free (1972 edition question)
 
Garson O'Toole
- Quote: If you want something very, very badly, let it go free (1972 edition question)
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Quote: If you want something very, very badly, let it go free (1972 edition question)
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Quote: If you want something very, very badly, let it go free (1972 edition question)
 
Garson O'Toole
- Quote: If you want something very, very badly, let it go free (1972 edition question)
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Quote: If you want something very, very badly, let it go free (1972 edition question) (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Quote: It is difficult to predict, especially the future (variant in English 1956) (attrib Neils Bohr 1971); Question about Danish text
 
Garson O'Toole
- Quote: It is difficult to predict, especially the future (variant in English 1956) (attrib Neils Bohr 1971); Question about Danish text
 
Douglas G. Wilson
- Quote: It is difficult to predict, especially the future (variant in English 1956) (attrib Neils Bohr 1971); Question about Danish text
 
Garson O'Toole
- readout
 
Jonathan Lighter
- rebranding
 
Jonathan Lighter
- rebranding
 
Dan Goncharoff
- rebranding
 
victor steinbok
- rebranding
 
Joel S. Berson
- rebranding
 
Jonathan Lighter
- rebranding
 
Joel S. Berson
- rebranding
 
Laurence Horn
- rebranding
 
Jonathan Lighter
- rebranding
 
Margaret Lee
- rebranding
 
Charles C Doyle
- rebranding
 
Jonathan Lighter
- rebranding
 
Eric Nielsen
- retail therapy
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Rules of Etymology of Initialism - Specific case, "BDSM"
 
Sinful Sailor
- Scientific Conversions
 
Joel S. Berson
- Scientific Conversions
 
James Harbeck
- Scientific Conversions
 
Joel S. Berson
- Scientific Conversions
 
Garson O'Toole
- Scientific Conversions
 
Tom Zurinskas
- Scientific Conversions
 
victor steinbok
- Scientific Conversions
 
Garson O'Toole
- Scientific Conversions
 
Joel S. Berson
- Scientific Conversions
 
victor steinbok
- Siamese coupling (variant), from 1831
 
George Thompson
- sidekick = 'side dish'
 
Jonathan Lighter
- sidekick = 'side dish'
 
Laurence Horn
- sidekick = 'side dish'
 
Jonathan Lighter
- sidekick = 'side dish'
 
Garson O'Toole
- Signs that make you go "hmmmm"
 
Alice Faber
- Signs that make you go "hmmmm"
 
Ben Zimmer
- Signs that make you go "hmmmm"
 
Alice Faber
- Signs that make you go "hmmmm"
 
Arnold Zwicky
- Signs that make you go "hmmmm"
 
Joel S. Berson
- Springfield
 
Amy West
- Springfield
 
Joanne Despres
- squirmish
 
Arnold Zwicky
- squirmish
 
Jonathan Lighter
- squirmish; pub
 
Jonathan Lighter
- squirmish; pub
 
Arnold Zwicky
- squirmish; pub
 
Amy West
- squirmish; pub
 
Jonathan Lighter
- squirmish; pub
 
Tom Zurinskas
- step out= to die
 
Joan H. Hall
- step out= to die
 
Garson O'Toole
- succession = 'secession'
 
Jonathan Lighter
- succession = 'secession'
 
Dan Goncharoff
- Term "True Religion"
 
Shapiro, Fred
- Term "True Religion"
 
Garson O'Toole
- Term "True Religion"
 
Tom Zurinskas
- the "Streisand Effect"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- the "Streisand Effect"
 
Joel S. Berson
- the butt patrol
 
Arnold Zwicky
- the butt patrol
 
Wilson Gray
- the butt patrol
 
Jonathan Lighter
- the butt patrol
 
Charles C Doyle
- the butt patrol
 
Wilson Gray
- the butt patrol
 
Neal Whitman
- the butt patrol
 
Jonathan Lighter
- the butt patrol
 
Laurence Horn
- the butt patrol
 
Arnold Zwicky
- the butt patrol
 
Laurence Horn
- the butt patrol
 
Wilson Gray
- the butt patrol
 
Wilson Gray
- The Meaning of "Make a Statement"
 
Baker, John
- The Meaning of "Make a Statement"
 
victor steinbok
- The Meaning of "Make a Statement"
 
Wilson Gray
- The Meat Sheet [was: rebranding]
 
Joel S. Berson
- The Meat Sheet [was: rebranding]
 
Eric Nielsen
- The Meat Sheet [was: rebranding]
 
Garson O'Toole
- the power of "the"
 
Jonathan Lighter
- the power of "the"
 
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- the power of "the"
 
Laurence Horn
- the power of "the"
 
Charles C Doyle
- The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; but that is the way to bet (antedating attrib Hugh Keough 1919 February 8)
 
Garson O'Toole
- The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; but that is the way to bet (antedating attrib Hugh Keough 1919 February 8)
 
Garson O'Toole
- to MacGuff
 
Jonathan Lighter
- Topical quote about the blood supply to the brain and other organs (Robin Williams 1995)
 
Garson O'Toole
- Transitive "surge"
 
Neal Whitman
- Transitive "surge"
 
Ben Zimmer
- Travel_ as TRANS
 
Brian Hitchcock
- Travel_ as TRANS
 
Arnold Zwicky
- Travel_ as TRANS
 
Brian Hitchcock
- truthy and falsy
 
Patty
- UD: _Master texting_
 
Wilson Gray
- UD: _Master texting_
 
Tom Zurinskas
- veHEment
 
Jonathan Lighter
- viral tot mom
 
Jonathan Lighter
- viral tot mom
 
Ben Zimmer
- viral tot mom
 
Charles C Doyle
- viral tot mom
 
Wilson Gray
- What are you going to do?:-(
 
Wilson Gray
- What are you going to do?:-(
 
Jonathan Lighter
- What are you going to do?:-(
 
Wilson Gray
- Whom anxiety?
 
Joel S. Berson
- Whom anxiety?
 
Laurence Horn
- Whom anxiety?
 
Baker, John
- Whom anxiety?
 
Joel S. Berson
- Whom anxiety?
 
Wilson Gray
- Whom anxiety?
 
Laurence Horn
- Whom anxiety?
 
Joel S. Berson
- Word-final [Ng] in BE?
 
Wilson Gray
- WordNet and Google
 
Randy Alexander
- WordNet and Google
 
Garson O'Toole
- WOT moment - "Newtiny"
 
Joel S. Berson
- WOT moment - "Newtiny"
 
Tom Zurinskas
    
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