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- bunga-bunga
 
Wilson Gray
 - semi-skim
 
Laurence Horn
 - Anglicisms
 
Robin Hamilton
 - Zhongtong bus Company
 
Tom Zurinskas
 - "spa" = 'neighborhood grocery store', aka 'convenience store'?
 
Amy West
- "spa" = 'neighborhood grocery store', aka 'convenience store'?
 
Barbara Need
 - "spa" = 'neighborhood grocery store', aka 'convenience store'?
 
Baker, John
 - "spa" = 'neighborhood grocery store', aka 'convenience store'?
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "spa" = 'neighborhood grocery store', aka 'convenience store'?
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "spa" = 'neighborhood grocery store', aka 'convenience store'?
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "spa" = 'neighborhood grocery store', aka 'convenience store'?
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "spa" = 'neighborhood grocery store', aka 'convenience store'?
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "spa" = 'neighborhood grocery store', aka 'convenience store'?
 
Barbara Need
 - "spa" = 'neighborhood grocery store', aka 'convenience store'?
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "spa" = 'neighborhood grocery store', aka 'convenience store'?
 
Victor Steinbok
 - "spa" = 'neighborhood grocery store', aka 'convenience store'?
 
Victor Steinbok
 - "spa" = 'neighborhood grocery store', aka 'convenience store'?
 
Wilson Gray
 - "spa" = 'neighborhood grocery store', aka 'convenience store'?
 
Victor Steinbok
 - "spa" = 'neighborhood grocery store', aka 'convenience store'?
 
Laurence Horn
 - "spa" = 'neighborhood grocery store', aka 'convenience store'?
 
Barbara Need
 - "spa" = 'neighborhood grocery store', aka 'convenience store'?
 
Amy West
 
 - "spa" = 'neighborhood grocery store', aka 'convenience store'? (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Eoin C Bairéad
 - spa
 
Joan H. Hall
- spa
 
Joel S. Berson
 - spa
 
Laurence Horn
 - spa
 
Joel S. Berson
 - spa
 
Joan H. Hall
 - spa
 
Joel S. Berson
 - spa
 
George Thompson
 
 - 1899 "spa" as restaurant featuring a soda fountain
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "glass + s" vs. "glasses" (in the OED)
 
Charles C Doyle
 - the rare
 
Victor Steinbok
 - "soda fountain" 1811, antedating OED2 1824--
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Knee-tremblingly
 
George Thompson
 - Galliano
 
Victor Steinbok
 - NYTimes Magazine on Twitter: on language not dead
 
Sylvia Swift
 - traveler = 'Communist sympathizer'
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Negro/negro & black/Black
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Huckabee gaffe
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Before someone beats me to the punch...
 
Laurence Horn
 - Nigger vs. Colored, et al.
 
Hunter, Lynne R CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-PACIFIC, 71700
- Nigger vs. Colored, et al.
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Nigger vs. Colored, et al.
 
paul johnson
 - Nigger vs. Colored, et al.
 
Wilson Gray
 - Nigger vs. Colored, et al.
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Nigger vs. Colored, et al.
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Nigger vs. Colored, et al.
 
Michael Newman
 - Nigger vs. Colored, et al.
 
Michael Newman
 - Nigger vs. Colored, et al.
 
Wilson Gray
 - Nigger vs. Colored, et al.
 
Laurence Horn
 - Nigger vs. Colored, et al.
 
Michael Newman
 - Nigger vs. Colored, et al.
 
Wilson Gray
 - Nigger vs. Colored, et al.
 
Michael Newman
 - Nigger vs. Colored, et al.
 
Tom Zurinskas
 
 - traveler = 'Communist sympathizer' (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 - battleship
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - personnel, sing. PLUS dark sayings of the vox populi
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Negro/negro & black/Black (also Nigger vs. Colored, et al.)
 
George Thompson
 - battleship (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 - Heard in a movie, The Fourth Protocol:
 
Wilson Gray
- Heard in a movie, The Fourth Protocol:
 
Victor Steinbok
 - Heard in a movie, The Fourth Protocol:
 
Wilson Gray
 - Heard in a movie, The Fourth Protocol:
 
Victor Steinbok
 - Heard in a movie, The Fourth Protocol:
 
Laurence Horn
 - Heard in a movie, The Fourth Protocol:
 
Sarah
 - Heard in a movie, The Fourth Protocol:
 
Laurence Horn
 - Heard in a movie, The Fourth Protocol:
 
Sarah
 - Heard in a movie, The Fourth Protocol:
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Heard in a movie, The Fourth Protocol:
 
Laurence Horn
 - Heard in a movie, The Fourth Protocol:
 
Wilson Gray
 - Heard in a movie, The Fourth Protocol:
 
Wilson Gray
 - Heard in a movie, The Fourth Protocol:
 
Sarah
 - Heard in a movie, The Fourth Protocol:
 
Sarah
 - Heard in a movie, The Fourth Protocol:
 
Paul Johnston
 - Heard in a movie, The Fourth Protocol:
 
Laurence Horn
 - Heard in a movie, The Fourth Protocol:
 
Sarah
 
 - Scotus does semantics
 
Laurence Horn
 - "sable" = "black" (person)
 
Joel S. Berson
 - in retrospect
 
Victor Steinbok
 - "squint" = "narrow one's eyes" not in OED?
 
Neal Whitman
 - literally
 
Victor Steinbok
 - garden path?
 
Victor Steinbok
 - golden parachute
 
Victor Steinbok
 - microsemantics
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Possessive relative pronouns again: "whose", "which's", "that's"
 
Neal Whitman
 - trip the light? fantastic!
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Heard in a movie, The Fourth Protocol: (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 - Was the poem "Hogamous, Higamous" composed by William James under the influence of nitrous oxide?
 
Garson O'Toole
 - signature, adj.
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Challenge for Garson, Stephen, and Others
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - Challenge for Garson, Stephen, and Others (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Challenge for Garson, Stephen, and Others (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 - Challenge for Garson, Stephen, and Others (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 - Challenge for Garson, Stephen, and Others (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Victor Steinbok
 - Challenge for Garson, Stephen, and Others (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Victor Steinbok
 - Challenge for Garson, Stephen, and Others (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Garson O'Toole
 - Challenge for Garson, Stephen, and Others (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Victor Steinbok
 - Challenge for Garson, Stephen, and Others (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Stephen Goranson
 - Challenge for Garson, Stephen, and Others (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Garson O'Toole
 
 - Antedating of "Wing Nut"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - "Blood Libel" Not in OED
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - stir-fry crazy
 
Herb Stahlke
 - That's all she wrote antedatings
 
Michael Quinion
 - Fwd: "foreign, adj. and n." - Word of the Day from the OED :: "foreign devil"
 
Victor Steinbok
 - The "Big Bad Wolf" and chickens?
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "Jew(ish) lightning"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "Jew(UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 - OK Day March 23
 
aallan at AOL.COM
 - "Los Po'-Boy-citos" [NT]
 
Wilson Gray
 - OT: "Only In America" ... It's not just abortion, anymore.
 
Wilson Gray
 - test-drive
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "Biennium" Not in OED
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - bite-size
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "Neurotic, adj. sense 4, 1907, antedates 1917--
 
Joel S. Berson
- "Neurotic, adj. sense 4, 1907, antedates 1917--
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - "Neurotic, adj. sense 4, 1907, antedates 1917--
 
Victor Steinbok
 - "Neurotic, adj. sense 4, 1907, antedates 1917--
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "Neurotic, adj. sense 4, 1907, antedates 1917--
 
Victor Steinbok
 - "Neurotic, adj. sense 4, 1907, antedates 1917--
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "Neurotic, adj. sense 4, 1907, antedates 1917--
 
Joel S. Berson
 
 - The _ _ _ from hell; The Woman from Hell (film working title 1940; other cites starting in 1902)
 
Garson O'Toole
 - Of a clogged commode: "The smell was just _permanating through_ the air!" [NT]
 
Wilson Gray
 - “the mother of all battles”
 
Wilson Gray
 - "my favorite album of _there's_." [NT]
 
Wilson Gray
 - test-drive (the noun)
 
Joel S. Berson
 - test-drive (the attributive) -- not
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "spoofy" and "shimming" in Utah, 1919
 
George Thompson
- "spoofy" and "shimming" in Utah, 1919
 
Victor Steinbok
 - "spoofy" and "shimming" in Utah, 1919
 
Victor Steinbok
 - "spoofy" and "shimming" in Utah, 1919
 
Victor Steinbok
 - "spoofy" and "shimming" in Utah, 1919
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "spoofy" and "shimming" in Utah, 1919
 
Victor Steinbok
 - "spoofy" and "shimming" in Utah, 1919
 
Wilson Gray
 - "spoofy" and "shimming" in Utah, 1919
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "spoofy" and "shimming" in Utah, 1919
 
Laurence Horn
 - "spoofy" and "shimming" in Utah, 1919
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "spoofy" and "shimming" in Utah, 1919
 
George Thompson
 - "spoofy" and "shimming" in Utah, 1919
 
George Thompson
 - "spoofy" and "shimming" in Utah, 1919
 
Jonathan Lighter
 
 - strapline
 
Tom Zurinskas
 - scale / fabrication etc.
 
Victor Steinbok
 - Need a word!
 
Guy Letourneau
 - jerk = 'stupid person' (1928)
 
Ben Zimmer
 - 'Orchardist' 1935
 
Guy Letourneau
 - Albright College slang (1938) - "stuff for the birds," "schmo hawk"
 
Ben Zimmer
 - It's a doggie-dog world
 
Charles C Doyle
 - chub
 
Victor Steinbok
- chub
 
ronbutters at AOL.COM
 
 - grette = 'cigarette'
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Dante, the one-hit wonder
 
George Thompson
- Dante, the one-hit wonder
 
Eric Nielsen
 - Dante, the one-hit wonder
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Dante, the one-hit wonder
 
Victor Steinbok
 - Dante, the one-hit wonder
 
George Thompson
 - Dante, the one-hit wonder
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Dante, the one-hit wonder
 
Laurence Horn
 - Dante, the one-hit wonder
 
Eric Nielsen
 - Dante, the one-hit wonder
 
George Thompson
 - Dante, the one-hit wonder
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Dante, the one-hit wonder
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Dante, the one-hit wonder
 
Victor Steinbok
 
 - 1917 Jazz cites (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 - ADS-orama on Southern California Public Radio
 
Ben Zimmer
 - Tracking "comfortable in one's skin" in English
 
Nancy Friedman
 - Jerryekane Kane wants to stay in touch on LinkedIn
 
Jerryekane Kane
 - Albright College slang (1938) - bimb(o)
 
Joel S. Berson
 - uptown/downtown
 
Michael Sheehan
 - moon substance
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - V-NOTY -- "to (Charlie) sheen"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Another logical reversal
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Heard on Springer: "Ain't _[nA at n]_ to it"
 
Wilson Gray
 - massage parlor
 
Victor Steinbok
 - Say what, now?
 
Wilson Gray
 - saucering tea
 
George Thompson
 - moon substance, green
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "admitted allegation"?
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "hoped at to lose"
 
Laurence Horn
 - SECOL Program, Registration
 
Bill Kretzschmar
 - drop
 
Lynne Murphy
- drop
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - drop
 
ronbutters at AOL.COM
 - drop
 
Ben Zimmer
 - drop
 
Dave Wilton
 
 - goddam, goddem was Re: Albright College slang (1938) - bimb(o)
 
Garson O'Toole
 - Hand to God
 
Karl Hagen
 - Corporate Jargon Jamboree
 
Martin Kaminer
 - goddam, goddem
 
Joel S. Berson
 - scream-of-consciousness
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Fwd: Corporate Jargon Jamboree
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - Some jargon of the old Army Security Agency/Berlin, 1957-1962
 
Wilson Gray
 - nekkid
 
victor steinbok
 - water ice
 
victor steinbok
 - Limerick poem dates
 
Stephen Goranson
 - Vocabula
 
Robert Hartwell Fiske
 - first comes love...
 
Victor Steinbok
 - No subject
 
Charles Primas
 - Helping missing people
 
Joel S. Berson
 - eye dialect was RE: nekkid
 
Gordon, Matthew J.
 - Dating of Commercial Meaning of "Bundle"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - Mark Twain's profanity
 
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
 - Green's Dictionary
 
Wilson Gray
 - Antedating of "Miniseries"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - Antedating of "Spring Training"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - Antedating of "Method Acting"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - Another one bites the dust.
 
Wilson Gray
 - more "Limerick" quotes
 
Stephen Goranson
 - gone viral
 
Tom Zurinskas
 - "after the jump"
 
paul johnson
 - tragedy plus time
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "fission" with -zh-?
 
geoffrey nunberg
 - tragedy plus time (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 - Q: "Earliest written reference to baseball"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Jazz, was:RE: [ADS-L] Q: "Earliest written reference to baseball"
 
Stephen Goranson
- Jazz, was:RE: [ADS-L] Q: "Earliest written reference to baseball"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Jazz, was:RE: [ADS-L] Q: "Earliest written reference to baseball"
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - Jazz, was:RE: [ADS-L] Q: "Earliest written reference to baseball"
 
Charles C Doyle
 - Jazz, was:RE: [ADS-L] Q: "Earliest written reference to baseball"
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - Jazz, was:RE: [ADS-L] Q: "Earliest written reference to baseball"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Jazz, was:RE: [ADS-L] Q: "Earliest written reference to baseball"
 
Laurence Horn
 - Jazz, was:RE: [ADS-L] Q: "Earliest written reference to baseball"
 
Charles C Doyle
 - Jazz, was:RE: [ADS-L] Q: "Earliest written reference to baseball"
 
Victor Steinbok
 - Jazz, was:RE: [ADS-L] Q: "Earliest written reference to baseball"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Jazz, was:RE: [ADS-L] Q: "Earliest written reference to baseball"
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - Jazz, was:RE: [ADS-L] Q: "Earliest written reference to baseball"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Jazz, was:RE: [ADS-L] Q: "Earliest written reference to baseball"
 
Wilson Gray
 - Jazz, was:RE: [ADS-L] Q: "Earliest written reference to baseball"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 
 - Worse and worse
 
William Palmer
 - wear the ruby slippers
 
crawford
 - "a warning singsong"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - disconnect
 
ronbutters at AOL.COM
 - the Purim story
 
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
 - [deep] in the X
 
Victor Steinbok
 - Quote relating intelligence and conversational topic preference (1901 attrib Henry Thomas Buckle)
 
Garson O'Toole
 - the cart or the horse?
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "Truth is the first casualty."
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "Right On, Brother": 1969 as titles of phonograph records
 
Wilson Gray
 - ancient Chinese saying
 
Victor Steinbok
 - status quo = 'situation'
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Emirati
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - _Entrapment_ = "excessive enticement"
 
Wilson Gray
 - Patton's "dumb bastard"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - March Madness
 
victor steinbok
 - "Post-Patty's Hangover Sale!"
 
Wilson Gray
 - fleet
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - new proverb
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Postpositive e.g.
 
Randy Alexander
 - Virus warning!
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - antedating of "the candy"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - big antedating of "gimp," n.
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Perdue (not Frank either)
 
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
 - Jass 1913
 
Stephen Goranson
 - ramping down
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - ramping down (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 - New English (?) name: Jhan
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Farrar and onomatopoeia
 
Victor Steinbok
 - Jarrell's "upside down"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - sight over hall
 
James Harbeck
 - Sentence-initial "As well"
 
Charles C Doyle
 - friend of Dorothy"
 
crawford
 - Tactical air
 
William Palmer
 - friend of Dorothy" (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 - Google book settlement -- DENIED
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - Google a serial predator [was: Google book settlement -- DENIED]
 
Joel S. Berson
 - the fight over "app store"
 
Ben Zimmer
 - Diane Sawyer hedging her bets
 
Laurence Horn
 - more irony
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Culture-clash
 
Wilson Gray
 - "Complicate" = "elucidate the complexity of"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "death and violence" quote
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - New proverbs to guide your life
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - ADS-L Digest - 21 Mar 2011 to 22 Mar 2011 (#2011-82)
 
Your Name
 - One-hit wonder (antedating 1958 December 27)
 
Garson O'Toole
 - puts the fun (back) into dysfunctional (family)
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - assassination
 
Charles C Doyle
 - New proverbs to guide your life (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 - more on "ethnic cleansing"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Encarta
 
Victor Steinbok
 - Happy OK Day!
 
aallan at AOL.COM
 - Diversified shopping
 
Victor Steinbok
 - FW:  note on assassination
 
David Barnhart
 - Britspeak "especially"? [was: assassination]
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Indian savagery
 
Joel S. Berson
 - The rebirth and use of the _merkin_
 
Wilson Gray
 - Color(ed) pencils, color((ing) in) books
 
Neal Whitman
 - Pachangas
 
crawford
 - Pachangas (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 - Hot-tubbing
 
victor steinbok
 - "icon" and "iconic"
 
Jocelyn Limpert
 - LOL (1989)
 
Ben Zimmer
 - "Complicate" = "elucidate the complexity of" (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 - "Chill" Meaning "Inhibit or Discourage"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - OED's "rum" -- perhaps 1651?; and its misattributions to "Franklin's" Drinkers Dictionary
 
Joel S. Berson
 - good quote
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - OED <3 NY
 
Andrew Thompson
 - Quote: I don't want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members (antedating Groucho attrib 1949 October 20)
 
Garson O'Toole
 - Reflections on OED's "rum"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - eye dialect that meets the eye
 
Tom Zurinskas
 - Improving HathiTrust and Google Books: Assigning dates to subsections of volumes
 
Garson O'Toole
 - People and Color
 
Eric Nielsen
 - boot 'trunk of a car'
 
Charles C Doyle
 - tinfoil hat (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 - tin foil cap (1979 September 13 [for protecting brain])
 
Garson O'Toole
 - Quote: Cary Grant telegram anecdote based on Gar Wood story - testimony from Timothy Ferris
 
Garson O'Toole
 - a "thats" possessive on the national news
 
Laurence Horn
 - kinetic
 
Victor Steinbok
 - Quote about academia: worst of all kinds of politics because the stakes were so small (Charles Frankel 1969)
 
Garson O'Toole
 - southwestern connecticut
 
Michael Newman
 - please be expected
 
James Harbeck
 - Dr. Jonas Sock
 
Tom Zurinskas
 - [a]
 
Victor Steinbok
 - a relative "in which" on CNN
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - www.whatwouldthefoundersthink.com
 
Joel S. Berson
 - The infinitive constructions _to NOT verb_ & _NOT to verb_
 
Wilson Gray
 - groaniest
 
Victor Steinbok
 - cute use of _linguist_
 
David Barnhart
 - Figurative "Clean House"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - "like pickles and ice cream"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - lecture of interest
 
victor steinbok
 - Another sexual pun slipped by the censors ...
 
Joel S. Berson
 - targeting
 
victor steinbok
 - a Wikileak
 
victor steinbok
 - ADS-L Digest - 25 Mar 2011 to 26 Mar 2011 (#2011-86)
 
Your Name
 - Antedating of "Hispanic"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - More on Antedating of "Hispanic"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - Still More on Antedating of "Hispanic"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - NUS
 
Robert Hartwell Fiske
 - reach for the sky
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - reach for the sky (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 - "plaudits (praise)"
 
Wilson Gray
 - "like pickles and ice cream" (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 - follow-up on "piling on"
 
Arnold Zwicky
 - {dating] reach for the sky
 
Joel S. Berson
 - OT:  "copyright" (imprint) date vs. publication date
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Q;  pronouncing "Fukushima"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Broshering
 
Michael Quinion
 - "Heaven for the climate, hell for the company"
 
Joel S. Berson
 - the new limits of "novel"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - the new limits of "novel" (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 - "Bath salts"
 
Wilson Gray
 - _Raunch[ing]_ "drink[ing]"
 
Wilson Gray
 - "true the vote"
 
Ben Zimmer
 - "true the vote" (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
 - "but what"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - slodder
 
Tom Zurinskas
 - Copyright dates (was: reach for the sky (UNCLASSIFIED))
 
David Bowie
 - "Commode"
 
Wilson Gray
 - technology
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - "Rough men stand ready . . ." (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - crash blossom?
 
Victor Steinbok
 - "tee-totally" 1810
 
Stephen Goranson
 - curious usage note
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - Duke University Press blog post on WOTY, ATNW
 
Ben Zimmer
 - "Thank you, for those advice!"
 
Wilson Gray
 - Origins of 'sick' meaning noteworthy, admirable, exceptional, etc.
 
Martin Kaminer
 - Ukelele: depalatization and palatization - accommodation?
 
Benjamin Barrett
 - "in a jiffy" antedated (?) to 1780
 
Stephen Goranson
 - Live TV = watched while broadcast
 
Neal Whitman
 - "Straddling", of fish?
 
Joel S. Berson
 - Participial "slow + -n"
 
Charles C Doyle
 - The antecedent of "Hell is where the English are the chefs"?
 
Joel S. Berson
 - "Ching-chong"
 
Wilson Gray
    
 
    
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