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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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