May 2011 Archives by thread
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- New political tone in America
Arnold Zwicky
- Quote: 'till they could see the white of their eyes (attrib General Putnam 1800 June)
Garson O'Toole
- Fwd: Killing people and breaking things
Neal Whitman
- Heard on The judges: "Ripping and running"
Wilson Gray
- Rum, sodomy, lash; rum, bum, baccer and other expressions
Garson O'Toole
- Rum, sodomy, lash; rum, bum, baccer and other expressions
Laurence Horn
- Rum, sodomy, lash; rum, bum, baccer and other expressions
Dan Goncharoff
- Rum, sodomy, lash; rum, bum, baccer and other expressions
Jonathan Lighter
- Rum, sodomy, lash; rum, bum, baccer and other expressions
Douglas G. Wilson
- Rum, sodomy, lash; rum, bum, baccer and other expressions
Jonathan Lighter
- Rum, sodomy, lash; rum, bum, baccer and other expressions
Garson O'Toole
- Rum, sodomy, lash; rum, bum, baccer and other expressions
Jonathan Lighter
- Rum, sodomy, lash; rum, bum, baccer and other expressions
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Rum, sodomy, lash; rum, bum, baccer and other expressions
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- to leave = 'to leave a bequest to'
Jonathan Lighter
- Killing people and breaking things
Jonathan Lighter
- "book-shelf", 1766 et al., antedating 1818
Joel S. Berson
- Perhaps of interest
Wilson Gray
- A street railroad car called a "long parlor"
George Thompson
- "Don't just do something...."
Jonathan Lighter
- speed humps
Jonathan Lighter
- speed bump; speed hump; speed table
David Barnhart
- letter-sound relationships in US English
Tom Zurinskas
- the over-under is....
George Thompson
- rumble strip
Joan H. Hall
- A word of caution about the OED's "Advanced search results"
Joel S. Berson
- Doctor Livingstone, I presume
victor steinbok
- a critical mondegreen
George Thompson
- authentic definition
Tom Zurinskas
- real-time (UNCLASSIFIED)
Jonathan Lighter
- real-time
Joel S. Berson
- speed humps, serpentines, and other traffic calmings
Joel S. Berson
- Even Further Antedating of "Hot Dog"
Shapiro, Fred
- compass/caliper
victor steinbok
- new (?) proverb
Jonathan Lighter
- special operators
victor steinbok
- Early sucker
crawford
- pomophobe
Jonathan Lighter
- Even Further Antedating of "Hot Dog" -- (message from B. Popik)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Modern Proverb: Amateur practices till he can do it right; professional till he can't do it wrong (1976 probably)
Garson O'Toole
- A not-pointless flash-mob?
Joel S. Berson
- real-time baseball
Joel S. Berson
- The pointless flash-mob
Joel S. Berson
- Enter The Dragon
Wilson Gray
- book review
victor steinbok
- Bin Laden and PC
Jonathan Lighter
- Viral Quotes in the News: great deal of satisfaction over many obituary notices (Clarence S. Darrow 1922 Nov 13)
Garson O'Toole
- Another new proverb
Jonathan Lighter
- "pedantry"
Arnold Zwicky
- cabbage together
Alice Faber
- (across the) "block" ~= street, and the OED?
Mark Mandel
- The Dutch and Australian flash-mobs
Joel S. Berson
- Murphy's Law
Mark Mandel
- "Right back at you!"
Jonathan Lighter
- OT: (across the) (unknowable) "block"
Joel S. Berson
- Despite rapid growth, India lets its girls die (AP headline online)
Joel S. Berson
- Q: "to taper" = "to gradually *increase* in intensity"
Joel S. Berson
- Geronimo origin
David Barnhart
- Another new proverb (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Bin Laden and KIA
Joel S. Berson
- Black Friday (day after Thanksgiving), 1961
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- cabbage together (with cow)
Joel S. Berson
- "Ces sites sont cool! Checkez ces beautes!" [NT]
Wilson Gray
- more on Geronimo's Apache name
David Barnhart
- kinetic AND killing people and breaking things
Neal Whitman
- Faustian illeanism in the desert
Jonathan Lighter
- More book reviews of interest
victor steinbok
- More book reviews of interest (P.S.)
Laurence Horn
- add to the Rolodex
victor steinbok
- name magic
Jonathan Lighter
- Query: "military brat" prior to 1981?
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Query: "military brat" prior to 1981? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- deather(ism), proofer(ism)
Ben Zimmer
- tornado advisory terms (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Keeping Up with the Goonses
Baker, John
- yet another "fact"
Jonathan Lighter
- Trivia: "WORLD+DOG"
Wilson Gray
- There's a broken heart for every light on Broadway
Jonathan Lighter
- "I was sitting in my mother's lap and she was cutting _me_ some cake."
Wilson Gray
- Motto: live free or die (supplementary)
Garson O'Toole
- backronym
victor steinbok
- submarine slang (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- ... she was cutting _me_ some cake."
Joel S. Berson
- "... and she was cutting _me_ some cake."
Joel S. Berson
- compass/caliper (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- public spiritedness
Dan Goncharoff
- Sounds app and truespel phonetics analysis of the letters of the alphabet
Tom Zurinskas
- Quote: Preach the gospel all the time - if necessary, use words (attrib Francis of Assisi 1989 August)
Garson O'Toole
- Note from a former Zionist
victor steinbok
- Eskimos, move over!
Jonathan Lighter
- N-word Hill, Calif.
Jonathan Lighter
- Grandson of "is is"
Jonathan Lighter
- let it drag
Jonathan Lighter
- "Baby daddy"
Wilson Gray
- Viral Quotes: Remark about a funeral: I approve of it (attrib Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar 1887; attrib Mark Twain 1938)
Garson O'Toole
- One letter off
victor steinbok
- Quote: It's what we learn after we think we know it all that counts. (Kin Hubbard 1921 July 21)
Garson O'Toole
- Legal Sense of "Defender"
Shapiro, Fred
- working out an etymological puzzle
Laurence Horn
- Navy SEALs as sex symbols
victor steinbok
- Eggcorny goodness: Subwolfer
Erik Hoover
- Dialect dissonance, again
Wilson Gray
- "Could you please do _as_ a favor and test ...?" [NT]
Wilson Gray
- paranoid
victor steinbok
- Christian name
Jonathan Lighter
- "... se reconstruyen _mini-sistemas_ ..." [NT]
Wilson Gray
- Phrase: none of your funeral (antedating 1850 July 6) also shift in semantics
Garson O'Toole
- profiling
Jonathan Lighter
- Epithet by which future history will remember Obama
Jonathan Lighter
- no more pets
David Barnhart
- fish-fry
victor steinbok
- ladder
victor steinbok
- cold peace
victor steinbok
- dentalizations and the Howard Gardner mystery
Michael Newman
- a candidate for WOTY
David Barnhart
- Chicago Code
victor steinbok
- note on "bastard"
Jonathan Lighter
- money bomb
victor steinbok
- The R word
William Palmer
- The perils of the rising Mississippi
Joel S. Berson
- R-word revisited
David Barnhart
- gattable
victor steinbok
- pingpong diplomacy
victor steinbok
- fail over
Victor Steinbok
- fluent
Victor Steinbok
- lemon party
Jonathan Lighter
- More on lemon party
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- fluent (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Antedating of "Democracy"
Shapiro, Fred
- channel agnostic
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- eno's vegetable moto
victor steinbok
- interesting quote for channel agnostic
David Barnhart
- wing suit; squirrel suit
Jonathan Lighter
- "Pit" as the past tense of "pit"
Neal Whitman
- Rolodex (virtual and vast) redux
Joel S. Berson
- "... is an easily-understood grid known as a 'pattern'."
Wilson Gray
- "Living Large"
Shapiro, Fred
- COHA/COCA meets Google Books
Neal Whitman
- Heard on Childrens [sic] Hospital: _cripple-sticks_
Wilson Gray
- "Old-school" is not what it used to be
victor steinbok
- sweet
victor steinbok
- The curious case of a terminus ad quem
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- LBS
Jonathan Lighter
- LBS
James Harbeck
- LBS
Jonathan Lighter
- LBS
Douglas G. Wilson
- LBS
victor steinbok
- LBS
Tom Zurinskas
- LBS
Jonathan Lighter
- LBS
Jonathan Lighter
- LBS
Joel S. Berson
- LBS
Neal Whitman
- LBS
Joel S. Berson
- LBS
Jonathan Lighter
- LBS
Jonathan Lighter
- LBS
Tom Zurinskas
- LBS
Tom Zurinskas
- LBS
Jonathan Lighter
- LBS
Laurence Horn
- LBS
Tom Zurinskas
- LBS
Laurence Horn
- LBS
Tom Zurinskas
- "the other painting's owner"
Joel S. Berson
- STI
Jonathan Lighter
- STI
victor steinbok
- STI
Laurence Horn
- STI
Douglas G. Wilson
- STI
Jonathan Lighter
- STI
Laurence Horn
- STI
Jonathan Lighter
- STI
Laurence Horn
- STI
Joel S. Berson
- STI
victor steinbok
- STI
victor steinbok
- STI
Jonathan Lighter
- STI
victor steinbok
- STI
Jonathan Lighter
- STI
Dave Wilton
- _Boody_ "arse" vs. _booty_ "id."
Wilson Gray
- "bizarre" and "controversial"
Jonathan Lighter
- "Designee" Not in OED
Shapiro, Fred
- "treasure trove" -- EMCPOTY
Joel S. Berson
- "[all] found"
Joel S. Berson
- Churchill quote: spurious?
Jonathan Lighter
- More signs of the Apocalypse
Jonathan Lighter
- spinning in the grave
Jonathan Lighter
- A less-interesting "Memorex moment," but WTF?
Wilson Gray
- Query on Language Columns in Media
Shapiro, Fred
- Quip: If your husband were alive, your conduct would make him turn in his grave (1898)
Garson O'Toole
- manageable/imaginable
victor steinbok
- "jawn" and other Philly slang
Ben Zimmer
- "jawn" and other Philly slang; skeeve
Paul Johnston
- skeevy
Jonathan Lighter
- algo
victor steinbok
- dragon-slayer
Jonathan Lighter
- another reversal?
victor steinbok
- peak == largest ?
victor steinbok
- flyjin
Amy West
- Plus la change -- and Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Joel S. Berson
- "wildest streams"
Joel S. Berson
- Antedating of "Disarmament"
Shapiro, Fred
- Origin of the term "Upstate"
Chris Wholers
- up-state update
David Barnhart
- down-state (1904)
David Barnhart
- up-state/down-state
David Barnhart
- 6
William Warren
- 6
victor steinbok
- 6
Wilson Gray
- Michigan "downstate"
David Barnhart
- UD: (2005) _do the thing_ = "have sex"; (2007) _stinky leg_ = "penis"
Wilson Gray
- up-state/down-state Vermont
Joel S. Berson
- northern summer
Tom Zurinskas
- "Disenfranchisement" Listed as Obsolete
Shapiro, Fred
- "Report: Schwarzenegger _Baby Mama_ Was Fired In Attempt To Save Marriage"
Wilson Gray
- 8
William Warren
- conservatism/conservative
victor steinbok
- QOTY?
Jonathan Lighter
- mutual
victor steinbok
- frenemy
Tom Zurinskas
- the language of gesture
George Thompson
- Google News Archive will not add further content
Grant Barrett
- papal
Jonathan Lighter
- Poor judgment (and language) about Judgment Day
Joel S. Berson
- vaycay; hiccough
Jonathan Lighter
- an accidental contruction?
Charles C Doyle
- Heard on Mob Wives
Wilson Gray
- A new kind of tectonic drift?
Wilson Gray
- dynamic = "influencing circumstance(s)"?
Jonathan Lighter
- gang = '(with neutral force) group (of people)'
Jonathan Lighter
- May 21 -- God's Providence
Joel S. Berson
- "The Twitter Thesaurus: Gives You Shorter Synonyms"
Martin Kaminer
- Out of world reply [RE: May 21 -- God's Providence]
David A. Daniel
- devil's choice
Jonathan Lighter
- overlooked quotation
Jonathan Lighter
- fodder
Jonathan Lighter
- beyond words
Jonathan Lighter
- "Looking For New Words Added in the Past Century"
Damien Hall
- What's new isn't always what it seems to be.
David Barnhart
- the sport of kings
Jonathan Lighter
- fodder (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Pawlenty's accent hopping
Tom Zurinskas
- nail that Jell-O
Jonathan Lighter
- "Thanks! I Needed That!"
Jonathan Lighter
- tidal wave of change
Tom Zurinskas
- narrative
Jonathan Lighter
- "You want punched out?"
Ben Zimmer
- Heard on Springer: "Sex?" "No."
Wilson Gray
- Victualler in 1820 Philadelphia, PA USA
Michael McKernan
- _Half-way house_ > _halfway home_
Wilson Gray
- Bill Klem Quote
Shapiro, Fred
- Quote: Baseball: they ain't nothin' until I call 'em (attrib Charley Moran 1947 August 30)
Garson O'Toole
- tot mom
Jonathan Lighter
- Quote: Baseball: calling them as he sees them [variant: call em as I see em] (1910 May 24)
Garson O'Toole
- "... you are missing the subtle _queues_ that Japanese take for granted." [NT]
Wilson Gray
- bogus quotes strike again?
Jonathan Lighter
- Proverb: If you can't beat 'em, join 'em (antedating 1901 July 10)
Garson O'Toole
- "Yankees suck" constitutes profanity?
Ben Zimmer
- "Simple _is_ that." [NT]
Wilson Gray
- short note: black strap molasses
victor steinbok
- short note: under the radar
victor steinbok
- OT: Baseball philosophy was Re: Bill Klem Quote
Amy West
- Baseball philosophy was Re: Bill Klem Quote
Dave Wilton
- Heard on Springer: caucasian BIN
Wilson Gray
- Backwards "replace"
Joel S. Berson
- Heard on The Judges
Wilson Gray
- black strap molasses
Joel S. Berson
- "bone in her teeth"
Joel S. Berson
- "come about", nautical -- "of the wind", and Obs., in OED?
Joel S. Berson
- Heard on MythBusters:
Wilson Gray
- Fa-word: encountered in NPR news today
David Barnhart
- A variation on the shaving cream song
victor steinbok
- "slut" in the news
Ben Zimmer
- supercede; dispositive
Jonathan Lighter
- [SPAM:##] Re: [SPAM:##] "slut" in the news
Arnold Zwicky
- more on fa-word
David Barnhart
- "moonraker" and Wiltshire cheese, 1789
Joel S. Berson
- Google effectively ends objective searches
Mark Mandel
- _Kiss my grits!_ = "Kiss my ass!," by a writer for The Family Guy
Wilson Gray
- _Kiss my grits!_ = "Kiss my ass!," by a writer for The Family Guy
Jonathan Lighter
- _Kiss my grits!_ = "Kiss my ass!," by a writer for The Family Guy
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- _Kiss my grits!_ = "Kiss my ass!," by a writer for The Family Guy
Wilson Gray
- _Kiss my grits!_ = "Kiss my ass!," by a writer for The Family Guy
Margaret Lee
- _Kiss my grits!_ = "Kiss my ass!," by a writer for The Family Guy
Jonathan Lighter
- _Kiss my grits!_ = "Kiss my ass!," by a writer for The Family Guy
Charles C Doyle
- _Kiss my grits!_ = "Kiss my ass!," by a writer for The Family Guy
Jonathan Lighter
- _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
Jonathan Lighter
- _Kiss my grits!_ = "Kiss my ass!," by a writer for The Family Guy
Wilson Gray
- _Kiss my grits!_ = "Kiss my ass!," by a writer for The Family Guy
Wilson Gray
- _Kiss my grits!_ = "Kiss my ass!," by a writer for The Family Guy
Wilson Gray
- _Kiss my grits!_ = "Kiss my ass!," by a writer for The Family Guy
Wilson Gray
- _Kiss my grits!_ = "Kiss my ass!," by a writer for The Family Guy
Wilson Gray
- _Kiss my grits!_ = "Kiss my ass!," by a writer for The Family Guy
Wilson Gray
- "real time"
Jonathan Lighter
- Stella Johnson, "Don't Come Over", (Decca), 1936
George Thompson
- OT: Decca
Wilson Gray
- No subject
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "Una venezolana _muy zorra_!"
Wilson Gray
- mystery quote: "Men like war...."
Jonathan Lighter
- _Kiss my grits!_
Joel S. Berson
- OT: NYT
Wilson Gray
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