November 2011 Archives by thread
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- Tebowing
Ann Burlingham
- psycho-biddy+Grand (Dame) Guignol
Victor Steinbok
- Rumsfeld redux
Shapiro, Fred
- The wiener and its warming (UNCLASSIFIED)
Jonathan Lighter
- Weak lean / (weakling) eggcorn
Randy Alexander
- unknown unknowns
David Barnhart
- "Yesterday is history..."
Jonathan Lighter
- no rhyme for "castle"
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- other unknown unknowns
David Barnhart
- Swung on, and missed!
Arnold Zwicky
- "... _under_ the protests of Xerox's engineers."
Wilson Gray
- Question about public domain works in Google Books with a Harvard library example
Garson O'Toole
- Question about public domain works in Google Books with a Harvard library example (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- full text databases (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Turing test (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- The wiener and its warming (and the OED)
Joel S. Berson
- Ticker Tape and Ticker Tape Parade
Joel S. Berson
- opps.
Brenda Lester
- Military-slang dictionary
Wilson Gray
- observations on rinse and repeat
Victor Steinbok
- Most Notable Quotations of 2011?
Shapiro, Fred
- "the ultimate insider/ outsider"
Jonathan Lighter
- Engineering amazing
Jonathan Lighter
- "A perfect opportunity to step up your set-up!"
Wilson Gray
- question about lexicography
Laurence Horn
- Jinks Hoodoo again (1893)
Douglas G. Wilson
- another "canny"
Victor Steinbok
- more on early "jeeps"
Jonathan Lighter
- vowels front and back
Tom Zurinskas
- Misdated articles in Barron's from ProQuest and Boothill News in NewspaperArchive
Garson O'Toole
- transitive "officiate"
Charles C Doyle
- observations on rinse and repeat (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Benjamin Disraeli's exemplary use of negation in the Parliament
Garson O'Toole
- Early jockey-caps: worn by a (female) chimpanzee, in 1739; and (human) females, in 1723
Joel S. Berson
- Heard on The Judges: _Baker-Act_ v.
Wilson Gray
- "moist"
Joel S. Berson
- short note on Brand-name
Victor Steinbok
- Picasso quotation about computers
Garson O'Toole
- Grammar Girl on corpora
Joel S. Berson
- Occu-pella Singing
John McChesney-Young
- "belie": another reversal?
Jonathan Lighter
- Throne
Benjamin Barrett
- Scofflaw
James E. Clapp
- Short note on scuzzy
Victor Steinbok
- Short note on grungy
Victor Steinbok
- "Don't let the door hit you on the way out!"
Wilson Gray
- bobwhite
Victor Steinbok
- "moist" on Language Log
Arnold Zwicky
- "triage" (v.)
Laurence Horn
- retail politician
Jonathan Lighter
- "fish" (was Re: "moist")
Arnold Zwicky
- "fish"; was "moist" (now out of the water?)
Joel S. Berson
- Jakobson and Boroditsky (was Re: "moist")
Laurence Horn
- sub vs. grinder
Victor Steinbok
- pronunciation ideas
Tom Zurinskas
- /s/ = /S/ in context of new name
Jonathan Lighter
- "lush workers"
George Thompson
- camp, n.
Jonathan Lighter
- Alphabetizing
Charles C Doyle
- quote from Warren Buffet (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- /s/ = /S/ in context of new name (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "fish" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- duduk
Victor Steinbok
- Staff = employee
Benjamin Barrett
- dog-gonest
Victor Steinbok
- "substitute for" reversal redux
Victor Steinbok
- "be inappropriate"
Jonathan Lighter
- "went missing"
Joel S. Berson
- brand = 'public image and reputation'
Jonathan Lighter
- pend, v.
Laurence Horn
- consider, v.i.
Jonathan Lighter
- semantic shift: "coming out of the woodwork"
Jonathan Lighter
- another reversal: "sustain"
Jonathan Lighter
- reveal, n.
Jonathan Lighter
- Fun with phrases
Jonathan Lighter
- "The cops have been called. ..."
Wilson Gray
- If I were you, I'd make yourself scarce. Was "The cops have been called. ..."
Neal Whitman
- alphabet soup
Victor Steinbok
- Boom!
Victor Steinbok
- swag
Victor Steinbok
- Coach Paterno and the syntactic blind alley
Laurence Horn
- swag (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Maryland Man Dies During Road Race; Saved By Bystanders
Baker, John
- not a significant surprise
Victor Steinbok
- No grand wizard
Victor Steinbok
- _Sprinkling_
Wilson Gray
- Jersey Devil(s)
Victor Steinbok
- Antedating of "Kangaroo Court"
Shapiro, Fred
- "a Hail Mary of a chance"
Laurence Horn
- dry drunk
Victor Steinbok
- "inpert" (n.; & occasional, unrelated v.) -- not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- murmuration
James Harbeck
- CNN follies
Jonathan Lighter
- "Narrative" again
Jonathan Lighter
- rebranding
Jonathan Lighter
- David Brooks of the NYT
Wilson Gray
- passive v.
Victor Steinbok
- New look for americandialect.org; media queries
Grant Barrett
- Short note on kinesthetic
Victor Steinbok
- spurious Cicero quote
Jonathan Lighter
- Schedule and Abstracts for 2012 Annual Meeting in Portland
Grant Barrett
- alphabetization
Arnold Zwicky
- FW: [DSNA] 7th Congress of Dialectology and Geolinguistics (SIDG) "dialect 2.0 & wboe100"
David Barnhart
- "turn the other cheek" = 'turn a blind eye'
Laurence Horn
- Heard on The Judges: how ADJ _of_ a(n) NP
Wilson Gray
- Quote: Henry Ford the banking system and a revolution tomorrow
Garson O'Toole
- Heard on The Doctors: a former hapax
Wilson Gray
- Worcester", Mass.
Joel S. Berson
- Bogus Hitler quote
Jonathan Lighter
- "a doer, not a talker"
Jonathan Lighter
- Call: Internat. Soc. Dialectology & Geoling.
Jesse Sheidlower
- Black on White -- The Story of English (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Brother Gay
wordmall
- PET in general use?
Benjamin Barrett
- producorial
Jonathan Lighter
- Brits undergoing Americanization
Benjamin Barrett
- manny
Victor Steinbok
- Hear text to speech accents
Tom Zurinskas
- registering for ads-m forum
Tom Zurinskas
- eggcorn
Charles C Doyle
- "We ARE x !"
Jonathan Lighter
- "war porn"
Jonathan Lighter
- disclaimer inclusiveness
Victor Steinbok
- the night is getting old
Victor Steinbok
- 'feedback'
Joseph Salmons
- liberal
Jonathan Lighter
- "suck the oxygen out"
Jonathan Lighter
- leaderful
Jonathan Lighter
- TIME goes $$$$
Jonathan Lighter
- Quoted in the NYT:
Wilson Gray
- Sea turtle
Benjamin Barrett
- one more can/can't confusion
Victor Steinbok
- "books do furnish a room"
Stephen Goranson
- Bisquit
Benjamin Barrett
- inaccurate Billy Sunday quote
Jonathan Lighter
- Panties (moist)
James Smith
- About a submission to YouTube: "Another _burrowed_ video …"
Wilson Gray
- Short note on turn turtle (antedating and interdating)
Victor Steinbok
- QOTY
Jonathan Lighter
- Panties
Ronald Butters
- blue skies
Jonathan Lighter
- Modern Fable: Lions and gazelles (Dan Montano 1985 July 6)
Jonathan Lighter
- "jaw-dropping" in OED
Jonathan Lighter
- Different as determinative
Randy Alexander
- collide = 'compete'
Jonathan Lighter
- "Look to the left ..."
Joel S. Berson
- perpetrator / perpetrate / perpetrative
Jonathan Lighter
- Panties (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- A new Index of Forbidden [NP]'s
Wilson Gray
- "squeal like a girl"
Ronald Butters
- "squeal like a girl" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- ticky-tacky
Victor Steinbok
- In 2012
Katy Steinmetz
- "... _all most_ everything else ..."
Wilson Gray
- US/UK difference: seen and not ...
David Barnhart
- New American Dialect Society Facebook page
Grant Barrett
- 52 phonemes of English?
Tom Zurinskas
- Query: Slang "Cool!" in 1868?
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "Look to the left..." (was "Modern Fable: Lions and gazelles")
George Thompson
- as high than... in NYT
Victor Steinbok
- "uppity"
Laurence Horn
- brie-eating liberals
Victor Steinbok
- two more late entries for WOTY (if they take off)
Laurence Horn
- "evil twin"
Jonathan Lighter
- whence "Herself" as "the Mistress" or "my wife"?
Mark Mandel
- "Man up" pops up in 1961
Evan Morris
- A lady rider "hot" on horseback
Joel S. Berson
- "Man up" pops up in 1961 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- more "jazz" from San Francisco, 1913
George Thompson
- frustrating
George Thompson
- millionaires from Wall street
George Thompson
- speaking by book
George Thompson
- millionaires from France [was: Wall street]
Joel S. Berson
- Ticky-tack revisited
Laurence Horn
- antedate for "pejorist"
Geoffrey Nunberg
- "select for"
Jonathan Lighter
- "Black Friday" on Word Routes
Ben Zimmer
- song with an offensive title
Victor Steinbok
- swing in her sashay
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Antedating of "Motel"
Shapiro, Fred
- The winner, and still champion!
Wilson Gray
- Passive "have"
Sean Fitzpatrick
- "select for" + "trait" or "characteristic"
Joel S. Berson
- Antedating of umami
Benjamin Barrett
- "Aische bei Supertalent: sie ist _cool_ und _HOT_!" [NT]
Wilson Gray
- Kibei
Benjamin Barrett
- what do you think
paul johnson
- A note on wet-blanket politics--plus antedating of wet blanket
Victor Steinbok
- swallow the olive
Charles C Doyle
- McGuffin
Jonathan Lighter
- Bo Diddley's "I'm A Man"
Wilson Gray
- "_Hard-pounding_ sporting events!"
Wilson Gray
- "Why is/are phonetics important?"
Tom Zurinskas
- Varnum?
Douglas G. Wilson
- "eat more X"
Charles C Doyle
- amenable
Jonathan Lighter
- We believe what? Transubstantiatioin?
Tom Zurinskas
- so much for cyper Monday
paul johnson
- Justice Department Seeks Ebonics Experts
Tom Zurinskas
- We believe what? Transubstantiation?
Tom Zurinskas
- Here we go again on English as official
David Barnhart
- and with thy spirit
Ronald Butters
- Call for Nominations for Name of the Year 2011
Cleve Evans
- Corrected Call for Nominations for Name of the Year 2011
Cleve Evans
- If at first you don't succeed.. Call for Nominations for Name of the Year 2011
Cleve Evans
- random taboo avoidance
Victor Steinbok
- Re We believe what? Transubstantiatioin?
Sean Fitzpatrick
- causativization
Arnold Zwicky
- We're all Keynesians now
Victor Steinbok
- random taboo avoidance (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- beer portmanteaus and other brew news
Victor Steinbok
- Siri starts your car
Tom Zurinskas
- Word-of-the-year nominations now open
Grant Barrett
- We're all Keynesians now -- ("Ich bin ein Berliner")
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
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