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- sticky
victor steinbok
- vintage, adj.
Jonathan Lighter
- African Dodgers
George Thompson
- fun with phrases
Dan Goncharoff
- CTV Ottawa- Baird's cards a 'gold finger' to taxpayers, Brison says
victor steinbok
- Anecdote: King George II and the madness of General Wolfe
Garson O'Toole
- "A BB in a box car"
Joel S. Berson
- "Rick Perry _double_ _downed_ on his denial of climate science."
Wilson Gray
- Q: Quote from "Milestones in the History of English in America"
Joel S. Berson
- reverse engineer
Victor Steinbok
- "When are you [Name, LLC] going to _kick out_ Linux services?"
Wilson Gray
- Number 10 can
Benjamin Barrett
- "quindem" = "five-seat bycycle"
Joel S. Berson
- "Janus cat" = [self-evident], not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- "The Lion King 3D is _mind-bottling_."
Joel S. Berson
- Quote from "Milestones in the History of English in America"
David A. Daniel
- Quote: Not, sir, from your dictionary (Gilbert Stewart to Samuel Johnson 1826 [diary entry 1824])
Garson O'Toole
- Topical Quote: When the facts change, I change too: Churchill; Keynes; Samuelson
Garson O'Toole
- "(one's) to lose"
Jonathan Lighter
- impossible/impractical
Victor Steinbok
- Quote: Not, sir, from your dictionary (Gilbert Stewart to Samuel Johnson 182[9] [diary entry 1824])
Joel S. Berson
- Quote: Not, sir, from your dictionary (Gilbert Stewart to Samuel Johnson 182[9] [diary entry 1824])
Garson O'Toole
- Quote: Not, sir, from your dictionary (Gilbert Stewart to Samuel Johnson 182[9] [diary entry 1824])
Joel S. Berson
- Quote: Not, sir, from your dictionary (Gilbert Stewart to Samuel Johnson 182[9] [diary entry 1824])
Joel S. Berson
- Quote: Not, sir, from your dictionary (Gilbert Stewart to Samuel Johnson 182[9] [diary entry 1824])
Garson O'Toole
- Quote: Not, sir, from your dictionary (Gilbert Stewart to Samuel Johnson 182[9] [diary entry 1824])
George Thompson
- Number 10 can (plus a surprise Hibachi)
Benjamin Barrett
- pristine = 'faultless; perfectly executed'
Jonathan Lighter
- "Americo-African", not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- That's all right, then.
Wilson Gray
- Quote: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results
Garson O'Toole
- to "course-correct"
Jonathan Lighter
- EFL by Robot
David A. Daniel
- _melonfarmer_ "motherfucker" In HDAS?
Wilson Gray
- Heard on Springer : a pimp speaks
Wilson Gray
- "soft on Communism"
Jonathan Lighter
- to "run numbers"
Jonathan Lighter
- unemployee
victor steinbok
- The N word
Tom Zurinskas
- "going it like cripples"
George Thompson
- "recognize the wool from the lamb"
Joel S. Berson
- eggcorn: a track player (thanks to Wilson and _melon farmer_)
Clai Rice
- halibut
Victor Steinbok
- honcho v.
Victor Steinbok
- IN a movie, ON TV
Joel S. Berson
- IN a movie, ON TV
Jonathan Lighter
- IN a movie, ON TV
Charles C Doyle
- IN a movie, ON TV
David A. Daniel
- IN a movie, ON TV
Dan Goncharoff
- IN a movie, ON TV
Wilson Gray
- IN a movie, ON TV
Laurence Horn
- IN a movie, ON TV
Hunter, Lynne R CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-PACIFIC, 71700
- IN a movie, ON TV
Hunter, Lynne R CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-PACIFIC, 71700
- IN a movie, ON TV
Hunter, Lynne R CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-PACIFIC, 71700
- IN a movie, ON TV
Hunter, Lynne R CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-PACIFIC, 71700
- Quote: Western civilization? I think it would be a good idea (attrib Gandhi 1967 September)
Garson O'Toole
- Q: "bourgeois epitan costume"
Joel S. Berson
- Upping the ante
Joel S. Berson
- Google Books strikes again
Joel S. Berson
- face-first pratfall
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- lie/lay alternation - not US
Benjamin Barrett
- Topical Quote about creating jobs by digging with spoons instead of shovels (William Aberhart 1935, Milton Friedman 2008)
Garson O'Toole
- face-first pratfall (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- fun with negatives
Jonathan Lighter
- Engineering amazing
Jonathan Lighter
- "up and ____"
Charles C Doyle
- fun with negatives (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- borderline
Victor Steinbok
- "collateral damage"
Jonathan Lighter
- JSTOR Offers Early Journal Content for Free
Joel S. Berson
- "changed X forever"
Joel S. Berson
- Kishka
Wilson Gray
- The African Dodger
Wilson Gray
- QOTY
Jonathan Lighter
- "spend a penny" -- the TLS is at it again.
Joel S. Berson
- _Uniform Individualism_
Wilson Gray
- The African Dodger (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Heard on Springer: _everybody didn't know_
Wilson Gray
- Inivitation | Einladung: Congress in Vienna 2012
Wandl-Vogt, Eveline
- a modern syntactic marvel
Jonathan Lighter
- _everybody didn't know_
Joel S. Berson
- "Walk the plank", 1763
Joel S. Berson
- "Walk the plank", 1763 (now May 9)
Joel S. Berson
- hypernegative "miss not" in Hemingway
Laurence Horn
- exergual
Jonathan Lighter
- Navy cussing, 1915-17
Jonathan Lighter
- ingenuitous
Jonathan Lighter
- Terms used for/by African-Americans in the 19th century
Joel S. Berson
- Minor Antedating of "Time Machine"
Shapiro, Fred
- Lou Holtz notes that:
Wilson Gray
- donder
Victor Steinbok
- Imperialism
Benjamin Barrett
- Antedating of "Geography"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Architecture"
Shapiro, Fred
- fanboyism
Victor Steinbok
- antedating "shouting distance"
Jonathan Lighter
- "speaking distance" [was: antedating "shouting distance"]
Joel S. Berson
- NYT Blogs: Headline from Pogue's Posts
Wilson Gray
- faux acronym in the N.E.W.S. (or actually the Times)
Laurence Horn
- "second to none"
Jonathan Lighter
- "laugh-out-loud funny"
Jonathan Lighter
- booby-trap, booby-prize, booby bird
Victor Steinbok
- those three words - more from "Chasing Cars"
Benjamin Barrett
- France bans ketchup in school cafeterias - latimes.com
Victor Steinbok
- "open" n. = "opening moments of a TV program" (or film, etc.?)
Joel S. Berson
- The fruits of illegal logging: "ill-gotten woods" [NT]
Wilson Gray
- "Coming to a _za [tsa]_-checkpoint near you!"
Wilson Gray
- "Suck for Luck"
Laurence Horn
- 1st conf on 2nd lang pronun
Tom Zurinskas
- due diligence
Victor Steinbok
- "My grammar _bees_ ebonics": Nelly
Wilson Gray
- jack = 'quit; give up'
Jonathan Lighter
- tramp/trample
Victor Steinbok
- faux acronym in the N.E.W.S. (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Fwd: Finding the long s
Joel S. Berson
- Finding the long s
Ben Zimmer
- "Walk the plank", 1763 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "Walk the plank", 1763 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Laurence Horn
- "Walk the plank", 1763 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Jonathan Lighter
- "Walk the plank", 1763 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Dan Goncharoff
- "Walk the plank", 1763 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Jonathan Lighter
- "Walk the plank", 1763 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Dan Goncharoff
- "Walk the plank", 1763 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Joel S. Berson
- "Walk the plank", 1763 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Joel S. Berson
- "Walk the plank", 1763 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Dan Goncharoff
- "Walk the plank", 1763 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Jonathan Lighter
- "Walk the plank", 1763 (UNCLASSIFIED)
George Thompson
- domain/subdomain
Victor Steinbok
- What on Earth??
Victor Steinbok
- first hand experience (v)
Gordon, Matthew J.
- "send a strong signal to"
Jonathan Lighter
- WOTY
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- arning
Victor Steinbok
- dead rubber
Victor Steinbok
- dark prince
Victor Steinbok
- Not in YBQ
Jonathan Lighter
- WOTY (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- The coining of "Afro-American"
Joel S. Berson
- "The software _glitches_ constantly." [NT]
Wilson Gray
- Q: An 1893 "Jack"
Joel S. Berson
- Imitation or counterfeit?
Joel S. Berson
- "It's a little disarming"
Nancy Friedman
- The Sucklord
Victor Steinbok
- hocking loogies
Benjamin Barrett
- lie/lay in "Chasing Cars"
Neal Whitman
- Imitation or counterfeit? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "Afro-American", 1880, from Lawyer Waring
Joel S. Berson
- "on the ground" = 'on the scene of interest'
Jonathan Lighter
- "send the wrong message"
Jonathan Lighter
- latticework
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Lexicograophical crimes
Ron Butters
- profiteer = 'make any kind of profit'
Damien Hall
- name regret
Jonathan Lighter
- HDAS
Joel S. Berson
- The Whole Nine Yards - Solved?
Baker, John
- nice quote
Victor Steinbok
- "Luck out"
Douglas G. Wilson
- What's all this got to do with the price of eggs? / price of tea in China / not for all the tea in China
Victor Steinbok
- What's all this got to do with the price of Matabele gumbo beans
Joel S. Berson
- "Out" as a verb
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- to "crack" in US
Jonathan Lighter
- antedating "mess" = to 'injure'
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedating of "Biblical"
Shapiro, Fred
- Newspaper Archives Question
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Cell Phone"
Shapiro, Fred
- "A great whew"
Joel S. Berson
- "great-phew"
Joel S. Berson
- Quote: your liberty ends just where my nose begins (1894)
Garson O'Toole
- Further Antedating of "Biblical"
Shapiro, Fred
- "the theocratic death penalty" [was Biblical]
Joel S. Berson
- government they
Victor Steinbok
- dry = 'wet'?
Charles C Doyle
- Early "skibbies" (1918), "skivvies" (1920)
Douglas G. Wilson
- Aphorism: Every dogma has its day (1873, precursor 1865)
Garson O'Toole
- "posture" as a transitive verb
Charles C Doyle
- Quip in the news: Heads I win, tails you lose (antedating 1739)
Garson O'Toole
- An early "African-American", 1842
Joel S. Berson
- "Africo-American", not in OED; from 1817
Joel S. Berson
- "Afro-American, 1880, 1893
Joel S. Berson
- "American-African, not in OED; from 1826 to 1881
Joel S. Berson
- "Americo-African", not in OED; 1827 to 1889
Joel S. Berson
- Timeline -- Terms for African Americans
Joel S. Berson
- _As_ replaced by _than_
Wilson Gray
- "Walk the plank", 1763 (now Apr 16)
Joel S. Berson
- Subject: The Whole Nine Yards - Solved?
Brian Hitchcock
- stream
Victor Steinbok
- might large "gap"
David Barnhart
- positive "all she wrote"
Jonathan Lighter
- "can't underestimate" = can't overestimate
Jonathan Lighter
- A change of pace: _its'_ [NT]
Wilson Gray
- get out in front
Victor Steinbok
- Spanglish in the news
David Barnhart
- Children's names in 1860
Joel S. Berson
- Ufology, Ufologist [slight antedatings]
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- "little green men"; "flying saucer"
Jonathan Lighter
- Reversed in & out
Joel S. Berson
- interesting metalinguistic contrast
Laurence Horn
- Yonduh lies de castle of de caliph, my fadder (attrib Tony Curtis 1961 Nov)
Garson O'Toole
- Yonduh lies de castle of de caliph, my fadder (attrib Tony Curtis 1961 Nov)
Jonathan Lighter
- Yonduh lies de castle of de caliph, my fadder (attrib Tony Curtis 1961 Nov)
Garson O'Toole
- Yonduh lies de castle of de caliph, my fadder (attrib Tony Curtis 1961 Nov)
Laurence Horn
- Yonduh lies de castle of de caliph, my fadder (attrib Tony Curtis 1961 Nov)
Joel S. Berson
- Yonduh lies de castle of de caliph, my fadder (attrib Tony Curtis 1961 Nov)
Ronald Butters
- Yonduh lies de castle of de caliph, my fadder (attrib Tony Curtis 1961 Nov)
Jonathan Lighter
- Yonduh lies de castle of de caliph, my fadder (attrib Tony Curtis 1961 Nov)
Jonathan Lighter
- Yonduh lies de castle of de caliph, my fadder (attrib Tony Curtis 1961 Nov)
Charles C Doyle
- Yonduh lies de castle of de caliph, my fadder (attrib Tony Curtis 1961 Nov)
Hunter, Lynne R CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-PACIFIC, 71700
- Yonduh lies de castle of de caliph, my fadder (attrib Tony Curtis 1961 Nov)
Laurence Horn
- Yonduh lies de castle of de caliph, my fadder (attrib Tony Curtis 1961 Nov)
Wilson Gray
- Yonduh lies de castle of de caliph, my fadder (attrib Tony Curtis 1961 Nov)
Jonathan Lighter
- Yonduh lies de castle of de caliph, my fadder (attrib Tony Curtis 1961 Nov)
Wilson Gray
- A reversal?
Charles C Doyle
- "unidentified flying object"
Jonathan Lighter
- Epitomization of football-watching
Joel S. Berson
- somewhat odd headline
Laurence Horn
- "unidentified flying object" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- unplugged
Victor Steinbok
- some studies from the Journal of Sociolinguistics
Tom Zurinskas
- Abe Lincolns' dialect
Tom Zurinskas
- Evangel - proclaimer of a religion
Benjamin Barrett
- Use of the term "negro" by the Portuguese
Joel S. Berson
- another cool quote
Jonathan Lighter
- "proper Negroes"
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- "What's that got to do with the price of pickles in Park Slope?"
Wilson Gray
- Nelson, half-Nelson, double-Nelson
Victor Steinbok
- Q: Did Latin's "niger" (black) originate from an African word for the Niger River?
Joel S. Berson
- Where's West Africa?
Jonathan Lighter
- boroughmonger (n.), spat (v) -- antedatings
Joel S. Berson
- A 1945 proto-rap...
Wilson Gray
- Volokh on prescriptivism and "assertionism"
Victor Steinbok
- warmist
Victor Steinbok
- LSA Satellite Panel: A Discussion Workshop on Preparation of Sociolinguistic Corpus Archives
Jesse Sheidlower
- laudatory "ridiculous" redux
Ben Zimmer
- more nouning in ads
Arnold Zwicky
- Jahessye
Jonathan Lighter
- syllabus for syllable?
Victor Steinbok
- "You're telling God to telephone-operate."
Wilson Gray
- Vastu in the New York Times
Benjamin Barrett
- Born Alone, Die Alone: What Does This Mean?
Shapiro, Fred
- Born Alone, Die Alone: What Does This Mean?
Garson O'Toole
- Born Alone, Die Alone: What Does This Mean?
Alice Faber
- Born Alone, Die Alone: What Does This Mean?
Jonathan Lighter
- Born Alone, Die Alone: What Does This Mean?
Ben Zimmer
- Born Alone, Die Alone: What Does This Mean?
Laurence Horn
- Born Alone, Die Alone: What Does This Mean?
Jonathan Lighter
- Born Alone, Die Alone: What Does This Mean?
Wilson Gray
- Born Alone, Die Alone: What Does This Mean?
Jonathan Lighter
- Born Alone, Die Alone: What Does This Mean?
Laurence Horn
- Born Alone, Die Alone: What Does This Mean?
Victor Steinbok
- Born Alone, Die Alone: What Does This Mean?
Laurence Horn
- Born Alone, Die Alone: What Does This Mean?
Shapiro, Fred
- Born Alone, Die Alone: What Does This Mean?
Tom Zurinskas
- Born Alone, Die Alone: What Does This Mean?
Tom Zurinskas
- alone at birth and death
Benjamin Barrett
- Neo-Freudian semantic cultural critique alive, well
Jonathan Lighter
- Saying: He doesn't want to be the richest man in the cemetery (attrib Ed Wynn 1932 December)
Garson O'Toole
- Quote: Live every day as if it were your last-and some day you'll be right (Fred Allen 1953)
Garson O'Toole
- "Nine Yard Ericson," USAF, 1959
Stephen Goranson
- Recent announcements regarding conferences, etc.
Grant Barrett
- another reversal
Victor Steinbok
- The East L.A. accent
Nancy Friedman
- Murphy's Law 1958 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Crash blossom alert
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- on account of clause
Victor Steinbok
- augmented reality
Victor Steinbok
- Lambs as metaphor in connection with psychopathic killers
Benjamin Barrett
- Fwd: on account of clause
Arnold Zwicky
- "Galley" missing from the OED?
Joel S. Berson
- Writers now obselete?
Eric Nielsen
- Generic chaos
Charles C Doyle
- Picasso quotation about computers
Garson O'Toole
- prepositions again
Laurence Horn
- Scottish Accents Foil iPhone 4S=?windows-1252?Q?=92_?=Siri | TPM Idea Lab
Victor Steinbok
- all sort of on the same page
Victor Steinbok
- Automatic reply: ADS-L Digest - 25 Oct 2011 to 26 Oct 2011 (#2011-300)
Katy Steinmetz
- Occupy and other stuff
David Barnhart
- "Info-viewer _for on_ the desktop." [NT]
Wilson Gray
- demonstrate = 'to demonstrate against; protest through demonstrating'
Jonathan Lighter
- Heard on Springer:
Wilson Gray
- "Thaaat's what I'm talking about!"
Jonathan Lighter
- real-time, adv.
Jonathan Lighter
- slow-walk, v.t.
Jonathan Lighter
- "The apple did not _roll_ far from the tree!" [NT]
Wilson Gray
- Quote: What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. (John Anster's translation of Goethe 1835)
Garson O'Toole
- piratical
Victor Steinbok
- Tommy John surgery
Victor Steinbok
- Grammar Girl on corpora
Neal Whitman
- sound = 'video of someone speaking'
Jonathan Lighter
- "veracity" -- a possible antedating (sense 2.a)?
Joel S. Berson
- UD: _ride herd on_
Wilson Gray
- Google Books advanced search
Joel S. Berson
- From the UD: "You 'chop' your feet, or move them up and down _fastly_." [NT]
Wilson Gray
- euphemism of the day
Victor Steinbok
- 'Please Warm My Weiner' BO CARTER, Delta Blues Guitar Legend - YouTube
Victor Steinbok
- Frown and frowny
Benjamin Barrett
- Atheists' Billboard Falsely Attributes Quote To Thomas Jefferson
Victor Steinbok
- semantic shift: "coming out of the woodwork"
Jonathan Lighter
- adolf & aryan taken from mom, dad.
Jonathan Lighter
- "stink up the room"
Jonathan Lighter
- Query: Courses in Etymology
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "subbing"
George Thompson
- two-thirders
George Thompson
- www._spreaker_.com
Wilson Gray
- "The Restless Cheese"
Joel S. Berson
- Morphological analysis
Ron butters
- Toward an American Dialect Standard
Tom Zurinskas
- fringe player
Jonathan Lighter
- no rhyme for "castle"
Jonathan Lighter
- Why Pay More to Sweat Less
David Metevia
- "neck in neck" revisited
Laurence Horn
- Tebowing
Jonathan Lighter
- Toward an American Dialect Standard (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "non-sourced allegation"
Laurence Horn
- The wiener and its warming (and the OED)
Charles C Doyle
- The wiener and its warming (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Ticker Tape and Ticker Tape Parade (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Rumsfeld redux
Victor Steinbok
- Swung on, and missed!
Wilson Gray
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