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- antedating "gook"
Jonathan Lighter
- White and red beers
Benjamin Barrett
- ginchy = 'hinky; leery'
Wilson Gray
- HDAS: _hancty_ and _hincty_, but not _hanky_ and _hinky_
Wilson Gray
- "the Big [initial]"
Charles C Doyle
- OT: -ify and -ification (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- OT: -ify and -ification
Joel S. Berson
- One happy language!
Geoffrey Nunberg
- he and who
victor steinbok
- wrecking havoc at Oxford
Jonathan Lighter
- OT: archy
Joel S. Berson
- summary on -fy and -fication/faction
Arnold Zwicky
- pristine = 'faultless; perfectly executed'
Jonathan Lighter
- "textiled" redux: On textilists and naturists
Laurence Horn
- "Let me play _an evil's advocate_." [NT]
Wilson Gray
- "to Irene"
Joel S. Berson
- [Amended] "Irened out"
Joel S. Berson
- "Let me play _an evil's advocate_." [N(ow) T(ext) -- and citations]
Joel S. Berson
- Important, overlooked quote
Jonathan Lighter
- No subject
Charles C Doyle
- Pepperoni revisited
Laurence Horn
- "gink"?
Wilson Gray
- OT: Pepperoni revisited
Joel S. Berson
- Kalbi (1965)
Benjamin Barrett
- "We started messing back around with each other."
Wilson Gray
- "interpolate"
Jonathan Lighter
- chock/chuck (it) up (to)
Ben Zimmer
- The sushi experience
Benjamin Barrett
- "jazzy": slight antedatings
Jonathan Lighter
- thirds = 'a third helping of food'
Jonathan Lighter
- TV commercials--line of the day
victor steinbok
- best you never had
victor steinbok
- the blues
victor steinbok
- float, n.
victor steinbok
- Tories 'are set to disband in Scotland' as they become a toxic brand north of the border | Mail Online
victor steinbok
- Phrase: more wood behind, all the wood behind one arrow
Garson O'Toole
- true bubbles & Merry Andrew cards
George Thompson
- true bubbles [= "sprit bubble"]
Joel S. Berson
- Merry Andrew cards = playing-cards (or I can ask)
Joel S. Berson
- Water Street building numbers
Joel S. Berson
- football
victor steinbok
- "to roll" [was: football]
Joel S. Berson
- Heard on TV
Wilson Gray
- "snarly"?
Jesse Sheidlower
- Jewish
Joel S. Berson
- Idiom: living high on the hog; eating too high up on the hog (antedating 1919 November 28)
Garson O'Toole
- Antedating of "Jewish"
Shapiro, Fred
- as ... than ...
Arnold Zwicky
- flaming
David Barnhart
- avoidance
victor steinbok
- jaz, v. 1916
victor steinbok
- BB, reporting to you from ...
Joel S. Berson
- another reversal: "X has got nothing on Y"
Laurence Horn
- "Things are coming to what *I* like to call=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=A6_?='gether'." [NT]
Wilson Gray
- Torched
victor steinbok
- jazz (not music)--1911?
victor steinbok
- Unagi with teriyaki sauce
Benjamin Barrett
- "Things are coming to what *I* like to call=?windows-1252?Q?=85_?='gether'." [NT]
Jonathan Lighter
- "sooner than later"
Arnold Zwicky
- OT: not "jazz (not music)--1911?"
Joel S. Berson
- drinking term question
victor steinbok
- "turn chicken"; "chicken," adj.: antedatings
Jonathan Lighter
- livestock, crop and aquaculture
victor steinbok
- "weather" in Hawaiian?
Joel S. Berson
- fatally turn
victor steinbok
- "chicken-livered" antedatings, and "turn chicken"
Joel S. Berson
- More /str/ > [Str] data points
Neal Whitman
- port
victor steinbok
- Grammar Girl's "needs done" survey
Neal Whitman
- Readings and texts for teaching American Dialects
Martinez-Gibson, Elizabeth A
- American baseball in an 18th century portrait?
Joel S. Berson
- "new" eggcorn--formenting
victor steinbok
- also from the same article: agreement with question
victor steinbok
- "which" = 'who'
Jonathan Lighter
- Levellers (was: "new" eggcorn--formenting]
Joel S. Berson
- The NYTimes increases its readability index
Joel S. Berson
- 'for' = 'totaling/covering'?
Brian Hitchcock
- Trades and trade winds
Benjamin Barrett
- Colin Powell
Joel S. Berson
- "sign him up!"
George Thompson
- New bad-taste milestone
Jonathan Lighter
- from the mail bag
victor steinbok
- the show and the road
Charles C Doyle
- auteur of the day: anti-clockwise (and counter-clockwise)
Dan Goncharoff
- cache(t)
Joel S. Berson
- golden sombrero
Joel S. Berson
- Postmodernist "interrogate"
Joel S. Berson
- "share and fare alike"
Joel S. Berson
- to primary-challenge
Jonathan Lighter
- OT: Google Maps
Joel S. Berson
- Postmodernist "interrogate" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- safe = 'not emotionally upsetting or disturbing; "non-threatening"'
Jonathan Lighter
- Word of the Day: Uncircumsize
victor steinbok
- separately to
victor steinbok
- stick that in your pipe
victor steinbok
- false collar
victor steinbok
- a confusion of philosophers
Jonathan Lighter
- news may be suspect, too
David Barnhart
- specialty = 'specialized'
Jonathan Lighter
- so-called diplomatic tsunami
victor steinbok
- diplomatic tidal wave
David Barnhart
- further on _diplomatic tidal wave_
David Barnhart
- Q: Portsmouth (New Hampshire) Times for 1903
Joel S. Berson
- Etymythology of posh, P. O. S. H.
Garson O'Toole
- Etymythology of posh, P. O. S. H.
Spanbock/Svoboda-Spanbock
- Etymythology of posh, P. O. S. H.
Laurence Horn
- Etymythology of posh, P. O. S. H.
Gerald Cohen
- Etymythology of posh, P. O. S. H.
Douglas G. Wilson
- Etymythology of posh, P. O. S. H.
Paul Johnston
- Etymythology of posh, P. O. S. H.
victor steinbok
- Etymythology of posh, P. O. S. H.
Michael Quinion
- Etymythology of posh, P. O. S. H.
Garson O'Toole
- Etymythology of posh, P. O. S. H.
Shapiro, Fred
- Etymythology of posh, P. O. S. H.
Michael Quinion
- Etymythology of posh, P. O. S. H.
Michael Quinion
- Etymythology of posh, P. O. S. H.
Joel S. Berson
- Etymythology of posh, P. O. S. H.
Douglas G. Wilson
- Etymythology of posh, P. O. S. H.
Garson O'Toole
- Etymythology of posh, P. O. S. H.
Garson O'Toole
- News: JSTOR Access to Public Domain; Orphan Works Project Grows; More Trouble for Google Settlement
Garson O'Toole
- Extension of ecosystem to tech
Benjamin Barrett
- Yahoo! Auto Response
Jonathon Keats
- "Look what I found in this book!"
Wilson Gray
- No "damage"?
Wilson Gray
- Earlier Instance of Etymological Myth for "Posh"
Shapiro, Fred
- Etymythology of posh, P. O. S. H. ---reply #1
Laurence Horn
- pop perceptual linguistic insights (?)
David Barnhart
- antedating transistor (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Really?
Wilson Gray
- re "posh(ed) digs... etc. from the files
victor steinbok
- Articles
Dan Goncharoff
- the "other" posh
victor steinbok
- Conversion by truncation (Wa Re: No "damage"?)
Neal Whitman
- Slate piece by Juliet Lapidos on "slang tenacity"
Laurence Horn
- football commentary
victor steinbok
- new name you can use on your kid
Jonathan Lighter
- Conversion by truncation (Was Re: No "damage"?)
Arnold Zwicky
- topic-marking "for me" 'as for me'
Arnold Zwicky
- as well = 'either'
Jonathan Lighter
- three compounds in the news
victor steinbok
- truncated "rather"
Arnold Zwicky
- "temporal"?
Arnold Zwicky
- News: Authors Guild Sues HathiTrust and Five Universities
Garson O'Toole
- JESS LAIR QUOTE
Shapiro, Fred
- Heard on Animal Planet: "Polar bears are amazingly _stealthful_."
Wilson Gray
- more on names of court opinions
victor steinbok
- Rhymes for 'America' (was: new name you can use on your kid)
Damien Hall
- Scandalized!
David A. Daniel
- new name you can use on your kid (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- phonetic spreadsheets
Tom Zurinskas
- coffee grounds/grinds
Charles C Doyle
- ZDNet: "A final version should be ready for _holiday_ 2012." [NT]
Wilson Gray
- Gross over - possible eggcorn
Benjamin Barrett
- Engineering amazing
Benjamin Barrett
- calybuce
Grant Barrett
- Seen of Facebook: "Proud to be an _alumni_ [of UC Davis]!" [NT]
Wilson Gray
- calabooza (1847) & calybuce
Joel S. Berson
- How to say Hong Kong
Tom Zurinskas
- "Pope's head" = 'large or wooly head of hair'
Joel S. Berson
- From a post: "=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=A6_?=apps _ripe_ with connectivity and performance issues." [NT]
Wilson Gray
- From a post: "=?windows-1252?Q?=85_?=apps _ripe_ with connectivity and performance issues." [NT]
Ben Zimmer
- newzak
Ben Zimmer
- "nerd" etymythology
Ben Zimmer
- fun with phrases
Jonathan Lighter
- firesheep
victor steinbok
- copyrighting Pi
victor steinbok
- World Peace
victor steinbok
- incite
Jonathan Lighter
- Bachmann Convicted!
Jonathan Lighter
- old bad advice
victor steinbok
- narrative; graphic
Jonathan Lighter
- firm believer that
Benjamin Barrett
- " … female masseur …"
Wilson Gray
- game ball
victor steinbok
- extreme nouning
Arnold Zwicky
- "In water there is bacteria"
Joel S. Berson
- dress-out
victor steinbok
- accident story
victor steinbok
- works = 'mental functioning' Obs.?
Jonathan Lighter
- intrusive "of a"
Jonathan Lighter
- Spoken by sportscaster: "... Kenneth [S]ung …"
Wilson Gray
- one way to immortalize Ozzy
victor steinbok
- to have gas
Jonathan Lighter
- escalation
victor steinbok
- horsemaning
victor steinbok
- ObamaSpeak?
Dan Goncharoff
- Sunwear
Benjamin Barrett
- "brony"
Laurence Horn
- SECOL Call for Papers
Cramer, Jennifer S
- Maddened by Mad Men
Hunter, Lynne R CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-PACIFIC, 71700
- Maddened by Mad Men
David A. Daniel
- Maddened by Mad Men
Ben Zimmer
- Maddened by Mad Men
victor steinbok
- Maddened by Mad Men
Wilson Gray
- Maddened by Mad Men
Hunter, Lynne R CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-PACIFIC, 71700
- Maddened by Mad Men
Wilson Gray
- Maddened by Mad Men
Jonathan Lighter
- Maddened by Mad Men
Hunter, Lynne R CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-PACIFIC, 71700
- Maddened by Mad Men
Shapiro, Fred
- Maddened by Mad Men
Hunter, Lynne R CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-PACIFIC, 71700
- Maddened by Mad Men
Wilson Gray
- Maddened by Mad Men
Jonathan Lighter
- Maddened by Mad Men
Dan Goncharoff
- Maddened by Mad Men
Dave Wilton
- Maddened by Mad Men
Hunter, Lynne R CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-PACIFIC, 71700
- Maddened by Mad Men
Ann Burlingham
- Maddened by Mad Men
Jonathan Lighter
- Maddened by Mad Men
victor steinbok
- Maddened by Mad Men
Wilson Gray
- Maddened by Mad Men
victor steinbok
- Maddened by Mad Men
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Maddened by Mad Men
ronbutters at AOL.COM
- Maddened by Mad Men
David A. Daniel
- Maddened by Mad Men
Tom Zurinskas
- Maddened by Mad Men
Hunter, Lynne R CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-PACIFIC, 71700
- intensifiers: which is more powerful
Michael Newman
- "can't afford to do both"
Brian Hitchcock
- "dog whistle"
Jonathan Lighter
- "=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=A6_?=the site is full of posts that seem to cross _lines_."
Wilson Gray
- "everything": hamburger (1937), hot dog (1938), pizza (1954), bagel (1988)
Ben Zimmer
- "everything": hamburger (1937), hot dog (1938), pizza (1954), bagel (1988)
Ben Zimmer
- "everything": hamburger (1937), hot dog (1938), pizza (1954), bagel (1988)
victor steinbok
- "everything": hamburger (1937), hot dog (1938), pizza (1954), bagel (1988)
Garson O'Toole
- "everything": hamburger (1937), hot dog (1938), pizza (1954), bagel (1988)
victor steinbok
- Hail Columbia
victor steinbok
- fiber etc.
victor steinbok
- "I'm going to have _her_ a party."
Wilson Gray
- zombie lie/zombie economics
victor steinbok
- fisk/ing
victor steinbok
- dongle
Darla Wells
- Off and on
Ron Butters
- _Flood_ > "high-water event" [NT]
Wilson Gray
- Heard on the Maury Show
Wilson Gray
- Hitler quote
Jonathan Lighter
- John Doe
victor steinbok
- Hitler quote (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "Le _futur centre_ de traitement …"
Wilson Gray
- early "gay" cite (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=A6_?=brag about _his_/herself" [NC]; _drop_ = "opioid in pill form."
Wilson Gray
- early "gay" cite
Joel S. Berson
- tree lawns; was Re: Off and on
Barbara Need
- Berm (Re: tree lawns; was Re: Off and on)
Benjamin Barrett
- "=?windows-1252?Q?=85_?=brag about _his_/herself" [NC]; _drop_ = "opioid in pill form."
Eric Nielsen
- [off-list] Re: [ADS-L] early "gay" cite
Jonathan Lighter
- The Young and Evil
Ronald Butters
- SCARLET PANSY
Ronald Butters
- "my first rodeo"
Jonathan Lighter
- "belong to be"
Jonathan Lighter
- Follow-up on sluff - play hooky, slack off
Jonathan Lighter
- Google Books
victor steinbok
- "I'm the _dairy fairy_,"
Wilson Gray
- spit[ting] nails
victor steinbok
- Chew scenery [thespian sense] (antedating 1878)
Garson O'Toole
- shit-a-bed
victor steinbok
- more shit
victor steinbok
- believe you me!
David Barnhart
- believe you me in oed
David Barnhart
- garlic-strong
Jonathan Lighter
- verge; was tree lawns; was Re: Off and on
Joel S. Berson
- "hubris" = exaggeration, boasting (or something)
George Thompson
- "romantic side"
George Thompson
- belong to be in the penitentiary
Joan H. Hall
- strip of grass between sidewalk and street
Joan H. Hall
- Heard on Springer: _bully up_ "act in an intimidating manner"
Wilson Gray
- treat yourself comfortable
victor steinbok
- "spend a penny" -- the TLS is at it again.
George Thompson
- brownie
victor steinbok
- more shit (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "my first rodeo" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Good grammar vs. good taste revisited?
Laurence Horn
- Antedating of "African-American"
Shapiro, Fred
- lick and promise
victor steinbok
- regardless if...
victor steinbok
- with/without
victor steinbok
- thing
victor steinbok
- "gadget" antedated (?) to 1884
Stephen Goranson
- "posture-boy" = 'equilibrist', 1748, not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- "tiger-lion", 1748, not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- googla, tra la (and -lus and -lum)
Joel S. Berson
- adj. 1822 -- Antedating "African-American"
Joel S. Berson
- graphic n.
Charles C Doyle
- Sports writers to be replaced by 'bots
Jonathan Lighter
- _melonfarmer_ "motherfucker" In HDAS?
Wilson Gray
- Further Antedating of "African-American"
Shapiro, Fred
- quotable
Jonathan Lighter
- more new "old sayings"
Jonathan Lighter
- That's a good question.
Jonathan Lighter
- "since pants"
Jonathan Lighter
- Further Antedating of "Lobbyist"
Shapiro, Fred
- up the yin-yang
Benjamin Barrett
- meta
Victor Steinbok
- penciled out + fired
Victor Steinbok
- slush-on-a-shingle, slop on a shingle, mud on a shingle, stuff-on-a-shingle
Garson O'Toole
- shingle-eating grin, crap-eatin' grin, canary-eatin' grin, sugar-eating grin, crud-eating grin
Garson O'Toole
- Quote: your liberty ends just where my nose begins (1894)
Garson O'Toole
- There's a place in Austria...
Jonathan Lighter
- “If I had a nickel for every time I heard it, I’d probably be a millionaire.”
Dan Goncharoff
- If I had a nickel for every time I heard it, I d probably be a millionaire.
Joel S. Berson
- "Antedating" "American African"
Joel S. Berson
- Word for an Internet-enabled computing device
Benjamin Barrett
- Saltalamacchia
Joel S. Berson
- Quote: We haven't any money, so we've got to think (Henry Thomas Tizard 1952; attrib Ernest Rutherford 1952 probably)
Garson O'Toole
- "pumpernickel court"
Joel S. Berson
- "=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=A6_enjoy_=5Fseemless=5F_connectivity_=E2=80=A6=22_?=Probably a typo. [NT]
Wilson Gray
- daft
Victor Steinbok
- Material in the online Yale Alumni magazine you may have missed
Garson O'Toole
- transitive "preen"
Ben Zimmer
- "Cave Nullo cock" (of a hat, that is; ignore any chili peppers)
Joel S. Berson
- Post to Springer site: "I can understand=?UTF-8?Q?=EF=BB=BF_?=Jerry's _joying_ in."
Wilson Gray
- "big doesn't win"
Arnold Zwicky
- "Half-truths"
Wilson Gray
- risk factor = 'medical, psychological, habitual, or other peculiarity'??
Jonathan Lighter
- AP Reporter Responds To Chris Hayes Panel Debate On Racism Of Droppin=?windows-1252?Q?=92_G=92s_?=From Obama Speech
Dan Goncharoff
- Weakenings
Wilson Gray
- the birds and the bees
George Thompson
- Query from reporter about sports term "bye"
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- shingle-eating grin (additional evidence)
Laurence Horn
- the birds and the bees (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- minimis, minimus = 'minimum,' 'minimal'
Jonathan Lighter
- minimis, minimus = 'minimum,' 'minimal'
Victor Steinbok
- minimis, minimus = 'minimum,' 'minimal'
Victor Steinbok
- minimis, minimus = 'minimum,' 'minimal'
Victor Steinbok
- minimis, minimus = 'minimum,' 'minimal'
Baker, John
- minimis, minimus = 'minimum,' 'minimal'
Jonathan Lighter
- minimis, minimus = 'minimum,' 'minimal'
Victor Steinbok
- not as classy as the de minimis thread, perhaps, but...
Laurence Horn
- rents - parents
Garson O'Toole
- more euphemisms
Victor Steinbok
- OT: "Banned" books
Wilson Gray
- Stark _Bro's_ Nurseries & Orchards Co. [BT]
Wilson Gray
- AP Reporter Responds To Chris Hayes Panel Debate On Racism Of Droppin=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99_G=E2=80=99s_?=From Obama Speech
Wilson Gray
- ety. of "shanty"
Jonathan Lighter
- "Out where the buses don't run"
Wilson Gray
- Best grammar blogs
Neal Whitman
- "The Lion King 3D is _mind-bottling_."
Wilson Gray
- "temporarily suicidal" [was "first rodeo"]
Joel S. Berson
- antedating of "easy listening".
Jonathan Lighter
- demonize/demonization
Geoffrey Nunberg
- Topical Quote: When the facts change, I change too: Churchill; Keynes; Samuelson
Garson O'Toole
- AP Reporter Responds To Chris Hayes Panel Debate On Racism Of Droppin=?iso-8859-1?Q?=92__G=92s_?=From Obama Speech
Joel S. Berson
- AP Reporter Responds To Chris Hayes Panel Debate On Racism Of Droppin' G's From Obama Speech
Victor Steinbok
- Seen recently
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Phrase: brother, can you spare a paradigm (1961)
Garson O'Toole
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