April 2012 Archives by thread
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- Fwd: "Dairy Queen", the (basketball) verb
Laurence Horn
- Kmu
Ronald Butters
- Kmu
James Harbeck
- Kmu
W Brewer
- Kmu
Eric Nielsen
- Kmu
Martha Barnette
- Kmu
Laurence Horn
- Kmu
paul johnson
- Kmu
Michael Newman
- Kmu
Joel S. Berson
- Kmu
Arnold Zwicky
- Kmu
W Brewer
- Kmu
Dan Goncharoff
- Kmu
W Brewer
- Kmu
Joel S. Berson
- hobo synonymous with panhandler or beggar
Dan Nussbaum
- The perils of ngrams (was Usage Ridicule)
victor steinbok
- usage ridicule
James Harbeck
- cathartic = 'experiencing catharsis' PLUS free balonus!
Jonathan Lighter
- "Not Proven" Not in OED
Shapiro, Fred
- "Don't confuse me with facts!"
Jonathan Lighter
- "body-mass-index-neutral"
Joel S. Berson
- ob-gyn revisited
Arnold Zwicky
- misdemeanant
Arnold Zwicky
- "alienation of affection" can be found well before [1861] and 1867
Joel S. Berson
- cue, v.
Jonathan Lighter
- Tony Thorne: Rhyming slang is brown bread? Don't you Adam and Eve it... - Commentators - Opinion - The Independent
Dan Goodman
- shopping list (1852)
David Barnhart
- more short takes
Victor Steinbok
- return of "colored"
Amy West
- more short takes--without HTML Garbage
Geoffrey Steven Nathan
- hobo synonymous with panhandler or beggar (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- ob-gyn revisited (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- CNN's naughty acronym (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- anachronism alert! (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- The God Particle / Lord God Bird (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- English and Chinese to Become Official World Languages
Tom Zurinskas
- The God Particle
Joel S. Berson
- NICU, PICU ( was: ob-gyn revisited)
Neal Whitman
- CHEAP PROPERTIES
Ron butters
- <w> as indicator of vowelitude
Ronald Butters
- Got my copy of DARE, today! Ordered on 3/30. Good service! [NT]
Wilson Gray
- Update on the language of tornado warnings
Dan Goncharoff
- to "wreck havoc"
Joel S. Berson
- "Stay tuned" - the all-digital generation doesn't get this phrase
Dan Goncharoff
- More on Prehistory of "Tin Pan Alley"
Shapiro, Fred
- different flavors of white space
Victor Steinbok
- "Stay tuned" - the all-digital generation doesn't get this phrase (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- bartending books (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- casita
Victor Steinbok
- "arrest" vs. "charge"
Jonathan Lighter
- Simile: like *substance* through a tin horn
Garson O'Toole
- "upstart", v. 'upset'
Laurence Horn
- "upstart", v. 'upset' [source]
Laurence Horn
- "Stay tuned"
Joel S. Berson
- "stay tuned" and bartending books
Gerald Cohen
- Elizha in 1961
Herb Stahlke
- terms of endearment
Jonathan Lighter
- Palin/Andretti
Jonathan Lighter
- "aight"?
Jesse Sheidlower
- "organized chaos"
Jonathan Lighter
- minor jargon resource
Victor Steinbok
- A question about a locution used by the "girlfriend" of Trayvon Martin
Damien Hall
- When is an Astronaut not an Astronaut?
Dan Goncharoff
- hopefully
Dan Nussbaum
- protest = 'demonstrate in public to draw attention to'
Jonathan Lighter
- Kat =?UTF-8?Q?=C3=A7a-i_=3A_CAN=C3=87ONS_?=de _Folk Off_
Wilson Gray
- Beg pardon?
Wilson Gray
- antedating "Easter bunny/ rabbit"
Jonathan Lighter
- Dartmouth College misses the boat
Joel S. Berson
- Walking around money [Slight antedating, 1927]
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- No subject
david hughes
- terms of endearment (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Zimmerman voice analysis: technical
Jonathan Lighter
- Lobbying and "log-rolling" in 1850 Indiana USA
Michael McKernan
- "breaking bread" goes multicultural+bhai-bhai
Victor Steinbok
- "log-rolling", 1821 (antedates 1823)
Joel S. Berson
- flowering
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- "lobby", v. intr., 1820, v. trans. 1829; "lobbying", n., 1825
Joel S. Berson
- "party screws", 1854?
Joel S. Berson
- "button-hole", v., 1848 & 1856, antedates 1862-; "button-hole talk" 1843
Joel S. Berson
- Major Antedating of "Native American"
Shapiro, Fred
- the "silent treatment"
Jonathan Lighter
- marvelous
Michael Newman
- Fwd: FW: dictionary
Salikoko Mufwene
- Fwd: dictionary
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- a compound reveal: the gender-reveal party
Laurence Horn
- "future-forward" PLUS impossible syntax
Jonathan Lighter
- From Slashdot:
Wilson Gray
- branding
Jonathan Lighter
- Speak like a native? - No Sense trying
Tom Zurinskas
- new (to me) lexical item: "concern trolling"
Laurence Horn
- Heard on The Doctors: "I'm a native Savannian."
Wilson Gray
- New to me, too: 'concern troll'
Geoffrey Steven Nathan
- a century of "jazz"
Ben Zimmer
- Access to American Speech archives
Michael Quinion
- responding back
David Barnhart
- ProQuest free archives during National Library Week
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- diamantine
Jonathan Lighter
- You're an ethnic slur!
Neal Whitman
- "Ofay": force and etymology: a 1931 editor's position
Douglas G. Wilson
- "home" = "sharpen"
Joel S. Berson
- A Romney bromance
Joel S. Berson
- selfie
Ben Zimmer
- mistress
Victor Steinbok
- OT: AustNC
Amy West
- "taint", anatomical
Mark Mandel
- "taint", anatomical
Lisa Galvin
- "taint", anatomical
Jonathan Lighter
- "taint", anatomical
Jonathan Lighter
- "taint", anatomical
Laurence Horn
- "taint", anatomical
Jonathan Lighter
- "taint", anatomical
Alice Faber
- "taint", anatomical
Charles C Doyle
- "taint", anatomical
James Harbeck
- "taint", anatomical
Laurence Horn
- "taint", anatomical
Neal Whitman
- "taint", anatomical
Jonathan Lighter
- "taint", anatomical
Arnold Zwicky
- "taint", anatomical
Arnold Zwicky
- "taint", anatomical
Jonathan Lighter
- "taint", anatomical
Victor Steinbok
- "taint", anatomical
Laurence Horn
- pneumonia in the lungs
Dan Nussbaum
- "Poon tang" in the Philippines?
Douglas G. Wilson
- code-switching
Tom Zurinskas
- UKer
Jonathan Lighter
- meme
Jonathan Lighter
- odd subject-verb discord
Jonathan Lighter
- on: "not that good a looking guys"
Arnold Zwicky
- "Au lait" (1938)
Douglas G. Wilson
- baboons learn to spell
Jonathan Lighter
- Poon Tang Aftershave
Douglas G. Wilson
- "Poon tang" in the Philippines? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- The eschewing OED [Was: "taint", anatomical]
Joel S. Berson
- profiling
Jonathan Lighter
- Poon Tang Aftershave (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "FanBook - Share Your Page's!"
Wilson Gray
- the mother of all
David A. Daniel
- Motto: live a fast life, die young and be a beautiful corpse (Irene L. Luce 1920 August 25)
Garson O'Toole
- Motto: live a fast life, die young and be a beautiful corpse (Irene L. Luce 1920 August 25)
Laurence Horn
- Motto: live a fast life, die young and be a beautiful corpse (Irene L. Luce 1920 August 25)
Jonathan Lighter
- Motto: live a fast life, die young and be a beautiful corpse (Irene L. Luce 1920 August 25)
Joel S. Berson
- Motto: live a fast life, die young and be a beautiful corpse (Irene L. Luce 1920 August 25)
Laurence Horn
- Motto: live a fast life, die young and be a beautiful corpse (Irene L. Luce 1920 August 25)
Garson O'Toole
- Motto: live a fast life, die young and be a beautiful corpse (Irene L. Luce 1920 August 25)
Joel S. Berson
- Motto: live a fast life, die young and be a beautiful corpse (Irene L. Luce 1920 August 25)
W Brewer
- Motto: live a fast life, die young and be a beautiful corpse (Irene L. Luce 1920 August 25)
Shapiro, Fred
- Motto: live a fast life, die young and be a beautiful corpse (Irene L. Luce 1920 August 25)
Garson O'Toole
- Motto: live a fast life, die young and be a beautiful corpse (Irene L. Luce 1920 August 25)
Laurence Horn
- Motto: live a fast life, die young and be a beautiful corpse (Irene L. Luce 1920 August 25)
Garson O'Toole
- Motto: live a fast life, die young and be a beautiful corpse (Irene L. Luce 1920 August 25)
Laurence Horn
- Motto: live a fast life, die young and be a beautiful corpse (Irene L. Luce 1920 August 25)
W Brewer
- From a ZDNet article: " … _squeakily clean_ image …"
Wilson Gray
- fun with commas
Victor Steinbok
- scrape
Victor Steinbok
- kneeknocker, meatatarian
Victor Steinbok
- 7 Most Inappropriate Restaurant Names
Victor Steinbok
- vegetable completist
Victor Steinbok
- porridge
Victor Steinbok
- mole; dressage
Jonathan Lighter
- mole
Joel S. Berson
- Antedating(1861)"English" --spin on a ball OED=1869
sclements at NEO.RR.COM
- "the slap" = "the plate"? Baseball slang, 1903
Joel S. Berson
- "=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=A6_agencia_de_servicios_=5Ffreelance=5F_=E2=80=A6=22_?=[NT]
Wilson Gray
- "=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=A6_most_=5Ffavorite=5F_nation_clause_=E2=80=A6=22_?=[NT]
Wilson Gray
- _wonky_ = "shady"?
Wilson Gray
- "=?windows-1252?Q?=85_most_=5Ffavorite=5F_nation_clause_=85=22_?=[NT]
Victor Steinbok
- "Blog your own horn."
Michael McKernan
- civilian
Jonathan Lighter
- That fast an acting solution
Neal Whitman
- More on unconventional tools of creation (was: Re: Motto: live a fast life, die young and be a beautiful corpse)
Laurence Horn
- millionaire (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "clusterfrig"
Joel S. Berson
- Seeley Booth says of "Bones":
Wilson Gray
- plural of maven
Dan Nussbaum
- eggcorn illicit
David A. Daniel
- Quotation: "With such hands, how do you paint?" "With my prick" (Pierre Auguste Renoir)
Garson O'Toole
- Why birth rates are increasing?
Joel S. Berson
- portmanteaus; verbing
Arnold Zwicky
- Canada is a different planet
Victor Steinbok
- chair/ -man/ -woman
Jonathan Lighter
- the over-under is....
George Thompson
- The OED's current format
George Thompson
- the over-under is.... (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Quote: Genius is 1 per cent inspiration and 99 per cent perspiration (Edison 1901 May 6) (Plus earlier variants)
Garson O'Toole
- sell or profit from affiliation
Victor Steinbok
- Fwd: [this-and-that] I shall not surrender! The battle goes on!
Dan Nussbaum
- Omni Group headline:
Wilson Gray
- There are no words for it: a Scrabble champ passes out | The Jewish Chronicle
Victor Steinbok
- Satan in a Sunday hat
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- "got out over their skis"
Dan Goncharoff
- chinplant
Victor Steinbok
- Quote: he only lamented, that he had but one life to lose for his country (Nathan Hale 1799)
Garson O'Toole
- Quote: he only lamented, that he had but one life to lose for his country (Nathan Hale 1799)
Garson O'Toole
- Quote: he only lamented, that he had but one life to lose for his country (Nathan Hale 1799)
Laurence Horn
- Quote: he only lamented, that he had but one life to lose for his country (Nathan Hale 1799)
Garson O'Toole
- Quote: he only lamented, that he had but one life to lose for his country (Nathan Hale 1799)
Jonathan Lighter
- Quote: he only lamented, that he had but one life to lose for his country (Nathan Hale 1799)
Dan Goncharoff
- Quote: he only lamented, that he had but one life to lose for his country (Nathan Hale 1799)
Jonathan Lighter
- Quote: he only lamented, that he had but one life to lose for his country (Nathan Hale 1799)
Jonathan Lighter
- Quote: he only lamented, that he had but one life to lose for his country (Nathan Hale 1799)
Dan Goncharoff
- Quote: he only lamented, that he had but one life to lose for his country (Nathan Hale 1799)
Victor Steinbok
- Quote: he only lamented, that he had but one life to lose for his country (Nathan Hale 1799)
Garson O'Toole
- Quote: he only lamented, that he had but one life to lose for his country (Nathan Hale 1799)
Jonathan Lighter
- Quote: he only lamented, that he had but one life to lose for his country (Nathan Hale 1799)
Shapiro, Fred
- Quote: he only lamented, that he had but one life to lose for his country (Nathan Hale 1799)
Shapiro, Fred
- Quote: he only lamented, that he had but one life to lose for his country (Nathan Hale 1799)
Victor Steinbok
- Quote: he only lamented, that he had but one life to lose for his country (Nathan Hale 1799)
Dan Goncharoff
- Possible antedating of uptalk
Geoffrey Steven Nathan
- wishful thinking
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedating of "Graphic Novel"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of Graphic Novel
Amy West
- Antedating of "Brownie Point"
Shapiro, Fred
- FW: Even more antedating of The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Liquor up front. Poker in the rear.
Garson O'Toole
- Maxim: Eat only those foods that spoil or rot or decay, but eat them before they do
Garson O'Toole
- on the gang
Victor Steinbok
- quotable
Jonathan Lighter
- supercalif... redux
Ben Zimmer
- today's CNN miscellany
Jonathan Lighter
- "looked anything like" as hyponegation
Laurence Horn
- OT: "looked anything like" as hyponegation
Joel S. Berson
- "Google festeggia il 'Giorno della Terra' con un _doodle_ di fiori"
Wilson Gray
- request for reference
Arnold Zwicky
- OT: NBA
Joel S. Berson
- References on the History and Origin of Profanity
Dorita Barr
- Another source for profane language origins
David Barnhart
- Another source for profane language origins (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- 1947 citing in Archie Comic of "butthole." What did it mean?
sclements at NEO.RR.COM
- Veep
Jonathan Lighter
- advocate
Jonathan Lighter
- Veep (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Veep and
paul johnson
- References on the History and Origin of Profanity (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- antedating banjo (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- More English-based punning
Wilson Gray
- clogging (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- OT: clogging
Joel S. Berson
- Songs of Love and Grammar
James Harbeck
- another SOTA or two
Laurence Horn
- Lightnin' Hopkins speaks:
Wilson Gray
- Anticipatory Scottish?
Joel S. Berson
- _Womack_ redux: trivia
Wilson Gray
- twenty-twenty hindsight
Jonathan Lighter
- Butthole tree
Eric Nielsen
- Question about Kindle version of The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs
Garson O'Toole
- Cigarette nuts was Re: 1947 citing in Archie Comic of "butthole." What did it mean?
Amy West
- "earl" for "oil"
Jonathan Lighter
- Body-con
Douglas G. Wilson
- Pushback?
Martin Kaminer
- another SOTA or two (and The Good Wife)
Hunter, Lynne R CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-PACIFIC, 71700
- more business/HR jargon
Victor Steinbok
- Butthole tree (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Fwd: another SOTA or two (and The Good Wife)
Laurence Horn
- humblism
Jonathan Lighter
- Question about the Google Groups database
Garson O'Toole
- flip the script
Jonathan Lighter
- The Apocalypse is nigh!
Joel S. Berson
- rebel yell and yeehaw
Jonathan Lighter
- gender memes
Victor Steinbok
- Urgent
john lachmana rajagopal
- Cigarette nuts was Re: 1947 citing in Archie Comic of "butthole."
Amy West
- lady
Victor Steinbok
- _Box_ = "vagina"
Wilson Gray
- Gladiator
Castilleja, Janet
- Language of politics
Naeem Jenkins-Nixon
- "be getting onto"
Victor Steinbok
- "bestseller" = "bestseller list"?
Mark Mandel
- From Slashdot's site to Jon's mind:
Wilson Gray
- OT: German identification with/appropriation of civil rights movement/Black power movement was Re: antedating banjo (UNCLASSIFIED)
Amy West
- OT: German identification with/appropriation of civil rights movement/Black power movement
Joel S. Berson
- reversed CLEAR verbs (and "rid")
Arnold Zwicky
- OT: German West African colony?
Joel S. Berson
- zerg rush
Ben Zimmer
- OED Q: "canon" as "accepted body of works"?
Joel S. Berson
- OED Q: "canon" as "accepted body of works"? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- hardest
Victor Steinbok
- Another one for you, Jon
Wilson Gray
- Ironically (again)
Benjamin Barrett
- Off topic: People to follow on twitter
Garson O'Toole
- Co ördinated
Dan Goncharoff
- "going away"
Jonathan Lighter
- "bias toward" = 'bias against'
Jonathan Lighter
- What's in a name?
Wilson Gray
- Antedating "wooden nickel" (1892) and "wooden money" (1907) --something worthless
sclements at NEO.RR.COM
- style madness
Jonathan Lighter
- From the site sited by Jon
Wilson Gray
- "Who knew?"
Jonathan Lighter
- "What's not to love?"
Jonathan Lighter
- butt-hole v. prime
J P Maher
- "go figure"
J P Maher
- dime (again)
Victor Steinbok
- butt-hole = intestine as sausage casing
J P Maher
- "butt" for behind not antique
J P Maher
- butt-hole
J P Maher
- "That bites the big one!"
Wilson Gray
- butt anachronisms
J P Maher
- another SOTA (the Lyons meet the Jones)
Laurence Horn
- 1947 citing in Archie Comic of "butthole." What did it mean? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- photo-bomb
Jonathan Lighter
- more taboo avoidance
Victor Steinbok
- More butts
Joel S. Berson
- seven minutes in heaven (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- more fono-folly
Jonathan Lighter
- "keeping up with the Jones"
Joel S. Berson
- Q: ""My mother, married a kangaroo"?
Joel S. Berson
- more fono-folly (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "That bites the big one!" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- How can a string so wrong feel so right?
Wilson Gray
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