August 2012 Archives by date
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- entitlement
Wilson Gray
- Sacrifice = opportunity cost
Benjamin Barrett
- Fwd: Research idea - dictionaries
Arnold Zwicky
- Research idea - dictionaries
W Brewer
- Research idea - dictionaries
Garson O'Toole
- Research idea - dictionaries
Jonathan Lighter
- Google Books Search - erratic behavior
Jonathan Lighter
- Research idea - dictionaries
Ben Zimmer
- entitlement
Jonathan Lighter
- Research idea - dictionaries
Joel S. Berson
- entitlement
Joel S. Berson
- "dull as ditchwater" vs. "dull as dishwater"?
Joel S. Berson
- "letter vitamins"
Arnold Zwicky
- entitlement
Jonathan Lighter
- wazzock?
George Thompson
- Sacrifice = opportunity cost
Laurence Horn
- Fwd: Research idea - dictionaries
Jeff Prucher
- "dull as ditchwater" vs. "dull as dishwater"?
Garson O'Toole
- Sacrifice = opportunity cost
Dan Goncharoff
- Sacrifice = opportunity cost
Laurence Horn
- "Indian scrawl"
Joel S. Berson
- "dull as ditchwater" vs. "dull as dishwater"?
Joel S. Berson
- "Rogue Algorithm" -- a cinch for idiom of the year lists.
Martin Kaminer
- "Rogue Algorithm" -- a cinch for idiom of the year lists.
Joel S. Berson
- Sacrifice = opportunity cost
Benjamin Barrett
- Sacrifice = opportunity cost
Joel S. Berson
- Sacrifice = opportunity cost
Benjamin Barrett
- Sacrifice = opportunity cost
Jonathan Lighter
- Sacrifice = opportunity cost
Benjamin Barrett
- pipe water
James Harbeck
- entitlement
Geoffrey Nunberg
- pipe water
Benjamin Barrett
- A Clockwork Orange
Randy Alexander
- pipewater (1466) AND MORE
David Barnhart
- Fwd: Research idea - dictionaries
Amy West
- Research idea - dictionaries
Amy West
- pipe water
Amy West
- just heard
David Barnhart
- just heard
Jonathan Lighter
- irony punctuation marks
Jonathan Lighter
- big bazooka
David Barnhart
- pipe water
Joel S. Berson
- perMIT;
Jonathan Lighter
- irony punctuation marks
Ben Zimmer
- pipewater (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Heard on Springer
Wilson Gray
- Heard on Springer
Laurence Horn
- A Clockwork Orange
Neal Whitman
- Heard on Springer
Jonathan Lighter
- A Clockwork Orange
Laurence Horn
- Heard on Springer
Laurence Horn
- "nearly" - approaching something from above
Joel S. Berson
- Heard on Springer
Jonathan Lighter
- "nearly" - approaching something from above
Jonathan Lighter
- Quote: The customer is not an interruption of our work - he is the purpose of it (May 1941, Kenneth B. Elliott)
Garson O'Toole
- Sacrifice = opportunity cost
Dan Goncharoff
- A Clockwork Orange
Arnold Zwicky
- A Clockwork Orange
Wilson Gray
- Snowclone studying: "Is The New"
Jesse Sheidlower
- Heard on Springer
Wilson Gray
- Snowclone studying: "Is The New"
Wilson Gray
- Sacrifice = opportunity cost
Wilson Gray
- Snowclone studying: "Is The New"
Arnold Zwicky
- Snowclone studying: "Is The New"
Jesse Sheidlower
- Quote: The customer is not an interruption of our work - he is the purpose of it (May 1941, Kenneth B. Elliott)
Laurence Horn
- just heard
Wilson Gray
- Inquiring minds want to know...
Laurence Horn
- just heard
Douglas G. Wilson
- Quote: The customer is not an interruption of our work - he is the purpose of it (May 1941, Kenneth B. Elliott)
Garson O'Toole
- Inquiring minds want to know...
Dan Goncharoff
- Inquiring minds want to know...
Wilson Gray
- A Clockwork Orange
Randy Alexander
- A Clockwork Orange
Randy Alexander
- irony punctuation marks
W Brewer
- A Clockwork Orange
Jeff Prucher
- Word: buycott (October 13 1989)
Garson O'Toole
- Word: buycott (October 13 1989)
Garson O'Toole
- A Clockwork Orange
Garson O'Toole
- Inquiring minds want to know...
Jonathan Lighter
- "[T]he whole nine-yards" (July, 1956)
Ben Zimmer
- Inquiring minds want to know...
Laurence Horn
- Inquiring minds want to know...
Jonathan Lighter
- Quote: The customer is not an interruption of our work - he is the purpose of it (May 1941, Kenneth B. Elliott)
Laurence Horn
- 1956/1957 "whole nine yards" update
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- Soccer-speak
Charles C Doyle
- 1956/1957 "whole nine yards" update
Jonathan Lighter
- Soccer-speak
Dan Goncharoff
- Soccer-speak
paul johnson
- Article: Inside the Word World of Merriam-Webster - Atlantic
Garson O'Toole
- Inquiring minds want to know...
Jeff Prucher
- Inquiring minds want to know...
Laurence Horn
- Inquiring minds want to know...
paul johnson
- A Clockwork Orange
Wilson Gray
- A Clockwork Orange
Wilson Gray
- Inquiring minds want to know...
Jonathan Lighter
- Inquiring minds want to know...
paul johnson
- Quotation mash-up by cartoonist John Martz
Garson O'Toole
- long + past tense
Jonathan Lighter
- anonymous = 'undistinguished'
Jonathan Lighter
- Sacrifice = opportunity cost
Benjamin Barrett
- antedating "docudrama"
Jonathan Lighter
- Fwd: Language - dialect - speech of New Jersey
Martin Kaminer
- a new entry for the unpack-that-euphemism competition
Laurence Horn
- a new entry for the unpack-that-euphemism competition
Jonathan Lighter
- pre-history of "heavy metal"
Jonathan Lighter
- antedating "docudrama"
Dan Goncharoff
- a new entry for the unpack-that-euphemism competition
Dan Nussbaum
- a new entry for the unpack-that-euphemism competition
Ben Zimmer
- Sacrifice = opportunity cost
Dan Goncharoff
- "staged"
Jonathan Lighter
- a new entry for the unpack-that-euphemism competition
Jonathan Lighter
- antedating "docudrama"
Jonathan Lighter
- a new entry for the unpack-that-euphemism competition
Laurence Horn
- a new entry for the unpack-that-euphemism competition
Laurence Horn
- "_Cut_ the fool" and "_cut_ the slave" (not really interesting)
Wilson Gray
- Sacrifice = opportunity cost
Benjamin Barrett
- "_Cut_ the fool" and "_cut_ the slave" (not really interesting)
Jonathan Lighter
- pre-history of "heavy metal"
Wilson Gray
- "_Cut_ the fool" and "_cut_ the slave" (not really interesting)
Wilson Gray
- "_Cut_ the fool" and "_cut_ the slave" (not really interesting)
Neal Whitman
- blinged-out
Victor Steinbok
- grill~mouth grill
David Barnhart
- grill~mouth grill
Victor Steinbok
- "_Cut_ the fool" and "_cut_ the slave" (not really interesting)
Laurence Horn
- grill~mouth grill
Garson O'Toole
- "_Cut_ the fool" and "_cut_ the slave" (not really interesting)
Douglas G. Wilson
- "GIF" = "animated GIF"
Neal Whitman
- [SPAM:###] Re: [SPAM:#] Re: a new entry for the unpack-that-euphemism competition
Arnold Zwicky
- "_Cut_ the fool" and "_cut_ the slave" (not really interesting)
George Thompson
- "GIF" = "animated GIF"
Ben Zimmer
- [masturbating -- or should that be -ed?] vegetables
Joel S. Berson
- "_Cut_ the fool" and "_cut_ the slave" (not really interesting)
Joel S. Berson
- You break it you buy it (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- You break it you buy it (UNCLASSIFIED)
Garson O'Toole
- Reverse "support" again
Garson O'Toole
- Quote: A professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either
Garson O'Toole
- "_Cut_ the fool" and "_cut_ the slave" (not really interesting)
Wilson Gray
- Sons of Liberty
victor steinbok
- Google Books (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Reverse "support" again
victor steinbok
- bell curve
victor steinbok
- Sons of Liberty
Paul Johnston
- grill~mouth grill
Wilson Gray
- blinged-out
Wilson Gray
- Sons of Liberty
Victor Steinbok
- Reverse "support" again
Jonathan Lighter
- bell curve
Jonathan Lighter
- grill~mouth grill
Victor Steinbok
- grill~mouth grill
Laurence Horn
- metric mile
Victor Steinbok
- Sons of Liberty
Joel S. Berson
- metric mile
Wilson Gray
- grill~mouth grill
Joel S. Berson
- bell curve
Wilson Gray
- "Sons of Liberty", early 1765
Joel S. Berson
- "Sons of Liberty", source thereof
Joel S. Berson
- bell curve
Jonathan Lighter
- "Sons of Liberty" -- Barre's or not?
Joel S. Berson
- "Sons of Liberty", source thereof
Victor Steinbok
- "staged"
Baker, John
- Sons of Liberty
Garson O'Toole
- pseudonym
Victor Steinbok
- metric mile
W Brewer
- metric mile
W Brewer
- Sons of Liberty
W Brewer
- "_Cut_ the fool" and "_cut_ the slave" (not really interesting)
Margaret Lee
- "_Cut_ the fool" and "_cut_ the slave" (not really interesting)
Eric Nielsen
- "staged"
Jonathan Lighter
- '-ista"?
Joel S. Berson
- "staged"
Joel S. Berson
- pseudonym
Joel S. Berson
- Sons of Liberty
Joel S. Berson
- "_Cut_ the fool" and "_cut_ the slave" (not really interesting)
Laurence Horn
- euphemism watch: "fashion health"
Nancy Friedman
- bell curve
Charles C Doyle
- "Sons of Liberty", source thereof
Joel S. Berson
- bell curve
Laurence Horn
- "Sons of Liberty", source thereof
Victor Steinbok
- gazillionaire --> bazillionaire
Victor Steinbok
- "staged"
Dan Goncharoff
- bell curve
Jonathan Lighter
- "staged"
Jonathan Lighter
- Quote: A professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either
Dan Goncharoff
- OT, but possibly interesting; from Slashdot:
Wilson Gray
- OT, but possibly interesting; from Slashdot:
Dan Goncharoff
- More Slashdot-ery: past predictions of the present future
Wilson Gray
- Obamaloney and Romney-Hood
Victor Steinbok
- gazillionaire --> bazillionaire (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Most Unfortunate Town Name (in U.S.)
Jonathan Lighter
- Quote: A professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either
Garson O'Toole
- euphemism watch: "fashion health"
Douglas G. Wilson
- Exhibit at Morgan Library in New York reportedly contains important information about Winston Churchill anecdote/quotation
Garson O'Toole
- "_Cut_ the fool" and "_cut_ the slave" (not really interesting)
Eric Nielsen
- Exhibit at Morgan Library in New York reportedly contains important information about Winston Churchill anecdote/quotation
George Thompson
- (no subject)
PL
- Exhibit at Morgan Library in New York reportedly contains important information about Winston Churchill anecdote/quotation
Garson O'Toole
- "knows where the bodies are buried" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Reminder: Aug. 13 is deadline for papers for 2013 annual meeting
Grant Barrett
- "knows where the bodies are buried" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Garson O'Toole
- Old-school prescriptivism WRT to sports
Wilson Gray
- available
Victor Steinbok
- Old-school prescriptivism WRT to sports
Arnold Zwicky
- And English gets the gold!
Wilson Gray
- Cookie feedback
Wilson Gray
- Exhibit at Morgan Library in New York reportedly contains important information about Winston Churchill anecdote/quotation
Garson O'Toole
- And English gets the gold!
Damien Hall
- And English gets the gold!
Laurence Horn
- available
Baker, John
- available
Laurence Horn
- Fascism in America
David A. Daniel
- available
Victor Steinbok
- means of production
Victor Steinbok
- means of production
Jonathan Lighter
- means of production
Jonathan Lighter
- means of production
Victor Steinbok
- Fascism in America
Garson O'Toole
- Fascism in America
Victor Steinbok
- Fascism in America
David A. Daniel
- "finesse", the adjective
Joel S. Berson
- means of production
Joel S. Berson
- means of production
Jonathan Lighter
- means of production
Laurence Horn
- means of production
Jonathan Lighter
- Quote: The world has waxed old and wicked. Politics are very corrupt (1908, attrib ancient tablet)
Garson O'Toole
- "finesse", the adjective
Ben Zimmer
- "finesse", the adjective
Laurence Horn
- Fascism in America
Shapiro, Fred
- An approach to _break nasty_ "break bad"
Wilson Gray
- "Soul brother"
Wilson Gray
- anecdata
Victor Steinbok
- anecdata
Ben Zimmer
- Fascism in America
Garson O'Toole
- biologic
Victor Steinbok
- biologic
Arnold Zwicky
- "Soul brother"
Jonathan Lighter
- "hero"
Jonathan Lighter
- "finesse", the adjective
Joel S. Berson
- "finesse", the adjective
Laurence Horn
- "hero"
W Brewer
- "finesse", the adjective
Joel S. Berson
- "finesse", the adjective
Laurence Horn
- coward
Jonathan Lighter
- coward
Ben Zimmer
- coward
W Brewer
- Mental masturbation
Neal Whitman
- In the NYT, Jon Grinspan...
Wilson Gray
- In the NYT, Jon Grinspan...
Dan Goncharoff
- coward
Wilson Gray
- In the NYT, Jon Grinspan...
Jonathan Lighter
- In the NYT, Jon Grinspan...
Laurence Horn
- coward
Dan Goncharoff
- In the NYT, Jon Grinspan...
John McChesney-Young
- In the NYT, Jon Grinspan...
Wilson Gray
- "finesse", the adjective
Joel S. Berson
- coward
Joel S. Berson
- more on allegory
Jonathan Lighter
- In the NYT, Jon Grinspan...
W Brewer
- "Soul brother"
Wilson Gray
- Heard this morning on NPR
David Barnhart
- muddled referent
Victor Steinbok
- coward
Victor Steinbok
- muddled referent
Joel S. Berson
- unintentional
Victor Steinbok
- unintentional
Ben Zimmer
- unintentional
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- unintentional
Laurence Horn
- unintentional
Garson O'Toole
- unintentional
Jonathan Lighter
- The African Dodger (UNCLASSIFIED)
Jonathan Lighter
- kosher = according to prescribed rules
Benjamin Barrett
- The African Dodger (UNCLASSIFIED)
Garson O'Toole
- kosher = according to prescribed rules
victor steinbok
- kosher = according to prescribed rules
Joel S. Berson
- kosher = according to prescribed rules
Benjamin Barrett
- muddled referent
Arnold Zwicky
- muddled referent
Wilson Gray
- Mutt
Douglas G. Wilson
- muddled referent
Jonathan Lighter
- Mutt
David Barnhart
- Mutt
Jonathan Lighter
- more on _mutt_
David Barnhart
- more on _mutt_
Jonathan Lighter
- Mutt
victor steinbok
- "Mutt" in Indian religion or law; not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- kosher = according to prescribed rules
Wilson Gray
- muddled referent
Wilson Gray
- Mutt
Wilson Gray
- Mutt and -head
Joel S. Berson
- Mutt
Douglas G. Wilson
- Mutt
George Thompson
- "Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo!"
Wilson Gray
- In the NYT Magazine,
Wilson Gray
- In the NYT Magazine,
Arnold Zwicky
- In the NYT Magazine,
Wilson Gray
- Mutt
Garson O'Toole
- Mutt
Jonathan Lighter
- Mutt
Douglas G. Wilson
- Mutt
Garson O'Toole
- In the NYT, Jon Grinspan...
Dan Goncharoff
- "Mutt" in Indian religion or law; not in OED
W Brewer
- George Bernard Shaw denies Shaw-Churchill ticket anecdote (1949) [was Exhibit at Morgan Library in NY etc]
Garson O'Toole
- In the NYT, Jon Grinspan...
Wilson Gray
- Cali
Victor Steinbok
- Cali
Wilson Gray
- Cali
W Brewer
- In the NYT, Jon Grinspan...
W Brewer
- "Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo!"
Charles C Doyle
- to instant hold; to emergency land
Jonathan Lighter
- to instant hold; to emergency land
Dan Goncharoff
- to instant hold; to emergency land
Arnold Zwicky
- The African Dodger (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo!"
Joel S. Berson
- to instant hold; to emergency land
Joel S. Berson
- "Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo!" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo!"
Laurence Horn
- unintentional (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo!"
Alice Faber
- Mutt
Joel S. Berson
- "Mutt" in Indian religion or law; not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- FW:2
PL
- "Mutt" in Indian religion or law; not in OED
W Brewer
- "Mutt" in Indian religion or law; not in OED
Jeff Prucher
- "Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo!" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Wilson Gray
- "Mutt" in Indian religion or law; [not] not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- "Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo!" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- to instant hold; to emergency land
Wilson Gray
- FW:2
Victor Steinbok
- "Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo!" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Dave Wilton
- "Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo!" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Wilson Gray
- "Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo!" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Mutt
Baker, John
- Mutt: something new (or rather old)
Douglas G. Wilson
- MOS
Jonathan Lighter
- Simultaneous interpretation
Joel S. Berson
- Mutt
Wilson Gray
- "Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo!" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Wilson Gray
- Mutt
Baker, John
- Mutt
Joel S. Berson
- Margalit Fox channels Dorothy Parker?
Joel S. Berson
- Mouseburger and the OED
Joel S. Berson
- Mouseburger and the OED
Laurence Horn
- Mutt
Wilson Gray
- Mouseburger and the OED
Joel S. Berson
- Margalit Fox channels Dorothy Parker?
Ben Zimmer
- Mouseburger and the OED
Wilson Gray
- Margalit Fox channels Dorothy Parker?
Ben Zimmer
- Mouseburger and the OED
Shapiro, Fred
- Mouseburger and the OED
Shapiro, Fred
- Margalit Fox channels Dorothy Parker?
Laurence Horn
- Margalit Fox channels Dorothy Parker?
Arnold Zwicky
- Mouseburger and the OED
Laurence Horn
- "comb-overed" (a cad, of course)
Joel S. Berson
- Margalit Fox channels Dorothy Parker?
Joel S. Berson
- Helen Gurley and Mr. Brown
Joel S. Berson
- From The Hot Word:
Wilson Gray
- Margalit Fox channels Dorothy Parker?
Laurence Horn
- Helen Gurley and Mr. Brown
Laurence Horn
- From The Hot Word:
Douglas G. Wilson
- a better toilet
Victor Steinbok
- a better toilet
Benjamin Barrett
- a better toilet
Victor Steinbok
- Revenge of the quote
Victor Steinbok
- a better toilet
Benjamin Barrett
- Margalit Fox channels Dorothy Parker?
Arnold Zwicky
- Revenge of the quote
Joel S. Berson
- "comb-overed" (a cad, of course)
Arnold Zwicky
- "comb-overed" (a cad, of course)
Laurence Horn
- Revenge of the quote (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- From The Hot Word:
Jonathan Lighter
- Revenge of the quote (UNCLASSIFIED)
Garson O'Toole
- "comb-overed" (a cad, of course)
Joel S. Berson
- Revenge of the quote (UNCLASSIFIED)
Joel S. Berson
- Margalit Fox and "parts were considerably younger"
Joel S. Berson
- Tebow verb, now noun
Victor Steinbok
- Margalit Fox and "parts were considerably younger"
Garson O'Toole
- Revenge of the quote
Amy West
- Revenge of the quote (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Revenge of the quote (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- suspect quotes on writing (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Revenge of the quote
Joel S. Berson
- Revenge of the quote (UNCLASSIFIED)
Jonathan Lighter
- Revenge of the quote (UNCLASSIFIED)
Joel S. Berson
- Revenge of the quote
Joel S. Berson
- suspect quotes on writing (UNCLASSIFIED)
Laurence Horn
- Revenge of the quote (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Revenge of the quote (UNCLASSIFIED)
Victor Steinbok
- suspect quotes on writing (UNCLASSIFIED)
Victor Steinbok
- Baseball or Base Ball
Geoffrey Nunberg
- Off the Cuff
Baker, John
- OED and "cassina" -- not 1780 nor any other year
Joel S. Berson
- From The Hot Word:
Wilson Gray
- Baseball or Base Ball
Herb Stahlke
- nouns
victor steinbok
- Off the Cuff
Garson O'Toole
- From The Hot Word:
Dan Goncharoff
- nouns
paul johnson
- Revenge of the quote
Amy West
- ESL using truespel
Tom Zurinskas
- From The Hot Word:
Jonathan Lighter
- Baseball or Base Ball
Laurence Horn
- more on "staging"
Laurence Horn
- nouns
Joel S. Berson
- Revenge of the quote
Joel S. Berson
- more on "staging"
Jonathan Lighter
- more on "staging"
Laurence Horn
- Heard on Springer: _smashed_ "had sex"
Wilson Gray
- "... banal forays into _political-opinion-having_ =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=A6=22_?=[NT]
Wilson Gray
- TIME: " … a kind of online _dashboard_ …"
Wilson Gray
- more on "staging"
Wilson Gray
- more on "staging"
Joel S. Berson
- more on "staging"
Joel S. Berson
- more on "staging"
Laurence Horn
- more on "staging"
Wilson Gray
- "Newcastle Brown Ale!"
Wilson Gray
- Anecdote: Write 'damn' instead of 'very'. The editor will strike out the word, 'damn'. (William Allen White 1935)
Garson O'Toole
- "Newcastle Brown Ale!"
Jonathan Lighter
- Quip: Diplomat - a gent who thinks twice before he says nothing (August 1953)
Garson O'Toole
- Anecdote: Write 'damn' instead of 'very'. The editor will strike out the word, 'damn'. (William Allen White 1935)
Laurence Horn
- Coinage of "Carjacking"
Shapiro, Fred
- "every since"
Laurence Horn
- "every since"
Douglas G. Wilson
- Baseball or Base Ball
Charles C Doyle
- "Newcastle Brown Ale!"
Wilson Gray
- People Mag v. "Honey Boo Boo"
Wilson Gray
- "Newcastle Brown Ale!"
Joel S. Berson
- "every since"
Wilson Gray
- "Newcastle Brown Ale!"
Wilson Gray
- au jus
Victor Steinbok
- au jus
Arnold Zwicky
- au jus
Victor Steinbok
- something missing at DQ
Victor Steinbok
- something missing at DQ
Wilson Gray
- au jus
Laurence Horn
- Slashdot's incisive mind pierces to the heart of the matter:
Wilson Gray
- Simultaneously in the wild and in print
Wilson Gray
- Automatic reply: ADS-L Digest - 17 Aug 2012 to 18 Aug 2012 (#2012-232)
Damien Hall
- Baseball or Base Ball
Geoffrey Nunberg
- "Jew" in Wikipedia
Geoffrey Nunberg
- Bon appetit, quoth Julia Child
W Brewer
- more on "staging"
Eric Nielsen
- "every since"
Eric Nielsen
- "every since"
Wilson Gray
- Baseball or Base Ball
Charles C Doyle
- Slashdot's incisive mind pierces to the heart of the matter:
Jonathan Lighter
- more on "staging"
Joel S. Berson
- is there a "yo" around here?
George Thompson
- more on "staging"
Eric Nielsen
- is there a "yo" around here?
Douglas G. Wilson
- artificial, n.
Jonathan Lighter
- is there a "yo" around here?
Jonathan Lighter
- Baseball or Base Ball
Wilson Gray
- "like thunder upon beer"
Jonathan Lighter
- "like thunder upon beer"
Laurence Horn
- OT: dog days and vacations
Victor Steinbok
- Mike O'Hare, Language Cop
Victor Steinbok
- "like thunder upon beer"
W Brewer
- Baseball or Base Ball
Geoffrey Nunberg
- Mike O'Hare, Language Cop
David A. Daniel
- Football (was: Baseball or Base Ball)
Damien Hall
- FW: word of the year?
David Barnhart
- word of the year?
Michael Newman
- word of the year?
Arnold Zwicky
- word of the year?
Michael Newman
- word of the year?
paul johnson
- Mike O'Hare, Language Cop
Laurence Horn
- Football (was: Baseball or Base Ball)
Laurence Horn
- word of the year?
Joel S. Berson
- word of the year?
Laurence Horn
- Microbes Maketh Man, and vice versa
Joel S. Berson
- word of the year?
Jonathan Lighter
- word of the year?
Ben Zimmer
- "like thunder upon beer"
Garson O'Toole
- "like thunder upon beer"
Jonathan Lighter
- neologism: notymology
Mark Mandel
- word of the year?
Jonathan Lighter
- Football
Victor Steinbok
- transitive "be done" (again?)
Laurence Horn
- word of the year? ("legitimate rape")
Arnold Zwicky
- Microbes Maketh Man, and vice versa
David A. Daniel
- FW: word of the year?
Hollis Barnhart
- word of the year?
Geoff Nathan
- word of the year?
Brenda Lester
- transitive "be done" (again?)
Geoff Nathan
- word of the year?
Wilson Gray
- transitive "be done" (again?)
Geoffrey Steven Nathan
- word of the year?
Benjamin Barrett
- word of the year?
Charles C Doyle
- word of the year?
Benjamin Barrett
- Coinage of "Carjacking" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Coinage of "Carjacking" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Baker, John
- word of the year?
Laurence Horn
- transitive "be done" (again?)
Laurence Horn
- OT: dog days and vacations
Wilson Gray
- word of the year?
Laurence Horn
- Coinage of "Carjacking" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Douglas G. Wilson
- owners are waiving in their commitment
Garson O'Toole
- owners are waiving in their commitment
George Thompson
- transitive "be done" (again?)
Arnold Zwicky
- owners are waiving in their commitment
Laurence Horn
- OT: dog days and vacations
Victor Steinbok
- transitive "be done" (again?)
Ben Zimmer
- transitive "be done" (again?)
Laurence Horn
- transitive "be done" (again?)
Douglas G. Wilson
- word of the year? ("legitimate rape")
Victor Steinbok
- jeah
Victor Steinbok
- jeah
Victor Steinbok
- jelly vs. jam
Victor Steinbok
- jelly vs. jam
Eric Nielsen
- jeah
Arnold Zwicky
- jeah
Ben Zimmer
- jeah
Arnold Zwicky
- word of the year?
Joel S. Berson
- word of the year?
Joel S. Berson
- nabe (attrib.) 'neighborhood': 1922, 1938
Ben Zimmer
- Lawtalk! (Fred et al. on lexical lexicography with a light touch)
Laurence Horn
- nabe (attrib.) 'neighborhood': 1922, 1938
Michael Newman
- Fallout from the loss of [hw]-
Wilson Gray
- Lawtalk! (Fred et al. on lexical lexicography with a light touch)
Wilson Gray
- word of the year?
Wilson Gray
- OT: dog days and vacations
Wilson Gray
- OT: dog days and vacations
Victor Steinbok
- OT: dog days and vacations
Wilson Gray
- worldly = 'from far away in the world'
Wilson Gray
- e-K önyvek az Akadémiai Kiadó _webshopjába =?UTF-8?Q?n=5F!_?=[NT]
Wilson Gray
- Slashdot: " … threatened a manager _for_ termination … =?UTF-8?Q?=22_?=[NT]
Wilson Gray
- "right back at you"
Laurence Horn
- oops
Laurence Horn
- "right back at you"
Jonathan Lighter
- "reverse retouching" another woty candidate?
David Barnhart
- pail / pale
Charles C Doyle
- pail / pale
Joel S. Berson
- pail / pale
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- oops
Wilson Gray
- oops, Lionel
Joel S. Berson
- _Dead End_ is...
Wilson Gray
- _Dead End_ is...
Benjamin Barrett
- oops
Laurence Horn
- oops, Lionel
Wilson Gray
- _Dead End_ is...
Laurence Horn
- _Dead End_ is...
Wilson Gray
- oops, Lionel
Joel S. Berson
- _Dead End_ is...
Jeff Prucher
- pail / pale
Victor Steinbok
- _Dead End_ is...
Benjamin Barrett
- _Dead End_ is...
Victor Steinbok
- _Dead End_ is...
Joel S. Berson
- _Dead End_ is...
Alice Faber
- pail / pale
Ben Zimmer
- beyond / over and pale / pail
David Barnhart
- _Dead End_ is...
David Barnhart
- _Dead End_ is...
Wilson Gray
- suck
Victor Steinbok
- pop-undering
Victor Steinbok
- suck
Wilson Gray
- pop-undering
Wilson Gray
- suck
Joel S. Berson
- _Dead End_ is...
Jonathan Lighter
- More RepublicanSpeak
Charles C Doyle
- More RepublicanSpeak
Laurence Horn
- Quote: A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon (attrib Napoleon)
Garson O'Toole
- Quote: A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon (attrib Napoleon)
Jonathan Lighter
- "right back at you"
Garson O'Toole
- Major Antedating of "Seven Sisters"
Shapiro, Fred
- "reverse retouching" another woty candidate?
James Harbeck
- jelly vs. jam
Dan Goncharoff
- jelly vs. jam
Eric Nielsen
- Automatic reply: jelly vs. jam
Loiterstein, David
- jelly vs. jam
Victor Steinbok
- jelly vs. jam
Benjamin Barrett
- jelly vs. jam
Victor Steinbok
- jelly vs. jam
Jonathan Lighter
- jelly vs. jam
Joel S. Berson
- Trekker POTUS?
Dan Goncharoff
- Biology trumps linguistics?
Joel S. Berson
- Biology trumps linguistics?
Laurence Horn
- Anatolia and Indo-European
Joel S. Berson
- Biology trumps linguistics?
Joel S. Berson
- Headline: _Kidnapping_ d=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99un_?=enfant [NT]
Wilson Gray
- More dumbing-down
Wilson Gray
- Biology trumps linguistics?
Victor Steinbok
- Trekker POTUS?
Victor Steinbok
- Trekker POTUS?
Michael Everson
- Trekker POTUS?
Victor Steinbok
- Trekker POTUS?
Dave Wilton
- Trekker POTUS?
Garson O'Toole
- Trekker POTUS?
Jonathan Lighter
- Anatolia and Indo-European
Herb Stahlke
- Biology trumps linguistics?
Eric Nielsen
- another photo "action"
Victor Steinbok
- Biology trumps linguistics?
Michael Newman
- Anatolia and Indo-European
W Brewer
- More dumbing-down
Dan Goncharoff
- another photo "action"
Garson O'Toole
- cuckoo-for-cocoa-puffs
Victor Steinbok
- cuckoo-for-cocoa-puffs
Jonathan Lighter
- Biology trumps linguistics?
Joel S. Berson
- Biology trumps linguistics?
Victor Steinbok
- cuckoo-for-cocoa-puffs
Joel S. Berson
- cuckoo-for-cocoa-puffs
Victor Steinbok
- cuckoo-for-cocoa-puffs
Jonathan Lighter
- cuckoo-for-cocoa-puffs
Joel S. Berson
- Garry Wills explains pig in a poke...
Victor Steinbok
- cuckoo-for-cocoa-puffs
Victor Steinbok
- cuckoo-for-cocoa-puffs
George Thompson
- "I could shit-care less!"
Jonathan Lighter
- cuckoo-for-cocoa-puffs
Jonathan Lighter
- cuckoo-for-cocoa-puffs
Dan Goncharoff
- cuckoo-for-cocoa-puffs
Victor Steinbok
- From PARADE archives
Victor Steinbok
- From PARADE archives
Benjamin Barrett
- cuckoo-for-cocoa-puffs
Michael Everson
- cuckoo-for-cocoa-puffs
Jonathan Lighter
- You Only Live Once - YOLO
Ben Zimmer
- cuckoo-for-cocoa-puffs
Joel S. Berson
- From PARADE archives
Joel S. Berson
- You Only Live Once - YOLO
Laurence Horn
- Breaking doubled consonants into syllables
Joel S. Berson
- You Only Live Once - YOLO
Charles C Doyle
- cuckoo-for-cocoa-puffs
W Brewer
- Breaking doubled consonants into syllables
Laurence Horn
- You Only Live Once - YOLO
Laurence Horn
- cuckoo-for-cocoa-puffs
Laurence Horn
- You Only Live Once - YOLO
Garson O'Toole
- "Let no lap go un-danced!" [NT]
Wilson Gray
- cuckoo-for-cocoa-puffs
Wilson Gray
- Breaking doubled consonants into syllables
Wilson Gray
- Breaking doubled consonants into syllables
Benjamin Barrett
- Breaking doubled consonants into syllables
Laurence Horn
- Breaking doubled consonants into syllables
Laurence Horn
- Breaking doubled consonants into syllables
Joel S. Berson
- cuckoo-for-cocoa-puffs
Joel S. Berson
- Breaking doubled consonants into syllables
Tom Zurinskas
- cuckoo-for-cocoa-puffs
Jonathan Lighter
- Labov on vowel shifts
Tom Zurinskas
- Breaking doubled consonants into syllables
Laurence Horn
- Breaking doubled consonants into syllables
Laurence Horn
- Labov on vowel shifts
Wilson Gray
- cuckoo-for-cocoa-puffs
Joel S. Berson
- cuckoo-for-cocoa-puffs
Wilson Gray
- From PARADE archives
Wilson Gray
- OT: from a post to TidBITS.com:
Wilson Gray
- Labov on vowel shifts
Herb Stahlke
- Labov on vowel shifts
W Brewer
- You Only Live Once - YOLO
Ben Zimmer
- Labov on vowel shifts
Michael Newman
- another photo "action" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Labov on vowel shifts
Laurence Horn
- Kinsley gaffe
David Barnhart
- Akin gaffe
David Barnhart
- gaffeland
David Barnhart
- another photo "action" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Ben Zimmer
- Labov on vowel shifts
Tom Zurinskas
- Kinsley gaffe
Wilson Gray
- In a post to Slashdot: "_Woah_, slow down!"
Wilson Gray
- another photo "action" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Wilson Gray
- Breaking doubled consonants into syllables
Tom Zurinskas
- Breaking doubled consonants into syllables
Laurence Horn
- nuncio
Victor Steinbok
- nuncio
Wilson Gray
- Breaking doubled consonants into syllables
Tom Zurinskas
- Labov on vowel shifts
David Metevia
- Labov on vowel shifts
Amy West
- nuncio
Dave Wilton
- Labov on vowel shifts
W Brewer
- the other Kelsey's Law:
David Barnhart
- nuncio
Jonathan Lighter
- nuncio
Jonathan Lighter
- nuncio
Victor Steinbok
- Labov on vowel shifts
Laurence Horn
- Labov on vowel shifts
W Brewer
- Labov on vowel shifts
Paul Johnston
- Labov on vowel shifts
Neal Whitman
- Labov on vowel shifts
Paul Johnston
- Friends don't let friends
Benjamin Barrett
- Friends don't let friends
Dave Wilton
- Friends don't let friends
Benjamin Barrett
- Friends don't let friends
Garson O'Toole
- Friends don't let friends
Garson O'Toole
- HuffPost headline
Wilson Gray
- Friends don't let friends
Benjamin Barrett
- Breaking doubled consonants into syllables
Herb Stahlke
- Breaking doubled consonants into syllables
Tom Zurinskas
- "negotiable affections" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- easy, n.
Jonathan Lighter
- forefinger and index finger
Joel S. Berson
- forefinger and index finger
Dan Goncharoff
- Breaking doubled consonants into syllables
Herb Stahlke
- OT? Is David Brooks channeling Maureen Dowd?
Joel S. Berson
- forefinger and index finger
Joel S. Berson
- forefinger and index finger
Arnold Zwicky
- forefinger and index finger
Dan Goncharoff
- Heard on The Judges: "=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=A6_?=gave me _money for a supposed-to-be drug test_."
Wilson Gray
- forefinger and index finger
Wilson Gray
- new eggcorn?
Victor Steinbok
- easy, n.
Victor Steinbok
- new eggcorn?
Benjamin Barrett
- _CRUCEMOS LOS DEDOS_ "We're crossing our fingers"
Wilson Gray
- See the usage note
David Barnhart
- See the usage note
Benjamin Barrett
- forefinger and index finger
Joel S. Berson
- just e-nun-ci-ate
George Thompson
- Breaking doubled consonants into syllables
Tom Zurinskas
- new eggcorn?
Wilson Gray
- Wait, what?
Wilson Gray
- A new dictionary-related inquiry
Shapiro, Fred
- Breaking doubled consonants into syllables
Herb Stahlke
- nabe (attrib.) 'neighborhood': 1922, 1938
Ben Zimmer
- forefinger and index finger
W Brewer
- Breaking doubled consonants into syllables
V
- A new dictionary-related inquiry
Ben Zimmer
- A new dictionary-related inquiry
Jonathan Lighter
- Breaking doubled consonants into syllables
Tom Zurinskas
- Breaking doubled consonants into syllables (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- A new dictionary-related inquiry
Baker, John
- "negotiable affections" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- A new dictionary-related inquiry
Ben Zimmer
- Maureen Dowd denies David Brooks is channeling her
Joel S. Berson
- Breaking doubled consonants into syllables
Herb Stahlke
- Fron a Facebook post:
Wilson Gray
- Fron a Facebook post:
Eric Nielsen
- Fron a Facebook post:
Benjamin Barrett
- A new dictionary-related inquiry
Joel S. Berson
- Fron a Facebook post:
Joel S. Berson
- Fron a Facebook post:
Brenda Lester
- Fron a Facebook post:
Wilson Gray
- Fron a Facebook post:
Joel S. Berson
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