August 2012 Archives by thread
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- entitlement
Wilson Gray
- Sacrifice = opportunity cost
Benjamin Barrett
- Fwd: Research idea - dictionaries
Arnold Zwicky
- Research idea - dictionaries
W Brewer
- Google Books Search - erratic behavior
Jonathan Lighter
- "dull as ditchwater" vs. "dull as dishwater"?
Joel S. Berson
- "letter vitamins"
Arnold Zwicky
- wazzock?
George Thompson
- "Indian scrawl"
Joel S. Berson
- "Rogue Algorithm" -- a cinch for idiom of the year lists.
Martin Kaminer
- pipe water
James Harbeck
- A Clockwork Orange
Randy Alexander
- pipewater (1466) AND MORE
David Barnhart
- just heard
David Barnhart
- irony punctuation marks
Jonathan Lighter
- big bazooka
David Barnhart
- perMIT;
Jonathan Lighter
- pipewater (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Heard on Springer
Wilson Gray
- "nearly" - approaching something from above
Joel S. Berson
- Quote: The customer is not an interruption of our work - he is the purpose of it (May 1941, Kenneth B. Elliott)
Garson O'Toole
- Snowclone studying: "Is The New"
Jesse Sheidlower
- Inquiring minds want to know...
Laurence Horn
- Word: buycott (October 13 1989)
Garson O'Toole
- "[T]he whole nine-yards" (July, 1956)
Ben Zimmer
- 1956/1957 "whole nine yards" update
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- Soccer-speak
Charles C Doyle
- Article: Inside the Word World of Merriam-Webster - Atlantic
Garson O'Toole
- Quotation mash-up by cartoonist John Martz
Garson O'Toole
- long + past tense
Jonathan Lighter
- anonymous = 'undistinguished'
Jonathan Lighter
- antedating "docudrama"
Jonathan Lighter
- Fwd: Language - dialect - speech of New Jersey
Martin Kaminer
- a new entry for the unpack-that-euphemism competition
Laurence Horn
- pre-history of "heavy metal"
Jonathan Lighter
- "staged"
Jonathan Lighter
- "_Cut_ the fool" and "_cut_ the slave" (not really interesting)
Wilson Gray
- blinged-out
Victor Steinbok
- grill~mouth grill
David Barnhart
- "GIF" = "animated GIF"
Neal Whitman
- [SPAM:###] Re: [SPAM:#] Re: a new entry for the unpack-that-euphemism competition
Arnold Zwicky
- [masturbating -- or should that be -ed?] vegetables
Joel S. Berson
- You break it you buy it (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- 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
- Sons of Liberty
victor steinbok
- Google Books (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- bell curve
victor steinbok
- metric mile
Victor Steinbok
- "Sons of Liberty", early 1765
Joel S. Berson
- "Sons of Liberty", source thereof
Joel S. Berson
- "Sons of Liberty" -- Barre's or not?
Joel S. Berson
- pseudonym
Victor Steinbok
- '-ista"?
Joel S. Berson
- euphemism watch: "fashion health"
Nancy Friedman
- gazillionaire --> bazillionaire
Victor Steinbok
- OT, but possibly interesting; from Slashdot:
Wilson Gray
- 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
- Exhibit at Morgan Library in New York reportedly contains important information about Winston Churchill anecdote/quotation
Garson O'Toole
- (no subject)
PL
- "knows where the bodies are buried" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Reminder: Aug. 13 is deadline for papers for 2013 annual meeting
Grant Barrett
- Old-school prescriptivism WRT to sports
Wilson Gray
- available
Victor Steinbok
- And English gets the gold!
Wilson Gray
- Cookie feedback
Wilson Gray
- Fascism in America
David A. Daniel
- means of production
Victor Steinbok
- "finesse", the adjective
Joel S. Berson
- Quote: The world has waxed old and wicked. Politics are very corrupt (1908, attrib ancient tablet)
Garson O'Toole
- An approach to _break nasty_ "break bad"
Wilson Gray
- "Soul brother"
Wilson Gray
- anecdata
Victor Steinbok
- biologic
Victor Steinbok
- "hero"
Jonathan Lighter
- coward
Jonathan Lighter
- Mental masturbation
Neal Whitman
- In the NYT, Jon Grinspan...
Wilson Gray
- more on allegory
Jonathan Lighter
- Heard this morning on NPR
David Barnhart
- muddled referent
Victor Steinbok
- unintentional
Victor Steinbok
- The African Dodger (UNCLASSIFIED)
Jonathan Lighter
- kosher = according to prescribed rules
Benjamin Barrett
- Mutt
Douglas G. Wilson
- more on _mutt_
David Barnhart
- "Mutt" in Indian religion or law; not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- Mutt and -head
Joel S. Berson
- "Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo!"
Wilson Gray
- In the NYT Magazine,
Wilson Gray
- George Bernard Shaw denies Shaw-Churchill ticket anecdote (1949) [was Exhibit at Morgan Library in NY etc]
Garson O'Toole
- Cali
Victor Steinbok
- to instant hold; to emergency land
Jonathan Lighter
- "Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo!" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- unintentional (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- FW:2
PL
- "Mutt" in Indian religion or law; [not] not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- Mutt: something new (or rather old)
Douglas G. Wilson
- MOS
Jonathan Lighter
- Simultaneous interpretation
Joel S. Berson
- Margalit Fox channels Dorothy Parker?
Joel S. Berson
- Mouseburger and the OED
Joel S. Berson
- "comb-overed" (a cad, of course)
Joel S. Berson
- Helen Gurley and Mr. Brown
Joel S. Berson
- From The Hot Word:
Wilson Gray
- a better toilet
Victor Steinbok
- Revenge of the quote
Victor Steinbok
- Revenge of the quote (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Margalit Fox and "parts were considerably younger"
Joel S. Berson
- Tebow verb, now noun
Victor Steinbok
- suspect quotes on writing (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Baseball or Base Ball
Geoffrey Nunberg
- Off the Cuff
Baker, John
- OED and "cassina" -- not 1780 nor any other year
Joel S. Berson
- nouns
victor steinbok
- ESL using truespel
Tom Zurinskas
- 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
- "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
- Quip: Diplomat - a gent who thinks twice before he says nothing (August 1953)
Garson O'Toole
- Coinage of "Carjacking"
Shapiro, Fred
- "every since"
Laurence Horn
- People Mag v. "Honey Boo Boo"
Wilson Gray
- au jus
Victor Steinbok
- something missing at DQ
Victor Steinbok
- 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
- "Jew" in Wikipedia
Geoffrey Nunberg
- Bon appetit, quoth Julia Child
W Brewer
- is there a "yo" around here?
George Thompson
- artificial, n.
Jonathan Lighter
- "like thunder upon beer"
Jonathan Lighter
- OT: dog days and vacations
Victor Steinbok
- Mike O'Hare, Language Cop
Victor Steinbok
- Football (was: Baseball or Base Ball)
Damien Hall
- FW: word of the year?
David Barnhart
- word of the year?
Michael Newman
- Microbes Maketh Man, and vice versa
Joel S. Berson
- neologism: notymology
Mark Mandel
- Football
Victor Steinbok
- transitive "be done" (again?)
Laurence Horn
- word of the year? ("legitimate rape")
Arnold Zwicky
- Coinage of "Carjacking" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- owners are waiving in their commitment
Garson O'Toole
- jeah
Victor Steinbok
- jelly vs. jam
Victor Steinbok
- nabe (attrib.) 'neighborhood': 1922, 1938
Ben Zimmer
- Lawtalk! (Fred et al. on lexical lexicography with a light touch)
Laurence Horn
- Fallout from the loss of [hw]-
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
- "reverse retouching" another woty candidate?
David Barnhart
- pail / pale
Charles C Doyle
- oops, Lionel
Joel S. Berson
- _Dead End_ is...
Wilson Gray
- beyond / over and pale / pail
David Barnhart
- suck
Victor Steinbok
- pop-undering
Victor Steinbok
- More RepublicanSpeak
Charles C Doyle
- Quote: A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon (attrib Napoleon)
Garson O'Toole
- Major Antedating of "Seven Sisters"
Shapiro, Fred
- Automatic reply: jelly vs. jam
Loiterstein, David
- Trekker POTUS?
Dan Goncharoff
- Biology trumps linguistics?
Joel S. Berson
- Anatolia and Indo-European
Joel S. Berson
- Headline: _Kidnapping_ d=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99un_?=enfant [NT]
Wilson Gray
- More dumbing-down
Wilson Gray
- another photo "action"
Victor Steinbok
- cuckoo-for-cocoa-puffs
Victor Steinbok
- Garry Wills explains pig in a poke...
Victor Steinbok
- "I could shit-care less!"
Jonathan Lighter
- From PARADE archives
Victor Steinbok
- You Only Live Once - YOLO
Ben Zimmer
- Breaking doubled consonants into syllables
Joel S. Berson
- "Let no lap go un-danced!" [NT]
Wilson Gray
- Labov on vowel shifts
Tom Zurinskas
- OT: from a post to TidBITS.com:
Wilson Gray
- another photo "action" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Kinsley gaffe
David Barnhart
- Akin gaffe
David Barnhart
- gaffeland
David Barnhart
- In a post to Slashdot: "_Woah_, slow down!"
Wilson Gray
- nuncio
Victor Steinbok
- the other Kelsey's Law:
David Barnhart
- Friends don't let friends
Benjamin Barrett
- HuffPost headline
Wilson Gray
- "negotiable affections" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- easy, n.
Jonathan Lighter
- forefinger and index finger
Joel S. Berson
- OT? Is David Brooks channeling Maureen Dowd?
Joel S. Berson
- Heard on The Judges: "=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=A6_?=gave me _money for a supposed-to-be drug test_."
Wilson Gray
- new eggcorn?
Victor Steinbok
- _CRUCEMOS LOS DEDOS_ "We're crossing our fingers"
Wilson Gray
- See the usage note
David Barnhart
- just e-nun-ci-ate
George Thompson
- Wait, what?
Wilson Gray
- A new dictionary-related inquiry
Shapiro, Fred
- Breaking doubled consonants into syllables (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Maureen Dowd denies David Brooks is channeling her
Joel S. Berson
- Fron a Facebook post:
Wilson Gray
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