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Starting: Wed Aug 1 01:56:29 UTC 2012
Ending: Fri Aug 31 21:38:57 UTC 2012
Messages: 726

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

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