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- reconstructive surgery--and implications
Victor Steinbok
- Fire = cook
Benjamin Barrett
- "tacogate"; "posterize"; "the full Mozgov"
Ben Zimmer
- "A bayonet is a weapon with a working man at either end."
Stephen Goranson
- A new ESL teaching program = new North American dialect?
Tom Zurinskas
- Xsters
W Brewer
- more "cracker"
Victor Steinbok
- 'Texes' as plural of 'text (message)'
Damien Hall
- An odd example of legalese (a criminal or a congressman, and an unwritten comma)
Hunter, Lynne R CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-PACIFIC, 71700
- self-deportation
victor steinbok
- cinnamon
victor steinbok
- "sprungboard" as past participle/past tense of "to springboard"
Laurence Horn
- "log" vs "log in"
Joel S. Berson
- "springboard" the verb
Joel S. Berson
- "trap street", "trap town"; also "Chinese entries"
Joel S. Berson
- Deathbed Quote: This Is No Time for Making New Enemies
Garson O'Toole
- energy drinks and their ingredients
victor steinbok
- Fwd: 'Texes' as plural of 'text (message)'
Laurence Horn
- Ragged but Right (pt. 1)
George Thompson
- Ragged but Right, pt. 2 ("bro")
George Thompson
- Ragged but Right, pt. 3 (jig)
George Thompson
- Ragged but Right, pt 4 (jam)
George Thompson
- Ragged but Right, pt 4 (jam)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Ragged but Right, pt 4 (jam)
George Thompson
- Ragged but Right, pt 4 (jam)
Jonathan Lighter
- Ragged but Right, pt 4 (jam)
Wilson Gray
- Ragged but Right, pt 4 (jam)
Jonathan Lighter
- Ragged but Right, pt 4 (jam)
Jonathan Lighter
- Ragged but Right, pt 4 (jam)
Wilson Gray
- Ragged but Right, pt 4 (jam)
Wilson Gray
- Ragged but Right, pt 4 (jam)
Jonathan Lighter
- Ragged but Right, pt 4 (jam)
Wilson Gray
- Ragged but Right, pt. 5 (Elizabeth Kewley!)
George Thompson
- Bread (v, adj)
Benjamin Barrett
- Quote: There, but for the grace of God, goes God (Referring to Father Divine)
Garson O'Toole
- Ragged but Right (pt. 1) -- (on "jazz")
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- The Freeman (Indianapolis)
Joel S. Berson
- College of St. Benedict/St. John's University
Robert Fiske
- WOTY candidate
Laurence Horn
- 'Texes' as plural of 'text (message)
Michael Sheehan
- Antedating of "Working Class"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Working Class", and 2 from 1747
Joel S. Berson
- Prescriptivism and descriptivism: vegetarian, vegan and dairy
Benjamin Barrett
- antedating "fiction novel"
Jonathan Lighter
- ANTEDATING OF "SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY"
Shapiro, Fred
- positive "star-crossed"
Nancy Friedman
- Siri-ous problem with creaky voice
Tom Zurinskas
- Why pick a non-English based spelling system for your country
Tom Zurinskas
- AP article on Black/African-American split
Victor Steinbok
- scientific gibberish
Victor Steinbok
- Why pick a non-English based spelling system for your country (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- positive "star-crossed" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- blood-and-guts
Victor Steinbok
- blood and soil (antedating)
Victor Steinbok
- Antedating of "Brassiere"
Shapiro, Fred
- Prescriptivism and descriptivism: honey and kashruth
Joel S. Berson
- Ragged but Right, pt. 6 ("bufay", i. e., "ofay")
George Thompson
- Ragged but Right, pt. 6 ("bufay", i. e., "ofay")
Ben Zimmer
- Ragged but Right, pt. 6 ("bufay", i. e., "ofay")
Douglas G. Wilson
- Ragged but Right, pt. 6 ("bufay", i. e., "ofay")
Douglas G. Wilson
- Ragged but Right, pt. 6 ("bufay", i. e., "ofay")
Douglas G. Wilson
- shell-bark
George Thompson
- one more "reveal"
Victor Steinbok
- Kobayashi Maru
Victor Steinbok
- Subject: blood and soil (antedating)
Amy West
- "prejudice", n. [OED3], with respect to race, 1776
Joel S. Berson
- CFP: Midwest Regional Amer. Dial. Soc. Mtg., Cincinatti, Nov. 8-12
Grant Barrett
- one more "reveal" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Quintessential language patterns for different social media networks
Garson O'Toole
- OT: No pardon for Alan Turing
Wilson Gray
- mohawk/not mohawk
Victor Steinbok
- serendipidous
Victor Steinbok
- Serendipitous [was serendipidous]
David A. Daniel
- pit in one's stomach
Ben Zimmer
- sideways
Victor Steinbok
- Serendipity One?
Joel S. Berson
- serendipidous --> freeholder
Joel S. Berson
- crab cake (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "Ofay" etc. from the Freeman
Douglas G. Wilson
- Strange Call from "Microsoft" -- name needed?
Joel S. Berson
- cheap shot/dirty play
Laurence Horn
- African-American
Wilson Gray
- Anecdote: I shall write to the stationmaster about you
Garson O'Toole
- African-American (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- cinnamon (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- anthropophagy
David A. Daniel
- shawty
Jackie Schmitt
- shawty (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Quotation: Heaven/Hell -- marriage/women
Joel S. Berson
- "The Usual Suspects" gives birth to a meme?
Wilson Gray
- Ragged but Right, pt. 6 ("bufay", i. e., "ofay") (addendum)
Douglas G. Wilson
- "double negative"
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- go hermantile (hermentile, hermatile, hermetile, hermitile)
Grant Barrett
- go hermantile (hermentile, hermatile, hermetile, hermitile)
Stephen Goranson
- go hermantile (hermentile, hermatile, hermetile, hermitile)
Laurence Horn
- go hermantile (hermentile, hermatile, hermetile, hermitile)
Joel S. Berson
- go hermantile (hermentile, hermatile, hermetile, hermitile)
Stephen Goranson
- go hermantile (hermentile, hermatile, hermetile, hermitile)
Stephen Goranson
- origin of dese dem dose in NYCE
Michael Newman
- forgot link
Michael Newman
- Chinese netizens support name changing of "Dragon"
Tom Zurinskas
- OT, but perhaps useful: easy typing of IPA symbols
Wilson Gray
- GoogleTranslate and hockey
Victor Steinbok
- A variant on snowclone "We are all X now"
Victor Steinbok
- The incredulous Tom Brady
Joel S. Berson
- Sports Word of the Year?
Joel S. Berson
- ADS-L archives
Joel S. Berson
- mystery quote: "Men like war...."
Jonathan Lighter
- "_Trial_ the Society of Sound _for free_!"
Wilson Gray
- Coining of a new "English" word
Wilson Gray
- GoogleTranslate and Dutch
Joel S. Berson
- "squatawa'd"
Joel S. Berson
- Knicky Knicky Nine Doors
Dan Goodman
- Going the way of _Frigidaire_ and _Formica_
Wilson Gray
- dese, dem and dose
Dan Nussbaum
- nyaa nyaa/ naa naa
Jonathan Lighter
- nyaa nyaa/ naa naa (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- shell-bark (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Encouragement from the IRS?
Joel S. Berson
- odd use of "newbie" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- origin of dese dem dose in NYCE (and now youse)
Michael Newman
- Fwd: origin of dese dem dose in NYCE
Paul Johnston
- A dole of doves - new cite for 'obsolete' word (OED)
Damien Hall
- Blue shot - euthanasia shot
Benjamin Barrett
- heifer
Jonathan Lighter
- "Soar" -- the new "surge"?
Joel S. Berson
- Hide and Seek catchphrase All-ie All-ie Outs in Free, Olly Olly Oxen Free
Garson O'Toole
- Another one: _lingvosensorika_
Wilson Gray
- Heard on The Judges: How to spell the BE pronunciation of _whore_
Wilson Gray
- Tennis anyone? Tennis anybody? Anyone for tennis?
Garson O'Toole
- Merkozy
Victor Steinbok
- "a veiled attack" > "an attack from behind a veil"
Wilson Gray
- "Bees' nest"?!!! WTF!!!
Wilson Gray
- Bukkake
Benjamin Barrett
- Bukkake (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- kids today
Jonathan Lighter
- _Heifer_ in the wild
Wilson Gray
- buycott
Victor Steinbok
- Where the Bee Sucks, There Sucks Pedantry
Ronald Butters
- to "graduate college"
Jonathan Lighter
- test
Ronald Butters
- Bukkake (UNCENSORED)
Joel S. Berson
- "Don't Say Gay"
Victor Steinbok
- creative use of "little"?
Victor Steinbok
- film collections
Ronald Butters
- "goat rodeo"
Joel S. Berson
- goat-roper
David Barnhart
- goat-rodeo MORE
David Barnhart
- Grammar Girl on backformed "verse"
Neal Whitman
- "Don't Say Gay" (role of blending)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- bees, wasps, bedbugs, etc.
Arnold Zwicky
- literally
Victor Steinbok
- Muphry=?windows-1252?Q?=92s_?=Law
Dan Goodman
- a few bits from a single article
Victor Steinbok
- from a birdwatchers' blog
George Thompson
- Malcolm X, the living landmark
Joel S. Berson
- while trolling the OED...
Laurence Horn
- unwittingly
Victor Steinbok
- jizz
Stephen Goranson
- partisanshipness
Jonathan Lighter
- archaeoacoustics
Jonathan Lighter
- Lincoln Never Said This
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- "communities of color"
Geoffrey Nunberg
- Fwd: Lincoln Never Said This
Dan Goncharoff
- _implant NP with_
Wilson Gray
- The Jeremy Lin racial slur
Joel S. Berson
- death thro[][s]
Victor Steinbok
- abide = 'abate'
Jonathan Lighter
- A mere legality
Wilson Gray
- A mere legality
Laurence Horn
- A mere legality
Wilson Gray
- A mere legality
Jonathan Lighter
- A mere legality
Charles C Doyle
- A mere legality
Laurence Horn
- A mere legality
Joel S. Berson
- A mere legality
Tom Zurinskas
- A mere legality
Jonathan Lighter
- A mere legality
Joel S. Berson
- A mere legality
Victor Steinbok
- A mere legality
Victor Steinbok
- A mere legality
Ronald Butters
- A mere legality
Wilson Gray
- A mere legality
Laurence Horn
- A mere legality
Jonathan Lighter
- A mere legality
Joel S. Berson
- A mere legality
George Thompson
- A mere legality
Baker, John
- A mere legality
Wilson Gray
- A mere legality
Joel S. Berson
- A mere legality
Wilson Gray
- A mere legality
Baker, John
- A mere legality
Wilson Gray
- A mere legality
Hunter, Lynne R CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-PACIFIC, 71700
- A mere legality
Victor Steinbok
- A mere legality
Baker, John
- A mere legality
Hunter, Lynne R CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-PACIFIC, 71700
- A mere legality
Baker, John
- A mere legality
Hunter, Lynne R CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-PACIFIC, 71700
- A mere legality
Eric Nielsen
- ‘Taxmageddon
Victor Steinbok
- Alternation between /gr/ and /dr/ in inlaut in BE
Wilson Gray
- PC police or poor taste?
Victor Steinbok
- "cuker, n.", "Some part of a woman's dress"
Joel S. Berson
- "LINGVOkul'turnye Traditsiia" [NT]
Wilson Gray
- Backformed "verse"
Charles C Doyle
- Simpsons' QOTY?
Jonathan Lighter
- "drastically" as "beneficially" or "impressively"
Joel S. Berson
- communities of color
Indigo Som
- youse as singular
Michael Newman
- Quote: Build a ship (Antoine de Saint-Exupery) - Translation request (maybe off-topic)
Garson O'Toole
- Clearly, I'm behind the curve...
Wilson Gray
- youse as singular; also antedating OED (1893-)
Joel S. Berson
- weakened f-word by 1902; antedating "fucking well" and "shitting-well"; etc.
Jonathan Lighter
- weakened f-word by 1902 (OT)
Douglas G. Wilson
- in front of
Victor Steinbok
- DARE Article in WSJ
Baker, John
- WordNet removed the word TEFLON from the dictionary
Ronald Butters
- FW: DARE in the WSJ
David Barnhart
- Hang/hung
Joel S. Berson
- "Who-shot-John"
Wilson Gray
- _The r-word_
Wilson Gray
- DARE in today's WSJ
David Barnhart
- Narrator: "=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=A6_?=someplace _proximal to_ where you live."
Wilson Gray
- Slang 'Ham'
Wilson Gray
- Narrator: "=?windows-1252?Q?=85_?=someplace _proximal to_ where you live."
W Brewer
- _Mezzrow_(?), "marijuana cigarette"
Wilson Gray
- cruiser
Victor Steinbok
- American exceptionalizm?
Tom Zurinskas
- Siri and a standard dialect
Tom Zurinskas
- Why the OED is scant for the 18th century :-)
Joel S. Berson
- spam
Victor Steinbok
- American exceptionalism?
Tom Zurinskas
- Heard on Springer
Wilson Gray
- to password-protect
Jonathan Lighter
- "gorilla" from 1797 and 1715
Joel S. Berson
- _The r-word_ (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Blocks of woof [Was: _The r-word_ ]
Joel S. Berson
- "reveal" redux
Laurence Horn
- "Ain't _I'm_ pretty?"
Wilson Gray
- Miswritten cliche?
Wilson Gray
- request (please help me)
e Hosseini
- Esperanto
Victor Steinbok
- Don't be left out
Robert Fiske
- Digital Archive of Southern Speech is available
Jesse Sheidlower
- Fwd: [SOAPM] titers to evaluate vaccines
Dan Nussbaum
- Hot Dog / Hamburger Articles
Shapiro, Fred
- Virtual reality
Joel S. Berson
- " … eight-hours of uninterrupted sleep …"
Wilson Gray
- _Take_ v. _bring_
Wilson Gray
- Suprachiasmatic nucleus (was: The r-word)
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- new cliche?
Victor Steinbok
- "then we nit and pick"
Nancy Friedman
- More trivia
Wilson Gray
- phablet
Victor Steinbok
- Eskimo words for snow
Arnold Zwicky
- Goat rodeo redux
Joel S. Berson
- Capitalizing Ayurveda
Benjamin Barrett
- _Jad_
Wilson Gray
- another way to wreck a nice beach: state of the tart
Mark Mandel
- Message from Barry Popik about "Oscar" (Academy Award)
Gerald Cohen
- Spoken by a Miami cop describing a situation:
Wilson Gray
- Further Antedating of "Hillbilly"
Shapiro, Fred
- /Erjudait/
Herb Stahlke
- Great article in the Times on Vocal Fry
Geoffrey Steven Nathan
- step on (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- avenoo
Joel S. Berson
- "payback"
Jonathan Lighter
- "deconstruct" = criticize so as to discredit; debunk.
Jonathan Lighter
- Just wondering.
Wilson Gray
- Behind the curve on reality-TV
Wilson Gray
- DARE
Laurence Horn
- OT: "First, get their attention!"
Wilson Gray
- to video chat
Jonathan Lighter
- videochat, v.
David Barnhart
- operandi
Victor Steinbok
- to video chat (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
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