January 2012 Archives by thread
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- lackadaisical -- affixal gags
Wilson Gray
- Is Teflon out and .... in?
David Barnhart
- serial coordination
Victor Steinbok
- "slang" antedated (?) to 1753
Stephen Goranson
- Wordnik (and COCA) in the Times
Laurence Horn
- "_sea_ mines"
Wilson Gray
- Romney-boated???
David Barnhart
- Rice cake
Benjamin Barrett
- Proper names with apostrophes?
Laurence Horn
- Dothraki
Victor Steinbok
- mired
Victor Steinbok
- Modal + PP
Alice Faber
- pronuanciation
Tom Zurinskas
- OT: Modal + PP
Joel S. Berson
- Closed captioning glitch
Joel S. Berson
- Galut
Victor Steinbok
- Public domain
Wilson Gray
- Antedating of "Ecology"
Shapiro, Fred
- ESPN Sugar Bowl game
Wilson Gray
- a little ahead of ourselves ...
David Barnhart
- One of Reagan's first acts as governor?
Wilson Gray
- gay, straight, or lying
Neal Whitman
- "liberal democracy"
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Word Predictions for 2012
David Barnhart
- "C-Word" = cracker (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Google books (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Hotpot
Benjamin Barrett
- _romance_ and _romantic (life)_ as euphemisms
Laurence Horn
- Fang nu and luo hun
Benjamin Barrett
- Kathoey
Benjamin Barrett
- ambulette
Victor Steinbok
- dime
Victor Steinbok
- ambulette (1980)
David Barnhart
- slow up
Victor Steinbok
- For the backform(at)ed compound verb files
Neal Whitman
- This particular use of _in_
Wilson Gray
- full text databases (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Democrats fall in love, and Republicans fall in line.
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- User Virtualization Emerges As Tonic For Nagging IT Headaches
Victor Steinbok
- cheap shot/dirty play
Victor Steinbok
- calico
Victor Steinbok
- Barney Rubble. ---was: dime
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- from my inbox
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- resurface
Victor Steinbok
- Sleep-text, texter
Benjamin Barrett
- Nominations for 2011 Word of the Year
Ben Zimmer
- Barney Rubble. ---was: dime (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Continents in the OED
Benjamin Barrett
- FW: Texas demonym series continues, makes D magazine ("What do you call a person in Texas from...?")
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- new (?) definition of rape
David Barnhart
- Butt-dialing (was Sleep-texting)
Neal Whitman
- Words for Wind-sounds
Jim Parish
- co-sleeping
Victor Steinbok
- "Occupy" is American Dialect Society 2011 Word of the Year
Grant Barrett
- Butt-phonng [Was: Sleep-text, texter]
Joel S. Berson
- Intarnaional Journals of Research
Ronald Butters
- Butt-phonng [Was: Sleep-text, texter] (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "say uncle" antedated (?) to 1887
Stephen Goranson
- overlie [Was: co-sleeping]
Joel S. Berson
- Headline: "_Feds Plans_ To Close 1,200 Data Centers"
Wilson Gray
- name change
Victor Steinbok
- coincidental or not (?) "Too much Malarkey" 1904
Stephen Goranson
- 5 Bible Quotes That Really Aren't
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Proverb: When the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box (version in 1781)
Garson O'Toole
- Heard on trash TV: Britspeak
Wilson Gray
- More on soft opening; soft/hard left/right
Benjamin Barrett
- Paris-Brest
Benjamin Barrett
- More for the "bro-" files: "brony"
Ben Zimmer
- missing from woty
Tom Zurinskas
- Japchae
Benjamin Barrett
- Delonte West kicked/left* off the bus
Joel S. Berson
- escalator
Victor Steinbok
- "an emoticon of privacy"
Ben Zimmer
- American-made
Victor Steinbok
- Fisher revival
Benjamin Barrett
- Quote: growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional (1987 June 17)
Garson O'Toole
- Antedating of "Trade Union"
Shapiro, Fred
- Fwd: Take a look at this!!
ROBIN HAMILTON
- teen slang phone app (UK)
Dan Goodman
- Mock Definition: Secrecy: The art of telling a thing to only one person at a time
Garson O'Toole
- Coffeehouse?!
Benjamin Barrett
- Gay old time
Benjamin Barrett
- Gawker vs NYT Crossword Editor vs reader
Victor Steinbok
- Google changes
Victor Steinbok
- Shit * say to * (snowclone)
Randy Alexander
- Fisher revival (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "Chair" and [was:] Fisher revival
Joel S. Berson
- Indian eggcorn?
Victor Steinbok
- prefix of the year (POTY) - smart
Tom Zurinskas
- free for the asking
George Thompson
- "Deduplicate," "Dedupe," and "Deduplication"
Shapiro, Fred
- "Don't sleep on"
Dan Goncharoff
- Dead men walking
Victor Steinbok
- Imitation, counterfeit, or what?
Joel S. Berson
- Imitation, counterfeit, or what?
Victor Steinbok
- Imitation, counterfeit, or what?
George Thompson
- Imitation, counterfeit, or what?
paul johnson
- Imitation, counterfeit, or what?
Joel S. Berson
- Imitation, counterfeit, or what?
Garson O'Toole
- Imitation, counterfeit, or what? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- barber shopping (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- new use for "firewall"
Victor Steinbok
- Chinese zodiac
Benjamin Barrett
- Psychedelic?
Barbara Need
- con
Dan Nussbaum
- con
Ron butters
- con
Victor Steinbok
- con
Laurence Horn
- con
Ron Butters
- con
Laurence Horn
- "vulture capitalist" -- WOTY in diapers at the start of the new year?
Joel S. Berson
- cattery
George Thompson
- con (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- edification == education?
Victor Steinbok
- Quiet rooms
Victor Steinbok
- "re-meander", "remeandering". Also, "daylighting"
Ken Hirsch
- News: Research Archive JStor Moves Toward Open Access
Garson O'Toole
- Tim TeBowie
Victor Steinbok
- this has been your time to shine
ROBIN HAMILTON
- "puff and stratagem"
Joel S. Berson
- Kanban
Benjamin Barrett
- syntactic variation in NYCE
Michael Newman
- on the retronym watch: "human translation"
Laurence Horn
- con[ey]
Joel S. Berson
- Antedating of "Bagel"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Anti-Semitism"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Anti-Semite"
Shapiro, Fred
- bugle
Victor Steinbok
- Gemba/genba
Benjamin Barrett
- Major Antedating of "Anti-Semitic"
Shapiro, Fred
- Another Antedating of "Anti-Semitic"
Shapiro, Fred
- no more strict deadlines
ROBIN HAMILTON
- campaignerati
Victor Steinbok
- Antedating of "Coeducation"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Isolationism"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Populist"
Shapiro, Fred
- Slight Antedating of "Populism"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Fundamentalism"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Immunology"
Shapiro, Fred
- Jewish Problem
Victor Steinbok
- Wiki and SOTA
Victor Steinbok
- 1867 anti-Semite
Stephen Goranson
- Quote: The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable
Garson O'Toole
- Query: "Jazbo on upper lip" (1915)
Gerald Cohen
- "shower of turkeys"
George Thompson
- Antedating of "Feminist"
Shapiro, Fred
- missing senses of 'entitlement' in the OED
Geoffrey Nunberg
- The OED revision
Joel S. Berson
- semi-antedating of "baby" = endearment
Jonathan Lighter
- copyright 1864
Jonathan Lighter
- Semitic terms
Stephen Goranson
- Databases: question about searching multiple full-text databases simultaneously
Garson O'Toole
- cattery (also: "under foot")
George Thompson
- FW: "shower of turkeys" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Snowpeople
Benjamin Barrett
- relipid
Victor Steinbok
- English articles have a happy bias
Tom Zurinskas
- bogus Horatian quote?
Jonathan Lighter
- Library Company of Philadelphia's Afro-Americana Collection
Joel S. Berson
- Headline: "Task: Avoid _Cooptation_ in Election Season" [NT]
Wilson Gray
- Has the meaning of _apologist_ changed?
Wilson Gray
- apologist/apologizer
David Barnhart
- Slang 'Ham'
Gint Gaidamas
- mythical
Victor Steinbok
- DARE Celebration in Madison May 4
Grant Barrett
- Important DARE survey: your input is needed
Grant Barrett
- "Bristol fashion", 1803; antedates 1839 (s.v. "ship-shape") & 1840
Joel S. Berson
- Churchill?
David A. Daniel
- Q: A newspaper correspondent reporting deaths
Joel S. Berson
- pearl-clutching
Ben Zimmer
- Beta
Benjamin Barrett
- Fwd: Beta
Laurence Horn
- bogus Carlyle quote
Jonathan Lighter
- rebel yell and yeehaw
James Harbeck
- From an anti-SOPA rant: _ me_ as subject
Wilson Gray
- taboo [OT--sort of]
Victor Steinbok
- Rumsfeld redux
Victor Steinbok
- You fascist!
Jonathan Lighter
- "preppers"
Ben Zimmer
- Jade gate/stalk
Benjamin Barrett
- Breakup season
Benjamin Barrett
- "preppers" (CORRECTED)
Arnold Zwicky
- breakout session
Victor Steinbok
- NY accent is dying out?
Tom Zurinskas
- "au jus"
Jonathan Lighter
- Pommes frites
Benjamin Barrett
- A Prescriptivist Manifesto
Robert Fiske
- yarrowing?
Joel S. Berson
- follow-up to ADS Portland
Bethany Dumas
- no more strict deadlines!!
ROBIN HAMILTON
- Fun with phrases
Jonathan Lighter
- Au jus
Geoffrey Steven Nathan
- Fartriloquism
Benjamin Barrett
- finnan/findon/findhorn/findrum
Victor Steinbok
- blood
Benjamin Barrett
- Further Antedating of "Bagel"
Shapiro, Fred
- fish sauce
Victor Steinbok
- OT: How come WE don't get on-line libraries like this?
Wilson Gray
- The meaning is clear.
Wilson Gray
- "Palling Around With Pootwattle"
Joel S. Berson
- OT squared: How come WE don't get on-line libraries like this?
Joel S. Berson
- ""Korchevatel" (transliterated from the Russian)
Joel S. Berson
- Angolan, n. and adj.
Joel S. Berson
- Google Digitized Newspapers
Shapiro, Fred
- Backformed compound verb: "pleasure read"
Neal Whitman
- tipping point
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Antedating of "Pastrami"
Shapiro, Fred
- The future global English accent - Globish
Tom Zurinskas
- New MA in Linguistics!
Cramer, Jennifer S
- "au jus" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "Palling Around With Pootwattle" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- rebel yell and yeehaw (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Google Digitized Newspapers (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- gazebo antedated (?) to 1741
Stephen Goranson
- If you have a message, call Western Union (variant Samuel Goldwyn 1943)
Garson O'Toole
- Neologism: physible - from PirateBay
Garson O'Toole
- NS = native speaker
David Barnhart
- Sorry, I've just checked JSTOR = lots
David Barnhart
- Heard on "1000 Ways to Die":
Wilson Gray
- If you have a message, call Western Union (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Logomachy: fracking, frac, fraccing, fracktivists, hydraulic fracturing
Garson O'Toole
- "mano a mano": another turn on the wheel
Laurence Horn
- "fracking"
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- a crash blossom
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Quote: In the future everyone will be famous (or anonymous) for 15 minutes
Garson O'Toole
- an odd example of legalese
Victor Steinbok
- Szechuan pepper
Victor Steinbok
- undercrackers
Victor Steinbok
- obiticide
Victor Steinbok
- Some of you like this sort of thing
George Thompson
- Warhol's "everyone will be famous" from Rivers' "everybody will be famous"?
Stephen Goranson
- you do have our backs
Tom Zurinskas
- not quite WOTY
Victor Steinbok
- Spoken by Eliot Chang, Asian-American comic:
Wilson Gray
- yeomans
Jonathan Lighter
- eggcorn: saddled -> straddled
Ben Zimmer
- ink eraser
Victor Steinbok
- "your back shall taste of the kurbaj (whip)", 1846, kibosh
Stephen Goranson
- correction RE: "your back shall taste of the kurbaj (whip)", 1846, kibosh
Stephen Goranson
- must-share headline
Victor Steinbok
- no rhyme for "castle"
Mark Mandel
- "awe" phoneme has disappeared
Tom Zurinskas
- facundity
Victor Steinbok
- One last word on 'milk'
Geoffrey Steven Nathan
- 3D sickness, cybersickness, VR sickness, simulator sickness
Garson O'Toole
- Another "kybosh"
Douglas G. Wilson
- "cornet postilion" and "caperiosky" [Was: Another "kybosh"]
Joel S. Berson
- ink eraser (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- pink slime
Victor Steinbok
- Xsters
Victor Steinbok
- some _-ster_ items
David Barnhart
- transphobic
Victor Steinbok
- "A bayonet is a weapon with a working man at either end."
Jonathan Lighter
- mistake in transphobic--mine
David Barnhart
- "tacogate"; "posterize"; "the full Mozgov"
Laurence Horn
- some _-ster_ items (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "there be dragons" ("jenny hanivers")
Joel S. Berson
- An odd example of legalese (a criminal or a congressman, and an unwritten comma)
Brian Hitchcock
- Fwd: [SOAPM] Sick visits down
Dan Nussbaum
- to pinpoint-strike
Jonathan Lighter
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