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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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