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- Baltimore Food Porn
Victor Steinbok
- The Anti-Griddle
Victor Steinbok
- "curvy" as an Italian word
Dan Goodman
- "Sticker" (Verb) Not in OED or M-W
Shapiro, Fred
- Soojee Moojee antedated to 1874
Stephen Goranson
- famous quote syntactically mangled, nobody notices
Jonathan Lighter
- stupid, n.
Jonathan Lighter
- whole jingbang antedated to 1838
Stephen Goranson
- displaced relative clause
Michael Newman
- Frenchers
Gordon, Matthew J.
- derecho
Tom Zurinskas
- Heard on Natty Gee: "=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=A6_?=are seen as threatening and _confronting_ by others."
Wilson Gray
- dodge Pompey
Dan Goncharoff
- "device" in Spam subject line
Barbara Need
- Heard on Natty Gee: "=?windows-1252?Q?=85_?=are seen as threatening and _confronting_ by others."
Jonathan Lighter
- Past Subjunctive
Baker, John
- Past Subjunctive
Wilson Gray
- Past Subjunctive
Jonathan Lighter
- Past Subjunctive
Hunter, Lynne R CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-PACIFIC, 71700
- Past Subjunctive
Neal Whitman
- Past Subjunctive
Joel S. Berson
- Past Subjunctive
Wilson Gray
- Past Subjunctive
Jonathan Lighter
- Past Subjunctive
Douglas G. Wilson
- Past Subjunctive
Hunter, Lynne R CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-PACIFIC, 71700
- Past Subjunctive
W Brewer
- Past Subjunctive
Hunter, Lynne R CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-PACIFIC, 71700
- Past Subjunctive
Laurence Horn
- Past Subjunctive
Joel S. Berson
- Past Subjunctive
Jonathan Lighter
- Past Subjunctive
Laurence Horn
- Past Subjunctive
Hunter, Lynne R CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-PACIFIC, 71700
- Past Subjunctive
Garson O'Toole
- Past Subjunctive
Hunter, Lynne R CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-PACIFIC, 71700
- Past Subjunctive
Charles C Doyle
- Antedating of "Outside the Box" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- FW: Supreme Court's Earl Warren reads the sports pages first -- is this from Yale's William Lyon Phelps?
Shapiro, Fred
- The agony of defeat in NYC
Joel S. Berson
- mysteries of rhetorical nuance
Jonathan Lighter
- Fwd: dodge Pompey
Dan Goncharoff
- more media "old English" BS
Jonathan Lighter
- Automatic reply: ADS-L Digest - 1 Jul 2012 to 2 Jul 2012 (#2012-185)
Damien Hall
- "tax" or "penalty"?
Jonathan Lighter
- Old Roger is Jolly Roger
Stephen Goranson
- "Stock Option" Not in OED
Shapiro, Fred
- Quote: Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away
Garson O'Toole
- fickly
Victor Steinbok
- reductionism gone wild
Jonathan Lighter
- Nollywood
Jonathan Lighter
- "What part of X don't you understand?"
Arnold Zwicky
- Heard on Springer: "You can't have your cake, and ice cream, too!"
Wilson Gray
- "product," mass n.; "militaristics"
Jonathan Lighter
- Appalachian English
Michael Everson
- minizone = mini-calzone
Mark Mandel
- Appalachian English - hit
Bethany Dumas
- major antedates!
Laurence Horn
- wish list: Regional Dictionary of North American English
Dan Goodman
- "=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=A6_?=an expert who can _explain what's this_." [NT]
Wilson Gray
- _"Pussi" naiznanku_ ["_Pussy_ Inside Out"]
Wilson Gray
- Youneverknow II
Wilson Gray
- No subject
PL
- Bob's your Uncle antedated (?) to 1928, 1929...
Stephen Goranson
- Speak (the) truth to power (quasi-precursors)
Stephen Goranson
- Nollywood (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "Never apologize. It's a sign of weakness."
Jonathan Lighter
- "Never apologize. It's a sign of weakness." (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- How Do You Like Them Apples?
Baker, John
- Word: showrooming
Garson O'Toole
- 6
PL
- Is the ADS list OK?
Tom Zurinskas
- Where to see past messges.
Tom Zurinskas
- "Suspect", v. and n.
Jim Parish
- Hyperlocal
Benjamin Barrett
- .
PL
- Ben on the Radio (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- meh!
Jonathan Lighter
- meh! (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- From a post to the NYT WRT the Higgs boson:
Wilson Gray
- "evangelical" and the OED
Joel S. Berson
- FW: Did the dissent in the health care case misuse an Alexander Hamilton quote?
Shapiro, Fred
- Major Antedating of "Gross National Product"
Shapiro, Fred
- TechHive
Jonathan Lighter
- From a Russian site:
Wilson Gray
- "_every_ since"
Wilson Gray
- " … the bedazzled _vaginas_ …"
Wilson Gray
- Zwicky on "flashing"
Wilson Gray
- quote
Arnold Zwicky
- "showroom"
Arnold Zwicky
- "I _peyote out_ with a little valium and=?UTF-8?Q?=EF=BB=BF_?=wine." [NT]
Wilson Gray
- Half the money spent on advertising is wasted, but no one knows which half
Garson O'Toole
- "basket case" slightly antedated (?) to Jan. 1919
Stephen Goranson
- geeser antedated (?) to 1884
Stephen Goranson
- "cold turkey" (of drug addiction) antedated (?) to 1920
Stephen Goranson
- Einstein said this?
George Thompson
- "half of X is wrong; the question is which half"
Joel S. Berson
- "Which half?" (teaching or knowing)
Joel S. Berson
- kodak, v.
Chris Waigl
- rubbish v.
Victor Steinbok
- NZ
Victor Steinbok
- Youneverknow III
Wilson Gray
- Caption on a nature site: "Ruby-_Throat_ Hummingbird"
Wilson Gray
- insourcing
Victor Steinbok
- required plural marking in 2PP
Michael Newman
- "gandy dancer" antedated to 1915
Stephen Goranson
- "sweet patootie" slightly antedated to Apr. 13, 1918
Stephen Goranson
- A narrator on The Doctors:
Wilson Gray
- " the bedazzled _vaginas_ "
Joel S. Berson
- Adage: It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years
Garson O'Toole
- tawking the tawk, wawking the wawk
Ben Zimmer
- Germanophone
Dan Nussbaum
- London rhymes
Victor Steinbok
- LINGUIST List 23.2947: Books: The Language in Science Fiction and Fantasy: Mandala
Dan Goodman
- Pittsburghism(?) "jagoff"
Douglas G. Wilson
- another unrecorded term--message politics
David Barnhart
- LINGUIST List 23.2947: Books: The Language in Science Fiction and Fantasy: Mandala (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Found in _Psychological Scoence_,
Wilson Gray
- Linguistic curiosity -- names ending in -man
Joel S. Berson
- more _____ _politics_
David Barnhart
- Caption on a nature site: "Ruby-_Throat_ Hummingbird" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- no soap, radio
Garson O'Toole
- extremophile
Jonathan Lighter
- "put the maginnis on" atedated (?) to 1871
Stephen Goranson
- "put the maginnis on" antedated (?) to 1871
Stephen Goranson
- "... can't convince ... _of_ otherwise."
Wilson Gray
- de-pantsing (1930), pantsing (1931)
Ben Zimmer
- NYT Bits Daily Update:_NBC and Facebook_ in Olympics Partnership
Wilson Gray
- From my Facebook "wall":
Wilson Gray
- From a post to a site:
Wilson Gray
- Mitt Romney, "presidential presumptive nominee"
Joel S. Berson
- guys and gals
Joel S. Berson
- political language
Victor Steinbok
- trilateral commission
Victor Steinbok
- Out of the ordinary:
Wilson Gray
- weapons-grade
Jonathan Lighter
- The Rolling Stones and their zeugmoids
Ben Zimmer
- one for prescriptive grammarians
Victor Steinbok
- lux
Jonathan Lighter
- lux
Ben Zimmer
- lux
Laurence Horn
- lux
Wilson Gray
- lux
George Thompson
- Quote: Frank Sinatra denounces rock n roll in 1957
Garson O'Toole
- cynical folk wisdom
Jonathan Lighter
- white turkey
Victor Steinbok
- more productive -er
Victor Steinbok
- "Your name and other personal data will be _binary-compiled_ into your download."
Wilson Gray
- Dialects of the Presidents?
Dan Goodman
- Say what, now?
Wilson Gray
- recommended reading for science fiction writers?
Dan Goodman
- Fwd: gale n.3 -- ? sense 1.b antedating OED?
Joel S. Berson
- gale n.3 -- ? sense 1.b antedating OED?
Joel S. Berson
- "hazing", OED sense 3, needs work
Joel S. Berson
- Automatic reply: ADS-L Digest - 12 Jul 2012 to 13 Jul 2012 (#2012-196)
Damien Hall
- white turkey (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "feint praise"--eggcorn?
Stephen Goranson
- intrusive"of" + pl.
Jonathan Lighter
- dudgeon, dudgeon, dudgen, etc.
Stephen Goranson
- Zinger: My dear, the final 't' is silent as in Harlow (1945)
Garson O'Toole
- A Fork for Everything (Even Sardines) - Slate Magazine
Victor Steinbok
- spotted in the wild
Victor Steinbok
- mondegreens back in the news
Laurence Horn
- (w)ringer
Michael Everson
- another "flivver" antedating (?) the cheap vehicle sense
Stephen Goranson
- "binnacle" pre-1750
Stephen Goranson
- bludgeon antedated (?) to 1729
Stephen Goranson
- The ultimate "you guys"
Alice Faber
- Yet more English words in another language
Dan Goodman
- Let's see if this works better Re: Yet more English words in another language
Dan Goodman
- Third try: English loanwords in Swedish
Dan Goodman
- Slow News for Today - The World Institute of Slowness
Garson O'Toole
- "move the needle"
Jonathan Lighter
- Fun with phrases: "gentle giant"
Jonathan Lighter
- "jobs creation"
Arnold Zwicky
- "awe" discussions on screenr
Tom Zurinskas
- Fun with phrases: "in a previous life"
Jonathan Lighter
- __Escalate_ > "kick upstairs" (as it were)
Wilson Gray
- flying saucer and other critters
Victor Steinbok
- From OED.com
Wilson Gray
- semantics
Victor Steinbok
- From OED.com -- popping
Joel S. Berson
- yeah, no
Jonathan Lighter
- yeah, no
Laurence Horn
- yeah, no
Victor Steinbok
- yeah, no
Joel S. Berson
- yeah, no
Ben Zimmer
- yeah, no
Jonathan Lighter
- yeah, no
Jonathan Lighter
- yeah, no
Jonathan Lighter
- yeah, no
Charles C Doyle
- yeah, no
Laurence Horn
- yeah, no
Jonathan Lighter
- yeah, no
Joel S. Berson
- yeah, no
Charles C Doyle
- yeah, no
Laurence Horn
- yeah, no
Charles C Doyle
- yeah, no
Laurence Horn
- yeah, no
Paul Johnston
- yeah, no
Charles C Doyle
- yeah, no
Victor Steinbok
- yeah, no
Laurence Horn
- yeah, no
Dan Goncharoff
- yeah, no
Laurence Horn
- yeah, no
Dan Nussbaum
- yeah, no
W Brewer
- yeah, no
W Brewer
- yeah, no
Victor Steinbok
- yeah, no
Ann Burlingham
- Collective noun needed
Joel S. Berson
- for the "most unlikely to succeed" list in Boston?
Laurence Horn
- mediots and preglimony
Arnold Zwicky
- Heard on Springer
Wilson Gray
- "Not* an eggcorn. Right?
Wilson Gray
- top and tail
Victor Steinbok
- to "swift-boat" update
Jonathan Lighter
- Collective noun needed (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- apocrypha = 'trivia'
Jonathan Lighter
- Fun with phrases: "in a previous life" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- apocrypha = 'trivia' (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Dialect-clash
Wilson Gray
- Online course about power searching from Google
Garson O'Toole
- Automatic reply: ADS-L Digest - 17 Jul 2012 to 18 Jul 2012 (#2012-201)
Katy Steinmetz
- "Monday" as racial slur
Ben Zimmer
- "Monday" as racial slur (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- The most recent non-apology apology
Joel S. Berson
- "heads and tails above"
Nancy Friedman
- Archiving twitter messages
Garson O'Toole
- nutties
Michael Newman
- Fwd: yeah, no
Sam Raker
- The writer does but jest, of course.
Wilson Gray
- Speaking of Canadians...
Wilson Gray
- From SlashDot:
Wilson Gray
- The writer does but jest, of course. (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- 1795 references to Johns and their fetishes (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "yeah, yeah" again (another versions)
Laurence Horn
- A cop-opera meme
Wilson Gray
- A cop-opera meme (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Roger and Ron are in the July 23 'Yorker:
Wilson Gray
- "The enemy [always/also] has a vote."
Jonathan Lighter
- "yeah, yeah" again (another version)
Laurence Horn
- "stool pigeon" antedated (?) to 1802
Stephen Goranson
- Transgender advocates seek new diagnostic terms
Victor Steinbok
- TIME: "=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=A6_?=enmities that too often _spark_ into violence."
Wilson Gray
- "formula" > "theory"?
Wilson Gray
- "=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=A6_?=an unofficial _portage_ of [app A] to [platform P]."
Wilson Gray
- Spain goes P.C.
Wilson Gray
- From NYT Science e-mail: "I first encountered …"
Wilson Gray
- As heard on TV:
Wilson Gray
- eviDENTly, apparentLY
Laurence Horn
- "summarize"
Charles C Doyle
- "breathless" = breathtaking (Michele Bachmann)
Ben Zimmer
- a construction that could use (to be) studied
Laurence Horn
- More Slashdot
Wilson Gray
- "Yeah, yeah," New York, 1961
Stephen Goranson
- more on "Monday"
Amy West
- Quote: I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught (Winston Churchill 1952 Nov 4)
Garson O'Toole
- New to me:
Wilson Gray
- long + past tense
Benjamin Barrett
- fellow and fella
James Harbeck
- CNet headline
Wilson Gray
- From a post to Macworld
Wilson Gray
- bikeshedding
Robert Henderson
- "jobs market" over the years
Arnold Zwicky
- YYYY
Fred Grossman
- "jobs market" over the years (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "hero"
Jonathan Lighter
- NYT: Zombie Nouns
Wilson Gray
- "nominalization" = "noun with Greek or Latin suffixes"
Geoffrey Nunberg
- be = 'be like'
Jonathan Lighter
- "hero" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Zinger: My dear, the final 't' is silent as in Harlow (improved to 1934)
Garson O'Toole
- Inspirational Passage: Just for Today (1921; different passage 1880)
Garson O'Toole
- "[T]he entire nine yards" [3/62]; possible a couple earlier ones
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- "Monday"
Amy West
- Did Chick-fil-A Pretend to Be a Teenage Girl on Facebook? (Updated)
Victor Steinbok
- "[T]he entire nine yards" [3/62]; possible a couple earlier ones (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "[T]he whole nine-yards" (July, 1956)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- "[T]he whole nine-yards" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- New First Use of "Serenity Prayer"
Shapiro, Fred
- blue-ballin', etc.
Victor Steinbok
- reversal? "supported by"
Jonathan Lighter
- thorny apostrophes
Victor Steinbok
- demean = 'to deprecate'
Jonathan Lighter
- marksman
Victor Steinbok
- whole nine-yards
Stephen Goranson
- more early flivver, also spelled fliver, as failure
Stephen Goranson
- Play up Pompey (Portsmouth)
Stephen Goranson
- whole nine-yards (3 typos corrected, in no. 5, 6 & 8)
Stephen Goranson
- Atlantic article about library digitization efforts DPLA
Garson O'Toole
- military crest, topographical crest
Jonathan Lighter
- Reverse "support" again
Neal Whitman
- strange headline?
Victor Steinbok
- evolution of an "old saying"
Jonathan Lighter
- wazzock?
Stephen Goranson
- to "summit"
Jonathan Lighter
- "conspicuousness" vs. "conspicuity"
Jesse Sheidlower
- Rosa's (was "Monday")
Geoff Nathan
- entitlement
Geoffrey Nunberg
- finite--more refined measurement
Victor Steinbok
- New Yorker writer resigns after faking Bob Dylan quotes
Garson O'Toole
- Buh-tocks (was Re: finite ...)
Neal Whitman
- The name "Jordyn" (etc.)
Charles C Doyle
- The Navy's TV ad
Wilson Gray
- "dull as ditchwater" vs. "dull as dishwater"?
Joel S. Berson
- gambling terms, 1734
George Thompson
- Google Books Search - erratic behavior
Garson O'Toole
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