June 2012 Archives by thread
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- teaching awe-dropping
Paul Johnston
- "tits" = 'balls'
Jonathan Lighter
- Kickstartup, carrotmob, cowpooling - Paul McFedries in IEEE Spectrum
Garson O'Toole
- statistical jargon
Victor Steinbok
- zero-sum game
Benjamin Barrett
- "a day that will live in infamy" (in a positive way)
Laurence Horn
- Flushtrated
Neal Whitman
- GBooks and "verklempt" before 1992
Joel S. Berson
- any clues
David Barnhart
- Adage: Golf is a good walk spoiled (Mark Twain attrib 1948 August 28)
Garson O'Toole
- MORE CLUES
David Barnhart
- Dothraki conlanger in the news
Jonathan Lighter
- What's he diff?
David Barnhart
- "Look less-powerful weapons"
Dan Goncharoff
- A "redaction" of the DHS's list of "bad" words
Wilson Gray
- regretful = 'regrettable'
Jonathan Lighter
- "a day that [date which] will live in infamy"
Joel S. Berson
- statistical jargon (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- antedating dittoed WAS statistical jargon (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Pier N brawl
Joel S. Berson
- antedating mundane / OED SF database (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Fred Shapiro does good (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Despite the Kipling comeback,
Wilson Gray
- invariant "be"
George Thompson
- "Charter-member" vs. "chartered member"
Wilson Gray
- self-correction
Victor Steinbok
- Auto Response
Golnaz Jamalifar
- pier ... brawl
David Barnhart
- fair dinkum?
Stephen Goranson
- No subject
Robert Fiske
- Veep
Jonathan Lighter
- Veep
Laurence Horn
- Veep
Jonathan Lighter
- pier ... brawl (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Quote: Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music
Garson O'Toole
- "a Dunkirk experience"
Jonathan Lighter
- on X porn
Arnold Zwicky
- "All politics is local!"
Jonathan Lighter
- sigh-anara Queen's English Society
Tom Zurinskas
- More on _pier 6 brawl_
David Barnhart
- Bridewell
Joel S. Berson
- "basket house"
Ben Zimmer
- "foiemageddon", WOTY for the lily-livered set
Laurence Horn
- "spicing" horses
George Thompson
- ADS-L Digest - 5 Jun 2012 to 6 Jun 2012 (#2012-159)
Geraldine Hizer
- worldly = 'from far away in the world'
Jonathan Lighter
- galoshes and rubbers and overshoes, oh my
Joel S. Berson
- galoshes and rubbers and overshoes, oh my
Alice Faber
- galoshes and rubbers and overshoes, oh my
Wilson Gray
- galoshes and rubbers and overshoes, oh my
Joel S. Berson
- galoshes and rubbers and overshoes, oh my
Paul Johnston
- galoshes and rubbers and overshoes, oh my
Robert Henderson
- galoshes and rubbers and overshoes, oh my
Dan Nussbaum
- galoshes and rubbers and overshoes, oh my
Victor Steinbok
- galoshes and rubbers and overshoes, oh my
Eric Nielsen
- galoshes and rubbers and overshoes, oh my
Joel S. Berson
- galoshes and rubbers and overshoes, oh my
Chris Waigl
- galoshes and rubbers and overshoes, oh my
W Brewer
- Proverb: Curiosity killed the cat (possibly 1873)
Laurence Horn
- Adoption of a Southern accent
Benjamin Barrett
- associate, adj. and n.
Victor Steinbok
- My papa he keeps three horses...
David Barnhart
- Stage of warfare
David Barnhart
- galoshes and rubbers and overshoes, oh my (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- being pants (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "emperico-" 1738; antedates OED2 1895--
Joel S. Berson
- IPA converter - modilino
Tom Zurinskas
- ADS-L Digest - 6 Jun 2012 to 7 Jun 2012 (#2012-160)
Geraldine Hizer
- "dacting", from _Veep_
Laurence Horn
- Old time radio clips
Tom Zurinskas
- "piss-cutting"
Jonathan Lighter
- home musings
Victor Steinbok
- excrescent 's
Arnold Zwicky
- More on "what's" (was: Re: excrescent 's)
Laurence Horn
- in awe = 'aghast'
Jonathan Lighter
- "... a _pending_ war ..."
Wilson Gray
- pivot
Jonathan Lighter
- "ancestors" in NYT
Barbara Need
- too = 'either'
Jonathan Lighter
- "Fire Sale" Not in OED?
Shapiro, Fred
- "The perp was described as an Indian."
Wilson Gray
- "_every_ since"
Wilson Gray
- "Don't let the bastards get you down!" 1945
Jonathan Lighter
- "remalayalamer" [Was: "dacting", from _Veep_]
Joel S. Berson
- Heard on "In Prison Abroad," both in ons sentence: _in_ vs. _out_
Wilson Gray
- From the BBC News Magazine:
Wilson Gray
- explicit = 'offensive to decency'
Jonathan Lighter
- Training for carpenters
Joel S. Berson
- OT: Setback to autism research
Joel S. Berson
- More on "what's"
Victor Steinbok
- Intimidating language
Jonathan Lighter
- antilocution
Jonathan Lighter
- talisman
Victor Steinbok
- Another collection of random finds
Victor Steinbok
- "antilocution"
Arnold Zwicky
- According to MW: Top-10 Commonly-Confused Words, Vol. 2
Wilson Gray
- Word: toyetic (probably coined by Bernard Loomis in 1977)
Garson O'Toole
- “cat for to make kitten britches”
Michael Sheehan
- "lower back", the euphemism
Joel S. Berson
- A speech-act
Wilson Gray
- Adage: climate is what on an average we expect, weather is what we actually get (1902)
Garson O'Toole
- fair dinkum? (part 2 Dinkum Smith etc.)
Stephen Goranson
- Orwellian "coastal resilience"
Jonathan Lighter
- Adage: climate is what on an average we expect, weather is what we actually get (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- multi-year, multi-month, multiweek + Aussie (Australian dollar)
Victor Steinbok
- Marx Brothers (Chico and Groucho) meretricious wordplay in 1930 or 1933
Garson O'Toole
- multi-year, multi-month, multiweek
Arnold Zwicky
- "bend of mind" -- possible eggcorn?
Joel S. Berson
- "Every single person in here is related"
Laurence Horn
- _Fulcrum_ > "lever"
Wilson Gray
- one-letter eggcorn?
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- future classic quote (but not QOTY)
Jonathan Lighter
- go-to = 'a place to go'
Jonathan Lighter
- more on "inappropriate"
Jonathan Lighter
- PG-rated expletive
Dan Goncharoff
- Paraprosdokian: I had a lovely evening, but this wasn't it (disclaimed by Groucho)
Garson O'Toole
- american-corporate-buzzwords-by-decades
Dan Goncharoff
- eargasm
Jonathan Lighter
- "erectile dysfunction" -- not for tender ears?
Geoffrey Nunberg
- Quotation: speech surely will return to a silent woman
Joel S. Berson
- Betty Martin (my eye), antedatings
Stephen Goranson
- kibosh, in another London broadside
Stephen Goranson
- _dip[shit]_ from 1909?
Wilson Gray
- From the site, Extreme Tech:
Wilson Gray
- Heard on The Doctors: _peek-and-shriek_
Wilson Gray
- On color-terms
Wilson Gray
- Clown question
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- Nattering nabobs redux
Nancy Friedman
- "making streaks"
George Thompson
- "trench on"
Joel S. Berson
- "expendable" = 'wasteful, extravagant, expensive'
Joel S. Berson
- Jargon peeving - Forbes style
Victor Steinbok
- snozzberry, snozzberries and Roald Dahl's sense of humor
Garson O'Toole
- Idiom: ducks in a row (1889)
Garson O'Toole
- "difference without a distinction"
David Barnhart
- 1944 "difference without a distinction"
David Barnhart
- 1835 "difference without a distinction"
David Barnhart
- 1776 "difference without a distinction"
David Barnhart
- "pre-divorce license"
Dan Goodman
- Quote: Military Intelligence to him is a contradiction in terms (John Charteris 1931)
Garson O'Toole
- Revenge of the vagina
Joel S. Berson
- Quip: Rowing: The human being was never intended to get his exercise sitting down and going backwards (1926)
Garson O'Toole
- Cut one's name
Dave Wilton
- Antedating of "Closed Shop"
Shapiro, Fred
- "Automatize"
Wilson Gray
- And then I looked around...
David Barnhart
- Quote: smashed with the utmost brutality the nucleus of our new movement
Garson O'Toole
- Kombucha
Benjamin Barrett
- o
PL
- "complicit"
Jonathan Lighter
- antedating of SWAG
Jonathan Lighter
- non-disclosure
Victor Steinbok
- antedating of SWAG (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Antedating of "Sibling"
Shapiro, Fred
- screed = 'a deliberately and usu. disagreeably one-sided account; a work of propaganda'
Jonathan Lighter
- "The last war fought between gentlemen"
Jonathan Lighter
- Word: shadowban (2007)
Garson O'Toole
- "Mora" zero plural
Douglas G. Wilson
- toke n. 2 antedated (?) to 1961
Stephen Goranson
- Heard on ESPN
Victor Steinbok
- more on-air taboo avoidance and other goodies
Victor Steinbok
- From People mag:
Wilson Gray
- Medias
Benjamin Barrett
- to parse
Wilson Gray
- "... having come across it here _in_ there ..."
Wilson Gray
- Oronyms
Tom Zurinskas
- "What part of no don't you understand?"
Jonathan Lighter
- WOTY's aborning
David Barnhart
- precursor of "as long as they spell my name right"?
Stephen Goranson
- A recovered memory
Wilson Gray
- "The _hopper_"
Wilson Gray
- Obscure physics words get sign language equivalents - physics-math - 22 June 2012 - New Scientist
Dan Goodman
- "Shaven"
Wilson Gray
- Fwd: [VAR-L] Alan Duncan issues memo at DFID banning jargon words such as 'going forward'
Arnold Zwicky
- [VAR-L] Alan Duncan issues memo at DFID banning jargon words such as 'going forward'
Arnold Zwicky
- cream-puff inhaler; cake-eater
Arnold Zwicky
- monumentous
Jonathan Lighter
- cream-puff inhaler; cake-eater (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "babysit" zero preterite
Neal Whitman
- "ultrajectine", 1730, not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- YouTube flame: "... destroying the _O Zone_ ..." [NT]
Wilson Gray
- mead quote (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- dodge Pompey
Stephen Goranson
- "cream-puff inhaler", "cake-eater"
Arnold Zwicky
- "Its not about _signaling out_ one group!"
Wilson Gray
- FW: Supreme Court's Earl Warren reads the sports pages first -- is this from Yale's William Lyon Phelps?
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Q: Origin of "slimsy" = "flimsy, frail" (OED2, 1845)
Joel S. Berson
- A Shakespearean stage-diretion:
Wilson Gray
- antedating slum (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Einstein on bees, revisited
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- Sears review comment
Victor Steinbok
- OED odds and ends
Victor Steinbok
- famous quote syntactically mangled, nobody notices
Jonathan Lighter
- Unraftable
Martin Kaminer
- Colbert
Wilson Gray
- TechHive
Wilson Gray
- Youneverknow
Wilson Gray
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