March 2012 Archives by thread
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- Hogg Prize Reminder
Grant Barrett
- Just wondering.
Herb Stahlke
- _Songography_ = _discography_: 20,500 hits [NT]
Wilson Gray
- Regus
Jonathan Lighter
- visual, n. = 'sight'
Jonathan Lighter
- query
Arnold Zwicky
- a word from "Huck Finn"
Jonathan Lighter
- "tactical" vs "strategic"
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- a few bits from a single article
Ben Zimmer
- [SOAPM] titers to evaluate vaccines
Dave Hause
- strategic v. tactical
David Barnhart
- Don't be left out
Robert Fiske
- "witness box", 1794, antedates 1806-
Joel S. Berson
- Mitt: I misunderstood Blunt bill question
Victor Steinbok
- "bamboo", some kind of drink?
Joel S. Berson
- Some dialect stuff
Wilson Gray
- Heard on The Doctors:
Wilson Gray
- "Separated by a single language" strikes again!
Wilson Gray
- End the word (was: a word from "Huck Finn")
Gordon, Matthew J.
- New to me
Wilson Gray
- " … cos I again _scowled the market_ for a suitabl =?UTF-8?Q?e_DAC_=E2=80=A6=22_?=[NT]
Wilson Gray
- "sometime" (was: New to me)
Laurence Horn
- Beware the fury of the Legions (attributed to Marcus Flavius) (1961 English 1960 French)
Garson O'Toole
- End the word (was: a word from "Huck Finn") faggot etc.
Michael Newman
- dorky, n. (1965)
Ben Zimmer
- to cloakroom
Joel S. Berson
- empty messages
Ronald Butters
- antedating "dirty word"
Jonathan Lighter
- Non-negative 1974 connotation of the word retarded
W Brewer
- Could Curiosity Rover Moonlight As Part of a Sample Return Mission? : headline
Wilson Gray
- Still the same
Wilson Gray
- the I-don't-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means department
Victor Steinbok
- Column on "Lawtalk" Book
Shapiro, Fred
- Colbert has defined _blackwashing_, and...
Wilson Gray
- codicil gentlemen (???)
George Thompson
- bamboo, bombo, etc
Joan H. Hall
- "Drop a hard _J_"
Wilson Gray
- look their noses down
Herb Stahlke
- eggcorn: crash commercialism
Randy Alexander
- tweet citing standard - Modern Language Assn.
Tom Zurinskas
- cloze your eyes and I'll: a) kiss you b) go away c) none of above
Tom Zurinskas
- "Here's you a dog"
Laurence Horn
- to "saber-rattle"
Jonathan Lighter
- underwater
Victor Steinbok
- also _above water_
David Barnhart
- Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
Martin Kaminer
- A slow-spreading(?) slur: "_anti_-slant[-]eye"
Wilson Gray
- " … makes it easy for anyone _to mass-configure_ a =?UTF-8?Q?nd_deploy_..._iPad_=E2=80=A6=22_?=[NT]
Wilson Gray
- coarseness update
Jonathan Lighter
- OT: Request for information on an article by William Holmes Bennett
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Plumbing the depths of Joe the Plumber's "dictionary
Victor Steinbok
- The Slants
Ronald Butters
- from my inbox
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- majesterial
Jonathan Lighter
- Google slowing down (or putting you in the cross-hairs?)
Joel S. Berson
- Dysphemism
Joel S. Berson
- _etic_ rules!
Wilson Gray
- I Love Little Pussy
Wilson Gray
- pink slime
Victor Steinbok
- cactus as a tree?
Victor Steinbok
- Learning to pronounce Seychelles
W Brewer
- blogress
Victor Steinbok
- a good old girl
George Thompson
- Endangered specie (coinages)
Larry Sheldon
- bloggeress
David Barnhart
- FW: further on bloggeress
David Barnhart
- thesp
Victor Steinbok
- Alutiiq insult
Joel S. Berson
- Heard on The Doctors: a variation on "take precautions"
Wilson Gray
- non-verbal communications
Victor Steinbok
- Variety Meats--observation
Victor Steinbok
- Quoted in the NYT:
Wilson Gray
- to right-size
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedating of "Television"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Libber," "Women's Libber"
Shapiro, Fred
- More from the NYT
Martin Kaminer
- to vet
Jonathan Lighter
- Add terms that make my teeth itch.
Larry Sheldon
- How many layers of obfuscation on the average euphemism?
Larry Sheldon
- Present-tense singular of the verb "text"
Charles C Doyle
- "Interned"
Larry Sheldon
- Scandal: Tlingit man found sleeping in a Haida bed.
Larry Sheldon
- On _hoosier_ as an insult, etc.
Wilson Gray
- Oh, well
Wilson Gray
- Automatic reply: ADS-L Digest - 11 Mar 2012 to 12 Mar 2012 (#2012-73)
Damien Hall
- biggest dick
Victor Steinbok
- Other seafaring terms that intrigued me
Larry Sheldon
- Crash blossom of the morning
Laurence Horn
- SUBREPTION defined
Ronald Butters
- Crash blossom of the morning Try this again
Larry Sheldon
- An on-line exchange:
Wilson Gray
- FW: "Referendum, Shmeferendum" used by an Amman news site
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "Referendum, Shmeferendum" used by an Amman news site
Laurence Horn
- OT: How to stop people from annoying you with their loud talk
Wilson Gray
- How to stop people from annoying you with their loud talk
Dave Hause
- Another one
Wilson Gray
- Getting around censorship of the Web in China
Wilson Gray
- OT: side effects
Victor Steinbok
- Headline: "iPads in store arrival set"
Wilson Gray
- "Nigerian Scam"
Victor Steinbok
- Quote: You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on
Garson O'Toole
- great stuff: football and international politics
Victor Steinbok
- badassery
Victor Steinbok
- discount on DARE
Joan H. Hall
- The wee ones (was Re: badassery)
Larry Sheldon
- Probably not the first example of this one, but...
Wilson Gray
- Rick Santorum, Idiot
Victor Steinbok
- The official language nonsense (was Re: Rick Santorum, Idiot)
Larry Sheldon
- Heard on The Doctors: _bug juice_
Wilson Gray
- Hawaiian Punch commercial
Jonathan Lighter
- Docs See Spike in Word Deaths
Jonathan Lighter
- mystery meat
Ronald Butters
- for the taboo avoidance file: "jackass"
Geoffrey Nunberg
- Quote: Reaction to the telephone (Rutherford B. Hayes 1983) (Ulysses S. Grant 1939)
Garson O'Toole
- More euphemisms: "pervasive language"
Joel S. Berson
- From _Eitb Pays Basque_:
Wilson Gray
- Antedating of "Chocoholic"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Bargaining Chip"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Phonetic"
Shapiro, Fred
- Fwd: More euphemisms: "pervasive language"
George Thompson
- The OED's dates of appearance overseas
Joel S. Berson
- "language" = "bad language", "L" = "(bad) language", and the OED
Joel S. Berson
- Nunberg on Winchester on Green and Lighter
Douglas G. Wilson
- Mixed (Confused? Confusing?) Metaphor
Larry Sheldon
- American
Larry Sheldon
- I'd almost gotten to where I could just read stuff.
Larry Sheldon
- That language thing
Larry Sheldon
- Guess what! A piano is a keyboard (instrument).
Larry Sheldon
- a "brokered convention"
Jonathan Lighter
- lipo suck
Victor Steinbok
- There Will Always Have Been An England . . .
Martin Kaminer
- "Obscene pornography"
Joel S. Berson
- hero etymology
Michael Newman
- NYC lecture Saturday March 24, 2012
David Barnhart
- basketball
Victor Steinbok
- rebel yell and yeehaw
Jonathan Lighter
- Makes my teeth itch.
Larry Sheldon
- Tegrity and the Flipped Classroom - webinar
Tom Zurinskas
- No subject
Jonathan Lighter
- Makes my lawn unsightly
Ronald Butters
- New-to-me variant: "For me, that was the end of the straw." [NT]
Wilson Gray
- supercalif... redux
Ben Zimmer
- White Flag -- "rythm", no vowel in
Larry Sheldon
- White Flag -- "rythm", no vowel in
Garson O'Toole
- White Flag -- "rythm", no vowel in
Jonathan Lighter
- White Flag -- "rythm", no vowel in
Larry Sheldon
- White Flag -- "rythm", no vowel in
Laurence Horn
- White Flag -- "rythm", no vowel in
Dan Nussbaum
- White Flag -- "rythm", no vowel in
Eric Nielsen
- White Flag -- "rythm", no vowel in
Ronald Butters
- White Flag -- "rythm", no vowel in
Benjamin Barrett
- White Flag -- "rythm", no vowel in
Larry Sheldon
- White Flag -- "rythm", no vowel in
Larry Sheldon
- White Flag -- "rythm", no vowel in
Larry Sheldon
- White Flag -- "rythm", no vowel in
Paul Johnston
- White Flag -- "rythm", no vowel in
Tom Zurinskas
- White Flag -- "rythm", no vowel in
Amy West
- White Flag -- "rythm", no vowel in
Amy West
- White Flag -- "rythm", no vowel in
Jonathan Lighter
- White Flag -- "rythm", no vowel in
Charles C Doyle
- White Flag -- "rythm", no vowel in
Joel S. Berson
- Welsh is not as distant as Basque, Maltese, or Apache
Ronald Butters
- Welsh is not as distant as Basque, Maltese, or Apache
Joel S. Berson
- Welsh is not as distant as Basque, Maltese, or Apache
Eric Nielsen
- Welsh is not as distant as Basque, Maltese, or Apache
Larry Sheldon
- Welsh is not as distant as Basque, Maltese, or Apache
Paul Johnston
- Welsh is not as distant as Basque, Maltese, or Apache
W Brewer
- Welsh is not as distant as Basque, Maltese, or Apache
Kate
- Welsh is not as distant as Basque, Maltese, or Apache
W Brewer
- Welsh is not as distant as Basque, Maltese, or Apache
Benjamin Barrett
- Welsh is not as distant as Basque, Maltese, or Apache
Spanbock/Svoboda-Spanbock
- Antedating of "Confucian"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Hinduism"
Shapiro, Fred
- A prophet without honor
Wilson Gray
- Automatic reply: ADS-L Digest - 18 Mar 2012 to 19 Mar 2012 (#2012-80)
Damien Hall
- <w> as indicator of vowelitude
Ronald Butters
- OT: Antedating of "Confucian"
Joel S. Berson
- vocalic m, r, n, and l
Ronald Butters
- "chief evangelist" -- standard business jargon? -- since when?
George Thompson
- Tegrity and the Flipped Classroom
Brian Hitchcock
- tapestry
Victor Steinbok
- spelling vs orthography
Dan Nussbaum
- forensic linguistics
Victor Steinbok
- "All roads would lead to the king"
Joel S. Berson
- Computer Mice or Mouses?
Sallie Lemons
- OUP lexicography job
Jesse Sheidlower
- "melt-up" and "cyber-squatter"
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Questionnaire
golnaz jamalifar
- snowclonelette watch
Victor Steinbok
- genericide
Victor Steinbok
- more -gates
Victor Steinbok
- Sigh!
Wilson Gray
- novel semiotics (ok, insert your headline here)
Victor Steinbok
- FW: "Jass" card game in 1911 (from Barry Popik)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- pinkwashing
Victor Steinbok
- Problem with OED's First Use of "Capitalism"
Shapiro, Fred
- Word drift -- "gangbang"
Larry Sheldon
- Announcing digital edition of D.C. Evening Star, 1852-1922
Loiterstein, David
- Obama & ASL
Mark Mandel
- Announcing digital edition of D.C. Evening Star, 1852-1922 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Computer Mice or Mouses? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Maine sardine
Victor Steinbok
- Social networking?
Joel S. Berson
- _Buthers_ and _Butters_
Wilson Gray
- "Down"
Larry Sheldon
- Fun with phrases
Jonathan Lighter
- Source for music terms and.....
Eric Nielsen
- DARE Celebrations May 3rd and 4th
Grant Barrett
- "give the bird" (Merrie Melodies, 1942)
Ben Zimmer
- FW: "Zazz" (= pep) 1916 -- (from Barry Popik)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Good to know that I'm not alone!;-)
Wilson Gray
- graphically slaughtered
Neal Whitman
- Congressmen
Dan Goodman
- There's Basically Nothing You Can Say That Isn't Trademarked - Businessweek
Ronald Butters
- Eeyore
Herb Stahlke
- There's Basically Nothing You Can Say That Isn't Trademarked - Businessweek (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "to cheapen"
Joel S. Berson
- Eeyore (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- a century of "jazz"
Ben Zimmer
- Song-title in Cuban Spanish
Wilson Gray
- is "dirty blonde" depreciative?
Geoffrey Nunberg
- Belvedere-y
Victor Steinbok
- " … rough on the outside side …"
Wilson Gray
- From an NYT Online teaser
Wilson Gray
- Speak of the devil...
Wilson Gray
- a person where
Neal Whitman
- "blow water"
Jonathan Lighter
- nothing to brag home about
Michael Sheehan
- Fwd: [this-and-that] Italian Spelling Bee
Dan Nussbaum
- "Dairy Queen", the (basketball) verb
Laurence Horn
- new medical specialization
Victor Steinbok
- Trying to have it both ways?;-)
Wilson Gray
- Another euphemism
Wilson Gray
- spook
Jonathan Lighter
- _Striped_
Wilson Gray
- terms of endearment
Victor Steinbok
- trademark v
Victor Steinbok
- "Fred got married, got divorced, and he is now a librarian at Yale."
Wilson Gray
- eggcorn
Victor Steinbok
- egghorns
Ronald Butters
- The return of helicopter parents
Victor Steinbok
- Seen on Twitter: "Tim Whoretons"
Dan Goodman
- usage ridicule
Jonathan Lighter
- Output of your job "LarrySheldon"
Larry Sheldon
- French legaleze (the English version)
Victor Steinbok
- "This is the handle of a prison toothbrush embedded with a razorblade." [NT]
Wilson Gray
- Fwd: usage ridicule
Laurence Horn
- striped
Mailbox
- "Sweater-vest"
Wilson Gray
- new Google Books glitch
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedating of "Demographics"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Demographic" (Noun)
Shapiro, Fred
- "up and arms"
Mark Mandel
- new Google Books glitch(es)
Joel S. Berson
- calling dibs on "retronym treadmill"
Laurence Horn
- return of "colored"
Victor Steinbok
- minor eggcornish error
Victor Steinbok
- ball boy slur
Victor Steinbok
- Spoken by voiceoverer for a "BrushOnBlock" ad:
Wilson Gray
- Diverting dialects in USA
Tom Zurinskas
- short takes
Victor Steinbok
- CNN's naughty acronym
Jonathan Lighter
- FW: This is the most absurd position
David Barnhart
- Google glitches?
Joel S. Berson
- This is the most absurd position
Laurence Horn
- fun with statistics
Victor Steinbok
- MMA
Jonathan Lighter
- public radio
Victor Steinbok
- rash = 'critically decisive'
Jonathan Lighter
- ob-gyn revisited
Neal Whitman
- repeal?
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- all-of-the-above = 'multifaceted; multipronged'
Jonathan Lighter
- The perils of ngrams (was Usage Ridicule)
Geoffrey Nunberg
- "Stay tuned" - the all-digital generation doesn't get this phrase
Guy Letourneau
- " … literally fighting, _fist-to-cuffs_ … =?UTF-8?Q?=22_?=[NT]
Wilson Gray
- "Collateral damage" > "collateral"
Wilson Gray
- Kmu
Martha Barnette
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