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- photo-bomb
Jonathan Lighter
- more fono-folly (UNCLASSIFIED)
Jonathan Lighter
- More butts
Victor Steinbok
- Among the New Words, Winter 2011 (was Re: photo-bomb)
Ben Zimmer
- "go figure"
Victor Steinbok
- 1947 citing in Archie Comic of "butthole." What did it mean? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Wilson Gray
- "That bites the big one!"
Wilson Gray
- "Fart" goes lamestream
Jonathan Lighter
- Among the New Words, Winter 2011 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Among the New Words, Winter 2011 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Among the New Words, Winter 2011 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Jesse Sheidlower
- Among the New Words, Winter 2011 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Among the New Words, Winter 2011 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Arnold Zwicky
- Among the New Words, Winter 2011 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Jonathan Lighter
- Among the New Words, Winter 2011 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Baker, John
- Among the New Words, Winter 2011 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Charles C Doyle
- Among the New Words, Winter 2011 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Jonathan Lighter
- Among the New Words, Winter 2011 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Dave Wilton
- Among the New Words, Winter 2011 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Wilson Gray
- FW (from B. Popik): Rachel Maddow doesn't know "Union Square" etymology; "Hispandering" not coined by Mickey Kaus
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- ka-ching / ca-ching (1970)
Victor Steinbok
- Heard on The Judges: "_digital_ adultery"
Wilson Gray
- Language preferences of infants
Joel S. Berson
- 99% Spring
Ben Zimmer
- _To hustle butt_
Wilson Gray
- fraught
Michael Sheehan
- Q: "It's just like New York"
Joel S. Berson
- Dear Buttheads
W Brewer
- "It's just like New York"
David A. Daniel
- 1947 citing in Archie Comic of "butthole." What did it mean?
Jonathan Lighter
- 1947 Archie Comic "butthole." What did it mean?
J P Maher
- the Lyons, the Jones, and now the Edwards
Laurence Horn
- On "Tanked,"
Wilson Gray
- The playground "slide"
Wilson Gray
- Archie We shall see what we shall see.
J P Maher
- Inquiry About Dictionaries
Shapiro, Fred
- Blony
J P Maher
- the Lyons, the Jones, and now the Edwards (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Governmentese
Wilson Gray
- "shocking"
Jonathan Lighter
- another head-scratcher
Victor Steinbok
- to parse
Jonathan Lighter
- Jungle gyms
Joel S. Berson
- Jungle gyms and monkey bars
Arnold Zwicky
- FW: Butt Hole Road -- (mesage from J. Peter Maher)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Fwd: alliteration
Wilson Gray
- one of those who... (was: Jungle gyms and monkey bars)
Laurence Horn
- "half-hardy" for "half-hearted"
George Thompson
- Campi
Joel S. Berson
- Veep
Jonathan Lighter
- Veep
Joel S. Berson
- Veep
Jonathan Lighter
- Veep
Michael Newman
- Veep
Jonathan Lighter
- Veep
Laurence Horn
- Veep
Victor Steinbok
- Veep
Jonathan Lighter
- Veep
Jonathan Lighter
- Veep
Wilson Gray
- Veep
Jonathan Lighter
- Veep
Jonathan Lighter
- Veep
Baker, John
- Veep
Jonathan Lighter
- Veep
Laurence Horn
- Veep
Jonathan Lighter
- Veep
Jonathan Lighter
- Normalista
Joel S. Berson
- batch = to live as a bachelor
Amy West
- OT: NZ use of "down to"
Amy West
- "be inappropriate"
Jonathan Lighter
- tree = 'marijuana'
Jonathan Lighter
- Call for Papers for 2013 American Dialect Society Conference in Boston
Grant Barrett
- anachronism watch
Laurence Horn
- Heard on The Doctors: "Lookit, youse
Wilson Gray
- new version of lather, rinse, repeat
Victor Steinbok
- to "fashion"; "in the weeds"
Jonathan Lighter
- "bring a lot to the party"
Jonathan Lighter
- mistress-minds
Joel S. Berson
- given = 'if; assuming'
Jonathan Lighter
- Daimio (1811)
Victor Steinbok
- if you liked the ask...
Laurence Horn
- Cargo theft
Neal Whitman
- Another monosyllabic base form for PSP
Neal Whitman
- Evil geniuses (Was Re: to "fashion"; "in the weeds")
Neal Whitman
- "sexual pathos"
Charles C Doyle
- to "fashion"; "in the weeds" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "son of a sea-cow"
Jonathan Lighter
- Phoenician vs Phoenix like
Dan Nussbaum
- NYT on coining Web terminology
Wilson Gray
- baguette
Victor Steinbok
- OT: native Russian superheroes in comics
Amy West
- Ask your library ...
Robert Fiske
- serializing again
Victor Steinbok
- butt hole
J P Maher
- Scuttlebutt: 1947 Archie "butthole." What did it mean?
Victor Steinbok
- "She made LOTS of friends with students!"
Wilson Gray
- public
Victor Steinbok
- dictionary
Victor Steinbok
- thrice upon a bagel Part I
Victor Steinbok
- thrice upon a bagel Parts II and III
Victor Steinbok
- "got out over their skis"
Ben Zimmer
- "pompa-hawk"
Joel S. Berson
- Famous quote of tomorrow?
Jonathan Lighter
- Rajon Rondo and Nick Young break out as NBA fashion plates =?windows-1252?Q?=96_?=USATODAY.com
Victor Steinbok
- Canine (and feline) bromances
Benjamin Barrett
- kibbeh
Victor Steinbok
- "Child-grooming"
Wilson Gray
- Rajon Rondo and Nick Young break out as NBA fashion plates =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=93_?=USATODAY.com
Wilson Gray
- another -ista coinage
Michael Newman
- odds and ends
Victor Steinbok
- "migrate", v.tr., a sort-of untracked sense
Laurence Horn
- "migrate", v.tr., a sort-of untracked sense
Jonathan Lighter
- "migrate", v.tr., a sort-of untracked sense
Arnold Zwicky
- "migrate", v.tr., a sort-of untracked sense
Dan Goncharoff
- "migrate", v.tr., a sort-of untracked sense
Jonathan Lighter
- "migrate", v.tr., a sort-of untracked sense
Wilson Gray
- "migrate", v.tr., a sort-of untracked sense
Victor Steinbok
- "migrate", v.tr., a sort-of untracked sense
Laurence Horn
- "migrate", v.tr., a sort-of untracked sense
Dan Goncharoff
- "migrate", v.tr., a sort-of untracked sense
Joel S. Berson
- "migrate", v.tr., a sort-of untracked sense
Victor Steinbok
- "migrate", v.tr., a sort-of untracked sense (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- permatorium
Victor Steinbok
- Why Do We Quote?: The Culture and History of Quotation By Ruth H. Finnegan
Stephen Goranson
- Fox's Tucker Carlson:
Wilson Gray
- random
Victor Steinbok
- "butt-dial," adj.
Jonathan Lighter
- "the finger" in 1932 Hollywood epic
Jonathan Lighter
- First "is," now "the"
Jonathan Lighter
- OT: Obama and his principled stand on gay marriage
Wilson Gray
- Heheheh
David A. Daniel
- "the finger" in 1932 Hollywood epic (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- unemployed
Victor Steinbok
- "whuggle"
Laurence Horn
- /muslim/
Jonathan Lighter
- "=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=A6_?=lease _of_ life."
Wilson Gray
- "On a serious tip, …"
Wilson Gray
- just "going through the emotions"
Laurence Horn
- Whyever _never_?
Wilson Gray
- Mark Hanna Quote Question
Shapiro, Fred
- just "going through the emotions" (and "the")
Laurence Horn
- whuggle
Amy West
- "pretzel palace"
Dan Goncharoff
- "political"
Jonathan Lighter
- The return of the freegan
Victor Steinbok
- greens vs. reds
Victor Steinbok
- Tori Stafford ’s killer cries in court, apologizes to family, =?windows-1252?Q?_but_maintains_he=92s_?=innocent | News | National Post
Victor Steinbok
- "Network to get work"
Charles C Doyle
- Proverb: Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity - question about cite
Garson O'Toole
- Coverage of Dictionary of Modern Proverbs in Athens, GA newspaper
Garson O'Toole
- Buttock(s) -- Even sports trainers don't know what it/they is/are
Joel S. Berson
- Beijing
Wilson Gray
- "millenia" = 'an indefinite but lengthy period of years'
Joel S. Berson
- Tori Stafford ’s killer cries in court, apologizes to family, =?UTF-8?Q?but_maintains_he=E2=80=99s_?=innocent | News | National Post
Wilson Gray
- "App helps [amateur] astronomers _polar align_ their equatorial mounts."
Wilson Gray
- "an African-ancestored woman" [NT]
Wilson Gray
- Pops=?UTF-8?Q?=C3=ADa=3A_poes=C3=ADa_?="pop" [NT]
Wilson Gray
- Heard on Tosh.0:
Wilson Gray
- coordination
Victor Steinbok
- g-ma
Victor Steinbok
- flop, flopping
Victor Steinbok
- toe the line = push the limits
Amy West
- Off-track: Re: [ADS-L] Mark Hanna Quote Question
Joel S. Berson
- bias = biased
Amy West
- Quote: I know only two tunes; one is Yankee Doodle, and the other isn't. (U. S. Grant variant Lincoln)
Garson O'Toole
- dropping -ed in adjectives
Amy West
- " … was found 'not guilty' _for_ copyright infring =?UTF-8?Q?ement_=E2=80=A6=22_?=[NT]
Wilson Gray
- financiere
Victor Steinbok
- hutspot
Victor Steinbok
- basketball
Victor Steinbok
- "Quashal" Not in OED
Shapiro, Fred
- Heard on Springer: _The World_ "the United States" > _the world_ "civil life"
Wilson Gray
- "of which...of"
Jonathan Lighter
- Books teach teen Calibans to curse
Jonathan Lighter
- live slow, die old
Victor Steinbok
- "Serbian", noun, 1739; antedating OED2 1848--
Joel S. Berson
- words that don't exist in English
Tom Zurinskas
- 100 Most Popular Baby Names of 2011 | The Stir
Victor Steinbok
- fashion terms
Victor Steinbok
- hair
Victor Steinbok
- anachronism watch, subclass Austen imitators
Joel S. Berson
- We buy yunk cars
Tom Zurinskas
- "the law of unintended consequences"
Jonathan Lighter
- DMP in the Globe (Re: whuggle)
Ben Zimmer
- The Most Powerful Special Interest in Washington: The Acronym
Martin Kaminer
- "Northern Ireland's licensing laws need shaken up"
Dan Goodman
- "Don't let the bastards get you down!" 1945
Stephen Goranson
- Going through the (e)motions--the book
Laurence Horn
- Promised Land and the holy grail
Victor Steinbok
- Linsanity
Victor Steinbok
- interesting ad...
Laurence Horn
- dime, again
Victor Steinbok
- hockey talk
Victor Steinbok
- king-pin Part I
Victor Steinbok
- king-pin Part II
Victor Steinbok
- king-pin Part III
Victor Steinbok
- English, reverse English, body English
Victor Steinbok
- "Don't let the bastards get you down!" 1945 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Young adult books are full of swearing, BYU study says: And characters who curse are more successful, better looking | New York Daily News
Victor Steinbok
- comprised of
Victor Steinbok
- More awful HuffPo writing
Victor Steinbok
- pinkwashing
Jonathan Lighter
- "By 1961, eighty-five percent of Africa's elephants had been _decimated_."
Wilson Gray
- "By 1961, eighty-five percent of Africa's elephants had been _decimated_."
Jonathan Lighter
- "By 1961, eighty-five percent of Africa's elephants had been _decimated_."
Alice Faber
- "By 1961, eighty-five percent of Africa's elephants had been _decimated_."
Laurence Horn
- "By 1961, eighty-five percent of Africa's elephants had been _decimated_."
Baker, John
- "By 1961, eighty-five percent of Africa's elephants had been _decimated_."
Joel S. Berson
- "By 1961, eighty-five percent of Africa's elephants had been _decimated_."
Joel S. Berson
- "By 1961, eighty-five percent of Africa's elephants had been _decimated_."
Wilson Gray
- "By 1961, eighty-five percent of Africa's elephants had been _decimated_."
Wilson Gray
- "By 1961, eighty-five percent of Africa's elephants had been _decimated_."
Victor Steinbok
- "By 1961, eighty-five percent of Africa's elephants had been _decimated_."
W Brewer
- "By 1961, eighty-five percent of Africa's elephants had been _decimated_."
Wilson Gray
- "By 1961, eighty-five percent of Africa's elephants had been _decimated_."
W Brewer
- double bind
Victor Steinbok
- laws and sausages
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- More awful HuffPo writing (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- laws and sausages; "trichina" = 'trichinosis', not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- Heard on The Doctors: "breath-hold"
Wilson Gray
- Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- But for (from ID TV)
Hunter, Lynne R CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-PACIFIC, 71700
- trichinosis
Joel S. Berson
- "trichina" (1866), "trichiniasis" (1864), "trichine" (attr.), all as the disease (trichinosis)
Joel S. Berson
- Dec- (imate, ember) [Was: elephants had been _decimated_.]
Joel S. Berson
- Loans and calques in Russian spam
Wilson Gray
- "Here are some apps you can get _for_ a steal."
Wilson Gray
- For the nomophobic: "Here are some apps you can get _for_ a steal."
Joel S. Berson
- "Inverse 'let alone'"
Joel S. Berson
- Heard on "Workaholics," a ComCent show:
Wilson Gray
- Going the way of _boody_?
Wilson Gray
- Louisville
Benjamin Barrett
- smart, sensible
Indigo Som
- Congressional discourse drops to16-year-old level
Jonathan Lighter
- "stupider"/ "more stupid"
Jonathan Lighter
- mountebankery
Victor Steinbok
- Ecologic Etymology
Joel S. Berson
- Dialect-clash
Wilson Gray
- Hathi Trust Advanced Search
Stephen Goranson
- Antedating of "Motel"
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Antedating of "Motel" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- request for help -- looking for a story (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- You Only Live Once - YOLO
Garson O'Toole
- "Drink 'til the cows go home"
Joel S. Berson
- Grafitti Art, 1818
George Thompson
- palate
Victor Steinbok
- Automatic reply: ADS-L Digest - 24 May 2012 to 25 May 2012 (#2012-147)
Damien Hall
- Pansy waste
Dave Wilton
- "manifesto" reversal?
Joel S. Berson
- "urgency" as a count noun
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Mandela quote: If you talk to a man in a language he understands ….
Benjamin Barrett
- on voice
Victor Steinbok
- unfoil; annuls
Jonathan Lighter
- infra dig. (1800, 1812, 1814, 1815, 1820, 1822)
Stephen Goranson
- treat yourself good
Victor Steinbok
- Quote: I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have (Coleman Cox 1922)
Garson O'Toole
- From one of my medical list serves.
Dan Nussbaum
- "went a _might_ too far"
Wilson Gray
- Devising a questionnaire about face-threatening acts
golnaz jamalifar
- a Seven Wonder (a member of the class of Seven Wonders)
Victor Steinbok
- sashimied
Victor Steinbok
- Ben's rando, Virginia's retronyms
Victor Steinbok
- the return of adjectival "butthole"
Ben Zimmer
- "[This app] is free, but it's still a _placebo_."
Wilson Gray
- Seneca Oil
Victor Steinbok
- gallavanting antedated (?) to 1817
Stephen Goranson
- vatileaks/vatigate
Clai Rice
- Crash blossom
Joel S. Berson
- Quote: Have you tried curiosity? (Dorothy Parker's suggestion for an unwanted cat - 1966 August 7)
Garson O'Toole
- Proverb: Curiosity killed the cat (possibly 1873)
Garson O'Toole
- taxonomy of sports fights
Victor Steinbok
- Donnybrook - a scene of uproar and disorder
Garson O'Toole
- bendy wire
Victor Steinbok
- teaching awe-dropping
Tom Zurinskas
- adventures in argument structure
Arnold Zwicky
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