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- 420 friendly; no drugs
Dan Goodman
- Nagging Question--was: Hot new Einstein quote
Laurence Horn
- "=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=A6_?=my _queue_ to cop a squat ..."
Wilson Gray
- Dialect clash
Wilson Gray
- Unwatering
Neal Whitman
- Schooting
Michael Sheehan
- by = from
Jonathan Lighter
- aka = 'in other words'
Jonathan Lighter
- Hellwinds of Frankenstorm
Joel S. Berson
- Q: "whenever" vs. "when ever"?
Joel S. Berson
- semantic shift: "shrapnel"
Jonathan Lighter
- Spain: Tras _el d=?UTF-8?Q?=C3=ADa_?=de Halloween_, los demonios andan suelto. [NT]
Wilson Gray
- OT: be careful quoting Faulkner
ADSGarson O'Toole
- another early wake-goose, possible source of way-goose
Stephen Goranson
- "one-to-six"
Joel S. Berson
- pink movies
Jonathan Lighter
- Cow latte
Benjamin Barrett
- execution-style
Jonathan Lighter
- bulldozer = 'bucket loader'
Jonathan Lighter
- "gay" redux
Ben Zimmer
- tarded
Jonathan Lighter
- diabolics
Jonathan Lighter
- "Executive Produced by"
Martin Kaminer
- "You can't make this stuff up."
Jonathan Lighter
- "steak-fried chicken"
Joel S. Berson
- "Don=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99t_?=let the door hit you in the butt on the way out"
Wilson Gray
- "Don=?windows-1252?Q?=92t_?=let the door hit you in the butt on the way out"
Benjamin Barrett
- She 'Keyser Soze'd' me - spoiler warning
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Humor: www.northcentralpa.com/article/what-frack-does-frack-mean-or-who-are-frackers
Wilson Gray
- From a photo posted on Facebook
Wilson Gray
- Antedating of Modern Sense of "Police"
Shapiro, Fred
- Further Antedating of Modern Sense of "Police"
Shapiro, Fred
- Possible Antedatings of Modern Sense of "Police"
Shapiro, Fred
- "to a t" [very slight antedatings]
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- "Suit to a t-y-t" (and similiar)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- Antedating? of "Antedating of Modern Sense of "Police"
Joel S. Berson
- "zombie fact"
Joel S. Berson
- ground game
Jonathan Lighter
- "to cath"
Arnold Zwicky
- _Cop a squat!_ = "have a seat!, sit down!"
Wilson Gray
- Rachael Ray reversal
Herb Stahlke
- More redundancy
Charles C Doyle
- cath v.
Sissy SoFunk
- double comparative commercial?
Laurence Horn
- "gay" redux (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- bulldozer = 'bucket loader' (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "Don't let the door hit you in the butt on the way out" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Heard on The Doctors: unexpected "positive anymore." Trivia
Wilson Gray
- MSNBC headline via Slashdot
Wilson Gray
- An animated-cartoon hillbilly is getting ready to "pah-TAY!"
Wilson Gray
- Reality-show mother to child: "Don't be having any more falls!"
Wilson Gray
- Q: 'dignity"?
Joel S. Berson
- escape goat
Victor Steinbok
- American hey
Page Stephens
- T-y-t
Joan H. Hall
- Preliminary sked for 2013 annual ADS meeting in Boston
Grant Barrett
- to vote to vote
Nancy Friedman
- "razor tight" --- (blend on "Meet the Press")
Ben Zimmer
- Abstracts for 2013 ADS Annual Meeting in Boston
Grant Barrett
- antedating tit (and other things) (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Facebook post
Wilson Gray
- American Hi
Page Stephens
- "just Ohio away"
Laurence Horn
- A taxonomy of arse
Mark Mandel
- taken shocked
Paul Frank
- glory = 'awesome horror'
Jonathan Lighter
- X-ageddon
Geoffrey Steven Nathan
- "coat"?
Joel S. Berson
- "pop the question", 1722; antedates 1725
Joel S. Berson
- "coat"? And "whom the coat fits"
Joel S. Berson
- Epistemic closure
Benjamin Barrett
- what an opportunity!
paul johnson
- "To my _surprisement_, she called me." [NT]
Wilson Gray
- Retroactive - before a law goes into effect
Benjamin Barrett
- "She came home to _early vote_." [NT]
Wilson Gray
- OT: skating on ever-thinner ice
Wilson Gray
- y'all -- in Singapore
Dan Goodman
- Afghanistan Repatriation Memorial
Sarah
- everyone should have a good dictionary. . . .
George Thompson
- how to "Walkenize"
Laurence Horn
- "To my _surprisement_, she called me."
Damien Hall
- 'Grammar Nazi'
Damien Hall
- "We didn't have time to phone-call anybody." [Y(es)T]
Joel S. Berson
- "We didn't have time to phone-call anybody."
Joel S. Berson
- exit pollsters with no polling places
Benjamin Barrett
- Facebook: "[This is the case,] as _for_ noon Nov. 11th."
Wilson Gray
- whollop; prevent
Jonathan Lighter
- No subject
Dan Nussbaum
- "on background"
Jonathan Lighter
- "Do you know that as many women are injured?"
Wilson Gray
- Dialog: "You can _lie-detect_ me!"
Wilson Gray
- Heard: _inseparable_ > "[We were] unseparatable!"
Wilson Gray
- hypernegation on Monday Night Football
Laurence Horn
- Fwd: Disk vs. disc
Wilson Gray
- "You can't make that cat walk backwards."
Jonathan Lighter
- "boomerang parent"
Joel S. Berson
- "structural incident" --
Joel S. Berson
- Over 50% of US Englsih words on a page are subject to accents
Tom Zurinskas
- The Whole Six Yards of It
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- Recordings of southern children's speech, 1969
Mike Pope
- 'Convince x of y' = 'reassure x about y'
Damien Hall
- "sketch out"
Amy West
- "on background" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- gain = 'develop'
Jonathan Lighter
- Heard in The Judges: _baby mama_ replaced by "euphemism"
Wilson Gray
- "sketchy"
Joel S. Berson
- Oosik in the news
Benjamin Barrett
- My own mondegreen
Wilson Gray
- "The horror is that there is no horror."
Jonathan Lighter
- Cool V-S Inversion--Lashed out NP:
Geoffrey Steven Nathan
- Fwd: Oosik in the news
Sissy SoFunk
- factoid
James Harbeck
- The new definition of "gift"
Joel S. Berson
- Actor in TV ad: "These strips completely opened my nose!"
Wilson Gray
- test of list
Tom Zurinskas
- Morning wood
Paul Frank
- Alternate Side Parking
Dan Goncharoff
- bottles from Boyes Spring
George Thompson
- Actor in TV ad: "These strips completely opened my nose!" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Morning wood (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- The fundament of the Republican party
Joel S. Berson
- "there's on since": how did that happen?
Joel S. Berson
- Word susceptibility to phoneme changes
Tom Zurinskas
- Provenance of /Or/ > [ar] / __@ ?
Neal Whitman
- Call for Nominations for Names of the Year (share anywhere you wish)
Cleve Evans
- Most Notable Quotations of 2012?
Shapiro, Fred
- What up, Bay-Bruh?
Wilson Gray
- "dying fall"
Jonathan Lighter
- theophorous
Jonathan Lighter
- cross-border dialects?
Dan Goodman
- Spoken during the Cleveland v. Dallas NFL game
Wilson Gray
- Thus spake
Wilson Gray
- New(?) jargon using the verb, _root_
Wilson Gray
- Tap That App (was Re: _melonfarmer_ "motherfucker" In HDAS?)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- call out
Paul Frank
- Can you say "Mesopotamia"?
Jonathan Lighter
- referring to something by where it is located (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- lambast(e)
Benjamin Barrett
- fiction = 'literary prose or poetry'; remit = 'assigned or expected task'
Jonathan Lighter
- referring to something by where it is located
Joel S. Berson
- Yale University has bought a site license to Vocabula
Robert Hartwell Fiske
- Twinkies Cliff (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- another mystery quote
Jonathan Lighter
- Journal of Linguistic Geography
Michael Marvin
- concept == brand
Victor Steinbok
- "_No holes barred_, straight talk." [NT]
Wilson Gray
- "But people sticking with Obama is my _pet pea_." [NP]
Wilson Gray
- Twinkies Cliff
Joel S. Berson
- sexy accents
Tom Zurinskas
- 'on the make' bleached to positive 'making good money'?
Damien Hall
- Huh?
George Thompson
- "friends-and-relations" who disrespect linguistics professors
Joel S. Berson
- to unmars
David A. Daniel
- "Gray Thursday" (Thanksgiving Day as shopping day)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- sandy = irritable
Benjamin Barrett
- cement = 'to prove conclusively'
Jonathan Lighter
- heard from a local supermarket checker--"abstract" as "odd"
Herb Stahlke
- life hack
Paul Frank
- doorbuster
David Barnhart
- Aphorism: If you shoot at sun you may hit a star
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Blockbuster > doorbuster > sitebuster
Wilson Gray
- Antedating of "Vagina"
Shapiro, Fred
- guest = 'customer'
Jonathan Lighter
- fock, 1956
Jonathan Lighter
- black Friday
Herb Stahlke
- original = 'most notable'
Jonathan Lighter
- "on the improve"
Laurence Horn
- encarcerate
Jonathan Lighter
- Car talk
Joel S. Berson
- The Saturday Evening Post began with Ben Franklin??
Joel S. Berson
- UD: 1) _dick string_; 2)_snapping pussy_
Wilson Gray
- Book, 1990: Dick Whittington: a _pantomine_ [NT]
Wilson Gray
- "The best word ever"
David A. Daniel
- KAW-fee vs. KAH-fee
Tom Zurinskas
- UD: [...] 2)_snapping pussy_
Joel S. Berson
- UD: 1) _dick string_; 2)_snapping pussy_ (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- sexy accents (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- antedating wife swapping (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- OT, essentially: You really never know!
Wilson Gray
- truncated lame duck
Arnold Zwicky
- Sensational Claim About OED
Shapiro, Fred
- squatch
Jonathan Lighter
- Fw: NYTimes.com: Sarah Ogilvie on Deletions From the Oxford English Dictionary
Brenda Lester
- "You can have a _*despicably*_ good time!"
Wilson Gray
- OT: They don't give up easily
Wilson Gray
- "Un _team_ di ingegneri Giapponesi =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=A6=22_?=[NT]
Wilson Gray
- I, too, have found German to be difficult.
Wilson Gray
- SOTA?: "=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=A6_?=the animals they _slayed_."
Wilson Gray
- SOTA?: "=?windows-1252?Q?=85_?=the animals they _slayed_."
Jonathan Lighter
- Merry Andrew (1660?)
Stephen Goranson
- Dictionary collection (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- HENRY
Geoffrey Steven Nathan
- Heard in a TV ad: "=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=A6_?=factory-direct _bladery_ ..."
Wilson Gray
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