September 2012 Archives by thread
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- Fron a Facebook post:
Wilson Gray
- "If this email isn=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99t_?=viewing properly, click here." [NT]
Wilson Gray
- Automatic reply: ADS-L Digest - 30 Aug 2012 to 31 Aug 2012 (#2012-245)
Damien Hall
- heads, hands--who cares!
Victor Steinbok
- Modern proverb: Life is a journey, not a destination (1920)
Garson O'Toole
- Possible word of the year
David Barnhart
- "There's an old saying..."
Jonathan Lighter
- "Koo-Koo" for Cocoa Puffs?
Joel S. Berson
- Doing it to himself
Joel S. Berson
- higgledy piggledies
Joel S. Berson
- Wait, what? Is it just me?
Wilson Gray
- Antedating of "French Fries"
Shapiro, Fred
- More Antedatings of "French Fries"
Shapiro, Fred
- word of the day
Victor Steinbok
- Slashdot: "It doesn't need to be deepfreezed." [NT]
Wilson Gray
- NYT: "Facebook's headquarters _are_ located at One Hacker Way." [NT]
Wilson Gray
- NYC underground
Joel S. Berson
- Antedating of "Sundae"
Shapiro, Fred
- Mayday antedating
Victor Steinbok
- Out of Office: [ADS-L] NYT: "Facebook's headquarters _are_ located at One Hacker Way." [NT]
W Brewer
- THE Reverend Wright
Victor Steinbok
- "real time"
Garson O'Toole
- Antedating of "D.J."
Shapiro, Fred
- snippet overheard (probably OT)
David Barnhart
- Slight Antedating of Sports "Fan"
Shapiro, Fred
- Maths is
Joel S. Berson
- forefinger and index finger
Joel S. Berson
- "hat"
Charles C Doyle
- FW: Baseball expression born/popularized in Chapel Hill; French Fries
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "finesse", the adjective
Victor Steinbok
- incorrection (hanged/hung)
Arnold Zwicky
- Antedating of "Teenager"
Shapiro, Fred
- Obama's sidiolect put down by a white yet again
Wilson Gray
- Antedating of "Boondoggle"
Shapiro, Fred
- Breaking doubled consonants into syllables
Laurence Horn
- "Tumbl" as back-formation
Laurence Horn
- Antedating of "French Fries" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "We have my grandma a birthday dinner."
Wilson Gray
- Antedating of "Billionaire"
Shapiro, Fred
- Further Antedating of "Billionaire"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Spreadsheet"
Shapiro, Fred
- the whole, how shall we say, nine yards
Stephen Goranson
- the whole, how shall we say, nine yards (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Heard:
Wilson Gray
- Antedating of "Gizmo"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Spreadsheet" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- antedating of hash (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- teach yourself Garifuna
George Thompson
- "not afraid to shy away" as hypernegation
Laurence Horn
- emacity
Victor Steinbok
- "Are You Better Off Today Than You Were Four Years Ago?"
Shapiro, Fred
- cojones, huevos (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "Are You Better Off Today Than You Were Four Years Ago?" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Another negation
Joel S. Berson
- "The Whole Seven Yards" = "The Whole Nine Yards"?
Shapiro, Fred
- Charles William Eliot on the curve ball
Geoffrey Nunberg
- The Whole Six Yards of It
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- "nine yards" unlikely from football?
Stephen Goranson
- More on "The Whole Six Yards"
Shapiro, Fred
- Additional Information on "The Whole Six Yards"
Shapiro, Fred
- crazy, n.
Jonathan Lighter
- "scurve", noun, = 'contemptible person', 1730; not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- "scurve", noun, = 'contemptible person', 1730; not in OED
Jonathan Lighter
- "scurve", noun, = 'contemptible person', 1730; not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- "scurve", noun, = 'contemptible person', 1730; not in OED
Laurence Horn
- "scurve", noun, = 'contemptible person', 1730; not in OED
Jonathan Lighter
- "scurve", noun, = 'contemptible person', 1730; not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- "scurve", noun, = 'contemptible person', 1730; not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- "scurve", noun, = 'contemptible person', 1730; not in OED
Jonathan Lighter
- "scurve", noun, = 'contemptible person', 1730; not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- "scurve", noun, = 'contemptible person', 1730; not in OED
Jonathan Lighter
- "scurve", noun, = 'contemptible person', 1730; not in OED
Marcin W.
- A rara avis for me, in my current life
Wilson Gray
- synchronicity = 'appropriate congruence'
Jonathan Lighter
- "pan" = '(baseball) plate", 1888 (antedates OED3)
Joel S. Berson
- full of piss
Jonathan Lighter
- 1984 revisited
Jonathan Lighter
- Clarification Relating to First Use of "Software"
Shapiro, Fred
- Who uses Bing?
David Barnhart
- Obama and Black English in the NY Times
Margaret Lee
- Charles William Eliot on the curve ball (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "The Whole Six Yards" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- (Not) seeing a listen
Joel S. Berson
- "The Whole Six Yards"
Joel S. Berson
- Henry James on Eliot on "a curved ball"
Stephen Goranson
- Regionality of American accents
Joel S. Berson
- _toluene_
Wilson Gray
- antedating "greasy spoon" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Top baby names of 2011 and 1911
Jonathan Lighter
- new words in the Collins Online dictionary
Tom Zurinskas
- Heard on TV
Wilson Gray
- carbon-free
Victor Steinbok
- Word: fiberhood
Garson O'Toole
- Greasy Spoon -- message from Barry Popik
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Automatic reply: ADS-L Digest - 11 Sep 2012 to 12 Sep 2012 (#2012-257)
Ocumpaugh, Jaclyn L.
- "The Weekly Rake", 1842, now at the Grolier Club
Joel S. Berson
- battleship
Jonathan Lighter
- Expressions with Number Variation
Shapiro, Fred
- Expressions with Number Variation (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- the grisly
Victor Steinbok
- some observations from north of the border
Laurence Horn
- tifo
Victor Steinbok
- "yards of information"; "whole yards"
Stephen Goranson
- Q: Using the OED's "not yet been fully updated/has been updated" dates?
Joel S. Berson
- The OED's "Publication history"
Joel S. Berson
- another Civil War-era F-word discovery
Ben Zimmer
- Bad Samaritan
Victor Steinbok
- Dinesh D'Souza loses the rest of his marbles
Victor Steinbok
- breadcrumbs
Charles C Doyle
- Sheep in wool's clothing
Alice Faber
- "The software _glitches_ constantly." [NT]
Wilson Gray
- "for more _updations_, please like our [Facebook] page"
Wilson Gray
- The OED's "Log out" [Was: "Publication history"]
Joel S. Berson
- antedating teleprompter (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "fatwa" not listed in Oxford English Dictionary
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Word (phrase?) of the year? - "double down"
Joel S. Berson
- verbing other
Victor Steinbok
- victim = 'feckless irresponsible individual'
Jonathan Lighter
- Bad behavior as detritus
Joel S. Berson
- Other meanings for "green gold"
Joel S. Berson
- needy
Joel S. Berson
- acronym of the (TV) season--TEOTWAWKI
Laurence Horn
- Laying it down
Charles C Doyle
- alive and well (eggcorn dept.)
Laurence Horn
- a sheep in sheep's clothing
Stephen Goranson
- Murder
David A. Daniel
- One's votes can be inconsistent with one's record
Joel S. Berson
- Taste the sizzle
Tom Zurinskas
- another misattributed quote
Victor Steinbok
- creative
Victor Steinbok
- Yolking on the campaign trail
Joel S. Berson
- (Canadian) shit-disturbers
Laurence Horn
- "it won't go noticed" (syntactic blend?)
Laurence Horn
- No subject
Jonathan Lighter
- Soft speaking not in the news [was: "Big Sticks in the News" [was: ] ]
Joel S. Berson
- Google MOOC about searching techniques
Garson O'Toole
- Interpreting movie ratings, by Wesley Morris
Joel S. Berson
- "jews harp engine", 1845
George Thompson
- Heard on The Doctors: "lease _of_ life"; "anorectic" v. "anorexic"
Wilson Gray
- Absolute Use of "Personal"
Shapiro, Fred
- from yesterday's NYTimes
George Thompson
- Another genius remark.
Jonathan Lighter
- Another genius remark. (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "goldentate"
Joel S. Berson
- Campaign reporting logic
Joel S. Berson
- WOTY candidate?? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "old soul"
Jonathan Lighter
- "irony" again
Laurence Horn
- The next Mini-Me
Joel S. Berson
- Word: cozy, cozies - mystery story or genre
Garson O'Toole
- [VAR-L] The Britishisms are coming
Arnold Zwicky
- Britishisms in the US
Benjamin Barrett
- a local classical music station...
Victor Steinbok
- QOTY?
Joel S. Berson
- mononymous
Victor Steinbok
- apparently I'm a bigoted hypocrite
James Harbeck
- "Dawgs"
Charles C Doyle
- p... !
Paul Frank
- British accents
Charles C Doyle
- apparently I'm a bigoted hypocrite (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "old soul" no; "old man" yes
Joel S. Berson
- Middle-school sex puns go highbrow
Jonathan Lighter
- salt of the earth
Dan Nussbaum
- Antedating of "Burnout"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Right Stuff"
Shapiro, Fred
- OT: Foreign children speaking fluent, colloquial English
Wilson Gray
- "pack" and "crack" (types of gerrymandering)
Joel S. Berson
- "go figure"
Jonathan Lighter
- Bryan Garner vs. Robert Lane Greene
Paul Frank
- smack; bandwidth; nomophobia
Jonathan Lighter
- smack
Joel S. Berson
- "bleaching" too [Was: "pack" and "crack" (types of gerrymandering)]
Joel S. Berson
- Antedating of "Yalie"
Shapiro, Fred
- "flannel-mouthed" antedated (?) to 1854
Stephen Goranson
- B2 alphabet
Victor Steinbok
- nomophobia
Joel S. Berson
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