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Starting: Mon Apr 1 08:51:01 UTC 2013
Ending: Tue Apr 30 21:27:48 UTC 2013
Messages: 527

• "sacred honour", "office of honour"   Baker, John
• "sacred honour", "office of honour"   Baker, John
• Antedating of Speed (=Methamphetamine)   Baker, John
• Antedating of Speed (=Methamphetamine)   Baker, John
• NYTimes -- repeating myths?   Baker, John
• conspiracy = "a theory of conspiracy"   Baker, John
• weapons of mass destruction   Baker, John
• FW: [lg policy] The great language change hoax   David Barnhart
• antedating of _wetback_ (1920)   David Barnhart
• ice box, fridge, refrigerator, blinky   David K. Barnhart
• "animation"   Hollis Barnhart
• Heard: "I'm on _your guys's_ side." [NT]   Benjamin Barrett
• Heard: "I'm on _your guys's_ side." [NT]   Benjamin Barrett
• Depreciated - eggcorn for deprecated   Benjamin Barrett
• Level up   Benjamin Barrett
• Level up   Benjamin Barrett
• How to say "either" and "neither"   Benjamin Barrett
• followed = has started following   Benjamin Barrett
• Cookery revival   Benjamin Barrett
• DOTI (downgrading of text initialisms)   Benjamin Barrett
• "animation"   Joel Berson
• FW: [lg policy] The great language change hoax   Joel S. Berson
• FW: [lg policy] The great language change hoax   Joel S. Berson
• Fwd: stroganoffed   Joel S. Berson
• stroganoffed   Joel S. Berson
• Richard III said: "My kingdom for a ..."   Joel S. Berson
• "two hundred"   Joel S. Berson
• slur & epithet, racially derogatory word   Joel S. Berson
• Hypothetical etymon of "diddybopping" PLUS N-word lore   Joel S. Berson
• Do I hear a retronym coming?   Joel S. Berson
• "sacred honour", "office of honour"   Joel S. Berson
• "sacred honour", "office of honour"   Joel S. Berson
• "sacred honour", "office of honour"   Joel S. Berson
• "sacred honour", "office of honour"   Joel S. Berson
• Condoms in the 18th century   Joel S. Berson
• Condoms in the 18th century   Joel S. Berson
• Condoms in Rochester   Joel S. Berson
• "Only When I Laugh!"   Joel S. Berson
• "anymore"   Joel S. Berson
• spelling bee   Joel S. Berson
• "anymore"   Joel S. Berson
• "anymore"   Joel S. Berson
• spelling bee (and spinning bee ~= buzzing?)   Joel S. Berson
• "apple-bee", 1846   Joel S. Berson
• The Powers That Be   Joel S. Berson
• ety of "damascus" steel   Joel S. Berson
• Level up   Joel S. Berson
• "looped in"   Joel S. Berson
• "institutions of higher earning"   Joel S. Berson
• "all things + NP"   Joel S. Berson
• Chex Mix   Joel S. Berson
• Antedating of "Zombie"   Joel S. Berson
• Antedating of "Vampire" (by another 3 days)   Joel S. Berson
• "gunfight" and "exchange of gunfire"   Joel S. Berson
• "digi[ta]lante"   Joel S. Berson
• "digi[ta]lante"   Joel S. Berson
• "gunfight" and "exchange of gunfire"   Joel S. Berson
• "gunfight" and "exchange of gunfire"   Joel S. Berson
• "gunfight" and "exchange of gunfire"   Joel S. Berson
• "Joker"   Joel S. Berson
• "Joker"   Joel S. Berson
• "gunfight" and "exchange of gunfire"   Joel S. Berson
• "bee" from buzzing rather than socializing?   Joel S. Berson
• "gunfight" and "exchange of gunfire"   Joel S. Berson
• "Joker"   Joel S. Berson
• "bee" from buzzing rather than socializing?   Joel S. Berson
• Exposed!: Famous ungrammatical quotes!   Joel S. Berson
• "Joker"   Joel S. Berson
• "gunfight" and "exchange of gunfire"   Joel S. Berson
• "Joker"   Joel S. Berson
• "Joker"   Joel S. Berson
• Researchers track evolution of Philly's odd accent   Joel S. Berson
• Researchers track evolution of Philly's odd accent   Joel S. Berson
• Spoonerisms in a book of children's poems   Joel S. Berson
• "Joker"   Joel S. Berson
• In re St. Louis English   Joel S. Berson
• cupping   Joel S. Berson
• cupping   Joel S. Berson
• etymology of chicano   Joel S. Berson
• etymology of chicano   Joel S. Berson
• "Joker"   Joel S. Berson
• "should/ would" opinions please   Joel S. Berson
• "should/ would" opinions please   Joel S. Berson
• "lignum vitae" -- figurative adjective, 1739   Joel S. Berson
• Origin of "framistat?"   W Brewer
• Morning Glory Road renamed due to sexual connotation   W Brewer
• The Powers That Be   W Brewer
• The Powers That Be   W Brewer
• ety of "damascus" steel   W Brewer
• QOTY   W Brewer
• Chex Mix   W Brewer
• Further Antedating of "Frisbee"   W Brewer
• Further Antedating of "Frisbee"   W Brewer
• "bugger" [bUg at r]?!   W Brewer
• How to say "either" and "neither"   W Brewer
• Further Antedating of "Frisbee"   W Brewer
• "Joker"   W Brewer
• "Joker"   W Brewer
• "bee" from buzzing rather than socializing?   W Brewer
• "bee" from buzzing rather than socializing?   W Brewer
• "Joker"   W Brewer
• "Joker"   W Brewer
• "Joker"   W Brewer
• conspiracy = "a theory of conspiracy"   W Brewer
• "Joker"   W Brewer
• "Joker"   W Brewer
• "Joker"   W Brewer
• "Joker"   W Brewer
• antedating of _wetback_ (1920)   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• FW: Paul Asch, leader of the original San Francisco jazz orchestra?   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• hot dogs -- recent newspaper article   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• FW: Why does Wikipedia have 1825 for "spelling bee"?   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• ety of "damascus" steel   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• Spoonerisms in a book of children's poems   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• "Joker"   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• etymology of chicano   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• Morning Glory Road renamed due to sexual connotation   David A. Daniel
• Morning Glory Road renamed due to sexual connotation   David A. Daniel
• QOTY   David A. Daniel
• FW: [lg policy] The great language change hoax   Charles C Doyle
• "animation"   Charles C Doyle
• Reverse graffito/graffiti   Charles C Doyle
• Morning Glory Road renamed due to sexual connotation   Charles C Doyle
• "When the going gets tough, …"   Charles C Doyle
• etymology of chicano   Charles C Doyle
• cupping   Charles C Doyle
• FW: etymology of chicano   Charles C Doyle
• "tactful" = 'tactical'?   Charles C Doyle
• 2nd attempt re "With Every Kind Regard"   Bethany Dumas
• "Joker"   Cleve Evans
• "Joker"   Cleve Evans
• "sacred honour", "office of honour"   Dan Goncharoff
• "sacred honour", "office of honour"   Dan Goncharoff
• "With Every Kind Regard"   Dan Goncharoff
• NYTimes -- repeating myths?   Dan Goncharoff
• "looped in"   Dan Goncharoff
• "digi[ta]lante"   Dan Goncharoff
• "gunfight" and "exchange of gunfire"   Dan Goncharoff
• QOTY candidate, or new wine in old bottles?   Dan Goncharoff
• Trespassers will be trespassed   Dan Goncharoff
• followed = has started following   Dan Goncharoff
• stroganoffed   Dan Goodman
• Origin of "framistat?"   Dan Goodman
• Origin of "framistat?"   Dan Goodman
• First Congressional Church   Dan Goodman
• Trespassers will be trespassed   Dan Goodman
• "icebox"   Dan Goodman
• material on the future of English?   Dan Goodman
• "Only When I Laugh!"   Stephen Goranson
• Antedating of "Zombie"   Stephen Goranson
• "mullet" hair 1994   Stephen Goranson
• slur & epithet, racially derogatory word   Wilson Gray
• "triage" (v.)   Wilson Gray
• "two hundred head o' nigger"   Wilson Gray
• Eggcorn(?) posted to a liberal Fb page by a conservative troll   Wilson Gray
• "two hundred"   Wilson Gray
• Slight antedatings of "whoopsie daisy" (1914, 1922)   Wilson Gray
• "used approvingly"   Wilson Gray
• "sacred honour", "office of honour"   Wilson Gray
• Heard: "I'm on _your guys's_ side." [NT]   Wilson Gray
• Heard: "I'm on _your guys's_ side." [NT]   Wilson Gray
• Morning Glory Road renamed due to sexual connotation   Wilson Gray
• "anymore"   Wilson Gray
• Morning Glory Road renamed due to sexual connotation   Wilson Gray
• Heard: "I'm on _your guys's_ side." [NT]   Wilson Gray
• Heard: "I'm on _your guys's_ side." [NT]   Wilson Gray
• How was your guys's days?   Wilson Gray
• Heard on TV show, "Awkward"   Wilson Gray
• "_deformation_ of character"   Wilson Gray
• Facebook: "break bad"   Wilson Gray
• "With Every Kind Regard"   Wilson Gray
• Heard on The Doctors: "biopsy a wallet"   Wilson Gray
• "gunfight" and "exchange of gunfire"   Wilson Gray
• "bugger" [bUg at r]?!   Wilson Gray
• "bugger" [bUg at r]?!   Wilson Gray
• "Joker"   Wilson Gray
• In re Pussy Drinks, Ltd   Wilson Gray
• "Joker"   Wilson Gray
• "Joker"   Wilson Gray
• Facebook: "gas _gosling_ vehicle" [NT]   Wilson Gray
• In re St. Louis English   Wilson Gray
• More trivial than "conspiracy"...   Wilson Gray
• weapons of mass destruction   Wilson Gray
• Trespassers will be trespassed   Wilson Gray
• How to say "either" and "neither"   Wilson Gray
• Said of a hiding cat:   Wilson Gray
• etymology of chicano   Wilson Gray
• cupping   Wilson Gray
• "Joker"   Wilson Gray
• etymology of chicano   Wilson Gray
• FW: etymology of chicano   Wilson Gray
• "Joker"   Wilson Gray
• cupping   Wilson Gray
• cupping   Wilson Gray
• cupping   Wilson Gray
• cupping   Wilson Gray
• cupping   Wilson Gray
• ice box, fridge, refrigerator, blinky   Wilson Gray
• "Boston Strong"   Wilson Gray
• etymology of chicano   Wilson Gray
• A Facebook friend noting a pet peeve   Wilson Gray
• Heard: "I'm on _your guys's_ side." [NT]   James Harbeck
• "When the going gets tough,."   Dave Hause
• Morning Glory Road renamed due to sexual connotation   Brian Hitchcock
• unless I missed it...   Laurence Horn
• Fwd: cross-post of interest from the Forensic Linguistics list   Laurence Horn
• "sacred honour", "office of honour"   Laurence Horn
• Morning Glory Road renamed due to sexual connotation   Laurence Horn
• Condoms in the 18th century   Laurence Horn
• Condoms in the 18th century   Laurence Horn
• Morning Glory Road renamed due to sexual connotation   Laurence Horn
• "anymore"   Laurence Horn
• Morning Glory Road renamed due to sexual connotation   Laurence Horn
• "apple-bee", 1846   Laurence Horn
• WOTY candidate (Dysphemism category?)   Laurence Horn
• Amazing = delicious   Laurence Horn
• The Powers That Be   Laurence Horn
• Antedating of "Chick Lit"   Laurence Horn
• QOTY   Laurence Horn
• "bugger" [bUg at r]?!   Laurence Horn
• Chex Mix   Laurence Horn
• Further Antedating of "Frisbee"   Laurence Horn
• "marabomber"   Laurence Horn
• "marabomber"   Laurence Horn
• How to say "either" and "neither"   Laurence Horn
• "digi[ta]lante"   Laurence Horn
• "Joker"   Laurence Horn
• Exposed!: Famous ungrammatical quotes!   Laurence Horn
• QOTY candidate, or new wine in old bottles?   Laurence Horn
• QOTY candidate, or new wine in old bottles?   Laurence Horn
• Exposed!: Famous ungrammatical quotes!   Laurence Horn
• "Joker"   Laurence Horn
• Facebook: "gas _gosling_ vehicle" [NT]   Laurence Horn
• Trespassers will be trespassed   Laurence Horn
• Trespassers will be trespassed   Laurence Horn
• "Joker"   Laurence Horn
• "Joker"   Laurence Horn
• In re St. Louis English   Laurence Horn
• "icebox"   Laurence Horn
• cupping   Laurence Horn
• etymology of chicano   Laurence Horn
• cupping   Laurence Horn
• etymology of chicano   Laurence Horn
• cupping   Laurence Horn
• "should/ would" opinions please   Laurence Horn
• cupping   Laurence Horn
• etymology of chicano   Laurence Horn
• "Joker"   Laurence Horn
• "Joker"   Laurence Horn
• A Facebook friend noting a pet peeve (UNCLASSIFIED)   Laurence Horn
• A Facebook friend noting a pet peeve (UNCLASSIFIED)   Laurence Horn
• Antedating of "hate someone's guts"   Hugo
• Antedating of "Dutch wife"   Hugo
• "With Every Kind Regard"   Hugo
• Level up   Hugo
• Antedatings of "chalk", verb   Hugo
• Antedatings of "canoodle"   Hugo
• Antedatings of "Scandihoovian"   Hugo
• Antedating of "Easter egg" (computing)   Hugo
• [lg policy] The great language change hoax   Paul Johnston
• Morning Glory Road renamed due to sexual connotation   Paul Johnston
• "bugger" [bUg at r]?!   Paul Johnston
• How to say "either" and "neither"   Paul Johnston
• In re St. Louis English   Paul Johnston
• "Joker"   Paul Johnston
• "icebox"   Paul Johnston
• etymology of chicano   Paul Johnston
• "Obama Phone" -- Reverse Orwellianism from the WP   Martin Kaminer
• slur & epithet, racially derogatory word   Margaret Lee
• slur & epithet, racially derogatory word   Margaret Lee
• Hypothetical etymon of "diddybopping" PLUS N-word lore   Margaret Lee
• Fw: American Dialect Map   Margaret Lee
• FW: [lg policy] The great language change hoax   Jonathan Lighter
• "triage" (v.)   Jonathan Lighter
• Engineering amazing   Jonathan Lighter
• antedating "joint" (prison)   Jonathan Lighter
• Engineering amazing   Jonathan Lighter
• reason = 'purpose'   Jonathan Lighter
• bop = 'bob (one's head) rhythmically'   Jonathan Lighter
• Hypothetical etymon of "diddybopping" PLUS N-word lore   Jonathan Lighter
• Be careful how you use the I-word   Jonathan Lighter
• "triage" (v.)   Jonathan Lighter
• "triage" (v.)   Jonathan Lighter
• Antedating of "hate someone's guts"   Jonathan Lighter
• political = 'revealing of attitudes or conditions or something'   Jonathan Lighter
• Spanish profanity   Jonathan Lighter
• "real time"   Jonathan Lighter
• Morning Glory Road renamed due to sexual connotation   Jonathan Lighter
• "Only When I Laugh!"   Jonathan Lighter
• "Only When I Laugh!"   Jonathan Lighter
• "When the going gets tough, …"   Jonathan Lighter
• "When the going gets tough,."   Jonathan Lighter
• "real time"   Jonathan Lighter
• "If a man speaks in the forest..."   Jonathan Lighter
• Amazing = delicious   Jonathan Lighter
• "blaze of glory"   Jonathan Lighter
• Cuchini   Jonathan Lighter
• "looped in"   Jonathan Lighter
• QOTY   Jonathan Lighter
• "blaze of glory"   Jonathan Lighter
• "all things + NP"   Jonathan Lighter
• "looped in"   Jonathan Lighter
• antedating: "living gale"   Jonathan Lighter
• a shimmer of herring   Jonathan Lighter
• a shimmer of herring   Jonathan Lighter
• "gunfight" and "exchange of gunfire"   Jonathan Lighter
• "gunfight" and "exchange of gunfire"   Jonathan Lighter
• "bugger" [bUg at r]?!   Jonathan Lighter
• Chex Mix   Jonathan Lighter
• QOTY   Jonathan Lighter
• "real time"   Jonathan Lighter
• "bugger" [bUg at r]?!   Jonathan Lighter
• "gunfight" and "exchange of gunfire"   Jonathan Lighter
• quotable   Jonathan Lighter
• How to say "either" and "neither"   Jonathan Lighter
• "gunfight" and "exchange of gunfire"   Jonathan Lighter
• "gunfight" and "exchange of gunfire"   Jonathan Lighter
• "gunfight" and "exchange of gunfire"   Jonathan Lighter
• "gunfight" and "exchange of gunfire"   Jonathan Lighter
• "gunfight" and "exchange of gunfire"   Jonathan Lighter
• "Joker"   Jonathan Lighter
• "Joker"   Jonathan Lighter
• weapons of mass destruction   Jonathan Lighter
• Exposed!: Famous ungrammatical quotes!   Jonathan Lighter
• Exposed!: Famous ungrammatical quotes!   Jonathan Lighter
• "Joker"   Jonathan Lighter
• "Joker"   Jonathan Lighter
• Exposed!: Famous ungrammatical quotes!   Jonathan Lighter
• "Joker"   Jonathan Lighter
• conspiracy = "a theory of conspiracy"   Jonathan Lighter
• powerful = 'showing great resilience or fortitude'   Jonathan Lighter
• conspiracy = "a theory of conspiracy"   Jonathan Lighter
• weapons of mass destruction   Jonathan Lighter
• yet another "fact"   Jonathan Lighter
• Southern consonant cluster collapse   Jonathan Lighter
• ice box, fridge, refrigerator, blinky   Jonathan Lighter
• etymology of chicano   Jonathan Lighter
• cupping   Jonathan Lighter
• year as adjective   Jonathan Lighter
• etymology of chicano   Jonathan Lighter
• year as adjective   Jonathan Lighter
• "tactful" = 'tactical'?   Jonathan Lighter
• "should/ would" opinions please   Jonathan Lighter
• powerful = 'showing great resilience or fortitude'   Jonathan Lighter
• McKinley/Denali   Jonathan Lighter
• "should/ would" opinions please   Jonathan Lighter
• "Joker"   Jonathan Lighter
• "Boston Strong"   Jonathan Lighter
• "should/ would" opinions please   Jonathan Lighter
• A Facebook friend noting a pet peeve   Jonathan Lighter
• mysterious; elusive; shadowy = 'declining to sit for on-air interviews'   Jonathan Lighter
• "eyeballs"   Jonathan Lighter
• A Facebook friend noting a pet peeve (UNCLASSIFIED)   Jonathan Lighter
• "icebox"   Jocelyn Limpert
• "should/ would" opinions please   Jocelyn Limpert
• ADS-L Digest - 26 Apr 2013 to 27 Apr 2013 (#2013-118)   Mailbox
• "Negro with two g's"   Mark Mandel
• etymology of chicano   Gregory McNamee
• test (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
• Antedatings of "Scandihoovian" (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
• inter/antedating "speculative fiction" (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
• A Facebook friend noting a pet peeve (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
• bop = 'bob (one's head) rhythmically'   Geoff Nathan
• unless I missed it...   Geoffrey Steven Nathan
• Morning Glory Road renamed due to sexual connotation   Geoffrey Steven Nathan
• How to say "either" and "neither"   Geoffrey Steven Nathan
• "Joker"   Geoffrey Steven Nathan
• DOTI (downgrading of text initialisms)   Geoffrey Steven Nathan
• How to say "either" and "neither"   Barbara Need
• etymology of chicano   Michael Newman
• etymology of chicano   Michael Newman
• Morning Glory Road renamed due to sexual connotation   Eric Nielsen
• "icebox"   Eric Nielsen
• slur & epithet, racially derogatory word   Geoffrey Nunberg
• slur & epithet, racially derogatory word   Geoffrey Nunberg
• slur & epithet, racially derogatory word   Geoffrey Nunberg
• slur & epithet, racially derogatory word   Geoffrey Nunberg
• spelling bee   Geoffrey Nunberg
• conspiracy = "a theory of conspiracy"   Geoffrey Nunberg
• I am the civilization you are fighting for.   Dan Nussbaum
• Quote: I am that civilization you are fighting for. (April 20, 1914)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Quote: I am that civilization you are fighting for. (April 20, 1914)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Antedating of "hate someone's guts"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Slate article on martini poem attributed to Dorothy Parker   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Quote: It seems as if anything I like is either illegal or immoral or fattening. (Frank Rand attrib Sept 16, 1933)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Quote: It seems as if anything I like is either illegal or immoral or fattening. (Frank Rand attrib Sept 16, 1933)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• FW: Paul Asch, leader of the original San Francisco jazz orchestra?   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Joke: I'm looking here because the light is better (1932)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• "When the going gets tough, …"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• "When the going gets tough, …"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Joke: I'm looking here because the light is better (1932)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• "When the going gets tough, …"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Antedating of Speed (=Methamphetamine)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Antedating of Speed (=Methamphetamine)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• WOTY candidate (Dysphemism category?)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• WOTY candidate (Dysphemism category?)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• FW: Why does Wikipedia have 1825 for "spelling bee"?   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Anecdote: Eugenic potential of love child: Isadora Duncan and Anatole France (1923) (common variant involves George Bernard Shaw)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Heard on The Doctors: "biopsy a wallet"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• quotable   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Cocteau Quote About Dictionaries   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Cocteau Quote About Dictionaries   ADSGarson O'Toole
• No subject   PL
• "should/ would" opinions please   Jim Parish
• stroganoffed   Sarah
• Fwd: stroganoffed   Sarah
• Shameless Plug: Yale Book of Quotations / Dictionary of Modern Proverbs App   Shapiro, Fred
• Yale Book of Quotations App Promotion   Shapiro, Fred
• Antedating of "Chick Lit"   Shapiro, Fred
• Antedating of "Zombie"   Shapiro, Fred
• Further Antedating of "Frisbee"   Shapiro, Fred
• Antedating of "Vampire"   Shapiro, Fred
• Exposed!: Famous ungrammatical quotes!   Shapiro, Fred
• Cocteau Quote About Dictionaries   Shapiro, Fred
• "mullet" hair 1994   Jesse Sheidlower
• cringe and aw   Herb Stahlke
• Heard: "I'm on _your guys's_ side." [NT]   Herb Stahlke
• How to say "Boston"   Herb Stahlke
• How to say "Boston"   Herb Stahlke
• What is "phonetics" in the Common Core   Herb Stahlke
• Exposed!: Famous ungrammatical quotes!   Herb Stahlke
• "icebox"   Herb Stahlke
• FW: [lg policy] The great language change hoax   Victor Steinbok
• stroganoffed   Victor Steinbok
• foul mouth   Victor Steinbok
• self-descriptive euphemism   Victor Steinbok
• eggcorn (of sorts)   Victor Steinbok
• Bad WOTD   Victor Steinbok
• Bad WOTD   Victor Steinbok
• cupping   Victor Steinbok
• Cuddle Rape   Victor Steinbok
• ety of "damascus" steel   Victor Steinbok
• Level up   Victor Steinbok
• Level up   Victor Steinbok
• Cuchini   Victor Steinbok
• "bugger" [bUg at r]?!   Victor Steinbok
• "gunfight" and "exchange of gunfire"   Victor Steinbok
• "marabomber"   Victor Steinbok
• "marabomber"   Victor Steinbok
• "marabomber"   Victor Steinbok
• "digi[ta]lante"   Victor Steinbok
• "gunfight" and "exchange of gunfire"   Victor Steinbok
• "Joker"   Victor Steinbok
• weapons of mass destruction   Victor Steinbok
• "Joker"   Victor Steinbok
• weapons of mass destruction   Victor Steinbok
• "gunfight" and "exchange of gunfire"   Victor Steinbok
• "Joker"   Victor Steinbok
• "Joker"   Victor Steinbok
• "Joker"   Victor Steinbok
• ice box, fridge, refrigerator, blinky   Victor Steinbok
• cupping   Victor Steinbok
• cupping   Victor Steinbok
• Slight antedatings of "whoopsie daisy" (1914, 1922)   Bonnie Taylor-Blake
• "When the going gets tough,."   George Thompson
• The mysterious disappearance of "of course" (along with "to be sure", "naturally", and a few others of that ilk).   George Thompson
• Who knows what prescriptivism lurks in the hearts of men?   George Thompson
• Morning Glory Road renamed due to sexual connotation   Benjamin Torbert
• Heard: "I'm on _your guys's_ side." [NT]   Benjamin Torbert
• The Powers That Be   Benjamin Torbert
• Antedating of "Chick Lit"   Benjamin Torbert
• How to say "either" and "neither"   Benjamin Torbert
• "icebox"   Benjamin Torbert
• A Facebook friend noting a pet peeve (UNCLASSIFIED)   Benjamin Torbert
• stroganoffed   Amy West
• stroganoffed   Amy West
• OT: ety of "damascus" steel   Amy West
• "Joker"   Amy West
• "Joker"   Amy West
• "Joker"   Amy West
• slur & epithet, racially derogatory word   Neal Whitman
• Possible timely VT topic   Neal Whitman
• Possible timely VT topic   Neal Whitman
• How was your guys's days?   Neal Whitman
• Amazing = delicious   Neal Whitman
• Trespassers will be trespassed   Neal Whitman
• Trespassers will be trespassed   Neal Whitman
• material on the future of English?   Neal Whitman
• "should/ would" opinions please   Douglas G. Wilson
• "sacred honour", "office of honour"   Dave Wilton
• "sacred honour", "office of honour"   Dave Wilton
• "sacred honour", "office of honour"   Dave Wilton
• The Powers That Be   Dave Wilton
• The Powers That Be   Dave Wilton
• "Boston Strong"   Dave Wilton
• stroganoffed   Ben Zimmer
• Engineering amazing   Ben Zimmer
• Engineering amazing   Ben Zimmer
• Condoms in the 18th century   Ben Zimmer
• "When the going gets tough, "   Ben Zimmer
• "When the going gets tough, …"   Ben Zimmer
• spelling bee (1850), spelling match (1808, 1831)   Ben Zimmer
• Antedating of Speed (=Methamphetamine)   Ben Zimmer
• Level up   Ben Zimmer
• "marabomber"   Ben Zimmer
• "gunfight" and "exchange of gunfire"   Ben Zimmer
• conspiracy = "a theory of conspiracy"   Ben Zimmer
• followed = has started following   Ben Zimmer
• "Boston Strong"   Ben Zimmer
• DOTI (downgrading of text initialisms)   Ben Zimmer
• Eight bizarre sounds you might have made   Tom Zurinskas
• coulda woulda shouda part II   Tom Zurinskas
• How to say "Boston"   Tom Zurinskas
• How to say "Boston"   Tom Zurinskas
• What is "phonetics" in the Common Core   Tom Zurinskas
• How to say "either" and "neither"   Tom Zurinskas
• How to say "either" and "neither"   Tom Zurinskas
• How to say "either" and "neither"   Tom Zurinskas
• "Joker" - bomber's names in ~truespel   Tom Zurinskas
• Hey, an English linguistics journal comes to China!   Tom Zurinskas
• How to say "either" and "neither"   Tom Zurinskas
• from the movies "either/neither"   Tom Zurinskas
• either and neither   Tom Zurinskas
• [lg policy] The great language change hoax   Arnold Zwicky
• sexual terminology   Arnold Zwicky
• "When the going gets tough, …"   Arnold Zwicky
• "anymore"   Arnold Zwicky
• Possible timely VT topic   Arnold Zwicky
• "bugger" [bUg at r]?!   Arnold Zwicky
• etymology of chicano   Arnold Zwicky
• etymology of chicano   Arnold Zwicky
• year-date as modifier   Arnold Zwicky
• etymology of chicano   Arnold Zwicky
• more on chicano   Arnold Zwicky
• Morning Glory Road renamed due to sexual connotation   paul johnson
• Joke: I'm looking here because the light is better (1932)   paul johnson
• "icebox"   paul johnson

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