April 2013 Archives by thread
Starting: Mon Apr 1 08:51:01 UTC 2013
Ending: Tue Apr 30 21:27:48 UTC 2013
Messages: 527
- FW: [lg policy] The great language change hoax
David Barnhart
- "triage" (v.)
Jonathan Lighter
- "animation"
Charles C Doyle
- slur & epithet, racially derogatory word
Geoffrey Nunberg
- [lg policy] The great language change hoax
Arnold Zwicky
- unless I missed it...
Laurence Horn
- Reverse graffito/graffiti
Charles C Doyle
- stroganoffed
Ben Zimmer
- Engineering amazing
Jonathan Lighter
- sexual terminology
Arnold Zwicky
- antedating "joint" (prison)
Jonathan Lighter
- antedating of _wetback_ (1920)
David Barnhart
- Eight bizarre sounds you might have made
Tom Zurinskas
- Fwd: stroganoffed
Sarah
- reason = 'purpose'
Jonathan Lighter
- bop = 'bob (one's head) rhythmically'
Jonathan Lighter
- Slight antedatings of "whoopsie daisy" (1914, 1922)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- Quote: I am that civilization you are fighting for. (April 20, 1914)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- I am the civilization you are fighting for.
Dan Nussbaum
- foul mouth
Victor Steinbok
- Hypothetical etymon of "diddybopping" PLUS N-word lore
Jonathan Lighter
- Richard III said: "My kingdom for a ..."
Joel S. Berson
- Be careful how you use the I-word
Jonathan Lighter
- "two hundred head o' nigger"
Wilson Gray
- "two hundred"
Joel S. Berson
- Shameless Plug: Yale Book of Quotations / Dictionary of Modern Proverbs App
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "hate someone's guts"
Hugo
- Antedating of "Dutch wife"
Hugo
- Do I hear a retronym coming?
Joel S. Berson
- Eggcorn(?) posted to a liberal Fb page by a conservative troll
Wilson Gray
- Origin of "framistat?"
Dan Goodman
- Fwd: cross-post of interest from the Forensic Linguistics list
Laurence Horn
- "Negro with two g's"
Mark Mandel
- "used approvingly"
Wilson Gray
- political = 'revealing of attitudes or conditions or something'
Jonathan Lighter
- self-descriptive euphemism
Victor Steinbok
- "sacred honour", "office of honour"
Joel S. Berson
- "sacred honour", "office of honour"
Baker, John
- "sacred honour", "office of honour"
Dave Wilton
- "sacred honour", "office of honour"
Wilson Gray
- "sacred honour", "office of honour"
Laurence Horn
- "sacred honour", "office of honour"
Joel S. Berson
- "sacred honour", "office of honour"
Dave Wilton
- "sacred honour", "office of honour"
Dan Goncharoff
- "sacred honour", "office of honour"
Dave Wilton
- "sacred honour", "office of honour"
Dan Goncharoff
- "sacred honour", "office of honour"
Joel S. Berson
- "sacred honour", "office of honour"
Baker, John
- "sacred honour", "office of honour"
Joel S. Berson
- Slate article on martini poem attributed to Dorothy Parker
ADSGarson O'Toole
- eggcorn (of sorts)
Victor Steinbok
- Quote: It seems as if anything I like is either illegal or immoral or fattening. (Frank Rand attrib Sept 16, 1933)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Spanish profanity
Jonathan Lighter
- Morning Glory Road renamed due to sexual connotation
Brian Hitchcock
- cringe and aw
Herb Stahlke
- "Obama Phone" -- Reverse Orwellianism from the WP
Martin Kaminer
- Condoms in the 18th century
Joel S. Berson
- "real time"
Jonathan Lighter
- FW: Paul Asch, leader of the original San Francisco jazz orchestra?
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Condoms in Rochester
Joel S. Berson
- Joke: I'm looking here because the light is better (1932)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Heard: "I'm on _your guys's_ side." [NT]
Wilson Gray
- "Only When I Laugh!"
Jonathan Lighter
- hot dogs -- recent newspaper article
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "When the going gets tough, …"
Arnold Zwicky
- "When the going gets tough, "
Ben Zimmer
- "When the going gets tough,."
Dave Hause
- spelling bee (1850), spelling match (1808, 1831)
Ben Zimmer
- "anymore"
Joel S. Berson
- spelling bee
Joel S. Berson
- The mysterious disappearance of "of course" (along with "to be sure", "naturally", and a few others of that ilk).
George Thompson
- spelling bee (and spinning bee ~= buzzing?)
Joel S. Berson
- Antedating of Speed (=Methamphetamine)
Baker, John
- "apple-bee", 1846
Joel S. Berson
- Yale Book of Quotations App Promotion
Shapiro, Fred
- Possible timely VT topic
Neal Whitman
- WOTY candidate (Dysphemism category?)
Laurence Horn
- No subject
PL
- "If a man speaks in the forest..."
Jonathan Lighter
- FW: Why does Wikipedia have 1825 for "spelling bee"?
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- How was your guys's days?
Neal Whitman
- Amazing = delicious
Neal Whitman
- Heard on TV show, "Awkward"
Wilson Gray
- The Powers That Be
Benjamin Torbert
- Bad WOTD
Victor Steinbok
- "_deformation_ of character"
Wilson Gray
- 2nd attempt re "With Every Kind Regard"
Bethany Dumas
- "With Every Kind Regard"
Hugo
- cupping
Victor Steinbok
- Cuddle Rape
Victor Steinbok
- OT: ety of "damascus" steel
Amy West
- NYTimes -- repeating myths?
Dan Goncharoff
- First Congressional Church
Dan Goodman
- Depreciated - eggcorn for deprecated
Benjamin Barrett
- ety of "damascus" steel
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Antedating of "Chick Lit"
Shapiro, Fred
- Facebook: "break bad"
Wilson Gray
- Anecdote: Eugenic potential of love child: Isadora Duncan and Anatole France (1923) (common variant involves George Bernard Shaw)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Level up
Benjamin Barrett
- Cuchini
Victor Steinbok
- "blaze of glory"
Jonathan Lighter
- "looped in"
Jonathan Lighter
- QOTY
Jonathan Lighter
- "institutions of higher earning"
Joel S. Berson
- "all things + NP"
Jonathan Lighter
- coulda woulda shouda part II
Tom Zurinskas
- antedating: "living gale"
Jonathan Lighter
- a shimmer of herring
Jonathan Lighter
- "gunfight" and "exchange of gunfire"
Jonathan Lighter
- How to say "Boston"
Tom Zurinskas
- Heard on The Doctors: "biopsy a wallet"
Wilson Gray
- "bugger" [bUg at r]?!
Wilson Gray
- Fw: American Dialect Map
Margaret Lee
- Chex Mix
W Brewer
- Antedating of "Zombie"
Shapiro, Fred
- Further Antedating of "Frisbee"
Shapiro, Fred
- What is "phonetics" in the Common Core
Tom Zurinskas
- Antedating of "Vampire"
Shapiro, Fred
- "marabomber"
Laurence Horn
- How to say "either" and "neither"
Tom Zurinskas
- Antedating of "Vampire" (by another 3 days)
Joel S. Berson
- quotable
Jonathan Lighter
- "digi[ta]lante"
Joel S. Berson
- etymology of chicano
Michael Newman
- "Joker"
Joel S. Berson
- Spoonerisms in a book of children's poems
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- weapons of mass destruction
Victor Steinbok
- "bee" from buzzing rather than socializing?
Joel S. Berson
- "Joker" - bomber's names in ~truespel
Tom Zurinskas
- Exposed!: Famous ungrammatical quotes!
Jonathan Lighter
- QOTY candidate, or new wine in old bottles?
Laurence Horn
- In re Pussy Drinks, Ltd
Wilson Gray
- Facebook: "gas _gosling_ vehicle" [NT]
Wilson Gray
- Hey, an English linguistics journal comes to China!
Tom Zurinskas
- Trespassers will be trespassed
Neal Whitman
- conspiracy = "a theory of conspiracy"
Jonathan Lighter
- powerful = 'showing great resilience or fortitude'
Jonathan Lighter
- Researchers track evolution of Philly's odd accent
Joel S. Berson
- test (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- followed = has started following
Benjamin Barrett
- In re St. Louis English
Wilson Gray
- Who knows what prescriptivism lurks in the hearts of men?
George Thompson
- More trivial than "conspiracy"...
Wilson Gray
- Said of a hiding cat:
Wilson Gray
- "icebox"
Dan Goodman
- material on the future of English?
Dan Goodman
- ice box, fridge, refrigerator, blinky
David K. Barnhart
- Antedatings of "chalk", verb
Hugo
- yet another "fact"
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedatings of "canoodle"
Hugo
- Antedatings of "Scandihoovian"
Hugo
- Southern consonant cluster collapse
Jonathan Lighter
- year as adjective
Jonathan Lighter
- ADS-L Digest - 26 Apr 2013 to 27 Apr 2013 (#2013-118)
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- FW: etymology of chicano
Charles C Doyle
- "tactful" = 'tactical'?
Charles C Doyle
- year-date as modifier
Arnold Zwicky
- "should/ would" opinions please
Jonathan Lighter
- more on chicano
Arnold Zwicky
- McKinley/Denali
Jonathan Lighter
- Cookery revival
Benjamin Barrett
- Antedating of "Easter egg" (computing)
Hugo
- from the movies "either/neither"
Tom Zurinskas
- Antedatings of "Scandihoovian" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- either and neither
Tom Zurinskas
- inter/antedating "speculative fiction" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- "lignum vitae" -- figurative adjective, 1739
Joel S. Berson
- A Facebook friend noting a pet peeve
Wilson Gray
- mysterious; elusive; shadowy = 'declining to sit for on-air interviews'
Jonathan Lighter
- "eyeballs"
Jonathan Lighter
- A Facebook friend noting a pet peeve (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- DOTI (downgrading of text initialisms)
Benjamin Barrett
- Cocteau Quote About Dictionaries
Shapiro, Fred
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