August 2013 Archives by thread
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- Yellow Journalism
Wilson Gray
- chink in the armor
Victor Steinbok
- Weather = bad weather
W Brewer
- two WOTY candidates for the price of one (or none)
Laurence Horn
- False facts on Visual Thesaurus
ADSGarson O'Toole
- "Stuffing" the Ballot Boxes
George Thompson
- Snap thief
George Thompson
- " … hollowed be Thy Name …"
Wilson Gray
- "drone" history
Ben Zimmer
- YouTube video: It's Finally Ironic - parody of Alanis Morissette song
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Backward-formed "truck chase"
Victor Steinbok
- Crash blossom?
Wilson Gray
- More English-creep
Wilson Gray
- antedating mulligan stew OED 1898
sclements at NEO.RR.COM
- gallon, tempo
Victor Steinbok
- new language discovered in remote Australia
David A. Daniel
- Targeting immigrants for deportion
Joel S. Berson
- Quote: If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. - Comment on YBQ
ADSGarson O'Toole
- "Bob's your uncle" maybe antedated to 1924?
Stephen Goranson
- ramen burger ontology
Victor Steinbok
- ramen burger ontology--OT
Geoffrey Steven Nathan
- ramen burger ontology-- even more OT
Geoff Nathan
- Hyphenation stage disappearing?
Benjamin Barrett
- the nit and gritty
Victor Steinbok
- Kitty-corner (Re: the nit and gritty)
Benjamin Barrett
- Trivial article on phrase-books of old
Wilson Gray
- Facebook Span[gl]ish
Wilson Gray
- East India Pale Ale antedating and other musings
Victor Steinbok
- FW: lots of hyphenation here
David Barnhart
- KamelBuchstaben
Joel S. Berson
- new eggcorn
Victor Steinbok
- How many names DOES this food have?
Dan Goodman
- The plain facts
Joel S. Berson
- ice to Eskimos
Victor Steinbok
- Street numbers
Joel S. Berson
- egg 'n bread
David Barnhart
- eggie in a basket
David Barnhart
- Antedatings of "toad in the hole"
Hugo
- Automatic reply: Antedatings of "toad in the hole"
Steve Richardson
- Phrase: distracted walking (hypothesized cause of pedestrian deaths)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- movie ruined the book
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Singular "they" on Facebook
Dave Wilton
- Perhaps of interest: "Coalspeak" of NE PA
Wilson Gray
- Gingerism, gingerphobia
Benjamin Barrett
- Ginger and Re: Gingerism, gingerphobia
Benjamin Barrett
- more on _ginger_ = redhead
David Barnhart
- and a little further down in eOED
David Barnhart
- chatter
Victor Steinbok
- how to talk Boston
Tom Zurinskas
- follow the chatter
David Barnhart
- suppository??
David Barnhart
- The phonic frequency of typical text/speech?
Tom Zurinskas
- Antedating of "Oral Sex"
Mark Mandel
- Rundi
Benjamin Torbert
- Popular adages updated (Doghousediaries)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Defecate (was Re: suppository??)
Neal Whitman
- Alphamnemonics
W Brewer
- Automatic reply: ADS-L Digest - 11 Aug 2013 to 12 Aug 2013 (#2013-224)
Lynne Murphy
- OT? "Motorist killed by dead flying deer"
Joel S. Berson
- Wisconsin Talk, compiled by our own Joe Salmons (and two others)
Wilson Gray
- Deathbed Quote: This Is No Time for Making New Enemies
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Antedatings of PB & J
Hugo
- 18-day antedating of "peanut butter"
Hugo
- Further Antedating of "Peanut Butter"
Shapiro, Fred
- Decarcerate, excarcerate
Dave Wilton
- "Three recent theories of 'kibosh'"...
Stephen Goranson
- I'm as pure as the driven slush. (Tallulah Bankhead 1941)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- mispronunciation=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=94a_?=strange development for slang
Wilson Gray
- A logical extension, I reckon
Wilson Gray
- Coworkers with/colleagues with (was: Re: A logical extension, I reckon)
Neal Whitman
- “substitute X for Y”
Mailbox
- "substitute X for Y"
Mailbox
- "Violence has peaked its head"
Mark Mandel
- Literally
Brenda Lester
- Make X born
Benjamin Barrett
- Reversed "in proportion to"?
Joel S. Berson
- Dialect split
Wilson Gray
- Facebook: "Well, _scissor_ me timbers!"
Wilson Gray
- Census reports on the languages in USA
Tom Zurinskas
- 31,500 words a day????
David Barnhart
- Q: "penny-fort" (not in OED): Something new, or just a "pinafore"?
Joel S. Berson
- an early kibosh--Ki'bosh--Feb. 1, 1835
Stephen Goranson
- "Indian summer", 1798 & (in French) 1803
Joel S. Berson
- Most Notable Quotations of 2013 So Far?
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Indian Summer"
Shapiro, Fred
- More on Origin of "Indian Summer"
Shapiro, Fred
- on "dope"/"doping"
Ben Zimmer
- Is "now, ..." the new "well, ..."?
Joel S. Berson
- Now, Lindsay Lohan listens
Joel S. Berson
- "really _hanous_ things"
Wilson Gray
- Antedating of "Bat Out of Hell"
Hugo
- Antedatings of "go=?windows-1252?Q?=FBt_?=de terroir"?
Hugo
- The gamut gambit
David A. Daniel
- Q: "swear by forty"& "slab"(adj), 1831
Joel S. Berson
- Cottonelle "Bum Wipes"
Dan Goncharoff
- Q: "Turn the double corner"; and not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- "hus" ("husband"), not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- "bucktail" (member of a Democratic-Republican party faction), 1818 or 1823; not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- Fb: "I guess you Obama cult worshippers worship a _half-read_ then???"
Wilson Gray
- merchants who go sailing, from today's NYTimes
George Thompson
- "shuggie-shue", n., 1775
Joel S. Berson
- Counting by 10s vs. 20s
Joel S. Berson
- (Off topic) Garson O'Toole on Google Plus and website
ADSGarson O'Toole
- You can take the boy out of the 'hood …
Wilson Gray
- "Reverse" replaces "override"
Wilson Gray
- Quote of the Year? Word of the year? Joke of the year?
Joel S. Berson
- Antedating of "Black Jack" (Card Game)
Shapiro, Fred
- Further Antedating of "Black Jack" (Card Game)
Shapiro, Fred
- Still Further Antedating of "Black Jack" (Card Game)
Shapiro, Fred
- Automatische Antwort: ADS-L Digest - 22 Aug 2013 to 23 Aug 2013 (#2013-235)
Julia Ulrich
- post-verbing: hammocking
Victor Steinbok
- chic'
Herb Stahlke
- Q: "to huck" = "bother, harass verbally"?
Joel S. Berson
- Fb: "Measles was all but _stomped_ out."
Wilson Gray
- "to huck" = "bother, harass verbally"?
Susan Frank
- Antedating of "from the top"
Hugo
- "text" = pp of "tex"
Mailbox
- NYT Online post: "[His] blog _reads_ of jealousy and _envyness_." [NT]
Wilson Gray
- Fwd: ▲ Avicenne Business School : MBA et Masters ▲
Dan Goodman
- Post to blog, Valleywag, commenting on earlier post
Wilson Gray
- Unsuscribe
Steve Richardson
- Del
Jesse Sheidlower
- crash blossom in main NYT article
Laurence Horn
- Hasan
Victor Steinbok
- dumpling
Victor Steinbok
- Einstein on bees, revisited
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Antedating of "selfie"
Hugo
- Dating of "click and collect"
Hugo
- 6-day antedating of "cybersquatter"
Hugo
- financial "bubble"
Ben Zimmer
- Antedating of "derp"
Hugo
- Dating of "digital detox"
Hugo
- Antedating of "hackerspace"
Hugo
- Joke: is tweeting at work considered twerking? (Nov 23 2011)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- query
Brenda Lester
- ? !
Baker, John
- Fwd: Re: query
Douglas G. Wilson
- Concierge doctors
Neal Whitman
- duck face in 1904
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Hypercorrection in Facebook
Wilson Gray
- Antedating of "Colonialism"
Shapiro, Fred
- Another "nearly" from the wrong side
Joel S. Berson
- Past, now, future
Dan Goncharoff
- Snowclone deflation
Victor Steinbok
- "Difficult Languages"
David A. Daniel
- 95-year antedating of "high and dry"
Hugo
- Antedating of "to cut a corners"
Hugo
- Antedating of "tl;dr"
Hugo
- new word?
Spanbock/Svoboda-Spanbock
- "Baby killing trial prosecutor: Video doesn't lie"
Joel S. Berson
- The Dame of Dictionaries
Shapiro, Fred
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