December 2013 Archives by author
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- Social Promotion in schools
Baker, John
- Random Notes For WOTY #4
David Barnhart
- Random Notes for WOTY #6
David Barnhart
- Random Note For WOTY #7
David Barnhart
- dronejacking, etc. in Nexis
David Barnhart
- dronejacking on GOOGLE
David Barnhart
- Random Note For WOTY #8
David Barnhart
- Random Note on WOTY #9
David Barnhart
- Random Note for WOTY #10
David Barnhart
- Random Note for WOTY #11
David Barnhart
- truffle is ....
David Barnhart
- Random Notes for WOTY: #12
David Barnhart
- amaze
David Barnhart
- Random Notes for WOTY: #13
David Barnhart
- affluenza
David Barnhart
- FW: Modern War Words???
David Barnhart
- Random Note for WOTY #15
David Barnhart
- Random Note for WOTY: #15 1/2
David Barnhart
- Random Note for WOTY: #16
David Barnhart
- Random Note for WOTY: #17
David Barnhart
- Random Note for WOTY: #18
David Barnhart
- Random Note for WOTY: #19
David Barnhart
- Random Note for WOTY: #20
David Barnhart
- Random Note for WOTY: #21
David Barnhart
- Random Note on WOTY: #22
David Barnhart
- The Web of Language Word of the Year for 2013 is "marriage"
Baron, Dennis E
- Stretching the domain of life
Benjamin Barrett
- Text Stop
Benjamin Barrett
- It's amaze
Benjamin Barrett
- It's amaze
Benjamin Barrett
- Install and installation
Benjamin Barrett
- Install and installation
Benjamin Barrett
- Egypt to try fmr president
Benjamin Barrett
- substitute for
Benjamin Barrett
- Surprise dance
Benjamin Barrett
- Plural adjective to avoid unintended meaning
Benjamin Barrett
- Plural adjective to avoid unintended meaning
Benjamin Barrett
- Plural adjective to avoid unintended meaning
Benjamin Barrett
- "... grades on _a_ curve."
Benjamin Barrett
- Updating the American Dialect Society Media Contact List
Grant Barrett
- Preliminary sked for 2014 American Dialect Society meeting in Minneapolis
Grant Barrett
- "Big Nate" should be X-rated?
Joel S. Berson
- "grewd loaseness"
Joel S. Berson
- Random Note on WOTY #9
Joel S. Berson
- "Big Nate" should be X-rated?
Joel S. Berson
- Rating Wiseman's new documentary, "At Berkeley"
Joel S. Berson
- Text Stop
Joel S. Berson
- truffle is ....
Joel S. Berson
- truffle is ....
Joel S. Berson
- "physio[g]notrace, 1797; antedates OED3 1822--
Joel S. Berson
- Google ngram
Joel S. Berson
- Google ngram
Joel S. Berson
- "Better to have the camel on the inside ...", mutatis mutandis
Joel S. Berson
- colder than a witch's kiss
Joel S. Berson
- colder than a witch's kiss
Joel S. Berson
- colder than a witch's kiss
Joel S. Berson
- Query: Speech of a long-lived Texan vampire
Joel S. Berson
- affluenza
Joel S. Berson
- "crazy cottage"?
Joel S. Berson
- "crazy cottage"?
Joel S. Berson
- Period language in "12 Years a Slave": "soft soap", "clean shirt"
Joel S. Berson
- "The Big Apple" -- one more incorrect etymology
Joel S. Berson
- Rating Wiseman's new documentary, "At Berkeley"
Joel S. Berson
- substitute for
Joel S. Berson
- Period language in "12 Years a Slave": "soft soap", "clean shirt"
Joel S. Berson
- substitute for
Joel S. Berson
- the new "euphemism"
Joel S. Berson
- Antedating of "Transvestite"
Joel S. Berson
- OT: substitute for
Joel S. Berson
- the new "euphemism"
Joel S. Berson
- [caduceus-l] History of phrase "bench to bedside"
Joel S. Berson
- the new "euphemism"
Joel S. Berson
- Further antedatings: "liberty tree", "tree of liberty" (but still 1765)
Joel S. Berson
- Further antedatings: "liberty tree", "tree of liberty" (but still 1765)
Joel S. Berson
- "camera-mounted drone" or ...?
Joel S. Berson
- Plural adjective to avoid unintended meaning
Joel S. Berson
- Ngram -- absolute numbers and false positives
Joel S. Berson
- "... grades on _a_ curve."
Joel S. Berson
- Subsiding health care (an hapax)
Joel S. Berson
- Subsiding health care (an hapax)
Joel S. Berson
- Subsiding health care (an hapax)
Joel S. Berson
- Further [on] "Patriotism"
Joel S. Berson
- "clean conveyance" and "cups and balls" -- not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- "laptot", not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- "[grand?] foquet", 1793, not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- "The stroll"
Joel S. Berson
- "[grand?] foquet", 1793, not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- A shibboleth noted in the NYT
Joel S. Berson
- "The stroll"
Joel S. Berson
- "[grand?] foquet", 1793, not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- Quote: I know only two tunes; one is Yankee Doodle, and the other isn't. (U. S. Grant variant Lincoln)
Joel S. Berson
- Quote: I know only two tunes; one is Yankee Doodle, and the other isn't. (U. S. Grant variant Lincoln)
Joel S. Berson
- Thirteen and the odd
W Brewer
- "Big Nate" should be X-rated?
W Brewer
- "vaping"
W Brewer
- Stretching the domain of life
W Brewer
- Stretching the domain of life
W Brewer
- Text Stop
W Brewer
- Install and installation
W Brewer
- Install and installation
W Brewer
- colder than a witch's kiss
W Brewer
- colder than a witch's kiss
W Brewer
- colder than a witch's kiss
W Brewer
- colder than a witch's kiss
W Brewer
- colder than a witch's kiss (UNCLASSIFIED)
W Brewer
- Egypt to try fmr president
W Brewer
- FW: Modern War Words???
W Brewer
- Egypt to try fmr president
W Brewer
- Egypt to try fmr president
W Brewer
- Egypt to try fmr president
W Brewer
- Antedating of "Transvestite"
W Brewer
- the new "euphemism"
W Brewer
- the new "euphemism"
W Brewer
- Reminisce (noun)
W Brewer
- the new "euphemism"
W Brewer
- "camera-mounted drone" or ...?
W Brewer
- Merry Mondegreen!
W Brewer
- Subsiding health care (an hapax)
W Brewer
- <Reminisce> (noun)
W Brewer
- Subsiding health care (an hapax)
W Brewer
- "Today would have been our fifth_-year_ anniversary."
W Brewer
- Subsiding health care (an hapax)
W Brewer
- "[grand?] foquet", 1793, not in OED
W Brewer
- "[grand?] foquet", 1793, not in OED
W Brewer
- "vaping"
Galen Buttitta
- Egypt to try fmr president
Galen Buttitta
- Plural adjective to avoid unintended meaning
Galen Buttitta
- Explanation of Big Apple NYC name
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "The Big Apple" -- one more incorrect etymology
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- dronejacking, etc. in Nexis
David A. Daniel
- "Big Nate" should be X-rated?
David A. Daniel
- "Big Nate" should be X-rated?
David A. Daniel
- colder than a witch's kiss
David A. Daniel
- affluenza - screwing the pooch
David A. Daniel
- Heard: an instance of BE "will be done V-ed NP"
John Doe
- "grewd loaseness"
John Doe
- "bee[N] good friends," "a[N] get a good job," "the[N] go home," etc.
John Doe
- "adjectiver than"
John Doe
- Karl Marx "Last Words"
John Doe
- U.S. Military Lingo: The (Almost) Definitive Guide
John Doe
- "Bet a fat man"
John Doe
- An FB-ism: "This hit me right in the feels."
John Doe
- An FB-ism: "This hit me right in the feels."
John Doe
- Heard: inference "in-FURrance"
John Doe
- FW: Modern War Words???
John Doe
- Faux leather
John Doe
- "crazy cottage"?
John Doe
- the new "euphemism"
John Doe
- the new "euphemism"
John Doe
- CSI Miami dialogue
John Doe
- Facebook, again.
John Doe
- "The stroll"
John Doe
- "[grand?] foquet", 1793, not in OED
John Doe
- Further Antedating of "Spoonerism"
John Doe
- "Better to have the camel on the inside ...", mutatis mutandis
Charles C Doyle
- Call for nominations for Name(s) of the Year
Cleve Evans
- "vaping"
Dan Goncharoff
- "vaping"
Dan Goncharoff
- not QOTY but borders on nonapology apology
Dan Goncharoff
- "grewd loaseness"
Dan Goncharoff
- not QOTY but borders on nonapology apology
Dan Goncharoff
- Text Stop
Dan Goncharoff
- It's amaze
Dan Goncharoff
- [Child-Pharm] "Concerta" generic - colors
Dan Goncharoff
- Install and installation
Dan Goncharoff
- Blue Christmas (not the song)
Dan Goncharoff
- Parallel syntactic structures and the twitterpocalypse
Dan Goncharoff
- Random Note for WOTY: #19
Dan Goncharoff
- "Black Monday" for coaches
Dan Goncharoff
- Ugly Sweater Cookie Mix
Dan Goodman
- colder than a witch's kiss
Dan Goodman
- "Your Character Wouldn't Say That"
Dan Goodman
- Query: Speech of a long-lived Texan vampire
Dan Goodman
- Is the English-speaking world entirely urban?
Dan Goodman
- Query: Speech of a long-lived Texan vampire
Dan Goodman
- Query: Speech of a long-lived Texan vampire
Dan Goodman
- Further Antedating of "Spoonerism"
Stephen Goranson
- "mojo..........box" 1924 (?)
Stephen Goranson
- "FOR SALE, MOJO GUM" June 13, 1914
Stephen Goranson
- "Today would have been our fifth_-year_ anniversary."
Wilson Gray
- "Things _do_ have changed in the past few years."
Wilson Gray
- "... grades on _a_ curve."
Wilson Gray
- A shibboleth noted in the NYT
Wilson Gray
- Automatic reply: ADS-L Digest - 19 Dec 2013 to 20 Dec 2013 (#2013-352)
Damien Hall
- Digital DARE is now available
Joan H. Hall
- "Better to have the camel on the inside ...", mutatis mutandis
Dave Hause
- Faux leather
Dave Hause
- "... grades on _a_ curve."
Dave Hause
- substitute for
Brian Hitchcock
- Thirteen and the odd
Laurence Horn
- Random Note For WOTY #7
Laurence Horn
- Random Note For WOTY #7
Laurence Horn
- Random Note For WOTY #7
Laurence Horn
- "Big Nate" should be X-rated?
Laurence Horn
- not QOTY but borders on nonapology apology
Laurence Horn
- "vaping"
Laurence Horn
- not QOTY but borders on nonapology apology
Laurence Horn
- EOTY candidate?
Laurence Horn
- a nice verb: "truffle"
Laurence Horn
- truffle is ....
Laurence Horn
- how soon they forget
Laurence Horn
- Install and installation
Laurence Horn
- eggcorn in the wild: pedistool
Laurence Horn
- Install and installation
Laurence Horn
- Install and installation
Laurence Horn
- Install and installation
Laurence Horn
- colder than a witch's kiss
Laurence Horn
- Karl Marx "Last Words"
Laurence Horn
- colder than a witch's kiss
Laurence Horn
- colder than a witch's kiss
Laurence Horn
- "Better to have the camel on the inside ...", mutatis mutandis
Laurence Horn
- "0 for 2013"
Laurence Horn
- affluenza
Laurence Horn
- "screw the pooch"
Laurence Horn
- "screw the pooch"
Laurence Horn
- Antedatings of "shoo-in"
Laurence Horn
- X & I's
Laurence Horn
- Random Note for WOTY #15
Laurence Horn
- Retronym alert ("Physical store")
Laurence Horn
- Parallel syntactic structures and the twitterpocalypse
Laurence Horn
- "The Big Apple" -- one more incorrect etymology
Laurence Horn
- "The Big Apple" -- one more incorrect etymology
Laurence Horn
- substitute for
Laurence Horn
- the new "euphemism"
Laurence Horn
- the new "euphemism"
Laurence Horn
- substitute for
Laurence Horn
- Antedating of "Transvestite"
Laurence Horn
- the new "euphemism"
Laurence Horn
- the new "euphemism"
Laurence Horn
- Further antedatings: "liberty tree", "tree of liberty" (but still 1765)
Laurence Horn
- Further antedatings: "liberty tree", "tree of liberty" (but still 1765)
Laurence Horn
- Merry Mondegreen!
Laurence Horn
- Merry Mondegreen!
Laurence Horn
- "... grades on _a_ curve."
Laurence Horn
- "... grades on _a_ curve."
Laurence Horn
- Random Note for WOTY: #19
Laurence Horn
- Question: Big C, cancer, and John Wayne
Laurence Horn
- "vaping"
Hugo
- Blue Christmas (not the song)
Hugo
- Antedatings of "shoo-in"
Hugo
- "Johnny Foreigner"
Hugo
- Automatic reply: Install and installation
Hunter, Lynne R CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-PACIFIC, 71700
- Twitter's loved and hated words (WOTY: thot, bae, ratchet)
Hugo van Kemenade
- Stretching the domain of life
Jonathan Lighter
- Quote: You cannot fool all the people all the time (Jacques Abbadie; Prohibitionists)
Jonathan Lighter
- Stretching the domain of life
Jonathan Lighter
- Anecdote: There=?windows-1252?Q?=92s_?=got to be a pony somewhere. (February 1953)
Jonathan Lighter
- brand = 'public image and reputation'
Jonathan Lighter
- "Better to have the camel on the inside ...", mutatis mutandis
Jonathan Lighter
- colder than a witch's kiss
Jonathan Lighter
- "The race is not to the swift..."
Jonathan Lighter
- "The race is not to the swift..."
Jonathan Lighter
- Wagner-Tomlin Language-Genesis Theory
Jonathan Lighter
- Query: Speech of a long-lived Texan vampire
Jonathan Lighter
- "0 for 2013"
Jonathan Lighter
- Early (?) /a/ for /C/
Jonathan Lighter
- "Bet a fat man"
Jonathan Lighter
- affluenza
Jonathan Lighter
- "0 for 2013"
Jonathan Lighter
- affluenza - screwing the pooch
Jonathan Lighter
- affluenza
Jonathan Lighter
- affluenza
Jonathan Lighter
- "screw the pooch"
Jonathan Lighter
- "screw the pooch"
Jonathan Lighter
- FW: Modern War Words???
Jonathan Lighter
- FW: Modern War Words???
Jonathan Lighter
- Chikungunya!
Jonathan Lighter
- Screwed the duck
Jonathan Lighter
- substitute for
Jonathan Lighter
- Fun with phrases: "You're/ I'm worth it!"
Jonathan Lighter
- substitute for
Jonathan Lighter
- the new "euphemism"
Jonathan Lighter
- the new "euphemism"
Jonathan Lighter
- substitute for
Jonathan Lighter
- "The stroll"
Jonathan Lighter
- "The stroll"
Jonathan Lighter
- "... grades on _a_ curve."
Jonathan Lighter
- CSI Miami dialogue
Jonathan Lighter
- "The stroll"
Jonathan Lighter
- Random Note for WOTY: #19
Jonathan Lighter
- Engineering amazing
Jonathan Lighter
- "... grades on _a_ curve."
Jocelyn Limpert
- Use of "city desk" in Upper Midwest
Mailbox
- Tall latte
Mark Mandel
- "The stroll"
Donald McCaig
- colder than a witch's kiss (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- "screw the pooch" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- "screw the pooch"
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- Word: Slobberknocker, Slobberknockered
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- Quote: I know only two tunes; one is Yankee Doodle, and the other isn't. (U. S. Grant variant Lincoln)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- Random Note for WOTY: #19
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- "clean conveyance" and "cups and balls" -- not in OED
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- Automatic reply: ADS-L Digest - 17 Dec 2013 to 18 Dec 2013 (#2013-350)
Lynne Murphy
- Fwd: some fun with ngram (when was the term "chief information officer" first used?
Geoffrey Steven Nathan
- Google voice recognition goofs amazingly
Geoffrey Steven Nathan
- "... grades on _a_ curve."
Eric Nielsen
- the new "euphemism"
Geoffrey Nunberg
- Fwd: [Child-Pharm] "Concerta" generic - colors
Dan Nussbaum
- [Child-Pharm] "Concerta" generic - colors
Dan Nussbaum
- Thirteen and the odd
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Random Notes for WOTY #6
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Social Promotion in schools
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Quote: Not to mourn him but to make sure he was dead (1952)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Quote: Give 'em what they want. (George Jessel March 8, 1942)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Quote: You cannot fool all the people all the time (Jacques Abbadie; Prohibitionists)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Quote: You cannot fool all the people all the time (Jacques Abbadie; Prohibitionists)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- (Off topic) Remarkable evidence of reincarnation embedded in Wikipedia
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Anecdote: There=?windows-1252?Q?=92s_?=got to be a pony somewhere. (February 1953)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Word: affluenza
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Word: affluenza
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Word: affluenza
ADSGarson O'Toole
- colder than a witch's kiss
ADSGarson O'Toole
- colder than a witch's kiss
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Explanation of Big Apple NYC name
ADSGarson O'Toole
- "screw the pooch" (UNCLASSIFIED)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- "screw the pooch"
ADSGarson O'Toole
- "screw the pooch"
ADSGarson O'Toole
- "screw the pooch"
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Random Note for WOTY #15
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [PW] Famous Relativity Limerick - request 1937 article in The Observer UK
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [PW] Famous Relativity Limerick - request 1937 article in The Observer UK
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Parallel syntactic structures and the twitterpocalypse
ADSGarson O'Toole
- "crazy cottage"?
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Word: Slobberknocker, Slobberknockered
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Word: Slobberknocker, Slobberknockered
ADSGarson O'Toole
- the new "euphemism"
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Quote: I know only two tunes; one is Yankee Doodle, and the other isn't. (U. S. Grant variant Lincoln)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Random Note for WOTY: #19
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Question: Big C, cancer, and John Wayne
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Quote: I know only two tunes; one is Yankee Doodle, and the other isn't. (U. S. Grant variant Lincoln)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Quote: I know only two tunes; one is Yankee Doodle, and the other isn't. (U. S. Grant variant Lincoln)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- "Black Monday" for coaches
ADSGarson O'Toole
- a nice verb: "truffle"
Christopher Philippo
- Text Stop
Christopher Philippo
- Text Stop
Christopher Philippo
- It's amaze
Christopher Philippo
- Word: affluenza
Christopher Philippo
- Word: Slobberknocker, Slobberknockered
Christopher Philippo
- "Totes Amazeballs" cereal [Re: two postings]
Christopher Philippo
- Install and installation
Peter Richardson
- -strong
Peter Richardson
- colder than a witch's kiss
William Salmon
- Social Promotion in schools
Shapiro, Fred
- Karl Marx "Last Words"
Shapiro, Fred
- Caribbean Newspapers Online
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Transvestite"
Shapiro, Fred
- Further Antedating of "Spoonerism"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Chauvinist"
Shapiro, Fred
- Further Antedatings of "Patriotism"
Shapiro, Fred
- Social Promotion in schools
Jesse Sheidlower
- Word: affluenza
Jesse Sheidlower
- Period language in "12 Years a Slave": "soft soap", "clean shirt"
Sissy SoFunk
- Stretching the domain of life
Spanbock/Svoboda-Spanbock
- "[grand?] foquet", 1793, not in OED
Spanbock/Svoboda-Spanbock
- Install and installation
Herb Stahlke
- because N on Salon
Herb Stahlke
- affluenza - screwing the pooch
Herb Stahlke
- Merry Mondegreen!
Herb Stahlke
- Social Promotion in schools
Victor Steinbok
- Social Promotion in schools
Victor Steinbok
- Quote: Give 'em what they want. (George Jessel March 8, 1942)
Victor Steinbok
- not QOTY but borders on nonapology apology
Victor Steinbok
- not QOTY but borders on nonapology apology
Victor Steinbok
- WOTY candidate?
Victor Steinbok
- because N on Salon
Victor Steinbok
- affluenza
Victor Steinbok
- FW: Modern War Words???
Victor Steinbok
- X & I's
Victor Steinbok
- Egypt to try fmr president
Victor Steinbok
- X & I's
Victor Steinbok
- Faux leather
Victor Steinbok
- humble brag
Victor Steinbok
- humble brag
Victor Steinbok
- Random Note for WOTY: #18
Victor Steinbok
- split-fingered>>>
Victor Steinbok
- Screwed the duck
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- a nice verb: "truffle"
George Thompson
- truffle is ....
George Thompson
- truffle is ....
George Thompson
- the new "euphemism"
George Thompson
- the new "euphemism"
George Thompson
- Merry Mondegreen!
George Thompson
- Social Promotion in schools
Benjamin Torbert
- Social Promotion in schools
Benjamin Torbert
- Text Stop
Amy West
- It's amaze
Amy West
- Random Note For WOTY #7
Neal Whitman
- Blue Christmas (not the song)
Neal Whitman
- X & I's
Neal Whitman
- useless eggs
Neal Whitman
- Merry Mondegreen!
Neal Whitman
- Graph the popularity of words over time with Ngram Viewer
Neal Whitman
- "screw the pooch"
Douglas G. Wilson
- "screw the pooch"
Douglas G. Wilson
- Text Stop
Dave Wilton
- Text Stop
Dave Wilton
- FW: Modern War Words???
Dave Wilton
- affluenza - screwing the pooch
Dave Wilton
- snowplow parent(ing)
Ben Zimmer
- Random Note For WOTY #7
Ben Zimmer
- Random Note For WOTY #7
Ben Zimmer
- It's amaze
Ben Zimmer
- It's amaze
Ben Zimmer
- "embrace the suck"
Ben Zimmer
- "screw the pooch"
Ben Zimmer
- "screw the pooch" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Ben Zimmer
- An FB-ism: "This hit me right in the feels."
Ben Zimmer
- Antedatings of "shoo-in"
Ben Zimmer
- Word: Slobberknocker, Slobberknockered
Ben Zimmer
- humble brag
Ben Zimmer
- Period language in "12 Years a Slave": "soft soap", "clean shirt"
Ben Zimmer
- Merry Mondegreen!
Ben Zimmer
- Random Note for WOTY: #19
Ben Zimmer
- The California Vowel Shift
Tom Zurinskas
- "finance" as verb and noun
Tom Zurinskas
- Call for nominations for Name(s) of the Year
Tom Zurinskas
- Graph the popularity of words over time with Ngram Viewer
Tom Zurinskas
- Graph the popularity of words over time with Ngram Viewer
Tom Zurinskas
- X & I's
Arnold Zwicky
- Plural adjective to avoid unintended meaning
Arnold Zwicky
- Random Note for WOTY: #20
Arnold Zwicky
- two postings
Arnold Zwicky
- Quote: Not to mourn him but to make sure he was dead (1952)
paul johnson
- affluenza
paul johnson
- war words; smoke
paul johnson
- Question: Big C, cancer, and John Wayne
paul johnson
- affluenza
victor steinbok
- Faux leather
victor steinbok
- the new "euphemism"
wh5mith
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