December 2013 Archives by thread
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Ending: Tue Dec 31 20:50:12 UTC 2013
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- Random Notes For WOTY #4
David Barnhart
- Thirteen and the odd
W Brewer
- snowplow parent(ing)
Ben Zimmer
- Twitter's loved and hated words (WOTY: thot, bae, ratchet)
Hugo van Kemenade
- Random Notes for WOTY #6
David Barnhart
- Random Note For WOTY #7
David Barnhart
- Updating the American Dialect Society Media Contact List
Grant Barrett
- dronejacking, etc. in Nexis
David Barnhart
- dronejacking on GOOGLE
David Barnhart
- The California Vowel Shift
Tom Zurinskas
- Preliminary sked for 2014 American Dialect Society meeting in Minneapolis
Grant Barrett
- Heard: an instance of BE "will be done V-ed NP"
John Doe
- Random Note For WOTY #8
David Barnhart
- Social Promotion in schools
Benjamin Torbert
- Quote: Not to mourn him but to make sure he was dead (1952)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Random Note on WOTY #9
David Barnhart
- Quote: Give 'em what they want. (George Jessel March 8, 1942)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- "Big Nate" should be X-rated?
Joel S. Berson
- "grewd loaseness"
Joel S. Berson
- not QOTY but borders on nonapology apology
Victor Steinbok
- "vaping"
Dan Goncharoff
- Random Note for WOTY #10
David Barnhart
- Random Note for WOTY #11
David Barnhart
- EOTY candidate?
Laurence Horn
- Use of "city desk" in Upper Midwest
Mailbox
- Rating Wiseman's new documentary, "At Berkeley"
Joel S. Berson
- a nice verb: "truffle"
George Thompson
- "bee[N] good friends," "a[N] get a good job," "the[N] go home," etc.
John Doe
- Ugly Sweater Cookie Mix
Dan Goodman
- Quote: You cannot fool all the people all the time (Jacques Abbadie; Prohibitionists)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Stretching the domain of life
W Brewer
- Text Stop
Dave Wilton
- Fwd: some fun with ngram (when was the term "chief information officer" first used?
Geoffrey Steven Nathan
- Tall latte
Mark Mandel
- WOTY candidate?
Victor Steinbok
- truffle is ....
David Barnhart
- Digital DARE is now available
Joan H. Hall
- how soon they forget
Laurence Horn
- (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
- Google voice recognition goofs amazingly
Geoffrey Steven Nathan
- It's amaze
Benjamin Barrett
- Random Notes for WOTY: #12
David Barnhart
- amaze
David Barnhart
- "physio[g]notrace, 1797; antedates OED3 1822--
Joel S. Berson
- Install and installation
Benjamin Barrett
- Google ngram
Joel S. Berson
- eggcorn in the wild: pedistool
Laurence Horn
- Random Notes for WOTY: #13
David Barnhart
- Word: affluenza
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Fwd: [Child-Pharm] "Concerta" generic - colors
Dan Nussbaum
- [Child-Pharm] "Concerta" generic - colors
Dan Goncharoff
- affluenza
David Barnhart
- Automatic reply: Install and installation
Hunter, Lynne R CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-PACIFIC, 71700
- because N on Salon
Herb Stahlke
- Blue Christmas (not the song)
Neal Whitman
- "embrace the suck"
Ben Zimmer
- "finance" as verb and noun
Tom Zurinskas
- "Better to have the camel on the inside ...", mutatis mutandis
Joel S. Berson
- colder than a witch's kiss
W Brewer
- Karl Marx "Last Words"
Shapiro, Fred
- "adjectiver than"
John Doe
- brand = 'public image and reputation'
Jonathan Lighter
- U.S. Military Lingo: The (Almost) Definitive Guide
John Doe
- "The race is not to the swift..."
Jonathan Lighter
- colder than a witch's kiss (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- "Your Character Wouldn't Say That"
Dan Goodman
- Query: Speech of a long-lived Texan vampire
Dan Goodman
- Wagner-Tomlin Language-Genesis Theory
Jonathan Lighter
- Explanation of Big Apple NYC name
ADSGarson O'Toole
- "Bet a fat man"
John Doe
- "0 for 2013"
Jonathan Lighter
- Early (?) /a/ for /C/
Jonathan Lighter
- "screw the pooch"
Ben Zimmer
- "screw the pooch" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- An FB-ism: "This hit me right in the feels."
John Doe
- affluenza - screwing the pooch
David A. Daniel
- FW: Modern War Words???
David Barnhart
- Heard: inference "in-FURrance"
John Doe
- war words; smoke
paul johnson
- Egypt to try fmr president
W Brewer
- Automatic reply: ADS-L Digest - 17 Dec 2013 to 18 Dec 2013 (#2013-350)
Lynne Murphy
- X & I's
Victor Steinbok
- Antedatings of "shoo-in"
Hugo
- Random Note for WOTY #15
David Barnhart
- Random Note for WOTY: #15 1/2
David Barnhart
- [PW] Famous Relativity Limerick - request 1937 article in The Observer UK
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Chikungunya!
Jonathan Lighter
- Parallel syntactic structures and the twitterpocalypse
ADSGarson O'Toole
- "crazy cottage"?
Joel S. Berson
- Faux leather
victor steinbok
- useless eggs
Neal Whitman
- Retronym alert ("Physical store")
Laurence Horn
- Word: Slobberknocker, Slobberknockered
ADSGarson O'Toole
- The Web of Language Word of the Year for 2013 is "marriage"
Baron, Dennis E
- Random Note for WOTY: #16
David Barnhart
- Call for nominations for Name(s) of the Year
Cleve Evans
- Random Note for WOTY: #17
David Barnhart
- Screwed the duck
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- Automatic reply: ADS-L Digest - 19 Dec 2013 to 20 Dec 2013 (#2013-352)
Damien Hall
- humble brag
Victor Steinbok
- Caribbean Newspapers Online
Shapiro, Fred
- "The Big Apple" -- one more incorrect etymology
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Period language in "12 Years a Slave": "soft soap", "clean shirt"
Joel S. Berson
- substitute for
Jonathan Lighter
- Fun with phrases: "You're/ I'm worth it!"
Jonathan Lighter
- the new "euphemism"
George Thompson
- Antedating of "Transvestite"
Shapiro, Fred
- OT: substitute for
Joel S. Berson
- Reminisce (noun)
W Brewer
- [caduceus-l] History of phrase "bench to bedside"
Joel S. Berson
- CSI Miami dialogue
John Doe
- Random Note for WOTY: #18
David Barnhart
- Facebook, again.
John Doe
- Merry Mondegreen!
Herb Stahlke
- Further antedatings: "liberty tree", "tree of liberty" (but still 1765)
Joel S. Berson
- "camera-mounted drone" or ...?
Joel S. Berson
- Surprise dance
Benjamin Barrett
- Plural adjective to avoid unintended meaning
Benjamin Barrett
- Graph the popularity of words over time with Ngram Viewer
Tom Zurinskas
- Ngram -- absolute numbers and false positives
Joel S. Berson
- "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
- Subsiding health care (an hapax)
W Brewer
- <Reminisce> (noun)
W Brewer
- "The stroll"
Donald McCaig
- Further Antedating of "Spoonerism"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Chauvinist"
Shapiro, Fred
- Further Antedatings of "Patriotism"
Shapiro, Fred
- 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
- "[grand?] foquet", 1793, not in OED
John Doe
- "[grand?] foquet", 1793, not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- "[grand?] foquet", 1793, not in OED
W Brewer
- "[grand?] foquet", 1793, not in OED
Spanbock/Svoboda-Spanbock
- "[grand?] foquet", 1793, not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- "[grand?] foquet", 1793, not in OED
W Brewer
- A shibboleth noted in the NYT
Wilson Gray
- Random Note for WOTY: #19
David Barnhart
- 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: #20
David Barnhart
- "Johnny Foreigner"
Hugo
- split-fingered>>>
Victor Steinbok
- Question: Big C, cancer, and John Wayne
ADSGarson O'Toole
- "Black Monday" for coaches
Dan Goncharoff
- Is the English-speaking world entirely urban?
Dan Goodman
- Random Note for WOTY: #21
David Barnhart
- "mojo..........box" 1924 (?)
Stephen Goranson
- "FOR SALE, MOJO GUM" June 13, 1914
Stephen Goranson
- two postings
Arnold Zwicky
- "Totes Amazeballs" cereal [Re: two postings]
Christopher Philippo
- -strong
Peter Richardson
- Random Note on WOTY: #22
David Barnhart
- Engineering amazing
Jonathan Lighter
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