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Starting: Fri Feb 1 00:54:06 UTC 2013
Ending: Thu Feb 28 22:35:00 UTC 2013
Messages: 662

• electronic child molesters   James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
• Antedating of "Finalize"   James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
• pronunciation of "derecho"   James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
• storm names   James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
• Wo/Man   James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
• assorted   James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
• "to sweat [something] out" -- 146-year antedating, I hope   James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
• a little pubicity for Fred   Maria Immacolata Amorelli
• Futurize   Baker, John
• Team names (UNCLASSIFIED)   Baker, John
• Weather.com Storm Names (Was RE: OT: Saturday 11:30 AM - 26 inches)   Baker, John
• Antedating of "Hijack" / "Hijacking"   Baker, John
• assorted   Baker, John
• "to sweat [something] out" -- 146-year antedating, I hope   Baker, John
• OT: Friday 8:51 p.m. --- 5 1/2 inches   David Barnhart
• Seen today in a dictionary (1941) ....   David Barnhart
• WOTY 2013?   David Barnhart
• Gender-neutral language in state laws   Hollis Barnhart
• triage   Benjamin Barrett
• triage   Benjamin Barrett
• Koban - 1839 and 1903   Benjamin Barrett
• Koban - 1839 and 1903   Benjamin Barrett
• A Word for the Dictionaries: "Unconference"   Benjamin Barrett
• Koban - 1839 and 1903   Benjamin Barrett
• "Blow me up"   Benjamin Barrett
• "Blow me up"   Benjamin Barrett
• Gender-neutral language in state laws   Benjamin Barrett
• Teaspoon   Benjamin Barrett
• epiphany and satori   Benjamin Barrett
• epiphany and satori   Benjamin Barrett
• "He BE working. He just don't STAY working."   Benjamin Barrett
• "He BE working. He just don't STAY working."   Benjamin Barrett
• Kaizen (verb)   Benjamin Barrett
• Kaizen (verb) - 1988   Benjamin Barrett
• big (h)omo   Benjamin Barrett
• frog in the well   Benjamin Barrett
• Curious   Benjamin Barrett
• Turkish   Joel S. Berson
• diacritical marks on ADS-L   Joel S. Berson
• triage   Joel S. Berson
• Koban - 1839 and 1903   Joel S. Berson
• A double negative from a Cardinal   Joel S. Berson
• Antedating of "Cubism"   Joel S. Berson
• Team names   Joel S. Berson
• overnegation again   Joel S. Berson
• "Half the battle", and exploding brain   Joel S. Berson
• "gun in your pocket"   Joel S. Berson
• "gun in your pocket"   Joel S. Berson
• Potential player names (was? Team names)   Joel S. Berson
• Slogan: When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have them. (December 21 1967)   Joel S. Berson
• "Ancestor" redux   Joel S. Berson
• "Ancestor" redux   Joel S. Berson
• mock-up   Joel S. Berson
• mock-up   Joel S. Berson
• mock-up   Joel S. Berson
• Enhanced on   Joel S. Berson
• mock-up   Joel S. Berson
• Another non-apology   Joel S. Berson
• mock-up and the two Richards   Joel S. Berson
• Antedating of "Crossword" (Courtesy of Mr. Will Shortz)   Joel S. Berson
• Q: "Crossword" needs another definition in the OED?   Joel S. Berson
• Is this good usage?   Joel S. Berson
• OT: Friday 8:51 p.m. --- 5 1/2 inches   Joel S. Berson
• OT: Saturday 11:30 AM - 26 inches   Joel S. Berson
• Q: "to use" = "to do" in the 18th century?   Joel S. Berson
• Rule by children -- not for the OED   Joel S. Berson
• Antedating of "Crossword" (Courtesy of Mr. Will Shortz)   Joel S. Berson
• OT: The great snow of 2013   Joel S. Berson
• "to use" = "to do" in the 18th century?   Joel S. Berson
• Will the Mali war lead to a film remake?   Joel S. Berson
• Help reading a 1735 Boston newspaper   Joel S. Berson
• OT: Saturday 11:30 AM - 26 inches   Joel S. Berson
• "Book bible"   Joel S. Berson
• Weather.com Storm Names   Joel S. Berson
• the FBI's Monitory Crime Division   Joel S. Berson
• "Book bible"   Joel S. Berson
• "Book bible" -- not in OED   Joel S. Berson
• Help reading a 1735 Boston newspaper   Joel S. Berson
• Weather.com Storm Names   Joel S. Berson
• fumetti   Joel S. Berson
• Antedating of "Hijack" / "Hijacking"   Joel S. Berson
• Antedating of "Hijack" / "Hijacking"   Joel S. Berson
• Antedating of "Hijack" / "Hijacking"   Joel S. Berson
• Eggcorn: "point fun at"   Joel S. Berson
• "Benjamite", 1722   Joel S. Berson
• "Benjamite", 1722 (misinterpreted, but still a useful interdating)   Joel S. Berson
• on blizzards (sharp blows)   Joel S. Berson
• Mastermind: How to Think like Sherlock Holmes   Joel S. Berson
• Mastermind: How to Think like Sherlock Holmes   Joel S. Berson
• OT: Saturday 11:30 AM - 26 inches   Joel S. Berson
• The precise terminology of modern science   Joel S. Berson
• A, V, or M; also "bigger vs. larger"   Joel S. Berson
• "Gay" in 1933   Joel S. Berson
• "Gay" in 1933; also "author's sexuality"   Joel S. Berson
• "Sissies, fairies, pansies gay"   Joel S. Berson
• breadboxes and boulders, oh my   Joel S. Berson
• "Sissies, fairies, pansies gay"   Joel S. Berson
• antedating "donkey"   Joel S. Berson
• antedating "donkey"   Joel S. Berson
• "allatration" 1724; not in OED   Joel S. Berson
• infamous = 'talked-about; popular'   Joel S. Berson
• infamous = 'talked-about; popular'   Joel S. Berson
• "off ice"   Joel S. Berson
• infamous = 'talked-about; popular'   Joel S. Berson
• "off ice"   Joel S. Berson
• infamous = 'talked-about; popular'   Joel S. Berson
• Heard: "loci" with [k]   Joel S. Berson
• "to sweat [something] out" -- 146-year antedating, I hope   Joel S. Berson
• Heard: "loci" with [k]   Joel S. Berson
• Heard: "loci" with [k]   Joel S. Berson
• "to sweat [something] out" -- 146-year antedating, I hope   Joel S. Berson
• "Sliders" are haute cousine   Joel S. Berson
• "Sliders" are haute cousine   Joel S. Berson
• "Sliders" are haute cousine   Joel S. Berson
• "Condescension"   Joel S. Berson
• shocked = 'pleasantly surprised'   Joel S. Berson
• early "typhoid fever", 1793   Joel S. Berson
• "famous, infamous"   Joel S. Berson
• famous town   Joel S. Berson
• The new "herbal"   Joel S. Berson
• triage   W Brewer
• triage   W Brewer
• diacritical marks WAS Re: Word (Phrase?) of the Year (so far)?; Rambo'd (UNCLASSIFIED)   W Brewer
• triage   W Brewer
• triage   W Brewer
• latest "-er" conspiracist: "skeeter"   W Brewer
• triage   W Brewer
• FB: "This guy is a real live _fire_." [NT]   W Brewer
• triage   W Brewer
• Major Antedating of "Concentration Camp"   W Brewer
• Team names   W Brewer
• triage   W Brewer
• fumetti (UNCLASSIFIED)   W Brewer
• Eggcorn: "point fun at"   W Brewer
• Today's quote   W Brewer
• quixotic 'chaotic'   W Brewer
• quixotic 'chaotic'   W Brewer
• Neuticles (most unnecessary candidate?)   W Brewer
• infamous = 'talked-about; popular'   W Brewer
• "off ice"   W Brewer
• "dice with death"   W Brewer
• Heard: "loci" with [k]   W Brewer
• Heard: "loci" with [k]   W Brewer
• Heard: "loci" with [k]   W Brewer
• Antedating of "MILF"   W Brewer
• Major Antedating of "Concentration Camp"   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• Major Antedating of "Concentration Camp"   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• Antedating of "Hijack" / "Hijacking"   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• Antedating of "Hijack" / "Hijacking"   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• Team names   Charles C Doyle
• Teaspoon   Charles C Doyle
• "to use" = "to do" in the 18th century?   Charles C Doyle
• Eggcorn: "point fun at"   Charles C Doyle
• "sleep tight"   Charles C Doyle
• antedating "donkey"   Charles C Doyle
• OT: Saturday 11:30 AM - 26 inches   Michael Everson
• OT: Saturday 11:30 AM - 26 inches   Michael Everson
• OT: Saturday 11:30 AM - 26 inches   Alice Faber
• diacritical marks WAS Re: Word (Phrase?) of the Year (so far)?; Rambo'd (UNCLASSIFIED)   Dan Goncharoff
• diacritical marks WAS Re: Word (Phrase?) of the Year (so far)?; Rambo'd (UNCLASSIFIED)   Dan Goncharoff
• Antedating of "Sorority"   Dan Goncharoff
• Futurize   Dan Goncharoff
• diacritical marks WAS Re: Word (Phrase?) of the Year (so far)?; Rambo'd (UNCLASSIFIED)   Dan Goncharoff
• Antedating of "Sorority"   Dan Goncharoff
• "Half the battle"   Dan Goncharoff
• "gun in your pocket"   Dan Goncharoff
• "Half the battle"   Dan Goncharoff
• mock-up   Dan Goncharoff
• mock-up   Dan Goncharoff
• mock-up   Dan Goncharoff
• or are you just happy to see me?   Dan Goncharoff
• Earliest Known Occurrence of the Term "Hot Dog" Pushed Back to, 1886, (Corrected Citation)   Dan Goncharoff
• Antedating of "Crossword" (Courtesy of Mr. Will Shortz)   Dan Goncharoff
• Q: "Crossword" needs another definition in the OED?   Dan Goncharoff
• Antedating of "Leftist"   Dan Goncharoff
• Question about fascinating insightful adage coined by Ludwig Boerne and originally expressed in German   Dan Goncharoff
• OT: Saturday 11:30 AM - 26 inches   Dan Goncharoff
• "Book bible" (UNCLASSIFIED)   Dan Goncharoff
• fresh = '(of restaurant food) not fresh but not yet stale; of ordinary quality.   Dan Goncharoff
• Antedating of "Hijack" / "Hijacking"   Dan Goncharoff
• Still Further Antedating of "Hijack" / "Hijacking"   Dan Goncharoff
• "Benjamite", 1722   Dan Goncharoff
• on blizzards and infixes   Dan Goncharoff
• Mastermind: How to Think like Sherlock Holmes   Dan Goncharoff
• "sleep tight"   Dan Goncharoff
• "MoneyMoney 2.0.9 - _German_ banking application" [NT]   Dan Goncharoff
• Antedating of "MILF"   Dan Goncharoff
• diacritical marks WAS Re: Word (Phrase?) of the Year (so far)?; Rambo'd (UNCLASSIFIED)   Stephen Goranson
• antedating "hobbit"   Stephen Goranson
• xenophobia antedated (1887)   Stephen Goranson
• "put you hep" 1903 (antedating?)   Stephen Goranson
• Antedating of "Limerick"   Stephen Goranson
• skeptical about "buck" ("1856")   Stephen Goranson
• cowardly adverb   Gordon, Matthew J.
• diacritical marks WAS Re: Word (Phrase?) of the Year (so far)?; Rambo'd (UNCLASSIFIED)   Wilson Gray
• 1916 cites for "jazz" (Day Book, Daily Illini)   Wilson Gray
• Word (Phrase?) of the Year (so far)?; Rambo'd   Wilson Gray
• Dialogue   Wilson Gray
• Geezer Lingo Banned   Wilson Gray
• diacritical marks on ADS-L   Wilson Gray
• diacritical marks on ADS-L   Wilson Gray
• Flash fiction: For sale: baby shoes, never worn. Did Ernest Hemingway write these famous six words?   Wilson Gray
• "MoneyMoney 2.0.9 - _German_ banking application" [NT]   Wilson Gray
• latest "-er" conspiracist: "skeeter"   Wilson Gray
• FB: "This guy is a real live _fire_." [NT]   Wilson Gray
• FB: " … the Military's _most deadliest_ sniper … =?UTF-8?Q?=22_?=[NT]   Wilson Gray
• Major Antedating of "Concentration Camp"   Wilson Gray
• "Blow me up"   Wilson Gray
• Teaspoon   Wilson Gray
• Teaspoon   Wilson Gray
• OT: Slogan of the group,   Wilson Gray
• OT: Slogan of the group,   Wilson Gray
• "gun in your pocket"   Wilson Gray
• OT: Valentine's Day card offered on Spain site   Wilson Gray
• culture-jack(ing)   Wilson Gray
• "gun in your pocket"   Wilson Gray
• racist euphemism of the day   Wilson Gray
• OT: Slogan of the group, (UNCLASSIFIED)   Wilson Gray
• mock-up   Wilson Gray
• epiphany and satori   Wilson Gray
• Teaspoon   Wilson Gray
• An American witticism   Wilson Gray
• Facebook: "A _periotic_ table"   Wilson Gray
• Heard: "=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=A6_?=between oh-six and_ oh-ten_."   Wilson Gray
• "He BE working. He just don't STAY working."   Wilson Gray
• I rob banks because that's where the money is (Willie Sutton January 20, 1951)   Wilson Gray
• Heard: "=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=A6_?=between oh-six and_ oh-ten_."   Wilson Gray
• "He BE working. He just don't STAY working."   Wilson Gray
• OT: Slogan of the group, (UNCLASSIFIED)   Wilson Gray
• Clutch   Wilson Gray
• Heard: "I finished cleaning the _restroom_ and …"   Wilson Gray
• Is this good usage?   Wilson Gray
• Heard: "I finished cleaning the _restroom_ and …"   Wilson Gray
• Heard: "I finished cleaning the _restroom_ and …"   Wilson Gray
• Link to TLS Review Now Available   Wilson Gray
• "He BE working. He just don't STAY working."   Wilson Gray
• Lexicon Valley podcast notched up 650,000 downloads   Wilson Gray
• Heard: "I finished cleaning the _restroom_ and …"   Wilson Gray
• "sissy" during the Civil War?   Wilson Gray
• "put you hep" 1903 (antedating?)   Wilson Gray
• "put you hep" 1903 (antedating?)   Wilson Gray
• offlist RE: [ADS-L] "put you hep" 1903 (antedating?)   Wilson Gray
• "put you hep" 1903 (antedating?)   Wilson Gray
• Shocker: Broca's Brain not His!   Wilson Gray
• "sleep tight"   Wilson Gray
• "sleep tight"   Wilson Gray
• What can you do? The NYT:   Wilson Gray
• sizzurp   Wilson Gray
• "Gay" in 1933; also "author's sexuality"   Wilson Gray
• A, V, or M; also "bigger vs. larger"   Wilson Gray
• antedating "donkey"   Wilson Gray
• "cheeseburger slider"   Wilson Gray
• "_Follow-nous_ sur Twitter!" [NT]   Wilson Gray
• Heard on "Judge Mathis":   Wilson Gray
• infamous = 'talked-about; popular'   Wilson Gray
• Neuticles (most unnecessary candidate?)   Wilson Gray
• NomPrepObj   Wilson Gray
• Heard on "Judge Mathis":   Wilson Gray
• Heard: "loci" with [k], not [s]; cf. "fungi" with [Ng], not [nDZ] [NT]   Wilson Gray
• shocked = 'pleasantly surprised'   Wilson Gray
• OT trivia: English in yet another French minority language   Wilson Gray
• _geets_ HDAS 1951   Wilson Gray
• triage   Dave Hause
• triage   Dave Hause
• diacritical marks WAS Re: Word (Phrase?) of the Year (so far)?; Rambo'd (UNCLASSIFIED)   Laurence Horn
• diacritical marks WAS Re: Word (Phrase?) of the Year (so far)?; Rambo'd (UNCLASSIFIED)   Laurence Horn
• diacritical marks WAS Re: Word (Phrase?) of the Year (so far)?; Rambo'd (UNCLASSIFIED)   Laurence Horn
• diacritical marks on ADS-L   Laurence Horn
• diacritical marks WAS Re: Word (Phrase?) of the Year (so far)?; Rambo'd (UNCLASSIFIED)   Laurence Horn
• A double negative from a Cardinal   Laurence Horn
• latest "-er" conspiracist: "skeeter"   Laurence Horn
• A Word for the Dictionaries: "Unconference"   Laurence Horn
• Major Antedating of "Concentration Camp" (UNCLASSIFIED)   Laurence Horn
• overnegation again   Laurence Horn
• overnegation again   Laurence Horn
• Slogan: When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have them. (December 21 1967)   Laurence Horn
• "gun in your pocket"   Laurence Horn
• "Ancestor" redux   Laurence Horn
• OT: Slogan of the group, (UNCLASSIFIED)   Laurence Horn
• mock-up   Laurence Horn
• choke (UNCLASSIFIED)   Laurence Horn
• Another non-apology   Laurence Horn
• OT: Slogan of the group, (UNCLASSIFIED)   Laurence Horn
• Heard: "=?windows-1252?Q?=85_?=between oh-six and_ oh-ten_."   Laurence Horn
• I rob banks because that's where the money is (Willie Sutton January 20, 1951)   Laurence Horn
• Heard: "=?windows-1252?Q?=85_?=between oh-six and_ oh-ten_."   Laurence Horn
• "He BE working. He just don't STAY working."   Laurence Horn
• cowardly adverb   Laurence Horn
• "He BE working. He just don't STAY working."   Laurence Horn
• Erroneous OED First Use for "Movie"   Laurence Horn
• Link to TLS Review Now Available   Laurence Horn
• Link to TLS Review Now Available   Laurence Horn
• OT: Saturday 11:30 AM - 26 inches   Laurence Horn
• Antedating of "Cunnilingus"   Laurence Horn
• OT: Saturday 11:30 AM - 26 inches   Laurence Horn
• OT: Saturday 11:30 AM - 26 inches   Laurence Horn
• OT: Saturday 11:30 AM - 26 inches   Laurence Horn
• narrative; graphic   Laurence Horn
• OT: Saturday 11:30 AM - 26 inches   Laurence Horn
• Weather.com Storm Names (Was RE: OT: Saturday 11:30 AM - 26 inches)   Laurence Horn
• "Book bible"   Laurence Horn
• fumetti (UNCLASSIFIED)   Laurence Horn
• A gubernatorial meme   Laurence Horn
• "flicker" = 'movie' (1912) + "flicker alley" (1911), "flicker house" (1913)   Laurence Horn
• fresh = '(of restaurant food) not fresh but not yet stale; of ordinary quality.   Laurence Horn
• Antedating of "Hijack" / "Hijacking"   Laurence Horn
• Antedating of "Hijack" / "Hijacking"   Laurence Horn
• storm names   Laurence Horn
• Eggcorn: "point fun at"   Laurence Horn
• on blizzards and infixes   Laurence Horn
• on blizzards and infixes   Laurence Horn
• on blizzards and infixes   Laurence Horn
• prolixity in space   Laurence Horn
• The precise terminology of modern science   Laurence Horn
• The precise terminology of modern science   Laurence Horn
• The precise terminology of modern science   Laurence Horn
• A, V, or M; also "bigger vs. larger"   Laurence Horn
• antedating "donkey"   Laurence Horn
• antedating "donkey"   Laurence Horn
• antedating "donkey"   Laurence Horn
• Garden Path   Laurence Horn
• quixotic 'chaotic'   Laurence Horn
• infamous = 'talked-about; popular'   Laurence Horn
• infamous = 'talked-about; popular'   Laurence Horn
• infamous = 'talked-about; popular'   Laurence Horn
• infamous = 'talked-about; popular'   Laurence Horn
• Neuticles (most unnecessary candidate?)   Laurence Horn
• Neuticles (most unnecessary candidate?)   Laurence Horn
• "dice with death"   Laurence Horn
• Heard: "loci" with [k], not [s]; cf. "fungi" with [Ng], not [nDZ] [NT]   Laurence Horn
• 3d sg. present of "undo"?   Laurence Horn
• Heard: "loci" with [k]   Laurence Horn
• WOTY 2013?   Laurence Horn
• Antedating of "MILF"   Laurence Horn
• "to sweat [something] out" -- 146-year antedating, I hope   Laurence Horn
• Antedating of "MILF"   Laurence Horn
• New taboo term   Laurence Horn
• Antedating of "MILF"   Laurence Horn
• shocked = 'pleasantly surprised'   Laurence Horn
• infamous = 'talked-about; popular'   Laurence Horn
• infamous = 'talked-about; popular'   Laurence Horn
• "famous, infamous"   Laurence Horn
• Antedating of "Racism"   Laurence Horn
• Flash fiction: For sale: baby shoes, never worn. Did Ernest Hemingway write these famous six words?   Hugo
• Internet ephemera (was Re: 'eliminationism' not in OED)   Hugo
• Antedating of "MILF"   Martin Kaminer
• WOTY 2013?   Brenda Lester
• antedating "carnival"   Jonathan Lighter
• triage   Jonathan Lighter
• latest "-er" conspiracist: "skeeter"   Jonathan Lighter
• antedating "hobbit"   Jonathan Lighter
• Major Antedating of "Concentration Camp"   Jonathan Lighter
• antedating "hobbit"   Jonathan Lighter
• triage   Jonathan Lighter
• Team names   Jonathan Lighter
• Team names (UNCLASSIFIED)   Jonathan Lighter
• Sweet stuff   Jonathan Lighter
• Slogan: When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have them. (December 21 1967)   Jonathan Lighter
• Team names (UNCLASSIFIED)   Jonathan Lighter
• Gender-neutral language in state laws   Jonathan Lighter
• Potential player names (was? Team names)   Jonathan Lighter
• Slogan: When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have them. (December 21 1967)   Jonathan Lighter
• Teaspoon   Jonathan Lighter
• Team names (UNCLASSIFIED)   Jonathan Lighter
• OT: Slogan of the group,   Jonathan Lighter
• OT: Slogan of the group,   Jonathan Lighter
• racist euphemism of the day   Jonathan Lighter
• mock-up   Jonathan Lighter
• mock-up   Jonathan Lighter
• An American witticism   Jonathan Lighter
• mock-up   Jonathan Lighter
• schwag   Jonathan Lighter
• OT: Slogan of the group, (UNCLASSIFIED)   Jonathan Lighter
• Gender-neutral language in state laws (UNCLASSIFIED)   Jonathan Lighter
• celebrity mashup   Jonathan Lighter
• mock-up   Jonathan Lighter
• mock-up   Jonathan Lighter
• Earliest Known Occurrence of the Term "Hot Dog" Pushed Back to, 1886, (Corrected Citation)   Jonathan Lighter
• Is this a good sentence?   Jonathan Lighter
• Earliest Known Occurrence of the Term "Hot Dog" Pushed Back to, 1886, (Corrected Citation)   Jonathan Lighter
• Heard: "I finished cleaning the _restroom_ and …"   Jonathan Lighter
• "sissy" during the Civil War?   Jonathan Lighter
• "sissy" during the Civil War?   Jonathan Lighter
• Buttock(s) -- Even sports trainers don't know what it/they is/are   Jonathan Lighter
• narrative; graphic   Jonathan Lighter
• narrative; graphic   Jonathan Lighter
• last gasp of the long ess?   Jonathan Lighter
• effort = "to try to obtain by effort; to obtain by effort"   Jonathan Lighter
• "put you hep" 1903 (antedating?)   Jonathan Lighter
• fresh = '(of restaurant food) not fresh but not yet stale; of ordinary quality.   Jonathan Lighter
• Antedating of "Hijack" / "Hijacking"   Jonathan Lighter
• Antedating of "Hijack" / "Hijacking"   Jonathan Lighter
• Antedating of "Hijack" / "Hijacking"   Jonathan Lighter
• "sleep tight"   Jonathan Lighter
• on blizzards and infixes   Jonathan Lighter
• "sleep tight"   Jonathan Lighter
• "sleep tight"   Jonathan Lighter
• Mastermind: How to Think like Sherlock Holmes   Jonathan Lighter
• "sleep tight"   Jonathan Lighter
• prolixity in space   Jonathan Lighter
• Today's quote   Jonathan Lighter
• Today's quote   Jonathan Lighter
• antedating "donkey"   Jonathan Lighter
• "Sissies, fairies, pansies gay"   Jonathan Lighter
• "Sissies, fairies, pansies gay"   Jonathan Lighter
• "Sissies, fairies, pansies gay"   Jonathan Lighter
• antedating "donkey"   Jonathan Lighter
• antedating "donkey"   Jonathan Lighter
• Fun with phrases: "There. I said it."   Jonathan Lighter
• glory   Jonathan Lighter
• infamous = 'talked-about; popular'   Jonathan Lighter
• Etymology of _John_ 'Prostitute's Client'   Jonathan Lighter
• infamous = 'talked-about; popular'   Jonathan Lighter
• infamous = 'talked-about; popular'   Jonathan Lighter
• infamous = 'talked-about; popular'   Jonathan Lighter
• infamous = 'talked-about; popular'   Jonathan Lighter
• Heard on "Judge Mathis":   Jonathan Lighter
• infamous = 'talked-about; popular'   Jonathan Lighter
• Heard on "Judge Mathis":   Jonathan Lighter
• "dice with death"   Jonathan Lighter
• to "belly-crawl"   Jonathan Lighter
• infamous = 'talked-about; popular'   Jonathan Lighter
• "dice with death"   Jonathan Lighter
• infamous = 'talked-about; popular'   Jonathan Lighter
• Heard: "loci" with [k], not [s]; cf. "fungi" with [Ng], not [nDZ] [NT]   Jonathan Lighter
• "to sweat [something] out" -- 146-year antedating, I hope   Jonathan Lighter
• "to sweat [something] out" -- 146-year antedating, I hope   Jonathan Lighter
• Antedating of "MILF"   Jonathan Lighter
• "to sweat [something] out" -- 146-year antedating, I hope   Jonathan Lighter
• Antedating of "MILF"   Jonathan Lighter
• New taboo term   Jonathan Lighter
• shocked = 'pleasantly surprised'   Jonathan Lighter
• shocked = 'pleasantly surprised'   Jonathan Lighter
• It's official: it's offensive.   Jonathan Lighter
• OT: Old human right finally isolated, identified.   Jonathan Lighter
• infamous = 'talked-about; popular'   Jonathan Lighter
• New racist etymology   Jonathan Lighter
• skeptical about "buck" ("1856")   Jonathan Lighter
• skeptical about "buck" ("1856")   Jonathan Lighter
• The precise terminology of modern science   Jocelyn Limpert
• The precise terminology of modern science   Jocelyn Limpert
• The precise terminology of modern science   Jocelyn Limpert
• Internet ephemera (was Re: 'eliminationism' not in OED)   Mark Mandel
• overnegation again   Mark Mandel
• "cheeseburger slider"   Mark Mandel
• Help reading a 1735 Boston newspaper   John McChesney-Young
• "He BE working. He just don't STAY working."   Salikoko Mufwene
• Major Antedating of "Concentration Camp" (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• Team names (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• diacritical marks WAS Re: Word (Phrase?) of the Year (so far)?; Rambo'd (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• Team names (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• Teaspoon (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• OT: Slogan of the group, (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• Gender-neutral language in state laws (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• choke (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• Antedating of "Decathlon" (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• Antedating of "Decathlon" (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• "Book bible" (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• fumetti (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• fumetti (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• Enhanced on   Geoffrey Steven Nathan
• OT: Saturday 11:30 AM - 26 inches   Geoffrey Steven Nathan
• antedating "donkey"   Geoffrey Steven Nathan
• Garden Path   Geoffrey Steven Nathan
• Gender-neutral language in state laws   Michael Newman
• Heard: "loci" with [k]   Eric Nielsen
• "sissy" during the Civil War?   Geoffrey Nunberg
• Is this good usage?   Dan Nussbaum
• Antedating of "Racism"   Dan Nussbaum
• Times Literary Supplement Review   ADSGarson O'Toole
• ILL, the verb   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Flash fiction: For sale: baby shoes, never worn. Did Ernest Hemingway write these famous six words?   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Antedating of "Sorority"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Times Literary Supplement Review   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Is that your sword or are you just glad to see me? (Mae West 1958)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Slogan: When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have them. (December 21 1967)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• choke (UNCLASSIFIED)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• I rob banks because that's where the money is (Willie Sutton January 20, 1951)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Question about fascinating insightful adage coined by Ludwig Boerne and originally expressed in German   ADSGarson O'Toole
• drone as a verb   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Lexicon Valley podcast notched up 650,000 downloads   ADSGarson O'Toole
• "sissy" during the Civil War?   ADSGarson O'Toole
• OT: Saturday 11:30 AM - 26 inches   ADSGarson O'Toole
• "Book bible"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• storm names   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Question about fascinating insightful adage coined by Ludwig Boerne and originally expressed in German   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Eggcorn: "point fun at"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• "sleep tight"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• The precise terminology of modern science   ADSGarson O'Toole
• "dice with death"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• "to sweat [something] out" -- 146-year antedating, I hope   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Antedating of "MILF"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Antedating of "MILF"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• "Sliders" are haute cousine   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Antedating of "MILF"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Antedating of "MILF"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Antedating of "MILF"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• "cheeseburger slider"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• A Word for the Dictionaries: "Unconference"   Michael Quinion
• "Blow me up"   Tyler Schnoebelen
• Sweet stuff   Tyler Schnoebelen
• Antedating of "MILF"   Tyler Schnoebelen
• Heard: "loci" with [k], not [s]; cf. "fungi" with [Ng], not [nDZ] [NT]   Scott
• Antedating of "Zionist"   Shapiro, Fred
• Further Antedating of "Charley Horse"   Shapiro, Fred
• Further Antedating of Sports "Fan"   Shapiro, Fred
• Further Antedating of Sports "Fan"   Shapiro, Fred
• Further Antedating of Sports "Fan"   Shapiro, Fred
• New York Times Article   Shapiro, Fred
• New York Times Article   Shapiro, Fred
• A Word for the Dictionaries: "Unconference"   Shapiro, Fred
• Antedating of "Schizophrenia"   Shapiro, Fred
• Antedating of "Cubism"   Shapiro, Fred
• Antedating of "Cubist"   Shapiro, Fred
• Antedating of "Sorority"   Shapiro, Fred
• antedating "hobbit"   Shapiro, Fred
• Antedating of "Xenophobia"   Shapiro, Fred
• Major Antedating of "Concentration Camp"   Shapiro, Fred
• Major Antedating of "Concentration Camp"   Shapiro, Fred
• Antedating of "Finalize"   Shapiro, Fred
• Team names (UNCLASSIFIED)   Shapiro, Fred
• Major Antedating of "Concentration Camp"   Shapiro, Fred
• Antedating of "Sorority"   Shapiro, Fred
• Times Literary Supplement Review   Shapiro, Fred
• A Word for the Dictionaries: "Unconference"   Shapiro, Fred
• Major Antedating of "Finalize": The Great Unacknowledged Australianism   Shapiro, Fred
• Antedating of "Crossword" (Courtesy of Mr. Will Shortz)   Shapiro, Fred
• Antedating of "Decathlon"   Shapiro, Fred
• Antedating of "Leftist"   Shapiro, Fred
• Further Antedating of "Finalize"   Shapiro, Fred
• Still Further Antedating of "Finalize"   Shapiro, Fred
• Further Antedating of "Decathlete"   Shapiro, Fred
• Erroneous OED First Use for "Movie"   Shapiro, Fred
• Erroneous OED First Use for "Movie"   Shapiro, Fred
• Times (London) Article on My Antedating of "Full Monty"   Shapiro, Fred
• Link to TLS Review Now Available   Shapiro, Fred
• Link to TLS Review Now Available   Shapiro, Fred
• Antedating of "Crossword" (Courtesy of Mr. Will Shortz)   Shapiro, Fred
• Antedating of "Cunnilingus"   Shapiro, Fred
• Antedating of "Hijack" / "Hijacking"   Shapiro, Fred
• Still Further Antedating of "Hijack" / "Hijacking"   Shapiro, Fred
• Antedating of "Hijacker"   Shapiro, Fred
• Antedating of "Clich é"   Shapiro, Fred
• Antedating of "Classical"   Shapiro, Fred
• Antedating of "Calvinist"   Shapiro, Fred
• Antedating of "Limerick"   Shapiro, Fred
• "Gay" in 1933   Shapiro, Fred
• Antedating of "Donkey"   Shapiro, Fred
• Etymology of _John_ 'Prostitute's Client'   Shapiro, Fred
• Antedating of "MILF"   Shapiro, Fred
• Antedating of "MILF"   Shapiro, Fred
• Antedating of "Soccer"   Shapiro, Fred
• Antedating of "Racism"   Shapiro, Fred
• Antedating of "Burgle" & "Burglarize"   Shapiro, Fred
• "Half the battle"   Nathaniel Sharpe
• Heard: "=?windows-1252?Q?=85_?=between oh-six and_ oh-ten_."   Nathaniel Sharpe
• Heard: "=?windows-1252?Q?=85_?=between oh-six and_ oh-ten_."   Nathaniel Sharpe
• Help reading a 1735 Boston newspaper   Nathaniel Sharpe
• Antedating of "Hijack" / "Hijacking"   Nathaniel Sharpe
• The Rise of the Litterplugs   Nathaniel Sharpe
• "sleep tight"   Nathaniel Sharpe
• Adopted Russian Boy   Michael Sheehan
• Antedating of "Cunnilingus"   Jesse Sheidlower
• Neuticles (most unnecessary candidate?)   Jesse Sheidlower
• Antedating of "MILF"   Jesse Sheidlower
• Antedating of "MILF"   Jesse Sheidlower
• Antedating of "MILF"   Jesse Sheidlower
• Antedating of "Racism"   Jesse Sheidlower
• mock-up   Spanbock/Svoboda-Spanbock
• Heard: "I finished cleaning the _restroom_ and …"   Spanbock/Svoboda-Spanbock
• A, V, or M; also "bigger vs. larger"   Spanbock/Svoboda-Spanbock
• diacritical marks WAS Re: Word (Phrase?) of the Year (so far)?; Rambo'd (UNCLASSIFIED)   Herb Stahlke
• diacritical marks WAS Re: Word (Phrase?) of the Year (so far)?; Rambo'd (UNCLASSIFIED)   Herb Stahlke
• epiphany and satori   Herb Stahlke
• Gender-neutral language in state laws (UNCLASSIFIED)   Herb Stahlke
• Heard: "=?windows-1252?Q?=85_?=between oh-six and_ oh-ten_."   Herb Stahlke
• Garden Path   Herb Stahlke
• The spelling "Rachael"   Herb Stahlke
• Heard: "loci" with [k]   Herb Stahlke
• Heard: "loci" with [k]   Herb Stahlke
• Heard: "loci" with [k]   Herb Stahlke
• beertail   Victor Steinbok
• incestuous amplification   Victor Steinbok
• Sociolinguistics at the Daily Caller...   Victor Steinbok
• racist euphemism of the day   Victor Steinbok
• or are you just happy to see me?   Victor Steinbok
• mock-up   Victor Steinbok
• or are you just happy to see me?   Victor Steinbok
• scroogled   Victor Steinbok
• geese-stronauts   Victor Steinbok
• OT: Saturday 11:30 AM - 26 inches   Victor Steinbok
• WOTD   Victor Steinbok
• WOTD   Victor Steinbok
• sizzurp   Victor Steinbok
• sizzurp   Victor Steinbok
• OT: multiple meaning   Victor Steinbok
• "off ice"   Victor Steinbok
• "Sliders" are haute cousine   Victor Steinbok
• "Sliders" are haute cousine   Victor Steinbok
• Antedating of "MILF"   Victor Steinbok
• "Sliders" are haute cousine   Victor Steinbok
• taboo avoidance--once stung...   Victor Steinbok
• Flash fiction: For sale: baby shoes, never worn. Did Ernest Hemingway write these famous six words?   Bonnie Taylor-Blake
• Ben Schott: Vocabulary of Coffee Bars   Bonnie Taylor-Blake
• Flop sweat [slight antedating to 1947]   Bonnie Taylor-Blake
• Antedating of "Burgle" & "Burglarize"   Bonnie Taylor-Blake
• the FBI's Monitory Crime Division   George Thompson
• "famous, infamous"   George Thompson
• Teaspoon   Benjamin Torbert
• Teaspoon   Benjamin Torbert
• Heard: "=?windows-1252?Q?=85_?=between oh-six and_ oh-ten_."   Benjamin Torbert
• "He BE working. He just don't STAY working."   Benjamin Torbert
• Once in a lifetime   Benjamin Torbert
• Offlist: Re: Team Names   Amy West
• racist euphemism of the day   Amy West
• OT: Online Lewis & Short   Amy West
• "famous, infamous"   Amy West
• Antedatings of kudocast, kudofest, kudo   Neal Whitman
• Heard: "I finished cleaning the _restroom_ and …"   Neal Whitman
• Lexicon Valley podcast notched up 650,000 downloads   Neal Whitman
• triage   Dave Wilton
• triage   Dave Wilton
• OT: Saturday 11:30 AM - 26 inches   Dave Wilton
• "Book bible"   Dave Wilton
• Antedating of "MILF"   Dave Wilton
• skeptical about "buck" ("1856")   Dave Wilton
• skeptical about "buck" ("1856")   Dave Wilton
• 1916 cites for "jazz" (Day Book, Daily Illini)   Ben Zimmer
• latest "-er" conspiracist: "skeeter"   Ben Zimmer
• A Word for the Dictionaries: "Unconference"   Ben Zimmer
• latest "-er" conspiracist: "skeeter"   Ben Zimmer
• culture-jack(ing)   Ben Zimmer
• schwag   Ben Zimmer
• Link to TLS Review Now Available   Ben Zimmer
• Lexicon Valley podcast notched up 650,000 downloads   Ben Zimmer
• OT: Saturday 11:30 AM - 26 inches   Ben Zimmer
• Weather.com Storm Names   Ben Zimmer
• "flicker" = 'movie' (1912) + "flicker alley" (1911), "flicker house" (1913)   Ben Zimmer
• "flicker" = 'movie' (1912) + "flicker alley" (1911), "flicker house" (1913)   Ben Zimmer
• sizzurp   Ben Zimmer
• "Gay" in 1933   Ben Zimmer
• infamous = 'talked-about; popular'   Ben Zimmer
• Antedating of "MILF"   Ben Zimmer
• Antedating of "MILF"   Ben Zimmer
• Antedating of "MILF"   Ben Zimmer
• factivist   Ben Zimmer
• Antedating of "Racism"   Ben Zimmer
• Neuticles (most unnecessary candidate?)   Tom Zurinskas
• infamous = 'talked-about; popular'   Tom Zurinskas
• infamous = 'talked-about; popular'   Tom Zurinskas
• Times Literary Supplement Review   Arnold Zwicky
• mouseovered etc.   Arnold Zwicky
• "gun in your pocket"   Arnold Zwicky
• or are you just happy to see me?   Arnold Zwicky
• or are you just happy to see me?   Arnold Zwicky
• Is this good usage?   Arnold Zwicky
• a little pubicity for Fred   Arnold Zwicky
• drone as a verb   Arnold Zwicky
• storm names   Arnold Zwicky
• NomPrepObj   Arnold Zwicky
• OT: Friday 8:51 p.m. --- 5 1/2 inches   paul johnson
• Will the Mali war lead to a film remake?   paul johnson

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