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