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- annual list of words to be proscribed
sclements at NEO.RR.COM
- All right. Now, I understand.
Wilson Gray
- All right. Now, I understand.
W Brewer
- All right. Now, I understand.
W Brewer
- All right. Now, I understand.
Wilson Gray
- All right. Now, I understand.
Joel S. Berson
- All right. Now, I understand.
Wilson Gray
- All right. Now, I understand.
Laurence Horn
- All right. Now, I understand.
Benjamin Barrett
- All right. Now, I understand.
Wilson Gray
- All right. Now, I understand.
Benjamin Barrett
- All right. Now, I understand.
Laurence Horn
- All right. Now, I understand.
Benjamin Barrett
- All right. Now, I understand.
Joel S. Berson
- All right. Now, I understand.
Benjamin Barrett
- I'm slipping!
Wilson Gray
- What's it called?
W Brewer
- Q: Silent letters in English?
W Brewer
- retroactive(ly)
David Barnhart
- And, what's this called?
David Barnhart
- 3 biggest USA accent changes over the years.
Tom Zurinskas
- Perhaps we should ....
David Barnhart
- Do American dialects include American music?
Joel S. Berson
- New to me: "You=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99ll_?=get sick _IN THE_ stomach,"
Wilson Gray
- "Adult Swim"
Wilson Gray
- boogie vs. booger - RE: "Adult Swim"
Tom Zurinskas
- skillet blond (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- to "qualify"
Jonathan Lighter
- sick to one's stomach
Joan H. Hall
- New to me: "You=?Windows-1252?Q?=92ll_?=get sick _IN THE_ stomach,"
Gordon, Matthew J.
- ANTEDATING OF "BIG BANG"
Shapiro, Fred
- Vowels in gohonzon
Benjamin Barrett
- Antedating of "United States" and "United States of America"
Shapiro, Fred
- "electron magnifying glass"
Joel S. Berson
- New York Times Blog on "Whole Nine Yards"
Shapiro, Fred
- to start the year off right
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- 'eliminationism' not in OED
Geoffrey Nunberg
- Ary
Donald McCaig
- Ary
Michael Everson
- Ary
Neal Whitman
- Ary
Jonathan Lighter
- Ary
Wilson Gray
- Ary
Wilson Gray
- Ary
Arnold Zwicky
- Become an American Dialect Society Member
Grant Barrett
- Jimmy Fallon on Boehner's taboo outburst
Victor Steinbok
- Boehner
W Brewer
- Facebook: "It was a waste _are_ time and money."
Wilson Gray
- IPA symbols do not work here
Tom Zurinskas
- Nominations for 2012 Word of the Year
Ben Zimmer
- "Fire that began on stove destroys Swampscott house"
Joel S. Berson
- "confuse for"
Jonathan Lighter
- Company Doe
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- HELP! I accidentally found a word fossil!
Nathaniel Sharpe
- Morning Glory Road renamed due to sexual connotation
Wilson Gray
- 2012 Word of the Year: "hashtag"
Ben Zimmer
- Pancakes as okonomiyaki and (pa)jeon
Benjamin Barrett
- First POTY for 2013?
Joel S. Berson
- Freshman Senator without any mental
Joel S. Berson
- An ESL-speaker writes.
Wilson Gray
- morning X
Arnold Zwicky
- Negrophobia: pswaydo-interdating
Wilson Gray
- BE slang for _clitoris_
Wilson Gray
- Negrophobia: pswaydo [and not so] -interdating(s)
Joel S. Berson
- "money takes flight when might conquers right"
Joel S. Berson
- A little stumble in romanization recognition
Mark Mandel
- pickpocket slang (New Yorker)
Ben Zimmer
- cowtailing
Jonathan Lighter
- toggling as a clinical skill.
Dan Nussbaum
- Q: "gallows" also including a platform?
Joel S. Berson
- Chinese game: 15, 20
Benjamin Barrett
- "bad" puns
Jonathan Lighter
- BE slang for _clitoris_ (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Morning Glory Road renamed due to sexual connotation (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- NYC's Upper, Lower, and mid- East Sides
Joel S. Berson
- NYC's Upper, Lower, and mid- East Sides
Michael Newman
- NYC's Upper, Lower, and mid- East Sides
Jonathan Lighter
- NYC's Upper, Lower, and mid- East Sides
Alice Faber
- NYC's Upper, Lower, and mid- East Sides
Jesse Sheidlower
- NYC's Upper, Lower, and mid- East Sides
Jonathan Lighter
- NYC's Upper, Lower, and mid- East Sides
Jonathan Lighter
- NYC's Upper, Lower, and mid- East Sides
Laurence Horn
- NYC's Upper, Lower, and mid- East Sides
Joel S. Berson
- NYC's Upper, Lower, and mid- East Sides
Jesse Sheidlower
- NYC's Upper, Lower, and mid- East Sides
Dan Goncharoff
- NYC's Upper, Lower, and mid- East Sides
Jonathan Lighter
- NYC's Upper, Lower, and mid- East Sides
Dan Goncharoff
- NYC's Upper, Lower, and mid- East Sides
Paul Johnston
- NYC's Upper, Lower, and mid- East Sides
Paul Johnston
- NYC's Upper, Lower, and mid- East Sides
Paul Johnston
- NYC's Upper, Lower, and mid- East Sides
Benjamin Torbert
- That Damned Elusive Skallewagg
Nathaniel Sharpe
- pickpocket slang (New Yorker) (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Antedating of "Carpetbagger"
Shapiro, Fred
- Lather, rinse, and repeat
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Heard on the The Doctors: "boody"
Wilson Gray
- A Unique Scalawag Origin Story
Nathaniel Sharpe
- Calinky (slang for "Carolina")
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- "The Whole Six Yards"
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- "existential"
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- _patient-facing_ adj.
Wilson Gray
- Further Antedating of "Boondoggle"
Shapiro, Fred
- An English-based pun?
Wilson Gray
- Two Questions for Journalist
George Thompson
- China plus one
Benjamin Barrett
- antedating "folk music"
Jonathan Lighter
- antedating "folk song"
Jonathan Lighter
- "pull a Batman"
Jonathan Lighter
- Further Antedating of "Folk-Song"
Shapiro, Fred
- FW: new word:
David Barnhart
- query about _big data_
David Barnhart
- science
Jonathan Lighter
- Northern Cities Shift smacks me in the ear
Geoffrey Steven Nathan
- deadly/killer & mortal/fatal
Joel S. Berson
- deadly vs. killer
Joel S. Berson
- "to out (with)" = "bring out", "come out with", 1848
Joel S. Berson
- Antedating of "Piggy Bank"
Shapiro, Fred
- Geographic "up" and "down"
Kenneth Wolcott
- Antedating of "Menopause"
Shapiro, Fred
- "pee" goes standard
Jonathan Lighter
- "nudiusterian" and "egge"
Joel S. Berson
- Joke: He hated the stuff they served in hotels. And such small portions (1933 August)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- The word "right" for a coincidence that is bad
Benjamin Barrett
- "The Battle of Bataan" heard as
Wilson Gray
- "Times, they are=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=A6=22_?=(TV-drama dialogue)
Wilson Gray
- Slight Antedating of "Hydrogen Bomb"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Sonar"
Shapiro, Fred
- "down train"
Joel S. Berson
- "Times, they are=?windows-1252?Q?=85=22_?=(TV-drama dialogue)
Dan Goncharoff
- cloud computing (1996)
Ben Zimmer
- "Main Street" (was "down train")
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- The High Road and Mass. Ave.
Joel S. Berson
- To/in press/print
Joel S. Berson
- "The Battle [and bottle] of Bataan"
Joel S. Berson
- "river ship"
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- foreign and domestic "a"
Laurence Horn
- Antedating of "Sonar" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- access to JSTOR for individuals (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "ash"
Joel S. Berson
- access to JSTOR for individuals
Joel S. Berson
- Anthony Bourdain Quote
Jonathan Lighter
- in press
Joan H. Hall
- travesty
Jonathan Lighter
- heftybogging: Bataan [buh-taen] > [buh-tAHn]
W Brewer
- Negative-toned "ruminate"?
ddr11
- "staged"
Jonathan Lighter
- Eskimos and Snow Again
Baker, John
- "new" snowclone?
Victor Steinbok
- nothingburger
Victor Steinbok
- Automatic reply: ADS-L Digest - 14 Jan 2013 to 15 Jan 2013 (#2013-16)
Damien Hall
- a new CxO?
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- "hook up with" in England ...
Joel S. Berson
- Quote: A mule, though he should have made ten campaigns under prince Eugene, would not have improved in his tactics (Frederick II 1758)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- "hook up with"
Laurence Horn
- "catfishing"--early WOTY candidate?
Laurence Horn
- No subject
PL
- Another one biting the dust?
Wilson Gray
- Is this a good sentence?
Wilson Gray
- gin up.
sclements at NEO.RR.COM
- Southern stress shift
Herb Stahlke
- old Edison recordings
Tom Zurinskas
- "close, but no cigar" antedated (1929)
Stephen Goranson
- "Te'oing" [was "catfishing"] -- early WOTY candidate?
Joel S. Berson
- "close, but no cigar" antedated (1929) (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Hear on The Judges: "gitcha-gotcha bag"
Wilson Gray
- "He _garage-sales_ like crazy!"
Wilson Gray
- Throwing oneself a fastball
Neal Whitman
- Fwd: Cheat Sheet - Obama, King of Guns?
Dan Goncharoff
- " =?windows-1252?Q?=93I_wasn=92t_faking_it=2C=94_Te=92o_?=told reporter Jeremy Schaap
paul johnson
- Morning wood
Jonathan Lighter
- laydown, n.
Jonathan Lighter
- "cunt splice/ cuntline"
Jonathan Lighter
- Fwd: [78thASA] For the _Ditty-Boppers_
Wilson Gray
- [78thASA] For the _Ditty-Boppers_
Dave Wilton
- blowzy
Jonathan Lighter
- New Earliest Known Occurrence of the Term "Hot Dog"
Shapiro, Fred
- early euphemism of the year candidate--"artificial calamari"
Laurence Horn
- late = 'died long ago'
Jonathan Lighter
- A post re the destruction of the Texas accent
Wilson Gray
- Further Antedating of "Industrial Revolution"
Shapiro, Fred
- Earliest Known Occurrence of the Term "Hot Dog" Pushed Back to 1886
Shapiro, Fred
- Earliest Known Occurrence of the Term "Hot Dog" Pushed Back to 1886 (Corrected Citation)
Shapiro, Fred
- "dominating" = "utterly submissive, ineffectual"
Joel S. Berson
- no privacy
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedating of "Free Lunch"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Helium"
Shapiro, Fred
- "De gustibus=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=A6=22_?=(trivia)
Wilson Gray
- BE slang: _fade_ "white person"
Wilson Gray
- QOTY nominee
Jonathan Lighter
- SE slang: _shade_ "a black person"
Wilson Gray
- Article: "Bad grammar = good password"
Wilson Gray
- Earliest Known Occurrence of the Term "Hot Dog" Pushed Back to 1886, (Corrected Citation)
Amy West
- 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)
Joel S. Berson
- Earliest Known Occurrence of the Term "Hot Dog" Pushed Back to 1886, (Corrected Citation)
David A. Daniel
- 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)
sclements at NEO.RR.COM
- Earliest Known Occurrence of the Term "Hot Dog" Pushed Back to 1886, (Corrected Citation)
Julia Graney
- 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)
Joel S. Berson
- Earliest Known Occurrence of the Term "Hot Dog" Pushed Back to 1886, (Corrected Citation)
Joel S. Berson
- Earliest Known Occurrence of the Term "Hot Dog" Pushed Back to 1886, (Corrected Citation)
Victor Steinbok
- Earliest Known Occurrence of the Term "Hot Dog" Pushed Back to 1886, (Corrected Citation)
Laurence Horn
- early euphemism of the year candidate--"artificial calamari" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- late = 'died long ago' (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- "razzly" = 'congested, coldy'
Laurence Horn
- Early euphenism of the year - "liberalism"
Joel S. Berson
- Heard on Castle: "=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=A6_was_=5Fsmited_in_two=5F=22=3B_=22=E2=80=A6_?=was _cleaved in two_" [NT]
Wilson Gray
- Heard: "I'm on *your* guys's side!" [NT]
Wilson Gray
- long-shot for WOTY: beyond index
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- shutoutability
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- Shoutoutability
Jonathan Lighter
- Earliest Known Occurrence of the Term "Hot Dog" Pushed Back to, 1886, (Corrected Citation)
Amy West
- 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)
Amy West
- Earliest Known Occurrence of the Term "Hot Dog" Pushed Back to, 1886, (Corrected Citation)
Amy West
- Earliest Known Occurrence of the Term "Hot Dog" Pushed Back to, 1886, (Corrected Citation)
Amy West
- Earliest Known Occurrence of the Term "Hot Dog" Pushed Back to, 1886, (Corrected Citation)
Laurence Horn
- -challenged
Jonathan Lighter
- -challenged (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Heard on Castle: "=?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=A6_was_=5Fsmited_in_two=5F=22=3B_=22=E2=80=A6_?=was _cleaved in two_" [NT] (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Whatever happened to our neologizers-in-chief? - column in Boston Globe
ADSGarson O'Toole
- to "lip-sync"
Charles C Doyle
- Whatever happened to our neologizers-in-chief? - column in Boston Globe (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- like = 'It goes without saying that...not'
Jonathan Lighter
- Why little, not Viennese?
Joel S. Berson
- "hot dog" vs. hot dog
Joel S. Berson
- "hot dog" vs. hot dog (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Another early QOTY? "recalibrate the compass of conservatism"
Joel S. Berson
- Another early QOTY? "recalibrate the compass of
James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
- vagary
Jonathan Lighter
- "I'm with the party of stupid."
Joel S. Berson
- Heard on Springer
Wilson Gray
- Dolsot
Benjamin Barrett
- big antedating of "Hun" = 'German.'
Jonathan Lighter
- "Run amok" = "Run afoul"
Dave Wilton
- English Words Connected with Being Drunk Published 1930-1940s
Damien Hall
- "hokey cokey"
George Thompson
- G-ful "gnu"
Benjamin Barrett
- ILL, the verb
Joel S. Berson
- ILL, the verb
Benjamin Barrett
- ILL, the verb
Laurence Horn
- ILL, the verb
Wilson Gray
- ILL, the verb
Jonathan Lighter
- ILL, the verb
Shapiro, Fred
- ILL, the verb
Joel S. Berson
- ILL, the verb
Shapiro, Fred
- ILL, the verb
Wilson Gray
- ILL, the verb
Laurence Horn
- ILL, the verb
Joel S. Berson
- ILL, the verb
ADSGarson O'Toole
- ILL, the verb
Hugo
- ILL, the verb
Hugo
- ILL, the verb
Wilson Gray
- ILL, the verb
Wilson Gray
- ILL, the verb
Damien Hall
- Antedating of "Poker Face"
Shapiro, Fred
- Heard on tonight's SAG awards show
Wilson Gray
- cowtailing summary
Arnold Zwicky
- Dictionary conference
Charles C Doyle
- How to pronounce "Wilkes-Barre"
Wilson Gray
- Q: "frowning point"?
Joel S. Berson
- "ample bits" and "pleather"
Joel S. Berson
- Shocker: Broca's Brain not His!
Jonathan Lighter
- 15 years of "getting jiggy" (was Re: Is this a good sentence?)
Ben Zimmer
- Canadian English (was:Re: "ample bits" and "pleather")
Geoffrey Steven Nathan
- franchise
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedating of "Mommy"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Mom"
Shapiro, Fred
- "now he belongs to the ages" or angels?
Stephen Goranson
- OT? -- I suppose, but maybe not
George Thompson
- Facebook: "A _periotic_ table"
Wilson Gray
- Geezer Lingo Banned
Jonathan Lighter
- American hi
Golnaz Jamalifar
- aka = 'in other words'
Jonathan Lighter
- triage
Jonathan Lighter
- Prepper communes
Victor Steinbok
- Further Antedating of "Impressionism"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Impressionist"
Shapiro, Fred
- PLEASE DON'T OPEN MY RECENT E-MAIL! IT IS A VIRUS!
Golnaz Jamalifar
- triage (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
- Times Literary Supplement Review
Shapiro, Fred
- Word (Phrase?) of the Year (so far)?; Rambo'd
Dan Goncharoff
- "an alchemist's recipe for trouble"
Dan Goncharoff
- Flash fiction: For sale: baby shoes, never worn. Did Ernest Hemingway write these famous six words?
ADSGarson O'Toole
- 1916 cites for "jazz" (Day Book, Daily Illini)
Ben Zimmer
- diacritical marks WAS Re: Word (Phrase?) of the Year (so far)?; Rambo'd (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
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