May 2013 Archives by thread
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- Cocteau Quote About Dictionaries
ADSGarson O'Toole
- A Facebook friend noting a pet peeve
David Bowie
- "Narrative" again
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedating of "Gin Rummy" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- Antedating of "Persnickety" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- Fun with phrases: "Ripped from today's headlines" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- Antedating of "drone" (noun)
Hugo
- "I feel you."
Jonathan Lighter
- "pigeon" -- French slang
Joel S. Berson
- Dialect map by mobile phones
Tyler Schnoebelen
- Premature Donation
Michael Sheehan
- FW: "pigeon" -- obscure English slang
David K. Barnhart
- "Boston Strong"
Jonathan Lighter
- "I feel you." (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- "Narrative" again (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- euonym and caconym
Jonathan Lighter
- "pigeon" -- obscure English slang
Benjamin Barrett
- early "jazz" in Variety
Ben Zimmer
- back-formation of the day
Laurence Horn
- How to say "either" and "neither"
Jonathan Lighter
- New crashblossom
Victor Steinbok
- creative as noun
Victor Steinbok
- the early days of "baloney"
Ben Zimmer
- In print at last: _break nasty_
Wilson Gray
- Need to replace the IPA
Tom Zurinskas
- suck it up (figurative); high five (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- Joke: I'm looking here because the light is better (1932)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- _camerista_ OED: "No dictionary entries found for ‘camerista’."
Wilson Gray
- participate in = 'partake of'
Jonathan Lighter
- antedating "cult," mod.; "obscurian"
Jonathan Lighter
- Blog Spam
Geoffrey Steven Nathan
- deny = 'to affirm (the opposite of something)'
Jonathan Lighter
- twerking
Victor Steinbok
- fashionista coinage
ADSGarson O'Toole
- "icon"
Jonathan Lighter
- Words: fivehead and fourhead
ADSGarson O'Toole
- and from the annals of creative morphology...
Laurence Horn
- material on the future of English?
Dan Goodman
- Short blog post of Canadianisms
Benjamin Barrett
- Saying: A man who will pun, will pick a pocket. Request for 1722 citation.
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Heard: an exercise for the reader
Wilson Gray
- Request solved: Saying: Puns and pickpockets - Also Contemporary Legend: Man in the Middle
ADSGarson O'Toole
- The brainchild behind
Neal Whitman
- Facebook: "gas _gosling_ vehicle" [NT]
Dan Goncharoff
- For the Imperfect Mom
Joel S. Berson
- Heard on "Judge Mathis": [Inz] "money"
Wilson Gray
- proto-proto-proto...
Victor Steinbok
- Call for Papers: 2014 American Dialect Society Annual Meeting
Grant Barrett
- ice-age language on NPR
David K. Barnhart
- Metcalf on Cohen in Tablet
Ben Zimmer
- Word: snerk
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Quote: The common law consists of about half a dozen obvious propositions, but unfortunately . . . (Lord Sterndale)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- proto-proto-proto... (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- More from Springer
Wilson Gray
- OT: On the retention of "fossil" words
Wilson Gray
- "jail fever", 1720
Joel S. Berson
- scrub = 'search diligently; scour'
Jonathan Lighter
- Documentary "Google And The World Brain" reviewed at Tech Crunch
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Adwords - the expensive intersection of language and commerce
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Jon Stewart vs. Stephen Colbert
Wilson Gray
- Keiki
Benjamin Barrett
- Cory Booker and Carl Cannon tweet about a contested quote attributed to Mark Twain
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Facebook: "The _mother-load_ of recordings!" [NT]
Wilson Gray
- cicadapocolypse
David K. Barnhart
- more on _cicadapocalypse_
David K. Barnhart
- Falling Pianos (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- Facebook: "The _mother-load_ of recordings!"
Joel S. Berson
- Automatic reply: ADS-L Digest - 9 May 2013 to 10 May 2013 (#2013-131)
Katy Steinmetz
- Antedating of "Guard" (Basketball)
Shapiro, Fred
- "collude" = "create cutting-edge work with an avant-garde artist"
Joel S. Berson
- "the iron dice"
Jonathan Lighter
- An "expert" opinion :-)
Wilson Gray
- packaged
Jonathan Lighter
- whiteface, yellowface
Benjamin Barrett
- NYTimes: Do They Really Tawk Like That? Not Now
Dan Goncharoff
- Antedating of "Guard" (Basketball) (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- Document!
Eoin C Bairéad
- "should/would" redux
Joel S. Berson
- annals of ejaculation
Arnold Zwicky
- odd use of "cabaret"
George Thompson
- "jew" as adjective -- not in OED?
George Thompson
- two long articles on slang
George Thompson
- "jew" as adjective and compound nouns vs. adj. + n.?
Joel S. Berson
- literally, again
Victor Steinbok
- Singer/finger
Jim Parish
- meme?
Victor Steinbok
- Treatment of hyphen in the on-line OED?
Joel S. Berson
- crowbar Hilton
Victor Steinbok
- "cream pie" not in the OED? And some other culinary treats of 1886
Joel S. Berson
- namespotting, 2013; not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- empathy antedated to 1895
Stephen Goranson
- motorcade (1910)
Ben Zimmer
- hot dog -- write-up by Allan Metcalf in Lingua Franca
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Facbook: " =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=A6_?=closing a school to _lesson_ traffic."
Wilson Gray
- Another immaculate conception
Benjamin Barrett
- strawl
Charles C Doyle
- "hair drive"
Laurence Horn
- "roundabout"
Joel S. Berson
- "offshore" as preposition?
Mark Mandel
- "offshore/onshore" adv., or prep.?
Joel S. Berson
- Vocabula Review
Robert Fiske
- -upedness, -downedness, -innedness, -outedness
Neal Whitman
- Nevada and Navajo
Tom Zurinskas
- The Times discovers urbandic
Laurence Horn
- New fieldwork for DARE
Joan H. Hall
- Trivia: How to pronounce "gif"
Wilson Gray
- Automatic reply: ADS-L Digest - 20 May 2013 to 21 May 2013 (#2013-142)
Katy Steinmetz
- The re-elevation of "shit"
Benjamin Barrett
- linguistic fieldwork questions was New fieldwork for DARE
Amy West
- OED
Steve Richardson
- OED
Shapiro, Fred
- OED
Jesse Sheidlower
- Antedating of "Bowie Knife"
Shapiro, Fred
- OED (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- Facebook post
Wilson Gray
- digital divide - origin of the term
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Bowie knife, message from Barry Popik
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- digital divide - JUST A BIT EARLIER
David K. Barnhart
- ship, shipping, shippers, shipwar, shipping war, shipable
ADSGarson O'Toole
- ship, shipping, shippers, shipwar, shipping war, shipable
Laurence Horn
- ship, shipping, shippers, shipwar, shipping war, shipable
Jeff Prucher
- Automatic reply: ADS-L Digest - 22 May 2013 to 23 May 2013 (#2013-144)
Damien Hall
- How to speak Franglais (BBC)
Victor Steinbok
- Juice and water-based smoothies
Benjamin Barrett
- _flushing_
Wilson Gray
- Sociosexual politics and the Google algorithm for constructing synonym sets
ADSGarson O'Toole
- "step on =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=A6_?=dick"
Wilson Gray
- "no statutory vape"
Dan Goodman
- Eggcorn: levered for louvered
Benjamin Barrett
- Antedatings and Etymology of "Robot"
Shapiro, Fred
- More RE: Antedatings and Etymology of "Robot"
Shapiro, Fred
- foreign words we could use
Tom Zurinskas
- Memorial Day Verse - "It is the Soldier, not the . . ."
ADSGarson O'Toole
- gephyrophobia -- WOTY?
Joel S. Berson
- "emerginista"
Dan Goodman
- "Hamburger" warmed over
Joel S. Berson
- It had to happen.
Wilson Gray
- "imminent domain"
Joel S. Berson
- cronut
Victor Steinbok
- "all the ADJ-er"
Laurence Horn
- cronut, vog, Prancercise
Arnold Zwicky
- Sprig > spring: possible eggcorn
Benjamin Barrett
- Eggcorn "sugar code"
Gordon, Matthew J.
- Word: ratchet, ratchetness
ADSGarson O'Toole
- MERS entry in progress
David K. Barnhart
- From a games site: dialect clash
Wilson Gray
- go to auction
Benjamin Barrett
- new (?) newspaper database (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
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