November 2013 Archives by thread
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- Automatic reply: ADS-L Digest - 30 Oct 2013 to 31 Oct 2013 (#2013-303)
Lynne Murphy
- Celebrity zombies? Hide the kids
W Brewer
- Req Baltimore Sun 1970 - Quote: never lose a chance of missing an opportunity
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Decontextualized positive "that"
Jonathan Lighter
- Facebook speech-recognition glitch
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- The culture war
Joel S. Berson
- "loblolly"
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- PCMag.com: " … issue a _rulemaking_ on the subject …"
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- barefoot-run
Jonathan Lighter
- Blood pressure
Charles C Doyle
- The hyphen *still* has a use
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- early history of "glitch"
Ben Zimmer
- Antedating of TV
Baker, John
- Repressed memory of prescriptivism awakened
George Thompson
- The hyphen still has a use
Brian Hitchcock
- Headline grammar
victor steinbok
- Perhaps of interest: EBONY archives
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- "ransomeware", not in OED3; GBooks 2005--
Joel S. Berson
- "Goldilocks zone" -- not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- Not in OED: parapolemical; parapolemics; adjectival
Jonathan Lighter
- Q re searching Google Books
Joel S. Berson
- DOTY candidates
Laurence Horn
- Deictic 'go'
Benjamin Torbert
- WOTY candidate: "couchable"
Laurence Horn
- buttressing the kitchen sink antedating
Christopher Philippo
- homo dudens
Geoffrey Nunberg
- Google Groups search tips
Hugo
- Facebook, again.
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- hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia
David A. Daniel
- "All yours"
Dan Goncharoff
- hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- Not exactly free-floating '-ish'
Geoffrey Steven Nathan
- FW: Dude supplemental -- [message from Peter Reitan]
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Antedating of Read Between the Lines (1829)
Baker, John
- Company & technology names
hw gray
- Heard WRT the facial-hair style
hw gray
- When did "your" weather forecast start??
David Barnhart
- Johnson's Dictionary and bang, budge, fuss, gambler, shabby, and touchy
Joel S. Berson
- and speaking of English "subjunctives"...
Laurence Horn
- Superfluous wheels again
Neal Whitman
- a linguistic universal--huh?
Laurence Horn
- Ben Zimmer in WSJ: "Grand Bargain"
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "parachute", 1793, interdates OED3 1784--1796; "falling screen" not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- world renouned
W Brewer
- Q: "lanechtskipt"
Joel S. Berson
- "clean conveyance" - not in OED?
Joel S. Berson
- WOTY candidate (or at least a new item to me)--"chancer"
Laurence Horn
- earliest abbreviation of "United States" as "U.S."?
Christopher Philippo
- Q: "lanechtskipt" -- perhaps "lanDechtskip[e]t"?
Joel S. Berson
- Antedating of "peachy-keen"
Hugo
- Antedating of "sweet dreams"
Hugo
- from a place of love
Jonathan Lighter
- Q: "ship of the desert"
Joel S. Berson
- ADS-L Digest - 10 Nov 2013 to 11 Nov 2013 (#2013-314)
Amy West
- "lanechtskipt" =? "landish-ship"
Joel S. Berson
- Fwd: Re: [ADS-L] "lanechtskipt" =? "landish-ship"
Joel S. Berson
- Catamounts, sea bears, and camels
Joel S. Berson
- big antedating of "Hun" = 'German.'
Jonathan Lighter
- "lanechtskipt" < "langnekschip"
Joel S. Berson
- At last, "that"
Joel S. Berson
- _long-dick_
hw gray
- Thirteen and the odd
Michael Quinion
- WOTY nomination: Obamacare
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- Quote: Just walk beside me and be my friend. Albert Camus or summer camp song?
ADSGarson O'Toole
- The "whight bare" circa 1735
Joel S. Berson
- "to a hair", 1733 (interdating)
Joel S. Berson
- Antedating
Michael Everson
- [A little OT, perhaps] Judge dismisses authors' case against Google Books
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- Google wins book-scanning case: judge finds =?windows-1252?Q?=93fair_use=2C=94_cites_many_benefits_=97_?=Tech News and Analysis
victor steinbok
- "porte-monnaie" 1847; antedates OED3 1850--
Joel S. Berson
- Quote about an hourglass by Jean Paul Richter - Request help with German
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Quote attributed to Indira Gandhi about work and credit =?windows-1252?Q?=96_?=request Times of India search
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Quote: Supposed Lincoln quote traces to Alphonse Karr - help with French requested
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Article: The Phylogeny of Little Red Riding Hood
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Facebook: "I am _abhorred_ that... " [NT]
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- Queries About Colorful Expressions
Shapiro, Fred
- "magic lantern" 1743; interdates OED3 1696--1753
Joel S. Berson
- "catoptic" (perhaps) 1807
Joel S. Berson
- Anecdote: There=?windows-1252?Q?=92s_?=got to be a pony somewhere. (February 1953)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Phrase: happy as a clam; happy as a clam at high water
ADSGarson O'Toole
- a scup; scupping
George Thompson
- for your collection of inverse "substitute" examples...
Laurence Horn
- a scup; scupping (attn: Jesse)
Joel S. Berson
- Antedating of "selfie"
Ben Zimmer
- Antedating of "self-portrait"
Hugo
- "Private Equity" Not in Dictionaries
Shapiro, Fred
- scup; scupping
Brian Hitchcock
- Monkey see(s), monkey do(es), 1901, 1893
Neal Whitman
- Monkey see(s), monkey do(es), 1901, 1893
Jesse Sheidlower
- Monkey see(s), monkey do(es), 1901, 1893
Neal Whitman
- Monkey see(s), monkey do(es), 1901, 1893
Joel S. Berson
- Monkey see(s), monkey do(es), 1901, 1893
Ben Zimmer
- Monkey see(s), monkey do(es), 1901, 1893
Geoffrey Steven Nathan
- Monkey see(s), monkey do(es), 1901, 1893
Mark Mandel
- Monkey see(s), monkey do(es), 1901, 1893
Laurence Horn
- Monkey see(s), monkey do(es), 1901, 1893
Amy West
- Monkey see(s), monkey do(es), 1901, 1893
W Brewer
- Monkey see(s), monkey do(es), 1901, 1893
Neal Whitman
- "will have" = "must have; did"
Jonathan Lighter
- suspected Lincoln quote
David Barnhart
- antedating _six-feet under_
David Barnhart
- Feet first [Was: antedating _six-feet under_]
Victor Steinbok
- Phrase: Bitcoin Just Waterfalled
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Conditional imperfection
Neal Whitman
- Automatische Antwort: ADS-L Digest - 19 Nov 2013 to 20 Nov 2013 (#2013-323)
Julia Ulrich
- firsts
Victor Steinbok
- "come to Limerick" 1860-1861
Stephen Goranson
- antedating of "Fire-Eater" [was: "come to Limerick" 1860-1861]
Joel S. Berson
- WOTS? (Word of the season) -- Thanksganukah
Joel S. Berson
- six feet under (ground) (1857)
David Barnhart
- "disunionist", no quotations in OED [Was:"come to Limerick" 1860-1861]
Joel S. Berson
- "Kubla Khan and Ollie"
Laurence Horn
- _Friendsgiving_ (2007)
David Barnhart
- "walk-away money"
Joel S. Berson
- unsubscribe
Judit Nagy
- Some examples of rhyming slang
John Doe
- Last Plea for Most Notable Quotations of 2013
Shapiro, Fred
- Test
Joel S. Berson
- Test 2
Joel S. Berson
- Query: /w/ for /r/ in any British dialects?
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "camera-mounted drone"?
Joel S. Berson
- "Let's do this"
Laurence Horn
- Quote: Everything has been said before =?windows-1252?Q?=85_Andr=E9_?=Gide.
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Quote: One should try anything once except incest and folk-dancing (1935)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Subject: Re: "camera-mounted drone"?
Brian Hitchcock
- Going viral? Thanksgivukkah; and WOTSY
Joel S. Berson
- Perhaps of interest...
John Doe
- OT: Thanksgivukah calendar question was Re: Going viral? Thanksgivukkah; and WOTSY
Amy West
- OT: Thanksgivukkah calendar question ...; and WOTSY
Joel S. Berson
- "cripplingly good"
George Thompson
- eVitation
David Barnhart
- Random notes for WOTY
David Barnhart
- Random Notes on WOTY #2
David Barnhart
- "idle rich", "idle poor", noun phrases, 1834; Daniel Webster, not J.S. Mill
Joel S. Berson
- "turn-out" [strike], 1793; antedates OED2 sense 2 1806--
Joel S. Berson
- Twitter's loved and hated words (WOTY: thot, bae, ratchet)
Hugo
- Canadian Black Friday
Dave Wilton
- Random Notes for WOTY #3
David Barnhart
- "to drive gate"--new construction?
Laurence Horn
- Drowning and Death
Baker, John
- Black Friday comes to Britain
Joel S. Berson
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