October 2013 Archives by thread
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Ending: Thu Oct 31 23:52:23 UTC 2013
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- Idly wondering: "If it's not one thing, it's two things."
Laurence Horn
- Antedating of "Nihilist"
Shapiro, Fred
- "man or beast"
Wilson Gray
- "I could carve a better man out of a banana"
Jonathan Lighter
- "If it's not one thing, it's two things", and a QOTY nominee
Laurence Horn
- Proverb: A Friend to all, is a Friend to none.
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Choosing a Book Title in the Internet Age: Margaret Atwood and MaddAddam
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Query: dialectal pronunciation of the type "EYE-talian" for "Italian"
Joel S. Berson
- Fred's "American Legal Quotations" scores a hit
Joel S. Berson
- The whole 200 [square] yards
Joel S. Berson
- Choosing a Book Title in the Internet Age: Margaret Atwood and MaddAddam (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- _stomps_ = "shoes"
Wilson Gray
- snake doctor, snake feeder
Joan H. Hall
- Whenever vs. when
Sarkozi, Jason Steve
- techno thriller (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- " … the Tea-Baggers and their _angst_ against Obamacare …"
Wilson Gray
- "hard core" (OED 1936)
Neal Whitman
- "Sesame Aware"
Martin Kaminer
- " the Tea-Baggers and their _angst_ against Obama care "
Joel S. Berson
- OT? A fiendish NYTimes crossword puzzle
Joel S. Berson
- Answered! [ADS-L] OT? A fiendish NYTimes crossword puzzle
Joel S. Berson
- dead fish flopping
Michael Sheehan
- TIME and the new island
Wilson Gray
- William Byrd and the OED
Joel S. Berson
- "troll" and other words with two mommies?
Geoffrey Nunberg
- Antedating of "Puritan"
Shapiro, Fred
- "turducken"
Joel S. Berson
- "Knock, Knock" Not in OED
Shapiro, Fred
- "steal (someone's) thunder", 1858; OED 1900--
Joel S. Berson
- Unintentional transliterated translingual onomastic pun of the year
Jonathan Lighter
- Ben Zimmer in Wall Street Journal
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- The whole ball of wax [1875]
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- The whole shooting match [1880]
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- TIME and the NEW YORKER parody
paul johnson
- English of South Florida
Sarkozi, Jason Steve
- Fwd: Possibly spurious Samuel Adams quotation [RBBernstein]
Joel S. Berson
- Possibly spurious Samuel Adams quotation [RBBernstein]
Baker, John
- "brush fire" [was: Possibly spurious Samuel Adams quotation [RBBernstein]]
Joel S. Berson
- "brush fire"
Joel S. Berson
- SLITHER, n.--another word with two (or 1.5) mommies?
Laurence Horn
- SLITHER, n.--another word with two (or 1.5) mommies?
Wilson Gray
- SLITHER, n.--another word with two (or 1.5) mommies?
Brenda Lester
- SLITHER, n.--another word with two (or 1.5) mommies?
Neal Whitman
- SLITHER, n.--another word with two (or 1.5) mommies?
Laurence Horn
- SLITHER, n.--another word with two (or 1.5) mommies?
W Brewer
- SLITHER, n.--another word with two (or 1.5) mommies?
Laurence Horn
- SLITHER, n.--another word with two (or 1.5) mommies?
Laurence Horn
- SLITHER, n.--another word with two (or 1.5) mommies?
W Brewer
- SLITHER, n.--another word with two (or 1.5) mommies?
Joel S. Berson
- SLITHER, n.--another word with two (or 1.5) mommies?
Victor Steinbok
- SLITHER, n.--another word with two (or 1.5) mommies?
Laurence Horn
- Automatic reply: ADS-L Digest - 6 Oct 2013 to 7 Oct 2013 (#2013-279)
Katy Steinmetz
- Antedatings and possible origin of "in good nick"
Hugo
- Fake quotations in support of historical revisionism [WAS: Possibly spurious Samuel Adams quotation [RBBernstein]]
Victor Steinbok
- The real Sam Adams on the duties of the minority
Joel S. Berson
- ho 'whore' (What Santa Claus might say in some dialects?)
Charles C Doyle
- forty-five = Jew?
Stephen Goranson
- The king is dead!
Wilson Gray
- Words beginning graduate students don't know
Geoffrey Steven Nathan
- Word: extradyadic
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Antedating of "scare quotes"
Hugo
- "Debt ceiling deniers" -- POTY?
Joel S. Berson
- on "palisade"
Arnold Zwicky
- A new use to me …
Wilson Gray
- Phailin, beyond the pale
Joel S. Berson
- tent-pissing follow-up
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Saying: Shiver looking for a spine to run up (alternative shudder)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- unskew
Victor Steinbok
- not quite QOTY...
Victor Steinbok
- sticky navs
Victor Steinbok
- Any outstanding errors in this?
Dan Goodman
- Saying: The game is never over until the last man is out. (1891)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- OED RUFFLER n1 and RIFLER n1
Robin Hamilton
- "This is a _clean_ site."
hw gray
- Antedating of "flat (battery)"
Hugo
- Big moment for Inglish syntax
Jonathan Lighter
- Fun with phrases: "It felt good, it felt right!"
Jonathan Lighter
- votiving
Herb Stahlke
- votiving (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- going to hell
Arnold Zwicky
- "Judeocide" -- not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- Kangaroo
Dave Wilton
- Horganing
Victor Steinbok
- Tortilla Coast
Victor Steinbok
- Trench Journals and Unit Magazines of the First World War
Shapiro, Fred
- Eskimos : snow :: English speakers : lying
Joel S. Berson
- Antedatings of "umpteen"
Hugo
- "jankers" antedated to 1914
Stephen Goranson
- Ancient wisdom, or my own?
George Thompson
- BTONY nomination
Joel S. Berson
- Triviums
hw gray
- "Incarcerative" Not in Dictionaries
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Shell-Shocked"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "P.O.W."
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Tear Gas"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Fox-Hole"
Shapiro, Fred
- OED Entry for "Fox-Hole"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "oojah" and "oojahkapivi"
Jonathan Lighter
- Congratulations, Joseph Jenkins and Charles Walker --
Joel S. Berson
- junk DNA (1963)
Ben Zimmer
- "Because NOUN" (aka "because" as a preposition)
Neal Whitman
- Table a motion
Dan Goodman
- "All wool and a yard wide" (1866?, 1876-1880)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- "All wool and [greater than 1] yards wide" (1882-1913)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- Antedating of "shell-shock"
Hugo
- Antedating of "can't fight his way out of a paper bag"
Hugo
- Quote: "There are only 90,000 people out there...."
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedating of Military Usage of "Tank"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "U-Boat"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedatings of "everything but the kitchen sink [or stove]"
Hugo
- "Le mand é un _whatsap_ a mi marido: Paco cariño, …"
hw gray
- uncertain quote
David A. Daniel
- -pocalypse of the year? airpocalypse
Joel S. Berson
- tech surge
Neal Whitman
- to house = to eat
Grant Barrett
- Y'all gnome sane?
hw gray
- WOTD: Fecundiphobia
Victor Steinbok
- WOTY suggestion
Arnold Zwicky
- uncertain quote (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- A Ben Franklin quotation?
Joel S. Berson
- Ancient wisdom, or my own? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- Automatic reply: WOTY suggestion
Hunter, Lynne R CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-PACIFIC, 71700
- Antedatings of "[blonde] bombshell"
Hugo
- "mnemonic possession"
Joel S. Berson
- Antedatings of "[blonde] bombshell" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- OT: Solomon Northrop (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- Comparing nice
Joel S. Berson
- GO + present participle
Benjamin Torbert
- Heard: "She likes to _dress gig_"
hw gray
- Zombies of the Bible
Joel S. Berson
- The missing past progressive
Laurence Horn
- Twitter's new favourite words
Hugo
- Antedating of "uh-huh"
Hugo
- Denying climate
Charles C Doyle
- OT: Re: "mnemonic possession"
Amy West
- "mnemonic possession" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- Antedating of "duckboard"
Hugo
- Mississibbi mnemonic
Joel S. Berson
- "Miss" vs. "Ma'am"
Spanbock/Svoboda-Spanbock
- "Moby sex"?
Dan Goodman
- Tom Lehrer's "Elements" (was Re: "mnemonic possession")
Neal Whitman
- BBC News - 10 things we didn't know last week
Victor Steinbok
- Urban Dictionary definition dates?
Neal Whitman
- Fun with phrases: "Why am I not surprised?"
Jonathan Lighter
- Ben Zimmer in WSJ on "sugarcoating"
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- early "jazz" in Variety
Ben Zimmer
- Fun with phrases: "for all the wrong reasons"
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedating of "Condominium" (Apartment)
Shapiro, Fred
- Facebook in Catalan
hw gray
- Not in YBQ
Jonathan Lighter
- OT: Re: "mnemonic possession" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- Phobias for no apparent reason
Joel S. Berson
- "Moby sex"? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- *Far* OT: Phobia
hw gray
- Automatische Antwort: ADS-L Digest - 27 Oct 2013 to 28 Oct 2013 (#2013-300)
Julia Ulrich
- [SPAM:###] Re: "Moby sex"?
Arnold Zwicky
- Zombie Car
David A. Daniel
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