October 2013 Archives by thread
      
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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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