September 2013 Archives by thread
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Ending: Mon Sep 30 23:40:55 UTC 2013
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- "Difficult Languages"
Herb Stahlke
- Dating of "apols"
Hugo
- Antedatings of "babymoon"
Hugo
- Antedating of "fauxhawk"
Hugo
- Antedating of "FOMO"
Hugo
- Dating of "chandelier earring"
Hugo
- Dating of "geek chic"
Hugo
- Dating of "LDR"
Hugo
- Dating of "me time"
Hugo
- Dating of "MOOC"
Hugo
- Dating of "space tourism" and "space tourist"
Hugo
- Antedating of "squee"
Hugo
- Negative . . .
Charles C Doyle
- What's an << orker >> and what does he/she do with cows?
W Brewer
- Request search for anecdote in Variety - "I insured my voice for $250,000"
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Antedatings of "give/show you what for"
Hugo
- tent-pissing antedate?
Laurence Horn
- "APP": a new (?) meanaing
Charles C Doyle
- Quote: Success is never final and failure never fatal. It=?windows-1252?Q?=92s_?=courage that counts. Churchill or Budweiser?
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Saying: The man who drinks whiskey before he is forty is a fool . . .
ADSGarson O'Toole
- tent-pissing follow-up
Laurence Horn
- Counting by 10s vs. 20s
Michael Everson
- "kibosh" and politics
Stephen Goranson
- Meet the Curlyssant
Dan Goncharoff
- "kibosh" and politics [and current state thereof]
Joel S. Berson
- "increase...than"
Mark Mandel
- Anecdote: Physicist Niels Bohr and the horseshoe of indeterminate luckiness
ADSGarson O'Toole
- (Off Topic) Wired UK short note about Quote Investigator
ADSGarson O'Toole
- not-quite snowclone
Victor Steinbok
- Repartee: Oscar Wilde: I wish I had said that. James Whistler: You will, Oscar, you will
ADSGarson O'Toole
- "culture is what remains when all else is forgotten" -- an original source?
Geoffrey Nunberg
- "ecclesiastics" (matters ecclesiastical), no quotes in OED2
Joel S. Berson
- "wish-wash", sense 2, 1697; antedates OED2 1842--
Joel S. Berson
- The whole nine yards (1908, 1912, 1914)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- The full nine yards (1907)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- First Reactions to Bonnie Taylor-Blake's Latest "Whole Nine Yards" Discoveries
Shapiro, Fred
- The whole nine yards (1907 - 1916)
Baker, John
- To Take a Nutty
Baker, John
- Automatic reply: ADS-L Digest - 5 Sep 2013 to 6 Sep 2013 (#2013-248)
Damien Hall
- Antedating of "Curve" and "Curve Ball"
Shapiro, Fred
- "hedge in the cuckoo"
Joel S. Berson
- Slight antedatings of "goldendoodle"
Hugo
- -shed, -scape
Arnold Zwicky
- walk-offs before "walk off"
Geoffrey Nunberg
- More prophet-without-honor
Wilson Gray
- Antedating of "advice animal"
Hugo
- Antedating of "copypasta"
Hugo
- Antedating of "creepypasta"
Hugo
- The Eck [was: walk-offs before "walk off"]
Joel S. Berson
- Quotation? (time travel's strongest counterargument)
Joel S. Berson
- Antedating of "Counterculture"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Double Standard"
Shapiro, Fred
- Automatic reply: ADS-L Digest - 9 Sep 2013 to 10 Sep 2013 (#2013-252)
Damien Hall
- Antedatings of "image macro"
Hugo
- Antedating of "kthxbai"
Hugo
- THE tenure track
Geoffrey Steven Nathan
- Tall latte
Benjamin Barrett
- Let's do this
Benjamin Barrett
- Facebookism: "It's _flash-out_ TREASON!" [NT]
Wilson Gray
- Antedatings of "O RLY?"
Hugo
- Palindrome: Able was I ere I saw Elba
ADSGarson O'Toole
- question on "the nine yards of blank paper" 1917
Stephen Goranson
- some terminology developments
Victor Steinbok
- Custom =?iso-8859-1?Q?=95_Wedding_=95_Repair_=95_?=Classes
Joel S. Berson
- Seasigh, New Jersey
Joel S. Berson
- a snappy quote, not in YBQ
George Thompson
- Glass o' tea [was: tall latte]
Joel S. Berson
- Cup o' tea {was: Tall latte]
Joel S. Berson
- Evidence on "Yankee" Etymology
Baker, John
- Metaphor: chewing gum for the eyes (or ears)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Antedatings of "photobomb"
Hugo
- Does this make it official?
Wilson Gray
- Buzzword: Datafication, Datification
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Heard: "=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=A6_?=a hidden _cachet_ of drugs." [NT]
Wilson Gray
- Heard: "=?windows-1252?Q?=85_?=a hidden _cachet_ of drugs." [NT]
ADSGarson O'Toole
- meliorist antedated to 1834
Stephen Goranson
- Heard: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?=85_?=a hidden _cachet_ of drugs." [NT]
Joel S. Berson
- nine yards as a measurement for a fancy dress
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Tiger Woods: oscilated
Victor Steinbok
- Antedatings of "to paint the town red"
Hugo
- my mistake RE: [ADS-L] Antedatings of "to paint the town red"
Stephen Goranson
- Graffito: "To Be Is To Do" "To Do Is To Be" "Do Be Do Be Do"
ADSGarson O'Toole
- "bucket list" before the movie?
Laurence Horn
- heart attack in the eye
Victor Steinbok
- "Who Really Said That?"
Stephen Goranson
- Antedatings of "toddy" and "julep" (in the same book)
Hugo
- Link: A day in the life of an OED researcher by Jon Danziger, and a few misc links
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Another example of the value of the OED to public intellectuals
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Etymology of "It's been a slice!", "It's been a real slice!"?
Hugo
- another quote
David A. Daniel
- Adage: Church is not out 'till the singing's done. (July 12, 1913)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Antedatings of "right as rain"
Hugo
- Pigging out at Golden Corral's "troth"
Barbara Need
- Antedatings of "[all] the rage"
Hugo
- Antedating of "Tiddlywink"
Shapiro, Fred
- Further Antedating of "Tiddlywink"
Shapiro, Fred
- OT Ad: "Remastered reissue CD that looks like _*vinyl*_!" [NT]
Wilson Gray
- Proposal: Kill the apostrophe! by James Harbeck
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Unsubscribe
Kathryn Remlinger
- Collection of libfixes on TheWeek.com
Neal Whitman
- Antedatings of computing "wizard"
Hugo
- Remarkable Citation for "Tiddlywink," etc.
Shapiro, Fred
- Education Sec Duncan is awe-dropper
Tom Zurinskas
- Slight Antedating of "Feminism"
Shapiro, Fred
- Automatic reply: ADS-L Digest - 19 Sep 2013 to 20 Sep 2013 (#2013-262)
Katy Steinmetz
- Kafkaesque antedated to 1939
Stephen Goranson
- Caribbean Newspapers, Series 1, 1718-1876
Joel S. Berson
- Unusual use of "Tarheel" (1848, 1852)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- Unusual use of "Tarheel" (1848, 1852)
Joel S. Berson
- Unusual use of "Tarheel" (1848, 1852)
Benjamin Barrett
- Unusual use of "Tarheel" (1848, 1852)
Benjamin Barrett
- Unusual use of "Tarheel" (1848, 1852)
Dan Goncharoff
- Unusual use of "Tarheel" (1848, 1852)
Victor Steinbok
- Unusual use of "Tarheel" (1848, 1852)
Wilson Gray
- Unusual use of "Tarheel" (1848, 1852)
George Thompson
- Unusual use of "Tarheel" (1848, 1852)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- Unusual use of "Tarheel" (1848, 1852)
Joel S. Berson
- Unusual use of "Tarheel" (1848, 1852)
Joel S. Berson
- Unusual use of "Tarheel" (1848, 1852)
Joel S. Berson
- Unusual use of "Tarheel" (1848, 1852)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- Unusual use of "Tarheel" (1848, 1852)
Joel S. Berson
- Unusual use of "Tarheel" (1848, 1852)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- Short news item: Computer analysis of linguistic cues in tweets
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Kraut-cutters (1892)
Joel S. Berson
- Plimsoll line
Victor Steinbok
- Query: dialectal pronunciation of the type "EYE-talian" for "Italian"
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Anecdote: Samuel Johnson's dictionary and naughty words: Have you been looking for them?
ADSGarson O'Toole
- I'm as pure as the driven slush. (Tallulah Bankhead 1941)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- still more on _Ital_
David Barnhart
- Anecdote: When I wrote it, only God and I knew the meaning; now God alone knows
ADSGarson O'Toole
- JSTOR subscription program called JPASS
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Antedating of "United States" and "United States of America"
Shapiro, Fred
- "egotistigraphy", 1866; not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- Antedatings of "haywire"
Hugo
- Transliterate this! [in Russian]
Wilson Gray
- Heard: Law & Order, Criminal Intent
Wilson Gray
- In print: _break nasty_
Wilson Gray
- Antedatings of "spam"
Hugo
- SECOL 2014
Cramer, Jennifer S
- "The Good Old Days"
Jonathan Lighter
- Street numbers redux
Joel S. Berson
- "croutcatcher" and "hunky"
Joel S. Berson
- Quote: Let=?windows-1252?Q?=92s_?=all go to see Miss Hepburn and hear her run the gamut of emotions from A to B! (Jan 6, 1934)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Fwd: Mascara lights
Grant Barrett
- Mascara lights
ADSGarson O'Toole
- If the OED has "benefit of clergy", then why not ...
Joel S. Berson
- "hunky" and "dory"
Joel S. Berson
- "Yay long"
Jim Parish
- Antedating of "Incunabula"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Eschatology"
Shapiro, Fred
- Saying: Investment Advice: The market will fluctuate
ADSGarson O'Toole
- More poetic than "scarab": "tumble-turd", 1737 & 1743, antedates OED2 1754--
Joel S. Berson
- "tumble-dung", 1763; antedates OED2 1775--
Joel S. Berson
- Dhimmitude
Benjamin Barrett
- Saying: Keep your friends close but your enemies closer. (Suggestion for YBQ and DMP)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- crazy X-adj
Victor Steinbok
- "man or beast"
Wilson Gray
- Antedatings of "throw a wobbly"
Hugo
- FW: New Yorker: AMAZING, PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED MARK TWAIN QUOTES
Shapiro, Fred
- "mushroom family", not in OED (except in one quotation)
Joel S. Berson
- Idly wondering: "If it's not one thing, it's two things."
Wilson Gray
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