August 2014 Archives by thread
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Ending: Sun Aug 31 23:34:28 UTC 2014
Messages: 479
- Confusion, even at the highest level
Randy Alexander
- Facebook: "get out of _hawk_"
Herb Stahlke
- "Growler"
Laurence Horn
- one in the same
Herb Stahlke
- "by the each" again
Joel S. Berson
- Subject-line of a political e-mail
Wilson Gray
- "with Frances and me"
Wilson Gray
- How toll (rhymes with "doll") are you
Tom Zurinskas
- "harsh", verb, "to speak unkindly"?; not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- "When you _victim-blame_..."
Ben Zimmer
- Way OT: "Mademoiselle from Armentieres"
Jonathan Lighter
- hack = 'clever expedient'
Jonathan Lighter
- [SPAM] Way OT: "Mademoiselle from Armentieres"
Jim Parish
- Google Books no longer sorting by "Custom range" of date?
Victor Steinbok
- Antedating of "Byte"
Shapiro, Fred
- Phrase: saved you a click (clickbait spoilers)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- "Embiggen" Not in OED
Shapiro, Fred
- Another Interesting Thing About "Embiggen"
Shapiro, Fred
- A font for all languages - no tofu
Tom Zurinskas
- Book on Vietnam War Slang
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- "Will _SANG 4_ FOOD"
Wilson Gray
- "Nocebo" = the opposite of a placebo
Tom Zurinskas
- Domesticated slang
Michael Sheehan
- Antedating of "Hello"
Shapiro, Fred
- "Play me didgeridoo"
Wilson Gray
- QUILTBAG
Bill Mullins
- OED -- Problems with CRACKMANS and RUFFMANS
Robin Hamilton
- 2008 normcore
Hugo
- QUILTBAG (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- Tennessee Walking Horse
Bill Mullins
- “Like” just means, “Uh huh”
Baron, Dennis E
- Antedating of "Friend" (= Quaker)
Shapiro, Fred
- Domesticating slang
Jonathan Lighter
- missile silo (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- 'noose' = news
Bergdahl, David
- More Facebook: "lay and wait"
Wilson Gray
- Anybody here noticed this anywhere? More Facebook
Wilson Gray
- bangarang
Jonathan Lighter
- hone down into
Herb Stahlke
- QOTY
Jonathan Lighter
- Book on Vietnam War Slang (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- Computational Linguistics of Twitter
Dan Goncharoff
- catnip for the ladies
Jonathan Lighter
- on the fritz--on the friz
Stephen Goranson
- "Even his name means wanker."
Jonathan Lighter
- body = 'a human being as capable of feeling physical pain'
Jonathan Lighter
- jihottie
Victor Steinbok
- a "credible alternative"
Jonathan Lighter
- A Facebooker from St. Louis
Wilson Gray
- Quote: What is originality? It is merely undetected plagiarism. (Herbert Paul, 1896)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- *correction* RE: on the fritz--on the friz
Stephen Goranson
- More from CNN
Jonathan Lighter
- slight antedating: "million-dollar wound"
Jonathan Lighter
- Headline
Wilson Gray
- sammie
Jonathan Lighter
- profanity = 'obscene word or phrase'
Jonathan Lighter
- sammie - babytalk
Tom Zurinskas
- "The Land that God Forgot"
Jonathan Lighter
- haymaker (boxing) antedated (?) to 1899
Stephen Goranson
- Quote family: The works Shakespeare were not written by Shakspeare but by another man of the same name
ADSGarson O'Toole
- YouTube caption
Wilson Gray
- an antedating "how to"?
Beth Young
- QOTD
Jonathan Lighter
- uprise = 'to escalate or worsen'
Jonathan Lighter
- "make love"
Jonathan Lighter
- slight antedating: "million-dollar wound" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- Rogeting
Laurence Horn
- minus out = 'disregard'
Jonathan Lighter
- an antedating "how to"? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- BuzzFeed deletes thousands of old articles
ADSGarson O'Toole
- G[ood]'day
Joel S. Berson
- kurobuta: metaphony to kurabuta
Benjamin Barrett
- Interesting headline in WaPo
victor steinbok
- Yet more angst of lack of words for X
victor steinbok
- More butts
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedating determinative
Randy Alexander
- welcomely
Jonathan Lighter
- Early Example of "Make Love" Meaning "Have Sex"
Shapiro, Fred
- two snits (no friz?)
Stephen Goranson
- bamaw = 'grandmother'
Jonathan Lighter
- Gentlemen of the Pivot
George Thompson
- Antedating of Euphemistic Sense of "Make Love"
Shapiro, Fred
- "... in Outside Chicago"
Dan Goncharoff
- "fritz" from "frig"?
Joel S. Berson
- Chester Drawer
caitlin o
- I say "Lusitan-i-ay"
Jonathan Lighter
- Fashionista coinage coverage in The Chronicle of Higher Education
ADSGarson O'Toole
- google news archive (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- Fwd: RE: "Sun-glass", 1817; antedates OED2 sense (b)
Joel S. Berson
- "can of corn"
Charles C Doyle
- "can of corn" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- acetabula et calculi
Bill Mullins
- moneymaker
Jonathan Lighter
- grocers' poles [Was: "can of corn"]
Joel S. Berson
- on the fritz and friz--two spellings, and two pronunciations
Stephen Goranson
- Precise Citation for Major Antedating of Euphemistic Sense of "Make Love"
Shapiro, Fred
- "Streamers"
Wilson Gray
- :-)) Re: [ADS-L] "can of corn"
Joel S. Berson
- "Circus" in OED2; quotation 1839
Joel S. Berson
- "But it was all for not"
Bill Mullins
- "Bikeway Joint moves forward"
Joel S. Berson
- Historical dictionary of French?
Joel S. Berson
- Query: Origin of "give/have the willies"
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Query: Origin of "give/have the willies". (2nd try)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Query (3rd and final try): Origin of "give/have the willies"
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- to "own"
Jonathan Lighter
- Heard on the tube
Wilson Gray
- From Adult Swim's "Black Jesus"
Wilson Gray
- Bullshit from the UD
Wilson Gray
- From Adult Swim's "Black Jesus" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- not so green as...
Laurence Horn
- The right to be forgotten
Baron, Dennis E
- Bob's Your Uncle: Antedating and History
Baker, John
- -peat
Jonathan Lighter
- "I had a baby skunk his name was Pepe."
Wilson Gray
- "Hurdy-Gurdy"
George Thompson
- "Hog _Mawls_"
Wilson Gray
- Facebook: "[Name], _bar-waitress_ ..."
Wilson Gray
- Antedatings of "fave" and "fav", and a "faving"
Hugo
- Further Slight Antedating of "Jeep"
Shapiro, Fred
- decline
David Daniel
- Quote: "If you were my husband I'd give you poison!" "If you were my wife I'd take it."
ADSGarson O'Toole
- "_Righty_ is freaking out!"
Wilson Gray
- stupid = 'very pleasing; marvelous'
Jonathan Lighter
- Another post to Facebook
Wilson Gray
- Dave Chappelle: "Y'all have no idea...
Wilson Gray
- Copula-drop in BE
Wilson Gray
- "That's/This's my _jam_!"
Wilson Gray
- 'novel' strikes again
Jonathan Lighter
- Yet Further Antedating of "Sexual Harassment"
Shapiro, Fred
- Cold and hot as terms for yin and yang foods
Benjamin Barrett
- North and south for humans and game
Benjamin Barrett
- double whammy
Laurence Horn
- tape = 'any form of electronic recording'
Jonathan Lighter
- Early-ish antedating of 'willies' meaning DT's
Geoffrey Steven Nathan
- Antedating of "Coed"
Shapiro, Fred
- Further Antedating of "Coed"
Shapiro, Fred
- "Gang-bang": It's alive!
Wilson Gray
- freeze, on the friz, on the fritz--and Santa 1902
Stephen Goranson
- "Balls" goes mainstream and polite!
Jonathan Lighter
- Saying: Advice for actors: Speak clearly, and don't bump into the furniture.
ADSGarson O'Toole
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