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Starting: Wed Jan 1 13:44:10 UTC 2014
Ending: Fri Jan 31 22:52:27 UTC 2014
Messages: 666

• "go-to" = immediate? automatic?   Jonathan Lighter
• Automatic reply: "go-to" = immediate? automatic?   Hunter, Lynne R CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-PACIFIC, 71700
• quenelle   Jonathan Lighter
• "go-to" = immediate? automatic?   Laurence Horn
• quenelle   Laurence Horn
• "go-to" = immediate? automatic?   Jonathan Lighter
• quenelle   Jonathan Lighter
• "go-to" = immediate? automatic?   Laurence Horn
• Early Cockney vees for double-yous   Jonathan Lighter
• Early Cockney vees for double-yous   Joel S. Berson
• Cant Terms in Taylor the Water Poet -- antedating of Cully and Naskin   Robin Hamilton
• Early Cockney vees for double-yous   Paul Johnston
• "Quenelle"   Wilson Gray
• "Quenelle"   Laurence Horn
• Early Cockney vees for double-yous   David A. Daniel
• Early Cockney vees for double-yous   W Brewer
• WOTY nominiations   Hugo
• "Quenelle"   Joel S. Berson
• Early Cockney vees for double-yous   Dan Goncharoff
• antedate for _meatloaf_   David Barnhart
• "Quenelle"   Victor Steinbok
• highly coincidental = "suspicious," "not just coincidental"   Geoffrey Nunberg
• highly coincidental = "suspicious," "not just coincidental"   Jonathan Lighter
• antedate for _meatloaf_   Shapiro, Fred
• highly coincidental = "suspicious," "not just coincidental"   John Doe
• Nominations for 2013 Word of the Year   Ben Zimmer
• antedate for _meatloaf_   Hugo
• heatmap   Victor Steinbok
• "Would Have Taken Better Care ..."   Shapiro, Fred
• Realtor hype?   Joel S. Berson
• Word of the Year 2013: "because"   Ben Zimmer
• because info   David Barnhart
• Word of the Year 2013: "because"   Stephen Goranson
• because info   Victor Steinbok
• because info   Neal Whitman
• Antedating of "Transvestite"   Baker, John
• Antedating of "Michigander"   Shapiro, Fred
• Early ex. of "kick someone's [posterior]" = to vanquish (someone).   Jonathan Lighter
• Antedating of "Bollywood"   Shapiro, Fred
• Early "terrorist"   Jonathan Lighter
• Antedating of "Amphibian" (n.)   Shapiro, Fred
• because info   Baker, John
• Antedating of "Transvestite"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• because info   Bonnie Taylor-Blake
• Early "terrorist"   Christopher Philippo
• Correction RE: Antedating of "Amphibian" (n.)   Shapiro, Fred
• Early "terrorist"   Jonathan Lighter
• Antedating of "Exhibitionist"   Shapiro, Fred
• Antedating of "Exhibitionism"   Shapiro, Fred
• Antedating of "Bollywood"   Stephen Goranson
• Your Chinese lesson for the day: quan jue <death by dogs>   W Brewer
• Antedating of "saving[s]"   Joel S. Berson
• because info   Ben Zimmer
• Your Chinese lesson for the day: quan jue <death by dogs>   Benjamin Barrett
• Your Chinese lesson for the day: quan jue <death by dogs>   W Brewer
• Antedating of "Pedophile"   Shapiro, Fred
• Antedating of "Heterosexuality"   Shapiro, Fred
• Digital plumber - 1996   Benjamin Barrett
• Antedating of "Paranoid"   Shapiro, Fred
• Antedating of "Thrash Metal"   Shapiro, Fred
• "Don't confuse me with facts!"   Jonathan Lighter
• Antedating of "Amphibian" (n.)   Victor Steinbok
• words for snow   Victor Steinbok
• because info   Ben Zimmer
• words for snow (reply)   Laurence Horn
• words for snow (reply)   David A. Daniel
• "Something there is that doesn=?windows-1252?Q?=92t_?=love retroactivity."   Dan Goncharoff
• words for snow (reply)   Jonathan Lighter
• words for snow (reply)   Laurence Horn
• "Something there is that doesn=?windows-1252?Q?=92t_?=love retroactivity."   Arnold Zwicky
• words for snow   Christopher Philippo
• "Something there is that doesn=?windows-1252?Q?=92t_?=love retroactivity."   Laurence Horn
• "Something there is that doesn=?windows-1252?Q?=92t_?=love retroactivity."   Dan Goncharoff
• because info   Neal Whitman
• "Something there is that doesn=?windows-1252?Q?=92t_?=love retroactivity."   Neal Whitman
• "Something there is that doesn=?windows-1252?Q?=92t_?=love retroactivity."   Laurence Horn
• "Something there is that doesn=?windows-1252?Q?=92t_?=love retroactivity."   Dan Goncharoff
• Your Chinese lesson for the day: quan jue <death by dogs>   W Brewer
• "Something there is that doesn=?windows-1252?Q?=92t_?=love retroactivity."   Laurence Horn
• because info   Ben Zimmer
• "Something there is that doesn=?iso-8859-1?Q?=92t_?=love retroactivity."   Joel S. Berson
• because info   Tom Zurinskas
• because info   Tom Zurinskas
• "Something there is that doesn=?iso-8859-1?Q?=92t_?=love retroactivity."   Joel S. Berson
• Sad hour   Benjamin Barrett
• Sad hour   John Doe
• Sad hour   Benjamin Barrett
• Antedating of "sprog" (child)   Hugo
• Sad hour   George Thompson
• Sad hour   Laurence Horn
• Word: Precariat   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Sad hour   Dan Goncharoff
• Word: Precariat   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Sad hour   W Brewer
• Sad hour   Victor Steinbok
• It's also in the Southeast, anymore.   Wilson Gray
• It's also in the Southeast, anymore.   Benjamin Torbert
• Urban Dictionary   Christopher Philippo
• Urban Dictionary   Jonathan Lighter
• Urban Dictionary   Jonathan Lighter
• Urban Dictionary   Dave Wilton
• Random Note for WOTY #1   David Barnhart
• Urban Dictionary   Joel S. Berson
• Random Note for WOTY #JSB-1   Joel S. Berson
• Urban Dictionary   Jonathan Lighter
• Request Help with Quote: I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go into the library and read a good book. Groucho Marx   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Dive (was Re: Sad hour)   Benjamin Barrett
• because info   Tom Zurinskas
• Dive (was Re: Sad hour)   Jonathan Lighter
• Urban Dictionary   Joel S. Berson
• Dive (was Re: Sad hour)   Joel S. Berson
• Urban Dictionary   Jonathan Lighter
• "hog tight [etc.]" [Was: Random Note for WOTY: #19]   Joel S. Berson
• Dive (was Re: Sad hour)   Laurence Horn
• "I'm good" -- chronology?   Joel S. Berson
• Upgrading [was Dive (was Re: Sad hour)]   Joel S. Berson
• Upgrading [was Dive (was Re: Sad hour)]   Laurence Horn
• because info   Victor Steinbok
• Urban Dictionary   Victor Steinbok
• Dive (was Re: Sad hour)   Victor Steinbok
• Dive (was Re: Sad hour)   W Brewer
• Antedating of "plugola"   Hugo
• Urban Dictionary   Hugo
• Ragegasm   victor steinbok
• The non-apologetic "distraction", Bridgegate, and their political polar vortex   Joel S. Berson
• Upgrading [was Dive (was Re: Sad hour)]   Joel S. Berson
• "I'm good" -- chronology?   Jonathan Lighter
• Ragegasm   Arnold Zwicky
• deep dive   Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
• Dive   Christopher Philippo
• because info   Geoffrey Steven Nathan
• because info   Tom Zurinskas
• Evolution of a 'meme' according to Facebook=?windows-1252?Q?=92s_?=data science team   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Upgrading [was Dive (was Re: Sad hour)]   W Brewer
• "I'm good" -- chronology?   Joel S. Berson
• LREC-workshop CCURL2014: CFP - invitation   Wandl-Vogt, Eveline
• "I'm good" -- chronology?   John Doe
• Gremlins 1938   Stephen Goranson
• Why quantum mechanics?   Dave Wilton
• Why quantum mechanics?   Stephen Goranson
• Antedating of "humdinger"   Hugo
• Changes to Google News Archive and search   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Random Note for 2014 WOTY: #2   David Barnhart
• Antedating of "humdinger"   Stephen Goranson
• Random Note for 2014 WOTY: #2   Joel S. Berson
• Why quantum mechanics?   Dan Goncharoff
• -gate [Re: Random Note for 2014 WOTY: #2]   Christopher Philippo
• -gate [Re: Random Note for 2014 WOTY: #2]   Dan Goncharoff
• -gate   Christopher Philippo
• -gate   Dan Goncharoff
• -gate   Christopher Philippo
• -gate [Re: Random Note for 2014 WOTY: #2]   Laurence Horn
• -gate   Dan Goncharoff
• -gate [Re: Random Note for 2014 WOTY: #2]   Jonathan Lighter
• -gate [Re: Random Note for 2014 WOTY: #2]   Arnold Zwicky
• "ain't" (mis)behavior   Joel S. Berson
• -gate [Re: Random Note for 2014 WOTY: #2]   Joel S. Berson
• -gate [Re: Random Note for 2014 WOTY: #2]   Joel S. Berson
• -gate [Re: Random Note for 2014 WOTY: #2]   Gordon, Matthew J.
• -gate [Re: Random Note for 2014 WOTY: #2]   Arnold Zwicky
• -gate   Joel S. Berson
• politics ain't beanbag   David A. Daniel
• Changes to Google News Archive and search   Ben Zimmer
• "banished words" (clich és) [Re: -gate]   Christopher Philippo
• politics ain't beanbag   Joel S. Berson
• "ain't" (mis)behavior   Laurence Horn
• Changes to Google News Archive and search   Joel S. Berson
• -gate   Laurence Horn
• Changes to Google News Archive and search   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Changes to Google News Archive and search   Dan Goncharoff
• Chris Christie   Brenda Lester
• Chris Christie   Laurence Horn
• Chris Christie   Laurence Horn
• Changes to Google News Archive and search   Ben Zimmer
• Another GWB-gate   Joel S. Berson
• "ain't" (mis)behavior   W Brewer
• -gate   W Brewer
• Another GWB-gate   Laurence Horn
• Why quantum mechanics?   George Thompson
• "ain't" (mis)behavior   Joel S. Berson
• Why quantum mechanics?   Joel S. Berson
• Why quantum mechanics?   Laurence Horn
• Mondegreen--antedating a concept   Herb Stahlke
• Target's "guests"   Joel S. Berson
• Target's "guests"   Neal Whitman
• Why quantum mechanics?   Alice Faber
• Dive (was Re: Sad hour)   John Doe
• Dive (was Re: Sad hour)   Benjamin Barrett
• Why quantum mechanics?   Benjamin Barrett
• Changes to Google News Archive and search   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Dive (was Re: Sad hour)   Laurence Horn
• Target's "guests"   Wilson Gray
• Dive (was Re: Sad hour)   Wilson Gray
• "ain't" (mis)behavior   Wilson Gray
• Target's "guests"   paul johnson
• Target's "guests"   Jonathan Lighter
• Dive (was Re: Sad hour)   Jonathan Lighter
• Antedating of "Phoneme"   Shapiro, Fred
• No soap, dove bar -- was "dive bar"   Joel S. Berson
• Target's "guests"   Joel S. Berson
• Target's "guests"   Jonathan Lighter
• Antedating of "Phoneme"   Wilson Gray
• No soap, dove bar -- was "dive bar"   W Brewer
• No soap, dove bar -- was "dive bar"   Laurence Horn
• Dive (was Re: Sad hour)   Wilson Gray
• Antedating of "Phoneme"   Herb Stahlke
• Antedating of "Phoneme"   Wilson Gray
• No soap, dove bar -- was "dive bar"   W Brewer
• Year-clipping in the new millennium   W Brewer
• -gate   Victor Steinbok
• -gate   Laurence Horn
• real time, again   Victor Steinbok
• real time, again   Victor Steinbok
• A novel notion of "balance"   Victor Steinbok
• anyone know anything about dialectal "already"?   Laurence Horn
• A novel notion of "balance"   Joel S. Berson
• A novel notion of "balance"   Dan Goncharoff
• No soap, dove bar -- was "dive bar"   Joel S. Berson
• A novel notion of "balance"   Joel S. Berson
• A novel notion of "balance"   Laurence Horn
• Linguistic boundaries [was: A novel notion of "balance"]   Joel S. Berson
• No soap, dove bar -- was "dive bar"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Linguistic boundaries [was: A novel notion of "balance"]   Laurence Horn
• Quote: History never repeats itself but it rhymes (attrib Mark Twain 1970) plus question regarding John Robert Colombo   ADSGarson O'Toole
• -strong one more time   Geoffrey Steven Nathan
• Linguistic boundaries [was: A novel notion of "balance"]   Alice Faber
• No soap, dove bar -- was "dive bar"   W Brewer
• A novel notion of "balance"   Victor Steinbok
• Linguistic boundaries [was: A novel notion of "balance"]   Victor Steinbok
• A novel notion of "balance"   Laurence Horn
• Linguistic boundaries [was: A novel notion of "balance"]   Laurence Horn
• Quotation? (time travel's strongest counterargument)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Antedating of "Comfort Food"   Shapiro, Fred
• Linguistic boundaries [was: A novel notion of "balance"]   Alice Faber
• No soap, dove bar -- was "dive bar"   Dan Goncharoff
• No soap, dove bar -- was "dive bar"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Linguistic boundaries [was: A novel notion of "balance"]   Paul Johnston
• Linguistic boundaries [was: A novel notion of "balance"]   Ben Zimmer
• Linguistic boundaries [was: A novel notion of "balance"]   Shapiro, Fred
• No soap, dove bar -- was "dive bar"   W Brewer
• Linguistic boundaries [was: A novel notion of "balance"]   Amy West
• Linguistic boundaries [was: A novel notion of "balance"]   Joel S. Berson
• Linguistic boundaries [was: A novel notion of "balance"]   Alice Faber
• Linguistic boundaries [was: A novel notion of "balance"]   Shapiro, Fred
• Linguistic boundaries [was: A novel notion of "balance"]   Paul Johnston
• Linguistic boundaries [was: A novel notion of "balance"]   Laurence Horn
• Linguistic boundaries [was: A novel notion of "balance"]   Alice Faber
• Linguistic boundaries [was: A novel notion of "balance"]   Alice Faber
• Linguistic boundaries [was: A novel notion of "balance"]   Laurence Horn
• Linguistic boundaries [was: A novel notion of "balance"]   Dan Goncharoff
• Linguistic boundaries [was: A novel notion of "balance"]   Laurence Horn
• Linguistic boundaries [was: A novel notion of "balance"]   Joel S. Berson
• Linguistic boundaries [was: A novel notion of "balance"]   Joel S. Berson
• Randomanea   Wilson Gray
• Linguistic boundaries [was: A novel notion of "balance"]   Alice Faber
• Chosen   Victor Steinbok
• Linguistic boundaries [was: A novel notion of "balance"]   Laurence Horn
• Randomanea   Jonathan Lighter
• Randomanea   Wilson Gray
• Randomanea   Dan Goncharoff
• Randomanea   Shapiro, Fred
• Randomanea   Laurence Horn
• Autism hug   Benjamin Barrett
• Randomanea   Jonathan Lighter
• Autism hug   Joel S. Berson
• impactful, below-the-line, etc.   Jonathan Lighter
• impactful, below-the-line, etc.   Dan Goncharoff
• impactful, below-the-line, etc.--'intentional'   Geoffrey Steven Nathan
• "screw the pooch"   Ben Zimmer
• Quote in the News: Dying is easy. Comedy is hard   ADSGarson O'Toole
• "suitor"   Jonathan Lighter
• impactful, below-the-line, etc.   Joel S. Berson
• 'intentional'   Joel S. Berson
• 'intentional'   Geoff Nathan
• Fred Shapiro on Canada's CBC radio   ADSGarson O'Toole
• impactful, below-the-line, etc.   Jonathan Lighter
• impactful, below-the-line, etc.   Jonathan Lighter
• 50 "weird" U.S. place names   Jonathan Lighter
• Fred Shapiro on Canada's CBC radio   Shapiro, Fred
• "screw the pooch"   David A. Daniel
• 'intentional'   Laurence Horn
• 'intentional'   Geoffrey Steven Nathan
• 50 "weird" U.S. place names   Laurence Horn
• "screw the pooch"   Ben Zimmer
• "screw the pooch"   Jesse Sheidlower
• impactful, below-the-line, etc.   Joel S. Berson
• The pinheads go to a dive bar   Joel S. Berson
• "screw the pooch"   Laurence Horn
• trutherism   Victor Steinbok
• Antedatings and new sense of "cut the stick"   Hugo
• trutherism   Ben Zimmer
• trutherism   Victor Steinbok
• invisible primary   Victor Steinbok
• Autism hug   Amy West
• 'intentional'   Amy West
• 50 "weird" U.S. place names   Jonathan Lighter
• "screw the pooch"   Jonathan Lighter
• impactful, below-the-line, etc.   Jonathan Lighter
• 50 "weird" U.S. place names   Laurence Horn
• 50 "weird" U.S. place names   Jonathan Lighter
• impactful, below-the-line, etc.   Laurence Horn
• Antedatings and new sense of "cut the stick"   Joel S. Berson
• impactful, below-the-line, etc.   ADSGarson O'Toole
• impactful, below-the-line, etc.   Joel S. Berson
• Antedatings and new sense of "cut the stick"   Jonathan Lighter
• impactful, below-the-line, etc.   Joel S. Berson
• impactful, below-the-line, etc.   Stephen Goranson
• Antedatings and new sense of "cut the stick"   Joel S. Berson
• impactful, below-the-line, etc.   Jonathan Lighter
• impactful, below-the-line, etc.   W Brewer
• impactful, below-the-line, etc.   Jonathan Lighter
• impactful, below-the-line, etc.   Dan Goncharoff
• because info   Tyler Schnoebelen
• impactful, below-the-line, etc.   W Brewer
• impactful, below-the-line, etc.   Laurence Horn
• impactful, below-the-line, etc.   Dan Goncharoff
• "Red-Eye Special"   Jonathan Lighter
• "Red-Eye Special"   David A. Daniel
• "Red-Eye Special"   Laurence Horn
• "Red-Eye Special"   Jonathan Lighter
• impactful, below-the-line, etc.   Shapiro, Fred
• The Fickle Finger of Fate   Jonathan Lighter
• impactful, below-the-line, etc.   W Brewer
• The Fickle Finger of Fate   Robin Hamilton
• People come to resemble their occupations   Joel S. Berson
• The Fickle Finger of Fate   Dan Goncharoff
• We've -- the new euphemism?   Joel S. Berson
• "The scene where [the suspect] was captured"   Joel S. Berson
• impactful, below-the-line, etc.   Douglas G. Wilson
• Saying (probably in 1939): The buck stops here (Request verification)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• buck, n.9 (token in poker) -- quotations and definition in OED2   Joel S. Berson
• We've -- the new euphemism?   Ben Zimmer
• The Fickle Finger of Fate   Dan Goncharoff
• The Fickle Finger of Fate   Dan Goncharoff
• Represent = do reasonably well?   Benjamin Barrett
• Represent = do reasonably well?   Dan Goncharoff
• Represent = do reasonably well?   Wilson Gray
• Represent = do reasonably well?   Benjamin Barrett
• The Fickle Finger of Fate   Wilson Gray
• Represent = do reasonably well?   Benjamin Barrett
• The Fickle Finger of Fate   Jonathan Lighter
• Saying (probably in 1939): The buck stops here (Request verification)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Represent = do reasonably well?   Dan Goncharoff
• Represent = do reasonably well?   Benjamin Barrett
• Represent = do reasonably well?   Dan Goncharoff
• Represent = do reasonably well?   Benjamin Barrett
• Represent = do reasonably well?   Jonathan Lighter
• buck, n.9 (token in poker) -- quotations and definition in OED2   W Brewer
• Represent = do reasonably well?   Laurence Horn
• antedating: "war of nerves"   Jonathan Lighter
• Now, [dZ] for [Z]   Wilson Gray
• Now, [dZ] for [Z]   Galen Buttitta
• Now, [dZ] for [Z]   Paul Johnston
• Now, [dZ] for [Z]   Neal Whitman
• Automatische Antwort: ADS-L Digest - 14 Jan 2014 to 15 Jan 2014 (#2014-16)   Julia Ulrich
• A couple of heards:   Wilson Gray
• Quote: He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts - for support rather than for illumination (Request help)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Represent = do reasonably well?   Margaret Lee
• Quote: He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts - for support rather than for illumination (Request help)   Stephen Goranson
• Newish term: "Internet of Things"   Hugo
• Antedatings and new sense of "cut the stick"   Hugo
• Now, [dZ] for [Z]   Jonathan Lighter
• A couple of heards:   Jonathan Lighter
• Not in OED: "gold"   Jonathan Lighter
• (OT) lampposts ... for illumination   Joel S. Berson
• A couple of heards:   Laurence Horn
• "cut the stick" and attributes to N. Hawthorne   Joel S. Berson
• Newish term: "Internet of Things"   Geoffrey Steven Nathan
• Not in OED: "gold"   Ben Zimmer
• Not in OED: "gold"   Christopher Philippo
• Not in OED: "gold"   Christopher Philippo
• Not in OED: "gold"   Victor Steinbok
• Quote: He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts - for support rather than for illumination (Request help)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• 50 "weird" U.S. place names   George Thompson
• Dibs on year-clipping in the 3rd Millennium   W Brewer
• antedating of y'all (1702)   David Parker
• "the New Huns"?   Christopher Philippo
• antedating of y'all (1704)   David Parker
• antedating of y'all (1704)   Ben Zimmer
• antedating of y'all (1704)   Laurence Horn
• Wheeling and dealing   Michael Quinion
• antedating of y'all (1704)   Dan Nussbaum
• antedating of y'all (1702)   Jonathan Lighter
• Unsubscribing (Re: antedating of y'all (1704))   Benjamin Barrett
• antedating of y'all (1702)   Ben Zimmer
• Stumbled across the spelling, _'till_, from 1762   Wilson Gray
• antedating of y'all (1702)   Jonathan Lighter
• antedating of y'all (1702)   Jonathan Lighter
• antedating of y'all (1702)   Wilson Gray
• antedating of y'all (1704)   Wilson Gray
• A couple of heards:   Wilson Gray
• Now, [dZ] for [Z]   Wilson Gray
• Motto: The buck stops here (October 1939)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Motto: The buck stops here (October 1939)   Ben Zimmer
• A couple of heards:   Wilson Gray
• Quote in the News: How are you going to get those robots to pay your union dues?   ADSGarson O'Toole
• "aspire to"   Jonathan Lighter
• Quote in the News: How are you going to get those robots to pay your union dues?   Jonathan Lighter
• Quote in the News: How are you going to get those robots to pay your union dues?   Charles C Doyle
• noncom = 'enlisted person'   Jonathan Lighter
• A couple of heards:   W Brewer
• "aspire to"   W Brewer
• noncom = 'enlisted person'   W Brewer
• noncom = 'enlisted person'   Jonathan Lighter
• antedating of y'all (1672) [was: (1704)]   Joel S. Berson
• antedating of y'all (1672) [was: (1704)]   Jonathan Lighter
• News article: Algorithm Seeks To Crack Code Of Fiction Bestsellers   ADSGarson O'Toole
• noncom = 'enlisted person'   Victor Steinbok
• A couple of heards:   Mark Mandel
• trutherism   Mark Mandel
• "L7", not in the OED, ...   Joel S. Berson
• Quote in the News: How are you going to get those robots to pay your union dues?   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Motto: The buck stops here (October 1939)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• bawdy = 'rowdily humorous; slapstick'   Jonathan Lighter
• bawdy = 'rowdily humorous; slapstick'   Laurence Horn
• bawdy = 'rowdily humorous; slapstick'   Jonathan Lighter
• bawdy = 'rowdily humorous; slapstick'   Laurence Horn
• "L7", not in the OED, ...   ADSGarson O'Toole
• bawdy = 'rowdily humorous; slapstick'   Jonathan Lighter
• The Fickle Finger of Fate   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Dibs on year-clipping in the 3rd Millennium   Mark Mandel
• 50 "weird" U.S. place names   Mark Mandel
• buck, n.9 (token in poker) -- quotations and definition in OED2   Mark Mandel
• Motto: The buck stops here (October 1939)   Dave Hause
• noncom = 'enlisted person'   W Brewer
• Dibs on year-clipping in the 3rd Millennium   W Brewer
• A couple of heards:   W Brewer
• The Fickle Finger of Fate   Jonathan Lighter
• 50 "weird" U.S. place names   Spanbock/Svoboda-Spanbock
• 50 "weird" U.S. place names   Jonathan Lighter
• 50 "weird" U.S. place names   Jonathan Lighter
• 50 "weird" U.S. place names   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• 50 "weird" U.S. place names   Jonathan Lighter
• 50 "weird" U.S. place names   Laurence Horn
• Local schwas (Was Re: 50 "weird" U.S. place names)   Neal Whitman
• Banning words for the new year   Baron, Dennis E
• 50 "weird" U.S. place names   Jonathan Lighter
• Banning words for the new year   Jonathan Lighter
• Banning words for the new year   Joel S. Berson
• 'humanist', adj. = "human/humane"   Geoffrey Nunberg
• Head in the oven, feet in the freezer = average   Jonathan Lighter
• Banning words for the new year   Jonathan Lighter
• Head in the oven, feet in the freezer = average   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Head in the oven, feet in the freezer = average   Jonathan Lighter
• Banning words for the new year   Christopher Philippo
• Banning words for the new year   Laurence Horn
• Banning words for the new year   Jonathan Lighter
• noncom = 'enlisted person'   Wilson Gray
• Banning words for the new year   W Brewer
• A couple of heards:   Wilson Gray
• _microfiche_: "count" oder nicht?   Wilson Gray
• "aspire to"   Wilson Gray
• _microfiche_: "count" oder nicht?   Dan Goncharoff
• "aspire to"   Jonathan Lighter
• _microfiche_: "count" oder nicht?   Peter Richardson
• "aspire to"   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• _microfiche_: was ist das?   Joel S. Berson
• "aspire to"   Joel S. Berson
• "aspire to"   W Brewer
• The Fickle Finger of Fate   W Brewer
• "aspire to"   Jonathan Lighter
• _microfiche_: was ist das?   George Thompson
• _microfiche_: "count" oder nicht?   W Brewer
• Operation War Diary   George Thompson
• suspense [was: "aspire to"]   Joel S. Berson
• _microfiche_: was ist das?   Joel S. Berson
• "aspire to"   Laurence Horn
• suspense [was: "aspire to"]   George Thompson
• "cliff-hanger"   Joel S. Berson
• "cliff-hanger"   W Brewer
• A couple of heards:   Mark Mandel
• Jiang - what Confucius insisted on eating   Benjamin Barrett
• Black widow   victor steinbok
• "cliff-hanger"   Joel S. Berson
• A couple of heards:   W Brewer
• "cliff-hanger"   W Brewer
• Black widow   Jonathan Lighter
• _microfiche_: was ist das?   Shapiro, Fred
• "cliff-hanger"   George Thompson
• _microfiche_: was ist das?   George Thompson
• Jiang - what Confucius insisted on eating   W Brewer
• Jiang - what Confucius insisted on eating   Benjamin Barrett
• A couple of heards:   Joel S. Berson
• A couple of heards:   Laurence Horn
• New words from Sleepy Hollow   Jonathan Lighter
• Jiang - what Confucius insisted on eating   Randy Alexander
• New words from Sleepy Hollow   Laurence Horn
• Jiang - what Confucius insisted on eating   Benjamin Barrett
• "cliff-hanger"   Joel S. Berson
• [C18-L] Invention of the "cliff-hanger"?   Joel S. Berson
• Jiang - what Confucius insisted on eating   Joel S. Berson
• New words from Sleepy Hollow   Joel S. Berson
• tiny, perfect   James Harbeck
• Jiang - what Confucius insisted on eating   Benjamin Barrett
• tiny, perfect   Ben Zimmer
• tiny, perfect   James Harbeck
• Automatic reply: ADS-L Digest - 19 Jan 2014 to 20 Jan 2014 (#2014-21)   Damien Hall
• A couple of heards:   Wilson Gray
• _microfiche_: was ist das?   Wilson Gray
• New words from Sleepy Hollow   Jonathan Lighter
• Submissions for 2014 Richard M. Hogg Prize   Grant Barrett
• "cliff-hanger"   Joel S. Berson
• New words from Sleepy Hollow   Joel S. Berson
• "cliff-hanger"   Jonathan Lighter
• "cliff-hanger"   Baker, John
• Jiang - what Confucius insisted on eating   Randy Alexander
• Jiang - what Confucius insisted on eating   Benjamin Barrett
• New words from Sleepy Hollow   Laurence Horn
• "cliff-hanger"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• "cliff-hanger"   Shapiro, Fred
• New words from Sleepy Hollow   Victor Steinbok
• Jiang - what Confucius insisted on eating   W Brewer
• New words from Sleepy Hollow   Jonathan Lighter
• New words from Sleepy Hollow   Laurence Horn
• New words from Sleepy Hollow   Joel S. Berson
• New words from Sleepy Hollow   Victor Steinbok
• "cliff-hanger"   Joel S. Berson
• New words from Sleepy Hollow   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Jiang - what Confucius insisted on eating   Douglas G. Wilson
• Jiang - what Confucius insisted on eating   Douglas G. Wilson
• Facebook rant: "... sorted sex ..."   Wilson Gray
• A-Game   ADSGarson O'Toole
• New words from Sleepy Hollow   Jonathan Lighter
• "cliff-hanger"   W Brewer
• Not quite in OED: spin (radio term)   Victor Steinbok
• New words from Sleepy Hollow   Victor Steinbok
• "cliff-hanger"   Jonathan Lighter
• "cliff-hanger"   Jonathan Lighter
• "cliff-hanger"   Christopher Philippo
• "out of" = 'in'   Jonathan Lighter
• "cliff-hanger"   Joel S. Berson
• "cliff-hanger"   W Brewer
• Jiang - what Confucius insisted on eating   Benjamin Barrett
• The OED and "perma-gush"   Joel S. Berson
• "out of" = 'in'   Dan Goncharoff
• eggcorn   Victor Steinbok
• eggcorn   Dan Goncharoff
• Not quite in OED: spin (radio term)   Dan Goncharoff
• "out of" = 'in'   Jonathan Lighter
• eggcorn   Baker, John
• eggcorn   W Brewer
• "out of" = 'in'   Joel S. Berson
• eggcorn   Wilson Gray
• "out of" = 'in'   Charles C Doyle
• "out of" = 'in'   Joel S. Berson
• "out of" = 'in'   Jonathan Lighter
• "out of" = 'in'   Laurence Horn
• WOTY -- "Great Firewall"   Joel S. Berson
• WOTY -- "Great Firewall"   Benjamin Barrett
• WOTY -- "Great Firewall"   Joel S. Berson
• Quote: I only wish that I was as cocksure of any one thing as he is sure of everything.   ADSGarson O'Toole
• WOTY -- "Great Firewall"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• "Defund" Not in OED   Shapiro, Fred
• "out of" = 'in'   Herb Stahlke
• Antedating of "liner notes"   Hugo
• "out of" = 'in'   Jonathan Lighter
• News   victor steinbok
• "out of" = 'in' (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
• Broker   Dan Goncharoff
• Broker   Tom Zurinskas
• WOTY nominiations   Ben Zimmer
• Awe attack   Tom Zurinskas
• eggcorn   W Brewer
• Snake oil   Michael Quinion
• Uncle Sugar Rorschach   Jonathan Lighter
• Uncle Sugar Rorschach   Joel S. Berson
• Uncle Sugar Rorschach   Jonathan Lighter
• Uncle Sugar Rorschach   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Snake oil   Joel S. Berson
• Uncle Sugar Rorschach   Joel S. Berson
• Uncle Sugar Rorschach   Jonathan Lighter
• Uncle Sugar Rorschach   Laurence Horn
• Uncle Sugar Rorschach   Jonathan Lighter
• Uncle Sugar Rorschach   Joel S. Berson
• Uncle Sugar Rorschach   Joel S. Berson
• Snake oil   Michael Quinion
• Uncle Sugar Rorschach   Wilson Gray
• Dibs on year-clipping in the 3rd Millennium   Mark Mandel
• Snake oil   Hugo
• credit = 'to grade as correct'; input = 'to provide, as in writing; fill in a blank with'   Jonathan Lighter
• Snake oil   Michael Quinion
• credit = 'to grade as correct'; input = 'to provide, as in writing; fill in a blank with'   Laurence Horn
• credit = 'to grade as correct'; input = 'to provide, as in writing; fill in a blank with'   Victor Steinbok
• Snake oil   Hugo
• credit = 'to grade as correct'; input = 'to provide, as in writing; fill in a blank with'   Joel S. Berson
• Random Note for WOTY 2014: #3   David Barnhart
• Dibs on year-clipping in the 3rd Millennium   W Brewer
• credit = 'to grade as correct'; input = 'to provide, as in writing; fill in a blank with'   W Brewer
• Random Note for WOTY 2014: #3   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Dibs on year-clipping in the 3rd Millennium   Mark Mandel
• Dibs on year-clipping in the 3rd Millennium   W Brewer
• Dibs on year-clipping in the 3rd Millennium   Jonathan Lighter
• Determining the parameters of Holocaust execution sites   Joel S. Berson
• Determining the parameters of Holocaust execution sites   Jonathan Lighter
• Determining the parameters of Holocaust execution sites   Joel S. Berson
• Is this you?   Michael Newman
• Is this you?   Laurence Horn
• Determining the parameters of Holocaust execution sites   ADSGarson O'Toole
• Is this you?   Gordon, Matthew J.
• Is this you?   Joel S. Berson
• Is this you?   David A. Daniel
• Is this you?   Michael Newman
• Is this you?   Jonathan Lighter
• inanimate "who"   Jonathan Lighter
• Is this you?   Charles C Doyle
• Is this you?   Jonathan Lighter
• Is this you?   Tom Zurinskas
• Determining the parameters of Holocaust execution sites   Dan Goncharoff
• insane = 'amazing; hard to believe'   Jonathan Lighter
• pertinents, n. pl.; gots   Jonathan Lighter
• question from another list about 'takras'   Bethany Dumas
• Determining the parameters of Holocaust execution sites   Joel S. Berson
• WOT ...? ("Congressional Balcony"?)   Joel S. Berson
• WOT ...? ("Congressional Balcony"?)   Dan Goncharoff
• WOT ...? ("Congressional Balcony"?)   Ben Zimmer
• WOT ...? ("Congressional Balcony"?)   Jonathan Lighter
• WOT ...? ("Congressional Balcony"?)   Joel S. Berson
• WOT ...? ("Congressional Balcony"?)   Joel S. Berson
• Facebook fundamentalist writes:   Wilson Gray
• WOT ...? ("Congressional Balcony"?)   Laurence Horn
• "dude" on Lexicon Valley   Ben Zimmer
• "dude" on Lexicon Valley   Douglas G. Wilson
• WOT ...? ("Congressional Balcony"?)   Joel S. Berson
• Changing fiction for dramatic effect   Joel S. Berson
• WOT ...? ("Congressional Balcony"?)   Laurence Horn
• Is this you?   W Brewer
• question from another list about 'takras'   Eric Nielsen
• "out of" = 'in'   Jonathan Lighter
• question from another list about 'takras'   Amy West
• question from another list about 'takras'   Bethany Dumas
• Changing fiction for dramatic effect   Dan Goncharoff
• Changing fiction for dramatic effect   Joel S. Berson
• quixotic   Jonathan Lighter
• quixotic   Laurence Horn
• insane = 'amazing; hard to believe'   Victor Steinbok
• quixotic   ADSGarson O'Toole
• quixotic   Jonathan Lighter
• Changing fiction for dramatic effect   Dan Goncharoff
• spoof = 'literary imitation'   Jonathan Lighter
• Changing fiction for dramatic effect   Joel S. Berson
• spoof = 'literary imitation'   Jeff Prucher
• Changing fiction for dramatic effect   Wilson Gray
• One-Line Book Review: The covers of this book are too far apart   ADSGarson O'Toole
• childfree   Jonathan Lighter
• spoof = 'literary imitation'   Laurence Horn
• childfree   Laurence Horn
• Changing fiction for dramatic effect   Laurence Horn
• Changing fiction for dramatic effect   Joel S. Berson
• Changing fiction for dramatic effect   Laurence Horn
• One-Line Book Review: The covers of this book are too far apart   Stephen Goranson
• childfree   Jonathan Lighter
• question from another list about 'takras'   Amy West
• by the each   Arnold Zwicky
• Dating of "a horse apiece"   Hugo
• childfree   Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
• by the each   W Brewer
• childfree   Dan Goncharoff
• Dating of "a horse apiece"   Dan Goncharoff
• Dating of "a horse apiece"   paul johnson
• One-Line Book Review: The covers of this book are too far apart   ADSGarson O'Toole
• by the each   Jeff Prucher
• Quote: Speak when you are angry - and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. Bierce? Groucho?   ADSGarson O'Toole
• childfree   Joel S. Berson
• by the each   Benjamin Barrett
• guy = 'thing'   Jonathan Lighter
• Win a subscription to digital DARE   Joan H. Hall

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