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