January 2014 Archives by thread
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- "go-to" = immediate? automatic?
Jonathan Lighter
- Automatic reply: "go-to" = immediate? automatic?
Hunter, Lynne R CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-PACIFIC, 71700
- quenelle
Jonathan Lighter
- Cant Terms in Taylor the Water Poet -- antedating of Cully and Naskin
Robin Hamilton
- "Quenelle"
Wilson Gray
- WOTY nominiations
Hugo
- antedate for _meatloaf_
David Barnhart
- highly coincidental = "suspicious," "not just coincidental"
Geoffrey Nunberg
- Nominations for 2013 Word of the Year
Ben Zimmer
- 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
- 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
- Correction RE: Antedating of "Amphibian" (n.)
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Exhibitionist"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Exhibitionism"
Shapiro, Fred
- Your Chinese lesson for the day: quan jue <death by dogs>
W Brewer
- Antedating of "saving[s]"
Joel S. Berson
- 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
- words for snow
Victor Steinbok
- words for snow (reply)
Laurence Horn
- "Something there is that doesn=?windows-1252?Q?=92t_?=love retroactivity."
Dan Goncharoff
- "Something there is that doesn=?iso-8859-1?Q?=92t_?=love retroactivity."
Joel S. Berson
- Sad hour
Benjamin Barrett
- Antedating of "sprog" (child)
Hugo
- Word: Precariat
ADSGarson O'Toole
- It's also in the Southeast, anymore.
Wilson Gray
- Urban Dictionary
Christopher Philippo
- Random Note for WOTY #1
David Barnhart
- Random Note for WOTY #JSB-1
Joel S. Berson
- 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
- "hog tight [etc.]" [Was: Random Note for WOTY: #19]
Joel S. Berson
- "I'm good" -- chronology?
Joel S. Berson
- Upgrading [was Dive (was Re: Sad hour)]
Joel S. Berson
- Antedating of "plugola"
Hugo
- Ragegasm
victor steinbok
- The non-apologetic "distraction", Bridgegate, and their political polar vortex
Joel S. Berson
- deep dive
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- Dive
Christopher Philippo
- Evolution of a 'meme' according to Facebook=?windows-1252?Q?=92s_?=data science team
ADSGarson O'Toole
- LREC-workshop CCURL2014: CFP - invitation
Wandl-Vogt, Eveline
- Gremlins 1938
Stephen Goranson
- Why quantum mechanics?
Dave Wilton
- Antedating of "humdinger"
Hugo
- Changes to Google News Archive and search
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Random Note for 2014 WOTY: #2
David Barnhart
- -gate [Re: Random Note for 2014 WOTY: #2]
Christopher Philippo
- -gate
Christopher Philippo
- "ain't" (mis)behavior
Joel S. Berson
- politics ain't beanbag
David A. Daniel
- "banished words" (clich és) [Re: -gate]
Christopher Philippo
- Chris Christie
Brenda Lester
- Another GWB-gate
Joel S. Berson
- Mondegreen--antedating a concept
Herb Stahlke
- Target's "guests"
Joel S. Berson
- Antedating of "Phoneme"
Shapiro, Fred
- No soap, dove bar -- was "dive bar"
Joel S. Berson
- Year-clipping in the new millennium
W Brewer
- real time, again
Victor Steinbok
- A novel notion of "balance"
Victor Steinbok
- anyone know anything about dialectal "already"?
Laurence Horn
- Linguistic boundaries [was: A novel notion of "balance"]
Joel S. Berson
- 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
- Quotation? (time travel's strongest counterargument)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Antedating of "Comfort Food"
Shapiro, Fred
- Randomanea
Wilson Gray
- Chosen
Victor Steinbok
- Autism hug
Benjamin Barrett
- 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
- "screw the pooch"
Ben Zimmer
- Quote in the News: Dying is easy. Comedy is hard
ADSGarson O'Toole
- "suitor"
Jonathan Lighter
- Fred Shapiro on Canada's CBC radio
ADSGarson O'Toole
- 50 "weird" U.S. place names
Jonathan Lighter
- The pinheads go to a dive bar
Joel S. Berson
- trutherism
Victor Steinbok
- Antedatings and new sense of "cut the stick"
Hugo
- invisible primary
Victor Steinbok
- "Red-Eye Special"
Jonathan Lighter
- The Fickle Finger of Fate
Jonathan Lighter
- People come to resemble their occupations
Joel S. Berson
- We've -- the new euphemism?
Joel S. Berson
- "The scene where [the suspect] was captured"
Joel S. Berson
- 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
- Represent = do reasonably well?
Benjamin Barrett
- antedating: "war of nerves"
Jonathan Lighter
- Now, [dZ] for [Z]
Wilson Gray
- 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
- Newish term: "Internet of Things"
Hugo
- Not in OED: "gold"
Jonathan Lighter
- (OT) lampposts ... for illumination
Joel S. Berson
- "cut the stick" and attributes to N. Hawthorne
Joel S. Berson
- 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
- Wheeling and dealing
Michael Quinion
- Unsubscribing (Re: antedating of y'all (1704))
Benjamin Barrett
- Stumbled across the spelling, _'till_, from 1762
Wilson Gray
- Motto: The buck stops here (October 1939)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Quote in the News: How are you going to get those robots to pay your union dues?
ADSGarson O'Toole
- "aspire to"
Jonathan Lighter
- noncom = 'enlisted person'
Jonathan Lighter
- antedating of y'all (1672) [was: (1704)]
Joel S. Berson
- News article: Algorithm Seeks To Crack Code Of Fiction Bestsellers
ADSGarson O'Toole
- "L7", not in the OED, ...
Joel S. Berson
- bawdy = 'rowdily humorous; slapstick'
Jonathan Lighter
- Local schwas (Was Re: 50 "weird" U.S. place names)
Neal Whitman
- Banning words for the new year
Baron, Dennis E
- 'humanist', adj. = "human/humane"
Geoffrey Nunberg
- Head in the oven, feet in the freezer = average
Jonathan Lighter
- _microfiche_: "count" oder nicht?
Wilson Gray
- _microfiche_: was ist das?
Joel S. Berson
- Operation War Diary
George Thompson
- suspense [was: "aspire to"]
Joel S. Berson
- "cliff-hanger"
Joel S. Berson
- Jiang - what Confucius insisted on eating
Benjamin Barrett
- Black widow
victor steinbok
- New words from Sleepy Hollow
Jonathan Lighter
- [C18-L] Invention of the "cliff-hanger"?
Joel S. Berson
- tiny, perfect
James Harbeck
- Automatic reply: ADS-L Digest - 19 Jan 2014 to 20 Jan 2014 (#2014-21)
Damien Hall
- Submissions for 2014 Richard M. Hogg Prize
Grant Barrett
- Facebook rant: "... sorted sex ..."
Wilson Gray
- A-Game
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Not quite in OED: spin (radio term)
Victor Steinbok
- "out of" = 'in'
Jonathan Lighter
- The OED and "perma-gush"
Joel S. Berson
- eggcorn
Victor Steinbok
- 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
- "Defund" Not in OED
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "liner notes"
Hugo
- News
victor steinbok
- "out of" = 'in' (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- Broker
Dan Goncharoff
- Awe attack
Tom Zurinskas
- Snake oil
Michael Quinion
- Uncle Sugar Rorschach
Jonathan Lighter
- credit = 'to grade as correct'; input = 'to provide, as in writing; fill in a blank with'
Jonathan Lighter
- Random Note for WOTY 2014: #3
David Barnhart
- Determining the parameters of Holocaust execution sites
Joel S. Berson
- Is this you?
Michael Newman
- inanimate "who"
Jonathan Lighter
- insane = 'amazing; hard to believe'
Jonathan Lighter
- pertinents, n. pl.; gots
Jonathan Lighter
- question from another list about 'takras'
Bethany Dumas
- WOT ...? ("Congressional Balcony"?)
Joel S. Berson
- Facebook fundamentalist writes:
Wilson Gray
- "dude" on Lexicon Valley
Ben Zimmer
- Changing fiction for dramatic effect
Joel S. Berson
- quixotic
Jonathan Lighter
- spoof = 'literary imitation'
Jonathan Lighter
- One-Line Book Review: The covers of this book are too far apart
ADSGarson O'Toole
- childfree
Jonathan Lighter
- by the each
Arnold Zwicky
- Dating of "a horse apiece"
Hugo
- Quote: Speak when you are angry - and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. Bierce? Groucho?
ADSGarson O'Toole
- guy = 'thing'
Jonathan Lighter
- Win a subscription to digital DARE
Joan H. Hall
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