March 2014 Archives by thread
Starting: Sat Mar 1 01:19:09 UTC 2014
Ending: Mon Mar 31 23:05:08 UTC 2014
Messages: 446
- Crying "Wolof!"
Wilson Gray
- "goodie two-shoes"
Joel S. Berson
- Facebook multiplies genders but offers users the same three tired pronouns
Joel S. Berson
- Goody two shoes
Joel S. Berson
- New sense for "static"?
Joel S. Berson
- Why I think "cliff-hanger" arose from the 1914 "Perils of Pauline"
Joel S. Berson
- "paint the town red"--slight antedating (maybe)
Stephen Goranson
- Do New-Englanders *add* R's?
Joel S. Berson
- Quote: If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation... (Woodrow Wilson and others)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Reverse "substitute" episode of Grammar Girl
Neal Whitman
- Description of "Filefia" speech in the Times
Laurence Horn
- Antedating of "Rastafarianism"
Shapiro, Fred
- foreign words, again
Victor Steinbok
- A Word, or a Quotation?
George Thompson
- Take the National Grammar Day Quiz
Baron, Dennis E
- "Mistress may'ress"
Joel S. Berson
- "If Washington agreed sanctions"
Joel S. Berson
- Ukraine vs The Ukraine
ADSGarson O'Toole
- maginnis antedated to 1869
Stephen Goranson
- nonfiction novel?
David A. Daniel
- Dictionary as retirement gift?
Mann, Stephen
- The latest news: v Krymu, ...
Joel S. Berson
- "The Big Apple" research -- Barry Popik's key role
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Heard:
Wilson Gray
- WOTY -- "upskirting"
Joel S. Berson
- Hello in Russian
Tom Zurinskas
- "dude" on Lexicon Valley
Ben Zimmer
- Soaken
Benjamin Barrett
- upskirting, up-skirting, etc.
David Barnhart
- novel = book
Joel S. Berson
- WOTY Candidate -- "Dox"?
Dan Goncharoff
- Query: Article on Chinese borrowings into English
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- WOTY -- "upskirting" -- a viral supernova?
Joel S. Berson
- The replacement of the doggy bag
Benjamin Barrett
- OT: Fwd: Dictionary of Old Norse - job opportunity
Amy West
- WOTY Candidate -- "ashtag"
Dan Goncharoff
- Objecting to a preposition
Wilson Gray
- Antedating of the Term "Personal Computer"
Shapiro, Fred
- Limerick (poem) slightly antedated to Nov. 20, 1880
Stephen Goranson
- "the whole six yards" -- One more suggestion
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- Chipping away at -er comparatives?
Benjamin Barrett
- Rennsalaer Polytechnic college paper digitized
George Thompson
- Intrusive /r/ v. linking /r/
Wilson Gray
- "Whole Nine Yards" & "Fat Lady Sings" in Yale Alumni Magazine
Shapiro, Fred
- Another case of throat singing
Benjamin Barrett
- American Dialect Society and the integration of small databases
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Meh WRT "shoot (a) beaver": HDAS, 1969
Wilson Gray
- Langauge
Pablo Domínguez
- The Web @25
Baron, Dennis E
- Heard: Pittsburghers saying "Stillers" [NT]
Wilson Gray
- A Darth of information about flight 370
W Brewer
- Further Antedatings of "Hooligan"
Shapiro, Fred
- Possible antedatings of "hail-fellow well met"
Joel S. Berson
- those investigators are up to no good
David A. Daniel
- cancer stick (1954)
Ben Zimmer
- ABc news comments on new additions to the OED
Joel S. Berson
- New sense for the OED: "release notes"
Hugo
- WsOTY? "New Cold War"; "to ping"
Joel S. Berson
- canary in a coal mine (1915)
Ben Zimmer
- Successor to "like looking for a needle in a haystack"
Joel S. Berson
- "enormous" = "extremely significant"?
Joel S. Berson
- Copasetic writer Irving Bacheller
Stephen Goranson
- WsOTY? ... "to ping" (and definition)
Joel S. Berson
- WsOTY? ... "to ping"
Joel S. Berson
- Facebook: "a _longly_ boy"
Wilson Gray
- "Slide down my cellar door" --> "most beautiful word" myth?
Geoffrey Nunberg
- "The Cliff-Hanger", episode 2
Joel S. Berson
- Correction -- Re: [ADS-L] "The Cliff-Hanger", episode 2
Joel S. Berson
- Cepstrum, quefrency, liftering
W Brewer
- science equals future
Wandl-Vogt, Eveline
- Dreckly
Baker, John
- "cellar door"
Joel S. Berson
- Automatic reply: "cellar door"
Ravindranath, Maya
- Antedating of "demoware"
Hugo
- cellar doors, bulkheads, etc in DARE
Joan H. Hall
- non-Canadian evidence for _joe job_
David Barnhart
- Saying: Writers are schmucks with typewriters. (1961)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- - "The Cliff-Hanger", episode 3
Joel S. Berson
- Antedating of "double click" (verb and noun)
Hugo
- 11-year antedating of "TBH"
Hugo
- 10-year antedating of "syntax error"
Hugo
- "Words for snow" poem
Jesse Sheidlower
- "Ancient Migration Patterns to North America Are Hidden in Languages Spoken Today"
Joel S. Berson
- - "The Cliff-Hanger", episode 4
Joel S. Berson
- Early "bullshit"
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- OT: the power of English
Wilson Gray
- "Asia-attic"
Wilson Gray
- Use of "fag" in a 1933 movie to mean "gay"?
Jocelyn Limpert
- "Chances are not."
Dan Goncharoff
- Another non-metaphor
Wilson Gray
- _dreckly_ in "Pulp Fiction"
Wilson Gray
- Antedating of "Second Guesser"
Shapiro, Fred
- Slight Antedating of "World Series"
Shapiro, Fred
- I'm used to seeing _dreckly_ as _trectly_
Neal Whitman
- Antedating of "Double Header" (Baseball)
Shapiro, Fred
- Each?
Dan Goncharoff
- buoy [boy] ~ [BOO-ee]
W Brewer
- Fwd: "dark & busy City"
Joel S. Berson
- Geoffrey Pullum interviewed in The Telegraph UK
ADSGarson O'Toole
- NZ slang
Tom Zurinskas
- test
Bergdahl, David
- "Don't just do something...."
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Antedating of "Goalie"
Shapiro, Fred
- banderlog
Victor Steinbok
- ADS-L Digest - 21 Mar 2014 to 22 Mar 2014 (#2014-82)
David Bowie
- Antedating of "Glam Rock"
Shapiro, Fred
- "cliff-hanger"
ADSGarson O'Toole
- "Hill Billies" and variants (1881-1889)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- "White trash" (1821)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- "White trash" (1821) and "United States" (1719, 1695)
Joel S. Berson
- "United States", 1719 and probably 1695 -- the U.S.A.?
Joel S. Berson
- Antedating of "Heterosexual" (Noun)
Shapiro, Fred
- Automatic reply: ADS-L Digest - 23 Mar 2014 to 24 Mar 2014 (#2014-84)
Katy Steinmetz
- The new metaphor: The haystack and the 777
Joel S. Berson
- pump, n. = slut
David Barnhart
- is "trade" the new "substitute"?
Laurence Horn
- "Mein neuer Job als Babysitterin" [NT]
Wilson Gray
- "call it quits" as phrasal eggcorn?
Laurence Horn
- free access
Victor Steinbok
- Throw Mabel Normand from the cliff, circa 1913
Joel S. Berson
- 'meg", verb of unknown meaning, 1930
Joel S. Berson
- 'meg", verb of unknown meaning, 1930
Jesse Sheidlower
- 'meg", verb of unknown meaning, 1930
ADSGarson O'Toole
- 'meg", verb of unknown meaning, 1930
Joel S. Berson
- 'meg", verb of unknown meaning, 1930
Wilson Gray
- 'meg", verb of unknown meaning, 1930
Joel S. Berson
- postdating "foreignize", v. trans., 1930 (OED -1894)
Joel S. Berson
- "hand biter", noun phrase, 1930 (not in OED Online)
Joel S. Berson
- "indie", adj., 1930 (antedates OED2 1942--)
Joel S. Berson
- "hoke" noun 1930 (not in OED Online)
Joel S. Berson
- "Well, did you know that Pinocchio was a bad mo-"
Wilson Gray
- "ship": fannish use
Amy West
- Google Books bizarrerie [was: "United States", 1719 and probably 1695 -- the U.S.A.?]
Joel S. Berson
- Does Of Mean After?
Baker, John
- Shifting usage: "Who quoted this?"
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Unbeatable phrasal verb
Pablo Dominguez
- Echo-questions
Pablo Dominguez
- History of "bae"; Twitter-searching via Topsy
Neal Whitman
- 'homosexual' with short o
Geoffrey Nunberg
- "call it quits" as phrasal eggcorn? And the OED
Joel S. Berson
- Flammable and inflammable
Michael Quinion
- Toad pinger
W Brewer
- "absence of evidence..."
Stephen Goranson
- completing "absence of evidence..."
Stephen Goranson
- Fwd: RE: Eddystone Light Fwd: Re: buoy [boy] ~ [BOO-ee]
Dan Goodman
- Quote: Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. (Attrib Abraham Lincoln)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- a font that no one knows why it exists
Benjamin Barrett
- MA370 protest signs in Chinese -- left to right?
Joel S. Berson
- TV ad: "... a pattern of electrical..."
Wilson Gray
- buoy = boy
Bergdahl, David
- gapless relatives
Arnold Zwicky
- editiorial mish-mashing
David Barnhart
- umbratarian
Dan Goodman
- Eddystone Light Fwd: Re: buoy [boy] ~ [BOO-ee]
Wilson Gray
- bare possessive yall
Clai Rice
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