May 2014 Archives by thread
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- Heard: "dog pound" > "dog pond"
Wilson Gray
- get the snafu
Dan Goncharoff
- Orchestration -- in OED?
Dan Goncharoff
- scrambling jets
Jonathan Lighter
- "That program won a contest, because of course it did."
Hugo
- Reverse English
Wilson Gray
- lipstick on a pig
Randy Alexander
- SALUGGI ~ S(A)LOOGIE ~ SALUGIE ~SALUGI
David Barnhart
- salugi
David Barnhart
- Swiss /shard/
Benjamin Barrett
- Brooklyn Daily Eagle
sclements at NEO.RR.COM
- "a brief and pithy letter nine yards long." 1873 -- was RE: [ADS-L] Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Stephen Goranson
- calypso, calyptso 1933
Stephen Goranson
- Beirut (drinking game)
Ben Zimmer
- It's older than I thought!
Wilson Gray
- Going the way of "on the average"?
Wilson Gray
- Antedatings of "FUBAR"
Hugo
- Blood of the young mouse
Joel S. Berson
- bodice-ripper (1978), bodice-ripping (1979)
Ben Zimmer
- "lyric" = "an individual word in a song"
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedating and Origin of Bourbon Whiskey
Baker, John
- prompt = 'writing assignment for students'
Jonathan Lighter
- "netting box" definition in OED
Joel S. Berson
- Further Antedating of "Bourbon" (Whiskey)
Shapiro, Fred
- all yo(l)ked up
Laurence Horn
- "The Stages of Grading"
Joel S. Berson
- Blog:
Wilson Gray
- pronouns gone mad
Jonathan Lighter
- Best damn sexual assault program in the country
W Brewer
- To "choice into"
Lisa Galvin
- To bodice-rip (was Re: bodice-ripper (1978), bodice-ripping (1979))
Neal Whitman
- Pun: the lesser of two weevils
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Automatic reply: pronouns gone mad
Hunter, Lynne R CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-PACIFIC, 71700
- peeve the verb
Joel S. Berson
- Further Antedating of "Preppy" (Noun)
Shapiro, Fred
- choice into and choicer
David Barnhart
- peeve and relations
Joel S. Berson
- Indiana bans linguistics
Herb Stahlke
- Q: Couplet: "The pride of family is all a cheat, / Who's truly good alone is truly great."
Joel S. Berson
- Head of sunken ferry's owner
W Brewer
- strain one's coffee
Jonathan Lighter
- significant "Gooks"
Jonathan Lighter
- Firenado
W Brewer
- Scope gone wild
Alice Faber
- My birthday word is "gobbledygook" -- now on the Web of Language
Baron, Dennis E
- Headline syntactic haplogy?
Wilson Gray
- The nu? f u
Joel S. Berson
- Ben Zimmer in WSJ on "Boko Haram"
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- awesome sauce!
Jonathan Lighter
- "in the trenches"
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedatings of "Skid Row"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Frankfurter"
Shapiro, Fred
- "fighter plane" again
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedating of "Terminological" -- Not by Winston Churchill
Shapiro, Fred
- Still Further Antedating of "Guillotine"?
Shapiro, Fred
- Fictional Materials for OED
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedatings of "skid-way" (n.) and "skid" (v.)
Hugo
- silo
Jonathan Lighter
- things on my blog
Arnold Zwicky
- "white lightning (non-drug)-- needs an OED entry?
Joel S. Berson
- Web of Language birthday word -- link correction
Baron, Dennis E
- Chuppie
Benjamin Barrett
- Where the name mis-fits the occupation
Joel S. Berson
- Another crash blossom?
victor steinbok
- Call for papers for 2015 American Dialect Society conference
Grant Barrett
- frunk: front trunk of an automobile (Tesla electric car)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- OCR "arms" > "anus"
Neal Whitman
- Chronicle of Higher Education Article on Serenity Prayer
Shapiro, Fred
- Question about "the whole three yards" (1882)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- Thank you for calling -> Thank you?
Benjamin Barrett
- Dinosaur serrations
Jonathan Lighter
- Question about value of newspapers.com
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Slight Antedating of Modern Sense of "Baseball"
Shapiro, Fred
- "put on"
Wilson Gray
- trophy wife (1961)
Ben Zimmer
- crash blossom
Michael Newman
- "bikeable" (1972)
Hugo
- "War is God's way...."
Jonathan Lighter
- The future of knowledge production
ADSGarson O'Toole
- "sportive" (2005)
Hugo
- Rant, vt
Randy Alexander
- banned words at GM
Jonathan Lighter
- "gran fondo" (1998)
Hugo
- "audax" (1981)
Hugo
- TV-drama dialogue:
Wilson Gray
- "It's about the BHO's, the dabbing, the wax, the shatter, the shake - the getting really fucking HIGH."
Wilson Gray
- diggety/diggity dong/dog
Stephen Goranson
- Goodbye Sunny Nissan
Joel S. Berson
- Basics - STEM Education Has Little to Do With Flowers - NYTimes.com
victor steinbok
- US reductions (slang)
Tom Zurinskas
- an antedating "how to"?
Beth Young
- Never before scene photos
W Brewer
- A new saw
Wilson Gray
- landslip, landslide (jargon[ish] geological): NA/UK updates?
Sarah
- Triangle of Death
Jonathan Lighter
- traveshamockery
Jonathan Lighter
- high-value
Jonathan Lighter
- fauxyal, "fake royal"
Geoffrey Nunberg
- ooftish, ouftish (money)
Stephen Goranson
- The Right Rhymes (historical dictionary of hip-hop)
Ben Zimmer
- fulton history newspapers
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- More careless lexical baloney
Jonathan Lighter
- Further Antedating of "Plugola"
Shapiro, Fred
- Automatische Antwort: Further Antedating of "Plugola"
Wandl-Vogt, Eveline
- Slight Antedating of "Positron"
Shapiro, Fred
- TV ad: "... a real dude ranch"
Wilson Gray
- Slight Antedating of "Neutrino"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Cold Fusion"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Xenophobia"
Shapiro, Fred
- already posted on ADS RE: Antedating of "Xenophobia"
Stephen Goranson
- antedating (?) "ass bandit"
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedating of "Rafferty's rules"
Hugo
- "How well they're off"
Mark Mandel
- Antedating Jaz(z) musician to 1916
sclements at NEO.RR.COM
- "Punch in the neck"
Jim Parish
- Fwd: an antedating "how to"?
Dan Goncharoff
- Anedating Jook House to 1930
sclements at NEO.RR.COM
- to _show out_
Wilson Gray
- _Joog_
Wilson Gray
- "=?UTF-8?Q?=C2=A1Super_nice!_Esto_que_me_man=C3=B3_?=Getzemani Rivas." [NT]
Wilson Gray
- Antedating of "throw a party"
Hugo
- Antedating of "crazy" (submodifer)
Hugo
- Memorial Day Poem
Tom Zurinskas
- Good-natured jibe
Benjamin Barrett
- antedating "calvary"
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedating of "Scatological"
Shapiro, Fred
- Off topic: Quote Investigator: Facebook and Twitter
ADSGarson O'Toole
- Master/slave databases in Django
Hugo
- self-orientalizing 1991
Stephen Goranson
- Antedating of "tweep"
Hugo
- brandal brandalism brandalise
ADSGarson O'Toole
- "Hedonic treadmill" -- not in OED
Joel S. Berson
- the blade of life
Jonathan Lighter
- "PERmitted"
Charles C Doyle
- brain-dead simple
Jonathan Lighter
- Antedating of "Marital Rape"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Bootlegger"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Cuneiform"
Shapiro, Fred
- Antedating of "Ziggurat"
Shapiro, Fred
- "Artisanal gefilte fish." ...
Joel S. Berson
- anachronistic "update"
Laurence Horn
- Pronunciation of Donetsk
Joel S. Berson
- "Both" for "either" or "or" for "and"?
Wilson Gray
- OT almost entirely: Radu Florescu, 88, Scholar of Dracula, and the OED
Joel S. Berson
- Looking for Corky
Sali Tagliamonte
- Show Out
Brian Hitchcock
- frig = 'to cheat'
Jonathan Lighter
- Frankenbeast; Batsquatch
Jonathan Lighter
- do I sound gay, the movie
Tom Zurinskas
- Automatic reply: ADS-L Digest - 28 May 2014 to 29 May 2014 (#2014-150)
Damien Hall
- PDF illustration of the Slavyansk and Donetsk stuff
Dan Goncharoff
- SWUG, dayger
Ben Zimmer
- Antedating of "Texan"
Shapiro, Fred
- Further Antedating of "Texan"
Shapiro, Fred
- "32 Words That Make You Look Bad"
Jonathan Lighter
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