August 2015 Archives by thread
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Ending: Mon Aug 31 16:00:37 UTC 2015
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- [Ads-l] in honor of Jon and Wilson
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] "Whose ox hath he taken [gored]", 1683, 1724, 1773; antedate OED3 1843--
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] How to search new ADS-L archive?
Neal Whitman
- [Ads-l] stray maverick notes
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Facebook
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "Represent" in hip-hop/rapspeak
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Heard: _nards_ "testes"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Mickey D's
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "One man's terrorist..."
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "_They got_ a duck in that pool."
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Heard: "dekkid"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Quotation? "Women have a fibre more in the heart, and a cell less in the brain, than men"
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] "No Irish need apply"
Jesse Sheidlower
- [Ads-l] maters and toms
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] "No Irish need apply" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] Mickey D's (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] shits-and-giggles, etc. (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] Mickey D's (Antedating to Nov 10, 1976)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] New York City Slang for a new generation
Dan Goncharoff
- [Ads-l] Better Citation of Antedating of "Beat Generation"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] be obliged to bite the Bitts
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] Unsubscribe
Beckie Craft
- [Ads-l] Music Row, Music City (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] Happy Birthday published in 1922, so out of copyright?
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] "No Irish Need Apply" (1797?) -- message from Barry Popik
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- [Ads-l] Article title @ magazine.good.is
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Song: "The Unicarn"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] tits and ass - 1961
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] Testing the Horn Hypothesis
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Texting -- or sexting? -- on a Victorian "flirting card"
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] The man who first flung a word of abuse at his enemy instead of a spear was the founder of civilization
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] tits and ass
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [Ads-l] "... to meld away into the background."
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Not So Shaggy, 1919
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] "4TH BANGLADESHI BLOGGER HACKED TO DEATH"
Dan Goncharoff
- [Ads-l] "Both/two/three ... seven ends against the middle"
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Query on appositive nouns
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- [Ads-l] Is this what it seems?
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] QOTY
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] pipe-dream antedated (?) to 1870
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] a- in a compound verb form, 1768
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Anglicizing carpe diem
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] Scan 8 at _the_ time.
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "Sandwich =?UTF-8?Q?=C3=A0_?=la Colette"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Male and unmarried housewives
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] WOTY
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Trump: a stitch
Charles C Doyle
- [Ads-l] to ------ drive (fill in blank)
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] more "X sucks" from 1966-67
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] "Full Nine Yards" from 1894
Baker, John
- [Ads-l] this one's not in the database
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] Still more Facebook
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] first "ancestors", now "posterity" -- the blight is spreading
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] Media inquiry: "Law Offices of", why always plural?
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- [Ads-l] "Can anyone suggest a name and description?"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] healthier, n.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "full Monty" notes
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] mockingbird mouth
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Media inquiry: "Law Offices of", why always plural? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] healthier, n. (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] a can of whoop-ass
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Title: "Central American English"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] reposted with corrections/additions: "full Monty" notes
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Hippie Christmas
Joe Fodor
- [Ads-l] Hippie Christmas - Possibly not earlier than the 1990s.
GUY LETOURNEAU Owner
- [Ads-l] UKer
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] UKer (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] Title: "A Manual for Cleaning Women"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] More "hard leg" trivia
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "attention-craved" = "seriously desiring attention"
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] _hard leg_ "any random guy whatsoever," postdating
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] MOWOTY candidate--"cuckservative"
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] Harding's "descendants"
Barbara Need
- [Ads-l] David Foster Wallace
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Oxford Dictionaries Apostrophe Challenge
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] go for a "Burton"--a 1944 etymology guess
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] "full Monty" 1981, at a film festival
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] go for a "Burton"--a 1944 etymology guess (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] (Off list) Gioachino Rossini's quotation about the music of Richard Wagner (Request help)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] situational-hit, v.
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] neutron pasta
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] 60% of English words have silent letters
Tom Zurinskas
- [Ads-l] on the eggcorn watch--"post phone"
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] "official-scoring", verb
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] _beatnik_: interdating
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Can't hurt, may help.
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] bride's wealth, bride wealth, bridewealth, bride's token, bride token
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] London fog (tea and foamed milk)
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] I say "stein", you say "stain"
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] beer fear
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] _stallion_: a sexually-attractive girl(!) or woman(!)
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "film noirs"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Monteleone's "Slang"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "Alpha fee"
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] "A Manual for Cleaning Women"
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] taught/taut -- eggcorn?
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] ridley (sea turtle) antedated to 1885
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Chronic
Brian Hitchcock
- [Ads-l] Chronic
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] apian terms: neonic, miticide, clothianidin, pollinator, Dust Bowl, monocultural, flupyradifurone, colony collapse syndrome
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] apian terms: neonic, miticide, clothianidin, pollinator, Dust Bowl, monocultural, flupyradifurone, colony collapse syndrome
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] apian terms: neonic, miticide, clothianidin, pollinator, Dust Bowl, monocultural, flupyradifurone, colony collapse syndrome
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] apian terms: neonic, miticide, clothianidin, pollinator, Dust Bowl, monocultural, flupyradifurone, colony collapse syndrome
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "Alpha fee" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] Fee vs Fie? (Foe? Fum?)
GUY LETOURNEAU Owner
- [Ads-l] Is Donald Trump smarter than a third grader?
Baron, Dennis E
- [Ads-l] TV ad: How to invent a new word accidentally
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "[Pope Francis's] _money quotes_"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Gioachino Rossini's quotation about the music of Richard Wagner - now on QI website
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] fool-proof and fail-proof
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] "stepped foot on" (that flight)
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] "smacks loudly"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] la sindrome de _Down's_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] on the WOTY watch--"unicorn" and "unicorn poaching"
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] odd duck
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] "Deez Nuts"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Origin of the name "United States of America"
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] thoughts on "stacking"/"packing"/"stocking" cards
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] Heard: "I've had dinner...
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] pact journalism
Herb Stahlke
- [Ads-l] Strange use of "hustle"?
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] catcall
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "sanable" postdated
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] Antedating of Political Sense of "Radical" (Noun)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] money-digger n. U.S. a treasure hunter, antedated
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] "He has guest-conducted internationally."
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] rido - 1977, ridos - 2000
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] guest-conducted
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "The average bear"
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] antedating "close but no cigar"
Peter Morris
- [Ads-l] hashtag, interj.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Unusual "to qualfiy" -- "to characterize (or to accuse) as bad", rather than good?
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Eureka/ That's odd (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] thoughts on "stacking"/"packing"/"stocking" cards (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] UD misinfo
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] extraordinary claims extraordinary evidence
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] WOTY? "Kangapocalypse"
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Again, behind the curve!
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "cup of joe" (1928)
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] Trapped like a rat in a rat trap
W Brewer
- [Ads-l] Antedating of new sense: hangry
Hugo
- [Ads-l] fall guy (1895)
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] fall money (1882)
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] Heard: "I was ragged out dapper."
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] cup of joe (1928)
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] ADS-L Digest - 26 Aug 2015 to 27 Aug 2015 (#2015-237)
Yagoda, Ben
- [Ads-l] descendant:benefactor::ancestor:beneficiary?
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Proverb: Give a man a fish versus teach a man to fish
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] "There is a sucker born every 15 minutes."
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] To both-have
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] more fun with pronouns
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] America: only leapyears ahead
W Brewer
- [Ads-l] Proverb: Build a man a fire?
GUY LETOURNEAU Owner
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