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Starting: Tue Dec 1 01:57:34 UTC 2015
Ending: Thu Dec 31 21:10:59 UTC 2015
Messages: 295

• [Ads-l] Jack pot   Peter Reitan
  • [Ads-l] Jack pot   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Jack pot   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Floppy Disk"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] targeteer   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Jack pot (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
• [Ads-l] Eggcorn: old stopping grounds   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] Eggcorn: old stopping grounds   Charles C Doyle
  • [Ads-l] Eggcorn: old stopping grounds   Ben Zimmer
  • [Ads-l] Eggcorn: old stopping grounds   Peter Reitan
  • [Ads-l] Eggcorn: old stopping grounds   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] Eggcorn: old stopping grounds   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] _albeit_   Wilson Gray
  • [Ads-l] _albeit_   Laurence Horn
  • [Ads-l] _albeit_   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] _albeit_   Dan Goncharoff
    • [Ads-l] _albeit_   Laurence Horn
  • [Ads-l] _albeit_   Wilson Gray
  • [Ads-l] _albeit_   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] mole = spy antedating (?)   Peter Morris
  • [Ads-l] mole = spy antedating (?)   Ben Zimmer
  • [Ads-l] mole = spy antedating (?)   Peter Reitan
    • [Ads-l] mole = spy antedating (?)   Baker, John
      • [Ads-l] mole = spy antedating (?)   Stephen Goranson
    • [Ads-l] mole = spy antedating (?)   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] mole = spy antedating (?)   Amy West
  • [Ads-l] mole = spy antedating (?)   Amy West
• [Ads-l] 'Fighter jets' again   Geoffrey Steven Nathan
  • [Ads-l] 'Fighter jets' again   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] International Linguistic Association -- Call Papers 2016   David Barnhart
  • [Ads-l] International Linguistic Association -- Call Papers 2016   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• [Ads-l] e-mail ad: "It's the _gifting_ season!"   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Pixel"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] sashimi antedating   Bill Mullins
  • [Ads-l] sashimi antedating   Laurence Horn
• [Ads-l] "OR He is the idiot."   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] [PW] Request help verifying Orwell quotation in New Statesman, August 28, 1937 using ProQuest Periodicals (or paper, or microfilm)   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] [PW] Request help verifying Orwell quotation in New Statesman, August 28, 1937 using ProQuest Periodicals (or paper, or microfilm)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] no pun overlooked   James A. Landau
• [Ads-l] Q: "spaniel" = "servile follower" (1603): interdating -- or variant, or new sense?   Joel Berson
• [Ads-l] no pun overlooked (continued)   James A. Landau
• [Ads-l] [Marketing Mail] 26 Names That Didn't Exist Before 2000   Laurence Horn
• [Ads-l] "lap-dog": modern sense not in OED?   Joel Berson
• [Ads-l] crybully, crybullies, crybullying: new in 2015?   Christopher Philippo
  • [Ads-l] crybully, crybullies, crybullying: new in 2015?   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Is this a con?   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] ISIL [rhymes with whistle]   W Brewer
  • [Ads-l] ISIL [rhymes with whistle]   W Brewer
  • [Ads-l] ISIL [rhymes with whistle]   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] ISIL [rhymes with whistle]   W Brewer
    • [Ads-l] ISIL [rhymes with whistle]   Laurence Horn
    • [Ads-l] ISIL [rhymes with whistle]   W Brewer
  • [Ads-l] ISIL [rhymes with whistle]   Tom Zurinskas
  • [Ads-l] ISIL [rhymes with whistle]   Tom Zurinskas
  • [Ads-l] ISIL [rhymes with whistle]   Christopher Philippo
  • [Ads-l] ISIL [rhymes with whistle]   W Brewer
• [Ads-l] "ammosexual"   Charles C Doyle
  • [Ads-l] "ammosexual"   ADSGarson O'Toole
    • [Ads-l] "ammosexual"   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] "ammosexual"   Nancy Friedman
  • [Ads-l] "ammosexual"   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] "ammosexual"   Christopher Philippo
  • [Ads-l] "ammosexual"   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] "ammosexual"   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] "ammosexual"   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] "ammosexual"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] There is no hope ...   Joel Berson
• [Ads-l] Speaking with "the bark off" (not in OED)   Joel Berson
• [Ads-l] merry/marry merger (Cricket Wireless)   Ben Zimmer
  • [Ads-l] merry/marry merger (Cricket Wireless)   Tom Zurinskas
  • [Ads-l] merry/marry merger (Cricket Wireless)   Joel Berson
• [Ads-l] G.I.   Peter Morris
  • [Ads-l] G.I.   Dave Wilton
  • [Ads-l] G.I.   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] G.I.   ADSGarson O'Toole
    • [Ads-l] G.I.   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] G.I.   Baker, John
  • [Ads-l] G.I.   George Thompson
  • [Ads-l] G.I.   Wilson Gray
    • [Ads-l] G.I.   Dave Wilton
    • [Ads-l] G.I.   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] G.I.   W Brewer
  • [Ads-l] G.I.   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Pixel" (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
• [Ads-l] Call For Papers   David Barnhart
• [Ads-l] intrusive "of" intrudes further   Neal Whitman
  • [Ads-l] intrusive "of" intrudes further   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] intrusive "of" intrudes further   Wilson Gray
  • [Ads-l] intrusive "of" intrudes further   Neal Whitman
• [Ads-l] metaformation   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] metaformation   W Brewer
  • [Ads-l] metaformation   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] A Texan on Facebook:   Wilson Gray
  • [Ads-l] A Texan on Facebook:   Herb Stahlke
  • [Ads-l] A Texan on Facebook:   Benjamin Barrett
  • [Ads-l] A Texan on Facebook:   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] QOTY   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] QOTY   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Washington Post - style manual changes   Barretts Mail
• [Ads-l] Quote and/or headline OTY?   Joel Berson
• [Ads-l] Announcing NEH Public Scholar Grant Opportunity   Grant Barrett
• [Ads-l] Bluebook Article & New York Times Coverage   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] A Texan on Facebook: (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
  • [Ads-l] A Texan on Facebook: (UNCLASSIFIED)   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] A Texan on Facebook: (UNCLASSIFIED)   Wilson Gray
    • [Ads-l] A Texan on Facebook: (UNCLASSIFIED)   Laurence Horn
    • [Ads-l] A Texan on Facebook: (UNCLASSIFIED)   Herb Stahlke
• [Ads-l] "Gopher file" -- new to me and the OED   Joel Berson
  • [Ads-l] "Gopher file" -- new to me and the OED   Amy West
• [Ads-l] Victimhood Olympics   Brian Hitchcock
  • [Ads-l] Victimhood Olympics   Indigo Som
• [Ads-l] Victimhood Olympics (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
• [Ads-l] Do Hashtags count for WOTY?   Dan Goncharoff
  • [Ads-l] Do Hashtags count for WOTY?   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] "sheeny" in the TLS, and other odds and ends   George Thompson
  • [Ads-l] "sheeny" in the TLS, and other odds and ends   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] "sheeny" in the TLS, and other odds and ends   Michael Quinion
• [Ads-l] Stereophile Newsletter writes of:   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] sleeve (conjuring sense) not in OED   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] some assorted anti-Trumpisms   James A. Landau
• [Ads-l] pundits [pundents]   W Brewer
  • [Ads-l] pundits [pundents]   Neal Whitman
  • [Ads-l] pundits [pundents]   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] pundits [pundents]   Herb Stahlke
  • [Ads-l] pundits [pundents]   Ben Zimmer
    • [Ads-l] pundits [pundents]   Laurence Horn
      • [Ads-l] pundits [pundents]   Joel Berson
      • [Ads-l] pundits [pundents]   Dan Goncharoff
  • [Ads-l] pundits [pundents]   W Brewer
  • [Ads-l] pundits [pundents]   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] pundits [pundents]   Neal Whitman
  • [Ads-l] pundits [pundents]   W Brewer
• [Ads-l] When Snow Sticks   Brian Hitchcock
  • [Ads-l] When Snow Sticks   Amy West
    • [Ads-l] When Snow Sticks   Joel Berson
• [Ads-l] A-PREFIXING   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] CFP: CCURL 2016 @ LREC   Wandl-Vogt, Eveline
• [Ads-l] Quote: War against a foreign country one happens when . . . (George Orwell August 28, 1937)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] "Le _Rush_ de No ël!"   Wilson Gray
  • [Ads-l] "Le _Rush_ de No ël!"   Benjamin Barrett
  • [Ads-l] "Le _Rush_ de No ël!"   Wilson Gray
  • [Ads-l] "Le _Rush_ de No ël!"   Guy Letourneau Owner
• [Ads-l] OT: conference/meeting questions   Amy West
• [Ads-l] Par as in Golf   David Daniel
  • [Ads-l] Par as in Golf   Geoffrey Steven Nathan
• [Ads-l] RES: Par as in Golf   David Daniel
  • [Ads-l] RES: Par as in Golf   David Daniel
    • [Ads-l] Par as in Golf   Baker, John
• [Ads-l] Antedatings of "blue chip"   Hugo
  • [Ads-l] Antedatings of "blue chip"   Dan Goncharoff
  • [Ads-l] Antedatings of "blue chip"   Hugo
• [Ads-l] "Gaelic and garlic"   Joel Berson
• [Ads-l] Fine "velvet corks" and bottling   Joel Berson
• [Ads-l] "cohoop" verb, 1676; not in OED   Joel Berson
  • [Ads-l] "cohoop" verb, 1676; not in OED   ADSGarson O'Toole
    • [Ads-l] "cohoop" verb, 1676; not in OED   Joel Berson
    • [Ads-l] "cohoop" verb, 1676; not in OED   Ben Zimmer
      • [Ads-l] "cohoop" verb, 1676; not in OED   Joel Berson
• [Ads-l] "slap-fight"   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] ajast   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] ajast   Laurence Horn
  • [Ads-l] ajast   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] ajast   Neal Whitman
  • [Ads-l] ajast   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
  • [Ads-l] ajast   Wilson Gray
  • [Ads-l] ajast   W Brewer
• [Ads-l] Motto: Nits will be lice. (Request EEBO verification in 1683)   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] Motto: Nits will be lice. (Request EEBO verification in 1683)   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] Motto: Nits will be lice. (Request EEBO verification in 1683)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] "He's got pace."   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] "a coupla three"   Wilson Gray
  • [Ads-l] "a coupla three"   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] "a coupla three"   Wilson Gray
  • [Ads-l] "a coupla three"   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] slap-fight   James A. Landau
  • [Ads-l] slap-fight   Charles C Doyle
  • [Ads-l] slap-fight   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] "Ms." interdatings (1921-22)   Ben Zimmer
  • [Ads-l] "Ms." interdatings (1921-22)   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] "Ms." interdatings (1921-22)   Ben Zimmer
  • [Ads-l] "Ms." interdatings (1921-22)   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] "been" deletion   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] "been" deletion   George Thompson
  • [Ads-l] "been" deletion   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] spread of punctual whenever?   Benjamin Barrett
  • [Ads-l] spread of punctual whenever?   Galen Buttitta
• [Ads-l] "We are pregnant," okay, but ...   W Brewer
• [Ads-l] Request for Modern Examples of Misquotation   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] Request for Modern Examples of Misquotation   Tom Zurinskas
  • [Ads-l] Request for Modern Examples of Misquotation   James A. Landau
  • [Ads-l] Request for Modern Examples of Misquotation   James A. Landau
  • [Ads-l] Request for Modern Examples of Misquotation   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] Request for Modern Examples of Misquotation   Dan Goncharoff
  • [Ads-l] Request for Modern Examples of Misquotation   Geoffrey Nunberg
• [Ads-l] "farv" vs "farm"   Chuck Grandgent
  • [Ads-l] "farv" vs "farm"   Benjamin Barrett
  • [Ads-l] "farv" vs "farm"   Paul A Johnston, Jr
  • [Ads-l] "farv" vs "farm"   W Brewer
• [Ads-l] Quote: May you live in interesting times (Chinese curse?)   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] Quote: May you live in interesting times (Chinese curse?)   Benjamin Barrett
  • [Ads-l] Quote: May you live in interesting times (Chinese curse?)   ADSGarson O'Toole
    • [Ads-l] Quote: May you live in interesting times (Chinese curse?)   Benjamin Barrett
    • [Ads-l] Quote: May you live in interesting times (Chinese curse?)   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] Quote: May you live in interesting times (Chinese curse?)   W Brewer
    • [Ads-l] Quote: May you live in interesting times (Chinese curse?)   Laurence Horn
• [Ads-l] Butt-chugging   Wilson Gray
  • [Ads-l] Butt-chugging   Ben Zimmer
  • [Ads-l] Butt-chugging   W Brewer
  • [Ads-l] Butt-chugging   Amy West
    • [Ads-l] Butt-chugging   Laurence Horn
    • [Ads-l] Butt-chugging   Wilson Gray
  • [Ads-l] Butt-chugging   Amy West
• [Ads-l] "If I had gone with my first thought..."   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] Facebook: "But you cannot take everything a man says...   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] "schlong", the verb -- not in OED   Joel Berson
  • [Ads-l] "schlong", the verb -- not in OED   Dan Goncharoff
  • [Ads-l] "schlong", the verb -- not in OED   W Brewer
  • [Ads-l] "schlong", the verb -- not in OED   Wilson Gray
  • [Ads-l] "schlong", the verb -- not in OED   Ben Zimmer
  • [Ads-l] "schlong", the verb -- not in OED   Ben Zimmer
  • [Ads-l] "schlong", the verb -- not in OED   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] "schlong", the verb -- not in OED   W Brewer
    • [Ads-l] "schlong", the verb -- not in OED   Joel Berson
    • [Ads-l] "schlong", the verb -- not in OED   W Brewer
  • [Ads-l] "schlong", the verb -- not in OED   Wilson Gray
  • [Ads-l] "schlong", the verb -- not in OED   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] The pitfalls of "allegedly"?   Joel Berson
• [Ads-l] Quote: Clear your mind of cant (can't)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Do you want to be on the experts list for the American Dialect Society?   Grant Barrett
• [Ads-l] Above the freight   W Brewer
  • [Ads-l] Above the freight   Joel Berson
  • [Ads-l] Above the freight   Laurence Horn
  • [Ads-l] Above the freight   W Brewer
  • [Ads-l] Above the freight   Dan Goncharoff
  • [Ads-l] Above the freight   W Brewer
  • [Ads-l] Above the freight   Wilson Gray
  • [Ads-l] Above the freight   Mark Mandel
    • [Ads-l] Above the freight   Laurence Horn
• [Ads-l] RES: "schlong", the verb -- not in OED   David Daniel
  • [Ads-l] RES: "schlong", the verb -- not in OED   David Daniel
• [Ads-l] Axe as musical instrument   Bill Mullins
  • [Ads-l] Axe as musical instrument   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] A Christmas Schlong (verb) (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
• [Ads-l] profanity in music lyrics (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
  • [Ads-l] profanity in music lyrics (UNCLASSIFIED)   Charles C Doyle
  • [Ads-l] profanity in music lyrics (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
  • [Ads-l] profanity in music lyrics (UNCLASSIFIED)   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] Q: "toppinel"?   Joel Berson
• [Ads-l] Stick (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
• [Ads-l] _point-blank_ "right away, immediately"   Wilson Gray
  • [Ads-l] _point-blank_ "right away, immediately"   Dan Goncharoff
• [Ads-l] "steal (someone's) thunder", 1858; OED 1900--   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] "[psycho]paths" [psycho]pa[Dz]   Wilson Gray
  • [Ads-l] "[psycho]paths" [psycho]pa[Dz]   Herb Stahlke
  • [Ads-l] "[psycho]paths" [psycho]pa[Dz]   Wilson Gray
  • [Ads-l] "[psycho]paths" [psycho]pa[Dz]   W Brewer
  • [Ads-l] "[psycho]paths" [psycho]pa[Dz]   Herb Stahlke
• [Ads-l] Updated list of nonbinary pronouns / singular they   Baron, Dennis E
  • [Ads-l] Updated list of nonbinary pronouns / singular they   Laurence Horn
• [Ads-l] undo/undue   Charles C Doyle
  • [Ads-l] undo/undue   Ben Zimmer
  • [Ads-l] undo/undue   Charles C Doyle
• [Ads-l] The politics of "he." Literally.   Baron, Dennis E
• [Ads-l] "A Collaret, is a kind of _a_ Gorget"   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] intrusive R again   Laurence Horn
  • [Ads-l] intrusive R again   Wilson Gray
    • [Ads-l] intrusive R again   Laurence Horn
    • [Ads-l] intrusive R again   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] Heard: "His father wouldn't...   Wilson Gray
  • [Ads-l] Heard: "His father wouldn't...   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] Heard: "His father wouldn't...   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• [Ads-l] _goon-child_: HDAS 1942   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] "looking down valley"   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] "Double harder"   Dan Goncharoff
• [Ads-l] "on-court gags =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=94_?=or reams, as the players called them "   George Thompson
  • [Ads-l] "on-court gags =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=94_?=or reams, as the players called them "   Jonathan Lighter
    • [Ads-l] "on-court gags =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=94_?=or reams, as the players called them "   George Thompson
      • [Ads-l] "on-court gags =?Windows-1252?Q?=97_?=or reams, as the players called them "   Stephen Goranson
      • [Ads-l] "on-court gags =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=94_?=or reams, as the players called them "   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] "on-court gags =?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=94_?=or reams, as the players called them "   Robin Hamilton
  • [Ads-l] "on-court gags =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=94_?=or reams, as the players called them "   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] "on-court gags =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=94_?=or reams, as the players called them "   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] Reminder: join the experts list for the American Dialect Society   Grant Barrett
• [Ads-l] "The Unknown _Peever_"   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] "on-court gags =?Windows-1252?Q?=97_?=or reams, as the players called them " (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
• [Ads-l] antedating "derby hat"   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] (Off topic) Request Financial Times article mentioning Quote Investigator   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] (Off topic) Request Financial Times article mentioning Quote Investigator   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Stop   Heather Oleson
• [Ads-l] Stylistic AKA "grammatical" rules of English   Wilson Gray
  • [Ads-l] Stylistic AKA "grammatical" rules of English   Joel Berson
  • [Ads-l] Stylistic AKA "grammatical" rules of English   Dan Goncharoff
• [Ads-l] That boody   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] antedating (?) of conditional "would have" = 'had'   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] QOTY?   Jonathan Lighter

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