December 2015 Archives by thread
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] 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] _albeit_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] mole = spy antedating (?)
Peter Morris
- [Ads-l] 'Fighter jets' again
Geoffrey Steven Nathan
- [Ads-l] International Linguistic Association -- Call Papers 2016
David Barnhart
- [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] "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] 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] Is this a con?
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] ISIL [rhymes with whistle]
W Brewer
- [Ads-l] "ammosexual"
Charles C Doyle
- [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] G.I.
Peter Morris
- [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] metaformation
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] A Texan on Facebook:
Wilson Gray
- [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] "Gopher file" -- new to me and the OED
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Victimhood Olympics
Brian Hitchcock
- [Ads-l] Victimhood Olympics (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] Do Hashtags count for WOTY?
Dan Goncharoff
- [Ads-l] "sheeny" in the TLS, and other odds and ends
George Thompson
- [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] When Snow Sticks
Brian Hitchcock
- [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] OT: conference/meeting questions
Amy West
- [Ads-l] Par as in Golf
David Daniel
- [Ads-l] RES: Par as in Golf
David Daniel
- [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] "slap-fight"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] ajast
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] slap-fight
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] "Ms." interdatings (1921-22)
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] "been" deletion
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] spread of punctual whenever?
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] "We are pregnant," okay, but ...
W Brewer
- [Ads-l] Request for Modern Examples of Misquotation
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] "farv" vs "farm"
Chuck Grandgent
- [Ads-l] Quote: May you live in interesting times (Chinese curse?)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Butt-chugging
Wilson Gray
- [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] 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] RES: "schlong", the verb -- not in OED
David Daniel
- [Ads-l] Axe as musical instrument
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] A Christmas Schlong (verb) (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] profanity in music lyrics (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [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] "steal (someone's) thunder", 1858; OED 1900--
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] "[psycho]paths" [psycho]pa[Dz]
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Updated list of nonbinary pronouns / singular they
Baron, Dennis E
- [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] Heard: "His father wouldn't...
Wilson Gray
- [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] 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] Stop
Heather Oleson
- [Ads-l] Stylistic AKA "grammatical" rules of English
Wilson Gray
- [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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