June 2015 Archives by thread
Starting: Mon Jun 1 00:04:40 UTC 2015
Ending: Tue Jun 30 21:50:16 UTC 2015
Messages: 599
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Invert"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] BOGO (when the second item is not free)
W Brewer
- [Ads-l] P. S. on "Chas"
Jim Parish
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Psychosexual"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Sex Education"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Uranian"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Just heard from one ...
Dave Hause
- [Ads-l] backseat drive
Brian Hitchcock
- [Ads-l] "We must increase our busts!"
Nancy Friedman
- [Ads-l] vacuum suit and other sf cites (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] A question of dialogue
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] body safety
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] E-mail from Ancestry.com relative
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] arrove
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] a-rove?
GUY LETOURNEAU Owner
- [Ads-l] "salty"
Amy West
- [Ads-l] "Aca" awareness
Dan Goncharoff
- [Ads-l] Antedating of nabocklish, int.
Hugo
- [Ads-l] foment
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "King-make", v.
Dan Goncharoff
- [Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Global Village"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Rosa Luxemburg Quote
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Really?
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Centennial of "Jazz"
Baker, John
- [Ads-l] redshirt (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] fanmag (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] RES: redshirt (UNCLASSIFIED)
David Daniel
- [Ads-l] hack - trick/secret
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] French bookseller's ad: "Nos TOP Offres!"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "salty" - revival??
Z Rice
- [Ads-l] "Loggen Sie sich ein!"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] query on -s truncation
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] -s truncation
GUY LETOURNEAU Owner
- [Ads-l] _foment_
David Barnhart
- [Ads-l] 9to5Mac: "salty" in the wild, by coinkidink
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "_One(1)_ can't remember...
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "Do me a solid service" from 1963
Dan Goncharoff
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Word Processing"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "The race is not to the swift..."
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] D. Wepman
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Butch Dykeman and Miss Gay
Baker, John
- [Ads-l] ADS-L Digest - 4 Jun 2015 to 5 Jun 2015 (#2015-155)
Hugo
- [Ads-l] rebel yell and yeehaw
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Income Tax"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] WRT arnold's "Mishearings"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Butch Dykeman and Miss Gay (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] Frailing (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] Backformation: "so many kudos" (Nov 1903); "one single kudo" (Jan 1926)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] just heard on NPR
David Barnhart
- [Ads-l] 'Nonfiction novel" arrives at the West Indies
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Hostilization
GUY LETOURNEAU Owner
- [Ads-l] more on _hostilization_
David Barnhart
- [Ads-l] still more on _hostilization_, -_ize_, etc.
David Barnhart
- [Ads-l] Mrs. Malaprop writing news stories again...
GUY LETOURNEAU Owner
- [Ads-l] Pills, excrescent <-s> in nicknames addendum
W Brewer
- [Ads-l] Pills, excrescent <-s> in nicknames addendum (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] manspreading by a boat
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] Saying: A prototype is worth 1,000 meetings
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] alpaca silver, paktong, mate/mat=?UTF-8?Q?=C3=A9_?=and mateine
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "booze cruise" (1979 -> 1921)
Hugo
- [Ads-l] Dykeman, Gay, etc.
Arnold Zwicky
- [Ads-l] Dykeman, Gay, etc.
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] Dykeman, Gay, etc.
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] Dykeman, Gay, etc.
W Brewer
- [Ads-l] Dykeman, Gay, etc.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Dykeman, Gay, etc.
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Dykeman, Gay, etc.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Dykeman, Gay, etc.
W Brewer
- [Ads-l] Dykeman, Gay, etc. (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] Mrs. Malaprop writing news stories again... (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] DPR--candidate for "most euphemistic"?
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] thagomizer
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Candidate for IOTY (Initialism of ...) -- PLOTUS
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] "the land of opportunity"
Geoffrey Nunberg
- [Ads-l] intrusive "of" intrudes further
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] The question of the ages
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] fines for saying "you guys" to mixed groups?
Geoffrey Nunberg
- [Ads-l] Request help verifying quotation of polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] From a comment in The Guardian
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] chuggernaut
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] QOTY candidate, from Steve Kerr
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] alpaca silver, paktong, mate/mat=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E9_?=and mateine
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] she shed
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] Can a Facebook post land you in jail? Maybe . . .
Baron, Dennis E
- [Ads-l] "Hooshier March" 1831
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] exfiltrate = infiltrate and take
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] Quote: Only kings, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial ‘we’.
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] to swarm
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Another -gate
David Barnhart
- [Ads-l] new gesture
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Charlie side
David Daniel
- [Ads-l] WebMD: "charlie hoarses" [NT]
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Request help tracing Poul Anderson quotation
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] RES: fines for saying "you guys" to mixed groups?
David Daniel
- [Ads-l] more fauxk etymology
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] double-stuff
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Just where is that yellow brick road? Oh my!
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] ''Jonathan Livingston Seagull''
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] A couple of first-heards
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Bizarro, Bizarro World
Mark Peters
- [Ads-l] Early WOTY nominee: "transracial"
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- [Ads-l] Early WOTY nominee: "transracial" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] Bizarro, Bizarro World (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] "coded"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "the early 1900s"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Shifting connotations: Is novelette derogatory?
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] beta reading
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] Antedating of Iftar
Hugo
- [Ads-l] healthier, n.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Bookmobile"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] strategic
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Bad language of the 1890s
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] a deleted early Hoosier
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] The OED's "little person"?
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] New to me: "deep-seeded"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] For the files: Does a developer got game?
victor steinbok
- [Ads-l] “oblivobesity”
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] Bad language of the 1890s (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] Fred Shapiro makes SCOTUS (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] "ashvalanche" - MEWOTY?
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] "The ship will likely stay in the dock ...
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] How to un-munge long URLs (was: Re: Bad language of the 1890s)
Dave Hause
- [Ads-l] "Fluid adjustment"
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] -valanche (as in ashvalanche
Arnold Zwicky
- [Ads-l] In Belize, mangoes are what snowflakes are to Eskimos
Victor Steinbok
- [Ads-l] "Be strung out (behind [NP])" = "be in love (with [NP])"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Individualism"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Venture Capital"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] More Facebook: "African ancestored people"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "walkable"
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] J. Swift qoute on reasoning "out/into"
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Summer bucket list
Neal Whitman
- [Ads-l] "Co-Sign" Not in OED
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] n-word update
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] ancestor
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Fwd: "walkable"
GUY LETOURNEAU Owner
- [Ads-l] Corkass [caucus] 1763 "...should give the etymology...but"
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] on the eve of
Herb Stahlke
- [Ads-l] n-word update (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] RES: n-word update
David Daniel
- [Ads-l] The Stainless Steel Banner
GUY LETOURNEAU Owner
- [Ads-l] WOTY? (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] What ABout the "Bonnie Blue?"
GUY LETOURNEAU Owner
- [Ads-l] Query concerning the removal of "French" from "French horn"
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- [Ads-l] Query concerning the removal of "French" from "French horn" (2nd try)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- [Ads-l] "They lack more common sense than a 3rd-grader."
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] cold turkey
David Daniel
- [Ads-l] cold turkey (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] parbunkells (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] Word on billboard that one is not supposed to use (or mention). Allusions, anagrams, metaphors are probably ok.
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Word on billboard that one is not supposed to use (or mention). Allusions, anagrams, metaphors are probably ok. (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] Adage: There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] "Black, colored, negro" in 1835 [emphases original]
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Twerk the night away
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "Kryptonite" Finally in OED
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Problems with OED Entry for "Federal Case"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Prepositioning
Barbara Need
- [Ads-l] Saying: With great power comes great responsibility (Request help with French)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Transmission rates and related goodies
victor steinbok
- [Ads-l] "my internet _horrow_ story"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "a state that we CANNOT LOSE...
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] OT: "Un mini social network per il tuo business"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] the elite
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] caucus, to clarify
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Beat Generation"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Hipster"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Halving the flat (berries)
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] Quip: Any field that had the word "science" in its name was guaranteed thereby not to be a science (Help request)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Random query: "cripple (shot)"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] choreography
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] malevolous
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Quote: Congress will have to pass it to find out how it works (Aug 14 1937; found by B. Zimmer)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] "He did a 150 ...
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] OT: According to Amazon.de,
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] OTOH, HDAS has _head-whipper_ and _ass-whipping_,
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Transgender" and "Transgenderism"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Debug" and "Debugging"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Inflation" (Economic Sense)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Bentley on "caucus, " as perhaps from "Cooke's House, " 1821
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Word: Greitgue
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Marriage equality, guns, health care, and the myth of judicial objectivity
Baron, Dennis E
- [Ads-l] Difficult to read fonts; also, quotations in the news
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Indexes to Volumes I-III of DARE
Joan Hall
- [Ads-l] Yale Grammatical Diversity Project - Slate
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] More Facebook-isms
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Interview on Oxford Dictionaries Blog
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Fw: "Show-girl" 1750, probably antedating OED2 1836--; "middling" 1750 minor antedating
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Not something to lose sleep over, but...
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] More Precise Citation for Antedating of "Beat Generation"
Shapiro, Fred
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