April 2016 Archives by thread
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- [Ads-l] "Gay" line in "Bringing up Baby"?
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Fw: [ADS-L] Enslavement of Native Americans [was: wench]
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Earliest Known Example of "Kilroy Was Here"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] More on Earliest Evidence of "Kilroy"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "No whites need apply"
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] wench
Dave Hause
- [Ads-l] Politics and the English language, 2016 Primary Edition
Baron, Dennis E
- [Ads-l] S-drop in BE
Margaret Lee
- [Ads-l] Fw: [ADS-L] Enslavement of Native Americans [was: wench
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] a mysterious term, 1792
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] Antedating of G-string
Baker, John
- [Ads-l] [Non-DoD Source] Earliest Known Example of "Kilroy Was Here" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] More Precise Information on Antedating of "Kilroy"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] 'when the map doesn ’t match the terrain, go with the terrain’.
Dan Goncharoff
- [Ads-l] A lost citation surfaces
Michael Quinion
- [Ads-l] Language and children; flee/flea. Was: Antedating of Flea Market
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- [Ads-l] The New Yorker Comma Queen on "they", part II
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] Light(ing) sabers
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] RES: Language and children; flee/flea.
David Daniel
- [Ads-l] AP: Internet -> internet and "to lowercase"
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] While V-ing
victor steinbok
- [Ads-l] TV dialogue: _guy-trim_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Google "Don't Be Evil" Motto
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Language and children; flee/flea.
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- [Ads-l] CSM: "... all-_women_ news agency ..."
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Language and children; flee/flea. Was: Antedating of Flea
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] Quote: We are two peoples separated by a common language
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Dueling spellings
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] recycle as an intransitive verb
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] Antedating Hep?
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] A clock that stands still is sure to point right once in twelve hours
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Antedating of G-string (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] "fan", noun, for a celebity as an enthusiast for their admirers?
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] "partyism" in 2016
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] "fractivist"; not in OED
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] typo of the week
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] Squirrels in genealogical research
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] [Non-DoD Source] Squirrels in genealogical research (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] _banana hammock_ "a masculine form of the thong"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] _banana hammock_ "a masculine form of the thong" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] Enslavement of Native Americans [was: wench (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] FW (with introduction): Hillary Clinton on Jimmy Kimmel, has no idea why NYC is the Big Apple?
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- [Ads-l] Raising Cain
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] "that'll be the day"
x
- [Ads-l] "The F U train"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "Afric" -- Gaps in OED3
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] "Flying", adj., sense 5.d., "Of pains", 1724, 1725; antedates 1805
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Rage, zen (adjective)
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] Fwd: Fulbright Opportunities for the American Dialect Society
Jesse Sheidlower
- [Ads-l] "Massive chip"
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] 'murrica
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] -able -ible
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [Ads-l] The Gipper wins one!
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] “bow-wow”, adj. = “high sounding =?UTF-8?Q?=2C_grandiloquent=E2=80=9D=2C_?=1826
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] “bow-wow”, adj. = “high sounding, grandil =?Windows-1252?Q?oquent=94=3F=2C_?=1826
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- [Ads-l] "grow ups"??
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Superfluous apostrophe on PBS
Dan Goncharoff
- [Ads-l] turkey-peek.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] to piss
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "hog farm", "cat wagon", Amer. slang; not in OED?
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Words: brocialist (bro+socialist), brocialism, manarchist (man+anarchist)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] MetroLex II: Lexicography, Language, and the Law
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] to cave
Dan Goncharoff
- [Ads-l] A tweet by a twit
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "A big academic word"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] [Non-DoD Source] turkey-peek. (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] A method of kissing ass
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] brocialist
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [Ads-l] to turkey-peek, to prairie-dog
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [Ads-l] A method of kissing ass (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] Adage: If you are going to be a bear, be a grizzly (June 1908)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] "There's X, and then there's X"
Dan Goncharoff
- [Ads-l] Proto-Whole Nine Yards?
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] "a nice name for a nasty thing"
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] CP Time redux (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] NON-Proto-Whole Nine Yards - Machinegun belts.
Guy Letourneau Owner
- [Ads-l] 2005 on pronoun case
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [Ads-l] "(dressed) to the nine" (yards?)
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] namby-pamby 1726; antedates OED3 2003 1745-
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Quotation: Using money you haven't earned to buy things you don't need to impress people you don't like (June 1928)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Study shows widely different interpretations of emojis
victor steinbok
- [Ads-l] CPT (1912), on Barry Popik's website
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- [Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Fifth Column"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] cliffhanger (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] like = 'as is the case with; as with''
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] A regional term for the crane fly
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] _pilot_ "test"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] the day of
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] ominous crash blossom
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] [Non-DoD Source] Re: A regional term for the crane fly (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] Straphanger (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] juice = ink for marking cards, juice(d) cards; bug juice/Kool-Aid
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] juice = ink for marking cards, juice(d) cards; bug juice/Kool-Aid (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] straphanger -- figurative sense (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] OED March 2016 New Words notes (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] _suffer from the shorts_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] _broker than the Ten Commandments_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] RES: _suffer from the shorts_
David Daniel
- [Ads-l] New to me: _deepity_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Headline of Facebook thread:
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] YouTube: "your ansters"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "slaves" and "enslaved [persons]" revisited
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] from the Times again
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] Heard: _don't only_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "A Man in a Doublet ...
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] From the 1736 monde d=?UTF-8?Q?=C3=A9mod=C3=A9e_?=of card-sharping
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] organically
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "lilliputian", adj., 1736; interdates OED2 1728 -- a1764
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Linguistic notes from Ken Burns's "Jackie Robinson"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Irrelevant Facebookery
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Antedating of Skedaddle (1859)
Baker, John
- [Ads-l] Facebookery: _clone_ "?"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] _The Venture Brothers_: dialogue
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] implodement
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] that:who::whom:which?
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] News: Supreme Court declines to hear Authors Guild appeal; Google prevails; Google Books database is legal (for now)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] HathiTrust and the display of snippets
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Antedating non-military "rank and file" of a group?
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] Semper Gumby
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] emojis
Brian Hitchcock
- [Ads-l] Semper Gumby (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] majority; plurality
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] majority; plurality (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] Trump's amazing synapses
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] Sign of the Apocalypse
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] Dorchester
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] limequat
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] Interesting item on Uncle Sam
Laurence Horn
- [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] There's X and then there's X
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [Ads-l] brew ha ha
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Curt Schilling writes:
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] RES: Curt Schilling writes:
David Daniel
- [Ads-l] Facebookery
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] About diabetes
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Jeutonne Brewer
Grant Barrett
- [Ads-l] to redefine
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades."
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Child's misunderstanding: "the donzerly light"
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- [Ads-l] marquis
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] Call for papers and posters for the American Dialect Society 2017 meeting
Grant Barrett
- [Ads-l] "balancing and checking", circa 1735; a bracketed antedating for OED2 1787--?
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] [Non-DoD Source] Re: Child's misunderstanding: "the donzerly light" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] CfP: TEEM'16 : 4th technological ecosystems for enhancing multiculturality conference @ salamanca (ES)
Wandl-Vogt, Eveline
- [Ads-l] FW: [Non-DoD Source] Re: Child's misunderstanding: "the donzerly light" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] Geneaologybank newspapers (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9Cwolawant=E2=80=9D_?=1734 Oct., antedates OED2 1828-- (Bonus: "hurrah"?)
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] kegerator
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] Modern Proverb: If you always do what you've always done, you always get what you've always gotten
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] horseshoes and hand grenades
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] kegerator (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9Cwolawant=E2=80=9D_?=1734 Oct., antedates OED2 1828- (Bonus: "hurrah"?)
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] brew-ha-ha
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [Ads-l] to coalition-build
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] lip strip
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "anorak" n., slang = studious (but not only "young") person, 2016
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Modern Proverb: If you always do what you've always done,
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] QOTY
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Barry Popik in the NY Sun (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] sipe and seep
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] Heard on Springer: _J-setting_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Where'd they go?
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Reboot: QOTY
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Reboot: lip strip
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] RES: Reboot: QOTY
David Daniel
- [Ads-l] smombies and posting pegs
Christopher Philippo
- [Ads-l] shellfish
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Name "Jay" goes unisex
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] [Non-DoD Source] Re: Reboot: QOTY (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] aggression
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "done VERB-ed" < "_have_ done VERB-ed"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Heard on _Rick and Morty_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] No = 'yes; truly'
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] surprised!
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "Catfight" goes unisex.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] WOTY? "berm"
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] misleading headline
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] "baseball player", 1858, from Walt Whitman
Joel Berson
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