August 2016 Archives by thread
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- [Ads-l] Spelling charts shows Websterspel is preferred. "center" over "centre"
Tom Zurinskas
- [Ads-l] Waltzing Matilda
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] More loving
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] another non-fiction novel
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] an indirect reminder of a hapax legomenon
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] The Professor and the Madman
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [Ads-l] The Professor and the Madman (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] "Glide path" to negative result
Dan Goncharoff
- [Ads-l] "Repurposing" a quote
Dan Goncharoff
- [Ads-l] Origin of "The Big Apple" -- Barry Popik's Extraordinary Research On This Topic
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- [Ads-l] Dope
Michael Quinion
- [Ads-l] Psychologically correct
Ann Burlingham
- [Ads-l] Emoji don't kill people . . .
Baron, Dennis E
- [Ads-l] 5 Bible Quotes That Really Aren't
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] Malpractice as a euphemism
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] Antedating two meanings for jarhead--mule, and Army member (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] Dental stops in English
Geoffrey Steven Nathan
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Simoleon"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] RES: Antedating of "Simoleon"
David Daniel
- [Ads-l] _plug-in_, vt "install plug-ins into"; _DDP_, vt "provide with a D[isc-]D[escription]P[rotocol]
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Did Donald Trump just threaten the president? New Web of Language post.
Baron, Dennis E
- [Ads-l] Central site for antedatings WAS Re: Antedating of "Simoleon"
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
- [Ads-l] The United States Is/Are
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] Heard on TV: _a homeless_ "a homeless person"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] New Sense of "Primary"?
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] More taboo avoidance
victor steinbok
- [Ads-l] "_an 'orrific_ wreck"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] possible qoty
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] A Facebooker writes:
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] mogule
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Simoleons and Katy, bar the door
Michael Quinion
- [Ads-l] schadenfreudian
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] Santayana and "appointment with April"
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Facebookery:
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] notorious = 'well regarded or recognized'
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Olympics-related WOTY?
Yagoda, Ben
- [Ads-l] poke the bear
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] astrology = astronomy
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Fw: [C18-L] watch piece
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] [C18-L] watch piece
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] _onry_ [< ornery < ordinary] "of man or beast: mean, nasty, angry, cruel, crude, unpleasant, dangerous, " etc..
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] _onry_ [< ornery < ordinary] "of man or beast: mean, nasty, angry, cruel, crude, unpleasant, dangerous, " etc..
Herb Stahlke
- [Ads-l] _onry_ [< ornery < ordinary] "of man or beast: mean, nasty, angry, cruel, crude, unpleasant, dangerous, " etc..
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] _onry_ [< ornery < ordinary] "of man or beast: mean, nasty, angry, cruel, crude, unpleasant, dangerous, " etc..
David Champion
- [Ads-l] _onry_ [< ornery < ordinary] "of man or beast: mean, nasty, angry, cruel, crude, unpleasant, dangerous, " etc..
Neal Whitman
- [Ads-l] Olympics-related WOTY? (UNCLASSIFIED)
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
- [Ads-l] rootstalk - 1837
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] ship, v. (2000-01)
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] Trump: "[Hillary] lacks the physical stamina to take on ISIS"
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Web of Language 10th-anniversary post -- Going native: Brexit prompts linguistic cleansing
Baron, Dennis E
- [Ads-l] "dollars to doughnuts" 1871
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] New Zealand stuff
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] turd tornado
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Lord! What is this language coming to?!
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "blood coming from her [pause] wherever" ...
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] "blood coming from her [pause] wherever" ... (UNCLASSIFIED)
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
- [Ads-l] "to face-plant' -- needs extension to figurative in OED?
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] "repenetant"
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] the over-under
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Trivia: heard _nut up_, HDAS "go crazy or go berserk"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Trivia: heard _nut up_, HDAS "go crazy or go berserk" (UNCLASSIFIED)
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
- [Ads-l] unpermitted erections? -- away with them!
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] "burkini" -- WOTY?
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Surely a WOTY candidate
David Barnhart
- [Ads-l] WOTY - Zika
Tom Zurinskas
- [Ads-l] Spelling out pronounced acronyms
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] alloing: alloparent, alloparenting, allomother, allomothering
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] Quote: We are taught to fly in the air like birds =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=A6_?=but how to live on the earth we do not know" (Request)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] "land loper"?
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] ADS-relevance on my blog
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [Ads-l] _git-stick_ "guitar"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "Black Friday" = having to work the day after a Thursday holiday (1957)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- [Ads-l] "totem pole" = stacking (UNCLASSIFIED)
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
- [Ads-l] mannyerism
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Punning band-name + anecdote
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "toodle-oo"
Hugo
- [Ads-l] RES: mannyerism
David Daniel
- [Ads-l] definition of expert (UNCLASSIFIED)
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
- [Ads-l] Alligator dung 'crock of shit'
W Brewer
- [Ads-l] waygoose and wake-goose
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] wazzock/wazzuck/wassock from waesock/waesuck?
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] plus-minus, n.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Toodle-oo
Yagoda, Ben
- [Ads-l] _don't go behind me_ "don't go behind my back"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "toodle-oo" (UNCLASSIFIED)
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
- [Ads-l] Christians & Muslims
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Heard on Dr. Phil:
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Oral history? Folklore? Urban legend? Bullshit?
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Slate article about newspaper scans removed from Google News Archive
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] QOTY 1995
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] plussed up
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] RES: Heard on Dr. Phil:
David Daniel
- [Ads-l] Retrofit [re-TROFF-it] -> 'biopic'
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "dig out" wikthout the "out"
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] missed-matched
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] When you ask people for the words they hate, don=?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=99t_?=complain when they tell you
Baron, Dennis E
- [Ads-l] Adage: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] "building the plane"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Yet another no-word-for-X
victor steinbok
- [Ads-l] "voxel", circa 1981; not in OED
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] blame-shift
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] WSJ article: An Identity Crisis for Self-Driving - autopilot, meatmobile
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] fuck them
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] Quote: If you remember the =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9960s=2C_you_really_weren=E2=80=99t_?=there
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Check Apron Ball
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] Facebookery
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Idiom: throwing (shoving) under the bus [political sacrifice or removal]
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Is positive-anymore spreading?
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Spam semantics; English tense
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] like a fat guy
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] TV ad: "My doctor says I have Skittles-pox."
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] laxadaisical
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Title of political e-mail: _Hair=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99s_?=breadth_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] OED note
OED-ADS Subscriber
- [Ads-l] excorshiate
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "slave"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] RES: excorshiate
David Daniel
- [Ads-l] dirty language
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] mic/mike (was fuck them)
Amy West
- [Ads-l] hirelings and slaves (UNCLASSIFIED)
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
- [Ads-l] one of the only?
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] Tom Wolfe disses Noam Chomsky ...
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] one of the only?
Flourish Klink
- [Ads-l] like a fat guy
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Say what?! WRT new Absolut commercial
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Link to Article on "African-American"
Shapiro, Fred
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