December 2016 Archives by thread
Starting: Thu Dec 1 01:15:22 UTC 2016
Ending: Sat Dec 31 14:45:06 UTC 2016
Messages: 375
- [Ads-l] "spray and pray" etc.
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [Ads-l] Can you spell "cat"?
Tom Zurinskas
- [Ads-l] unsubscribe
Larry Davidson
- [Ads-l] bazam - wooden cantilever bridge - 2004
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] cuss word euphemisms
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
- [Ads-l] Triple negative
Brian Hitchcock
- [Ads-l] New Ways of Analyzing Variation 46: Progress, Call for Abstracts
Joe Salmons
- [Ads-l] New Ways of Analyzing Variation 46: Progress, Call for Workshop Proposals
Joe Salmons
- [Ads-l] hone = aim
Herb Stahlke
- [Ads-l] Dialect clash: The Steve Wilkos Show
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Betrayed by spell-check
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Holiday offer for the logophiles on your list
Joan Hall
- [Ads-l] (Off topic) Galleys of "Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations"
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] The word of the year for 2016? It's too terrible to name
Baron, Dennis E
- [Ads-l] more nominalized adjs.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Heard: "Me and him go way back like car-seats."
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] referendi (plural of referendum)
W Brewer
- [Ads-l] frictionous
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] simple, n.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Too bold? Then please forgive me
David Barnhart
- [Ads-l] Looks like a good (Christmas?) book
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] wishbone
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
- [Ads-l] stupid, n.; nonsensical, n.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Heard numerous of times on...
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] WOTY: "fake news"
Mailbox
- [Ads-l] Kilroy folklore
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] planers, sawyers, and snags
Joan Hall
- [Ads-l] 'Fighter-jet' redux (sorta)
Geoffrey Nathan
- [Ads-l] "[Blank] Quarterback" - Second-guessing
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] yukina - 2008
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] OT: Anyone know if Barry Popik is going to the meeting/conference?
Amy West
- [Ads-l] Meese - 1878
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] lieut
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] whanger
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] to come Yankee over
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Adage: If you are going to be a bear, be a grizzly (June 1908)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Monday morning quarterback
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
- [Ads-l] Subject: "gauding", 1799 -- a remarkable survival
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] "Le _Rush_ de No ël"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] nontroversy; to resolve
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] eponymous
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] re-up
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Query from New York Times on "Sounds good."
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- [Ads-l] Grammatical error in the New Yorker
Jocelyn Limpert
- [Ads-l] latest reversal
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Web syntax
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Putinism
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] to document
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "hate selling"
Geoff Nunberg
- [Ads-l] Facebookery: "Losing weight...
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Request help to verify H. L. Mencken column in Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] How the Army-Navy game 2016 was won
W Brewer
- [Ads-l] movie notes, 1943
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] batshit
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] Santaphobia
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] Modern Proverb: Sacred cows make the best hamburger (antedating attrib Aardvark magazine 1965)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] stern sheets, cat shit
Joan Hall
- [Ads-l] Injia
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] American Dialect Society 2016 words-of-the-year nominations are open, now with new categories
Grant Barrett
- [Ads-l] in real time (again)
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] XYZ revived
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] 39 - thank you
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] A slight difference from Green's
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Q: "lumping the team ... much chance ..."?
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] "soak" antedating
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] early U.S. "guy"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedatings of hack- words
Hugo
- [Ads-l] SET -- to cheat at dice
Robin Hamilton
- [Ads-l] crude seafaring proverb; "scrouge"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Bammer
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] Heard on reality TV: _runaway money_ "money to support a life on the run"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] A couple of NE PA localisms
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] unpresidented
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] Phubbing
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] consensus and concensus and 100%?
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] More nominalizations
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] 19th C. "screw"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] A narrator speaks:
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "tumbleweed"
Hugo
- [Ads-l] The question of the ages
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] sakk, sukuk and sukuks
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] Dialect clash: _shlong_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] schlong, v.
David Barnhart
- [Ads-l] Someone philosophically asks:
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] invitation: Citzen Science | Do-It-yourself-Science survey participation
Wandl-Vogt, Eveline
- [Ads-l] VA =/= V.A.
W Brewer
- [Ads-l] Early Language of Television
Baker, John
- [Ads-l] Beyond Superbowl
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Heard: "_She_ was the group's _de-facta_ leader."
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Facebookery: _homeworks_ as a count-noun
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Question from family member
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] Corkball: the Saint Louis game
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Heard in a Christmas-dinner conversation:
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Heard on a reality cop-opera
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Heard, again: "dekkid"; also "on _the_ average"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] W:pedia on a form of non-StL wallball
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Trivia - Heard, used as adjectives: _checked, sculped, heinous_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Heard: _ratchet_ "pistol"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Googobs: HDAS, 1970; Green's, 1971
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] AIDS-Related Quote
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] blue serge
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
- [Ads-l] History of "Jingle Bells Batman Smells"
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
- [Ads-l] "sleuthery," 1902
Geoffrey Nunberg
- [Ads-l] "sleuthery," 1902 -- CORRECTION
Geoff Nunberg
- [Ads-l] Adage: The things that count cannot be counted (June 29, 1932)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] re-up syntax
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [Ads-l] Mano a Mano
Brian Hitchcock
- [Ads-l] " An Army Marches on Its Stomach "
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "A _team_ of UC Davis students _are_..."
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Is There a Scow in Moscow?
Baker, John
- [Ads-l] Heard: "want _for_ you to do"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] _series_ > "serious"
Wilson Gray
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