January 2016 Archives by thread
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Messages: 383
- [Ads-l] possible WOTY.....
David Barnhart
- [Ads-l] antedating (?) of conditional "would have" = 'had'
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Earliest Known Example of Specialized "Murphy's Law"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Earliest Known Example of Specialized "Murphy's Law" (CORRECTED VERSION, SPELLING BILL MULLINS' NAME CORRECTLY)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] MetroLex (NYC lexicography meetup)
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] pundits [pundents]
Neal Whitman
- [Ads-l] Good news for ammunition sales, and for back-formations
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] WOTY 2015 nominations
Hugo
- [Ads-l] "McRefugee"
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Nazi Wit and Humor
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] "meetup"
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "App"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Range the gauntlet =?Windows-1252?Q?=97_?=eggcorn?
Brian Hitchcock
- [Ads-l] Range the gauntlet =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=94_?=eggcorn?
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] back-formations (and t/d-deletion) on my blog
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [Ads-l] buttoning up and down
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] New Year's Resolution: Banishing the words you hate won't help
Baron, Dennis E
- [Ads-l] Ball-handling? and a QOTY?
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Headline
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Antedating HDAS Oreo WAS: Nazi Wit and Humor (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] Early Citation for "Big Apple"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Another Early Citation for "Big Apple"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Jackpot"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Crash-blossom-y
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- [Ads-l] Fwd: A message from the President of the American Name Society
Jesse Sheidlower
- [Ads-l] Eatymology
David Daniel
- [Ads-l] antedating snake eyes (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] proposed new racial category
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] It=?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=99s_?=the birthday of a pronoun: heer, himer, hiser, born OTD in 1912
Baron, Dennis E
- [Ads-l] Early forms of "Never wrestle with a pig" (Was: Re: Aeschylus, G.B. Shaw at it again)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- [Ads-l] Another Early Citation for "Big Apple" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] new to me: _e-juice_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "Bridget Jones is a UK size 10 in 'Bridget Jones's Baby'...
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Word: affluenza (back in the news; Guardian article) also 1918 citation
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Word: Adulting (adult as a verb)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] News: Topsy Reaches Bottomsy
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] QUILTBAG
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Jesse disses Tarantino
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Nominations for 2015 Word of the Year
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] "Streetian"
Dan Goncharoff
- [Ads-l] Article on Origin of Term "African-American"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Word of the Year 2015: singular "they"
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] Seen a lot: "Squares and rectangles..." with illustrations
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] John Clare on grammar
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Maybe it's a Saint Louis thing
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Sign in hardware store
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Seen on the tube:
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] text stop
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] text stop (OT)
Guy Letourneau Owner
- [Ads-l] Not in OED: "Smurf Turds" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] "... over half would not be _aloud_ to have them ..."
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] programmatic generation of word lists for specialized dictionaries?
Tim Stewart
- [Ads-l] A recent revision to the OED's online "the whole nine yards" entry
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- [Ads-l] The "St. Paul sandwich"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Adage: Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Trivago or Chivago?
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Good luck, ol' El Chapo
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] one-linery
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] robust software (was News: Topsy Reaches Bottomsy)
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] [Marketing Mail] Re: text stop (OT)
Cleve Evans
- [Ads-l] [Marketing Mail] text stop (OT)
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] Puzzles from today's NYTimes: rapacious & endemically; also, skitching
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] "Saint Louis linguo [sic]"*
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] anals
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Early QOTY candidate for 2016
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] "All That's Good."
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "grotesque", noun
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] BS: A Lexicon
Mark Peters
- [Ads-l] Pre-1988 "dead pool"?
Neal Whitman
- [Ads-l] Trivia from the StL Facebook page
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] lowding
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Postmodern"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Unsubscribe
Julie Sweetland
- [Ads-l] to fund-raise
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [Ads-l] Netflix and chili
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "President" (U.S. usage)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] It's not a new word, but...
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] "My buddy and I's costumes"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "catch the bus" = suicide
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] A "tea ..." what?
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] "[go/went] the full nine yards" (Interdating, 1946-1951)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- [Ads-l] Fw: A "tea ..." what?
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Put Up Your Dukes - Duke of York?
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] Three rare(?) words
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] NYTOnline photo caption
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] More StL "repping" in Facebook
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "Publisher Extra" at Newspapers.com (Previously: "[go/went] the full nine yards" (Interdating, 1946-1951))
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Chuka, Chukamen, kalo - 2015
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] Early QOTY candidate for 2016 (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] Umeboshi, ume, umejiso
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] casino slang
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Homophile"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] back-forming again
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] "Till death do we part"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] to rabble-rouse
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [Ads-l] year of the small-dollar donor
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] Fwd: Notify NYC - Coastal Flood Products
Dan Goncharoff
- [Ads-l] Notify NYC - Coastal Flood Products
Guy Letourneau Owner
- [Ads-l] haka, hakas, Maori up, kapa haka (1989 or mid-twentieth century)
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] some missing entries
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] Acronyms running wild: Hot DOGs
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] Apparently, it's *not* completely dead...
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] to shape-shift
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [Ads-l] intrusive "of"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [Ads-l] geek HDAS def 3
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] a relaxed, happy rat
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Boondoggle"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] shero
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Boondoggle" (Corrected Citation)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Bra"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Bobby Soxer"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] flake-out, flake-in
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] lap ch(e)ong - 1972
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] Quote: If you're going through hell, keep going. Request help to access Christian Science publication
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] ohana = mother-in-law unit, 1981
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Grand Slam" (Tennis/Golf Sense)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Pro-Choice"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Baby Boomer"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] talk story - 1971
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] Music-roll commercial
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Jhoey
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] new(?) political metaphor
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] distain/disdain eggcorn
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] Teddy (undergarment), Teddy Bear (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] aquafaba in the news
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Grand Slam" (Tennis/Golf Sense) (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] Antedating ZIP, OED 2. fig. Energy, force, impetus
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] These/those ADJ of N_pl (Was Re: intrusive "of" intrudes further)
Neal Whitman
- [Ads-l] Heard: "Ain't nothin' gives me more joy...
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "have a good day" = "goodbye"
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Dictionary Feud: Faulkner vs Hemingway
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Teddy (undergarment), Teddy Bear
Amy West
- [Ads-l] more from chatting w/ costume historians re: "teddy" the undergarment
Amy West
- [Ads-l] Quote: A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic (Rewritten QI entry)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] "He'd eye-witnessed a horror."
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] New English spelling
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "Paul Robinette" of _Law and Order_ speaks:
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] as well
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] French on its way out
David Daniel
- [Ads-l] "camouflage measure"
Dan Goncharoff
- [Ads-l] Do Iowans think "caucus" is Algonquian?
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] real quick
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] “blooks,” short for “book-look.”
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] "Manhattan plot" -- a term in graphing
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] Axe as musical instrument
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] Butt-chugging
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] conservigencia
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] No nuthins
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] “Confederate cleansing”
Martin Kaminer
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Archaeologist"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Palaeontology"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Episcopalianism"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Episcopalian"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Bibliography" and "Bibliographer"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Laryngitis"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Iowa notes
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Bronchitis"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Modernism" Sense 2 in OED
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Prima Donna"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] New kind of doping: "mechanical doping" (aka "technological fraud")
Hugo
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Psychiatrist"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of Modern Sense of "Police"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Reflections/query on the term "glove compartment" (of a car)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Zoology"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Leukemia"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Utilitarianism"
Shapiro, Fred
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