May 2016 Archives by thread
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Ending: Wed Jun 1 02:48:21 UTC 2016
Messages: 538
- [Ads-l] "baseball player", 1858, from Walt Whitman
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Battle of the Bulge Quote
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] WOTY? "berm"
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] Comedy Central movie dialogue: Scott Pilgrim vs the World
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Prescriptivism" and "Descriptivism"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] No = 'yes; truly'
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] New to me: _wet signature_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Generation gap
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] butter it up
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] baked in
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] berm
Joan Hall
- [Ads-l] New to me: _wet signature_ > 'Manually'
Geoffrey Steven Nathan
- [Ads-l] [Marketing Mail] Re: Name "Jay" goes unisex
Cleve Evans
- [Ads-l] _to sex-traffic_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Quote: Any idiot can survive a crisis; it's the day-to-day living that wears you out.
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] "And tell 'em * sent you!"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] new portmanteau
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] "bigly"
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] Robert Hartwell Fiske/Vocabula Review
Jesse Sheidlower
- [Ads-l] A lug of olive oil
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] "forgo" the euphemism -- or campaign doublespeak?
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Undernegation
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] rapid-fire - adverb
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] "Trump = hate _mongerer_"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] The "Batman game"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] opaque
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] another "of a"
Herb Stahlke
- [Ads-l] to wrong-do
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Mighty Mo
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] antedating (I think) "flyboy"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] ugly cry, v.
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] Playerspeak: "in the zone"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Hinduphobia
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] "gobbledygook" coinage
Jesse Sheidlower
- [Ads-l] antedating (I think) "flyboy" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] Crab shell: a musican instrument of some sort (1798)
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] Fwd: Now in your hands, the the key to the "singularity." The central focus of all of history, all religion, and ... everything that ever was.
Adam Dobrin
- [Ads-l] goofus
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] antedating Bodice Ripper
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] off the reservation (1892)
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] "Put the bads on someone"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Hyphen anxiety ...
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] "in the zone"
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] Kenneth Olsen Computer Quote
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] OT: "... de utilizar _nicknames_ ..."
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "time-allocate"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] above reproach
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] respective
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] New to me: "go pear-shaped"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Kenneth Olsen Computer Quote (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] RES: New to me: "go pear-shaped"
David Daniel
- [Ads-l] RES: New to me: "go pear-shaped" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] Barry Popik in the NY Sun (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] Phrase: ICEing out (internal combustion engine cars blocking electric cars at chargers)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Teddy (undergarment), Teddy Bear
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] antedating African Golf (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] nothing
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] [Non-DoD Source] Re: antedating African Golf (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] GIBBERISH -- antedating and note.
Robin Hamilton
- [Ads-l] nominalized "bold"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] choke/strangle a chicken (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] Query from Huffington Post: "Dumpster Fire"
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- [Ads-l] [Non-DoD Source] Query from Huffington Post: "Dumpster Fire" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] Query from Huffington Post: "Dumpster Fire" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] HuffPost interview query: "Dumpster fire" (Reply from Barry Popik)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- [Ads-l] HuffPost interview query: "Dumpster fire" (Reply from Barry Popik) (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] Last (?) dated/archaic ethnic terminology stricken from US federal laws
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] The end is near: "substitute for" replaces "replace with"
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] Facebookery
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] African golf
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] African golf (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] Quip: Artist/writer dies of exposure (was Query from Huffington Post)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Another noun chomps the dust
Marc Sacks
- [Ads-l] Antedating (?) "Batchelorette"
Peter Morris
- [Ads-l] -hootered
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] dab/dabbing, be dabbed out, who, shatter, butter, honey
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] vom
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] echo chamber (1840)
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] Public accomodations are our foundation
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Youneverknow.
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Food for thought
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] t(h)run
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] recruit
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] QOTC?
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Sources for FedEx Anecdote
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Computer gaming terms: masocore, free-to-start (may differ from free-to-play)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Cowboy needs a grammar lesson
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] intake/take in
Amy West
- [Ads-l] Cloudscapes
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] infantry (count noun)
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] In an ad for something-or-other,
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] sucker born every minute
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] deserted island
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] nouning of adjectives again
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] cowardless
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Enplanement!
Martin Kaminer
- [Ads-l] lies and statistics; Dilke or Darnell or...?
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] engulf, v. intr.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] ping
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] RES: ping
David Daniel
- [Ads-l] _purger-er_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] prowness
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] RES: ping (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] Hither and Zither?!?
Guy Letourneau Owner
- [Ads-l] spirit animal
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "corner, n.1", 13.b,, in whist, 1754; antedates OED2 1823-
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] epergne (n.), dessert dish, 1754 antedates OED2 1761-
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Taxi - verb
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] ? Meaning of "Japan" below?
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] deploy
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] "The whole six yards" (Interdating, 1927)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- [Ads-l] QOTY
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] Jidori - 2009 TM, 2011 use
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] woke, stay woke (was Jidori - 2009 TM, 2011 use)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] like a banshee
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] single-origin, c. 1990 coffee, 1999 chocolate
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] bean to bar
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] free range; Irish Democracy (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] QOTY?
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Request help verifying 1959 quotation from journalist Edward R. Murrow.
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] "slave" vs. "enslaved person" revisited?
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] Youneverknow: _fisticate_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] hate-watch
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Q: "improve, v.2", sense 1 (financially) lacking "improve someone else"?
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] "Stay black and die"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] _teenincy_ redux
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] confinscated
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] Bermuda shorts; Jamaica shorts (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] Don't mess with Texas!
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] teenincy & T9C
Cleve Evans
- [Ads-l] Heard: "Hey, is this one of ?_ours's_/?_ourses'_ birthdays?"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Dialogue from "Blue Bloods"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] stay black and die
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] quote: fire in a wooden box
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [Ads-l] WOTY candidate (in some category)
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] "that + poss" = 'whose'
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] woty suggestion: transparent/transparency
Ann Burlingham
- [Ads-l] Gibberish persists...
Geoffrey Steven Nathan
- [Ads-l] "almond" [' ɔːmənd]
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] Offline: quote: fire in a wooden box
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] NCIS Dialog
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] random
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] almond
Joan Hall
- [Ads-l] "novel, n.", 4.d, "an invention", 1736; antedates OED3 (Dec. 2003) 1764--
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] orthographic symbolism
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] kojic acid
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] propaganda push
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] sophistication phoneme (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] Heard: "they"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] _beyond_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] prepper = 'survivalist'
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Facebookery: _do the thang_ "get married"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] double-flusher
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Early Use of The Real Mackay
Baker, John
- [Ads-l] an unrecorded sense of "dismiss"?
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] "sea-pouse": a word for DARE?
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] Heard: _boner-request_ "?"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Trying again
Geoffrey Steven Nathan
- [Ads-l] Help!!! Only gibberish even when set to 'plain text'
Geoffrey Steven Nathan
- [Ads-l] pet, pet, pet
Charles C Doyle
- [Ads-l] G. MacKay and Co.
Baker, John
- [Ads-l] "sea-pouse": [antedating OED2, and] a word for DARE?
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] besides = 'except'
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Another reversed "substitute"?
Joel Berson
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