November 2016 Archives by thread
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Ending: Thu Dec 1 01:15:22 UTC 2016
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- [Ads-l] Antedatings of "voice over IP"
Hugo
- [Ads-l] Victoria Quote About Gladstone
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
- [Ads-l] purman
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] What does the ugly stick look like?
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] wild-ass vs. wild-assed
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] grow a set
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] World Series comment (spoiler alert if you're watching a delayed version later)
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] Heard: _slap-boxing_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] TV dialogue: "We will lay waste your city!"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Antedating of the Bazooka (the instrument) 1918
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] cangue/tcha - 1797
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] Every fool is not a poet =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=93_?=French translation request
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] melodicas and bazookas
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [Ads-l] Bazooka 1914
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] QOTY
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedatings of "VoIP"
Hugo
- [Ads-l] Quote: There are no atheists in foxholes
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] ugly sticks and kazoos
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [Ads-l] slow your roll
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "two reasons for doing anything"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] POTI
Jim Parish
- [Ads-l] 1904 bazooka
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] WOTY 'Surrogates"
Tom Zurinskas
- [Ads-l] new feminine name
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] The NYT: comma > semi-colon
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] _racially-discriminate_ v.
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] No = 'yes; truly'
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "Latino FIREWALL" [quotes, caps original]
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "sucker punch"
Hugo
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "zowie"
Hugo
- [Ads-l] FW: Antedating of "zowie"
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
- [Ads-l] antedating slack key guitar
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
- [Ads-l] _try to_ vs. _try and_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] RES: _try to_ vs. _try and_
David Daniel
- [Ads-l] to deep-dive
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] to populate
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Modern Proverb: Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear eats you
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] when all is said 1865 > when all is said and done
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] more nominalized adjs.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] google it up
Robin Hamilton
- [Ads-l] leave it all on the field
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Well, I'll be an SOB!
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "hover" > "hoover"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] fry, n.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Quote: I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] rest assured, adj.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] hero = 'splendid thing; "winner"'
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Strong WOTY Candidate: Alt-Right
Baker, John
- [Ads-l] Call for Nominations for Names of the Year
Cleve Evans
- [Ads-l] "narrative"; PLUS script = to present, portray, interpret, etc....
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] I'm not alone! 😜
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] New to me: _bandage skirt_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Heard on TV: "... filled with a _cachet_ of drugs."
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] RES: I'm not alone! 😜
David Daniel
- [Ads-l] _clamored_ > _clambered_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Dialog
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "This is all of our fight!"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] OED Adam Tiler -- an "interesting" entry.
Robin Hamilton
- [Ads-l] anachronistic antedate
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] to pocket-pick
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Antedatings of "Latinx"
Hugo
- [Ads-l] teenager (1913)
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] gaman 1995 (1976?)
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] Miscellany: semantic shift
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Heard: "The _gig_ is up! The _gig_ is up, Dee Dee!"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Facebookery, again
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "living well is the best revenge' 1640 (?)
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] "signed, sealed, and delivered" 1690; antedates OED3 1847-
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] material on "is is", "double is", etc.
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [Ads-l] "nefandous", 1684; early interdating of OED3
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] manga and anime
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] Quote About Wagner's Music
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Vaad
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] SECOL abstract deadline extended to Dec. 31; conference March 8-11, 2017: link to call for papers in body of email (deadline Nov. 20)
Davies, Catherine
- [Ads-l] Notable Quotations of the Year Appeal
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] DARE Newsletter
Joan Hall
- [Ads-l] AKA
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] new masculine name
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Random miscellany: _scream on_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] _hold_ "borrow"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] flyover country
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] _get some pecks_ "go home for dinner"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Facebookery: "Stay _y'all ass_ on your back!!!"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] hook up
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Dialogue: _dine in the Y_ "perform cunnilingus"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] PEOTUS
W Brewer
- [Ads-l] _show one's ass_ "act in such a way as to annoy another or others; break nasty"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Oscar Wilde Quote
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] ancestor
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Between you and I, I'm surprised!
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] another sighting (or hearing)
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] discombooberated
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "a rich man's war and a poor man's fight"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "nickel...dollar"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Spread of greengrocer's apostrophe?
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] Heard on Britspeak TV: "His business went _burst_."
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] WOTY: "Sore winner"
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Heard: _put a pin in it_ "this conversation is over" aut sim.
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] [Marketing Mail] new masculine name
Cleve Evans
- [Ads-l] No matter how stout one beam, it cannot support a house
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] riffed
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Can you spell "cat"?
W Brewer
- [Ads-l] New to me: _spray and pray_ v., of males, "engage in unprotected sex"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] How do others hear Canadian __ou_?
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Quote: As a cure for worrying, work is better than whisky (Request ProQuest Cosmopolitan 1929)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] "spray and pray" etc.
Arnold M. Zwicky
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