October 2016 Archives by thread
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- [Ads-l] awarded
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] "hinged"
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Modern Proverb: Tie - like kissing your sister
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] rodent
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] _investigate_ n.
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] gig = 'jig'
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] OT: The Nigerian Scam revisited
Robin Hamilton
- [Ads-l] Heard: "Don't short-sell yourself!"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Miscellanea: boresome, choicy v. boring, choosy
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Quotation: An acre of performance is worth the whole Land of promise
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] What up doe--one last time (inspired by 'boresome')
Geoffrey Nathan
- [Ads-l] pozzy (jam) in South Africa in 1900?
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] wild card
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] chicken salad
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Headline ambiguity NYT
Chris Waigl
- [Ads-l] Liberman on Slang
Robin Hamilton
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Blurb"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Fw: Slang synonyms for "stile"?
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Urban legend? Or fact?
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Heard on Tosh.0
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "Feminist Playing Cards!"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] OT: Old Bailey Online
Robin Hamilton
- [Ads-l] flyspeck, v.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "come to Limerick" (settle the matter) antedated to 1857
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Tagore Quote
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] The Slang Debate (cont.)
Robin Hamilton
- [Ads-l] "bromosexual" (WOTY candidate?)
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] Jill Stein's 50-foot joint
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] "Whipped out"
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] a new word for a new product, but probably of limited use to most of us
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] Q: "removeal"[1630] = "remove all"?
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] neagar, negar, alternate spellings -- not in OED
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] FAFSA metathesis
Neal Whitman
- [Ads-l] Stanley Cook "Examples of Slang Used by Male Juvenile Chicanos in San Bernardino, =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9D_?=1970
Grant Barrett
- [Ads-l] Do not trash! This is not an alpi tokhes!
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Heard: spoken by Kevin Hart
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] A complimentary close
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Trivia: _jig_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Provenance of /Or/ > [ar] / __@ ?
Neal Whitman
- [Ads-l] GDoS Online
Jonathon Green
- [Ads-l] slight antedating of "jail bait"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Latent anti-Semitism
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Schedule for 2017 American Dialect Society Annual Meeting in Austin Now Available
Grant Barrett
- [Ads-l] beautiful, n.; re-elect, n.; airship
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] WOTY? The p-word
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] politician uses insulting language, claims he was misquoted
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] Heard trivia: _there_ vs. _it_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "Fish Without a Bicycle" Quote
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] mute point
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] OED searches with false negatives
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Dublin -- sense not in OED
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] "feng shui", n, environment
Dan Goncharoff
- [Ads-l] Predatory sexual behavior is out; patriarchalism remains
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Progressive Insurance commercial
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "soooooo," adv.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] triage
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Preferred Pronoun--pragmatics and policy
Geoffrey Nathan
- [Ads-l] I'm a < I'm going to
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] antedating Geronimo
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] Heard: "dekkid"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] May be of interest, if it's new to anyone
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] _checked_, adj. "checkt" v. "check-ed"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Is this a nuance, or ...?
Robin Hamilton
- [Ads-l] "man non-avoidance
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "I have the best words"
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] apprenti
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] New feminine name
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] happy, n.; leave the building
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] yinzer
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] FW from Barry Popik: "When they go low, you go high" (Hillary Clinton, from Michelle Obama, from Barack Obama)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- [Ads-l] Green's Dictionary of Slang is now available online
David Kendal
- [Ads-l] thematic, n.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] zen, adj.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] allude
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] pussycat-bows [1892; antedates OED3]
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] Deadline for GURT 2017 extended to 31 October
GURT Conference
- [Ads-l] accents of cod fish
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
- [Ads-l] "She's a devil" -- dog whistle?
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Boxlessness (literal)
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] "drown [like] kittens/puppies"
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] An extra measure of safety
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] On GIF
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] Facebookery: _underlining_ < _underlying_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Facebookery: _dewey_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] SECOL conference March 8-11, 2017: link to call for papers in body of email (deadline Nov. 20)
Davies, Catherine
- [Ads-l] A Distressed Rake in 1790s Ireland
Robin Hamilton
- [Ads-l] Fwd: Linguistics
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] have, n.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] off-mike 'unguarded'
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "Come on"
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] new masculine name
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Help Sought on Modern TV Catchphrases
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Right back atcha!
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] yet another "fact"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] QOTY candidate?
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] date night
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "half as cheap"
Geoffrey Nunberg
- [Ads-l] Heard on The Maury Show
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "unslumming" (not in OED)
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] QOTY: "I guess I'm having an Aleppo moment"
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] The _third degree_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "expire", trans.?
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] _hit in the face with the ugly stick_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] doxograph-
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] WRT _dekkid_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] _light on fire_ vs. _set on fire_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Should ze be in the dictionary?
Baron, Dennis E
- [Ads-l] "to ping" (and OED Online)
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] lighthearted, n.; awkward, n.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] A new unit of measure
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] "Brass" -- well chosen, NY Daily News
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Heard: _for days_, an intensifier
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] _drop down and chop_ "fall to one's knees and perform fellatio"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] nasty, n.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Interview with an OUP lexicographer
Robin Hamilton
- [Ads-l] The _third degree_ antedating (?)
Peter Morris
- [Ads-l] Facebookery: "an _untidled_ picture"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Last (?) dated/archaic ethnic terminology stricken from US federal laws
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Another new old aying
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "mutton" as in " mutton dressed as lamb", attributive
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] attention-whoring
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Ghost cant
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] dark poll
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] tulpa
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] "had their tails in the air"
Dan Goncharoff
- [Ads-l] Facebookery: _give feels_ "cause a deep emotional reaction(?)"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Ms. Latina and Mr. Eric Trump
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Donald Trump's layaway plan
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] to troll
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] To keep an eye on for WOTY = L ügenpresse
David Daniel
- [Ads-l] tail in the air
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [Ads-l] Cleveland Indians
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] Modern Proverb: When you=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99re_?=accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] inde-fatigue-able
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] ratchet < wretched
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] etymythological play
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [Ads-l] Searching the wayback machine
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
- [Ads-l] invitation: survey participation: designing collaboration
Wandl-Vogt, Eveline
- [Ads-l] Web-post title: "A Sheeny Halloween Costume"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Victoria Quote About Gladstone
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] smash cake
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Earlier Occurrence of Shaw Quote on Common Language
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] In a post to the NYT Online: "banned" > "banded"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Missing sector in the presidential polls?
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] kick, v, without preposition, to start working?
Dan Goncharoff
- [Ads-l] kick, v, without preposition, to start working?
Neal Whitman
- [Ads-l] kick, v, without preposition, to start working?
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] kick, v, without preposition, to start working?
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] kick, v, without preposition, to start working?
Dan Goncharoff
- [Ads-l] kick, v, without preposition, to start working?
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] kick, v, without preposition, to start working?
Dan Goncharoff
- [Ads-l] kick, v, without preposition, to start working?
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] kick, v, without preposition, to start working?
W Brewer
- [Ads-l] kick, v, without preposition, to start working?
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] hypercorrect pluralization of attributives
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] basque
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] New to me: _whiskey-dick_ "impotence caused by inebriation"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] the noughties
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] damsel
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] dob (someone in), v.
Chris Waigl
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