September 2016 Archives by thread
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- [Ads-l] one of the only?
Flourish Klink
- [Ads-l] like a fat guy
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Say what?! WRT new Absolut commercial
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Link to Article on "African-American"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "bonds out of jail"
Dave Hause
- [Ads-l] hirelings and slaves (UNCLASSIFIED)
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] "slave"
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] [Non-DoD Source] OED note (UNCLASSIFIED)
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
- [Ads-l] dark
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] [Non-DoD Source] Re: dark (UNCLASSIFIED)
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
- [Ads-l] -face: transface
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] Comedy Central...
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] How do you say "Huawuei"
Tom Zurinskas
- [Ads-l] A clock that stands still is sure to point right once in twelve hours
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] OT: Re: "slave"
Amy West
- [Ads-l] OT: Re: slave
Amy West
- [Ads-l] The problem with social media is
David Barnhart
- [Ads-l] "crime" (v)?
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] shocked = 'pleasantly surprised'
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] transgender Mammy
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] weakness leaving the body
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Teacher Misspells Racial Slur
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] The "ei" letter string
Tom Zurinskas
- [Ads-l] non-count "reveal"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] blame-shift
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] QOTY candidate?
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] dab
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Q: "fifty foot square of my land", mid-1600s Boston
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] JIBO ~ jig(h)aboo & blissful ignorance
W Brewer
- [Ads-l] No soap
Michael Quinion
- [Ads-l] crybully, n. and v.
David Kendal
- [Ads-l] Antedating (?) Joe Soap
Peter Morris
- [Ads-l] queerbatiing, to queerbait, gay-vague
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] mindblown
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] A linguistic lesson in diversity and tolerance
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] An $857,000,000 coin???
W Brewer
- [Ads-l] "wretch-inducing"
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] zero-kilometer/zero-mile products
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] badassedness
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Word: demonetize - block advertising revenue
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Quote: As a cure for worrying, work is better than whisky (Request ProQuest Cosmopolitan 1929)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] "kitchen sink", v
Dan Goncharoff
- [Ads-l] across of
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "We come in peace," or, how to talk to space aliens
Baron, Dennis E
- [Ads-l] -eggings trademarks
victor steinbok
- [Ads-l] For the no-word-for-X files
victor steinbok
- [Ads-l] "Due" meaning due date
Marc Sacks
- [Ads-l] Moji (not "moji")
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] New to me: _advertorial_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Blackguard -- Antedating of OED 3a
Robin Hamilton
- [Ads-l] _Mother's milk_ "German beer"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Truman quote
David Daniel
- [Ads-l] QOTYs 2105, 1997
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] BFO
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] the gig
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] communist
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] QOTY
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Request 01: Quote: [Dancing is] a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Request 02 scans from "Thought": "Q: What is ballroom dancing? Answer: Vertical expression of a horizontal wish"
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] "Incest" broadened?
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] The pronunciation of the surname, _Spann_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Twitter exchange: Merriam Webster vs Slate
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] surreptually
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] OED Newgate Bird -- Alternative meaning
Robin Hamilton
- [Ads-l] OED Antedatings: flog, v ; shove, v1 10 ; tumbler, n 7
Robin Hamilton
- [Ads-l] Fwd: [research help] certain book at Yale libraries
Tim Stewart
- [Ads-l] asymmetrics, n.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Clark University students told they can't say 'you guys' because it might be sexist | Daily Mail Online
victor steinbok
- [Ads-l] "ambush marketing" -- not in OED; probably 1988--
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] "bore his soul"
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Request 02 Now Satisfied for "Vertical expression of a horizontal wish"
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] I'd be whoever's girlfriend had the dope
Neal Whitman
- [Ads-l] Language ID question
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] of interest to someone here, perhaps?
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] generalistic, adj.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Request UGA library help: Modern Proverb: dance...vertical expressors of horizontal desires
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Guys is sexist
W Brewer
- [Ads-l] Slight antedating of "gentrification"
Hugo
- [Ads-l] Fw: Language ID question
Margaret E. Winters
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "moobs"
Hugo
- [Ads-l] YOLO in OED update for Sept 2016 - evidence in 1993
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] "The full McCain"
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "click fraud"
Hugo
- [Ads-l] Six-day antedating of "clickjacking"
Hugo
- [Ads-l] Two-week antedating of "clickwrap"
Hugo
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Melting Pot"
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] Fair to midland
W Brewer
- [Ads-l] Shakespeare's "waking"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] The NY Times prints "nigger" ...
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] "old boy" = the devil, 1692; antedates OED3 [1737], 1782
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Previous discussion of "wop"
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Antedating wetback
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
- [Ads-l] Trivia: ethnocentricity
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "void _out_"?!
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "cheeky chappie"
Hugo
- [Ads-l] Dropped plurals
Katherine W. Stewart
- [Ads-l] (Off topic) Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] TV ad
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] _to lay with_ = _to lie with_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Phrase: In The Zone (Arthur Ashe, February 22, 1974)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] domino
Christopher Philippo
- [Ads-l] "stand (it) pat" (1868)
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] Others may find this useful.
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "substitute" woes
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] No soap and fair to middling
Michael Quinion
- [Ads-l] Heard on TV: "cold as a turkey"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] hypercorrect pluralization of attributives
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Off-topic request: The Daily Telegraph (London), 1859?
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- [Ads-l] Where are the PC police?
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] BBC Trend Blog: Adjectival word order
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] intrusive "of" intrudes further
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] troops
Christopher Philippo
- [Ads-l] Tom Wolfe disses Noam Chomsky ...
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] In Atlantic.com
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] inventing words
David Barnhart
- [Ads-l] What up doe
Geoffrey Steven Nathan
- [Ads-l] Pun from TV sitcom
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Puddin=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99_?=Tame or Pudding Tane
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Antedating geek
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] From Britain to Texas
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "Rearranging Their Prejudices" Quote
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] early "substitute for" = 'replace with'
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "VERB at straws"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Root of Pook?
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] Heard on The Steve Wilkos Show, tonight
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] The UD isn't _always_ worthless!
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Antedating of PETTYFOGGER, n1: 1564 <= c. 1555
Robin Hamilton
- [Ads-l] OED "fogger, n1" -- pettyfoggers (cont.)
Robin Hamilton
- [Ads-l] Antedating of computer "geek"
Hugo
- [Ads-l] "theoretical computer scientist"
Dan Goncharoff
- [Ads-l] OED inter- and ante-dating: FENCE 12 a and b
Robin Hamilton
- [Ads-l] Amelioration of "notoriety"
Marisa Brook
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "pwn"
Hugo
- [Ads-l] Not in OED: "pwnage"
Hugo
- [Ads-l] wonkage
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "man" avoidance
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedatings of "ownage"
Hugo
- [Ads-l] Skagit
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] blo-jo
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Quote: Do all the good you can; in all the ways you can
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] M*A*S*H (was Re: More on "moist")
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "navy bean"
Hugo
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "own"
Hugo
- [Ads-l] ADS-L Digest - 23 Sep 2016 to 24 Sep 2016 (#2016-269)
Jan Clute
- [Ads-l] tree-shaker, jelly-maker
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "to live broadcast"
Hugo
- [Ads-l] While reading recently an article on-line...
imwitty
- [Ads-l] Facebookery: how Hitler rose to power
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Nightmare Alley slang
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] Accepting nominations for presidential honorary memberships
Grant Barrett
- [Ads-l] I say Rally; you say Rawly
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Rhythm and Blues"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] place, n.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] pozzy (jam, marmelade) 1914
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] day-off, n.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Saying: It is the first impression that counts - you don't always get a second chance; also thanks to Fred
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] "hinged"
Geoffrey Nunberg
- [Ads-l] "Fair game" reversed?
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] awarded
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] corpse = 'corps'
Jonathan Lighter
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