February 2017 Archives by thread
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- [Ads-l] Ban or no ban?
Theresa Fisher
- [Ads-l] Chthonic -- new to me
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Archetypal Advertisement: Eat at Joe's
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] "Later."
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Passphrases such as: "Just tell him Al sent you" and "Joe sent me"
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Perhaps of interest
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "vet" (n. 1848, v. 1875)
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] rye-baldly
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] DSNA 21 in Barbados (call for papers)
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] Antedating "hophead"
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] "See Spot Run"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] optionality
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] The Bowling Green Massacre
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] RES: The Bowling Green Massacre
David Daniel
- [Ads-l] Fw: Media Inquiry (Mike Pence calling his wife "Mother")
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- [Ads-l] nounified adjectives revisited
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] _to mentally examine_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Heard: hypercorrection _beginding_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Media Inquiry -- mother
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- [Ads-l] quote: more (of a) man
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [Ads-l] The Oval
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Bunkum
Dan Goncharoff
- [Ads-l] Say *what*?!
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Facebookery: a Spoonerism?
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "gumption, jasm" 1892, interdating jasm
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] small-ball
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Mercy Street
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] surveil verb (1887) backformation of surveillance
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] squirrel flet/drey
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] snollygoster (1845)
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "facepalm"
Hugo
- [Ads-l] "uliginose", adj. (watery), postdates c1440
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] 'gee', to inform 1932
Geoffrey Nunberg
- [Ads-l] Heard on The Wilkos Show:
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Power lecture
Joe Salmons
- [Ads-l] Metaphor: The difficulty of dismounting a tiger
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Of age
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] Alt-facts; or: "A speculation that is a novelle"; & what sense of "novel" is this?
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Antibacchius of the week (courtesy of Ben)
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Calculator" (Electronic Device)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] X-surnamed Americans
GEOFFREY NUNBERG
- [Ads-l] Transitive "surface"
Yagoda, Ben
- [Ads-l] "Human computer" as retronym & Hidden Figures
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] Nouning -- "bowl of delicious"
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Dialog
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "hint, n." sense 2.b., a small piece of practical information
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Grace Murray Hopper Honored by Yale
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] ballard
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] sherpa
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] QOTY candidate...
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] Quote Investigator Makes the News
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Seen: _that=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99s_swings_and_roundabouts=5F_=22that=E2=80=99s_?=apples and oranges"(?)
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] stock market saying?
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] "inbox" as a verb?
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] Quote Investigator Makes the News (also upcoming NPR appearance)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Arrabeller
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] DEFCON figurative
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
- [Ads-l] zombie (cocktail)
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "debugger"
Hugo
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "debug"
Hugo
- [Ads-l] Facebookery: _to dissertate_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Famous Pogo Quote
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Dialogue from Star, a neo-blaxpoitation TV drama
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Pogo on intelligent life in the universe
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] guerrilla/gorilla megilla
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "snow farm", not in OED; 1970--? Bostonism?
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] prerogative
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] Reality-TV dialogue, cop to suspect: _is is_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Quote: Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] on (inter alia) "normal" and "normalize"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [Ads-l] Heard: "orifi-sees"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] blackbird
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] presser "press conference"
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] Bat Masterson Quote
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Heard: positive _anymore_ south of Saint Louis
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] New to me, nytimes.com: _snowflake_ "hater"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] The UD: _alternative facts_
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] Bog standard
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] A bogus "etymology"
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] Sounds odd . . .
Charles C Doyle
- [Ads-l] semasiographic; xenolinguist
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Beyond Superbowl
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] Beethoven "Last Words"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] _splib_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "[Blank] Quarterback" - Second-guessing
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] Subject: "gauding", 1799 -- a remarkable survival
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] No soap
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] From Ηψπατία Λίβ =?UTF-8?Q?=CF=81=CE=B1=CF=81=CF=88_?=to Hawthorne's luau???
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] Dating "Grauniad" for the typo-prone "Guardian"
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] CNNisms
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] WASHINGTON POST
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
- [Ads-l] "give", n.
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] Heard: _naps_ "the hair on the head of a black person"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Listening to Chicagoans talk, etc.
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Heard: _stuff_ "the female genitalia"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] _pearl tongue_ "clitoris"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] copasetic, copacetic
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] dead fucking boring - infix diagnostic
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] Quote: Good Judgment depends mostly on experience and experience usually comes from poor judgment. (February 17, 1932)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Saying: Fascism will come disguised as anti-fascism
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] _-ing_ vs. -_s_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] lizard tails & dixie cups
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] Third earliest known use of copasetic (1920)
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] assorted
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] positive anymore
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] Trading bards
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Help reading a 1735 Boston newspaper
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Breakfast
Shawnee Moon
- [Ads-l] Dating of First Use of "Oscar"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] VSOs Release Independent Budget
W Brewer
- [Ads-l] An old, "rhetorical" obscenity …
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Request: Disputed Bertrand Russell quotation - New York Post 1964 & Objectivist Newsletter
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Pronunciation
Shawnee Moon
- [Ads-l] "strident"?!
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Quote: To that quarter of an hour I owe every thing in life
ADSGarson O'Toole
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