June 2017 Archives by thread
Starting: Thu Jun 1 00:17:57 UTC 2017
Ending: Sat Jul 1 03:23:43 UTC 2017
Messages: 396
- [Ads-l] RES: covfefe kerfuffle
W Brewer
- [Ads-l] "Boston Tea party"
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] bakery bread
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Heard: "The 'smurfs' [street-operatives] could...
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] dab
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Long-haul trucker's lexicon + a surprise
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] Heard on F.B.I. Files: "Schuylkill [skool.kill] County, in a mountainous region...
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] Boontling
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] Precursor to a "New York Minute"
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] QOTY? "Make our planet great again"
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Proverb
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Heard: "to _fiberglass-reinforce_"; "to _bond-coat_"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Combining two people's names: Javanka
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] Popular faux etymology of current use of "snowflake"
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] Twitter emoji
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] exoskeleton
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] "You [X] 'em, we [X-rhyme] 'em"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] The peasants are revolting (Comic: The Wizard of Id)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] 20 International Congress of Linguists, 2-6 July 2018
Salikoko S. Mufwene
- [Ads-l] left of; left of boom
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] extreme-vet, v.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Fixing email didn't work after all.
David Daniel
- [Ads-l] quotation marks for emphasis
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] OT: names
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] A short sample of Barnhart's newest dictionary
David Barnhart
- [Ads-l] hard, pan, hard-pan, hard-panned
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] re-go
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] Groucho--really?
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Reality Winner
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] commuting and commuter students
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] to live-tweet
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] fresh sheet
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] A random oddity
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] have/put someone on their heels
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] [Marketing Mail] OT: names
Cleve Evans
- [Ads-l] the Drink Canada Dry joke
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [Ads-l] Comey sees America as John Winthrop did
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] crypto
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] fuzz - ambiguity
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] A New Verb?
Margaret Winters
- [Ads-l] to bonker
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Another early "the whole six yards" (Arkansas, 1917)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] QOTY? "Lordy, I hope there are tapes"
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Heard, spoken by a white person
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] _diversify_ "desegregate"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] ICO - initial coin offering
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] SET ADS-L DIGEST
Shawnee Moon
- [Ads-l] whataboutery (1974), whataboutism (1993)
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] badass, n.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Comey's "fuzz"
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] King and Comey: "Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?"
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] "New York City conversation"
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Trivia: voice-over dialogue
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] _adapter_ > _adaptor_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] A head start on the acrostic this week for us
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] "coherent (of)" = "consciously aware (of)"
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] The fake news media?
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Future of conversation
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "Say Uncle" - slight antedating
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] politically correct geography
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] to social-media post
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] verbal kudzu
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] Opinion offered by a neighbor, on true-crime TV
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Early interdating of Shebang (Chebang)
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] fuzz = uncertainty, ambiguity
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] "Boston Strong"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Biden on "Fresh Air"
David K. Barnhart
- [Ads-l] Stonewall Inn Gets Grant To Preserve History Of Uprising - West Village, NY Patch
Dan Goncharoff
- [Ads-l] de-lexicalized initialism?
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] Heard on Forensic Files
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] phrasal inf*xation
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] Back-formation of death--to lethal-inject
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] Heard on Forensic Files: _to pimp_ "josh, kid, tease, " etc.
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "hard as Chinese arithmetic": HDAS 1977, antedating
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] _to pimp_ "josh, kid, tease," etc.
Mailbox
- [Ads-l] Origin and evolution of "crisis actor"
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- [Ads-l] Quote: Please do not shoot the pianist (organist). He is doing his best.
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] _on the bone_ "ithyphallic"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] _-gg-_ in partialism WRT women's bodies
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "That shit be fire!"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] complicit
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] jonesed up
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] toe the line
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Facebookery: "The stories outstanded me."
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] to ugly-laugh
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] "It was ever thus"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [Ads-l] "lugger" as a type of boat
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] bourgie/bougie
Ann Burlingham
- [Ads-l] _Data archaeologist_, slight semantic extension
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Lucky at cards ... Amor Ftouhi
W Brewer
- [Ads-l] Heard on Forensic Files, only on HLN!
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9CWe_?=always used to _course-deviate_."
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] meaner
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] impossible, n.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] the KY
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Bogus Poe attribution
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Strange headline?
Dan Goncharoff
- [Ads-l] "Shaken, not nodded"
Shawnee Moon
- [Ads-l] pot and kettle
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] to truth-tell
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] WTF > WT, euphemistic acronym clipping
W Brewer
- [Ads-l] top of mind
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] disclaimer
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "said no X ever"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] exploreAT! job offer @ vienna: citizen science & DIY science; cultural lexicographer
Wandl-Vogt, Eveline
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Web TV"
Hugo
- [Ads-l] Quote My life depended on 150, 000 pieces of equipment =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=93_?=each bought from the lowest bidder
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Facebooker from Westchester County, NY
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Don't urinate on my leg...
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] WOTY: "fake news"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] frightening, n.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Children's speech sprinkled into serious adult discourse: Gulfie
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- [Ads-l] NYTimes.com: "The Daily News...
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] (cryptocurrency) wallets
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] RIP Roger D. Abrahams
Jesse Sheidlower
- [Ads-l] wet signature
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
- [Ads-l] baby face and heel
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
- [Ads-l] bona fide (adj.), 1755
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] shitcoin (crypto jargon)
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] Pagoda, plausibility of a Chinese etymology
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- [Ads-l] hodling and hodl (crypto jargon)
Barretts Mail
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