March 2017 Archives by thread
Starting: Wed Mar 1 04:05:29 UTC 2017
Ending: Sat Apr 1 01:44:46 UTC 2017
Messages: 541
- [Ads-l] Quote: To that quarter of an hour I owe every thing in life
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Heard: "barricaded" > _bombarded_, "rest" > _remnant_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Pronunciation
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] "snorkel" mailbox
Dan Goncharoff
- [Ads-l] Request Yankee magazine 1980 - Help with Quote: History (or War) is the unfolding of miscalculations. Barbara Tuchman
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Pronunciation - use clyp.it
Tom Zurinskas
- [Ads-l] Saying: Fascism will come disguised as anti-fascism
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Heard: "allege" > _allegate_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] (Off Topic) New Book: "Hemingway Didn't Say That" acknowledges ADS mailing list particpants
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Crimmigration
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] malapropisms
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] Miami AAVE?
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [Ads-l] "Ich bin _ein_ Berliner" redux
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Anecdote: Knowing where to tap
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] An impressive act …
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Did Mae West invent it?
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] A newspaper "clear story"
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] For the male masseuse files
Neal Whitman
- [Ads-l] fun with dangling modifiers
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [Ads-l] Former successor
Herb Stahlke
- [Ads-l] New to me: _crimmigration_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] The Deep State
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Closure of World Wide Words
Michael Quinion
- [Ads-l] From Michael=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99s_?=site
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Possible "Bob's Your Uncle" antedating
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
- [Ads-l] _toe_ > "tow"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Facebookery: "depriving healthcare for millions"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Facebookery: _you=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99er=5F_?=good!
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Dialog: "Winning isn't everything, is it, Red?" "No, it isn't everything; it's just the ONLY thing."
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] slummock
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] argument structures for "deprive"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [Ads-l] Anecdote: The bedbug letter
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Email announcement from Extensis.com
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] viral?
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] Copasetic notes
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] slummock/slommack
Joan Hall
- [Ads-l] The Waugh Zone March 10, 2017
Robin Hamilton
- [Ads-l] had...have
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Katherine Martin?
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Groucho--really?
GEOFFREY NUNBERG
- [Ads-l] notes on nominalized adjectives
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] the soon future
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "pop", noun, = 'an ejaculation' in 1722? As a verb, it's only from 1958
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Yakuza
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
- [Ads-l] peg
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] "pop", noun, = 'an ejaculation' in 1722? As a verb, it dates from 1958
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Definitely "Coos" [Was: Help reading a 1735 Boston newspaper]
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Equal time for denominal verbs ("food you want to fork")
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] How often does a headline like this come up?
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] bevy; catamounts
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Wilhelm Stekel attribution in Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye"
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] ejaculatory "pop"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [Ads-l] Compass points
Shawnee Moon
- [Ads-l] to crank
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Warning to Quotographers: Suspicious Hemingway byline in Playboy
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] "_pop_ my dick-string"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] _pussy-good_ "very good, as good as one could possibly want, the best"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Facebookery: "I was one _he=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99ll=5F_?=of a driver."
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Pop Goes The Weasel -- (was Re: ejaculatory "pop")
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- [Ads-l] Robert Benchley on jogging
GEOFFREY NUNBERG
- [Ads-l] McCain's Centipede
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Saying: The test of a nation's civilization is its care of its weakest members.
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] _de-verify_ intransitive/middle "turn out to be wrong"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Call for Proposals: Inaugural Conference of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistcs
Lauersdorf, Mark R
- [Ads-l] Rocket City
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] obscene and not heard
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
- [Ads-l] a little more on ejaculatory pop, etc.
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [Ads-l] Quote: My cousin Francis and I are perfectly agreed on the subject of Milan; he wants it for himself and so do I
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] un-PC name?
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] Facebookery: _townhome_ < "townhouse"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Let's eat grandpa: why punctuation isn't a matter of life and death, even in the law.
Baron, Dennis E
- [Ads-l] Fw: Maine labor dispute settled by serial comma
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] "women of cover"
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] questioning 1850 "pop goes the weasel"
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Antifa
victor steinbok
- [Ads-l] Act Now! Trump Calls for the Elimination of NEH, Other Humanities Programs
Grant Barrett
- [Ads-l] Awe-dropping revisited?
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] Q: "Everything is beautiful in its season"
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Let's eat grandpa: why punctuation isn't a matter of life and
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] triple-double (basketball)
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
- [Ads-l] Never Forget To Remember Those That Have Stuck By You
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Pop goes the weasel
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] When is a hapax not a hapax?
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Early Poppin' Weasel
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Limerick Poems and Civil Wars
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] ? Eliminating ? from a Google Book search?
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] "laws are like sausages"
Geoffrey Nunberg
- [Ads-l] Famous Quotations from Comic Strips
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] An unattributed quote
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "lesbian" from 1808
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] The peasants are revolting (Comic: The Wizard of Id)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] "Save a horse, ride a cowboy:
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [Ads-l] better to light the candle than to curse the darkness - 1907
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Motto: We have done so much with so little for so long, that now we can do anything with nothing
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] interpretate, v.
David Barnhart
- [Ads-l] "Kiss my wrist!"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] horses and cowboys
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [Ads-l] "threat" vs. "warning"
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] /(h)ej(:)o/ as a double-entendre caller-outter
Neal Whitman
- [Ads-l] horse : cowboy = tree : beaver
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [Ads-l] Slang: chillax
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] The peasants are revolting
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [Ads-l] Citing websites in academic articles and books
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Neil Gorsuch, dictionaries, and =?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=9CThe_?=Case of the Frozen Trucker"
Baron, Dennis E
- [Ads-l] metaphorical "litmus test" (1912)
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] "sharp", noun, "a short pointed stick or rod", 1732, & the OED
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] "for" = of
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "stripped search"
Nancy Friedman
- [Ads-l] Narrator: "After _a millennia_ of successes …"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Bill Kurtis
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] So that's why!
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Heard: a kind of Spoonerism
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Neither, nor, both
Jim Parish
- [Ads-l] An early "is is."
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] grammatical diversity in the NYT crossword
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] For want of an apostrophe ... [correction to the OED]
Robin Hamilton
- [Ads-l] "This Too Shall Pass"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Australian National Corpus Database
Robin Hamilton
- [Ads-l] This is interesting
Shawnee Moon
- [Ads-l] Minimal pair for English /t ͡ʃ/ vs. /tʃ/
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] "motherfucker" goes mainstream
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Acronym of the year? CBS / WBS / IWBTG
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] 'Fighter-jet' redux (sorta)
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "to ping" (and OED Online)
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Lovely review by Ben Yagoda of "Hemingway Didn't Say That" at The Chronicle of Higher Education
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Punning headlineA swing and a meh: AirPods get disrespected
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] more on early "is is"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [Ads-l] Hip-shoot
victor steinbok
- [Ads-l] leave it all on the field
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] A new or enhanced mood?
Laurence Horn
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