May 2017 Archives by thread
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- [Ads-l] truth
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Pronunciation
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Tennessee's new plain meaning law is plainly ambiguous and discriminatory
Baron, Dennis E
- [Ads-l] Gloss re: passive of verbal idiom: walk out on
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] 19 2 = 1902
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] Heard on Dr. Phil: "I'm not going to let you. . .
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] susPECT, n.
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] klutz before 1959?
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] Quote: History is the unfolding of miscalculations. Barbara Tuchman
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] QOTY?
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Fun with Phrases: "I don't make the rules."
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Call for Papers 2018 American Dialect Society Meeting, Jan. 5=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=938=2C_?=Salt Lake City
Grant Barrett
- [Ads-l] Not exactly news .... But it is about language
David Barnhart
- [Ads-l] Kazoo and Bazooka
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] Up the wazoo/kazoo
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] ""half-arsed" antedated by more than 40 years
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] whiteman
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] Kama=?utf-8?Q?=CA=BB=C4=81ina_?=discount
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] New York Times quiz based on Quote Investigator research
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Kazoo Old Wive's Tale
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] "There's No Good Way To Kill a Bad Idea."
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] ADS-L Digest - 1 May 2017 to 2 May 2017 (#2017-123)
Marting,Janet
- [Ads-l] "Yay long"
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] greatest thing since sliced bread (1951)
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] Fb headline: "Former NBA star Brandon Roy injured in California shooting...
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "... basic email attacks, known as _spear phishing_..."
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "The Downchild Blues Band"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] no X left behind - snowclone - and the nonexistent poop fairy
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] to N-word
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] Bogus Andrew Johnson quote?
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Heard on Dr. Phil:
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Is my memory truly the only source of this saying?!
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] RES: Is my memory truly the only source of this saying?!
David Daniel
- [Ads-l] Gandhi-Attributed Quote
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "Nothing Tastes as Good" Quote
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "Hire One Half of the Working Class"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Sunday roast crash blossom
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- [Ads-l] Help on "fellow" = "black man" in America
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Request help Newsweek ProQuest for Frank Lloyd Wright quotation
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] QOTY: "Nobody dies because they don't have access to health care."
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Caption
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] fellow = black man
Joan Hall
- [Ads-l] David Maurer books
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
- [Ads-l] "Try to Please Everybody"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] From Macworld.com
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] access as a count noun - 1976
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] "words matter"
Geoffrey Nunberg
- [Ads-l] Quote: Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] jostaberry - 1985
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] Heard, The FBI Files: "The hatred between the [Orthodox] Serbs and the [Catholic] Croats...
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Select Down
Margaret Winters
- [Ads-l] trolled?
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] "Reducetarian" as WOTY candidate?
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] belligerent, n. = 'military adversary'
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] existentialist = 'existential'
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] top of mind
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Fun with Phrases: "You can't make this stuff up."
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Attention Garson: new postdating of (metaphorical) "prime the pump"
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] "Ask N <professional persons> get M opinions", Garson?
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Garson: The one-handed opinion
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] antedating of Hugo Award
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
- [Ads-l] Heard: "to not use" et sim.
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Latest development in inglish
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating -- OED TEEN, n2
Robin Hamilton
- [Ads-l] Court rules that gay bashing is not a crime in West Virginia
Baron, Dennis E
- [Ads-l] lavish, n.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] New Yorker review of McWhorter tome on BE
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Heard on My Cat From Hell
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Dialog
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Happy Birthday Wilson!
David Daniel
- [Ads-l] rooted
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] Happy Birthday/Acknowledgement of aging all around
Geoffrey Nathan
- [Ads-l] OT: useful, but depressing, birthday gift
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Kellyanne's morhpology
Herb Stahlke
- [Ads-l] Facebookery: "What was the A&P?"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Not "of"?
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] satyr = satirist?
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] Plus ca change ...
Robin Hamilton
- [Ads-l] doga - 2003
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] real-time, adv.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Another early "the whole six yards" (Arkansas, 1917)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- [Ads-l] tourist
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] diverse
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Dueling dialects
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Quote: The one thing more painful than learning from experience is not learning from experience
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] WOTY: "real time"?
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] ripshit bonkers
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] mulligan - golf
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] Best thing since sliced bread
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] reportable
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] "Architecting" and Ivanka
Dan Goncharoff
- [Ads-l] impeach-o-meter - 1999
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] Fw: Yankee Doodle, 1775
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Yankee Doodle, 1775
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] "cham come"? And "itch"?
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Heard: "I'm at a really good _vaunted_ point. I can..."
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Miscellanea: Well, that makes sense.
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Heard: Mike Tyson Mysteries
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] USA TODAY does txt codes
victor steinbok
- [Ads-l] coin-flip states
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] Yankee Doodle; Sheela-na-gig, as a bonus
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Bogus Twain quote lives on
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "Together with Yanky Doodle." broadside. 1760s ...1763 or earlier??
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] It was not permitted to pass.
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Quote: Nothing is impossible in this world. Even the word impossible says I'm possible
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] die-in
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] "wop" = "without papers/passport" (1971)
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] QOTY? "It was not my first sword dance." --- Rex Tillerson.
W Brewer
- [Ads-l] Shellanagig
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] clean agriculture
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] accord
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] cache - cachet confusible
Baron, Dennis E
- [Ads-l] "Lose complete control" and its ilk
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] bakery bread
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] _standard-equip_, v.
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Voice-over heard: "Help will come too late...
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "He shook his head yes."
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "total people"
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] QOTY? What does the president owe ...
Joel Berson
- [Ads-l] Quote: Time Wounds All Heels
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] not my first sword dance
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [Ads-l] scattered shower (singular)?
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] Precursor to a "New York Minute"
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] rhizome = stem (wasabi)
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] cold - inactive, offline
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] OT: comments re: assumptions about dialects was Re: Miscellanea: Well, that makes sense.
Amy West
- [Ads-l] OT: Sheelanagige was Re: It was not permitted to pass.
Amy West
- [Ads-l] (cryptocurrency) wallets
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] How prevalent is "to upstream"?
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] "to tailor make"
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] notes on nominalized adjectives
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "rapid-respond"
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] to burden-share
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Nursery rhyme . . .
Charles C Doyle
- [Ads-l] OT: Sheelanagig was Re: It was not permitted to pass.
Amy West
- [Ads-l] Size matters
Shawnee Moon
- [Ads-l] QOTY? "I keep OTHERS awake at night."
W Brewer
- [Ads-l] Robert Panara stamp
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] ASL music videos
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] Nigerian Letter
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] covfefe kerfuffle
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] kompromat
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] _kompromat_
David Barnhart
- [Ads-l] Kompromat cleaned of most of the gobblydegook.
David Barnhart
- [Ads-l] Fw: ATM CARD--- CODE (222)
Geoffrey Nathan
- [Ads-l] Blend OTY?
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Google indexing of ADS-L (was Re: _kompromat_)
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] OT -- You couldn't make this up!
Robin Hamilton
- [Ads-l] Map of Mispelings
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] New to me: _advertorial_
Wilson Gray
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