August 2018 Archives by thread
Starting: Wed Aug 1 00:57:18 UTC 2018
Ending: Sat Sep 1 01:47:26 UTC 2018
Messages: 411
- [Ads-l] Saying: Who ya gonna believe, me or your own (lying) eyes?
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Origin of term curate's egg
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] A way to avoid sentence-final prepositions
Chris Waigl
- [Ads-l] Pussy Riot rearrested
W Brewer
- [Ads-l] antedating "conga line"
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] annals of acronymic etymythology
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] _incents_ , encourage, to offer incentives
Andy Bach
- [Ads-l] QOTY candidate
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] Hawaiian "poke"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] fuck ton
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] technics
David Daniel
- [Ads-l] Facebookery: positive _anymore_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] backronym of the week: NASTY
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] 21st-Century Advertising Slogans
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Facebookery: St. Louis BE
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Re. 21st-Century Advertising Slogans
GEOFFREY NUNBERG
- [Ads-l] Facebookery: _our_ vs. _are_, again
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] A long article on _hoosier_ as used in St. Louis
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "gay" avoidance
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] flopportunity
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] the Big Apple again
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] Wee Man, renowned in some circles as a member of the "Jackass" cast, says:
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] _colyumist_
Andy Bach
- [Ads-l] Antedating "strip tease"
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] "in a jiffy" 1765
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Another zoological crash blossom
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- [Ads-l] Quotation in the news: The fascists of the future will call themselves anti-fascists
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Antedating "off the cuff" in the sense of impromptu
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] more on kibosh
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] awareness meme: zen > Jedi
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] Is this easier to parse for others than it is for me?
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] to rage-Tweet
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Request help with quotation search and French translation - Music/Opera is the most expensive noise
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] fash
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Capitalizing in the middle of a trade name
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Capitalizing in the middle of a trade name--trying again
Geoffrey Nathan
- [Ads-l] talib
Herb Stahlke
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "American Revolution" and "Revolution" (OED sense 9.c.)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Homophobic"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Saying: There will be prayers in our schools as long as there are final exams
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Introducing the "mullet doctrine"
Ann Burlingham
- [Ads-l] Another copy of the "Penal Servitude" song
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] "muggles" = marijuana (1922)
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] New Work on Speech Acts announcement
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [Ads-l] Second Call: North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) - First(!) Annual Meeting
Lauersdorf, Mark
- [Ads-l] Katy Bar and her kitty corner
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Fast alone, far together
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] missionary
Herb Stahlke
- [Ads-l] egregious nominative "whom"
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] QOTY nominee: "Truth isn't truth"
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] firenado (was Re: QOTY nominee: "Truth isn't truth")
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] "gay" avoidance [now Kookaburra sits...]
Geoffrey Nathan
- [Ads-l] nod
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] New unspeakable obscenity
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] CamelCase
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] snuck in British comedy
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] 'Gator's best friend
W Brewer
- [Ads-l] Name for this? -- HSJSHSHSH, ASKSKSKAK
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- [Ads-l] crash blossom
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] Lovely ambiguity on this afternoon's Google News feed
Geoffrey Nathan
- [Ads-l] puck avoidance
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Cold War" in a General Sense
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] gay avoidance
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] ebulent
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Another "Jazz" Origin
Baker, John
- [Ads-l] _to have it snaked_ "to be assured of success, to have it made"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] What is the difference between a misfortune and a calamity?
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Sign language creation game
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] TRUMP POSTHUMOUSLY HONORS MILITARY HERO
W Brewer
- [Ads-l] Quote: Most people would die sooner than think - in fact, they do so. Request "The ABC of Relativity" 1925 by Bertrand Russell
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Quote: Sometimes I sit and think, and then again I just sit
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] new joke
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] circle the wagons
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] words connected to a single provenance
GEOFFREY NUNBERG
- [Ads-l] Japanese (?) proverb
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Headline
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Quote: When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago. Nietzsche?
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Possible QOTY
Dan Goncharoff
- [Ads-l] Random sentence from the Web
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Facebookery: early(?) _his_ to "their"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] giving Aretha Franklin her propers
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] Undermined to the case
Andy Bach
- [Ads-l] to sideload/sideloading
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] "Alexei" goes unisex
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Quote: There's rocks all the way down. (turtles, tortoises)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] "Monkey this up"
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- [Ads-l] RES: "Monkey this up"
David Daniel
- [Ads-l] Fwd: How do you place the primary stress
David Barnhart
- [Ads-l] LGBTQPlus
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] (Off topic) Problem with Quote Investigator website content
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] in- prefix (was "words connected to a single provenance")
Geoffrey Nunberg
- [Ads-l] FDR quotes ("was words connected to a single provenance")
Geoffrey Nunberg
- [Ads-l] unpick?
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] Saying: Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] New to me: "edgelord" - provocateur
Andy Bach
- [Ads-l] Monkey wrench was Re: "Monkey this up"
Amy West
- [Ads-l] monkey wrench follow-up was Re: "Monkey this up"
Amy West
- [Ads-l] "seed" antedatings
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] housekeeping
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] scalar
James A. Landau
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