February 2018 Archives by thread
Starting: Thu Feb 1 00:32:24 UTC 2018
Ending: Thu Mar 1 04:42:25 UTC 2018
Messages: 354
- [Ads-l] Facebookery
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "the full monty" again
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] RES: "the full monty" again
David Daniel
- [Ads-l] Dialect clash
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] sodl (crypto) - 2015
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] In Green's Dictionary
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] A new-to-me euphemiism
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "a solid" vs. "some solid"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] It is, to me: "Cryptojacking is nothing new."
Andy Bach
- [Ads-l] Life imitates art.
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Heard on Forensic files:
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] ADS-L Digest - 5 Feb 2018 to 6 Feb 2018 (#2018-36)
Shawnee Moon
- [Ads-l] new microlanguage discovered
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] new meaning for "secret"?
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] Heard: "He was out street-performing."
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "smacked-ass"/"face like a smacked arse"
Yagoda, Ben
- [Ads-l] Fulton Newspapers
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] Antedatings of dickish, adj.
Hugo
- [Ads-l] Antedatings of e-address, n.
Hugo
- [Ads-l] Antedatings of e-liquid, n.
Hugo
- [Ads-l] Antedatings of e-publisher, n.
Hugo
- [Ads-l] Antedatings of e-publishing, n.
Hugo
- [Ads-l] (very minor) antedating of Fembot
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Women's Lib" and "Lib"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] prone
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [Ads-l] antedating "wilco"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Women's Libber" and "Libber"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Gay Liberation"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] kumbaya
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] Quote: The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Oxford comma dispute settled
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] “It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.”
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] Heard in an ad for a local pizzeria:
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Heard: a clumsy metaphor
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] New proverb
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] hypercorrection in action
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Analysis of President Trump's Speech patterns
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] Stovepipe, v
David Barnhart
- [Ads-l] newly "offensive" term
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Heard on Jerry: _was, is_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] _break nasty_ "suddenly get threateningly angry, brush off, shine on, ig"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] OED lacuna: "Kinsey scale"
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] bookjacking, bookjacker
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] Antedating of Jamboree
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] Google comment
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] backronym of the week
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] 'Fighter-jet' redux (sorta)
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Request details of citation in Boston Daily Journal in 1865
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] How the Los Angeles Times deals with obscenity
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Heard on a conf call _drinking from the fire hydrant_
Andy Bach
- [Ads-l] Smacked-ass
Yagoda, Ben
- [Ads-l] "bulldoze(r)" (June 1876)
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] "skeleton" (the sliding sport)
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] from my inbox
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] Wueen For A Day
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] Heard: "Everybody can't do it."
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] jambone & jamboree
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Bald eagle etymology
Ken Hirsch
- [Ads-l] "Blow me" (was: Antedating of Jamboree)
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] figmo
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] Rothschild Quote
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] ADS-L Digest - 15 Feb 2018 to 16 Feb 2018 (#2018-46)
Shawnee Moon
- [Ads-l] The all-natural guide to writing technology
Baron, Dennis E
- [Ads-l] A tricky eggcorn
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] maiden name
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] No = 'yes; truly'
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] _homes_ BE slang "friend,"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] X-dimensional chess
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] antedating "ufologist"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating "ufology"
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] Origin and evolution of "crisis actor"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] crafts
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "Caught up to speed"
Dan Goncharoff
- [Ads-l] _a_ software / _a_ shareware / _a_ freeware /_a_ hardware
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Green's: "shine someone on (v.)"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Word: wigging - Hollywood vocabulary
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] GAIL COLLINS ASKS A QUESTON
paul johnson
- [Ads-l] X-talented
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Dr. Phil says:
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Legacy Media
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] a different take on "chain migration"
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] Eggcorn from a review of a photography app
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Slight antedating of "banana republic" (May, 1901)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- [Ads-l] Hail Mary pass/play/shot
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] Quote: The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Heard on Black Jesus: _with the quickness_ "right now, immediately, A.S.A.P."
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Two syntactic blends
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- [Ads-l] _cowed_ > "cowered"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "... publishers clearinghouse _sweepsteaks_ ..."
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Yes, no
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] QOTD
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] NY Times hedges when it should have hinged
David Daniel
- [Ads-l] Philippics
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] QOTD II
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Heard on re-run of The Office
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Article in The Guardian: Inside the OED: can the world=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99s_?=biggest dictionary survive the internet?
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] machination
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Quote of the Year candidate
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] Problems with newspapers.com?
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
- [Ads-l] Heard on Hoarders
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Another transitive =?Windows-1252?Q?=91cower=92_?=instance
Geoffrey Nathan
- [Ads-l] "lynchpin"
James A. Landau
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