March 2018 Archives by thread
Starting: Thu Mar 1 00:55:21 UTC 2018
Ending: Sat Mar 31 03:33:33 UTC 2018
Messages: 352
- [Ads-l] Hitchcock's MacGuffin
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] "pit in our stomach"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Origins of Trump Epithet
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] hog molly
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] No = 'yes; truly'
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] machination
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?
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Catchphrase: That's the moose's problem
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] White lye (1567)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Heard: TV ad
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Origin and evolution of "crisis actor"
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] unimportant McGuffin notes
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] woke, wokeness
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] -splaining
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] Heard on a re-run of The Office
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Green's: _rule_ v., possible antedating*
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Choate
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] ADS-L Digest - 3 Mar 2018 to 4 Mar 2018 (#2018-62)
Shawnee Moon
- [Ads-l] she-shed
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] QOTY contender
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] Re the Adult Swim cartoon, "Rick and Morty"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] yan tan tethera, late comment
Dave Hause
- [Ads-l] remunicipalization
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] _on the bone_ in the UD
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Quote of the Year candidate
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] Death Date of Etta Blaisdell McDonald
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Quote: The man who is good at making an excuse is seldom good at anything else
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] TV dialogue
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] buttress, v.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Change of email address
Brian Hitchcock
- [Ads-l] "Trump Speaks At Fourth-Grade Level"
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] killing people and breaking things
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] origamo
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] intrigue > palace intrigue
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] monozukuri
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] _sat_ = set
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Words: tweetdecking, Tweetdeck, deck
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] "Heavy of snow"--Reanalysis, malapropism, or just local weirdness?
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] Instagenic
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] Hobson's choice, or Hudson's choice?
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Sources for "Hooker" Etymythology
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] _Hawaiian disease_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "a race against time"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Utahns
Andy Bach
- [Ads-l] Resurgence of _buckle up_
Andy Bach
- [Ads-l] Facebookery
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] On Einstein and non-Einstein quotes...
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] "Sweet Sixteen" - basketball tournament
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] Elite Eight WAS RE: "Sweet Sixteen" - basketball tournament
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
- [Ads-l] The "Big Dance" (basketball tournament) - 1975
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] enigma
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] (not quite) QOTY
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] "couldn't be more than" = '(emphatically) is'
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Heard
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "double agent" = "[single] agent" ?
Charles C Doyle
- [Ads-l] At Scale
Andy Bach
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Librarian"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Truespel phonetics of Nakoda language and analysis
Tom Zurinskas
- [Ads-l] summer cold
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] to spark a phone
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] to wing chun - 2004
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] wing chung - n. 2007, v. 2008
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] Read: "_snap beans_ (string beans)"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Antedating "Off the Cuff" - 1926, different meaning?
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] I'm getting old: What's a DM?
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] Off topic self-advertisement: YAM mentions Hemingway Didn=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99t_?=Say That
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Quote: The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99t_?=exist.
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Brunswick stew 1846
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] to hypothesis-check
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] “Pulling a shitty”
Shawnee Moon
- [Ads-l] A bacronym named Steve
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] 1898 Pompey/Portsmouth?, was Play up Pompey (Portsmouth)
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Heard on Forensic Factor
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Adverb of the day (invented by NYT)
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] Early Edison "bug" letter for auction
Jesse Sheidlower
- [Ads-l] drop = 'serve (a subpoena)'
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] could care less (1954)
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] Heard on Springer: _Obama phone_; _to peep game_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] catch and kill (n., v.)
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] caked in
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] MetroLex (NYC): Lynne Murphy & Jez Burrows, Apr. 13
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] Early use of prepositional because
Jordan Smith
- [Ads-l] Third (?) oldest known Hoosher/Hoosier/Hooshier; was: Re: "Hooshier March" 1831
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Quote: Go jogging? What, and get hit by a meteor?
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Even Earlier Antedating of "Sexual Harassment"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "square brackets"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "The 91"
Jim Parish
- [Ads-l] "the whole Mary Ann" (1950) and a theory
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- [Ads-l] "5 blogs worth your _follow_"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "on the low"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] An early _chops_ "face"? Evidence for _boody_ < "body"?
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "this president"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "You pays your money...
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] V-headed compounds
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [Ads-l] teeming metropolies
Clai Rice
- [Ads-l] Heard on Corrupt Crimes: _to put on_ "to pretend, to fake it"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] rebel yell and yeehaw
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] The Big Apple entry in OED3; request to editors
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- [Ads-l] 'Fighter-jet' redux (sorta)
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] _drop the lip_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Phrase: Coolidge Effect
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] shits 'diarrhea'
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Narrator: "Clarett makes an illegal U-turn and...
Wilson Gray
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