October 2018 Archives by thread
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- [Ads-l] Medicane
Geoffrey Nathan
- [Ads-l] Quote: Sir your letter is before me, and it will presently be behind me. Attributed to Lord Sandwich
Geoffrey Nathan
- [Ads-l] Green's: _shine someone on_ (v)
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Rebecca West's remark about copying the universe
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] USMCA?
David Barnhart
- [Ads-l] Intergalactic Freak Show (UNCLASSIFIED)
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
- [Ads-l] put a green mask on
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] V.t. "cow" [e.g., to demands]
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] activist judges
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Kavanaugh-Related Quotations (Quotation Query #801)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] pitchy = 'off-pitch'
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] Word: kidult, noun (October 18, 1948)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Article in Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] on a screed
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] [Non-DoD Source] Article in Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America (UNCLASSIFIED)
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
- [Ads-l] Pseudo-Riddle: When is a mouse if it spins? Because the higher it gets the fewer
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] born on third base
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] another layer...
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Quote: Born with a silver foot in the mouth
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] MetroLex (NYC): Thomas S. Mullaney, Oct. 16
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] How to say Kavanaugh
W Brewer
- [Ads-l] mojo, jomo (1923)
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] "What Happens in" story is now online
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] In a Lending Tree ad
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "Christmas card" antedated
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] QUOTM?
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] More on Kavanaugh yearbook
victor steinbok
- [Ads-l] New trade deal between the US, Canada, and Mexico will extend the length of copyright (if deal is approved)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Facebookery: Newsweek.com headline
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] tentpole
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] tentpole (UNCLASSIFIED)
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
- [Ads-l] Movie term antedates
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] Facebookery: _ may of_ > "made of" via autocorrect
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] pinky-swear
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Pro-Life" (= Anti-Abortion)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] crush it
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] Eggcorn database?
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] p-hacking
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] bleeky (a tin cup)
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] nobody's fool, 1835
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] OED quarterly updates
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] Request help tracing Dorothy L. Sayers quote: As years come in and years go out / I totter toward the tomb, / still caring less and less about / Who goes to bed with whom
Dave Hause
- [Ads-l] Odd emphasis?
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] funky beat
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "womxn" throws its hat into the WOTY ring
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] commemorable
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] Word: frunk - front trunk of an automobile (1994)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Intransitive "publish"
Marc Sacks
- [Ads-l] Another flap-happy eggcorn
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] More on "womxn" from BBC news
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] "theatre"/"theater" rhyming with "heater"
Neal Whitman
- [Ads-l] Bugs Bunny coins "Nimrod"?
Andy Bach
- [Ads-l] pond
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] Fwd: Re: [ADS-L] Intransitive "publish"
Neal Whitman
- [Ads-l] dancing about architecture
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] Political-spam copy
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] CRAPping out - Amazon algorithm decides a product Can't Realize a Profit
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] to ship
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] demon ducks of doom
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] tsundoku
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] Facebookery: hypercorrection*
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] death camp
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] extermination camp
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] NWAV 47
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [Ads-l] Since nobody's mentioned it...
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] _weasel_ > "wissle"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Dictionary.com
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Verb or typo?
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] To Bed without Dinner
Baker, John
- [Ads-l] verbing a century ago
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] Origin of Pittsburgh Pirates nickname
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] showboy (1841)
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] Call for Abstracts - NARNiHS @ the KFLC - a new kind of NARNiHS conference!
Lauersdorf, Mark
- [Ads-l] _boylie_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] I am abash=?UTF-8?Q?=C3=A8dly_?=patriotic.
W Brewer
- [Ads-l] cut the cards (UNCLASSIFIED)
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
- [Ads-l] Apparently brainless reporting on alternative 3rd person pronouns
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] Trading?
victor steinbok
- [Ads-l] shade
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] Quote: Politicians, like diapers, should be changed regularly
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] WOTY candidate: _to self-separate_
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] a hogshead of N-words
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Kavanaugh
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] overtwerk
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] the bee's knees (1920)
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] the bee's knees (1920) (UNCLASSIFIED)
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
- [Ads-l] zero-sum game
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] colorful localities
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] tough cookie
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] move the cheese
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "my bad" redux
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] pooched
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] [EEMSG-SPAM: Suspect][Non-DoD Source] pooched (UNCLASSIFIED)
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
- [Ads-l] _secret_ > "secretive"?
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Fort Polk Soldier Found with Wife's Body in Trunk
W Brewer
- [Ads-l] cat got tongue
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] matriculated
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] going viral
James A. Landau
- [Ads-l] _to lose one's hair_ Beatles Don't Pass me by
Andy Bach
- [Ads-l] pooched (UNCLASSIFIED)
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
- [Ads-l] Play it again, Sam
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] cold text, text bank
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] "blighted" and "blight" applied to an urban area
GEOFFREY NUNBERG
- [Ads-l] picker
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] "What to Book", the verb (to read, not to flee)
Andy Bach
- [Ads-l] Adage: Writing well is the best revenge
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] "Dead-tree"
Parish, James
- [Ads-l] elaborate wordplay
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] libtard (8 August 2004), conservatard (24 August 2000)
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] Appeal for a Particular Type of Quote
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "Kibosh" (tangential)
Andy Bach
- [Ads-l] almost tangible
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] Don't Tell a Lie About Me (&c.
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] Heard:
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] New to me
Wilson Gray
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