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Starting: Tue Oct 1 17:58:56 UTC 2019
Ending: Fri Nov 1 01:52:03 UTC 2019
Messages: 281

• [Ads-l] spooky claws   Margaret Winters
  • [Ads-l] spooky claws   Laurence Horn
    • [Ads-l] spooky claws   Margaret Winters
  • [Ads-l] spooky claws   Andy Bach
  • [Ads-l] spooky claws   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] "OK sign" = "anti-OK sign"   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] "OK sign" = "anti-OK sign"   Peter Reitan
• [Ads-l] Seen on Twitter - "screenshat"   Peter Reitan
• [Ads-l] a "noszel" = a wonder   George Thompson
• [Ads-l] trichster (1996)   Barretts Mail
  • [Ads-l] trichster (1996)   Mark Mandel
  • [Ads-l] trichster (1996)   Laurence Horn
    • [Ads-l] trichster (1996)   Mark Mandel
      • [Ads-l] trichster (1996)   Laurence Horn
      • [Ads-l] trichster (1996)   Mark Mandel
• [Ads-l] "making due"   Stephen Goranson
  • [Ads-l] "making due"   Andy Bach
    • [Ads-l] "making due"   Laurence Horn
• [Ads-l] Freudian hypernegation?   Laurence Horn
  • [Ads-l] Freudian hypernegation?   Mark Mandel
    • [Ads-l] Freudian hypernegation?   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] Freudian hypernegation?   Mark Mandel
      • [Ads-l] Freudian hypernegation?   W Brewer
      • [Ads-l] Freudian hypernegation?   Mark Mandel
      • [Ads-l] Freudian hypernegation?   W Brewer
      • [Ads-l] Freudian hypernegation?   Mark Mandel
• [Ads-l] allegory   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] allegory   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] facets of the bezel   Barretts Mail
• [Ads-l] Grammarians for impeachment   James A. Landau
  • [Ads-l] Grammarians for impeachment   W Brewer
• [Ads-l] Antedatings and Etymological Speculation Concerning "Spam" (Computing)   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedatings and Etymological Speculation Concerning "Spam" (Computing)   Laurence Horn
    • [Ads-l] Antedatings and Etymological Speculation Concerning "Spam" (Computing)   Alan Knutson
      • [Ads-l] Antedatings and Etymological Speculation Concerning "Spam" (Computing)   Ben Zimmer
  • [Ads-l] Antedatings and Etymological Speculation Concerning "Spam" (Computing)   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] Antedatings and Etymological Speculation Concerning "Spam" (Computing)   Peter Reitan
    • [Ads-l] Antedatings and Etymological Speculation Concerning "Spam" (Computing)   Shapiro, Fred
      • [Ads-l] Antedatings and Etymological Speculation Concerning "Spam" (Computing)   Dave Wilton
      • [Ads-l] Antedatings and Etymological Speculation Concerning "Spam" (Computing)   Barretts Mail
      • [Ads-l] Antedatings and Etymological Speculation Concerning "Spam" (Computing)   Ben Zimmer
      • [Ads-l] Antedatings and Etymological Speculation Concerning "Spam" (Computing)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] complicit   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] complicit   Jonathan Lighter
    • [Ads-l] complicit   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] Word: voicey   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Urban Legend"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] antedating dobro   Bill Mullins
  • [Ads-l] antedating dobro   Dan Goncharoff
    • [Ads-l] antedating dobro   Andy Bach
  • [Ads-l] antedating dobro   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Strip Poker"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Strip Poker"   Laurence Horn
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Strip Poker"   ADSGarson O'Toole
    • [Ads-l] tunk/tonk [was Re: Antedating of "Strip Poker"]   Barretts Mail
      • [Ads-l] tunk/tonk [was Re: Antedating of "Strip Poker"]   Andy Bach
      • [Ads-l] tunk/tonk [was Re: Antedating of "Strip Poker"]   Baker, John
      • [Ads-l] tunk/tonk [was Re: Antedating of "Strip Poker"]   Wilson Gray
      • [Ads-l] tunk/tonk [was Re: Antedating of "Strip Poker"]   Andy Bach
      • [Ads-l] tunk/tonk [was Re: Antedating of "Strip Poker"]   Baker, John
      • [Ads-l] tunk/tonk [was Re: Antedating of "Strip Poker"]   Barretts Mail
      • [Ads-l] tunk/tonk [was Re: Antedating of "Strip Poker"]   Wilson Gray
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Strip Poker"   Peter Reitan
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Strip Poker"   Peter Reitan
    • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Strip Poker"   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Strip Poker"   Laurence Horn
      • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Strip Poker"   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Strip Poker"   Mark Mandel
      • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Strip Poker"   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Strip Poker"   Peter Reitan
• [Ads-l] Job: Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, University of Kentucky   Lauersdorf, Mark R.
• [Ads-l] jockey strap (1884), jockstrap (1886)   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] Quote: I really don ’t mind what people do, so long as they don’ =?UTF-8?Q?t_?=do it in the street and frighten the horses.   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Water Polo"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Conservation" (Art)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] chess cake 1856   Stephen Goranson
• [Ads-l] OED updates   Bill Mullins
  • [Ads-l] OED updates   Barretts Mail
    • [Ads-l] OED updates   Jesse Sheidlower
  • [Ads-l] OED updates   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] chess cake   Joan Hall
• [Ads-l] Euphemism?   Parish, James
  • [Ads-l] Euphemism?   Jonathan Lighter
    • [Ads-l] Euphemism?   Laurence Horn
      • [Ads-l] Euphemism?   Ben Zimmer
      • [Ads-l] Euphemism?   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] Euphemism?   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] Euphemism?   Baker, John
      • [Ads-l] Euphemism?   Ben Zimmer
      • [Ads-l] Euphemism?   Baker, John
      • [Ads-l] Euphemism?   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] Euphemism?   Laurence Horn
      • [Ads-l] Euphemism?   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Fakelore"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Fakelore"   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Fakelore"   Bill Mullins
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Fakelore"   Peter Reitan
• [Ads-l] "symbol" in film crit   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] "symbol" in film crit   Laurence Horn
    • [Ads-l] "symbol" in film crit   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] "symbol" in film crit   Mark Mandel
• [Ads-l] janky (1989)   Z Rice
• [Ads-l] Appeal for Notable Quotations of 2019   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Appeal for Notable Quotations of 2019   Peter Reitan
    • [Ads-l] Appeal for Notable Quotations of 2019   W Brewer
      • [Ads-l] Appeal for Notable Quotations of 2019   George Thompson
      • [Ads-l] Appeal for Notable Quotations of 2019   Laurence Horn
      • [Ads-l] Appeal for Notable Quotations of 2019   W Brewer
  • [Ads-l] Appeal for Notable Quotations of 2019   Bill Mullins
    • [Ads-l] Appeal for Notable Quotations of 2019   Bill Mullins
  • [Ads-l] Appeal for Notable Quotations of 2019   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] Appeal for Notable Quotations of 2019   Nancy Friedman
    • [Ads-l] Appeal for Notable Quotations of 2019   W Brewer
      • [Ads-l] Appeal for Notable Quotations of 2019   W Brewer
      • [Ads-l] Appeal for Notable Quotations of 2019   Andy Bach
  • [Ads-l] Appeal for Notable Quotations of 2019   Peter Reitan
    • [Ads-l] Appeal for Notable Quotations of 2019   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] Appeal for Notable Quotations of 2019   Bonnie Taylor-Blake
    • [Ads-l] Appeal for Notable Quotations of 2019   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] a different euphemism   Bill Mullins
  • [Ads-l] cocksucker (was: Re: a different euphemism)   Barretts Mail
• [Ads-l] "Prolific" = 'important, influential'?   Laurence Horn
  • [Ads-l] "Prolific" = 'important, influential'?   Mark Mandel
    • [Ads-l] "Prolific" = 'important, influential'?   W Brewer
  • [Ads-l] "Prolific" = 'important, influential'?   Dave Hause
    • [Ads-l] "Prolific" = 'important, influential'?   Laurence Horn
      • [Ads-l] "Prolific" = 'important, influential'?   Arnold M. Zwicky
      • [Ads-l] "Prolific" = 'important, influential'?   Laurence Horn
  • [Ads-l] "Prolific" = 'important, influential'?   Peter Reitan
• [Ads-l] Etymology of punch "party, gathering"   Z Rice
  • [Ads-l] Etymology of punch "party, gathering"   Z Rice
• [Ads-l] Register online for 2020 American Dialect Society conference and luncheon   Grant Barrett
• [Ads-l] dolphin   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] dolphin   Wilson Gray
    • [Ads-l] dolphin   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] frenemy/frienemy (1891, 1932, etc.)   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Zionism"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Correction of Antedating of "Zionism"   Shapiro, Fred
    • [Ads-l] Correction of Antedating of "Zionism"   Barretts Mail
• [Ads-l] to hold over - to sustain   Barretts Mail
  • [Ads-l] to hold over - to sustain   Dan Goncharoff
    • [Ads-l] to hold over - to sustain   Laurence Horn
      • [Ads-l] to hold over - to sustain   George Thompson
• [Ads-l] QOTY candidate   James A. Landau
• [Ads-l] fumpkin   James A. Landau
• [Ads-l] Spinal Tap legacy   victor steinbok
• [Ads-l] curate   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] RIP, John Algeo   Ben Zimmer
  • [Ads-l] RIP, John Algeo   Jonathan Lighter
    • [Ads-l] RIP, John Algeo   Shapiro, Fred
      • [Ads-l] RIP, John Algeo   Charles C Doyle
      • [Ads-l] RIP, John Algeo   Salikoko Mufwene
• [Ads-l] Quote: An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] w and y glides and apostrophes in truespel   Tom Zurinskas
• [Ads-l] "To underbus"   Dan Goncharoff
• [Ads-l] He-he-he   victor steinbok
• [Ads-l] Hillary Clinton QOTY possibles (UNCLASSIFIED)   MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY CCDC AVMC (USA)
  • [Ads-l] Yet another QOTY candidate (or two), from the usual suspect   Laurence Horn
    • [Ads-l] Yet another QOTY candidate (or two), from the usual suspect   Jonathan Lighter
    • [Ads-l] Yet another QOTY candidate (or two), from the usual suspect   Wilson Gray
      • [Ads-l] Yet another QOTY candidate (or two), from the usual suspect   W Brewer
      • [Ads-l] Yet another QOTY candidate (or two), from the usual suspect   Shapiro, Fred
      • [Ads-l] Yet another QOTY candidate (or two), from the usual suspect   Andy Bach
      • [Ads-l] Yet another QOTY candidate (or two), from the usual suspect   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Call for Abstracts - 2020 NARNiHS Research Incubator   Lauersdorf, Mark R.
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Homo"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] "almost literally"   Stanton McCandlish
    • [Ads-l] "almost literally"   Mark Mandel
• [Ads-l] Quote: An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid   James A. Landau
  • [Ads-l] Quote: An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] nutty, n.   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] most/majority   Bill Mullins
  • [Ads-l] most/majority   Dan Goncharoff
    • [Ads-l] most/majority   Laurence Horn
      • [Ads-l] most/majority   Dan Goncharoff
      • [Ads-l] most/majority   Laurence Horn
  • [Ads-l] most/majority   Bill Mullins
    • [Ads-l] most/majority   Dave Wilton
• [Ads-l] to rock, vt = to wear, to sport   Mark Mandel
  • [Ads-l] to rock, vt = to wear, to sport   Jonathan Lighter
    • [Ads-l] to rock, vt = to wear, to sport   Jesse Sheidlower
      • [Ads-l] to rock, vt = to wear, to sport   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] to rock, vt = to wear, to sport   Ben Zimmer
      • [Ads-l] to rock, vt = to wear, to sport   Stephen Goranson
      • [Ads-l] to rock, vt = to wear, to sport   Mark Mandel
      • [Ads-l] to rock, vt = to wear, to sport   Margaret Lee
    • [Ads-l] to rock, vt = to wear, to sport   Wilson Gray
    • [Ads-l] to rock, vt = to wear, to sport   Laurence Horn
• [Ads-l] layer = "an insulating item of clothing"   Mark Mandel
  • [Ads-l] layer = "an insulating item of clothing"   Andy Bach
    • [Ads-l] layer = "an insulating item of clothing"   Laurence Horn
  • [Ads-l] layer = "an insulating item of clothing"   Dave Wilton
  • [Ads-l] layer = "an insulating item of clothing"   Shapiro, Fred
    • [Ads-l] layer = "an insulating item of clothing"   Ben Zimmer
    • [Ads-l] layer = "an insulating item of clothing"   Margaret Winters
• [Ads-l] attribution science   Barretts Mail
• [Ads-l] "finsta" - fake instagram account   Andy Bach
  • [Ads-l] "finsta" - fake instagram account   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Fwd: Now I Know: What's So French About the F-Word?   Andy Bach
• [Ads-l] dyscalculia   Barretts Mail
• [Ads-l] hook up   Wilson Gray
  • [Ads-l] hook up   Laurence Horn
    • [Ads-l] hook up   Wilson Gray
      • [Ads-l] hook up   Dave Wilton
      • [Ads-l] hook up   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] reinforce = 'emphasize'   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] zoomies was Re: dolphin (UNCLASSIFIED)   MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY CCDC AVMC (USA)
• [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Preppy"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Preppy" (Corrected Posting)   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Preppy"   Jonathan Lighter
    • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Preppy"   Wilson Gray
      • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Preppy"   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Preppy"   Laurence Horn
      • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Preppy"   Shapiro, Fred
      • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Preppy"   Shapiro, Fred
      • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Preppy"   Peter Reitan
      • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Preppy"   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Preppy"   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Preppy"   Wilson Gray
      • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Preppy"   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Preppy"   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] gird, n.   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] gird, n.   Laurence Horn
    • [Ads-l] gird, n.   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] gird, n.   Wilson Gray
    • [Ads-l] gird, n.   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Heard: TV-ad copy   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] Quote: Qui cessat esse melior, cessat esse bonus. He who ceases to improve, ceases to be good. Request in Early English Books Online 2   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] Quote: Qui cessat esse melior, cessat esse bonus. He who ceases to improve, ceases to be good. Request in Early English Books Online 2   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] gird, n. (UNCLASSIFIED)   MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY CCDC AVMC (USA)
  • [Ads-l] gird, n. (UNCLASSIFIED)   Jonathan Lighter
    • [Ads-l] gird, n. (UNCLASSIFIED)   Andy Bach
    • [Ads-l] gird, n. (UNCLASSIFIED)   Dave Hause
      • [Ads-l] gird, n. (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mark Mandel
      • [Ads-l] gird, n. (UNCLASSIFIED)   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Word: restacking (business jargon)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] banana   James A. Landau
  • [Ads-l] banana   Ben Zimmer
    • [Ads-l] banana   Stanton McCandlish
      • [Ads-l] banana   Wilson Gray
    • [Ads-l] banana   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] banana   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] banana   Wilson Gray
      • [Ads-l] banana   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] banana   Wilson Gray
      • [Ads-l] banana   Dave Hause
      • [Ads-l] watermelon - green outside, red inside - figurative slang   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] banana   Mark Mandel
      • [Ads-l] banana   Mark Mandel
      • [Ads-l] banana   Laurence Horn
  • [Ads-l] banana   Bill Mullins
    • [Ads-l] banana   Ben Zimmer
      • [Ads-l] banana   Barretts Mail
  • [Ads-l] banana   James A. Landau
  • [Ads-l] banana   James A. Landau
• [Ads-l] Phrase: head hopping (used to describe a rapidly changing mental point of view in fiction)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Comments on Etymology   Joan Hall
• [Ads-l] Antedating "virus" of the computer type   Bill Mullins
  • [Ads-l] Antedating "virus" of the computer type   Stanton McCandlish
• [Ads-l] "Number" in reference to songs or clothing; similar patterns with "outfit" and "kit".   Stanton McCandlish
• [Ads-l] banana (UNCLASSIFIED)   MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY CCDC AVMC (USA)
  • [Ads-l] banana (UNCLASSIFIED)   Laurence Horn
    • [Ads-l] banana (UNCLASSIFIED)   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] banana (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mark Mandel
      • [Ads-l] banana (UNCLASSIFIED)   W Brewer
  • [Ads-l] banana (UNCLASSIFIED)   W Brewer
  • [Ads-l] banana (UNCLASSIFIED)   MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY CCDC AVMC (USA)
    • [Ads-l] banana (UNCLASSIFIED)   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] banana (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mark Mandel
      • [Ads-l] banana (UNCLASSIFIED)   Andy Bach
      • [Ads-l] banana (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mark Mandel
      • [Ads-l] [Non-DoD Source] Re: banana (UNCLASSIFIED)   MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY CCDC AVMC (USA)
  • [Ads-l] banana (UNCLASSIFIED)   Peter Reitan
• [Ads-l] just "just a cigar, kiddo" 1946   Stephen Goranson
  • [Ads-l] just "just a cigar, kiddo" 1946   ADSGarson O'Toole
    • [Ads-l] just "just a cigar, kiddo" 1946   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] just "just a cigar, kiddo" 1946   Laurence Horn
    • [Ads-l] RES: just "just a cigar, kiddo" 1946   David Daniel
• [Ads-l] "zits" 1957   Stephen Goranson
• [Ads-l] shaggy dog story, 1918   Stephen Goranson
  • [Ads-l] banana (UNCLASSIFIED)   ADSGarson O'Toole

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