December 2020 Archives by thread
Starting: Tue Dec 1 11:41:58 UTC 2020
Ending: Thu Dec 31 16:50:24 UTC 2020
Messages: 183
- [Ads-l] Gomer Cool + Denver Pyle = Gomer Pyle?
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Allusion of the year
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] to truth-tell
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] Gomer Cool (1908-2012)
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Further Antedatings of "Blitzkrieg"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] gold silverware
David Daniel
- [Ads-l] to deficit-spend
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] medical "Gomer"
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] From ACLU of PA
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] help with a literary (?) allusion
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] Is there something wrong with this title?
Salikoko Mufwene
- [Ads-l] Eggcorn: Stable/Staple
Baker, John
- [Ads-l] "I expected the worst, and it was worse than I expected."
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Quote: I never vote for anybody. I always vote against
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Quotations of the Year List Is Released
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] pound sand up your ass
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] Possible eggcorn: uptake
Ben Yagoda
- [Ads-l] New to me
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Doodle" (Noun and Verb)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "Towed truck"
Sammy Dean
- [Ads-l] Sad=?UTF-8?Q?=C3=AD_?=/ Saddy "thank you, bow in prayer"
Z Sohna
- [Ads-l] "Pound sand"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Facebookery
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Have others noticed...
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Antedating of Fraudster
Baker, John
- [Ads-l] chestnut (trite talk) antedated; Origin of Kibosh reviewed
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] more impossible
Tom Zurinskas
- [Ads-l] New American alphabet from 1877
Tom Zurinskas
- [Ads-l] Request help with "The Fortnightly" and quotation "If fifty million people say a foolish thing it is still a foolish thing"
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] "Definitive glossary of modern U.S. military slang"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "self-licking ice cream cone"
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] Modern Times
James Landau
- [Ads-l] Another "bull shit" sneaks in (1916)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- [Ads-l] Request help with quotation "Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him"
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Nominations posted for 2020 Word of the Year
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] 2020 Word of the Year is "Covid"
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] y-glides between consecutive vowels in words
Tom Zurinskas
- [Ads-l] Racist origins of "Grandfathering"
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] WOTY vote
James Landau
- [Ads-l] Word: Teslanaire
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Twitch restricts use of terms: simp, incel, virgin
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Name the space people
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "Short a" sound is the best spelled vowel in US English - truespel analysis
Tom Zurinskas
- [Ads-l] "Gizmo" 1938
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Bozo as pejorative use of a PN?
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "White House"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] strand = 'strain'
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "War is months of boredom..."
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "casualty"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Dutch treat; go Dutch
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] to "dutch"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Merry-Mary-Marry
Geoffrey Nathan
- [Ads-l] General Winter 90-year antedating
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Tickle-down
James Landau
- [Ads-l] FW: question about neologisms/word formation
Joe Salmons
- [Ads-l] =?UTF-8?Q?=C2=A0to_?="dutch"
James Landau
- [Ads-l] Christmas carol in Igbo
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] =?iso-8859-1?Q?=A0to_?="dutch"
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] =?Windows-1252?Q?=93down_to_the_brass=94=3B_?=Billy Birch, Burch; tacks
Stephen Goranson
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