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- [Ads-l] "A comic does funny things; a comedian does things funny"
 
Ben Yagoda
 - [Ads-l] "A comic does funny things;	a comedian does things funny"
 
Ben Zimmer
 - [Ads-l] "A comic does funny things;	a comedian does things funny"
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] "A comic does funny things;	a comedian does things funny"
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] "A comic does funny things;	a comedian does things funny"
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] "A comic does funny things;	a comedian does things funny"
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - [Ads-l] "Heavens to Betsy!" 1857
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] "Heavens to Betsy!" 1857
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] "Heavens to Betsy!" 1857
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] "in cahoot" 1827 antedating
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] "in cahoot" 1827 antedating
 
Ben Zimmer
 - [Ads-l] "in cahoot" 1827 antedating
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] "putting [someone] 'hep to the good thing''' 1902 (an	antedating? my 1903)
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] "putting [someone] 'hep to the good thing''' 1902 (an	antedating? my 1903)
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] "putting [someone] 'hep to the good thing''' 1902 (an	antedating? my 1903)
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] "putting [someone] 'hep to the good thing''' 1902 (an	antedating? my 1903)
 
Wilson Gray
 - [Ads-l] "putting [someone] 'hep to the good thing''' 1902 (an	antedating? my 1903)
 
Mark Mandel
 - [Ads-l] "putting [someone] 'hep to the good thing''' 1902 (an	antedating? my 1903)
 
Peter Reitan
 - [Ads-l] "putting [someone] 'hep to the good thing''' 1902 (an	antedating? my 1903)
 
Andy Bach
 - [Ads-l] "smart Alecs" 1864 antedating
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] "smart Alecs" 1864 antedating
 
Mark Mandel
 - [Ads-l] "stanning" misapplied to fictional characters
 
Stanton McCandlish
 - [Ads-l] "stanning" misapplied to fictional characters
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - [Ads-l] "stanning" misapplied to fictional characters
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] "wicked" (adv.) = 'extremely' (Maine, 1934)
 
Ben Zimmer
 - [Ads-l] "wicked" (adv.) = 'extremely' (Maine, 1934)
 
Mark Mandel
 - [Ads-l] "wicked" (adv.) = 'extremely' (Maine, 1934)
 
Margaret Lee
 - [Ads-l] "wicked" (adv.) = 'extremely' (Maine, 1934)
 
George Thompson
 - [Ads-l] "wicked" (adv.) = 'extremely' (Maine,	1934) (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY CCDC AVMC (USA)
 - [Ads-l] "X sucks" in the East Village Other
 
Ben Zimmer
 - [Ads-l] "X sucks" in the East Village Other
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - [Ads-l] "X sucks" in the East Village Other
 
Ben Zimmer
 - [Ads-l] "X sucks" in the East Village Other
 
James Landau
 - [Ads-l] "X sucks" in the East Village Other
 
Ben Zimmer
 - [Ads-l] "yt [white] women"
 
Mark Mandel
 - [Ads-l] "yt [white] women"
 
Laurence Horn
 - [Ads-l] "yt [white] women"
 
Nancy Friedman
 - [Ads-l] "yt [white] women"
 
Alice Faber
 - [Ads-l] "yt [white] women"
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] "yt [white] women"
 
Ann Burlingham
 - [Ads-l] "yt [white] women"
 
Chris Waigl
 - [Ads-l] / 'du ki /
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - [Ads-l] / 'du ki /
 
Mark Mandel
 - [Ads-l] / 'du ki /
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - [Ads-l] / 'du ki /
 
W Brewer
 - [Ads-l] 1831, and early "_honorable 'cohoot_'"
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] 1831, and early "_honorable 'cohoot_'"
 
Mark Mandel
 - [Ads-l] 2019 Word of the Year is "(my) pronouns,	" Word of the Decade is singular "they"
 
Ben Zimmer
 - [Ads-l] 2020 WOTY
 
James Landau
 - [Ads-l] 2020 WOTY
 
Laurence Horn
 - [Ads-l] 2020 WOTY
 
W Brewer
 - [Ads-l] 2020 WOTY
 
Mark Mandel
 - [Ads-l] 58 Words and Phrases That Got Us Through a Crazy Decade in	Business
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - [Ads-l] 58 Words and Phrases That Got Us Through a Crazy Decade	in Business
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - [Ads-l] an early cohoot (or co hoot) 1830
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] another "novel" use for non-fiction
 
Amy West
 - [Ads-l] another "novel" use for non-fiction
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - [Ads-l] another "novel" use for non-fiction
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - [Ads-l] another, earlier Cowabunga
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] another, earlier Cowabunga
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] another, earlier Cowabunga
 
Barretts Mail
 - [Ads-l] another, earlier Cowabunga
 
Barretts Mail
 - [Ads-l] another, earlier Cowabunga
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - [Ads-l] another, earlier Cowabunga
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] Another country heard from.
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - [Ads-l] Another country heard from.
 
Charles C Doyle
 - [Ads-l] Another country heard from.
 
Ben Zimmer
 - [Ads-l] Another country heard from.
 
Peter Reitan
 - [Ads-l] Another early "Rosin Heel" (May, 1826)
 
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
 - [Ads-l] Another early "Rosin Heel" (May, 1826)
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - [Ads-l] Antedating "the whole shooting match" (1871)
 
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
 - [Ads-l] Antedating "the whole shooting match" (1871)
 
Peter Reitan
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "Brownie"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "Homophobia" and "Homophobe"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "Pro-Life"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "Screenwriter"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "Stolen Base"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "swot | swat"
 
Hugo
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "Western" (Movie Genre)
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Arnold Zwicky in OED
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Arnold Zwicky in OED
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - [Ads-l] Arnold Zwicky in OED
 
Ben Zimmer
 - [Ads-l] Arnold Zwidky in OED
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] barbet, dogo Argentino
 
Barretts Mail
 - [Ads-l] career long
 
Ben Zimmer
 - [Ads-l] Cary Grant telegram anecdote
 
Ben Yagoda
 - [Ads-l] Cary Grant telegram anecdote
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] COCA Guide
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] COCA Guide
 
Ben Zimmer
 - [Ads-l] CORRECTION humbug, June 1749 (antedating?)
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] Cousin Sally, new in OED
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] Cousin Sally, new in OED
 
Laurence Horn
 - [Ads-l] Cousin Sally, new in OED
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - [Ads-l] Cousin Sally, new in OED
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] Cousin Sally, new in OED
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - [Ads-l] Cousin Sally, new in OED
 
Peter Reitan
 - [Ads-l] designed by clowns
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - [Ads-l] Ferming
 
dave at wilton.net
 - [Ads-l] Ferming
 
W Brewer
 - [Ads-l] Fw: Bobs notes
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] GTFO
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - [Ads-l] GTFO
 
W Brewer
 - [Ads-l] GTFO
 
Mark Mandel
 - [Ads-l] GTFO
 
Laurence Horn
 - [Ads-l] GTFO
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - [Ads-l] GTFO
 
Mark Mandel
 - [Ads-l] GTFO
 
Wilson Gray
 - [Ads-l] GTFO
 
Andy Bach
 - [Ads-l] GTFO
 
Mark Mandel
 - [Ads-l] GTFO
 
W Brewer
 - [Ads-l] GTFO
 
Mark Mandel
 - [Ads-l] head shop (Apr. 1966)
 
Ben Zimmer
 - [Ads-l] head shop (Apr. 1966)
 
Laurence Horn
 - [Ads-l] head shop (Apr. 1966)
 
Ben Zimmer
 - [Ads-l] Heard in a police documentary
 
Wilson Gray
 - [Ads-l] humbug, June 1749 (antedating?)
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] International Linguistic Associarion -- CALL
 
David K. Barnhart
 - [Ads-l] I say "Lusitan-i-ay"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - [Ads-l] LFG and Ben Zimmer
 
Andy Bach
 - [Ads-l] LFG and Ben Zimmer
 
Mark Mandel
 - [Ads-l] loser mentality, - mindset
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - [Ads-l] loser mentality, - mindset
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - [Ads-l] loser mentality, - mindset
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] loser mentality, - mindset
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] monkey in the middle (1952)
 
Ben Zimmer
 - [Ads-l] monkey in the middle (1952)
 
Mark Mandel
 - [Ads-l] monkey in the middle (1952)
 
Margaret Winters
 - [Ads-l] monkey in the middle (1952)
 
Geoffrey Nathan
 - [Ads-l] monkey in the middle (1952)
 
Laurence Horn
 - [Ads-l] monkey in the middle (1952)
 
Margaret Winters
 - [Ads-l] monkey in the middle (1952)
 
Laurence Horn
 - [Ads-l] monkey in the middle (1952)
 
Wilson Gray
 - [Ads-l] monkey in the middle (1952)
 
Alice Faber
 - [Ads-l] monkey in the middle (1952)
 
Alice Faber
 - [Ads-l] monkey in the middle (1952)
 
Ben Zimmer
 - [Ads-l] monkey in the middle (1952)
 
Ben Zimmer
 - [Ads-l] monkey in the middle (1952)
 
Laurence Horn
 - [Ads-l] monkey in the middle (1952)
 
Mark Mandel
 - [Ads-l] monkey in the middle (1952)
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] monkey in the middle (1952)
 
Margaret Winters
 - [Ads-l] monkey in the middle (1952)
 
Laurence Horn
 - [Ads-l] monkey in the middle (1952)
 
Laurence Horn
 - [Ads-l] monkey in the middle (1952)
 
Margaret Winters
 - [Ads-l] monkey in the middle (1952)
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] monkey in the middle (1952)
 
Parish, James
 - [Ads-l] monkey in the middle (1952)
 
Mark Mandel
 - [Ads-l] monkey in the middle (1952)
 
Barretts Mail
 - [Ads-l] monkey in the middle (1952)
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - [Ads-l] monkey in the middle (1952)
 
Andy Bach
 - [Ads-l] more on "on the Fritz" transition
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] New retropseudoacronym
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - [Ads-l] New retropseudoacronym
 
Wilson Gray
 - [Ads-l] New to me: "alive and _cooking_"
 
Wilson Gray
 - [Ads-l] New to me: "alive and _cooking_"
 
Laurence Horn
 - [Ads-l] New to me: "alive and _cooking_"
 
Parish, James
 - [Ads-l] New to me: "alive and _cooking_"
 
W Brewer
 - [Ads-l] New to me: "alive and _cooking_"
 
Jeanie Blake
 - [Ads-l] Nominations posted for Word of the Year + Word of the Decade
 
Ben Zimmer
 - [Ads-l] On "Tar Heels" in general and North Carolinians as "Tar	Heels"
 
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
 - [Ads-l] On "Tar Heels" in general and North Carolinians as "Tar	Heels"
 
Peter Reitan
 - [Ads-l] On "Tar Heels" in general and North Carolinians as "Tar	Heels"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - [Ads-l] On "Tar Heels" in general and North Carolinians as "Tar	Heels"
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] On "Tar Heels" in general and North Carolinians as "Tar	Heels"
 
Andy Bach
 - [Ads-l] On "Tar Heels" in general and North Carolinians as "Tar	Heels"
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] Once again, "jet" = "aircraft"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - [Ads-l] Online Searchable Yiddish Corpus Now Available
 
Geoffrey Nathan
 - [Ads-l] planet X = sustainable food [was Re: New to me: "alive and	_cooking_"]
 
Barretts Mail
 - [Ads-l] planet X = sustainable food [was Re: New to me: "alive	and _cooking_"]
 
Jeanie Blake
 - [Ads-l] plural of "emoji"
 
James Landau
 - [Ads-l] plural of "emoji"
 
Laurence Horn
 - [Ads-l] plural of "emoji"
 
Geoffrey Nathan
 - [Ads-l] plural of "emoji"
 
Ben Zimmer
 - [Ads-l] plural of "emoji"
 
Barretts Mail
 - [Ads-l] plural of "emoji"
 
Andy Bach
 - [Ads-l] plural of "emoji"
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - [Ads-l] plural of "emoji"
 
Margaret Winters
 - [Ads-l] plural of "emoji"
 
Laurence Horn
 - [Ads-l] plural of "emoji"
 
Andy Bach
 - [Ads-l] plural of "emoji"
 
Chris Waigl
 - [Ads-l] plural of "emoji"
 
W Brewer
 - [Ads-l] plural of "emoji"
 
Mark Mandel
 - [Ads-l] plural of "emoji"
 
W Brewer
 - [Ads-l] plural of "emoji"
 
Chris Waigl
 - [Ads-l] plural of "emoji"
 
Andy Bach
 - [Ads-l] plural of "emoji"
 
Laurence Horn
 - [Ads-l] plural of "emoji"
 
Mark Mandel
 - [Ads-l] porn
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - [Ads-l] Possible riff on "the whole nine yards" (1932)
 
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
 - [Ads-l] Possible riff on "the whole nine yards" (1932)
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] Quotations from Don Marquis
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] Quotations from Don Marquis (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY CCDC AVMC (USA)
 - [Ads-l] Quotations from Don Marquis (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] Quote: All comedy is tragedy,	if you only look deep enough into it. Thomas Hardy, April 14, 1889
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] Quote: All comedy is tragedy,	if you only look deep enough into it. Thomas Hardy, April 14, 1889
 
Laurence Horn
 - [Ads-l] Quote: Cary Grant telegram anecdote - update
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] Quote: Cary Grant telegram anecdote - update
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] Quote: Cary Grant telegram anecdote - update
 
James Landau
 - [Ads-l] Quote: Hard work never killed anyone but some of us	don=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99t_?=like to take chances
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] Quote: I have never thrown an illegal pitch. The trouble is	some of my pitches were never seen by this generation
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] Quote: Say anything you like about me,	but spell my name right
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] Quote: The art of newspaper paragraphing often consists in	stroking a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] Quote: You don=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99t_?=pay them to come;	you pay them to leave
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] rustic bread; porn
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - [Ads-l] rustic bread; porn
 
Arnold M. Zwicky
 - [Ads-l] rustic bread; porn
 
Barretts Mail
 - [Ads-l] rustic bread; porn
 
Mark Mandel
 - [Ads-l] rustic bread; porn
 
Peter Reitan
 - [Ads-l] saluggi
 
Joan Hall
 - [Ads-l] saluggi
 
Laurence Horn
 - [Ads-l] saluggi
 
Baker, John
 - [Ads-l] Schizophrenia antedating (1909, 1908 in German)
 
dave at WILTON.NET
 - [Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Super Bowl"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Super Bowl"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Super Bowl"
 
Laurence Horn
 - [Ads-l] Sloogie, NY game, 1914
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] smutshooting (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY CCDC AVMC (USA)
 - [Ads-l] smutshooting (UNCLASSIFIED)
 
Mark Mandel
 - [Ads-l] Turkish Jews fighting to preserve Ladino
 
Mark Mandel
 - [Ads-l] Turkish Jews fighting to preserve Ladino
 
Margaret Winters
 - [Ads-l] washi tape (2011)
 
Barretts Mail
 - [Ads-l] WOTY for 2026
 
James Landau
 - [Ads-l] WOTY for 2026
 
Baker, John
 - [Ads-l] WOTY for 2026
 
Ben Zimmer
 - [Ads-l] WOTY for 2026
 
W Brewer
 - [Ads-l] WOTY for 2026
 
Mark Mandel
 - [Ads-l] xenobot
 
Jonathan Lighter
    
 
    
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