November 2020 Archives by thread
Starting: Tue Nov 3 21:17:29 UTC 2020
Ending: Mon Nov 30 14:16:19 UTC 2020
Messages: 157
- [Ads-l] champ/chomp (on/at ) the bit, fig.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] whole heartily
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] Facebookery
James Landau
- [Ads-l] high-jacks, one negative result, 1915
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Albany
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Slight antedating of "Grim Reaper"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Heard on TV
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Rockabilly"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Appeal for Notable Quotations of 2020
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Provisional comments on jitney in David L. Gold, L.B. 2018-2020
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Crayon pronounced dialectally as crown
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- [Ads-l] Outset
Bwh031451
- [Ads-l] antedating "cloud nine" "cloud seven"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] bossy pants/bossypants
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] WOTY candidate, from the Yiddish
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] A Reddit sub-reddit
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "Hella" in the Bay Area Reporter, 1982-85 (was Re: Hella research inquiry)
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] It had to happen
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] New York Sunday Mercury
dave at WILTON.NET
- [Ads-l] Modern Proverb: If you are not at the table, you may be on the menu.
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] the NYTimes scrutinizes a traditional phrase
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] "Ascertainment" - a technical election term
Andy Bach
- [Ads-l] ADS Word of the Year is going virtual! (Dec. 17, 2020)
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] "Pom-poms" - "Pom-pons" (was "to hell in a hand-barrow" interdating 1831)
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] Hypercorrection? Heard on TV
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Facebookery: _behind_ "as a consequence of"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Skate Board"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] crash blossom
James Landau
- [Ads-l] "He says I'm trying to attention-seek!"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Finally, the other group gets it right.
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "cent store" and "Scipio"
James Landau
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Hillbully" by Barry Popik
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Snafu" by Barry Popik
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Adage: No matter where you go, there you are
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] pathocracy
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Jumbo (Size/Quantity)
Z Rice
- [Ads-l] Etymology of Jonkanu / "John Canoe"
Z Rice
- [Ads-l] Pronunciation of Appalachia
Joe Salmons
- [Ads-l] Quote: I quite agree with my friend in the Gallery - but what are two against so many? attributed to George Bernard Shaw
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Mumbo Jumbo
Z Rice
- [Ads-l] "auditory blackface"
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] Ruckus / Ruck Etymology
Z Rice
- [Ads-l] Request help verifying citation in "I Seem To Be a Verb" R. Buckminster Fuller et al
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Geoffrey Nunberg R.I.P.
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Mumbo Jumbo / Mumbu Jumbu
Z Rice
- [Ads-l] QOTY
James Landau
- [Ads-l] Truespel collection of studies and videos
Tom Zurinskas
- [Ads-l] to truth-tell
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Transparent pie
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] You fish on your side trope (was: Re: Snasu (variant), was Re: Antedating of "Snafu" by Barry Popik)
Amy West
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