October 2020 Archives by thread
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- [Ads-l] cynical proverb
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Metaphorical "obesity"
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] bullshit
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] moneker, moniker (and many other spellings)
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Invention of the Alphabet. Thank you Canaanites
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Deist"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Biographer"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Buy/Sell the Brooklyn Bridge (1900)
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Etymologist"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Seismology"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Bacteriologist"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Intriguing 1828 Citation Relating to "Whole Nine Yards"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Patzer"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "yards of verse" in review of Scott (1808)
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Americanism"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "Definitive glossary of modern U.S. military slang"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Disrespect", v.
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Cyclical"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Tongue Twister"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "Yours truly" = 'you'?
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] Yet another
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Cyclist"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] antedating "crack" (cocaine)
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] guts 'n' glory
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] superpower
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] slice
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Fwd: 'Dusty Hunter' Scores Cecil B. DeMille's Liquor Collection - The New York Times
Dan Goncharoff
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Social Psychology"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Upper Class"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Commercialism"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] =?Windows-1252?Q?=93filled_a_sheet_nine_yards_long=2C=94_?=1654 or 1655
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Omnibus"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] um, what?
David Daniel
- [Ads-l] Slumgullion 1853, 1856
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] QOTY
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] footfall
James Landau
- [Ads-l] Adage: Beauty=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99s_?=only skin deep, but ugliness goes to the bone
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Nominal ugly
Joan Hall
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Therapist"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Aquarium"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Schwa"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Bibliographer"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Heard:
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Long time no see.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Pun about quarreling neighbors: They never agree because they argue from different premises
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] The lightning ain=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99t_?=distributed right. Mark Twain
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Comic Strip"
Baker, John
- [Ads-l] Call for Abstracts -- 2021 NARNiHS Research Incubator
Lauersdorf, Mark R.
- [Ads-l] Further Antedating of the Term "Gay"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] JIve: The Fulfulde Provenance of "Jive"
Z Rice
- [Ads-l] Antedating mullet (hairstyle)
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] who = 'that'
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] A tweet
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] QOTY?
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] jive 1925 (antedate?)
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Quote: The Golden Age of science fiction is twelve
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Fulfulde origin of Jive
Z Rice
- [Ads-l] Further Thoughts on the 1931 Use of "Go Gay"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Republican Elaphant
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] "You're welcome."
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Heard: "He got pay-docked."
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] A working progress
Geoffrey Nathan
- [Ads-l] Blend: Masks are not a silver panacea.
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- [Ads-l] Uncleftish Beholding
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] early Palookas
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] blue laws, examples indirectly in a 1776 ephemeris
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] sir name
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Read: "... she was found _safely_ ..."
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] WHOOPS
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] ***UNCHECKED*** "High Jacks" Dec. 1915
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] ***UNCHECKED*** To pun or not to pun: NYT on "new" secretive saliva organ
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Phrase: zoom towns
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] "Anglofan"
Jesse Sheidlower
- [Ads-l] Quote: Sometimes I think we=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99re_alone=2C_and_sometimes_I_think_we=E2=80=99re_?=not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] a "won't you come up to Limerick" proposed event, 1879
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] vacuum bed
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Facebookery
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Yolo as a Verb?
Dan Goncharoff
- [Ads-l] Quote: Sometimes I think we=?Windows-1252?Q?=92re_alone=2C_and_sometimes_I_think_we=92re_?=not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY CCDC AVMC (USA)
- [Ads-l] thin blue line: evolution o a symbol
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] antedating "birdbrain"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] to fake-fill
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] GPT-3 Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (was: to fake-fill)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Quote: God in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] subvert
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] cishet
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Seen on the Web
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Slight antedating of "Grim Reaper"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Loxism
James Landau
- [Ads-l] Another compound noun gets verbed
Geoffrey Nathan
- [Ads-l] 2nd Call ! -- 2021 NARNiHS Research Incubator
Lauersdorf, Mark R.
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