January 2021 Archives by date
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Messages: 261
- [Ads-l] =?Windows-1252?Q?=93down_to_the_brass=94=3B_?=Billy Birch, Burch; tacks
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] wondering about the origin of "sleigh riding" in New York
Michael Malone
- [Ads-l] Hair of the dog
David Daniel
- [Ads-l] wondering about the origin of "sleigh riding" in New York
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Hair of the dog
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Hair of the dog
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] Hair of the dog
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] endurance art
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] wondering about the origin of "sleigh riding" in New York
Dan Goncharoff
- [Ads-l] wondering about the origin of "sleigh riding" in New York
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] wondering about the origin of "sleigh riding" in New York
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] wondering about the origin of "sleigh riding" in New York
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] wondering about the origin of "sleigh riding" in New York
Geoffrey Nathan
- [Ads-l] wondering about the origin of "sleigh riding" in New York
Paul A Johnston
- [Ads-l] wondering about the origin of "sleigh riding" in New York
Amy West
- [Ads-l] in real time (again)
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Hair of the dog
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] =?Windows-1252?Q?=93down_to_the_brass=94=3B_?=Billy Birch, Burch; tacks
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Hawley = Holly via awe-dropping
Tom Zurinskas
- [Ads-l] Hawley = Holly via awe-dropping
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] The frequency of the top 100 words equals 50% of text or speech
Tom Zurinskas
- [Ads-l] =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9Cdown_to_the_brass=E2=80=9D=3B_?=Billy Birch, Burch; tacks
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] =?Windows-1252?Q?=93down_to_the_brass=94=3B_?=Billy Birch, Burch; tacks
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] to bomb-drop
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Provisional comments on jitney in David L. Gold, L.B. 2018-2020
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Bozo as pejorative use of a PN?
Z Sohna
- [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] Adventures in Digitization
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] New to me: 'kayfabe'
Geoffrey Nathan
- [Ads-l] New to me: 'kayfabe'
Nancy Friedman
- [Ads-l] New to me: 'kayfabe'
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] New to me: 'kayfabe'
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] New to me: 'kayfabe'
Geoffrey Nathan
- [Ads-l] friends with benefits
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] friends with benefits
dave at WILTON.NET
- [Ads-l] friends with benefits
Jesse Sheidlower
- [Ads-l] a saying: "not what it used to be. . . ."
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] a saying: "not what it used to be. . . ."
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] a saying: "not what it used to be. . . ."
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] New to me: 'kayfabe'
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] swear(ing) box, swear(ing) jar
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] swear(ing) box, swear(ing) jar
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] swear(ing) box, swear(ing) jar
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] swear(ing) box, swear(ing) jar
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] swear(ing) box, swear(ing) jar
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] Portmanteau: DALL ·E from Salvador Dali and Pixar's WALL·E
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] New to me: 'kayfabe'
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] New to me: 'kayfabe'
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] friends with benefits
dave at WILTON.NET
- [Ads-l] A book for (some of) us
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] Dictionary transcription (was RE: A book for (some of) us)
Geoffrey Nathan
- [Ads-l] A book for (some of) us
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] verbing nouns
James Landau
- [Ads-l] verbing nouns
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] Dictionary transcription (was RE: A book for (some of) us)
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] Dictionary transcription (was RE: A book for (some of) us)
Geoffrey Nathan
- [Ads-l] Dictionary transcription (was RE: A book for (some of) us)
Paul A Johnston
- [Ads-l] The spelling oh for long o [Re: Dictionary transcription (was RE: A book for (some of) us)]
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] The spelling oh for long o [Re: Dictionary transcription (was RE: A book for (some of) us)]
Horatius
- [Ads-l] Early QOTY candidate
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] Early QOTY candidate
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] to fuck
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] You put your foot in it - excellent food
Andy Bach
- [Ads-l] Early QOTY candidate
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] to fuck
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] little monster
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Early QOTY candidate
Horatius
- [Ads-l] allegory
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] to fuck
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] to fuck
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] You put your foot in it - excellent food
Margaret Lee
- [Ads-l] to fuck
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] fuck
dave at WILTON.NET
- [Ads-l] to fuck
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] to fuck
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] You put your foot in it - excellent food
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- [Ads-l] to fuck
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] to fuck
Jesse Sheidlower
- [Ads-l] to fuck
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] to fuck
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] to fuck
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] Seen in na post to Reddit
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] You put your foot in it - excellent food
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating "U.S."
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] _integrate_ "to have [a component] built in"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Antedating "U.S."
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating "U.S."
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY CCDC AVMC (USA)
- [Ads-l] Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY CCDC AVMC (USA)
- [Ads-l] Antedating "U.S."
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Early Citation for "U.S.A."
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Early Citation for "U.S.A."
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Antedating "U.S."
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Early Citation for "U.S.A."
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] Antedating "U.S."
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating "U.S."
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] Antedating "U.S."
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Early Citation for "U.S.A."
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] knock it out
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] knock it out
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Orwellian, 1950
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Orwellian"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Orwellian"
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Orwellian"
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Orwellian"
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Orwellian"
Jesse Sheidlower
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Orwellian"
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Orwellian"
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] knock it out
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] knock it out
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] knock it out
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] knock it out
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] Orwellian, 1950
Horatius
- [Ads-l] Dialectal dialectic
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] Orwellish, 1955
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] WSJ: harder to catch the disease
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] WSJ: harder to catch the disease
dave at WILTON.NET
- [Ads-l] WSJ: harder to catch the disease
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] hit the ground running
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] mouth organ, harmonicon, harmonica
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] hit the ground running
James Eric Lawson
- [Ads-l] hit the ground running
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] a cute expression that, unfortunately, died quickly
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] mouth organ, harmonicon, harmonica
Horatius
- [Ads-l] Early Examples of "Virtue Signaling" or "Virtue Signalling"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Early Examples of "Virtue Signaling" or "Virtue Signalling"
Baker, John
- [Ads-l] Early Examples of "Virtue Signaling" or "Virtue Signalling"
James Eric Lawson
- [Ads-l] Modern Proverb: If you torture the data long enough, it will confess
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Early Examples of "Virtue Signaling" or "Virtue Signalling"
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] Early Examples of "Virtue Signaling" or "Virtue Signalling"
James Eric Lawson
- [Ads-l] a cute expression that, unfortunately, died quickly
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] a cute expression that, unfortunately, died quickly
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] mouth organ, harmonicon, harmonica
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] Seen on the Web:
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] mouth organ, harmonicon, harmonica
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] mouth organ, harmonicon, harmonica
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Seen on the Web:
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] Not my monkeys...
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] pass in reviews
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] a cute expression that, unfortunately, died quickly
Stanton McCandlish
- [Ads-l] bawdy = 'rowdily humorous; slapstick'
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] waddle
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] to level-set
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Another language wonder
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] bawdy = 'rowdily humorous; slapstick'
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] bawdy = 'rowdily humorous; slapstick'
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] waddle
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Happy news for philogists?
James Landau
- [Ads-l] waddle
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] bawdy = 'rowdily humorous; slapstick'
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] Classified eggcorn? "carried their hair"
Andy Bach
- [Ads-l] bawdy = 'rowdily humorous; slapstick'
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] bawdy = 'rowdily humorous; slapstick'
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] bawdy = 'rowdily humorous; slapstick'
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] bawdy = 'rowdily humorous; slapstick'
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] "Bawdy: (asa "body"
Tom Zurinskas
- [Ads-l] Adage: An army of stags led by a lion is more formidable than an army of lions led by a stag. Attributed to Plutarch
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Amanda Gordons's "The Hill We Climb"
Tom Zurinskas
- [Ads-l] Adage: An army of stags led by a lion is more formidable than an army of lions led by a stag. Attributed to Plutarch
James Eric Lawson
- [Ads-l] Adage: An army of stags led by a lion is more formidable than an army of lions led by a stag. Attributed to Plutarch
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] waddle
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] waddle
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] bawdy = 'rowdily humorous; slapstick'
Andy Bach
- [Ads-l] bawdy = 'rowdily humorous; slapstick'
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] bawdy = 'rowdily humorous; slapstick'
Andy Bach
- [Ads-l] B-36
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] bawdy = 'rowdily humorous; slapstick'
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] bawdy = 'rowdily humorous; slapstick'
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] waddle
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] bawdy = 'rowdily humorous; slapstick'
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] waddle
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Adage: An army of stags led by a lion is more formidable than an army of lions led by a stag. Attributed to Plutarch
dave at wilton.net
- [Ads-l] Adage: An army of stags led by a lion is more formidable than an army of lions led by a stag. Attributed to Plutarch
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Xmas
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] waddle
Tom Zurinskas
- [Ads-l] Adage: An army of stags led by a lion is more formidable than an army of lions led by a stag. Attributed to Plutarch
James Eric Lawson
- [Ads-l] Happy news for philogists?
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] Quip: The New York Review of Each Other=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99s_?=Books
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Adage: An army of stags led by a lion is more formidable than an army of lions led by a stag. Attributed to Plutarch
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] failure is not an option
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Quip: The New York Review of Each Other=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99s_?=Books
James Eric Lawson
- [Ads-l] Quip: The New York Review of Each Other=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99s_?=Books
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] failure is not an option
James Eric Lawson
- [Ads-l] failure is not an option
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] failure is not an option
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] failure is not an option
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] fail safe, antedating 1944?
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Amanda Gordons's "The Hill We Climb"
Chris Waigl
- [Ads-l] fail safe, antedating 1944?
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] fail safe, antedating 1944?
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] air dancer
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "sporting girl/woman"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "fail safe" 1944 (second try)
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] failure is not an option
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] "Fail-Safe" (adj.) 1931
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] fail safe, antedating 1944?
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Quip: The New York Review of Each Other=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99s_?=Books
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] jaa / jaav / jive / jaab / jibe: 'really, very, too, quite'
Z Sohna
- [Ads-l] fail safe, antedating 1944?
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] fail safe, antedating 1944?
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] a target on one's back
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] janky (1989)
Z Sohna
- [Ads-l] meme stock
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Jesse Sheidlower's New Dictionary
Geoffrey Nathan
- [Ads-l] dude = 'person of any gender'
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Jesse Sheidlower's New Dictionary
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Jesse Sheidlower's New Dictionary
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] Jesse Sheidlower's New Dictionary
Jesse Sheidlower
- [Ads-l] dude = 'person of any gender'
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] Jesse Sheidlower's New Dictionary
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] dude = 'person of any gender'
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] dude = 'person of any gender'
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] dude = 'person of any gender'
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] dude = 'person of any gender'
Horatius
- [Ads-l] dude = 'person of any gender'
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] dude = 'person of any gender'
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] significant interdating of "pussy"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Another weird construction
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Another weird construction
Herbert F. Stahlke
- [Ads-l] Quip: The New York Review of Each Other=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99s_?=Books
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Another weird construction
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] Query on Coinage of "Radar"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Query on Coinage of "Radar"
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Query on Coinage of "Radar"
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Another weird construction
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Query on Coinage of "Radar"
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Query on Coinage of "Radar"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Gamestonk
Dan Goncharoff
- [Ads-l] yeah, no
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Query on Coinage of "Radar"
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Query on Coinage of "Radar"
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Gamestonk
Dennis During
- [Ads-l] Gamestonk
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] Query on Coinage of "Radar"
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY CCDC AVMC (USA)
- [Ads-l] Query on Coinage of "Radar"
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Query on Coinage of "Radar"
MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY CCDC AVMC (USA)
- [Ads-l] Racist origins of "Grandfathering"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] extremist-adjacent
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] weak-sauce
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Feminista
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] It was the Aughts decade
Tom Zurinskas
- [Ads-l] rape-colored
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] An unlisted eggcorn (not in ecdb)
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] Feminista
Chris Waigl
- [Ads-l] Feminista
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] extremist-adjacent
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Jesse Sheidlower's New Dictionary
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] extremist-adjacent
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] extremist-adjacent
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] "would have"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "would have"
Dan Goncharoff
- [Ads-l] "would have"
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] "would have"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] in real time (again)
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "would have"
Salikoko Mufwene
- [Ads-l] outsize[d]
Stanton McCandlish
- [Ads-l] extremist-adjacent
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] gamma squeeze
ADSGarson O'Toole
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