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Starting: Fri Jan 1 14:03:56 UTC 2021
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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] =?Windows-1252?Q?=93down_to_the_brass=94=3B_?=Billy Birch, Burch; tacks   Stephen Goranson
    • [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] wondering about the origin of "sleigh riding" in New York   Michael Malone
  • [Ads-l] wondering about the origin of "sleigh riding" in New York   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   Barretts Mail
      • [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   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] Hair of the dog   David Daniel
  • [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] Hair of the dog   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] endurance art   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] in real time (again)   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] in real time (again)   Jonathan Lighter
• [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] 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'   ADSGarson O'Toole
    • [Ads-l] New to me: 'kayfabe'   Bill Mullins
      • [Ads-l] New to me: 'kayfabe'   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [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] friends with benefits   dave at WILTON.NET
• [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] 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] A book for (some of) us   Laurence Horn
  • [Ads-l] A book for (some of) us   Stephen Goranson
• [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)   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] verbing nouns   James Landau
  • [Ads-l] verbing nouns   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] Early QOTY candidate   Laurence Horn
  • [Ads-l] Early QOTY candidate   Laurence Horn
    • [Ads-l] Early QOTY candidate   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] Early QOTY candidate   Horatius
• [Ads-l] to fuck   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] to fuck   Barretts Mail
  • [Ads-l] to fuck   Mark Mandel
    • [Ads-l] to fuck   Ben Zimmer
      • [Ads-l] to fuck   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] to fuck   Laurence Horn
      • [Ads-l] to fuck   Jonathan Lighter
      • [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] You put your foot in it - excellent food   Andy Bach
  • [Ads-l] You put your foot in it - excellent food   Margaret Lee
  • [Ads-l] You put your foot in it - excellent food   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
    • [Ads-l] You put your foot in it - excellent food   Stephen Goranson
• [Ads-l] little monster   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] allegory   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] fuck   dave at WILTON.NET
• [Ads-l] Seen in na post to Reddit   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.   Jonathan Lighter
    • [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] Antedating "U.S."   Shapiro, Fred
    • [Ads-l] Antedating "U.S."   Laurence Horn
      • [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] Early Citation for "U.S.A."   Peter Reitan
      • [Ads-l] Early Citation for "U.S.A."   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] Antedating "U.S."   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] Antedating "U.S."   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] Antedating "U.S."   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] Antedating "U.S."   Peter Reitan
• [Ads-l] _integrate_ "to have [a component] built in"   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] knock it out   Barretts Mail
  • [Ads-l] knock it out   Stephen Goranson
    • [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   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] 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] hit the ground running   James Eric Lawson
    • [Ads-l] hit the ground running   George Thompson
• [Ads-l] mouth organ, harmonicon, harmonica   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] mouth organ, harmonicon, harmonica   Horatius
    • [Ads-l] mouth organ, harmonicon, harmonica   Mark Mandel
      • [Ads-l] mouth organ, harmonicon, harmonica   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] mouth organ, harmonicon, harmonica   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] a cute expression that, unfortunately, died quickly   George Thompson
  • [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] a cute expression that, unfortunately, died quickly   Stanton McCandlish
• [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] 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] Modern Proverb: If you torture the data long enough, it will confess   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Seen on the Web:   Wilson Gray
  • [Ads-l] Seen on the Web:   Laurence Horn
• [Ads-l] Not my monkeys...   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] pass in reviews   Mark Mandel
• [Ads-l] bawdy = 'rowdily humorous; slapstick'   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] bawdy = 'rowdily humorous; slapstick'   Barretts Mail
    • [Ads-l] bawdy = 'rowdily humorous; slapstick'   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] bawdy = 'rowdily humorous; slapstick'   Laurence Horn
      • [Ads-l] bawdy = 'rowdily humorous; slapstick'   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] bawdy = 'rowdily humorous; slapstick'   Barretts Mail
      • [Ads-l] bawdy = 'rowdily humorous; slapstick'   Barretts Mail
      • [Ads-l] bawdy = 'rowdily humorous; slapstick'   Laurence Horn
      • [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] bawdy = 'rowdily humorous; slapstick'   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] bawdy = 'rowdily humorous; slapstick'   Wilson Gray
      • [Ads-l] bawdy = 'rowdily humorous; slapstick'   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] waddle   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] waddle   ADSGarson O'Toole
    • [Ads-l] waddle   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] waddle   Wilson Gray
    • [Ads-l] waddle   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] waddle   Wilson Gray
      • [Ads-l] waddle   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] waddle   Tom Zurinskas
• [Ads-l] to level-set   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Another language wonder   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Happy news for philogists?   James Landau
  • [Ads-l] Happy news for philogists?   Mark Mandel
• [Ads-l] Classified eggcorn? "carried their hair"   Andy Bach
• [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] 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] 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] 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] Amanda Gordons's "The Hill We Climb"   Tom Zurinskas
  • [Ads-l] Amanda Gordons's "The Hill We Climb"   Chris Waigl
• [Ads-l] B-36   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Xmas   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Quip: The New York Review of Each Other=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99s_?=Books   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [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] Quip: The New York Review of Each Other=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99s_?=Books   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] failure is not an option   Jonathan Lighter
  • [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] failure is not an option   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] fail safe, antedating 1944?   Stephen Goranson
  • [Ads-l] fail safe, antedating 1944?   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] fail safe, antedating 1944?   Peter Reitan
    • [Ads-l] fail safe, antedating 1944?   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] fail safe, antedating 1944?   Barretts Mail
      • [Ads-l] fail safe, antedating 1944?   Laurence Horn
• [Ads-l] air dancer   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] "sporting girl/woman"   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] "fail safe" 1944 (second try)   Stephen Goranson
• [Ads-l] "Fail-Safe" (adj.) 1931   Peter Reitan
• [Ads-l] jaa / jaav / jive / jaab / jibe: 'really, very, too, quite'   Z Sohna
• [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] 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] Jesse Sheidlower's New Dictionary   Mark Mandel
      • [Ads-l] Jesse Sheidlower's New Dictionary   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [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'   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] Another weird construction   Laurence Horn
      • [Ads-l] Another weird construction   Jonathan Lighter
• [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] Query on Coinage of "Radar"   Stephen Goranson
      • [Ads-l] Query on Coinage of "Radar"   Shapiro, Fred
      • [Ads-l] Query on Coinage of "Radar"   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [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] 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] Gamestonk   Dan Goncharoff
  • [Ads-l] Gamestonk   Dennis During
    • [Ads-l] Gamestonk   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] yeah, no   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Racist origins of "Grandfathering"   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] extremist-adjacent   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] extremist-adjacent   ADSGarson O'Toole
    • [Ads-l] extremist-adjacent   Laurence Horn
      • [Ads-l] extremist-adjacent   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] weak-sauce   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Feminista   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] Feminista   Chris Waigl
    • [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] "would have"   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] "would have"   Dan Goncharoff
  • [Ads-l] "would have"   Laurence Horn
• [Ads-l] "would have"   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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