May 2021 Archives by thread
Starting: Sat May 1 00:23:20 UTC 2021
Ending: Mon May 31 18:18:23 UTC 2021
Messages: 175
- [Ads-l] pocket pardon
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Phrase: [Word] is doing a lot of work
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] antedating (?) of milli-helen
Pete Morris
- [Ads-l] Disease names and geography
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] RES: antedating (?) of milli-helen
David Daniel
- [Ads-l] Miscellany
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "hero"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "hooker" meaning "prostitute"
James Landau
- [Ads-l] Cap/Kap - "joke, not be serious, (hence: lie), ritualized joking tradition of Native Black Americans"
Z Sohna
- [Ads-l] Request help accessing Ottawa Citizen in 1882 to check Oscar Wilde quotation
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] birthday wish
Tom Zurinskas
- [Ads-l] _binge_ > transitive
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] (OT) Anyone have access to mid-19th-c newspaper "Brother Jonathan"?
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- [Ads-l] KIlroy update
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] da-dah! ta-dah! (was Re: Cap/Kap)
James Eric Lawson
- [Ads-l] Milli-Helen: The quantity of beauty required to launch exactly one ship
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] "care package"
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] No = 'yes; truly'
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "Yeah, no" as a positive = 'surprisingly, yes'
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] sentence-final "so"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Die, my dear doctor! That=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99s_?=the last thing I shall do
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] retcon
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Based--a new sense
Geoffrey Nathan
- [Ads-l] scariant - scary variant of the virus that causes Covid-19
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] New ethnic slur for Pacific Islanders et sim.?
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Blue Peter, etc.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] comparing US and UK accents for 25 words in truespel phonetics.
Tom Zurinskas
- [Ads-l] Adage: Do not take life quite so seriously -- you surely will never get out of it alive
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] antedating "peckerwood"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] hempcrete (2002)
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] "Read the room"
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] "short-bus people"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] new advertising term "frunk"
James Landau
- [Ads-l] suckers
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] hard bop
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] deepitude
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] retroactive continuity
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Early WOTY candidate--"spermageddon"
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] Been there, done that 1979.
Pete Morris
- [Ads-l] List back up!
Jesse Sheidlower
- [Ads-l] "The whole magillah" [Antedating, 1950]
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- [Ads-l] "The whole enchilada" [Antedating, 1951]
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- [Ads-l] "The whole schmeer/schmear" [Antedating, 1901, with a hint at 1900]
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- [Ads-l] Quotation: Writing free verse is like playing hand ball with no wall, or like playing tennis without a net
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Synaesthesia strikes ADS-L!
James Landau
- [Ads-l] "sooner" (Apr. 22, 1889)
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] "ethnic fraud"
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] Antedating "Tuxedo" - October 1888 (men's formal wear), April 1887 (women's sportswear)
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] Optimists invent airplanes; pessimists invent parachutes
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Possible substitution error: thousands of kilograms of electricity
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] "gee" with a hard "g"
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] Zoar survivor quote=?Windows-1252?Q?=97Errol_?=Morris versions
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] OT: historical linguistics inquiry
Amy West
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