August 2022 Archives by thread
Starting: Mon Aug 1 02:12:02 UTC 2022
Ending: Wed Aug 31 23:52:52 UTC 2022
Messages: 207
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Chauvinism"
Chris Waigl
- [Ads-l] Possible Antedating of Homosexual Meaning of "Camp"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "blow job"
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] YouTubery
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Query from reporter concerning restaurant term "check":
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- [Ads-l] 2nd try: Query from reporter concerning restaurant term "check"
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- [Ads-l] "spaz(z)" redux
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] Throwback
Dan Goncharoff
- [Ads-l] Check/bill
Ben Yagoda
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Hedonism"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Hedonist"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Double Play"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Triple Play"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Double Play"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Quip: Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Anecdote: Oh! You're the man who can't spell. Tallulah Bankhead zings Norman Mailer (Update)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] blast from the past
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Correction of OED Entry on "Center Field"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Comeback"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Double-Header"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "First Baseman"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Hold-Out"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Home Plate"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Infield" (Baseball)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Infielder"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Jinx, v."
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Knuckle Ball"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Left Field"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Left Fielder"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Major Leaguer"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Jinx"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Outfield"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Pinch Hitter"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Right Field"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Definition of "Rookie" (Sports)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Strikeout" (Noun)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Switch Hitter"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Ump"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Walk" (Baseball)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Whiff" (Baseball)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] See You Next Tuesday
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Social Scientist"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedatings of sports "rookie"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedatings of "screwball"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Shadow-banning vs shadow-promoting
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Quote: Art is anything you can get away with. - Marshall McLuhan (1967)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] antedating (?) of jailbait
Pete Morris
- [Ads-l] Here goes nothing!
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Jazz and 1913 SF Bulletin
dave at wilton.net
- [Ads-l] Probably not an eggcorn, but I like it...
Ben Yagoda
- [Ads-l] "a regular Bulgarian army" (1917)
Nancy Friedman
- [Ads-l] 2nd Call for Abstracts - North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics - Fifth Annual Meeting (NARNiHS 2023)
Lauersdorf, Mark R.
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Calvinism"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] American dream (et sim)
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] crudit=?UTF-8?Q?=C3=A9s_?=(1940)
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] Joke: How many people here have telekinetic powers? =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=A6_?=Raise my hand! - Emo Philips
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] "snapdragon moment"
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] f-word
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] partiture
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Carry - "(to) humble", "humiliate", "lower one's dignity"
Z Sohna
- [Ads-l] inanimate "who"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] To dark money donate
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] dog sausage in "A Tale of Two Cities"
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] Time is what keeps everything from happening at once (March 15, 1919 citation now verified)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] The m-word
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Hybrid work - Phrase: Hybrid guilt; Quotation: “the hell of half measures”
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Lexico -> Rock Holdings
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] Word: metaverse - Best Metaverse Performance
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Adage: Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing (Red Sanders, Nov. 9, 1948)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Reader's Digest available in Internet Archive; also Quotation: Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. (dubiously attributed to Oscar Wilde in 1954)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] "I say...Lusitani-ay"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] The first "flying saucers"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Update: The medium is the message (Marshall McLuhan, May 5, 1958)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] "heat" = fastball (1967)
Ben Zimmer
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