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- [Ads-l] bully & buol/bol/bul
 
Z Sohna
 - [Ads-l] Word: Amazonification
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] Jigaboo (1910) Gigaboo (1900) Zigaboo (1896) Ji-ji-boo J.	O'Shea (1909)
 
Peter Reitan
 - [Ads-l] Request help getting scans for saying: fib, downright lie,	statistics
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] "Westsplaining"
 
Nancy Friedman
 - [Ads-l] "casualty"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - [Ads-l] "unclear of the concept"
 
Amy West
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "Computer"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Taboo avoidance strikes again!
 
Laurence Horn
 - [Ads-l] And on a related note …
 
Laurence Horn
 - [Ads-l] Quote: I=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99m_?=supposed to write fantasy	worlds, not live in them
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] "yes and" improv(isation)
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] Participation Dance - the "Cokey Cokey" (February 1942),	later "Hokey Pokey" (US and Australia) the "Hokey Cokey" (Britain)
 
Peter Reitan
 - [Ads-l] Lost words of Nottinghamshire
 
Mark Mandel
 - [Ads-l] Floral/Flower Friday
 
Barretts Mail
 - [Ads-l] a red herring, if not a red herring
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] Lies and statistics, another precursor 1885
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] Those Chestnut Bells! When senile joke the dudelet tells...
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] It's still English, I reckon.
 
Wilson Gray
 - [Ads-l] Undocumentable Army graffito
 
Wilson Gray
 - [Ads-l] R,	Niebuhr 1928: "...inner serenity...with quiet courage...."
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "Onomastics"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Possible precursor to Huxley (1885) on witnesses as liars,	experts
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] jorts, himbo
 
Mark Mandel
 - [Ads-l] shig < spoonerism or Cornish English?
 
Barretts Mail
 - [Ads-l] Quote: liars might be divided into three classes - liars,	great liars, and scientific witnesses
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] witnesses: liars and experts.
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] T.H. Huxley knew and wrote to G. W. Wilshere, 1883
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] There is no gravity, the earth sucks
 
Bill Mullins
 - [Ads-l] to spam = to repeat (13 Mar 2006)
 
Barretts Mail
 - [Ads-l] Fuckery goes mainstream
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - [Ads-l] milkshake duck
 
Bill Mullins
 - [Ads-l] Update about the saying: History does not repeat itself,	but it rhymes
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] QOTY
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - [Ads-l]	It=?Windows-1252?Q?=92s_a_bird=3B_It=92s_a_plane=3B_It=92s_?=a	boffin
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "Gonzo"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "Table Tennis"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Off-topic: Cyrillic vs. Roman Writing
 
Geoffrey Nathan
 - [Ads-l] QOTY candidate: Sarah Huckabee Sanders Won't Let Us Rip Up	Children, Like We Do All The Time
 
victor steinbok
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of American Sense of the Word "Football"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Davenport sofa, antedatings
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "Texan"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Motto: Never blame the booster for what the sucker does,	May 15, 1939, Damon Runyon
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] Slang: booster - confederate who is part of a confidence	game (February 13, 1887)
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] More on etymology of "boffin"
 
Ben Yagoda
 - [Ads-l] Zigaboo (forerunner of Jigaboo) - antedated to 1914
 
Peter Reitan
 - [Ads-l] The cavalry arrives in the nick of time.
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - [Ads-l] Quote: You have enemies? Good. That means	you=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99ve_?=stood up for something,	sometime in your life
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] Word: protestware
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] qoty possible
 
Bill Mullins
 - [Ads-l] Innovative Malapropism
 
Geoffrey Nathan
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "Gay" (Homosexual, Applied to a Person)
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Earlier Instance of Etymological Myth for "Posh"
 
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
 - [Ads-l] Small antedating of "sci-fi"
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - [Ads-l] knight in shining armour, 1656
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] Another potential QOTY
 
Bill Mullins
 - [Ads-l] Word: pantser, seat-of-the-pants, seat-of-the-pantser
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] heckler's veto
 
Bill Mullins
 - [Ads-l] Quote: If my mind can conceive it and my heart can believe	it, then I know I can achieve it
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] Can anybody help me place this diphthongization in the	American South?
 
Catherine Davies
 - [Ads-l] Adage: Everything is connected to everything else
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
    
 
    
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