April 2023 Archives by thread
Starting: Sat Apr 1 21:09:43 UTC 2023
Ending: Sun Apr 30 20:49:15 UTC 2023
Messages: 160
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Gin Rummy"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Straight Poker"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Straight Flush"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Possible Antedating of "Royal Flush"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "seven toed pete" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Lexicalized animal-shit metaphors
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] antedating "chicken shit"
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] "mug shot" (1935)
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Jazz" (Verb)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] 2023 NARNiHS Research Incubator - program
NAm Research Network in HistSocio
- [Ads-l] Slight antedating of "uppity" (1878)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- [Ads-l] "hail" = characterize
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Square-Bracket Antedating of "Hot Dog"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Ten Gallon Hat - and other volumes (two, four, five gallons)
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] Perfectorify was Re: Slight antedating of "uppity" (1878)
Amy West
- [Ads-l] granfalloon update
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] New Mexican Spanish fading
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Quotation: The philosophy of science is just about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Wasian
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] "Banana Split" - Slight antedating, September 1905
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] antedating "MIA"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] K.I.A.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Computer synthesized voices continue to improve
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Request help accessing Hunter S Thompson Gonzo Papers
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] mysterious antedatings of "foo fighter"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Revising The F-Word
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] antedating "unidentified flying object"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] ufo, etc.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] antedating "UFO"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] UAP - unidentified aerial phenomena (or phenomenon)
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Word: prebunking
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Word: prebunking: premediation
Geoffrey Nathan
- [Ads-l] "unacceptable" = 'astonishing'
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Structural Linguistics"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Celeb Nails New Insults!
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Joke Origin: "It is very pleasant; but it would be much better if we had good society and plenty of water" "So would Hades"
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Is it "bomb" or "bong"?
Tom Zurinskas
- [Ads-l] Pronoun dysphoria
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] 'the hit dog will holler' variants
James Eric Lawson
- [Ads-l] "AF" goes mainstream
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "spiritual, not religious"
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] jimmies (1930)
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] Anecdote: Why not get a thousand men and give them teaspoons with which to dig up the dirt?
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Another crashblossom
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- [Ads-l] Euphemism of the Year candidate
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] Speakers recall events of 1860s and '70s
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Word: finfluencer =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=93_?=financial influencer; financial adviser or guru
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Possible Antedating of "Internet of Things"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Internet of Things"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Semantic"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Words: broetry (blend: bro poetry) broem (blend: bro poem)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Gay Liberation"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Gay Liberation"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] 'day and age' 1593, source of '[in] this day and age' 1658: OED 1832
James Eric Lawson
- [Ads-l] "Your guys's garage..."
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] New word: "promptography"
Nancy Friedman
- [Ads-l] "vampire straw"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Joke Origin: To double your money you should simply fold your bills
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] transitive consent (not in OED)
Charles C Rice
- [Ads-l] Joke Origin: A clear conscience is usually a sign of a bad memory
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Thoughts on "doodly-squat"
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] Self-deprecating Gen-Z "Not me..."
Laurence Horn
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