June 2023 Archives by thread
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Ending: Fri Jun 30 20:34:41 UTC 2023
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- [Ads-l] Possessive plurals
Ben Yagoda
- [Ads-l] Word: agentic (particularly applied to machine intelligence)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Antedating "mammoth" (big) - 1801 (was "big cheese" 1815)
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] 'rabscallion' in the 17th century; 'rabscallies'
James Eric Lawson
- [Ads-l] Campaign trail
Steven Losie
- [Ads-l] Antedating "stump speech"
Steven Losie
- [Ads-l] Motto: Speed Quality Price. Pick any Two
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Fw: "Tossed aside lightly/thrown with great force"
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] gooch grease
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] to serve body
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Fat Weddings
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] plague
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Weapon of Mass Destruction"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Personal pronouns modified with relative clauses
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] Anecdote Origin: Your question is quite simple. Hence, I=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99m_?=going to ask my chauffeur to respond
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Call for papers: ADS 2024 annual conference in NYC
Grant Barrett
- [Ads-l] reamed, steamed, and [dry-]cleaned
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Article in The New Yorker: Did This Writer Actually Know Tennessee Williams?
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] to "pull a fast one"
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] aircrafts
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] ruin your whole day
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "Pride" (1974)
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] "morale boost"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Convict
Dan Goncharoff
- [Ads-l] Repartee Origin: You are the second most beautiful woman in the United Kingdom . . .
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Submitting a correction to EtymOnline?
Stanton McCandlish
- [Ads-l] New dialect you can speak
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Syntax question
Joe Salmons
- [Ads-l] Adage Origin: You Are Either Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] to "friend-zone"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] APA Style Guide on: How to cite ChatGPT
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Quip Origin: If You're Not Part of the Solution You're Part of the Precipitate
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] blockhead, pinhead
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] gaslighting
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Paraffin
victor steinbok
- [Ads-l] Elephind search engine
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] "clawbacked"
Amy West
- [Ads-l] Quip Origin: Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. (dubiously attributed to Oscar Wilde in 1954)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Chil-Lax, noun, 1912
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] to flex
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "Reverse boycott"
Nancy Friedman
- [Ads-l] Quote: Truth is the first casualty in war
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] baseball lingo: to shove (intr)
Charles C Rice
- [Ads-l] Crash blossom?
victor steinbok
- [Ads-l] proleptic "toast"
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] A shot in the dark
victor steinbok
- [Ads-l] cinnamon rolls & golden retrievers
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] antedating "cold deck"
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] open kimono
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Monkeys perform Bach
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] antedating boner
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] "pretty much" in 1711 used the way we still use it
Stanton McCandlish
- [Ads-l] Anecdote Origin: Everything That Can Be Invented Has Been Invented
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] 'shillaber', n., antedated
James Eric Lawson
- [Ads-l] WeHo
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] aro, aroace, demisexual
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Quote Origin: Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well preserved piece . . .
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] The Trumpocene
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] fluffle
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] enshittification
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] ethnicity
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] James Hogg's "brankie," n.
Jonathan Lighter
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