May 2023 Archives by thread
Starting: Mon May 1 00:00:40 UTC 2023
Ending: Wed May 31 16:02:18 UTC 2023
Messages: 147
- [Ads-l] Self-deprecating Gen-Z "Not me..."
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] "x-gallon hat" antedated
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] Thoughts on "doodly-squat"
Virginia Euwer Wolff
- [Ads-l] Latest headline
victor steinbok
- [Ads-l] _Barracoon_ mined linguistically?
Amy West
- [Ads-l] Star Wars Day -- May the Fourth Be With You
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] boop
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] shoobies/shoebies (1961)
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] Another Early CItation for "Science Fiction"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Earliest Known Occurrence of Etymythology of "Posh"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "Tossed aside lightly/thrown with great force"
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] Help with "Ten Gallon Hat"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Fighter Jet again
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] hearsay
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] roger-dodger, interj.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Modern art = I could do that + Yeah, but you didn't
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] fur brother
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Socialite"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Fakelore"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Disinformation"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] mouth organ, harmonicon, harmonica
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] to bulldag, etc.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] spawn and spawnkill
Barretts Mail
- [Ads-l] Quote: There ’s nothing to be learned from history any more. We =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99re_?=in science fiction now
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Singular "we"
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] sex pest
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] which
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "Drop"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] QOTY
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Quote: It's conceivable that within the next ten years, AI systems will exceed expert skill level in most domains
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Quip: I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] drop science/ drop knowledge
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] Double-entendre of the week
James Landau
- [Ads-l] Double-entendre strikes again
James Landau
- [Ads-l] NYT on Oxford Dictionary of African American English
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] skateboard language
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] "great unwashed"
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] Turkey is now "T ürkiye"
Tom Zurinskas
- [Ads-l] Media inquiry: "bubbler" (water fountain)
Pete Morris
- [Ads-l] shenanegin antedated (?) to 1854
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Cold War" in General Sense
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Afrocentric"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] budlighting
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Japanese duel was Re: Antedating of "Cold War" in General Sense
Amy West
- [Ads-l] Slogan: Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Poem Origin: It was only a sunny smile / And little it cost in the giving
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Word: skulduggery, skullduggery, scullduggery (altered sculduddery)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Possessive plurals
Jonathan Lighter
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