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Starting: Mon Jan 1 14:28:24 UTC 2024
Ending: Wed Jan 31 18:17:07 UTC 2024
Messages: 197

• [Ads-l] Drop dead!   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Tennis" (Modern Game)   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Tennis" (Modern Game)   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] "Key party" [1957]   Bonnie Taylor-Blake
  • [Ads-l] "Key party" [1957]   Andy Bach
    • [Ads-l] "Key party" [1957]   Bonnie Taylor-Blake
  • [Ads-l] "Key party" [1957]   Bill Mullins
    • [Ads-l] "Key party" [1957]   Bonnie Taylor-Blake
    • [Ads-l] Fw: "Key party" [1957]   Bill Mullins
      • [Ads-l] Fw: "Key party" [1957]   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] Fw: "Key party" [1957]   Bonnie Taylor-Blake
• [Ads-l] -forward   James Landau
  • [Ads-l] -forward   Laurence Horn
  • [Ads-l] -forward   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] new slogan   James Landau
  • [Ads-l] new slogan   Laurence Horn
    • [Ads-l] new slogan   Alice Faber
      • [Ads-l] new slogan   Laurence Horn
  • [Ads-l] new slogan   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
    • [Ads-l] new slogan   Laurence Horn
  • [Ads-l] new slogan   Bill Mullins
    • [Ads-l] new slogan   Baker, John
• [Ads-l] Januhairy   James Landau
  • [Ads-l] Januhairy   Laurence Horn
  • [Ads-l] Januhairy   Dan Goncharoff
    • [Ads-l] Januhairy   Laurence Horn
• [Ads-l] "Winning is the best deodorant"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Request help verifying quotation of polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] Request help verifying quotation of polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen   ADSGarson O'Toole
    • [Ads-l] Request help verifying quotation of polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen   Stephen Goranson
      • [Ads-l] Request help verifying quotation of polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] hit the sack   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] hit the bottle; ht the booze   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "splotchy"   Steven Losie
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Baccarat"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] "If you're explaining, you're losing."   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Nominations posted for 2023 Word of the Year   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] flat-surface dynamic   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] wishcast   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] to both-sides   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Christofascist   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] carcass   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] 2023 Word of the Year is "enshittification"   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] snollygoster   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] smack   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] "Munch-houz-en"   James Landau
  • [Ads-l] "Munch-houz-en"   Dan Goncharoff
• [Ads-l] Slang Sense of "Catfishing"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Slang Sense of "Catfishing"   Ben Zimmer
    • [Ads-l] Slang Sense of "Catfishing"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Slang Sense of "Catfishing"   Amy West
    • [Ads-l] Slang Sense of "Catfishing"   Joe Salmons
      • [Ads-l] Slang Sense of "Catfishing"   Dan Goncharoff
      • [Ads-l] Slang Sense of "Catfishing"   Ben Zimmer
      • [Ads-l] Slang Sense of "Catfishing"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] RES: Slang Sense of "Catfishing"   David Daniel
  • [Ads-l] Slang Sense of "Catfishing"   Ben Zimmer
    • [Ads-l] Slang Sense of "Catfishing"   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] RES: Slang Sense of "Catfishing"   David Daniel
• [Ads-l] regime   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] "Natty" = 'national champion(ship)'   Laurence Horn
  • [Ads-l] "Natty" = 'national champion(ship)'   Gordon, Matthew J.
    • [Ads-l] "Natty" = 'national champion(ship)'   Laurence Horn
    • [Ads-l] "Natty" = 'national champion(ship)'   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] "Natty" = 'national champion(ship)'   Emily Gordon
  • [Ads-l] "Natty" = 'national champion(ship)'   Amy West
    • [Ads-l] "Natty" = 'national champion(ship)'   Laurence Horn
      • [Ads-l] "Natty" = 'national champion(ship)'   Neal Whitman
  • [Ads-l] "Natty" = 'national champion(ship)'   Bill Mullins
    • [Ads-l] "Natty" = 'national champion(ship)'   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] "Natty" = 'national champion(ship)'   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] "Natty" = 'national champion(ship)'   Laurence Horn
      • [Ads-l] "Natty" = 'national champion(ship)'   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• [Ads-l] Worst sentence OTY?   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Oodles of "boodles" (some antedatings)   Bonnie Taylor-Blake
  • [Ads-l] Oodles of "boodles" (some antedatings)   Stephen Goranson
    • [Ads-l] Oodles of "boodles" (some antedatings)   Laurence Horn
• [Ads-l] "Natty" = 'national champion(ship) ’   Rachyl Hietpas
• [Ads-l] new (to me) acronym IDD   James Landau
• [Ads-l] Ousting a Wins Appeal - headlineese   Andy Bach
• [Ads-l] early nonfiction "novel"   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Hoeflation   Bill Mullins
  • [Ads-l] Hoeflation   Nancy Friedman
• [Ads-l] dark empath   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] dark empath   Amy West
    • [Ads-l] dark empath   Jesse Sheidlower
  • [Ads-l] dark empath   Amy West
    • [Ads-l] dark empath   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Watch the 2023 ADS WOTY voting   Grant Barrett
  • [Ads-l] Watch the 2023 ADS WOTY voting   Ben Zimmer
    • [Ads-l] Watch the 2023 ADS WOTY voting   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Buck-and-Wing"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] underground   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Quote: You cannot fool all the people all the time (Jacques Abbadie; Prohibitionists)   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] Quote: You cannot fool all the people all the time (Jacques Abbadie; Prohibitionists)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Etymology of Flack   Baker, John
  • [Ads-l] Etymology of Flack   Shapiro, Fred
    • [Ads-l] Etymology of Flack   Baker, John
      • [Ads-l] Etymology of Flack   Shapiro, Fred
      • [Ads-l] Etymology of Flack (Corrected Posting)   Shapiro, Fred
      • [Ads-l] Etymology of Flack (Corrected Posting)   Shapiro, Fred
      • [Ads-l] Etymology of Flack (Corrected Posting)   Baker, John
      • [Ads-l] Etymology of Flack (Corrected Posting)   dave at wilton.net
      • [Ads-l] Etymology of Flack (Corrected Posting)   Shapiro, Fred
      • [Ads-l] Etymology of Flack (Corrected Posting)   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] Etymology of Flack (Corrected Posting)   Stephen Goranson
      • [Ads-l] Etymology of Flack (Corrected Posting)   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] Etymology of Flack (Corrected Posting)   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] Etymology of Flack (Corrected Posting)   Peter Reitan
• [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Tokenism"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Folk-Etymology"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Folk-Etymology"   victor steinbok
    • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Folk-Etymology"   Laurence Horn
      • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Folk-Etymology"   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] "me" = "my" in NYC   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] "me" = "my" in NYC   Jonathan Lighter
    • [Ads-l] "me" = "my" in NYC   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] "me" = "my" in NYC   Edward Aveyard
      • [Ads-l] "me" = "my" in NYC   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Overwhelming Evidence for "Jasm" As Etymon of "Jazz"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Overwhelming Evidence for "Jasm" As Etymon of "Jazz"   Bonnie Taylor-Blake
• [Ads-l] fluffle   Grant Barrett
  • [Ads-l] fluffle   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] antedating schnook   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] antedating schnook   Laurence Horn
    • [Ads-l] antedating schnook   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Possible antedatings of "gism"   Bonnie Taylor-Blake
• [Ads-l] Another early "jism" (1873)   Bonnie Taylor-Blake
• [Ads-l] rickey   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] Family of Quips: How Do You Make a Small Fortune Doing X? Start With a Large Fortune   George Thompson
  • [Ads-l] Family of Quips: How Do You Make a Small Fortune Doing X? Start With a Large Fortune   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "cry-baby"   Steven Losie
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "fraid cat" and "fraidy cat/fraidie cat"   Steven Losie
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "scaredy cat"   Steven Losie
• [Ads-l] Request, multiword expressions   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
  • [Ads-l] Request, multiword expressions   Stephen Goranson
    • [Ads-l] Request, multiword expressions   Dennis During
• [Ads-l] "That's a drip in the bucket"   Tom Zurinskas
• [Ads-l] Quote: Imitation Is the Sincerest Form of Flattery That Mediocrity Can Pay To Greatness   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Dialog: "Do You Think In Words or Pictures" "I Think In Thoughts"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Extended sense of "franchise"   Nancy Friedman
• [Ads-l] mouth organ, harmonicon, harmonica   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Quote: We specialized on banks because that's where the money is. Paul Perritt (1923)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] birdbrain   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] Fw: birdbrain   Bill Mullins
    • [Ads-l] Fw: birdbrain   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Heard today in an academic meeting   Ingrid Johnsrude
  • [Ads-l] Heard today in an academic meeting   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] Heard today in an academic meeting   ADSGarson O'Toole
    • [Ads-l] Heard today in an academic meeting   Dan Goncharoff
• [Ads-l] An etymythology semi-endorsed by The New Yorker   Laurence Horn
  • [Ads-l] An etymythology semi-endorsed by The New Yorker   Martin Purdy
    • [Ads-l] An etymythology semi-endorsed by The New Yorker   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] An etymythology semi-endorsed by The New Yorker   Shapiro, Fred
    • [Ads-l] An etymythology semi-endorsed by The New Yorker   Jesse Sheidlower
      • [Ads-l] An etymythology semi-endorsed by The New Yorker   Charles C Rice
    • [Ads-l] An etymythology semi-endorsed by The New Yorker   Laurence Horn
      • [Ads-l] An etymythology semi-endorsed by The New Yorker   Martin Purdy
• [Ads-l] Earliest True Acronym   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Earliest True Acronym   dave at wilton.net
    • [Ads-l] Earliest True Acronym   Ben Zimmer
  • [Ads-l] Earliest True Acronym   Jonathan Lighter
    • [Ads-l] Earliest True Acronym   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] Earliest True Acronym   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] Earliest True Acronym   Geoffrey Nathan
    • [Ads-l] Earliest True Acronym   Jesse Sheidlower
      • [Ads-l] Earliest True Acronym   Laurence Horn
    • [Ads-l] Earliest True Acronym   Laurence Horn
    • [Ads-l] Earliest True Acronym   Geoffrey Nathan
      • [Ads-l] Earliest True Acronym   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] Earliest True Acronym   Martin Purdy
      • [Ads-l] Earliest True Acronym   Baker, John
      • [Ads-l] Earliest True Acronym   James Eric Lawson
  • [Ads-l] Earliest True Acronym   James Landau
    • [Ads-l] WashPost seems to think 99 is greater than 100   Stanton McCandlish
      • [Ads-l] WashPost seems to think 99 is greater than 100   Shapiro, Fred
      • [Ads-l] WashPost seems to think 99 is greater than 100   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] PDQ   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Another reversal   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] on days ending in the letter Y   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] gray propaganda   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Again: "fact" = claim; assertion   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] Again: "fact" = claim; assertion   Amy West
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Tontine"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] idea   James Landau
  • [Ads-l] idea   Laurence Horn
    • [Ads-l] idea   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] idea   Dan Goncharoff
      • [Ads-l] idea   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] idea   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] idea   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• [Ads-l] "grow" as noun   James Landau
  • [Ads-l] "grow" as noun   Ben Zimmer
  • [Ads-l] "grow" as noun   Amy West
• [Ads-l] Wordplay: All things Beatles, 24/8   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] Wordplay: All things Beatles, 24/8   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] "quiet-" prefix   Jonathan Lighter

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