January 2024 Archives by thread
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] "Key party" [1957]
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- [Ads-l] -forward
James Landau
- [Ads-l] new slogan
James Landau
- [Ads-l] Januhairy
James Landau
- [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] 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] Slang Sense of "Catfishing"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] RES: Slang Sense of "Catfishing"
David Daniel
- [Ads-l] regime
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "Natty" = 'national champion(ship)'
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] Worst sentence OTY?
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Oodles of "boodles" (some antedatings)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- [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] dark empath
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Watch the 2023 ADS WOTY voting
Grant Barrett
- [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] Etymology of Flack
Baker, John
- [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Tokenism"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Folk-Etymology"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "me" = "my" in NYC
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Overwhelming Evidence for "Jasm" As Etymon of "Jazz"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] fluffle
Grant Barrett
- [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] 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] "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] Heard today in an academic meeting
Ingrid Johnsrude
- [Ads-l] An etymythology semi-endorsed by The New Yorker
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] Earliest True Acronym
Shapiro, Fred
- [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] Antedating of "Tontine"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] idea
James Landau
- [Ads-l] "grow" as noun
James Landau
- [Ads-l] Wordplay: All things Beatles, 24/8
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] "quiet-" prefix
Jonathan Lighter
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