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- [Ads-l] "best-known" avoidance
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - [Ads-l] "best-known" avoidance
 
Nancy Friedman
 - [Ads-l] "best-known" avoidance
 
Stanton McCandlish
 - [Ads-l] "best-known" avoidance
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - [Ads-l] "B movie" and related terms
 
Ben Zimmer
 - [Ads-l] "B movie" and related terms
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] "body horror"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - [Ads-l] "Bromakase" as BOTY candidate
 
Laurence Horn
 - [Ads-l] "glitch out"
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - [Ads-l] "glitch out"
 
Bill Mullins
 - [Ads-l] "Nudification" (not a new word, but one newly in the news)
 
Laurence Horn
 - [Ads-l] "queer phiz" and quiz
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] "queer phiz," collocation before quiz
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] "queer phiz," collocation before quiz
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] "queer phiz," collocation before quiz
 
Ben Zimmer
 - [Ads-l] "queer phiz," collocation before quiz
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] "queer phiz," collocation before quiz
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] "queer phiz," collocation before quiz
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] "Roadwoad"
 
James Landau
 - [Ads-l] "Shitify"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] "Shitify"
 
Nancy Friedman
 - [Ads-l] "Shitify"
 
Ben Zimmer
 - [Ads-l] "Shitify"
 
Nancy Friedman
 - [Ads-l] "Stay Woke" in 1924
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] "Stay Woke" in 1924
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] (One for QI, perhaps) "Is your client aware of [legal maxim]" "In [location] they speak of little else"
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] AI shibboleths: delve, intricate, pivotal, meticulous
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] An aside about Irish f-bombing, and a further aside about Google Books Ngrams; Re: Final F-Word appeal: recent evidence?
 
Stanton McCandlish
 - [Ads-l] A new(?) habit of journalistic preposition dropping
 
Stanton McCandlish
 - [Ads-l] A new(?) habit of journalistic preposition dropping
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - [Ads-l] angel number
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - [Ads-l] Another nouning: "cozy", in the mystery subgenre sense
 
Stanton McCandlish
 - [Ads-l] Another nouning: "cozy", in the mystery subgenre sense
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] Another nouning: "cozy", in the mystery subgenre sense
 
Stanton McCandlish
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "AAVE"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "AAVE"
 
Laurence Horn
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "AAVE"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "Big Bang Theory"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "Big Bang Theory"
 
dave at wilton.net
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "Big Bang Theory"
 
dave at wilton.net
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "Big Bang Theory"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "Big Bang Theory"
 
Peter Reitan
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "Cajun"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "Coeducation"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "Coeducation" (CORRECTED EMAIL)
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "grumpy"
 
Steven Losie
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "hush money"
 
Steven Losie
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "Jukebox"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "Jukebox"
 
Peter Reitan
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "Mr. Fixit"
 
Steven Losie
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "Oreo"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "Sack" (U.S. Football, Verb and Noun)
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "Sack" (U.S. Football, Verb and Noun)
 
Ben Zimmer
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "Sack" (U.S. Football, Verb and Noun)
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "Sack" (U.S. Football, Verb and Noun)
 
Ben Zimmer
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "Sack" (U.S. Football, Verb and Noun)
 
Peter Reitan
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "Sack" (U.S. Football, Verb and Noun)
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "Sugar Daddy"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "Texas Leaguer"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "Texas Leaguer"
 
Laurence Horn
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "Texas Leaguer"
 
Dan Goncharoff
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "Texas Leaguer"
 
Laurence Horn
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "Unconstitutional"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "Upside" (Preposition)
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "weirdo" (n. and adj.)
 
Steven Losie
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "White Hope"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of "White Hope"
 
Bill Mullins
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of Headshrinker
 
Baker, John
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of Jesus H. Christ
 
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of Spitball v.
 
Baker, John
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of Spitball v.
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of Spitball v.
 
Baker, John
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of Spitball v.
 
James Eric Lawson
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of Spitball v.
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] Antedating of Spitball v.
 
Baker, John
 - [Ads-l] avoision
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] avoision
 
Laurence Horn
 - [Ads-l] Blend: copium: cope + opium
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] body horror
 
Bill Mullins
 - [Ads-l] body horror
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] Can you say "gerrymandered" on daytime TV?
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - [Ads-l] Chop chop (antedating, 1795)
 
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
 - [Ads-l] Correction Re: More Re: "Stay Woke" in 1924
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Drawn and Quoted 1944
 
mr_peter_morris at outlook.com
 - [Ads-l] expizoodient
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - [Ads-l] Final F-Word appeal: recent evidence?
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - [Ads-l] Final F-Word appeal: recent evidence?
 
Ben Zimmer
 - [Ads-l] Final F-Word appeal: recent evidence?
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Final F-Word appeal: recent evidence?
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - [Ads-l] Final F-Word appeal: recent evidence?
 
Jeff Prucher
 - [Ads-l] Final F-Word appeal: recent evidence?
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - [Ads-l] Final F-Word appeal: recent evidence?
 
Steven Losie
 - [Ads-l] Final F-Word appeal: recent evidence?
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - [Ads-l] Final F-Word appeal: recent evidence?
 
Bill Mullins
 - [Ads-l] Final F-Word appeal: recent evidence?
 
Jesse Sheidlower
 - [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Black Hole" (Astrophysics)
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Black Hole" (Astrophysics)
 
Laurence Horn
 - [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Black Hole" (Astrophysics)
 
Ben Zimmer
 - [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Black Hole" (Astrophysics)
 
Amy West
 - [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Sack" (U.S. Football)
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Further Antedating of Modern "Olympic Games"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Fw: Antedating of "Sugar Daddy"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Fw: Antedating of "Sugar Daddy"
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] G.L.O.A.T.
 
Nancy Friedman
 - [Ads-l] G.L.O.A.T.
 
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
 - [Ads-l] G.L.O.A.T.
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] G.L.O.A.T.
 
Laurence Horn
 - [Ads-l] Garden path in two words
 
Geoffrey Nathan
 - [Ads-l] Gold on kibosh
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] Gold on kibosh
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] HENRY
 
Jonathan Lighter
 - [Ads-l] Juke Joint (1937), Jook (1930), Jake Joint (1919) and Juice Joint (1911).
 
Peter Reitan
 - [Ads-l] malarkey--earliest uses in baseball?
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] More Re: "Stay Woke" in 1924
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Nouning of "interactive"?
 
Stanton McCandlish
 - [Ads-l] Nouning of "interactive"?
 
Randy Alexander
 - [Ads-l] Nouning of "interactive"?
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] Nouning of "interactive"?
 
James Eric Lawson
 - [Ads-l] Nouning of "manipulative" and "manipulable" in the pedagogy domain
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] OED
 
Bill Mullins
 - [Ads-l] OED
 
Dennis During
 - [Ads-l] on the blink, 1897; on de Fritze
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] podcast with Patricia Cukor-Avila
 
Paul Meier
 - [Ads-l] Porn star (slight antedating)
 
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
 - [Ads-l] Possible Antedating of "Bromance"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Possible Antedating of "Bromance"
 
Bill Mullins
 - [Ads-l] Possible Antedating of "Bromance"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Possible Antedating of "Bromance"
 
Bill Mullins
 - [Ads-l] Possible Antedating of "Bromance"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Possible Antedating of "Bromance"
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] Possible Antedating of "Bromance"
 
Laurence Horn
 - [Ads-l] Possible Antedating of "Bromance"
 
Amy West
 - [Ads-l] prequel (1922)
 
Ben Zimmer
 - [Ads-l] prequel (1922)
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Question on Chinese writing
 
James Landau
 - [Ads-l] Question on Chinese writing
 
Randy Alexander
 - [Ads-l] Question on Chinese writing
 
Amy West
 - [Ads-l] Quip: The way Bernard Shaw believes in himself is very refreshing in these atheistic days when so many believe in no God at all
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] quiz, again
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] quiz and nytimes
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] quiz and nytimes
 
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
 - [Ads-l] quiz and nytimes
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] Quote: The Only Traditions of the Royal Navy Are Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash (Attributed to Winston Churchill)
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] Quote: When You Have Eliminated the Impossible Whatever Remains, However Improbable, Must Be the Truth
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] Quote: When You Have Eliminated the Impossible Whatever Remains, However Improbable, Must Be the Truth
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Intifada"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Poor White Trash"
 
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
 - [Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Poor White Trash"
 
Baker, John
 - [Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Poor White Trash"
 
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
 - [Ads-l] tongue-twister 1858, 1881
 
mr_peter_morris at outlook.com
 - [Ads-l] tongue-twister 1858, 1881
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] Twister (tornado), slight antedating (1878)
 
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
 - [Ads-l] Twister (tornado), slight antedating (1878)
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] Twister (tornado), slight antedating (1878)
 
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
 - [Ads-l] Twister (tornado), slight antedating (1878)
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] Twister (tornado), slight antedating (1878)
 
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
 - [Ads-l] unofficially, on pompey
 
Stephen Goranson
 - [Ads-l] Update: Work is the Curse of the Drinking Classes
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] Very Slight Antedating of "Slam Dunk"
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Why "Orangemen" ?
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Why "Orangemen" ?
 
dave at wilton.net
 - [Ads-l] Why "Orangemen" ?
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Why "Orangemen" ?
 
Laurence Horn
 - [Ads-l] Why "Orangemen" ?
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] Why "Orangemen" ?
 
Amy West
 - [Ads-l] Why "Orangemen" ?
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] Why "Orangemen" ?
 
Dennis During
 - [Ads-l] Why "Orangemen" ?
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] Why "Orangemen" ?
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] Why "Orangemen" ?
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Why "Orangemen" ?
 
Laurence Horn
 - [Ads-l] Why "Orangemen" ?
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Why "Orangemen" ?
 
Shapiro, Fred
 - [Ads-l] Why "Orangemen" ?
 
Stanton McCandlish
 - [Ads-l] Why "Orangemen" ?
 
dave at wilton.net
 - [Ads-l] Why "Orangemen" ?
 
Jeff Prucher
 - [Ads-l] Why "Orangemen" ?
 
Laurence Horn
 - [Ads-l] Word: Slop: Low quality content generated by an artificial intelligence system
 
ADSGarson O'Toole
 - [Ads-l] WotY contender: GLP-1
 
Nancy Friedman
 - [Ads-l] yassifying
 
Stanton McCandlish
 - [Ads-l] yassifying
 
Ben Zimmer
    
 
    
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