May 2024 Archives by thread
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Ending: Fri May 31 13:48:36 UTC 2024
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- [Ads-l] Update: Work is the Curse of the Drinking Classes
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] prequel (1922)
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] Quote: When You Have Eliminated the Impossible Whatever Remains, However Improbable, Must Be the Truth
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Garden path in two words
Geoffrey Nathan
- [Ads-l] "Roadwoad"
James Landau
- [Ads-l] OED
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Sugar Daddy"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] unofficially, on pompey
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Sack" (U.S. Football, Verb and Noun)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Blend: copium: cope + opium
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] quiz and nytimes
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Drawn and Quoted 1944
mr_peter_morris at outlook.com
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Unconstitutional"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Possible Antedating of "Bromance"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "Shitify"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] podcast with Patricia Cukor-Avila
Paul Meier
- [Ads-l] "queer phiz," collocation before quiz
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] tongue-twister 1858, 1881
mr_peter_morris at outlook.com
- [Ads-l] Twister (tornado), slight antedating (1878)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- [Ads-l] Why "Orangemen" ?
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Coeducation"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "AAVE"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] AI shibboleths: delve, intricate, pivotal, meticulous
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Jukebox"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Question on Chinese writing
James Landau
- [Ads-l] "queer phiz" and quiz
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] A new(?) habit of journalistic preposition dropping
Stanton McCandlish
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "grumpy"
Steven Losie
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Mr. Fixit"
Steven Losie
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "weirdo" (n. and adj.)
Steven Losie
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "hush money"
Steven Losie
- [Ads-l] Nouning of "interactive"?
Stanton McCandlish
- [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] Juke Joint (1937), Jook (1930), Jake Joint (1919) and Juice Joint (1911).
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] Nouning of "manipulative" and "manipulable" in the pedagogy domain
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Another nouning: "cozy", in the mystery subgenre sense
Stanton McCandlish
- [Ads-l] Word: Slop: Low quality content generated by an artificial intelligence system
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Chop chop (antedating, 1795)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- [Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Intifada"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "White Hope"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of Spitball v.
Baker, John
- [Ads-l] Antedating of Headshrinker
Baker, John
- [Ads-l] "B movie" and related terms
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] "body horror"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] quiz, again
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] "glitch out"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] body horror
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] Very Slight Antedating of "Slam Dunk"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] expizoodient
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] HENRY
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] angel number
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Final F-Word appeal: recent evidence?
Jesse Sheidlower
- [Ads-l] "Bromakase" as BOTY candidate
Laurence Horn
- [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] WotY contender: GLP-1
Nancy Friedman
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Cajun"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Gold on kibosh
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Further Antedating of Modern "Olympic Games"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Upside" (Preposition)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Oreo"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of Jesus H. Christ
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- [Ads-l] "Stay Woke" in 1924
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Texas Leaguer"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] malarkey--earliest uses in baseball?
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] avoision
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Big Bang Theory"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "Nudification" (not a new word, but one newly in the news)
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Black Hole" (Astrophysics)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] yassifying
Stanton McCandlish
- [Ads-l] on the blink, 1897; on de Fritze
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Can you say "gerrymandered" on daytime TV?
Jonathan Lighter
- [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] "best-known" avoidance
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] G.L.O.A.T.
Nancy Friedman
- [Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Poor White Trash"
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- [Ads-l] Porn star (slight antedating)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
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