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Starting: Mon Sep 2 00:08:58 UTC 2024
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• [Ads-l] Oxford comma   Martin Purdy
  • [Ads-l] Oxford comma   Stanton McCandlish
• [Ads-l] cornhole   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Germans of color   James Landau
  • [Ads-l] Germans of color   Dan Goncharoff
• [Ads-l] Twinkle toes   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] nu folk (1988)   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] postdating "stock" OED n1 sense 58.   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] Quote: Adversity is the trial of principle; without it, a man hardly knows whether he is an honest man. (Reassigned to a rival)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Initialism: AIO (analogous to SEO)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] -stock (festival)   Bill Mullins
  • [Ads-l] -stock (festival)   Ben Zimmer
    • [Ads-l] -stock (festival)   Chris Waigl
      • [Ads-l] -stock (festival)   Chris Waigl
  • [Ads-l] -stock (festival)   Bill Mullins
    • [Ads-l] -stock (festival)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] suggested anti-Republican insult (probably a nonce usage)   James Landau
  • [Ads-l] suggested anti-Republican insult (probably a nonce usage)   Nancy Friedman
    • [Ads-l] suggested anti-Republican insult (probably a nonce usage)   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] suggested anti-Republican insult (probably a nonce usage)   Dan Goncharoff
• [Ads-l] "sanewashing"   Nancy Friedman
  • [Ads-l] "sanewashing"   Ben Zimmer
    • [Ads-l] "sanewashing"   Nancy Friedman
• [Ads-l] Quote: Once a Philosopher; Twice a Pervert   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Kusunda   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] Kusunda   Amy West
    • [Ads-l] Kusunda   Laurence Horn
      • [Ads-l] Kusunda   Martin Purdy
      • [Ads-l] Kusunda   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Loose Cannon"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Loose Cannon"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Loose Cannon"   mr_peter_morris at outlook.com
    • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Loose Cannon"   Jesse Sheidlower
      • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Loose Cannon"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] "Forgotten Man" Not in OED   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Yosemite Sam and "tarnation"   Jesse Sheidlower
  • [Ads-l] Yosemite Sam and "tarnation"   Dan Goncharoff
    • [Ads-l] Yosemite Sam and "tarnation"   Ben Zimmer
      • [Ads-l] Yosemite Sam and "tarnation"   Dan Goncharoff
• [Ads-l] antedating "kerseymere"   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Trivial Pursuit"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "freecycle" v.   Hugo
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "force quit" v.   Hugo
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "force quit" v.   Grant Barrett
• [Ads-l] Court Rules Against Controlled Digital Lending   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Fw: Court Rules Against Controlled Digital Lending   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Esperanto"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Esperanto"   Martin Purdy
    • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Esperanto"   mr_peter_morris at outlook.com
      • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Esperanto"   Ben Zimmer
      • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Esperanto"   Rich Lowenthal
      • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Esperanto"   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Esperanto"   Shapiro, Fred
      • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Esperanto"   Ben Zimmer
      • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Esperanto"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Misprint Origin: An enthusiastic crow at the station gave three rousing cheers as the train drew out   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Spoonerism"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Spoonerism"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Quote Origin: I Used To Be Indecisive, But Now I=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99m_?=Not So Sure   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] magic number   James Landau
  • [Ads-l] magic number   Laurence Horn
  • [Ads-l] magic number   Ben Zimmer
  • [Ads-l] Magic number   James Landau
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Psychiatrist"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Psychiatrist"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Realtor"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Quote Origin: I Had Exactly Four Seconds To Hot Up the Disintegrator, and Google Had Told Me It Wasn't Enough   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] Quote Origin: I Had Exactly Four Seconds To Hot Up the Disintegrator, and Google Had Told Me It Wasn't Enough   Rich Lowenthal
  • [Ads-l] Quote Origin: I Had Exactly Four Seconds To Hot Up the Disintegrator, and Google Had Told Me It Wasn't Enough   Baker, John
    • [Ads-l] Quote Origin: I Had Exactly Four Seconds To Hot Up the Disintegrator, and Google Had Told Me It Wasn't Enough   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] Quote Origin: I Had Exactly Four Seconds To Hot Up the Disintegrator, and Google Had Told Me It Wasn't Enough   dave at wilton.net
    • [Ads-l] Quote Origin: I Had Exactly Four Seconds To Hot Up the Disintegrator, and Google Had Told Me It Wasn't Enough   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Lewis Porter on "jazz"   Bonnie Taylor-Blake
  • [Ads-l] "close, but no cigar" antedating (1928)   dave at wilton.net
    • [Ads-l] "close, but no cigar" antedating (1928)   Shapiro, Fred
      • [Ads-l] "close, but no cigar" antedating (1928)   Ben Zimmer
  • [Ads-l] Lewis Porter on "jazz"   Z S
    • [Ads-l] Lewis Porter on "jazz"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Double passive?   Geoffrey Nathan
• [Ads-l] MAGA Not in OED   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] MAGA Not in OED   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] Ax/Tree proverb   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] Ax/Tree proverb   ADSGarson O'Toole
    • [Ads-l] Ax/Tree proverb   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] Ax/Tree proverb   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Sanewashing   James Landau
  • [Ads-l] Sanewashing   Nancy Friedman
• [Ads-l] Roe vee Wade   James Landau
  • [Ads-l] Roe vee Wade   Michael Everson
    • [Ads-l] Roe vee Wade   Stanton McCandlish
  • [Ads-l] Roe vee Wade   Shapiro, Fred
    • [Ads-l] Roe vee Wade   Laurence Horn
• [Ads-l] An early F-word euphemism?   Bill Mullins
  • [Ads-l] An early F-word euphemism?   Amy West
    • [Ads-l] An early F-word euphemism?   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Transsexuality"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "IQ"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] under secret   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Quote Origin: Sooner or later we all sit down to the banquet of consequences (Probably not Robert Louis Stevenson)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Word: lampshade (verb); lampshade hanging (phrase)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] one of the old brigade   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] "on the Q.T." (antedating to 1870)   Bonnie Taylor-Blake
  • [Ads-l] "on the Q.T." (antedating to 1870)   ADSGarson O'Toole
    • [Ads-l] "on the Q.T." (antedating to 1870)   Bonnie Taylor-Blake
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Octoroon"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] "The Limerick: a History 1820-1920"   Stephen Goranson
• [Ads-l] on the Q.T." (antedating to 1870)   Ben Yagoda
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Middle Passage"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] "implement" used to mean 'influence' or possibly 'determine, shape'   Stanton McCandlish
• [Ads-l] Saying Origin: Socialize the Costs and Privatize the Profits   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Chitlin Circuit"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "R & B"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Coon Song"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Jigaboo"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Jigaboo"   Peter Reitan
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Female Husband"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "drop out" v.   Steven Losie
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "drop out" v.   Stanton McCandlish
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "dropout" n.   Steven Losie

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