August 2025 Archives by thread
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- [Ads-l] Antedating of "run it up the flagpole" (1956)
dave at wilton.net
- [Ads-l] Twinkle toes
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Artie
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] edumacation, edumacated (1925)
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "White Shoe" (Company or Law Firm)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "White Shoe" (Type of Collegiate Person)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] antedating "black-shoe navy"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Caucus" with Modern Spelling
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Possible Antedating of "Run It Up the Flagpole and See .... "
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] antedating "rust bucket"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Hep"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] c---y; turn it out
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Renaissance"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Quote Origin: A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] "omigod" ca1943 (OED 1961)
Jeff Prucher
- [Ads-l] microscopic "obelisk"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] flee, n.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "On the Down-Low"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] flying off the shelves
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Blaccent"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Bogart"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Collard Green"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Main Man"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Jambalaya"
Amy West
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Signifier" (Boastful Person)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "The first report is always wrong."
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] For the euphemism file: "hypergamy" and associates
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] plot hole (1924)
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] antedating "square dance"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] TARIFF - as a new acronym
Tom Zurinskas
- [Ads-l] unk
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Mark Twain Does It Again
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] IS UFO BLASTING TOWARD EARTH??
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Niggerati"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] to funk
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Hip Hop Culture"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Quip Origin: One never needs a vacation so much as the day after returning from one
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] New meaning for an existing signal
James Landau
- [Ads-l] hoedown (and hoe-up?)
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "R&B"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Quote Origin: He is the only genius with an IQ of 85
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] "hold-in" (football)
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] Etymythology watch: the strange case of the Elephant and the Enfanta (again)
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] "[someone] hit and run me"
Nancy Friedman
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Killer-Diller"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Come On Like Gang Busters"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Rug Cutter"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Unhip"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Heebie-Jeebies"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Bae"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "The older I get, the better I was."
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] woke mob
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] beta
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "Black Twitter" Not in OED
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Juba"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Race Woman"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Street Cred" (Noun)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Race Man"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Phrase: street credibility
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Race Woman"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Race Record"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Race Music"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] to inlie
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Still Further Antedating of "Race Music"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] which = 'although'
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Request Charlie Munger quotation in 1989 Annual Report of Wesco
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Chops" (Jazz Sense)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of Jive (Noun, Form of Slang)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Black Is Beautiful"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Computer Science"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "Politics of Respectability" (Not in OED)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Origins of "Bojangles"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] New Book on Proverbs
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Barbershop" (Music)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Still Further Antedating of "Square" (Opposite of "Hip")
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] New York Times article about wedding misquotations
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] antedating "easy on the eye"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "Jump Blues" Not in OED
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Cakewalk" (African American Custom)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Ax" (Musical Instrument)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] more on "D-Day"
James Landau
- [Ads-l] to link
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Ashy" (African American Sense)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] New opponym: "Drop"
Marc Sacks
- [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Integrated" (Racial)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Boogie" (Style of Playing Blues)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] antedating "battle-wagon"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] to interface
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Saying Origin: War consists of months of intolerable boredom interspersed with moments of extreme fear
ADSGarson O'Toole
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