June 2025 Archives by thread
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- [Ads-l] WOTY
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] gorp (1951)
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] Minor Questionable Square-Bracketed Antedating of "Whole Nine Yards"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Synapse"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Extraordinary Antedating of "Gaslight, v." by Jonathan Lighter
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Origin of "brunch"
Ben Yagoda
- [Ads-l] Quote Origin: I don't have heart attacks, I give them to other people
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Queer Studies"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Gaslighting
James Landau
- [Ads-l] Lin-Manuel Miranda Teaches You Broadway Slang
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] Originator of "Tush Push" ?
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Query on the behalf of a former student of mine
Salikoko S. Mufwene
- [Ads-l] ds Query on the behalf of a former student of mine
James Landau
- [Ads-l] Saying Origin: Age and treachery will overcome youth and skill
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Dicty" (Adjective and Noun)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Talk to the Hand"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "H-Hour" and "J-Day", 21 Feb 1918
Peter Reitan
- [Ads-l] Request help accessing 1983 Mail on Sunday article about Michael Foot by Norman Mailer
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] juice jacking
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] horrified
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] 2026 American Dialect Society conference call for papers
Grant Barrett
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Demonym"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Essay Origin: I'd Pick More Daisies =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=93_?=Request for 1931 College Humor magazine
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Buckeye" and "Buckeye State"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Limerick at Oxford 1881, again
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] de-essing (1944), de-esser (1946)
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] brain room
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Snowmobile"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] scuttle, n.
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "graveyard dead"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Progressivism"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Quote Origin: I can't say as ever I was lost, but I was bewildered once for three days
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "You Go Girl"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Origin of "Dixey Land" (1844); Still no response from N.O. mayor on "Big Easy" and "Big Apple"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Gullah" (Adj.)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "The old college try" (very slight antedating)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Corny"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Sad news: former ADS-L member Samuel Clements
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- [Ads-l] when the shit hit the fan
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "little joe from kokomo" and "african billiards"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] squarehead
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Shimmy" (Noun and Verb)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Call for Abstracts =?Windows-1252?Q?=96_NARNiHS_2026_=96_?=8th Annual Meeting of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics
Lauersdorf, Mark R.
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Slammer" (Jail)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Split," "Split the Scene"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Gismo (1937, slight antedating)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- [Ads-l] Early Citation for Positive "Bad"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Swinger"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Tea" (Marijuana)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Truck" (verb)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Payola"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] shindig (1841)
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] Major Antedating of "Keep On Trucking"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Truck," v. (of a person}
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Ginch (antedating to 1920)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- [Ads-l] =?Windows-1252?Q?=93Colored_People=92s_Time=94_?=Not in OED
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Further Antedating of =?Windows-1252?Q?=93High_Five=94_?=(Verb)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Pimpmobile"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Peckerwood"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] To unscrew the inscrutable
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Limerick song, 1875
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Quote Origin: Write hard and clear about what hurts (Attributed to Ernest Hemingway)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] "Garveyism" Not in OED
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Craps"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] CNN bloopers
James Landau
- [Ads-l] die-in
James Landau
- [Ads-l] Major Antedating of "Segregationist"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Bros & Bruhs
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Fwd: [blactop] Auntie
Kelly Wright
- [Ads-l] slight antedating of "drugstore cowboy"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Poem Origin: I cannot promise you a life of sunshine (Attributed to Mark Twain)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Quote Origin: I'm not so much worried about the return ON my money; what bothers me is the return OF my money (Attributed to Will Rogers)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] guts and glory
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Nappy"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Tech" (= technology)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "Time is what keeps everything from happening at once."
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Politically Incorrect"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Wassup"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] whyever
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Dis" (Noun)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Adage Origin: Growing old isn't so bad when you consider the alternative
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Dating of First Use for "Dis" (Verb)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] blood and guts
Jonathan Lighter
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