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Starting: Sat Mar 1 15:19:51 UTC 2025
Ending: Mon Mar 31 18:26:23 UTC 2025
Messages: 186

• [Ads-l] "...now let him enforce it..."   Stephen Goranson
• [Ads-l] "...now let him enforce it..."   Stephen Goranson
• [Ads-l] "...now let him enforce it..."   Stephen Goranson
• [Ads-l] "...now let him enforce it..."   Stephen Goranson
• [Ads-l] "Black Sox" Not in OED   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] "Complete Game" Not in OED   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] "defend [NP]" to mean "defend against [NP]", inverting the meaning   Stanton McCandlish
• [Ads-l] "defend [NP]" to mean "defend against [NP]", inverting the meaning   John M. Baker
• [Ads-l] "defend [NP]" to mean "defend against [NP]", inverting the meaning   David Bowie
• [Ads-l] "defend [NP]" to mean "defend against [NP]", inverting the meaning   Laurence Horn
• [Ads-l] "Eephus" origin -- Hebrew "efes"? Yiddish "eppis"?   Nancy Friedman
• [Ads-l] "Eephus" origin -- Hebrew "efes"? Yiddish "eppis"?   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] "Extra Inning" Not in OED   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] "Historically Black College" Not in OED   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] "manner" is now a verb   George Thompson
• [Ads-l] "scuttlebutt"   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] "scuttlebutt"   dave at wilton.net
• [Ads-l] "Winning Streak" Not in OED   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] another possible QOTY, sadly   Stephen Goranson
• [Ads-l] another possible QOTY, sadly   Stephen Goranson
• [Ads-l] antedating "gook"   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] antedating "tin can"   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] antedating "yahoo!"   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Antedating and Semantic Suggestion for "Bullpen" (Baseball)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating and Semantic Suggestion for "Bullpen" (Baseball)   Laurence Horn
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "'Fro"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "'Fro"   mr_peter_morris at outlook.com
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "'Fro"   Jesse Sheidlower
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "'Fro"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Backstop" (Baseball)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Bad Hop"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Ballpark" (Adjective)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Ballpark" (Adjective)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Ballpark" (Adjective)   Jesse Sheidlower
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Ballpark" (Adjective)   Stephen Goranson
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Ballpark" (Adjective)   Stephen Goranson
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Ballpark" (Adjective)   Jesse Sheidlower
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Base Hit"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Base Runner"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Base Stealer" n   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Batboy"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Battery" (Baseball)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Battery" (Baseball)   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Battery" (Baseball)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Big League"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Big Leaguer"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Bleacher" (Seating Area in Sports Arena)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Bleacher" (Seating Area in Sports Arena)   Peter Reitan
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Boo Bird"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Boom Box"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Boom Box"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Boom Box"   Rich Lowenthal
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Bronx CHeer"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Bronx CHeer"   Bonnie Taylor-Blake
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Center Fielder"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Changeup" (Baseball)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Checks and Balances"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Cleanup" (Baseball)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Crack Whore"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Cycle" (Baseball)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "DIg" (Jazz Slang)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "DIg" (Jazz Slang)   Peter Reitan
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "DIg" (Jazz Slang)   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Fan" (Verb, Baseball)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Fielder's Choice"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "First Responder"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Forkball"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Fragging" and "Frag"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Gerrymander"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Gerrymander"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Gerrymander"   George Thompson
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Gerrymander" (Verb)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Grand Slam" (Baseball)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Hall of Famer"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Hit and Run"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Home Game"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Home Plate"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Home Team"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Jive Ass" (Noun)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Jive Talk"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Jockstrap"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Knuckleball"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Knuckler"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Line Drive"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Little Green Man" in Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Loony" (Adjective)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Loony" (Adjective)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Loony" (Adjective)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Loony" (Adjective)   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Loony" (Adjective)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Loony" (Adjective)   Laurence Horn
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Lou Gehrig's Disease"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Magic Number" (Baseball)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Minor League"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Minor Leaguer"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Minor Leaguer"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Negress"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "No-Hit" (Adj.)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "On-Base Percentage"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Perfect Game"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Pinch Hitter"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Pinch Hitter"   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Pinch Hitter"   Laurence Horn
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Rastafarian"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Rhyming Slang"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Right Fielder"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Rocksteady"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Rocksteady"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Ruthian"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Sacrifice Fly" "Screwball" "Shutout" "Slugger"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Sex Kitten"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Skank"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Soul Food"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Soul Music"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Square" (Slang Term)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Square" (Slang Term)   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Square," Adj. (Slang Term)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Square," Adj. (Slang Term)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Subway Series" "Texas leaguer" "Triple Play" "Unearned Run"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "this, that, and the other"   Steven Losie
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Vibe"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Vibe"   Dan Goncharoff
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Vibe"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "whirlybird"   Steven Losie
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "whirlybird"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Word Up"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] antedating skag/ scag   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] antedating trans. "disappear,"   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] antedating trans. "disappear,"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] antedating trans. "disappear,"   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] antedating trans. "disappear,"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] antedating trans. "disappear,"   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] antedating trans. "disappear,"   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] antedating trans. "disappear,"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] antedating trans. "disappear,"   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] Big back   Kelly Wright
• [Ads-l] bucket brigade   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] catbird seat (1910)   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] catbird seat (1910)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Fire Weather Warning   Tom Zurinskas
• [Ads-l] fouch; twizpipe   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Blues" (Musical Genre)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Hipster"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Hipster"   Laurence Horn
• [Ads-l] Fw: ["EXLIBRIS-L"] Legman=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99s_?=unpublished Dictionary of Slang   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Fw: ["EXLIBRIS-L"] Legman=?Windows-1252?Q?=92s_?=unpublished Dictionary of Slang   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Fw: Square   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Great Antedating of "Tex Mex" by Barry Popik   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Journalist query about children's lingo / teenage slang   Cohen, Gerald L.
• [Ads-l] Journalist query about children's lingo / teenage slang   Laurence Horn
• [Ads-l] Latest QOTY   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] lie   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] New York Times Mention   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] New York Times Mention   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Origins of the Term "Blues"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Origins of the Term "Blues"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Origins of the Term "Blues"   Rich Lowenthal
• [Ads-l] Possible Antedating of "Reggae" (Music)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Possible Earlier Evidence of the Word "Jazz" in New Orleans   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Possible Earlier Evidence of the Word "Jazz" in New Orleans   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Possible Further Antedating of "Square" (Slang Term)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Possible Further Antedating of "Square" (Slang Term)   Steven Losie
• [Ads-l] Possible Further Antedating of "Square" (Slang Term)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Proverb Origin: Revenge Is a Dish Best Eaten Cold   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] put warheads on foreheads   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] put warheads on foreheads   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] put warheads on foreheads   Bonnie Taylor-Blake
• [Ads-l] put warheads on foreheads   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Quip: It's not the fall that kills (hurts) you; it's the sudden stop at the end   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] rebel yell and yeehaw   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "AIDS"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "AIDS"   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "AIDS"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "AIDS"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] squad bay   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Student query about French slang   Ben Yagoda
• [Ads-l] Subverting the trigger warning   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Subverting the trigger warning   Laurence Horn
• [Ads-l] Subverting the trigger warning   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Syntactic blend: "If we just blow this under the rug"   Cohen, Gerald L.
• [Ads-l] The newest *pocalypse   Geoffrey Nathan
• [Ads-l] transgenic mice   Tom Zurinskas
• [Ads-l] Whole Nine Yards (1855)   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Word: vibecoding, vibe coding   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Wordplay: appstinence = app + abstinence   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Yet Further Antedating of "Square" (Slang Term), Noun and Adjective   Shapiro, Fred

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