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Starting: Sat Nov 1 05:05:13 UTC 2025
Ending: Sun Nov 30 15:52:59 UTC 2025
Messages: 186

• [Ads-l] "flyer" as a verb   James Landau
• [Ads-l] "Freedom Summer" Not in OED   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] "New Jim Crow" (Not in OED)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] "Niagara Movement" Not in OED   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] "You do you."   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] "You do you."   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] 'Vibe coding' beats 'clanker' to be Collins dictionary's word of the year   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] 2026 American Dialect Society Conference Schedule is Announced   Grant Barrett
• [Ads-l] 6-7   Stephen Goranson
• [Ads-l] 6-7   Stephen Goranson
• [Ads-l] [Non-DoD Source] where to find sympathy   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Adjectival or Attributive Use of "Democrat" Not in OED   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Adjectival or Attributive Use of "Democrat" Not in OED   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Adjectival or Attributive Use of "Democrat" Not in OED   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] Adjectival or Attributive Use of "Democrat" Not in OED   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] AI-washing   Nancy Friedman
• [Ads-l] a long walk off a short pier   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] a long walk off a short pier   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Anachronism   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] Anachronism   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Anachronism   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] antedating "drinking the Kool-aid" (figurative)   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] antedating "drinking the Kool-aid" (figurative)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] antedating "drinking the Kool-aid" (figurative)   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] antedating "sober up"   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Antedating: 'queue' (data structure in computing, OED 1963)   Daphne Preston-Kendal
• [Ads-l] Antedating: 'queue' (data structure in computing, OED 1963)   Daphne Preston-Kendal
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Black Bottom" (Dance)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Bluegrass" (Musical Genre)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Boogaloo"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Boogie" (Verb, Dance)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Boogie on Down"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Breakbeat" (Adjective)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Brer"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Cool" (Interjection)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Crib" (African American Slang)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Far Out" (Avant-Garde or Excellent)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Freebase" (Cocaine)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Frug"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Hincty"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Horse" (= Heroin)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Jim Crow" (System of Racist Laws and Practices)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Jim Crow" (System of Racist Laws and Practices)   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Jim Crow" (System of Racist Laws and Practices)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Jones" (= Addiction)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Middle English"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Monkey" (Dance)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Old School" (Adjective)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Old School" (Adjective)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Paint" (Basketball)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Poker" (Card Gane) by Barry Popik   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Poker" (Card Gane) by Barry Popik   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Poker" (Card Gane) by Barry Popik   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Reggae" (Music)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Reggae" (Music)   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Reggae" (Music)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Reggae" Not Picked Up by OED   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Reggae" Not Picked Up by OED   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Ring Shout"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Root Worker"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Sample" (Verb, Musical Sense)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Sample" (Verb, Musical Sense)   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Scag" (Heroin)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Scag" (Heroin)   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Scag" (Heroin)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Scag" (Heroin)   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Scag" (Heroin)   Amy West
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Scag" (Heroin)   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Soul Music" (Motown Sound)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Soul Music" (Motown Sound)   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Talk Trash"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Upside" (Preposition)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Voguing"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Voguing"   Emily Gordon
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Voter Suppression"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Whammy"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Whammy"   Bonnie Taylor-Blake
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Wigger"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Wigger"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Antedating of Transitive "Scratch" (Hip Hop)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedatings of "Big Easy" by Barry Popik   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] a page from the playbook   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] a quote attribution not attempted   Stephen Goranson
• [Ads-l] Aristopopulism   Emily Gordon
• [Ads-l] Better Citation for "Jones" (Addiction)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Better Citation for "Jones" (Addiction)   Jesse Sheidlower
• [Ads-l] Better Citation for "Jones" (Addiction)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Better Citation for "Jones" (Addiction)   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Birth of Paul Bunyan?   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Birth of Paul Bunyan?   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Birth of Paul Bunyan?   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Birth of Paul Bunyan?   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Birth of Paul Bunyan?   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Birth of the Cool   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Birth of the Cool   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Birth of the Cool   Stephen Goranson
• [Ads-l] Books   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] cake-eater   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] cake-eater   Amy West
• [Ads-l] Calling an ace an ace.   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Catchphrase Origin: Is the Pope Catholic?   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Catchphrase Origin: Is the Pope Catholic?   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Catchphrase Origin: Is the Pope Catholic?   Jesse Sheidlower
• [Ads-l] Catchphrase Origin: Is the Pope Catholic?   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Catchphrase Origin: Is the Pope Catholic?   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Catchphrase Origin: Is the Pope Catholic?   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Catchphrase Origin: Is the Pope Catholic?   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Catchphrase Origin: Is the Pope Catholic?   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Catchphrase Origin: Would a duck swim?   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Catchphrase Origin: Would a duck swim?   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Catchphrase Origin: Would a duck swim?   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] chalked full   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Dialogue Origin: "You look as if there is a famine in the land" "You look as if you are the cause of it"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Dictionary.com's 2025 Word of the Year 67 Six-Seven   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] drill rap(per)   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] drill rap(per)   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] Earliest Use of "Cool" as a General Term of Approval   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Earliest Use of "Cool" as a General Term of Approval   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] Earliest Use of "Cool" as a General Term of Approval   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] eleventeen   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] eleventeen   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] freak-o-system   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Friendsgiving   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Friendsgiving   Jesse Sheidlower
• [Ads-l] Friendsgiving   Nancy Friedman
• [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Breakbeat" (Adjective)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Fw: Antedating of "Jim Crow" (System of Racist Laws and Practices)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Fw: Antedating of "Jim Crow" (System of Racist Laws and Practices)   Rich Lowenthal
• [Ads-l] Grammar Girl podcast on antedating   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] humblebrag antedating?   Stephen Goranson
• [Ads-l] humblebrag antedating?   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] IDGAF   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] IDGAF   Dennis During
• [Ads-l] IDGAF   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] IDGAF   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] IDGAF   Dennis During
• [Ads-l] IDGAF   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] IDGAF   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] IDGAF   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] IDGAF--with quantities   Geoffrey Nathan
• [Ads-l] IDGAF--with quantities   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] IDGAF--with quantities   Jesse Sheidlower
• [Ads-l] Internet Archive milestone - one trillion web pages   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Like, Where in the OED Does This Fit In ?   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Like, Where in the OED Does This Fit In ?   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] marble orchard   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Origin of Investor Proverb: Buy When There Is Blood in the Streets   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Oxymoron of the Year   James Landau
• [Ads-l] program now set for the Eighth Annual Meeting of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS)   Lauersdorf, Mark R.
• [Ads-l] Proverb Origin: A bayonet is a weapon with a worker at each end   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Proverb Origin: Every question has three sides your side, my side, and the right side (the truth, the correct one, the facts)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Proverb Origin: Inside Every Old Person There Is a Young Person Trying to Get Out   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Proverb Origin: Inside Every Old Person There Is a Young Person Trying to Get Out   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Proverb Origin: Inside Every Old Person There Is a Young Person Trying to Get Out   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Proverb Origin: Inside Every Old Person There Is a Young Person Trying to Get Out   Emily Gordon
• [Ads-l] Quote Origin: As long as we have slaughterhouses, we will have battlefields (Attributed to Leo Tolstoy)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Remarkable Antedating of "Tell It Like It Is"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Request Help Verifying Quote: Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Request Help Verifying Quote: Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Request Help Verifying Quote: Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned   Rich Lowenthal
• [Ads-l] Request Help Verifying Quote: Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] situation   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Climate Change"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Climate Change"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Cool" (African American / Jazz Sense)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Cool" (African American / Jazz Sense)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Cool" (African American / Jazz Sense)   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Cool" (African American / Jazz Sense)   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Cool" (African American / Jazz Sense)   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Cool" (African American / Jazz Sense)   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Cool" (African American / Jazz Sense)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] slight antedating of "life of riley"   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] slight antedating of "life of riley"   mr_peter_morris at outlook.com
• [Ads-l] slight antedating of "life of riley"   dave at wilton.net
• [Ads-l] slight antedating of "life of riley"   Stephen Goranson
• [Ads-l] slight antedating of "life of riley"   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] t: Proverb Origin: A bayonet is a weapon with a worker at each end   James Landau
• [Ads-l] t: Proverb Origin: A bayonet is a weapon with a worker at each end   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] The juice isn't worth the squeeze.   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] The juice isn't worth the squeeze.   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] The m-word   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] to "course-correct"   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] to "document"   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Trending Pet Names of 2025   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] volnado   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] weakness leaving the body   Jonathan Lighter

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