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Starting: Wed Oct 1 07:12:52 UTC 2025
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• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Hustle" (Engage in Prostitution)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Jazz" (Verb)   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Jazz" (Verb)   dave at wilton.net
• [Ads-l] Antedating of Earliest Publicly Printed Use of the Word "Homosexual"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] "Jazzum" ("jassim," 1908) in terms of "a dose"?   Bonnie Taylor-Blake
  • [Ads-l] "Jazzum" ("jassim," 1908) in terms of "a dose"?   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] "Jazzum" ("jassim," 1908) in terms of "a dose"?   Andy Bach
    • [Ads-l] "Jazzum" ("jassim," 1908) in terms of "a dose"?   Bonnie Taylor-Blake
• [Ads-l] Thou boot-lick! (etc.; noun & verb antedatings to OED)   Stephen Goranson
• [Ads-l] "bloop," "blooper" (radio, baseball)   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Homosexuality"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] warrior shift   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Color LIne"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Afrocentrism"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] antedating spook n. 1. (US black) a white person   Christopher Philippo
• [Ads-l] TF   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] TF   Jesse Sheidlower
    • [Ads-l] TF   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] TF   Jesse Sheidlower
      • [Ads-l] TF   Stephen Goranson
• [Ads-l] Broadway Review Origin: "I Am a Camera" "No Leica"   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] Broadway Review Origin: "I Am a Camera" "No Leica"   Stephen Goranson
• [Ads-l] Earlier Citation for "Historically Black College" (Not in OED)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] "Alternative facts" for EOTY   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] "Alternative facts" for EOTY   Ben Zimmer
    • [Ads-l] "Alternative facts" for EOTY   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Possible Antedating of "Communist"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] clanker   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] clanker   Nancy Friedman
• [Ads-l] Slight Further Antedating of "Communist"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Hippie"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Quote Origin: Humility Is a Strange Thing. The Moment You Think You've Got It, You've Lost It   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] med bed   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] med bed   Jesse Sheidlower
    • [Ads-l] med bed   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] med bed   Jesse Sheidlower
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Diddly Squat" and "Doodly Squat"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Diddly Squat" and "Doodly Squat"   Ben Zimmer
    • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Diddly Squat" and "Doodly Squat"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Still Further Antedating of "Jazz" (Verb)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Lay Down" (a beat)   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Lay Down" (a beat)   mr_peter_morris at outlook.com
• [Ads-l] antedating "commie"   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Commie" (Adjective)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Correction of OED Entry for "Communism"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Righteous" (Slang Term)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Righteous" (Slang Term)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Shout-Out"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of the Radical Spelling "Amerika" / "Amerikkka"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of the Radical Spelling "Amerika" / "Amerikkka"   ADSGarson O'Toole
    • [Ads-l] Antedating of the Radical Spelling "Amerika" / "Amerikkka"   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] Antedating of the Radical Spelling "Amerika" / "Amerikkka"   Shapiro, Fred
    • [Ads-l] Antedating of the Radical Spelling "Amerika" / "Amerikkka"   Shapiro, Fred
      • [Ads-l] Antedating of the Radical Spelling "Amerika" / "Amerikkka"   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] Antedating of the Radical Spelling "Amerika" / "Amerikkka"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] antedating "cold deck"   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] Fake GW quote   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] Fake GW quote   Jonathan Lighter
    • [Ads-l] Fake GW quote   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] Fake GW quote   Dan Goncharoff
      • [Ads-l] Fake GW quote   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Sports Archive   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Beatboxing"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Beatboxing"   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "White Flight"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] "club sandwich" antedating, 1888   dave at wilton.net
  • [Ads-l] "club sandwich" antedating, 1888   Rich Lowenthal
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Disco" (Music)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Teenage" (Adjective)   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Teenage" (Adjective) (CORRECTION)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Teenybopper"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] today years old   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] today years old   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Underclass"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Urban Contemporary"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Honey Chile"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Coon Shout"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Sack" (U.S. Football, Verb and Noun)   Grant Barrett
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Combo" (Music)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] to banksy   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Quote Origin: We all die twice; the first time is when we simply cease to be; the second, when we are forgotten   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] Quote Origin: We all die twice; the first time is when we simply cease to be; the second, when we are forgotten   Dan Goncharoff
    • [Ads-l] Quote Origin: We all die twice; the first time is when we simply cease to be; the second, when we are forgotten   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] Quote Origin: We all die twice; the first time is when we simply cease to be; the second, when we are forgotten   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Zydeco"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] "Power to the People" (Not in OED)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] "Atlanta Compromise" (Not in OED)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Do Rag"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Preliminary Plea for Notable Quotations of the Year   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] but he's our dictator   Stephen Goranson
  • [Ads-l] but he's our dictator   Jesse Sheidlower
    • [Ads-l] but he's our dictator   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] but he's our dictator   Jonathan Lighter
    • [Ads-l] but he's our dictator   Stephen Goranson
• [Ads-l] "CRT" (= Critical Race Theory") (Not in OED)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] under-babied   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] antedating "sheela-na-gig"   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] QOTY   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Quote: Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination (Attributed to Sidney Sheldon)   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] Quote: Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination (Attributed to Sidney Sheldon)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Druggie"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] to "debrief"   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] once an accident, twice a coincidence...   Ben Zimmer
  • [Ads-l] once an accident, twice a coincidence...   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Master List of Earliest Uses of "Jazz" (Term for Musical Genre)   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Master List of Earliest Uses of "Jazz" (Term for Musical Genre)   Stephen Goranson
    • [Ads-l] Master List of Earliest Uses of "Jazz" (Term for Musical Genre)   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Race-Baiting"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] "a young lady of Riga" Limerick--an earlier precursor?   Stephen Goranson
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "White Chauvinism"   Shapiro, Fred

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