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Starting: Wed Apr 1 07:29:01 UTC 2026
Ending: Tue Apr 21 21:23:41 UTC 2026
Messages: 151

• [Ads-l] "Basketball" (The Ball) Not in OED   mr_peter_morris at outlook.com
  • [Ads-l] "Basketball" (The Ball) Not in OED   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] early "jazz"   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] early "jazz"   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] dirty dozen   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Song and Dance Man"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Slam Dunk"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] More on Further Antedating of "Slam Dunk"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Barry Popik Major Antedating of "Hail Mary" Football Play   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Barry Popik Major Antedating of "Hail Mary" Football Play   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Barry Popik Major Antedating of "Hail Mary" Football Play   Laurence Horn
    • [Ads-l] Barry Popik Major Antedating of "Hail Mary" Football Play   Shapiro, Fred
      • [Ads-l] Fw: Barry Popik Major Antedating of "Hail Mary" Football Play   Shapiro, Fred
      • [Ads-l] Fw: Barry Popik Major Antedating of "Hail Mary" Football Play   Laurence Horn
      • [Ads-l] Fw: Barry Popik Major Antedating of "Hail Mary" Football Play   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] Fw: Barry Popik Major Antedating of "Hail Mary" Football Play   Peter Reitan
      • [Ads-l] Fw: Barry Popik Major Antedating of "Hail Mary" Football Play   Peter Reitan
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Gridiron" (Football)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Busing" and "School Busing" (Desegregation)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Stride" (Jazz Piano Style)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] "Dirty Blues" Not in OED   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Lowdown" (Of Jazz or Blues)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] transhumanism   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] transhumanism   Jesse Sheidlower
• [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Black Gospel"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Hail Mary pass/play/shot   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Conversation about accents with Valerie Fridland   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] Conversation about accents with Valerie Fridland   Jonathan Lighter
    • [Ads-l] Conversation about accents with Valerie Fridland   John Baker
      • [Ads-l] Conversation about accents with Valerie Fridland   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] Conversation about accents with Valerie Fridland   Gordon, Matthew
      • [Ads-l] Conversation about accents with Valerie Fridland   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] Conversation about accents with Valerie Fridland   Bill Mullins
    • [Ads-l] Conversation about accents with Valerie Fridland   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Goldwynism: I'm Sick and Tired of These Old Cliches. Let's Have Some New Cliches   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] Goldwynism: I'm Sick and Tired of These Old Cliches. Let's Have Some New Cliches   mr_peter_morris at outlook.com
    • [Ads-l] Goldwynism: I'm Sick and Tired of These Old Cliches. Let's Have Some New Cliches   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Quote Origin: Nothing needs to be exposed since it is already barefaced   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Antedating "Easter egg"   Bill Mullins
  • [Ads-l] Antedating "Easter egg"   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] Antedating "Easter egg"   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] Antedating "Easter egg"   Bill Mullins
    • [Ads-l] Antedating "Easter egg"   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] Antedating "Easter egg"   Rich Lowenthal
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Black History"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] On Language   Laurence Horn
    • [Ads-l] On Language   Rich Lowenthal
    • [Ads-l] On Language   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Black Caucus"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Black Flight"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Another saying   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] gobo, burdock, elephant ears, gobo   Stephen Goranson
• [Ads-l] Help requested to access Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor Library system   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Deejay"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Deejay"   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] us-uns, they-uns   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] us-uns, they-uns   Jonathan Lighter
    • [Ads-l] us-uns, they-uns   Laurence Horn
      • [Ads-l] us-uns, they-uns   Laurence Horn
      • [Ads-l] us-uns, they-uns   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] us-uns, they-uns   Laurence Horn
      • [Ads-l] us-uns, they-uns   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] us-uns, they-uns   Jesse Sheidlower
      • [Ads-l] us-uns, they-uns   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] us-uns, they-uns   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Race Man"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] corral   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] corral   Dan Goncharoff
    • [Ads-l] corral   ADSGarson O'Toole
    • [Ads-l] corral   Geoffrey Nathan
      • [Ads-l] corral   John Baker
  • [Ads-l] corral   Bill Mullins
  • [Ads-l] corral   Amy West
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Freedom Song"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] wet signature   Bill Mullins
  • [Ads-l] Fwd: wet signature   John Baker
• [Ads-l] wrangler noun (additional sense)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Register for Dr. Nandi Sims - 4/10 - This Friday!   Kelly Wright
• [Ads-l] Reading with NARNiHS (historical sociolinguistics reading group) -- Session #3   Lauersdorf, Mark R.
• [Ads-l] Conversation about accents with Valerie Fridland (3)   James Landau
  • [Ads-l] Conversation about accents with Valerie Fridland (3)   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Black Code"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Exceptionalism"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] American Dialect Society 2027 annual meeting call for papers   Grant Barrett
• [Ads-l] Quote Origin: If We Knew What We Were Doing, It Would Not Be Called Research (Attributed to Albert Einstein)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Square-Bracket Antedating of "Gay" (Homosexual)   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Square-Bracket Antedating of "Gay" (Homosexual)   dave at wilton.net
• [Ads-l] "college widow" (1856), and other early citations   dave at wilton.net
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Pansy Boy"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] More on Antedating of "Pansy Boy"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] caucus, Boston   Stephen Goranson
• [Ads-l] Better Antedating of "Rap" (Musical Genre)   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Better Antedating of "Rap" (Musical Genre)   Bill Mullins
    • [Ads-l] Better Antedating of "Rap" (Musical Genre)   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Better Antedating of "Rap" (Musical Genre)   dave at wilton.net
    • [Ads-l] Better Antedating of "Rap" (Musical Genre)   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] butter mom; almond mom   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] caucus and smoke-filled room   Stephen Goranson
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Numbers Racket"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Major Antedating of "Hoodlum"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Never Mind About "Hoodlum"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Hooliganism"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Hooliganism"   Nancy Friedman
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "She-Male"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] "Ever -ING . . . " instead of "Ever BASE . . .?"   Amy West
  • [Ads-l] "Ever -ING . . . " instead of "Ever BASE . . .?"   Laurence Horn
• [Ads-l] "Welcome in"   Geoffrey Nathan
  • [Ads-l] "Welcome in"   Nancy Friedman
    • [Ads-l] "Welcome in"   Jesse Sheidlower
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Campish"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Fairy" (Slang Term for Male Homosexual)   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Fairy" (Slang Term for Male Homosexual)   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] antedating tranny   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] Word: golfing (reducing the length of a computer program or formal mathematical proof; not in OED)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] "High John the Conqueror" (Not in OED)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Word Up"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Proverb Origin: It Is Better to Die on Our Feet Than to Live on Our Knees   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] Proverb Origin: It Is Better to Die on Our Feet Than to Live on Our Knees   Jonathan Lighter
    • [Ads-l] Proverb Origin: It Is Better to Die on Our Feet Than to Live on Our Knees   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] Proverb Origin: It Is Better to Die on Our Feet Than to Live on Our Knees   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] 1902 "Your mother" cite from Elijah Wald   Ben Yagoda
  • [Ads-l] 1902 "Your mother" cite from Elijah Wald   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] antedating strategery   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] antedating "French postcard"   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] antedating "French postcard"   ADSGarson O'Toole
    • [Ads-l] antedating "French postcard"   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] "sophomoric" (1810)   dave at wilton.net
  • [Ads-l] hodad (1960)   dave at wilton.net
• [Ads-l] Announcing the first American Dialect Society Research Incubator!   Grant Barrett
• [Ads-l] "Wake up and smell the fascism."   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Work Song"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Work Song"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Square-Bracket Antedating of "Emancipation Proclamation"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Take a Knee" (Protest)   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Take a Knee" (Protest)   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] Reading with NARNiHS (historical sociolinguistics reading group) -- Session #3 -- one more week to register!   Lauersdorf, Mark R.
• [Ads-l] Joke Origin: "Do You Serve Lobsters Here?" "Yes, We Serve Anyone"   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] Joke Origin: "Do You Serve Lobsters Here?" "Yes, We Serve Anyone"   Pete Morris
    • [Ads-l] Joke Origin: "Do You Serve Lobsters Here?" "Yes, We Serve Anyone"   Stephen Goranson
      • [Ads-l] Joke Origin: "Do You Serve Lobsters Here?" "Yes, We Serve Anyone"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] "Your Mother" (Not in OED)   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] More on "Your Mother" (Not in OED)   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] "Your Mother" (Not in OED)   Jonathan Lighter
    • [Ads-l] "Your Mother" (Not in OED)   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] "Your Mother" (Not in OED)   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] "Your Mother" (Not in OED)   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] "Your Mother" (Not in OED)   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] "Your Mother" (Not in OED)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Juneteenth Day"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Contract Bridge"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Contract Bridge"   Pete Morris

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