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Starting: Sat Aug 1 05:53:36 UTC 2026
Ending: Sun Aug 23 22:19:44 UTC 2026
Messages: 159

• [Ads-l] "white man's hope"   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] "You can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride."   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] "You can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride."   ADSGarson O'Toole
    • [Ads-l] "You can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride."   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] wet   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] ghost and unicorn poops   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Better Citation of Antedating of "Bloomsbury" (Designation of Group of Writers, Artists, and Intellectuals)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Word: wireborn (AI entity, husband, wife, lover, etc.)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Possible Square-Brackets Antedating of "Hippie"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Politics and the Northern Cities Shift   Laurence Horn
• [Ads-l] majority-minority district   Bill Mullins
  • [Ads-l] Possible Antedating of "Majority Minority"   Shapiro, Fred
    • [Ads-l] Possible Antedating of "Majority Minority"   John Baker
      • [Ads-l] Possible Antedating of "Majority Minority"   Shapiro, Fred
    • [Ads-l] Possible Antedating of "Majority Minority"   Bill Mullins
    • [Ads-l] Possible Antedating of "Majority Minority"   John Baker
      • [Ads-l] Possible Antedating of "Majority Minority"   John Baker
• [Ads-l] sofky   Bill Mullins
  • [Ads-l] sofky   James Landau
  • [Ads-l] sofky   Bill Mullins
    • [Ads-l] sofky   Rich Lowenthal
• [Ads-l] to front   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] to front   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] antedating impactful"   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] antedating impactful"   Shapiro, Fred
    • [Ads-l] antedating impactful"   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] antedating impactful"   Shapiro, Fred
      • [Ads-l] Miscellaneous comments about search and citations (was antedating impactful)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Mad Scientist"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Mad Scientist"   Jesse Sheidlower
    • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Mad Scientist"   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Mad Scientist"   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Mad Scientist"   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Mad Scientist"   Shapiro, Fred
      • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Mad Scientist"   John Baker
      • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Mad Scientist"   Rich Lowenthal
      • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Mad Scientist"   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Mad Scientist"   John Baker
      • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Mad Scientist"   Jeff Prucher
      • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Mad Scientist"   Jeff Prucher
      • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Mad Scientist"   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Mad Scientist"   Sammy Dean
      • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Mad Scientist"   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Mad Scientist"   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Mad Scientist"   Rich Lowenthal
      • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Mad Scientist"   John M. Baker
      • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Mad Scientist"   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Mad Scientist"   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Mad Scientist"   Rich Lowenthal
      • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Mad Scientist"   Peter Reitan
• [Ads-l] "cheers" v.   Jesse Sheidlower
  • [Ads-l] "cheers" v.   Nancy Friedman
  • [Ads-l] "cheers" v.   ADSGarson O'Toole
    • [Ads-l] "cheers" v.   Jesse Sheidlower
      • [Ads-l] "cheers" v.   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] centaur / reverse centaur   dave at wilton.net
  • [Ads-l] centaur / reverse centaur   ADSGarson O'Toole
    • [Ads-l] centaur / reverse centaur   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] centaur / reverse centaur   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] centaur / reverse centaur   dave at wilton.net
• [Ads-l] Saturday night special (cheap handgun; 1912)   Bonnie Taylor-Blake
• [Ads-l] Quote Origin: No Snowflake in an Avalanche Ever Feels Responsible (Update)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Quote Origin: No Individual Raindrop Ever Considers Itself Responsible for the Flood   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] fold like an umbrella   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] fold like an umbrella   Laurence Horn
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Whodunit"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Whodunit"   Ben Zimmer
    • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Whodunit"   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Whodunit"   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Whodunit"   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] More Re Antedating of "Whodunit"   Shapiro, Fred
      • [Ads-l] Rocky - '50s slang for busty   Emily Gordon
      • [Ads-l] Rocky - '50s slang for busty   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] More Re Antedating of "Whodunit"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Yankee   victor steinbok
  • [Ads-l] Yankee   Jonathan Lighter
    • [Ads-l] "Yankee" as Adjective   Shapiro, Fred
      • [Ads-l] "Yankee" as Adjective   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] Yankee   victor steinbok
• [Ads-l] anyon   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Abolition" (Termination of Institution of Slavery)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Colonization" (Scheme for Resettlement of Free American Blacks in Africa)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Reminder: American Dialect Society Research Incubator deadline is Aug. 21   Grant Barrett
• [Ads-l] Julian date   victor steinbok
  • [Ads-l] Julian date   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] to couch   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] More on Antedating of "United States"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] a fun piece on license, and license plates   Laurence Horn
• [Ads-l] Quote Origin: Don=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99t_?=Just Do Something; Sit There   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] AI = BS   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] AI = BS   Rich Lowenthal
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Wild West"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Wild West"   Jonathan Lighter
    • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Wild West"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Lawn Tennis"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Quote Origin: When the Bird and the Book Disagree, Always Believe the Bird   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Quote Origin: Stupidity is like hydrogen; it's everywhere, it's the basic building block of the universe (Update)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] larping   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] larping   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] Larping   Amy West
    • [Ads-l] Larping   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Very Early Occurrence of "Jazz Music"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Very Early Occurrence of "Jazz Music"zz Music"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] aight   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] aight   Jesse Sheidlower
    • [Ads-l] aight   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] aight   Ben Zimmer
      • [Ads-l] aight   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] ripshit   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] ripshit   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] "landscraper" (not in OED)   Nancy Friedman
  • [Ads-l] "landscraper" (not in OED)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] chrononutrition   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Quote Origin: When People Show You Who They Are, Believe Them, the First Time   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] soldier = sailor   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] soldier = sailor   Bill Mullins
  • [Ads-l] soldier = sailor   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] **FINAL** Call for Abstracts -- NARNiHS 2027 -- North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics Ninth Annual Meeting   Lauersdorf, Mark R.
• [Ads-l] Hire a clown, expect a circus.   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] Hire a clown, expect a circus.   Ben Zimmer
  • [Ads-l] Hire a clown, expect a circus.   Charles C Rice
• [Ads-l] Believe the bird.   Pete Morris
• [Ads-l] Talk like teens in a newspaper style column!   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] antedating "French safe"   Pete Morris
  • [Ads-l] antedating "French safe"   Pete Morris
• [Ads-l] ecopsychology, -gist   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] ecopsychology, -gist   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] hot snakes   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] hot snakes   Jeff Prucher
    • [Ads-l] hot snakes   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] hot snakes   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] Hot snakes and hot spiders, plus scorpions   Emily Gordon
      • [Ads-l] Hot snakes and hot spiders, plus scorpions   Emily Gordon
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Sweet Mama"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Niggerati"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Fw: Antedating of "Garage Band"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Fw: Antedating of "Garage Band"   Jesse Sheidlower
    • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Garage Band"   Shapiro, Fred
      • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Garage Band"   Bill Mullins
      • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Garage Band"   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Garage Band"   Rich Lowenthal
• [Ads-l] Gnarly (surfer slang; slight antedating, 1968)   Bonnie Taylor-Blake
• [Ads-l] inde-fatigue-able   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] "Black Ivy League" (Not in OED)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] tumbler   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] tumbler   Dan Goncharoff
• [Ads-l] =?UTF-8?Q?=C2=A0_=C2=A0_=C2=A0_?="potato" vs. "potahto"?   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Stride Piano"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Quote Origin: It Ain't Bragging If You Can Do It   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Funk" (Verb, Music)   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Correction to Antedating of "Funk" (Verb, Music)   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Funk" (Verb, Music)   Randy Alexander
  • [Ads-l] Correction to Antedating of "Funk" (Verb, Music)   Randy Alexander
• [Ads-l] Test   Bill Mullins
  • [Ads-l] Test   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Another crash blossom   Bonnie Taylor-Blake
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Redline" (Verb)   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Redline" (Verb)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Pullman Porter"   Shapiro, Fred

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