February 2026 Archives by thread
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Ending: Sat Feb 28 18:13:02 UTC 2026
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- [Ads-l] "Turtle Island" (January 1972)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] shopping spree
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] QOTY
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Phrase: Jagged Intelligence (description applied to AI systems)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] enshittification
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Proverb Origin: Don't Believe Everything You Think
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Implicit Antedating of "Hip"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "blues" in early song title
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] minor Murphy's Law note
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Old proverb, new interpretation
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Karen out, Jessica in
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] from hell to breakfast
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Cake Walker"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Camel Walk"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Conversate" (African American Usage)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Cornbread"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Register for Reading with NARNiHS!
Kelly Wright
- [Ads-l] jive n. antedated to 1925
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Cornrow" (Verb)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Goofer"/"Goopher"/"Goophering" (Noun and Verb)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Handkerchief Head"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Nappy-Headed"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Peach Cobbler"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] most important unresolved English etymologies?
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] synthetic media (was Re: Phrase: Jagged Intelligence (description applied to AI systems))
Amy West
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Peckerwood" (White Person)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Po' Boy"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Quadroon"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] propeller beanie
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Rainbow Coalition" (Specific Jesse Jackson Usage)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "Rebopper" (Not in OED)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Sneaky Pete"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] bigorexia
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "seven toed pete" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Three-Card Monte"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Piece of Cake"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] burp your house
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Dope" (= Opium)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Easy Rider" (Lover)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Minstrel Show"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Joke Origin: The Unjust Steals the Just's Umbrella
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Black and Tan" (Political Term)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Segregate" (Racial)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Segregated" (Racial)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Uncle Tomism"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Slight Antedating of Lincoln-Attributed Quotation
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Lincoln belonged to the ages or the angels?
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Quip Origin: Dogs Believe You Are a God. Cats Believe They Are Gods
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] "Forty Acres and a Mule" (Not in OED)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] fud
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] God wink
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] gridder (1909)
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] -coded
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "uh-eye."
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] panopticontent
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] alleged dating lingo
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] discombobulator
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "Thinkish" and "Neuralese" (with an aside about Llanito)
Nancy Friedman
- [Ads-l] Goldwynism: I May Not Always Be Right, But I Am Never Wrong
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] DARVO
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Anti-Racist" (Adjective)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Initialism: AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read. Analogous to TL;DR)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Color Struck"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "Equal Opportunity Employer" (Not in OED)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Goldwynism: When I Want Your Opinion, I'll Give It To You
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Hophead"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Colored" (Noun)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Further Earliest American Use of "Black" Referring to a Person
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] What did Delaware?
James Landau
- [Ads-l] Call for Abstracts -- 2026 NARNiHS Research Incubator -- North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics
Lauersdorf, Mark R.
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Jinx" (Noun and Verb)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] incipient famous quote
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Fwd: [NARNIHS] Call for Abstracts -- 2026 NARNiHS Research Incubator -- North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics
Kelly Wright
- [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Integrate" (Racial)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Quote Origin: Life Is Full of Trials With an Occasional Conviction
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] "Trump is never 100-percent wrong"
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Street-Smart" (Adjective)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Fay"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Jungle Bunny" (Racist Slur)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Biracial" (Child of Parents of Different Races)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Dialogue Origin: "I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!" "First eat your eggs"
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "New Jack Swing"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] quote magnets; conjecture magnets; the Matthew effect
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] "Half brother" in the 19-century U.S.
Michael Eldridge
- [Ads-l] (Maine) coon cat
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Jeff" (Dull or Ignorant Person)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Viper" (Drug User)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Tea Party" (Marijuana)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Barry Popik's Antedating of "March Madness" (Basketball Tournament)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Phrase: March madness (Transfer period for football clubs in England)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] more on "glory"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Phrase: the math is not mathing
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Back Beat"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Phrase Origin: A Solution in Search of a Problem
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Gun jugging
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] jugging
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Dating Error for "Reefer Madness"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "Equal Pay for Equal Work" (Not in OED)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Reading with NARNiHS (historical sociolinguistics reading group) -- Session #2
Lauersdorf, Mark R.
- [Ads-l] Quip Origin: Everything Beeps Now
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Classism"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] 2nd Call for Abstracts -- 2026 NARNiHS Research Incubator -- North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics
Lauersdorf, Mark R.
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