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Starting: Thu Jan 1 10:57:10 UTC 2026
Ending: Sat Jan 31 21:11:03 UTC 2026
Messages: 271

• [Ads-l] Happy Public Domain Day!   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Grass" (= Marijuana)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] antedating "toke," n.   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Jive" (Noun, Form of Slang)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] semi-antedating of "boo," marihuana   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] "Your guys's garage..."   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] "Your guys's garage..."   Emily Gordon
    • [Ads-l] "Your guys's garage..."   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] "Your guys's garage..."   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] "Your guys's garage..."   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] "Your guys's garage..."   Emily Gordon
• [Ads-l] antedating "flashback"   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Your guys's garage   Ben Yagoda
  • [Ads-l] Your guys's garage   Jonathan Lighter
    • [Ads-l] Your guys's garage   Alice Faber
• [Ads-l] Donroe Doctrine   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] Donroe Doctrine   dave at wilton.net
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Bummer" (Unpleasant Experience)   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Bummer" (Unpleasant Experience)   ADSGarson O'Toole
    • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Bummer" (Unpleasant Experience)   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Bummer" (Unpleasant Experience)   Ben Zimmer
      • [Ads-l] On a different topic...   Laurence Horn
      • [Ads-l] On a different topic...   Ben Zimmer
      • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Bummer" (Unpleasant Experience)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Cornrowed"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Jivey"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] ADS-L Digest - 2 Jan 2026 to 3 Jan 2026 (#2026-4)   Ben Yagoda
  • [Ads-l] ADS-L Digest - 2 Jan 2026 to 3 Jan 2026 (#2026-4)   Rich Lowenthal
    • [Ads-l] ADS-L Digest - 2 Jan 2026 to 3 Jan 2026 (#2026-4)   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] ADS-L Digest - 2 Jan 2026 to 3 Jan 2026 (#2026-4)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] antedating "fuzz"; to "sneeze"; "sneezer"   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Racial"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Palindrome Origin: Was It Eliot's Toilet I Saw?   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] Palindrome Origin: Was It Eliot's Toilet I Saw?   Rich Lowenthal
    • [Ads-l] Request access to The Letters of Samuel Beckett Volume 1 (was Palindrome Origin: Was It Eliot's Toilet I Saw?)   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] Request access to The Letters of Samuel Beckett Volume 1 (was Palindrome Origin: Was It Eliot's Toilet I Saw?)   Rich Lowenthal
    • [Ads-l] Palindrome Origin: Was It Eliot's Toilet I Saw?   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Pork-Chop" (Adjective, of a Corrupt Politician)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Extra-Sensory"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Extra-Sensory"   mr_peter_morris at outlook.com
• [Ads-l] "Dime Bag" Query   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] "Dime Bag" Query   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] "Dime Bag" Query   ADSGarson O'Toole
    • [Ads-l] "Dime Bag" Query   ADSGarson O'Toole
    • [Ads-l] "Dime Bag" Query   Jesse Sheidlower
      • [Ads-l] "Dime Bag" Query   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] "Dime Bag" Query   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] QOTY   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] QOTY   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] black-piller   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Another QOTY   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] "America First" and Quotations of the Year   Shapiro, Fred
    • [Ads-l] "America First" and Quotations of the Year   Shapiro, Fred
      • [Ads-l] "America First" and Quotations of the Year   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] "America First" and Quotations of the Year   Ben Zimmer
      • [Ads-l] "America First" and Quotations of the Year   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] skiplagging   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Gang Bang"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Gang Bang"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Gang Bang"   ADSGarson O'Toole
    • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Gang Bang"   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Gang Bang"   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] Source Correction for Antedating of "Gang Bang"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Geechee" (Adjective)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Gofer"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Gofer"   ADSGarson O'Toole
    • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Gofer"   mr_peter_morris at outlook.com
      • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Gofer"   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Gofer"   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Gofer"   Jonathan Lighter
    • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Gofer"   mr_peter_morris at outlook.com
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Hoedown"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Kick Ass"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Kick Ass"   Jesse Sheidlower
    • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Kick Ass"   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Kick Ass"   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Hoodoo" (Verb)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] narrow "pronoun"   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] "on one's bingo card"   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] "on one's bingo card"   Rich Lowenthal
    • [Ads-l] "on one's bingo card"   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] "on one's bingo card"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Straighten Up and Fly Right"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Scatting" (Noun)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] hawt   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] hawt   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Artificial Intelligence"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Artificial Intelligence" (Slight Correction)   Shapiro, Fred
    • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Artificial Intelligence" (Slight Correction)   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Yet another QOTY   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] "live for"   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] forever box   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Nominations posted for 2025 Word of the Year   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] memorable bumper sticker   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Fat Cat"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Fish proverb   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] Fish proverb   Bill Mullins
    • [Ads-l] Fish proverb   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] Fish proverb   ADSGarson O'Toole
    • [Ads-l] Proverb Origin: A Fish Wouldn't Get Caught If It Kept Its Mouth Shut   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] Proverb Origin: A Fish Wouldn't Get Caught If It Kept Its Mouth Shut   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] 2025 Word of the Year is "slop"   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] weapons-grade   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Woofer"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Black English Vernacular"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Black English Vernacular"   Gordon, Matthew
• [Ads-l] Murphy's Law   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] PREZ SAVES YOUR TAX $$$ !!   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "New Yorker"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] vowel shift   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] Guardian: “How to talk dating like gen Z: 51 (hyperspecific) terms for love, sex and bad behavior”   Emily Gordon
• [Ads-l] trigger-happy   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] flak-happy   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] hangar queen   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] hangar queen   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] Hangar Queen   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] jack diddly-squat; jack diddly-bo; jack diddly; bo diddly   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Large Antedating of "Black Church"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Alice in Wonderland syndrome   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] whither the eggcorn database?   Beth Young
  • [Ads-l] whither the eggcorn database?   Christopher Philippo
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Juke Joint" / "Jook Joint"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Corrected Antedating of "Juke Joint" / "Jook Joint"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] antedating "gopher ball"   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] "Talk to the Hand" Query   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] "Talk to the Hand" Query   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] "Talk to the Hand" Query   Bill Mullins
    • [Ads-l] "Talk to the Hand" Query   Emily Gordon
    • [Ads-l] "Talk to the Hand" Query   Ben Zimmer
      • [Ads-l] "Talk to the Hand" Query   John Baker
      • [Ads-l] "Talk to the Hand" Query   Jesse Sheidlower
      • [Ads-l] "Talk to the Hand" Query   Shapiro, Fred
      • [Ads-l] "Talk to the Hand" Query   Ben Zimmer
      • [Ads-l] "Talk to the Hand" Query   Jeff Prucher
      • [Ads-l] "Talk to the Hand" Query   Ben Zimmer
      • [Ads-l] "Talk to the Hand" Query   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] "Talk to the Hand" Query   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] "Talk to the Hand" Query   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Talk to the Hand"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Fake GW quote   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Gone" (Jazz Slang)   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Gone" (Jazz Slang)   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] Soaking   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] transvestigate   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Shotgun" (House)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Jazz Orchestra"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Jazz Band"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Jazz Band"   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] -maxxing   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] -maxxing   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Bae"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Bae"   Jesse Sheidlower
    • [Ads-l] [EXTERNAL] Re: Antedating of "Bae"   Joanne Despres
      • [Ads-l] [EXTERNAL] Re: Antedating of "Bae"   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] [EXTERNAL] Re: Antedating of "Bae"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Smack" (= Heroin)   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Smack" (= Heroin)   Jesse Sheidlower
    • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Smack" (= Heroin)   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Smack" (= Heroin)   Jesse Sheidlower
      • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Smack" (= Heroin)   Stephen Goranson
• [Ads-l] Antedating of ""Bae"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] [EXTERNAL] Antedating of ""Bae"   Joanne Despres
• [Ads-l] * * * *   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] "Jetway Jesus"   Nancy Friedman
• [Ads-l] York Stater born 1842 said "woik," "foist," "woild."   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Cakewalk" (Figurative)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Hoodoo"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] new acronym   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Crunchy   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Special Relationship" (U.S.-U.K.)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] congresscritter   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] congresscritter   ADSGarson O'Toole
    • [Ads-l] congresscritter   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] congresscritter   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] congresscritter   Jeff Prucher
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Licorice Stick" (= Clarinet)   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Licorice Stick" (= Clarinet)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Reedman"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Up Tempo" (Adjective)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Bop"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] antedating "sheela-na-gig"   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Country Music"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Country Music"   ADSGarson O'Toole
    • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Country Music"   Shapiro, Fred
      • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Country Music"   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] "Shout Song" (Not in OED)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of cross-post (verb 2)   Hugo
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Raggy" (Pertaining to Ragtime)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] "Obamacare" Not in OED   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] "Obamacare" Not in OED   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] vampire rule   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] vampire rule   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] "of which"   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] vagician   Bill Mullins
  • [Ads-l] vagician   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] otravert   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Bug" (Verb, To Annoy Or Bother)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Jitterbug" (Verb)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] bajillions   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] creative juices   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] -ista   Bill Mullins
  • [Ads-l] -ista   Laurence Horn
    • [Ads-l] -ista   Jesse Sheidlower
  • [Ads-l] -ista   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] -ista   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] New simile   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] New simile   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] MAINE COVERED BY ICE !!   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] MAINE COVERED BY ICE !!   Amy West
    • [Ads-l] MAINE COVERED BY ICE !!   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] TACOed--now as a verb   Geoffrey Nathan
• [Ads-l] Quote Origin: Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Collective Bargaining"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Collective Bargaining"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] "Don't be that guy !"   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] BBC article: "'Hullo, hillo, holla': The 600-year-old origins of the word 'hello'"   Emily Gordon
• [Ads-l] Slight Further Antedating of "Hello"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Slight Further Antedating of "Hello" (CORRECTED CITATION)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] LRAD; sound cannon   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] LRAD; sound cannon   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Play It Cool"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Pothead"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Daddy   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Quote Origin: Tragedy is if I'll cut my finger. Comedy is if you walk into an open sewer and die   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Fwd: [NARNIHS] NEW initiative from NARNiHS -- "Reading with NARNiHS" (reading group)   Kelly Wright
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Scumbag" (Condom, Insult)   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Scumbag" (Condom, Insult)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Changing from Sundial Time to Equinox Time   Tom Zurinskas
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Jiving" (Noun)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] discombobulator   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Jive" (Dance)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Trash-Talk" (Verb) and "Trash-Talking" (Adjective)   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Trash-Talk" (Verb) and "Trash-Talking" (Adjective)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Subject: Antedating of "Trash-Talk" (Verb) and "Trash-Talking" (Adjective)   Ben Yagoda
• [Ads-l] Proverb Origin: Generals Always Prepare to Fight the Last War   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Gutbucket" (Type of Jazz)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Kazoo"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Kazoo"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Kazoo"   Geoffrey Nathan
  • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Kazoo"   Peter Reitan
  • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Kazoo"   Peter Reitan
• [Ads-l] "kazoo" in an 1882 novel--etymology hints?   Stephen Goranson
  • [Ads-l] "kazoo" in an 1882 novel--etymology hints?   Peter Reitan
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Redline" (Housing Discrimination)   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Redline" (Housing Discrimination)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] "casualty"   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] womanosphere   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] smoke show   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] smoke show   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] suicidality   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] "slopaganda"   Nancy Friedman
• [Ads-l] Leonard Zwilling's book, A TAD Lexicon, is available online   Cohen, Gerald L.
  • [Ads-l] Leonard Zwilling's book, A TAD Lexicon, is available online   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Cookout"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Cookout"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] "Great Migration" (Not in OED)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Stealth   Bill Mullins
  • [Ads-l] stealth   James Landau
  • [Ads-l] Stealth   Bill Mullins
    • [Ads-l] Stealth   Nancy Friedman
      • [Ads-l] Stealth   Jesse Sheidlower
  • [Ads-l] Stealth   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] butterfly effect   Bill Mullins
  • [Ads-l] butterfly effect   Laurence Horn
  • [Ads-l] butterfly effect   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Speculative Fiction   Bill Mullins
  • [Ads-l] Speculative Fiction   Jesse Sheidlower
• [Ads-l] Quote Origin: The Labyrinthine Man Never Seeks the Truth but Always and Only His Ariadne   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] gut-box   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] shopping spree   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] "Turtle Island" (January 1972)   dave at wilton.net

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