July 2026 Archives by thread
Starting: Wed Jul 1 10:57:23 UTC 2026
Ending: Sun Jul 26 20:07:23 UTC 2026
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- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Ghetto" (Adjective)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Funky" (Music)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Jivey"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Curious OED Entry for "Styling"
Jesse Sheidlower
- [Ads-l] Quote Origin: Everything Is What It Is Because It Got That Way
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Folk" (Noun, Musical Genre)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Conjure Man"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] looksmaxxing (2016)
dave at wilton.net
- [Ads-l] Quotation researcher Gerald Krieghofer
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Quote Origin: The Most Dangerous Worldview is the Worldview of Those Who Have Not Viewed the World
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] New York Times search enshittification
Ken Hirsch
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Big Apple" (In the Sense of Large City)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] "Gentleman's sweep" or "Gentlemen's sweep" (not in OED)
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] yassify
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Neoconservative"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Call for Abstracts -- NARNiHS 2027 -- North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics Ninth Annual Meeting
Lauersdorf, Mark R.
- [Ads-l] manosphere (2011)
dave at wilton.net
- [Ads-l] irreprehensible
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of Spelling "Nigga"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Square-Bracket Antedating of "Voodoo"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Hoodoo"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "red card" v. (1977)
dave at wilton.net
- [Ads-l] "Serenity Prayer" Not in OED
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Folk-Blues"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Bluesy"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "Black Vaudeville" Not in OED
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Ragged" (Of ragtime)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "red card" and "yellow card" n. (football/soccer) (Oct 28, 1968)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Ragged" (Of Ragtime)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Raggedy" (Irregular Music)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Temu, adj. (2024)
dave at wilton.net
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Rocker" (Rock Music Performer or Fan)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Outside a horse, a book is man's best friend--inside it's too dark to read
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Black-Owned"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] antedating ninja
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] More on Antedating of "Uncle Sam"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Black Wall Street (Negro Wall Street; Colored Wall Street)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Snow" (= Cocaine)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Session Man"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Session Musician"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "One-Nighter"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Crossover" (Music)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Me or your own eyes/my wife or my own lyin' eyes
victor steinbok
- [Ads-l] antedating ashy
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] lie
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Quote Origin: Common Sense Is That Which Tells Us the World Is Flat
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Phrase: hold my beer (and watch this)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Peckerwood" (Derogatory Term for White Person)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Gonzo"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Sketch Engine
Ben Yagoda
- [Ads-l] Better Antedating of "Peckerwood" (White Person)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Quote Origin: People Don't Really Read Your Books (Mark Twain?)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Deadline for 2027 American Dialect Society conference is July 31
Grant Barrett
- [Ads-l] "act like you've been someplace before"
Martin Schneider
- [Ads-l] "dope check"
dave at wilton.net
- [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Okeh" (Spelling Variant of "O.K.")
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Okay" (Spelling Variant of "OK")
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Vanity project (1961)
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- [Ads-l] stacked
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Soul" (African-American)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Hokum"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Hooah !
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "supposively"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Dyke"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] frenemy/frienemy (1891, 1932, etc.)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Copacetic"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "American Football"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Quote Origin: The People Have Spoken - The Bastards
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Quote Origin: I'd Like To Pay Tribute To My Four Writers: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] bullshit
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Word: cope noun - slang for comfortable self-deception
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "World Cup" (Soccer)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Candidate for melancholy quotation of the year
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] litany
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] to croak
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] dassn't
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Request for assistance on interpreting messages
Cohen, Gerald L.
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Folkloristics"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Quote Origin: (Multilayer Perceptrons) Our Intuitive Judgment That the Extension Is Sterile
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] 2nd Call for Abstracts -- NARNiHS 2027 -- North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics Ninth Annual Meeting
Lauersdorf, Mark R.
- [Ads-l] Additional Details on Antedating of "Uncle Sam"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] (great) white hope (1910)
dave at wilton.net
- [Ads-l] steely-eyed missile man
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] Gyro
victor steinbok
- [Ads-l] Pita (?!)
victor steinbok
- [Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Great White Hope" (Boxing)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Alleged Southern sayings
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] cipher
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "Search it up"
Rich Lowenthal
- [Ads-l] tiger meat
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Mystical QOTY
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] PREZ DROPS FOTO OF TRANS COLLINS !!
Jonathan Lighter
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