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Starting: Wed Jul 1 10:57:23 UTC 2026
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• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Ghetto" (Adjective)   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Ghetto" (Adjective)   Bill Mullins
    • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Ghetto" (Adjective)   Laurence Horn
      • [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] looksmaxxing (2016)   Ben Zimmer
    • [Ads-l] looksmaxxing (2016)   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] looksmaxxing (2016)   dave at wilton.net
      • [Ads-l] looksmaxxing (2016)   Ben Zimmer
      • [Ads-l] looksmaxxing (2016)   dave at wilton.net
  • [Ads-l] looksmaxxing (2016)   Bill Mullins
  • [Ads-l] looksmaxxing (2016)   dave at wilton.net
    • [Ads-l] looksmaxxing (2016)   Nancy Friedman
• [Ads-l] Quotation researcher Gerald Krieghofer   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] Quotation researcher Gerald Krieghofer   Rich Lowenthal
• [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] New York Times search enshittification   Stephen Goranson
    • [Ads-l] New York Times search enshittification   Rich Lowenthal
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Big Apple" (In the Sense of Large City)   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Big Apple" (In the Sense of Large City)   Pete Morris
    • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Big Apple" (In the Sense of Large City)   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"   Bill Mullins
  • [Ads-l] "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"   Shapiro, Fred
    • [Ads-l] "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [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] yassify   Ben Zimmer
• [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] manosphere (2011)   Bill Mullins
  • [Ads-l] manosphere (2011)   dave at wilton.net
• [Ads-l] irreprehensible   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] irreprehensible   Charles C Rice
• [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] "red card" v. (1977)   Rich Lowenthal
    • [Ads-l] "red card" v. (1977)   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] "red card" v. (1977)   dave at wilton.net
      • [Ads-l] "red card" v. (1977)   Dan Goncharoff
      • [Ads-l] "red card" v. (1977)   dave at wilton.net
      • [Ads-l] "red card" v. (1977)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] "Serenity Prayer" Not in OED   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] "Serenity Prayer" Not in OED   Stephen Goranson
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Folk-Blues"   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] "red card" and "yellow card" n. (football/soccer) (Oct 28, 1968)   Dan Goncharoff
    • [Ads-l] "red card" and "yellow card" n. (football/soccer) (Oct 28, 1968)   Jesse Sheidlower
• [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Ragged" (Of Ragtime)   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Ragged" (Of Ragtime)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Raggedy" (Irregular Music)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Temu, adj. (2024)   dave at wilton.net
  • [Ads-l] Temu, adj. (2024)   ADSGarson O'Toole
    • [Ads-l] "proof of life" (1981)   dave at wilton.net
      • [Ads-l] "proof of life" (1981)   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] "proof of life" (1981)   Bill Mullins
      • [Ads-l] "proof of life" (1981)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [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] antedating ninja   Ben Zimmer
  • [Ads-l] antedating ninja   Bill Mullins
  • [Ads-l] antedating ninja   Amy West
• [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] Black Wall Street (Negro Wall Street; Colored Wall Street)   Stephen Goranson
  • [Ads-l] Fw: Black Wall Street (Negro Wall Street; Colored Wall Street)   Shapiro, Fred
    • [Ads-l] Fw: Black Wall Street (Negro Wall Street; Colored Wall Street)   Bonnie Taylor-Blake
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Snow" (= Cocaine)   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Snow" (= Cocaine)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [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] Antedating of "Crossover" (Music) [CORRECTED POSTING]   Shapiro, Fred
    • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Crossover" (Music) [CORRECTED POSTING]   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Crossover" (Music) [CORRECTED POSTING]   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] Fw: antedating ashy   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] lie   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] lie   Jonathan Lighter
    • [Ads-l] lie   Laurence Horn
• [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] Phrase: hold my beer (and watch this)   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Peckerwood" (Derogatory Term for White Person)   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Peckerwood" (Derogatory Term for White Person)   Geoffrey Nathan
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Peckerwood" (Derogatory Term for White Person)   Bill Mullins
    • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Peckerwood" (Derogatory Term for White Person)   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Peckerwood" (Derogatory Term for White Person)   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Peckerwood" (Derogatory Term for White Person)   Amy West
• [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Gonzo"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Gonzo"   Ben Zimmer
    • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Gonzo"   Ben Zimmer
      • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Gonzo"   Rich Lowenthal
• [Ads-l] Sketch Engine   Ben Yagoda
  • [Ads-l] Sketch Engine   Amy West
  • [Ads-l] Sketch Engine   Grant Barrett
• [Ads-l] Better Antedating of "Peckerwood" (White Person)   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Better Antedating of "Peckerwood" (White Person)   ADSGarson O'Toole
    • [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] "act like you've been someplace before"   Martin Schneider
  • [Ads-l] "act like you've been someplace before"   ADSGarson O'Toole
    • [Ads-l] "act like you've been someplace before"   Emily Gordon
• [Ads-l] "dope check"   dave at wilton.net
  • [Ads-l] "dope check"   Grant Barrett
    • [Ads-l] "dope check"   Grant Barrett
    • [Ads-l] "dope check"   dave at wilton.net
• [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Okeh" (Spelling Variant of "O.K.")   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Okeh" (Spelling Variant of "O.K.")   Rich Lowenthal
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Okay" (Spelling Variant of "OK")   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Vanity project (1961)   Bonnie Taylor-Blake
  • [Ads-l] Vanity project (1961)   ADSGarson O'Toole
    • [Ads-l] Vanity project (1961)   Bonnie Taylor-Blake
• [Ads-l] stacked   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] stacked   Ben Zimmer
    • [Ads-l] stacked   Ben Zimmer
      • [Ads-l] stacked   Laurence Horn
      • [Ads-l] stacked   Martin Schneider
  • [Ads-l] stacked   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Soul" (African-American)   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Soul" (African-American)   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Hokum"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Hokum"   Bill Mullins
• [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 "Copacetic"   Laurence Horn
    • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Copacetic"   Rich Lowenthal
    • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Copacetic"   Ben Zimmer
      • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Copacetic"   Shapiro, Fred
      • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Copacetic"   Jonathan Lighter
• [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] Antedating of "World Cup" (Soccer)   dave at wilton.net
    • [Ads-l] Antedating of "World Cup" (Soccer)   Shapiro, Fred
      • [Ads-l] Antedating of "World Cup" (Soccer)   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] Further 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] to croak   Ben Zimmer
    • [Ads-l] to croak   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] to croak   Laurence Horn
• [Ads-l] dassn't   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Request for assistance on interpreting messages   Cohen, Gerald L.
  • [Ads-l] Request for assistance on interpreting messages   Emily Gordon
• [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] (great) white hope (1910)   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] Gyro   Martin Schneider
    • [Ads-l] Gyro   Martin Schneider
  • [Ads-l] Gyro   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] Pita (?!)   victor steinbok
  • [Ads-l] Pita (?!)   Ben Zimmer
• [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] tiger meat   Bill Mullins
    • [Ads-l] tiger meat   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Mystical QOTY   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] PREZ DROPS FOTO OF TRANS COLLINS !!   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] popcorn brain   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] acid western   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Reviewers needed immediately for syntax conference paper submisisons   Grant Barrett
  • [Ads-l] Reviewers needed immediately for syntax conference paper submisisons   Grant Barrett
• [Ads-l] Words: tokenomics tokenomical tokenmaxxing thrift-maxxing   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] the slow, or fast, demise of the cat-house   Martin Schneider
  • [Ads-l] the slow, or fast, demise of the cat-house   Stephen Goranson
  • [Ads-l] the slow, or fast, demise of the cat-house   ADSGarson O'Toole
    • [Ads-l] the slow, or fast, demise of the cat-house   Rich Lowenthal
      • [Ads-l] the slow, or fast, demise of the cat-house   Emily Gordon
      • [Ads-l] the slow, or fast, demise of the cat-house   Martin Schneider
      • [Ads-l] the slow, or fast, demise of the cat-house   Dan Goncharoff
      • [Ads-l] the slow, or fast, demise of the cat-house   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] the slow, or fast, demise of the cat-house   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] "that ship has sailed"   Martin Schneider
  • [Ads-l] "that ship has sailed"   Rich Lowenthal
    • [Ads-l] "that ship has sailed"   Martin Schneider
      • [Ads-l] "that ship has sailed"   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] "that ship has sailed"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "That Ship Has Sailed"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] kinetic (military)   dave at wilton.net
  • [Ads-l] kinetic (military)   Ben Zimmer
    • [Ads-l] kinetic (military)   dave at wilton.net
  • [Ads-l] kinetic (military)   Bill Mullins
  • [Ads-l] kinetic (military)   dave at wilton.net
• [Ads-l] Word: substratism (domain: artificial intelligence)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] "Negro Leaguer" (Not in OED)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Geeky"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Geeky"   Ben Zimmer
    • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Geeky"   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Geeky"   Rich Lowenthal
      • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Geeky"   Jesse Sheidlower
      • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Geeky"   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] Antedating of "Geeky"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] griefbots, deadbots   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Geeky"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Geeky"   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Still Further Antedating of "Geeky"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] Still Further Antedating of "Geeky"   ADSGarson O'Toole
    • [Ads-l] Still Further Antedating of "Geeky"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Early Citation for "Geek"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Bloomsbury" (Designation of Group of Writers, Artists, and Intellectuals)   Shapiro, Fred

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