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Starting: Sun Mar 1 01:27:12 UTC 2026
Ending: Tue Mar 31 12:47:02 UTC 2026
Messages: 192

• [Ads-l] "Basketball" (The Ball) Not in OED   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] "Crip" (Gang, Not in OED)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] "Electro Music" Not in OED   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] "human-wash"   Laurence Horn
• [Ads-l] "If you don't know where you're going..."   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] "If you don't know where you're going..."   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] "If you don't know where you're going..."   mr_peter_morris at outlook.com
• [Ads-l] "If you don't know where you're going..."   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] "Negro Problem" (Not in OED)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] "Schmuck" as surname   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] "Schmuck" as surname   Rich Lowenthal
• [Ads-l] "Schmuck" as surname   Christopher Philippo
• [Ads-l] "short-term pain for long-term gain"   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] "The enemy has a vote."   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] "Wild and woolly" (1873)   dave at wilton.net
• [Ads-l] "Wild and woolly" (1873)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] "Wild and woolly" (1873)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] "Wild and woolly" (1873)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] "Your Mama" Not in OED   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] "Your Mama" Not in OED   Laurence Horn
• [Ads-l] "Your Mama" Not in OED   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] "Your Mama" Not in OED   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] "Your Mama" Not in OED   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] *FINAL* Call for Abstracts -- 2026 NARNiHS Research Incubator -- North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics   Lauersdorf, Mark R.
• [Ads-l] AI actor/ actress   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Alien language in "Bugonia"?   Nancy Friedman
• [Ads-l] Alien language in "Bugonia"?   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] Alien language in "Bugonia"?   Nancy Friedman
• [Ads-l] Anecdote Origin: I Hope Your Honor Will Have Mercy on a Poor Orphan   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Anecdote Origin: I Hope Your Honor Will Have Mercy on a Poor Orphan   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] antedating "dishpan hands"   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] antedating "smart-assed"   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Africo-American" (Adjective)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Babysitter"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Bop"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Bop" (Verb, Music)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Computer" (Modern Sense)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Contemporary R&B"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Cool, " Noun (Composure, Relaxedness, Poise, Self-Control)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Coon Shouting"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Cornball"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Darktown"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Devil" (= White Person)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Dime Bag" (Drug Quantity)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Discrimination" (Prejudicial Treatment)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Dixieland" (Jazz)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Folk Music"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Free Jazz"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Funk" (Musical Genre)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Funk" (Musical Genre)   Dan Goncharoff
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Funk" (Musical Genre)   Rich Lowenthal
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Funk" (Musical Genre)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Funk" (Musical Genre)   Stephen Goranson
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Funk" (Musical Genre)   James Landau
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Geek" (Carnival Performer)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Geek" (Carnival Performer)   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Hard Bop"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "High Yellow"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Hip Hopper" (Fan of or Participant in Hip Hop Culture)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "House Rent Party"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Jackleg Preacher" and "Jacklegged Preacher"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Jackleg Preacher" and "Jacklegged Preacher" (CORRECTION, DISREGARD PREVIOUS EMAIL)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Jubilee" (Song)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Konk" (Verb, Hair Straightening)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Main Man"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Main Man"   mr_peter_morris at outlook.com
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Main Man"   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Mammy" (Enslaved Black Woman Caring for White Children)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Mother's Day" (Welfare Check)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Negro English"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Nickel Bag" (Drug Quantity)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Noodling" (Jazz)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Noodling" (Jazz)   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Numbers Man"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Old School" (Adjective, Music)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Old School" (Adjective, Music)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Old School" (Adjective, Music)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Old School" (Noun, Music)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Protest Song"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Protest Song"   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Protest Song"   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Race Discrimination"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Rebel Yell"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Rebel Yell"   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Relaxer" (Hair Product)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Rock" (= Rock n Roll)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Rock" (= Rock n Roll)   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Root Doctor"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Root Doctor"   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Sharecropping"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Sissy" (Disparaging Term)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Snake Hips" (Dance)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Spasm Band"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Splib"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Third World"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Triple Crown" (Horse Racing)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Triple Crown" (Horse Racing)   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Triple Crown" (Horse Racing)   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Vaudeville" (Comic Performance)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Wannabe" (Adjective)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Wannabe" (Adjective)   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Wannabe" (Adjective)   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Wannabe" (Adjective)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Wannabe" (Adjective)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Antedating of "Wannabe" (Adjective)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Antedating of Four "Ragtime" Terms   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Authentic Antedating of "Fakelore"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] beyond the stratosphere   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] beyond the stratosphere   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] beyond the stratosphere   Charles C Rice
• [Ads-l] blue dragon   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] burgoo   Stephen Goranson
• [Ads-l] burgoo   Charles C Rice
• [Ads-l] Buzzer beater (antedating, 1949)   Bonnie Taylor-Blake
• [Ads-l] cat's pyjamas precursors?   Stephen Goranson
• [Ads-l] Correction for "Your Mama" Not in OED   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] diffuse/ defuse   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] dirty dozen   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Early Citations to the "Dozens"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] exosuit   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] fluffle   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Darktown"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Old School" (Adjective, Music)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Relaxer" (Hair Product)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Wack" (Adjective)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Fwd: Request to Interview   Salikoko Mufwene
• [Ads-l] hillbilly and goat   Stephen Goranson
• [Ads-l] Insult: Your mother wears army boots (Your mother, Yo momma)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Insult: Your mother wears army boots (Your mother, Yo momma)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Insult: Your mother wears army boots (Your mother, Yo momma)   mr_peter_morris at outlook.com
• [Ads-l] Insult: Your mother wears army boots (Your mother, Yo momma)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Insult: Your mother wears army boots (Your mother, Yo momma)   mr_peter_morris at outlook.com
• [Ads-l] Insult: Your mother wears army boots (Your mother, Yo momma)   Amy West
• [Ads-l] Insult: Your mother wears army boots (Your mother, Yo momma)   Amy West
• [Ads-l] Insult: Your mother wears army boots (Your mother, Yo momma)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Insult: Your mother wears army boots (Your mother, Yo momma)   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Insult: Your mother wears army boots (Your mother, Yo momma)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Insult: Your mother wears army boots (Your mother, Yo momma)   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Insult: Your mother wears army boots (Your mother, Yo momma)   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] Insult: Your mother wears army boots (Your mother, Yo momma)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] kid (beyond "fur baby")   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] kid (beyond "fur baby")   Rich Lowenthal
• [Ads-l] kill talk; necropolitics   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] limerick (poem) etymology, again   Stephen Goranson
• [Ads-l] lowrider   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] Major Antedating of "Fakelore"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Major Antedating of "Fakelore"   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Major Antedating of "Fakelore"   Laurence Horn
• [Ads-l] Major Antedating of "Fakelore"   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Minneapolis as verb   Amy West
• [Ads-l] More Major Antedating of "Fakelore"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] More on "Your Mama" (Not in OED)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] More on "Your Mama" (Not in OED)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] More on "Your Mama" (Not in OED)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] More on "Your Mama" (Not in OED)   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] More on "Your Mama" (Not in OED)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] More on "Your Mama" Not in OED   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] More on "Your Mama" Not in OED   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] More on "Your Mama" Not in OED   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] More on "Your Mama" Not in OED   Rich Lowenthal
• [Ads-l] More on "Your Mama" Not in OED   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] new computer-forbidden word: "escort"   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] new computer-forbidden word: "escort"   Laurence Horn
• [Ads-l] panican   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Phrase: Oh for crying out loud   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Phrase: Oh for crying out loud   mr_peter_morris at outlook.com
• [Ads-l] Proverb Origin: If You're Not Sure Where You=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99re_?=Going, You're Liable to End Up Someplace Else   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Proverb Origin: If You're Not Sure Where You=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99re_?=Going, You're Liable to End Up Someplace Else   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Proverb Origin: If You Don't Know Where You Are Going, Any Road Will Take You There   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] QOTY   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] QOTY, 370 BCE   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Quote Origin: A Cat Has Absolute Emotional Honesty. People Hide Their Feelings, But Cats Never Do   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Quote Origin: Genius Is Hard Work, Stick-To-It-Iveness, and Common Sense   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Quote Origin: If Your Idea Is Original, You Will Have to Ram It Down People's Throats   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Quote Origin: The Individual Has Always Had to Struggle to Keep from Being Overwhelmed by the Tribe   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Quote Origin: The Young Man Knows the Rules, But the Old Man Knows the Exceptions   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Reading with NARNiHS (historical sociolinguistics reading group) -- only one more week to register!   Lauersdorf, Mark R.
• [Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Acid House" (Music Genre)   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Americo-African"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "House Music"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Poetry Slam"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Progressive Jazz"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Thatababy's Guide to Names and Phrases that Originated in Comic Strips   Amy West
• [Ads-l] Thatababy's Guide to Names and Phrases that Originated in Comic Strips   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Thatababy's Guide to Names and Phrases that Originated in Comic Strips   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Thatababy's Guide to Names and Phrases that Originated in Comic Strips   Amy West
• [Ads-l] Thatababy's Guide to Names and Phrases that Originated in Comic Strips   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Thatababy's Guide to Names and Phrases that Originated in Comic Strips   John Baker
• [Ads-l] Thatababy's Guide to Names and Phrases that Originated in Comic Strips (Antedating of "Security Blanket")   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] Thatababy's Guide to Names and Phrases that Originated in Comic Strips (Antedating of "Security Blanket")   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] to trollop   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Word: humanizer (adding the pseudo-human touch to AI output)   ADSGarson O'Toole

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