May 2026 Archives by thread
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Ending: Sun May 31 16:32:59 UTC 2026
Messages: 205
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Piano Rag"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "Eighty-six" (1929)
Ben Zimmer
- [Ads-l] 2026 NARNiHS Research Incubator -- program and registration details
Lauersdorf, Mark R.
- [Ads-l] "You can't live with 'em..."
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Barry Popik's Antedating of "Tin Pan Alley"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] More on "Your Mother"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Another reversal
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Pimped Out"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Storefront Church"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] antedating teleprompter
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] countrypolitan
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Woofing" (Aggressiveness) and "Woof" (Verb)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] dummymander
James Landau
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Colored" (Of or Belonging to African Americans)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] QOTY
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Cakewalking"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Cakewalker"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "National Socialism" (= Nazism)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "National Socialist" (Noun and Adjective)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] kinetic
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Afro Pick"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Major Antedating of "Gin" (Card Game)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] antedating "Sloppy Joe"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Quote Origin: It Was Worse Than a Crime; It Was a Blunder
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Bad Hair" and "Good Haiir"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Aframerican"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Bubble Gum"
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] French professor accused of gigantic hoax - dubious Gold Medal of Philology
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Declaration of Independence"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Tea Pad"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Ragtimey"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating balisong
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Pledge of Allegiance" (Specific U.S. Patriotic Text)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Question question
Joe Salmons
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Squaresville"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] break-glass moment
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Gangsta Rap"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Quote Origin: Do Not Confine Your Children to Your Own Learning, for They Were Born in Another Time
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Props" (Due Respect)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] to decimate: a "recent" bugaboo
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Natural Hair Movement"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "rock" in direct address? / "mixey" / more
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] slap in, 'to place under confinement in (e.g., a jail.)'
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] clamshell meal
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "under-babied"
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] "A village is missing its idiot."
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Minority" (Member of Minority Group)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Token" (Adjective)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Bodacious"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "physically" = "literally"?
Nancy Friedman
- [Ads-l] to code as
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] situation
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] early nonfiction "novel"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] A village is missing its idiot
James Landau
- [Ads-l] jake brakes (not in OED)
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] more on "glory"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] equivalation
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] HDAS
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] Magic Collectors Expo
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] phillumeny, matchbook
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Grandfather Clause"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "TCB"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] rebel yell and yeehaw
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Mary Todd, and Tod, and God, and quote magnet
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Talking Blues"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Major Antedating of "Cool" (General Term of Approval)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "strand" = strain
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Blues" (Attributive)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Twelve Bar Blues"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Funk" (Verb, Music)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] accelerationism
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] on stilts
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Jazz Musician"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Jazz Record"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Jazz Baby"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Reading with NARNiHS (historical sociolinguistics reading group) -- Session #4
Lauersdorf, Mark R.
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Ragtime" (Verb)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "American Civil War"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Substantial Antedating of "Hopefully" as a Sentence Adverb
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] United States is/are
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] another Thatababy on words "originated'" in the comics
Amy West
- [Ads-l] Nutmegging
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Contraband" (Term for Fugitive Enslaved Person)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] journalistic "30"
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] papaw
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] antedating "skidoo"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Underground Railway"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Note on "jass"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Point Guard"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "X" (Nation of Islam Replacement for Slave Name, Not in OED)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Democratic Socialism"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Stereotype" (Verb} and "Stereotyped" (Adjective)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "Stereotyping" (Noun, Preconceived and Oversimplified Characterization, Not in OED in This Sense)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] buckaroo
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] scalawag
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Male Chauvinist" (Adjective)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] soldier = sailor
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Communist" (Adjective)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Hydrogen Bomb"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Invisible Man"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Surprising Antedating of "Reverse Discrimination"
Shapiro, Fred
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