You might be interested in the following. Luanne...
Luanne von Schneideme...
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Feb 7, 2003 1:50 am
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This article was in our packet at the ACLS board of directors meeting. I thought some of you would be interested in the guidance/direction of NEH. Luanne ...
Luanne von Schneideme...
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Feb 7, 2003 2:18 am
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The ACLS has chosen its new president. A good choice, I think. FYI Luanne ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Luanne von Schneideme...
lvonschn@...
Feb 7, 2003 2:19 am
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Does anyone have any information about Cackalacky (perhaps spelled kakalaki and other ways too) or North Cackalacky referring to the state of North Carolina?...
Connie Eble
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Feb 7, 2003 1:48 pm
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I've recently received a couple of questions about this, too, from VB. readers. The only answer that's come in, however, has been that maybe it's from German...
Connie, do you subscribe to the American Dialect Society's listserv? You can join it on their website and then post the query to the listserv--someone there...
Wendalyn Nichols
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Feb 7, 2003 4:41 pm
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... Reminds me--is the derivation of "Ozark" from "Aux Arcs", supposedly applied to the Quapaw Indians because they used bows, generally accepted as valid, or...
The Jan. 31 issue of the TLS has a review of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, Fifth Edition. Reviewed by Erich Segal. [Frankly, they should have been...
A question for Michael Q -- and for the lists (I'm almost afraid to ask): How do you folks understand the distinction between "slang" and "informal" --...
POSITION AVAILABLE -- GAGE LEARNING CORPORATION SENIOR DICTIONARY EDITOR Gage Learning of Toronto needs a senior editor for their dictionaries and other...
tpratt@...
Feb 13, 2003 2:17 pm
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Dear Frank: But if you think "informal" is not specific or clear enough, and define "slang" as ". . . never formal, and . . . a substitute for a formal or ...
johnalgeo@...
Feb 13, 2003 2:37 pm
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To the DSNA Group I just accidentally replied to the entire group with a message intended solely for Terry Pratt. I ask that you please ignore my message. It...
Paul Heacock
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Feb 13, 2003 2:41 pm
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I always thought levels of intimacy/deference--i.e., To whom would you say this word? as opposed to When or where would you say this word?--was a useful part...
Debbie Sawczak
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Feb 13, 2003 7:31 pm
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... Yes. I often think of "Molotov cocktail" in this regard. By all rights this should be a slang term; but there's no substitute for it, and it can therefore...
Gerald Cohen
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Feb 14, 2003 2:37 am
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Dear Luanne, I still haven't received my newsletter that's meant to have the ballot in it, and Rima just e-mailed me saying hers only arrived today, but the ...
Wendalyn Nichols
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Feb 14, 2003 6:32 pm
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Dear Wendi, I'm in Germany now and won't be tallying the ballots until I get back in March. We received the newsletter later than originally planned and I had...
L VONSCHNEIDEMESSER
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Feb 15, 2003 10:52 am
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To all, Please ignore my previous message to Wendi. I was too doof to notice that it was being sent to the list. Apologies. But now you know that sending...
L VONSCHNEIDEMESSER
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Feb 15, 2003 11:03 am
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Dear lexos and others: Paul McFedries gives us (see below) a classic instance of what happens when the growth of the language cuts across someone's proprietary...
Dear Frank (and others trying to thread this needle): I have not read the whole thread. But, an additional tactic which usually works is to note as a separate...
Barnhart
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Feb 25, 2003 2:17 pm
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Here's the link: http://www.senshu-u.ac.jp/~thb0422/bolehome/downloads/prepollx.pdf It's a reply to a prescriptivist who had written an earlier paper about how...
Here's a link to an article from today's Baltimore Sun, no doubt syndicated elsewhere, about a Cornell professor's data-mining tool. Sounds like it would be of...
Orin Hargraves
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Mar 7, 2003 2:18 pm
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Hello. I would like suggestions from members about where to sell some old dictionaries and encyclopedia sets. The used book venues in Connecticut are not...
Four possibilities come to mind.d 1) Rulon-Miller Books, advertised in the DSNA Newsletter, with address, website, and e-mail adress <rulon@...>. 2)...
Edward Gates
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Mar 17, 2003 4:43 pm
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Here is my list, in case anyone is interested: American College Dictionary, C. Barnhart, Harper & Bros, 1950 American Heritage Dictionary of the English...
Mark M's comment below reminded me of a peculiar (to me) pron I hear here in New England -- the word is permittee, which is used on signs on bars and ...
If I may add another title (without prejudice to Barbara Ann Kipfer's list): FOR SALE: The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 1993 edition, two volumes in mint...
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