Forum: Language
30 January 2013, 01:31 AM
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Forum: Language
02 September 2012, 02:07 AM
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Almost certainly.
Those who have studied the...
Almost certainly.
Those who have studied the term " notice with some words a progression of usage that morphs along the lines of "woman/girl" > "woman/girl/child" > "effeminate male" > "homosexual...
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Forum: Language
20 July 2012, 05:09 PM
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From the link...
From the link (http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-ita1.htm) given by Mack four years ago,
There's no way it's anything but a USA Southernism.
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Forum: Language
15 July 2012, 02:48 AM
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Forum: History
15 July 2012, 02:28 AM
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Forum: History
15 July 2012, 01:48 AM
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Replies: 3
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from Wikipedia.
So now, those skiffies in...
from Wikipedia.
So now, those skiffies in skivvies had to have made it before August 3rd to have been first. Of course, there could have been sailors doing this in the days before the Ancon. ...
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Forum: Inboxer Rebellion
09 September 2011, 08:25 PM
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Forum: Language
19 June 2011, 09:52 PM
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Basically hazing of plebes. I think there's a...
Basically hazing of plebes. I think there's a Google book cite from the 1940s that confirms that this was done in the US, in Military academy settings.
The term "square meal" is definitely US in...
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Forum: Food
27 May 2011, 12:39 PM
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The earlies cites for "blue plate special"...
The earlies cites for "blue plate special" orginate with the Seaboard Airline Railroad in 1915. It was a new thing they innovated in their dining cars, a reduced price dinner(meat, two veggies)...
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Forum: Language
15 May 2011, 01:21 PM
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Replies: 9
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To update the Word Detective's...
To update the Word Detective's (http://www.word-detective.com/121597.html) good work, it's been taken back to at least 1891 with a story appearing in US newspapers about a matress full of gold coins...
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Forum: Questionable Quotes
22 April 2011, 04:04 PM
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Forum: Questionable Quotes
22 April 2011, 02:04 AM
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Forum: Sports
07 August 2009, 10:45 PM
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Forum: Questionable Quotes
02 August 2009, 04:09 PM
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Forum: Questionable Quotes
02 August 2009, 03:51 PM
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Forum: Questionable Quotes
02 August 2009, 03:28 AM
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Replies: 2
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It's Wanamaker, BTW. No, not you, snopes. The...
It's Wanamaker, BTW. No, not you, snopes. The ditz who wrote the article.
That quote is found, attributed to Wanamaker, as early as 1919. By a preacher. Wanamaker quotes by preachers seem to...
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Forum: Questionable Quotes
02 August 2009, 02:09 AM
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Forum: Questionable Quotes
09 May 2008, 11:17 PM
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