WYSIWYG in "Rescue Dawn"

[Laurence Horn]

>On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>
>>"What you see is what you get!" says one of the characters in the movie.
>>It's an anachronism.
>
>Is it?  According to the Yale Book of Quotations, "what you see is what
>you get" appeared in a Chicago Tribune ad for a home movie cameria, May 2,
>1936.
>
Now, if the character had said "WYSIWYG", *that* would have been an
anachronism...

LH

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