"PAY IT FORWARD"

[Laurence Horn]

At 5:03 PM -0400 6/22/09, Wilson Gray wrote:
>If the OED wasn't a historical work, I'd paraphrase William Shatner seriously:
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>"Of course, one *could* add 'pay it forward' to the OED. But *why*?"
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>If there hadn't been a movie with the title, Pat It Forward,

Ah, that must be the animated version, with bunnies.  ;-)

LH

>  Fred's
>post would have been the first time that I had ever come across the
>phrase. I'd long been under the impression that the phrase existed
>only as a movie title, if I had missed Fred's post. I've never heard
>it or even read it in the wild. With perhaps only twenty more years or
>fewer of life to live, perhaps I'll die in that pleasant condition.
>:-)
>
>-Wilson
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>On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Shapiro, Fred<fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
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>>  Bill Mullins has pointed out to me that Wikipedia has a good
>>article on the phrase and concept "pay it forward." ? The OED
>>appears not to cover this phrase; the Wikipedia article seems to
>>supply some good cites.
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>>  Fred Shapiro
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