"what goes around, comes around" proverb

[Margaret Lee]

According to Geneva Smitherman's _Black Talk_ (2000), 'What go round
come round' was "found to be the most frequently used proverb in the
African American community" (pp. 295-296), study reported in her 1987
_Journal of Black Studies_ article, "Makin a Way Outa No Way: The
Proverb Tradition in the Black Experience," with Daniel and Jeremiah.
It is also listed in Chapman's _New Dictionary of American Slang_
(1986, p. 463).



--- Jesse Sheidlower <jester at PANIX.COM> wrote:
> Does anyone (Fred, Barry?) have any info on this recent-ish proverb
> "What goes around, comes around"? The only discussion here seems to
> have been a posting Barry made on the headwords in a 2002 glossary
> of prison slang. How early is it?
>
> Jesse Sheidlower
> OED


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Margaret G. Lee, Ph.D.
Associate Professor - English and Linguistics
 & University Editor
Department of English
Hampton University, Hampton, VA 23668
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