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[neil]

on 4/2/05 11:25 pm, Wilson Gray at wilson.gray at RCN.COM wrote:

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> FWIW, I've always considered "not to worry" to be an annoying Briticism.
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> -Wilson Gray
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Don't worry - be happy.

-Annoying Britisher




> On Feb 4, 2005, at 4:51 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
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>> forwarded from the Yale Rabbi via a colleague,.  Anyone know?
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>> larry
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>> The Rabbi, Jim Ponet, asks:
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>> ... explain if you will the structure "Not to worry."  Does it emulate
>> anything Yiddish.  Then there's "to kill for,"  "to die for."
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>> It does follow a Hebrew structure arguable.  But I doubt that origin.
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