"PAY IT FORWARD"

[Wilson Gray]

Sigh! what can I tell you? Glaucoma blows.

-W.

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Laurence Horn<laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> 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,
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> Ah, that must be the animated version, with bunnies. Â ;-)
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> LH
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>> Â 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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>>> Â 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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>>> Â Fred Shapiro
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>>-Wilson
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>>All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
>>come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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--
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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-Mark Twain

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