[lit-ideas] Re: A New and Better "gung ho"
- From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 20:59:24 -0800
I wrote:
One must thank Richard for this feast of scholarship. From what I can
discover, it seems clear that Carlson didn't carry the expression into
modern English usage. Clearly he borrowed it somewhere, but where or how
is a bit mysterious.
Well, this is wrong, of course; not the part about Richard, but the part
about what Carlson did. It was he who brought the expression into modern
(American) English.
Robert Paul
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