[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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[lit-ideas] A New and Better "gung ho"
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[lit-ideas] Re: A New and Better "gung ho"
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[lit-ideas] Re: A New and Better "gung ho"
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