# Tell us an interesting random fact you stumbled across (Part 2)

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In the OED, Bill Murray is credited with the first recorded [proleptic](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prolepsis) usage of the word “toast”. From the OED:

> The lines in quot. 1983 do not in fact appear in the U.S. film _Ghostbusters_ as released in 1985, since a considerable amount of the dialogue is ad-libbed. The actual words spoken by Venkman (played by Bill Murray) as he prepares to fire a laser-type weapon, are, ‘This chick is toast’; this is probably the origin of the proleptic construction which has gained particular currency.

1. 1983 \> _Venkman_…: “Okay. That’s it! I’m gonna turn this guy into toast.”

D. Aykroyd & H. Ramis, _Ghostbusters_ (film script, third draft) 123

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