Posts Tagged ‘nouns as verbs’
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Posted by Jonathan Marks on September 06, 2010
In a couple of earlier posts (namely this and this) on this blog, it’s been discussed how English words have the tendency to expand from one word class to another. I’d like to explore the same subject a bit further in this post. Multiple word-class membership is an essential part of the character of the [...]
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Posted by Michael Rundell on August 05, 2009
Some people get very upset about nouns being used as verbs. A recent row in the press centred on the verbal use of medal (How many of their athletes were medalled at the last Olympics?) but it turns out that this usage is at least as old as Thackeray. Which is hardly surprising, since forming [...]
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