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Subject:RE: (Slight) HUMOUR: Banned Words From:"Ehr, Meg" <Meg -dot- Ehr -at- smartworks -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 5 Nov 2001 15:24:35 -0500
Not to be confused, of course, with "verbage."
Meg Ehr
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From: Scott Browne [mailto:sbbish -at- yahoo -dot- com]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 3:07 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: (Slight) HUMOUR: Banned Words
Nope. It's "to verb". The act of making a noun into a verb is
"verbing".
"They verb words."
"Verbing words is common in the media."
"Many writers do not like seeing nouns verbed."
Hey, we might as well make the act of doing it fit the profile.
;)
Scott
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