Re: Pet Peeve: Nouns used as Verbs

[Maggie_Secara -at- capgroup -dot- com]

Truth is, it's one of the most common ways in English to create a new verb,
and has a long and healthy precedent. Verbing a noun when there's already a
perfectly good one that means exactly the same thing often makes us wince,
but it's not wrong in any flavor of the language.



Maggie

Janice Gelb wrote:
> Flood, Donna wrote:
> > I wish I could get my developers to understand that there are perfectly
> > good verbs that are easier to use.
> >
>
> I moved to Australia almost a year ago and I
> am still getting used to some common "verbing"
> here -- the one that sounds most odd to me is
> "to farewell," as in "Steve Irwin was farewelled
> by family and friends at a service yesterday."
>
> -- Janice

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