Oh! This is one of tsuwm's favorite things!

... no trend has been more obtrusive in recent years than the changing of nouns into verbs. “Trend” itself (now used as a verb meaning “change or develop in a general direction”, as in “unemployment has been trending upwards”) is further evidence of—sorry, evidences—this phenomenon.

Yeah, a lot of these are...kind of yucky, for lack of a better term.

Good article--thanks for posting this!

Re: another ref. in there--what in the world is a zorb?