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I was reminded today of the British use of 'minute' as a verb; to wit: "On the 14th Churchill minuted Cadogan....", or "In no case should I phone him or minute him; even the internal lines were taboo." I guess this is equivalent to the American usage of "memoing one's colleagues". 
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I don't know, but if I find an answer, I'll fax it to you.
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If you can verb an noun, can you noun a verb? I can't think of any examples.
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I was going to post that "That was a good get" is an example of noun verbing, one that sports commentators seem to like. Then I checked Merriam-Websters online dictionary only to find that it lists "get" as a noun with one meaning being "a return of a difficult shot in a game (as tennis)". I haven't researched it further, but I'd bet it originated from nouning a verb. There are probably a lot more like it.
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An 'out' in baseball. Has to be a nouned verb.
Also, what about nouned adjectives: the 'whites' of their eyes?
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Still in the basebal motif, the radio announcer says "He flyed to center field." "Flyed"?!
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>An 'out' in baseball. Has to be a nouned verb.
Hang on a minute, shanks. It's only a nouned verb if it's come from the verb 'to out'. Given that it's come from the expression 'to go out' or 'to get out', I'd say it's a nouned adverb (or do I mean preposition? Help me please someone!).
I suppose 'to out' is a verb with a different sense. Did it originate as a verbed adverb/preposition?
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>I was reminded today of the British use of 'minute' as a verb
The only sense I think it is used these days would be in "to minute a meeting", although the expression "to take minutes" would also be used. What would be the US English equivalent?
Isn't "to mail", rather than "send an e-mail" another example?
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Jo, I've never heard anyone say mail instead of e-mail someone. I often hear people asking about getting the minutes of the meeting but never about someone taking the minutes. Usually they are just asked to take notes.
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