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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread to author #1598 04/25/2000 9:43 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,981 jmh Pooh-Bah jmh Pooh-Bah Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,981 When did author become a verb in general use? I can (just about) cope with "to author a web-page" as a specific technical term relating to HTML but surely not ... to author a book - what's wrong with write! jmh (= old fogey, or is it fogy) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted to author jmh 04/25/2000 9:43 PM Re: to author/nouns as verbs AnnaStrophic 04/26/2000 10:10 AM Re: to author/nouns as verbs Jackie 04/26/2000 3:18 PM Re: to author/nouns as verbs AnnaStrophic 04/26/2000 3:49 PM Re: to author/nouns as verbs tsuwm 04/26/2000 6:42 PM Re: to author/nouns as verbs jmh 04/26/2000 7:29 PM Re: to author/nouns as verbs Philip Davis 04/27/2000 11:39 PM Re: to author/nouns as verbs Philip Davis 04/27/2000 11:42 PM Re: to author/nouns as verbs jmh 04/28/2000 5:59 AM Re: to author/nouns as verbs tsuwm 04/28/2000 1:20 PM Re: to author/nouns as verbs jmh 04/28/2000 1:36 PM Re: to author/nouns as verbs tsuwm 04/28/2000 5:01 PM Re: to author/nouns as verbs arosebyanyname 06/08/2002 3:23 AM Re: to author/nouns as verbs jmh 04/26/2000 7:26 PM Re: to author/nouns as verbs tsuwm 04/26/2000 8:08 PM Re: to author/nouns as verbs wsieber 04/27/2000 5:31 AM Re: to author/nouns as verbs tsuwm 04/27/2000 3:18 PM Re: to author/nouns as verbs jmh 04/27/2000 5:33 PM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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