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#150645 11/21/05 08:21 PM
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Does the OED also have "verb" as a verb? That would surprise me even more.




nope.




get with the times, guys!

verb, v.
trans. To use (a word, esp. a noun) as a verb; = VERBIFY v.
1936 F. CLUNE Roaming round Darling vii. 62 The Poet accused me of verbing a noun, but I soon fixed him. I threatened to noun a verb. 1978 Verbatim Sept. 7/1 Take..the four names of the four seasons. Two have been verbed, and two have not. One summers, in Maine, and winters, perhaps, in Florida. 1984 Philos. of Sci. LI. 465 Practically any noun can be verbed in English.

OED, ADDITIONS SERIES 1993

note the predating of Calvin & Hobbes.

-joe

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get with the times, guys!

I did type OED1. I await your checque to buy an OED CD-ROM.


Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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get with the times, guys!

I did type OED1. I await your checque to buy an OED CD-ROM.




that also is passé. I use nothing but OED online now, although I could "cheaply" (relatively speaking) update my olde CD-ROM.

really, all of you who have ever used the OED Big Books and lusted after them should investigate getting online access through whatever library(s) you frequent -- this may only set you back the cost of your library card!

p.s. to jheem, I know you typed OED1; but that's not what I quoted. I apologize for including you by proxy though.

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Since this seems the place to out-throw this suggestion...

Is it not also true that: Practically any verb can be nouned in English coupled with verbification, completes the wicked cyclification of the aforementioned nit-pick'ns?

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> verb can be nouned

ah, the Great Went....


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