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first, I thought y'all were okay with being lumped in with "the guys". <g>
second, it's really easy to take shots at the verbing of nouns -- I know, 'cuz it's one of my pet peeves. But there are instances where the practice has made for a richer language. To take a couple of instances from Sport (a guy thing): 1) in baseball, if you hit a ball that gets caught on the fly (a fly ball) you are said to have flied out -- you have not flown out (like the irregular verb) because the verb comes from the noun (which obviously has no inflected forms) and you just add -ed in the normal way 2) in hockey, if you get mugged by the goon with a high-stick you've been high-sticked (not high-stuck); same sort of thing. A non-sport example of this is grandstanded (not grandstood).
So these are all examples of one sort of verbing of nouns which adds to the language in a positive way.
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