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Etymology

Posted on July 15, 2019 by Brick Wahl

I suspect that most verbs began as nouns verbed and an ungodly number of nouns were once verbs nouned and not once but sometimes many times this renouning and reverbing takes place, leaving dictionaries a record of wanton anarchy and the decline of values over and over again.

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Etymology

Posted on October 9, 2018 by Brick Wahl

I suspect that most verbs began as nouns verbed and an ungodly number of nouns were once verbs nouned and not once but sometimes many times this renouning and reverbing takes place, leaving dictionaries a record of wanton anarchy and the decline of values over and over again.

Posted in Language and linguistics | Tagged etymology, language, verbing | 1 Comment

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