Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Nouns that became verbs

Gifting
Authoring
Lunching
Googling
Scrapbooking
Photoshopping
Facebooking
Ebaying
Bookmarking
Impacting
Tasking

Not a new trend, particularly - how about "hoovering"? Though the rate has probably increased in the last few years, given the dynamicisation of the English language.

Er, how about verbing? As in, to make a noun into a verb ....

Anybody else got any favourites/bugbears?

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