The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #64092 Message #1046076
Posted By: The Fooles Troupe
01-Nov-03 - 10:27 PM
Thread Name: BS: Getting a Spank out from under the porch
Subject: RE: BS: Getting a Spank out from under the porch
The English language as practiced in common usage does not comform to limited rules of behaviour - furthermore there are other rules which can be used to override simplpe rules.
For example - verbs ARE commonly used as nouns and vice versa.
One of the meta-rules that allows this is THE METAPHOR.
Thus while "*ank" is often used as a verb, the word can be used as a noun such as