,,,,,I have noticed with trepidation in recent years the trend toward turning verbs into nouns, adjectives into nouns, nouns into verbs... and similar eccentricities.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

In fact this has always happened: "Grace me no grace and uncle me no uncle". "He out-Herods Herod".

I regard such flexibility as one of the glories of English.


You have to use jello, because jelly over there means jam, so you don't have a proper word for jelly, do you?

~M~