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Thread #57509 Message #904787
Posted By: Nigel Parsons
06-Mar-03 - 10:47 AM
Thread Name: BS: Nouns as Verbs: 'to summit Everest'
Subject: RE: BS: Nouns as Verbs: 'to summit Everest'
Kat: I'm not sure I'd even accept 'Google' as a noun. It's a tradename which doesn't yet seem to have made it into the dictionaries. If it ever does it will probably go in as both noun and verb.
The term seems much in used on-line, but if that were a means of being accepted for dictonaries we would start getting some of the wierder expressions from text messaging in. Such as 'l8r' for 'later'.
For most of my life the changes in the dictionary have been mainly for imported words now in English usage, and words invented to cover new ideas and science (moon walk, astronaut...etc.,)
Nigel