by basemaly on 6/3/23, 5:19 PM with 4 comments
by Someone on 6/3/23, 6:18 PM
”Examples of verbification in the English language number in the thousands, including some of the most common words such as mail and e-mail, strike, talk,[dubious – discuss] salt, pepper, switch, bed, sleep, ship, train, stop, drink, cup, lure, mutter, dress, dizzy, divorce, fool, merge, to be found on virtually every page in the dictionary. Thus, verbification is by no means confined to slang and has furnished English with countless new expressions: "access", as in "access the file", which was previously only a noun, as in "gain access to the file". Similar mainstream examples include "host", as in "host a party", and "chair", as in "chair the meeting". Other formations, such as "gift", are less widespread but nevertheless mainstream.”