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- verb Present participle of
noun .
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No: Mr Adams spends almost half the article complaining about people using the word “basically” too much, while the rest is a scattershot rant about the nouning of verbs, Australian intonation, and assorted fads and verbal ticks that annoy him.
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BTW, wedgie appears to be a nouning of the verb “to wedge”, which in turn was a verbing of the noun “wedge.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » “The Modern Practice of Making Certain Nouns into Verbs” 2010
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Does denouncing the practice of de-nouning almost beg the question?
The Volokh Conspiracy » “The Modern Practice of Making Certain Nouns into Verbs” 2010
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(A seemingly less common nouning of a verb is the use of “invite” to mean “invitation.”)
The Volokh Conspiracy » “The Modern Practice of Making Certain Nouns into Verbs” 2010
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BTW, wedgie appears to be a nouning of the verb “to wedge”, which in turn was a verbing of the noun “wedge.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » “The Modern Practice of Making Certain Nouns into Verbs” 2010
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A seemingly less common nouning of a verb is the use of “invite” to mean “invitation.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » “The Modern Practice of Making Certain Nouns into Verbs” 2010
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Does denouncing the practice of de-nouning almost beg the question?
The Volokh Conspiracy » “The Modern Practice of Making Certain Nouns into Verbs” 2010
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The grammatical sin of nouning verbs and verbing nouns has turned our beloved English language into a viper's nest, a linguistic Sodom and Gomorrah.
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Verbing nouns and nouning verbs is something that we do constantly in language, as you note.
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The misspelling, comma-splicing, German-nouning man could not be anymore wrong.
The Valve 2009
chained_bear commented on the word nouning
Making a word into a noun by simply using it as one. E.g., "Verbing weirds language," in which "verbing" is a noun, but of course it can also be a verb... Just see verbing already.
October 9, 2007
skipvia commented on the word nouning
In English class we called these gerunds...
October 10, 2007
reesetee commented on the word nouning
But on Wordie, all bets are off. ;-)
October 10, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word nouning
Well, yes, it's a gerund in the sense that it ends in -ing, but it's a verb (and a madeupical one, at that) in the sense that "noun" isn't a verb and I just made it one. Nanny nanny foo foo.
October 10, 2007
skipvia commented on the word nouning
All this madeupical wordification stranges me.
October 10, 2007
reesetee commented on the word nouning
Really? It funs me.
October 10, 2007