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Let Me Verbalize It For You

November 13, 2012 by Leave a Comment

You can turn each of these nouns into a verb, but do so at your own peril!

I thought I would recommend Helen Sword’s recent posting in the NYT Draft column on the topic of mutant verbs.  Be warned–the creation of verb forms from nouns doesn’t make our English richer!

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