Friday, May 23, 2008

Denominal Verbs

Lots of denominal verbs here, i.e. verbs derived from nouns — for instance, trantruming from tantrum and meltdowning from meltdown (interestingly, melting down doesn’t have the same force).

This is the same process that gave us access as a verb (e.g. to access a file) and, more recently, to dialogue with someone.

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