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Posted by Richard Eney on June 10, 2008, 5:15 am
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>>>> Best be careful how you word things...
>>>How long has 'word' been a verb?
>> Quite a long time according to the O.E.D.
>> The first entry is dated 1205, and
>As a verb???
Yes. The section in the O.E.D. for "word (verb)"
is not quite as long as the separate section for
"word (noun)" but it's of significant length.
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>> by 1836 it is used in the current sense
>> as Mystified One used it.
>Not in England.
In 1205 America hadn't been discovered yet.
The O.E.D. is the Oxford English Dictionary;
when a usage is American it is specified.
In 1737 Alexander Pope used it in a letter
to Addison, referring to a quotation "as
Shakespeare words it".
=Tamar
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>>>> Best be careful how you word things...
>>>How long has 'word' been a verb?
>> Quite a long time according to the O.E.D.
>> The first entry is dated 1205, and
>As a verb???