Questions related to using as verbs words not commonly used as such.
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Is it correct English to turn interjections such as “ah”, “oh”, “um” “huh”, “hem” into verbs?
For example: she ahhed/ohhed/ummed/huhhed/hemmed. Or is this possible only with some interjections?
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Which nouns can be used as verbs?
Someone told me that the English language is special (compared to German, at least) in the way that every noun could be used as a verb. I think this phenomenon is called supine. Is this correct?
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Cheersing vs cheering [closed]
I have come across the word "cheersing", with an "s", as opposed to what I believe to be the correct form: cheering.
I think it comes from a misguided verbification of the exclamation "cheers!", as ...
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Is the word “Einstein” a verb? [closed]
I know that a lot of people use the word "Einstein" to convey someone as a genius, but I was wondering if Einstein, as a verb, is an official term.
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Can a noun (such as “duct tape”) be used as a verb?
I found the phrase “duct-tape together” in the following sentence of a Washington Post (June 21) article written by Chris Cillizza under the title “Gingrich campaign hit by more departures.” The ...
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Can “snob” be used as a verb?
I commonly see "snob someone off", where the word they should correctly use is snub.
Is using "snob" as a verb forever a no-no? Is it creeping towards accepted usage?
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Is it possible to verb anything other than a noun?
Is it possible to verb anything other than a noun?
Although slightly meta, I noticed that English SE has verbing as a tag, rather than verbing-nouns.
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Should capitals be used when verbing trademarks?
When using a trademark as a verb ("hoovering", "xeroxing", "photoshopping" and "googling"), should it be capitalized or uncapitalized?
Strictly speaking, Google and Adobe are opposed to their ...
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Abbreviations for nouns / noun phrases used as non-nouns
In an answer to another question, steven_desu argued that it was “technically incorrect” to use the word “e-mail” or “email” as a verb because it stands for “electronic mail.”
I do not argue whether ...
