Timeline for Etymology of "favourite" as a verb
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| Mar 20, 2019 at 7:05 | vote | accept | Hugo | ||
| May 23, 2017 at 12:39 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://stackoverflow.com/ with https://stackoverflow.com/
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:38 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://english.stackexchange.com/ with https://english.stackexchange.com/
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| Jun 18, 2013 at 7:34 | history | edited | Hugo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 521 characters in body
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| Jan 2, 2013 at 17:47 | comment | added | J.R. | @FraserOrr: Those came from one of our very own, earlier today, although it should be noted that the quotes were intentionally dripping with hyperbole. | |
| Jan 2, 2013 at 17:39 | comment | added | Fraser Orr | I think it is funny when people get so animated about neologisms like this. It is very much a "get off my lawn" way of thinking. The plain fact is that English has always been very promiscuous about that kind of thing, and it has allowed us to have the amazingly dynamic language we have. How glorious that nouns verb so easily! English grammar is largely descriptive rather than proscriptive, though there is always a painful transition from street English to the grammar books. Do you have a cite for the two "abomination" and "stupidity" quotes? | |
| Jan 2, 2013 at 16:47 | answer | added | coleopterist | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jan 2, 2013 at 16:30 | comment | added | J.R. | I don't know when it was first used, but I've favorited this question so I can easily come back later and see if anyone has provided an answer. | |
| Jan 2, 2013 at 16:26 | history | asked | Hugo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |