Timeline for Etymology of "favourite" as a verb
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| Mar 20, 2019 at 7:05 | vote | accept | Hugo | ||
| Mar 20, 2019 at 7:05 | comment | added | Hugo | Just added to the OED: 1997 Re: FYI ! Great IE 4.0 Site in microsoft.public.inetexplorer.ie4 (Usenet newsgroup) 24 Aug. I went, I saw, I favorited. 1997 Audio Bks. Stuff in bit.listserv.easi (Usenet newsgroup) 13 Oct. You can listen online. I have the page bookmarked, or favorited. | |
| Dec 16, 2013 at 12:04 | comment | added | Hugo | Is there any significant evidence of favo[u]rite as a verb pre-Flickr? | |
| Jan 3, 2013 at 10:09 | comment | added | Kris | @J.R. That, looks like the potential answer. | |
| Jan 3, 2013 at 9:06 | comment | added | J.R. |
@coleopterist: Conceivably, that could be one of the underlying forces behind the verbing of favorite; after all, it's not hard to imagine bookmarks : bookmarked :: favorites : favorited. (I don't know why, but using bookmark as a verb seems less egregious than using favorite.)
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| Jan 2, 2013 at 18:07 | comment | added | coleopterist | @Mohit , Dan: Netscape used Bookmarks. | |
| Jan 2, 2013 at 18:04 | comment | added | rosends | netscape was mosaic .9 in 1994. | |
| Jan 2, 2013 at 16:56 | comment | added | Mohit | +1 for Internet Explorer. That was the first software which came to my mind after reading the question. Not too sure but Netscape might have used this word as well, perhaps even earlier than IE. | |
| Jan 2, 2013 at 16:47 | history | answered | coleopterist | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
