Verbing Weirds Language - LexiBlog - The Official Blog of Leximo, a World Social Dictionary

From the page: "He reported that on a short-hop flight, an attendant had apologized to her parched passengers because time had not allowed them to be "beveraged"� but not to worry, for they would be "beveraged"� on their connecting flights. Bemused, he announced, �oeI...

Reviewed by lekahe Mar 19 2009, 01:55am ( 30 reviews ) • leximo.org

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Rated by quicketernity on Jun 12, 9:32pm

to the finder: but isn't "messaging" verbing a noun anyway? Message is a noun, messaging is already a verb. Texting is just another example. You have been exampled. Great find. I thumbed up this page (oops I did it again.)
Reviewed by rcpadgett on Apr 02 2009, 3:48am

Cool article, a language isn't fun if you can't bend it once in a while.
Rated by lesleye on Mar 24 2009, 7:34am

Verbing weird language - and as this article shows perfectly, English is one weird language!
Reviewed by 3jackrabbits on Mar 23 2009, 11:19am

Hmmm, interesting. veberaged
Rated by zogby on Mar 22 2009, 5:56am

Word nerds unite! Love the bendy, crazy English language. American English in particular is the Gumby (clay-mation figure) of language... hmmmm. Words reflect cognitive shifts. What does this reflect?
Rated by insanityrising on Mar 20 2009, 11:42pm

I got verbed just from reading this.
Rated by Fluffy2002 on Mar 20 2009, 4:57pm

On one hand, I'm not a big fan of verbing words but, on the other, it proves that English is a living, vibrant language.

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