Verbing

[G S C]

The verbing game is described at:
http://members.aol.com/jefflong/verbing.htm

Verbing may have been discussed in a paper published in 1993 (the web
page is dated 1996):
http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/allerton/96/w1/Dervin93b.html

The verbing style in Japanese:
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Teahouse/1918/verbeleven.html

Classified as being anthimeria at:
http://gost.isi.edu/brian/liter/figures.html

Supposedly, Calvin, of Calvin & Hobbes fame, noted that "verbing weirds
language."
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/calvin.html

George S. Cole   gscole at ark.ship.edu
Shippensburg University