Banned Words
    Ronald Kephart 
    rkephart at UNF.EDU
       
    Wed Jan  5 17:54:54 UTC 2000
    
    
  
> >From Lake Superior University at http://www.lssu.edu/banished/2000.html
>
>Following is the entirety of the 2000 Banished Words List
[snip]
>Verbing of Innocent Nouns:
>
>To Action...
But verbing of nouns is a morphological process, not a "word"; how do
you ban a productive morphological process from a language?  And
would you want to?
Ronald Kephart
English & "Foreign" Languages
University of North Florida
    
    
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