Faction

[TERRY IRONS]

A student recently wrote the following in a paper:

This is a major question that factions linguists into prescriptive and
descriptive camps.

The use of "faction" as a verb is new to me.  Rather than suggest it is
an error, which would place me in the prescriptive camp (!), I wonder
whether others, who study usage more than I do, have noted this use
(perhaps similar to impact and access, which are now regularly used as verbs.


Virtually, Terry
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