"Babysit" as transitive, teach, graduate

Enid Pearsons e.pearsons at VERIZON.NET
Thu Aug 22 03:52:58 UTC 2002


For a lucid summary of the development of "graduate" as
transitive > intransitive > transitive, see Jesse Sheidlower's
1997 Word of the Day column on the verb, still available at:

http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19970526

Enid Pearsons



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