<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">=====================================================<br> L O W L A N D S - L - 14 September 2014 - Volume 02<br><a href="mailto:lowlands.list@gmail.com" target="_blank">lowlands.list@gmail.com</a> - <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/" target="_blank">http://lowlands-l.net/</a><br>Posting: <a href="mailto:lowlands-l@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank">lowlands-l@listserv.linguistlist.org</a><br>Archive: <a href="http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/lowlands-l.html" target="_blank">http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/lowlands-l.html</a><br>Encoding: Unicode (UTF-08)<br>Language Codes: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/codes.php" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/codes.php</a><br>=====================================================</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">From: <span name="Mark Brooks" class="" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Mark Brooks</span><span style="white-space:nowrap"> </span><span class="" style="white-space:nowrap"><span><</span><a href="mailto:marcosarroyos@sbcglobal.net">marcosarroyos@sbcglobal.net</a><span>></span></span><br>Subject: <span style="white-space:nowrap">Wart As Verb in English</span><br><br>Hello Lowlanders:<br><br>I play a few word games on Twitter, and one of the words this past week was "wart." Of course, it's a word for a growth on a person's hand or the like.<br><br>I'm sure I've heard it used as a verb. It seems like I heard it long ago and probably from my grandmother. As a verb, it's a synonym for annoy or pester. It could occur in a sentence as: Y'all go outside and play, you're wartin' me to death!<br><br>Has anyone else ever heard of this usage?<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Mark Brooks<br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">=========================================================<br>Send posting submissions to <a href="mailto:lowlands-l@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank">lowlands-l@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>.<br>Please display only the relevant parts of quotes in your replies.<br>Send commands (including "signoff lowlands-l") to<br><a href="mailto:listserv@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank">listserv@listserv.linguistlist.org</a> or <a href="mailto:lowlands.list@gmail.com" target="_blank">lowlands.list@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://linguistlist.org/subscribing/sub-lowlands-l.html" target="_blank">http://linguistlist.org/subscribing/sub-lowlands-l.html</a> .<br><a href="http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#%21/group.php?gid=118916521473498" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/group.php?gid=118916521473498</a> <br>==========================================================</span></p></div>