Faction

[Douglas G. Wilson]

>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.  ...

Just another example of 'verbing', addressed eloquently by Calvin in the
comic strip:

"Verbing weirds language."

A Web search for "factioning" + "factioned" returned 685 hits, and a quick
glance suggests that they're mostly relevant. The verb "faction" is not too
rare, apparently.

-- Doug Wilson