"Babysit" as transitive

Duane Campbell dcamp911 at JUNO.COM
Wed Aug 21 01:54:55 UTC 2002


Just when did "babysit" become a transitive verb? When I grew up in the
50s and when we had our own children in the 70s, you would have someone
babysit FOR your children. Now you babysit children. Where and when did
this start?

D



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