"Babysit" as transitive

Drew Danielson andrew.danielson at CMU.EDU
Wed Aug 21 21:23:24 UTC 2002


Kim & Rima McKinzey wrote:
>
> >>Just when did "babysit" become a transitive verb?
>
> When I was earning money babysitting as a teenager in the 60's, calls
> would often be, "Can you babysit Saturday night?"
>

You performed the action of babysitting upon a period of time?



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