An initial 4A N2...?

James A. Landau JJJRLandau at AOL.COM
Mon Jul 1 20:19:33 UTC 2002


In a message dated 7/1/02 3:56:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, dave at WILTON.NET
writes:

> Googling on "pot marijuana" turns up some 124,000 hits,

A Google search on the word "googling" turned up 6,410 hits.  I can't decide
whether to characterize this as Web-users' jargon, slang, or simply the
English language's ready ability to verb a noun.  (56 hits on "to verb a", a
phrase I first encountered circa 1998).

      - James A. Landau



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