On 'versus' as a Verb (another cross-post from Linguist List)

Tue Jul 19 05:12:22 UTC 2005

On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 01:10:04 +0200, Chris F Waigl <cwaigl at FREE.FR> wrote:

>Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:
>>On Dec 21, 2004, at 11:45 AM, Larry Horn wrote:
>>
>>>(The verb would actually be "to verse".)
>>>Seems like another for the eggcorn file.  Do you have this one,
>>>Arnold?
>>
>>finally added to the database --
>>
>>http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/463/verses/
>>
>>-- and taken off my to-do list.  the mills grind slowly.
>>
>I added some quotes, if you don't mind. Hundreds of gamers verse each
>other online.

And I've added a comment with the decade-old Usenet cites I posted here in
the Dec. thread...

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--Ben Zimmer