effort, v.

Jesse Sheidlower jester at PANIX.COM
Fri Sep 2 19:27:51 UTC 2005


On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 12:20:51PM -0700, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> Only once in human history, OED seems to say, has "effort" been used a verb. AIn English, anyway. And then it meant to strengthen or fortify.
>
> But all that seems to be changing, word-lovers.

  2002 Chicago Tribune 9 Sept. I. 7/1 Can we effort to root out
  terrorists in the Middle East and yet give short shrift to
  terrorists here in the homeland?

For example.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED



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