effort, v.

[Jonathan Lighter]

"Firefrighter" not in OED. Jesse, over to you !

JL

Michael McKernan <mckernan at LOCALNET.COM> wrote:
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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. _Fox News Live_, today
>about 1:30 p.m.:
>
>"Firefrighters are now efforting to put out that fire."
>
>Yes, "making an effort; trying."

I've been trying to stay on-topic, but my eyes keep returning to this
fabulous typo:

Firefrighters

--perhaps they are the only ones capable of efforting.


Michael McKernan

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