"Articulated" as Verb

[LanDi Liu]

Now, "searching term" is strange (I originally wrote "searching for")
but "articulate" has been a verb for at least 450 years.

Looking further in CAE (or whatever we're going to call it), the verb
"articulate" is more than twice as common as the adjective.

Randy

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 1:56 PM, LanDi Liu <strangeguitars at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I don't understand what you think is strange about this.  It's common
> enough to be in the Corpus of American English (are we going to call
> this CAE, or what?) 15 times (searching term: [articulate] *self).
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> I don't find it odd in the least.
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> Randy
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> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Doug Harris <cats22 at frontiernet.net> wrote:
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>> When asked today by Oprah why he'd chosen a particular
>> girl to be his assistant, Sean Combs, said:
>> "I liked the way she articulated herself."
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>> He dresses a lot better that he articulates.
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