today's verbing

[Joel S. Berson]

At 11/20/2008 07:43 PM, Marc Velasco wrote:
> >
> >
> >   The early settlers extincted many varieties of birds.  'made many
> > varietities of bird extinct'
> >
> >    BUT The  early settlers extinguished many varieties of birds.
> >
> >
>Obviously, the birds were on fire.  And then they extincted them.

Obviously they were phoenixes.

Joel

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