sunset

[Arnold Zwicky]

On Jan 7, 2010, at 5:55 PM, Herb Stahlke wrote:

> ... I
> got 41k raw googits for "will sunset," putting the search string in
> quotes.  After scanning the first ten pages I would guess that maybe
> 30-40 percent were transitive or intransitive verbs meaning "terminat,
> expire."

and the "sunset provision" verb has a subentry (of the general
"sunset" entry) in OED2, where it's marked as north american.  there
are cites for both intransitive and transitive uses, from 1978 on.

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org