Who cares about National Grammar Day? Or is it whom?

[Randy Alexander]

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 9:46 PM,  <ronbutters at aol.com> wrote:
> The use of nouns as verbs is common in American English. That is to say, any noun can be verbed. For that matter, nouns can be adjectived (or at least made the first elements in noun compounds).

Using a noun to modify another noun does not make it an adjective, if
that's what you're referring to by "noun compounds".

However, quite a lot of nouns can be made adjectives by adding -y.

Also, I would be careful about saying *any* noun can be verbed.  Could
you verb "sake" (as in "for Pete's sake", not the drink)?

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