Transitive "surge"

[Ben Zimmer]

On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Neal Whitman wrote:
>
> From surging police into Chicago's high-crime neighborhoods to working to
> increase the classroom time for the city's public-school students to dealing
> with the larger municipal deficit, Emanuel is trying to shake up a city bureau-
> cracy that clearly grew complacent under his predecessor.
>
> http://m.npr.org/story/137257836?url=3D/blogs/itsallpolitics/2011/06/17/137257836/a-month-in-new-job-chicago-mayor-emanuel-is-having-an-impact

Interesting that transitive "surge" is making the jump to civilian
use. Here's a Language Log post I wrote in Dec. '06 when it was still
mostly a military thing:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003975.html

--bgz

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