transitive "officiate"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sat Nov 5 04:19:35 UTC 2011


On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
> Tha OED marks as "rare" any transitive use of the verb except in reference to officiating (of) sports contests--a distinction that corrresponds with my own sense.

With mine, too. In fact, I don't buy such a use even WRT to contests.

"_Referees_ Gay Wedding"? Yes. Otherwise, it has to be, "...
Officiates _At_ Gay Wedding," IMO.

But, what can you do? There's no stopping "language change in
progress." (Wasn't there a conference and/or a book with that title?)

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