[Ads-l] "manner" is now a verb

[George Thompson]

Don't tell the OED.  It thinks it is only a noun, adverb or adjective.

"Are you going to manner it a homicide?"

Spoken by a Homicide Detective to a Medical Examiner.  He hopes she will
declare the "manner of death" to have been an accident, since he has quite
enough homicides to deal with.

Judy Melinek.  *Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a
Medical Examiner*.  N. Y.: Scribner, 2015.   p. 132

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-- 
George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998.

But when aroused at the Trump of Doom / Ye shall start, bold kings, from
your lowly tomb. . .
L. H. Sigourney, "Burial of Mazeen", Poems.  Boston, 1827, p. 112

The Trump of Doom -- also known as The Dunghill Toadstool.  (Here's a
picture of his great-grandfather.)

https://heritagecollections.parliament.uk/collections/getrecord/HOP_WOA_3851

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