Objections to verbification in English tend to be motivated by personal taste, not clarity. Verbed words are usually easily understood. When a word like 'friend' is declared not a verb, the problem isn't that it's confusing; it's that the protester finds it deeply annoying. Erin McKean annoyclarityconfuse share on social
What I'm interested in is how people are reading and writing English. Erin McKean englishinterestpeople Change image and share on social
Ideally my goal is, before I die, to have some information about every word that's ever been used in print. Erin McKean diegoalideally Change image and share on social
Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and reading a definition. Erin McKean daydefinitiondictionary Change image and share on social