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Grammar for Authors: Verbing with Verbs

 Last updated on June 7, 2020
-Beth Wangler

I recently saw a joke that any word in English can be a verb if you try hard enough: I just want to tea and book today. The corrupt dictator Thanos-ed his starving people. She dentists teeth rather poorly, but she jack o’lanterns pumpkins very well. It’s a new favorite thought-experiment of mine. What’s the …

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