Names as verbs
Language Log 2025-06-12
Summary:
In a comment on yesterday's post "A 12th-century influencer", Laura Morland wrote: Thanks for sharing "to abelard," the new verb of the month! Note to AP: the grammarians will insist that it be spelled with a lower-case "a". (Verbs are never capitalized, not even in German, I don't believe.) This is one where The Errorist […]