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 […]

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orthography

Authors:

Mark Liberman

Date tagged:

06/12/2025, 12:03

Date published:

06/12/2025, 09:57