OT but too funny!!!!

Yep, ole George there, he was sumpin'!!!

(grin)

Erin

A stupid Grin on my face ,,,,, Yes we can sometimes say the weirdest things ,,, Many years ago my late mother`s family doctor , who was already in his late 70 , met my mother and she Joyfully tells him that Mrs so and so was so delighted that he spent time in her bed,,,, [my mother meant to say besides her bed ],,, And of course the Multi-lingual societies,,, give loads of Hilarious expressions .. Miskafayim are glasses , and michnasayim are pants ....One day , a friend of my mother, who was quite new in Israel , sat on her balcony , when a man wearing dark sun glasses, called a greeting to her from the street. She looked, didn`t recognize him, so she called back ,,, "If you take off your michnasayim i will probably recognize you !!!!." ...... mirjam

Years ago when my sister was teaching English composition to freshmen at University of Georgia, she had an in-class writing exercise of metaphor, which is describing one item or incident in terms of another

-- such as describing a subway as an earthworm. One rather shy young lady had apparently gone on a date with a young man who tried to get amorous, and she described him as an octopus. Unfortunately, she referred to his "grasping testicles"!

LOLOL

HIgs, Katherine

OOOOOOMPH ,,,,,,, hahahahah [sorry couldn`t resist !!!] mirjam

How long has 'word' been a verb?

Mary

Quite a long time according to the O.E.D. The first entry is dated 1205, and by 1836 it is used in the current sense as Mystified One used it.

=Tamar

As a verb???

Not in England.

Mary

When wasn't it?

TTFN Katherine

I remember that USE as long as i speak English ,,, mirjam

AHHH? So how come my ENGLISH relative uses it regulary ? mirjam

PRobably for as long as "phrase" has been used as a verb. ANd that means basically the same thing.

Yes. The section in the O.E.D. for "word (verb)" is not quite as long as the separate section for "word (noun)" but it's of significant length.

In 1205 America hadn't been discovered yet. The O.E.D. is the Oxford English Dictionary; when a usage is American it is specified. In 1737 Alexander Pope used it in a letter to Addison, referring to a quotation "as Shakespeare words it".

=Tamar

Yes.

It was earlier: 1713, Alexander Pope, letter to Addison 14 Dec: "as Shakespeare finely words it".

=Tamar

Sorry about the double post.

=Tamar

No matter. But I think you should perhaps get out more :-)

????????????????????????????????????? What are You speaking about Mary ???? I think Tamar gave us an excellent explanation ,,,, Thank you TAMAR !!!! mirjam

Thank goodness! I was afraid I had "verbed" a noun for a minute there!

"Samantha Hill - remove TRASH to reply" wrote >>>

I do medical transcription, and doctors do it all the time -- "The patient was [medication]ized," "The patient was [procedure]ized." Bleagh.