I think Topping verbed the word verb in his sentence above. (View Post)

Well yes. We need new words to describe new concepts. Wifi, weekend, railway. A new thing came along and a new word was needed. Fine and dandy. But the world hasn't changed in the respect that i… (View Post)

Just because words have changed meanings before doesn't mean we should give up! A world where we words mean whatever the speaker chooses to mean is a world where we comunicate poorly. I have no … (View Post)

Ha, yes, of course! And obviously we have verbs for quadruplicate, quintuplicate, etc. I shall endeavour to use one of these in the next week. I will report back. (View Post)

Can I also add 'quantum' to the list of misused terms? And also 'quantum leap'? (View Post)