This article fascinated me. In my personal opinion, the headline should more appropriately read "Words we [the English language police] don't [want anyone to] say [or use]."
Needless to say, I will use take this opportunity to opine about a plethora of the submissions. (And just for fun, any words/phrases from the list that I purposefully use will be in red.)
First of all, this entry particularly amused me: "Verbing nouns, in general. As Calvin once said to Hobbes, 'It weirds the language.'"
Two things:
- 1) The submitter 'verbed a noun' by using a noun (verb) as a verb; and
- 2) The submitter uses an example of an adjective (weird), not a noun, being used as a verb.
I'd bet that the submitter realizes the irony of his/her submission, but if not, that would be even funnier.
