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Subject: [OM] Re: USA Southwest
From: Peter Leyssens <peterleyssens@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 15:19:13 +0100
Like Calvin said: I love to verb words, verbing weirds language :)


Peter.

Andrew Fildes wrote:
> It's a murkin thing innit? Like utilise instead of use, burglarise  
> instead of burgle, orientate instead of orient and turning absolutely  
> everything into a verb.
> We just can't trust them with the language, now can we?
> AndrewF
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> 
> On 30/10/2005, at 4:58 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
> 
> 
>>but why the word "origination"?  What
>>was wrong with "origin"?  This looks like a corruption similar to the
>>need to use "obligate" when "oblige" serves very well ;-)
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