Data points: verbing, back-formation 9/12/10

For the moment I’ve lost the particular citation that set this note off, with the noun catwalk converted to a verb, but others are easy to find — and lead to some other uses of catwalk (and dogwalk). The story starts with the N catwalk ‘narrow footway or platform’. OED2 has cites for it from … Continue reading Data points: verbing, back-formation 9/12/10