Death by verbing

From Facebook friends, this distressing recent Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, featuring a malevolently uberpeeving personification of the English language: Verbings of multi-word expressions are pretty common: especially of Adj + N composites (in my files: double whammy, open source, long grass, instant hold, social network, free ride, …) and N + N compounds (death panel, phone … Continue reading Death by verbing