2pbfV postings
back-formation postings (on two-part verbs)
☛ AZ, 8/22/08: To gay marry:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=519
☛ AZ, 11/2/08: Early/absentee vote (the verbs):
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=795
☛ AZ, 4/5/09: scuba dove?:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1296
☛ 6/8/09: child-rear:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/child-rear/
☛ 6/8/09: Today’s two-part back-formed verb inventory:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/todays-two-part-back-formed-verb-inventory/
☛ 6/9/09: Back-formings:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/back-formings/
☛ 6/12/09: Please stop:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/please-stop/
step sending examples
☛ 6/13/09: Postings on 2-p b-f verbs:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2009/06/13/postings-on-2-p-b-f-verbs/
☛ 7/11/09: to name-check:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2009/07/11/to-name-check/
☛ 9/15/09: feel-copping:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/feel-copping/
☛ 9/17/09: Eve-teasing:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/eve-teasing/
☛ 9/23/09: Lifting shirts:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/lifting-shirts/
☛ 5/1/10: travel-write:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2010/05/01/travel-write/
☛ 4/11/11: Odds and ends:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2011/04/11/odds-and-ends/
page-turn
☛ 4/23/11: Mining back-formation:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2011/04/23/mining-back-formations/
data mine, data dredge, data fish, data snoop, quote mine, text mine
☛ 9/29/11: Financial back-formation:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2011/09/29/financial-back-formation/
insider-trade
☛ 5/7/12: xkcd back-formation:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/xkcd-back-formation/
basket-weave, underwater basket-weave
☛ 11/4/12: A batch of back-formation:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/11/04/a-batch-of-back-formations/
executive-produce, open carry, concealed carry, way-find
☛ 3/3/13: Annals of back-formation:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2013/03/03/annals-of-back-formation/
to hard-hit
☛ 4/15/13: Synthetic compounds and back-formation: go-go truth-telling:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2013/04/15/synthetic-compounds-and-back-formation-go-go-truth-telling/
to truth-tell, to go-go dance
☛ 7/4/13: From absentee-vote to zero-tolerate:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/07/04/from-absentee-vote-to-zero-tolerate/
16 examples from Neal Whitman
☛ 7/14/13: Another gay back-formed verb:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/07/14/another-gay-back-formed-verb/
to gay-flirt
☛ 7/24/13: Brief mention: you onion-peel so slowly:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/07/24/brief-mention-you-onion-peel-so-slowly/
to onion-peel, both literal and figurative
☛ 8/7/13: Annals of back-formation:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/08/07/annals-of-back-formation-2/
to truck-chase, to harsh-parent
☛ 8/14/13: Odds and ends 8/14/13:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/08/14/odds-and-ends-81413/
to bad kiss
☛ 10/3/14: Morphology Friday 2: back-formed freedom-fight:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/10/03/morphology-friday-2-back-formed-freedom-fight/
to freedom-fight
☛ 7/29/15: What’s wrong with this verb?:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/07/29/whats-wrong-with-this-verb/
drunk-drive, nude-sunbathe
☛ 7/31/15: PSP synthetic compounds:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/07/31/psp-synthetic-compounds/
PSP synthetic compounds and back-formations from them
☛ 8/5/15: Culinary Loc + V back-formed Vs:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/08/05/culinary-loc-v-back-formed-vs/
20 examples
☛ 8/17/15: Adjs in 2pbfVs:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/08/17/adjs-in-2pbfvs/
to situational hit, to official-score
☛ 1/3/16: New Year’s 2pbfv crop:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/01/03/new-years-2pbfv-crop/
to open-carry, to concealed-carry, to conceal carry; to music-direct
☛ 1/17/16: The family that fund-raises together:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/01/17/the-family-that-fund-raises-together/
to fund-raise in Gail Collins column
☛ 1/22/16: Rabble, rouse yourself from this pastoral torpor!:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/01/22/rabble-rouse-yourself-from-this-pastoral-torpor/
to rabble-rouse
☛ 1/23/16: to shape-shift:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/01/23/to-shape-shift/
☛ 5/25/17: 1 Bizarro, 2 Bizarro:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/05/25/1-bizarro-2-bizarro/
to ice-fish
☛ 7/4/17: Another prohibition on tipping:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/07/04/another-prohibition-on-tipping/
to fly-tip
☛ 12/23/17: they kitchen-kissed again:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/12/23/they-kitchen-kissed-again/
to kitchen-kiss
☛ 12/26/17: to pizza-make:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/12/26/to-pizza-make/
☛ 3/27/18: V-headed compounds
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/03/27/v-headed-compounds/
to snowblow, to treasure-hunt, to course-correct
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