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One of my pet peeves -- one I fall prey to engaging in myself -- is our tendency to verbize, to turn nouns into verbs to shortcut our speech (There! I just verbized using the noun ‘shortcut’ as an active verb!) Thus, we do not make a telephone call or send an e-mail; we telephone someone or e-mail them. ...

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