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Thursday, July 6, 2006
Verbing
Source: Motley Fool
It's official. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has added Google - a verb - to its latest round of updates. Now Google joins other company names that have been "verbed" in the OED, like FedEx, TiVo, and Xerox. Anders Bylund writes that since there have been rumors about Google buying TiVo, it will be interesting to see the linguistic challenges that might pose. Somebody hand me a Kleenex, or maybe a Band-Aid.
Posted by mwelch at 08:57 AM
