It’s far worse when I hear someone say “I borrowed that to him”
[QUOTE=Trunk]
Nathan Hale was hung. And I say that without any double entendric reference to his manhood.
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No, he was hanged, honestly.
Yep. They drugged poor Nathan Hale up to the gallows and hunged him.
[QUOTE=Larry Mudd]
No, he was hanged, honestly.
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Well, dang me. I’ve been adverbly nouned!
Still fair to say Jesus was hung, though.
[QUOTE=Trunk]
Still fair to say Jesus was hung, though.
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Mary Magdalene? Is that you?
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton]
Another usage that bugs me: “Hung,” as in, “Nathan Hale was hung.” No, sir. John Holmes was hung. Nathan Hale was hanged.
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[Blazing Saddles] “Bart Bart! They told us you was hung!” “And they was right.” [/Blazing Saddles]
If it’s good enough for Chuck Yeager, it’s good enough for me.
[QUOTE=BubbaDog]
Somebody Loan me a dime,
I need to call my old time, used to be.
Am the only one with this tune in my head as I read this thread?
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Exactly what I came in to add.
Duane Allman at his best (plus a pre-Dead Donna Jean Godchaux on backup vocals).
Hmm…anyone ever used **I’d’ve ** before? I do in very informal writings, but I wonder if it’s being used elswhere.
[QUOTE=LunaV]
Hmm…anyone ever used **I’d’ve ** before? I do in very informal writings, but I wonder if it’s being used elswhere.
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I do. Sometimes I like my writing to be exactly representative of the way I speak, and I definitely say that.
[QUOTE=LunaV]
Hmm…anyone ever used **I’d’ve ** before? I do in very informal writings, but I wonder if it’s being used elswhere.
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That’s fer them ivory college stuck-up gradjit folk. I use I’da like a real person!
[QUOTE=John Mace]
I do. Sometimes I like my writing to be exactly representative of the way I speak, and I definitely say that.
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Me too, after I saw it in a Calvin & Hobbes cartoon I use the word ‘dunno’ in informal writing.
[QUOTE=cricetus]
Here in Minnesota people say “could you borrow me that pencil.”
Proper verb or not, I’d consider “loan” a huge improvement.
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This is true. Drives me fucking NUTS.
“Jim borrowed me his laptop for the weekend.”
“I can borrow you the DVD but I need it back by Thursday.”
GAHHH!!!
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton]
Usually I’m inclined the other way. I rarely object to the verbing of nouns. But in this case, where there’s already a perfectly useful Anglo-Saxon monosyllabic verb, the verbing of the analogous noun strikes me as sloppiness.
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I know. I can’t understand why peple must insist on terms like fuckwad when there are perfectly acceptable terms like dipshit already on the shelf.
[QUOTE=fachverwirrt]
No. Drives me nuts.
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A pirate walks into a bar with a ship’s steering wheel sticking from the fly of his pants…
[QUOTE=Bosstone]
I use I’da like a real person!
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I hear the sailors use her like a semi-person at best.
I no longer get excited about this. loan is becoming a verb. Nothing we can do to stop it. Just lay (or lie) back and think of England.
How about the verb “to raise?” The noun is “rise.” So why do Americans talk about getting a 'Pay raise" rather than a “pay rise?” Because trying to nail the function of words in English is like trying to nail jello to a tree.
[QUOTE=Paul in Saudi]
I no longer get excited about this. loan is becoming a verb. Nothing we can do to stop it. Just lay (or lie) back and think of England.
How about the verb “to raise?” The noun is “rise.” So why do Americans talk about getting a 'Pay raise" rather than a “pay rise?”
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Because “raise” is a noun, too? And “raising” and “rising” are two different words conveying similar, but distinct, actions? “Rise” is the noun form of the verb “to rise.” “Raise” is the noun form of the verb “to raise.”
“Pay rise” has always sounded odd to my (American) ears. You raise somebody’s salary, not rise it, therefore, you get a salary raise. At least, that’s how I’ve always heard it.
I thought the verb was “borrie”, as in “Can y’ borrie me a dollar?”
Maybe I’ve spent too much time in the mountains. 
[QUOTE=Paul in Saudi]
I no longer get excited about this. loan is becoming a verb.
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If you’ve read the thread, you know that “loan” has always been a verb.
-FrL-