If you can verbify a noun, can you also nounify a verb?
Maybe this would be a good time to close this thead? I no longer care about the word “strategize” and I regret ever starting this thread.
That’s more ingrained in the language already in the form of gerunds. For example, “jump” is a verb. The participle form “jumping” can be used a noun (“Jumping is easy.” “The jumping hurt his feet.”)
Yes and it’s often called nominalization and is not restricted to gerunds.
It seems that the real problem here is being overlooked.
It seems that the OP has a rubbish spellchecker. To be honest, I expected mine to reject the ‘z’ in strategize. I did not, but it also accepts strategise, which would be the way we spell it over here.
Eye have a spelling chequer,
It came with my Pea Sea.
Firefox doesn’t have it. I unfortunately could not quickly find where Firefox’s dictionary comes from. It seems odd that it would be handled in house. But I have had to file a bug on this sort of thing before. (For some reason, “contributer” was a word, but “contributor” was not.) But that was back on Firefox 2.