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By JAMES J. KILPATRICK
v. Limenal Press Syndicate
At Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pa., two professors won a coveted honor last October, The board of trustees “emeritized” them. It’s right there in the minutes of the trustees’ meeting.
That is the latest citation of an “izing” to come my way, but it certainly will not be the last. The process of turning nouns into verbs by adding “ize” dates from the 1300s. It’s been accelerating ever since.
In the 19th century, ize-verbs multiplied'faster than guppies. “To officialize,” and in “to officialize English,” dates from 1840-50. Lexicographers spotted “to funeralize” in 1859. “To accessorize” has been around for 60 years.
Many of the ize-verbs, such as “to hooverize,” have proved to be mere nonce words, gone with the ebbing tides of fame. In the hey day of columnist Westbrook Pegler, to be peglerized was to be pulverized. In 1987 the Senate Judiciary Committee “borkized" (or “borked) a distinguished nominee to the Supreme Court. 1 have not had a citation of “to clintonize,” meaning to act indecisively, but the
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