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verb probably will turn up before long.
“To metricize,” meaning to convert to metric measurements, appeared about 1870. Its descendant arrived in the Wheels section of the Cincinnati Enquirer in March. An automotive reporter recalled that in 1960 Ford introduced a 430-cubic inch V-8 engine. The reporter explained: “That’s seven liters for the metricated.” Efforts to metricate America have yet a long way to go.
An unfamiliar verb appeared recently in a column from the Cox News Service. Columnist Tom Teepen commented that in the United States, election day turnouts are relatively meager, yet “Americans swank around the world as the very model of a democratic people.” I’m on good terms with to swagger and to strut, and I know that adjective “swanky,” but the verb “to swank” was a new one on me. It dates from 1809.
Another newcomer is “to diary.” An assistance U.S. attorney in Atlanta sent a memorandum to the Customs Service a year ago about a civil action then pending: “I will diary this case for 45 days.” Maybe “to dairy” serves a purpose in the jargon of the law, but
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