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for most of us the verb will take a good deal of getting used to.
A sportswriter for the Logan (Utah) Herald Journal showed admirable inventiveness in covering a basketball game during the Christmas season of 1993. Utah State won, but the crowd of 5,259 had been “sparcened by holidays and the Las Vegas Bowl.” If the writer wanted to coin a verb form the adjective “sparse,” shouldn’t the past participle be “sparsened?” But I suppose it’s his word, and he can spell it any way he pleases.
The sports pages have verbed another noun to good effect. In Vero Beach, Fla., five hospitals entered into a joint agreement for certain clerical services. A spokesman said he couldn’t estimate the savings exactly. “We have not ballparked that at this point in time.” (He could have said, “we haven’t yet ballparked that,” and saved five words, but we’re talking coinages today.)
The Seneca (S.C.) Joumal/Tribune carried a photo last year of an award ceremony. The recipient “is also very active in ‘Life Line,’ an organization in which she has membered for nine years.” A little too much compression here. How
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