In the last year or two I’ve been collecting examples of new verbs. These are usually existing words which have been either squashed or repurposed and made into verbs. Previously they were either phrases (eg to manage a project becomes to project-manage) or nouns (eg to window, meaning to schedule a delivery within a particular period of time). So here’s a little list, by no means exhaustive but comprising the ones I’ve managed to capture and commit to pen and paper:
to re-platform (heard at the railway station)
to window (seen on Facebook)
to project-manage (heard in conversation and rendered somewhat redundant by the phrase ‘I project-managed a project’…)
to part-time work
to offshore (as in tax)
to vacation (to be fair, this has been around for a while in the US but has only recently made it over here)
to semi-final (heard on University Challenge)
to sunblock (read just today on Facebook)
I’m sure there are thousands more. Have you come across any? I’d love to hear them. Please send them to me and I’ll post them
Thanks
Kirk out
Sarada Gray 