Comments on: The great wave of verbing rolls on http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/08/02/the-great-wave-of-verbing-rolls-on/ A blog mostly about language Fri, 24 May 2013 00:07:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: arnold zwicky http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/08/02/the-great-wave-of-verbing-rolls-on/#comment-27773 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 22:46:53 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=11457#comment-27773 Yes, network was verbed some time ago. From OED3 (Sept. 2003):

‘to cover (something) with a network’ from 1845

(Broadcasting) ‘to broadcast simultaneously over a network of radio or television stations’ from 1952

(orig. U.S.) ‘to engage in social or professional ‘networking’ ’ from 1980

(Computing) ‘to link (computers) together to allow the sharing of data, interactive operation, and efficient utilization of resources; to incorporate into a computer network’ from 1982

]]> By: W http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/08/02/the-great-wave-of-verbing-rolls-on/#comment-27771 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 22:34:45 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=11457#comment-27771 I call it no big surprise, given that ‘networking’ by itself has been verbable for quite some time.

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