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Singing when no one else is around is always good. I especially like belters. Good, loud singing is probably better medicine than half the stuff they sell in pill bottles, and it's cheaper, too. I also think people should never turn down an opportunity to hold a baby. There's something about the feel of a new baby in your arms that just fixes you.
— Erin McKean The Secret Lives of Dresses
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We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.
— Erin McKean
Tags: make, young, meaning, youth
Almost any word can be drafted to serve as a verb, even words we think of as eternal and unchanging, stuck in their more traditional roles.
— Erin McKean
Tags: serve, more, think, words
All language is a popularity contest.
— Erin McKean
Tags: contest, popularity, language
The use of food metaphors is really well established English... Somebody is a peach, a hot tamale.
— Erin McKean
Tags: use, well, hot, food
Objections to verbification in English tend to be motivated by personal taste, not clarity. Verbed words are usually easily understood. When a word like 'friend' is declared not a verb, the problem isn't that it's confusing; it's that the protester finds it deeply annoying.
— Erin McKean
Tags: problem, like, friend, words
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