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From: jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Is English decaying rapidly?
Message-ID: <702@rtech.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 20-Oct-85 05:40:27 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct 20 05:40:27 1985
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> > 
> > > Where did "deplane" come from?  I don't debus the bus so why should
> > > I deplane the plane?
> > 
> > You've obviously never been to Fantasy Island.  The line is: "Bus, deplane!
> > Deplane", not the other way around.
> > 
> > Ken Kaufman (uiucdcs!kaufman)
> 
> What I want to know is when did the word 'access' become a verb?

Verbing nouns is an old custom among people who speak English. :-)
-- 
Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
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