Nouns and Verbs.

[Fire Walk With Me]

"Building" is a verb, not a noun. You can call it a "building" while they're actually building it, but afterward, you'd have to call it a "finished". And that's an adjective.

"Show". Same thing. Showing is an action, a verb. A "Show" is now a noun for what is actually a verb. "Show me something" now means "(noun) me something". Which could be painful.

"Fly" is what the insect does, not what it is. Sometimes it lands and stays landed. Oddly, the same is true with butterflies.

"News" as well. Show me that which is new. So long as you're not nouning me that which is new.

And what is up with the word "kayak"? Is it just me, or is it the same read toward the middle from either end? What's with that anyway? ;)

[dimbear]

1. For a long time people believed that butterfly

started out as the word 'flutter-by' and the letters got interchanged, but nowadays folks don't believe that. On the other hand, an orange actually did start out as a norange. This sort of observation led the great French writer Alexandre Dumas to observe that of all hothouses, the one which brought out the strangest buds was etymology.

[sarge43]

8. Even the Oxford English Dictionary is stumped about the origins of butterfly. n/t

[Shell Beau]

2. I am still trying to figure out the pair of panties and only one bra thingie.

Or a pair of pants but only one shirt. Damn. I can't keep up.

[nolabear]

3. And don't get me started on "cleave" and "cleave."

[sarge43]

7. Then, there's "proves the rule"

It's proofs the rule, ie tests the rule.

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. Write your congressman right fucking now!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. why do we park in the driveway and drive on the parkway?

:shrug:

[sarge43]

6. Flammable vs inflammable n/t

[madinmaryland]

9. Nice post, 9ui11iani!! Nouns and Verbs and 9/11.

[meow2u3]

10. Kinda reminds me of Gallagher and the English language

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWN9rTc08GU

[struggle4progress]

11. Grammar crutching weakly minds peoplers!

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. We've been verbing nouns for years

(First recorded use of 'verb' as a verb: 1936, though that was probably in jest:

"The Poet accused me of verbing a noun, but I soon fixed him. I threatened to noun a verb.")

[dimbear]

13. Was that Gerund Manley Hopkins by any chance? n/t

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. The Private Life of the Gerund

http://www.stcustards.free-online.co.uk/topp/latin/latin2.htm