Oh my … really? What is our language coming to?
See our series on Nouns gone bad:
- Nouns gone bad …
- Nouns gone bad … sequeled
- Nouns gone bad … Properly
- Badverbs … cousins to nouns gone bad
- Verbalized …
- SPAM: honorary noun gone bad …
- Yummy noun gone bad …
verb every noun/kill every prescriptivist
This noun going bad looks like a game a little kid would play … or misspeak of someone who learned English as a 2nd language.
But one of my favorites:
“I am minuspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericabobulations.”
– Edmund Blackadder to Dr Samuel Johnson, author of the Dictionary, in the British TV series, Balckadder 3