Inspecting language abuse

10th August 2012, 1:00am

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Inspecting language abuse

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When I asked an American friend why she and her compatriots were busy turning all our nouns into verbs, she explained that it was to compensate for having made our adverbs redundant.

George Bethell, Stowmarket, Suffolk.

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