It’s a while since I posted anything that might be called a writing tip (or more likely a writing moan) but a couple of really cringe-making examples of nouns used as verbs mean that I feel compelled to write something somewhere.
Visiting a restaurant in Edinburgh the other day I was faced with a notice on the door saying that, for evening dining they will insist on “cloakrooming” outer coats.
There is, at the time of writing, a large traveller-occupied site where the travellers are resiting removal by the local authority. I heard a BBC newsreader say that …further action would be taken if the travellers did not “evict” by a certain date.
Ugh!!
Being something of a literalist I regularly groan when I here people in a shop, bar, or the like ask “can I get a …” rather than can I have. I keep trying to persuade my local landlord to respond with “no but I’ll get it for you”. To date he has not taken my campaign seriously.
I think you’re glass-housing here: “when I here people in a shop”. Here?
So I can’t proof read. Suspect I wrote that using speech-to-text