![]() I am very fond of Stephen King’s novels, but he regularly fails to nail the dismount: Under the Dome was claustrophobic and compelling, but the final reveal was bathetic and frustratingly arbitrary. This book review boasts two nounings in quick succession: dismount (in the curious phrase nail the dismount), and reveal: While fraud remains a problem, there is a clear disconnect between consumer feeling and retailer reality about the extent of online fraud. Disconnect, for example, is typically used more metaphorically than the verb, and tends to collocate with adjectives signalling importance – clear, dangerous, fundamental, huge, major, profound, and serious. These ‘nounings’ are quite distinct from their verbs. ![]() ![]() Some verbs that are increasingly ‘nouned’ are ask, eat (as in I wouldn’t call it a cheap eat), disconnect, and reveal. I’d like to consider the phenomenon of ‘nouning’, whereby people give verbs new senses as nouns – the mirror image of the better-known ‘verbing’. ![]()
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