Re: Tense marked on nouns
| From: | Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 4, 2004, 12:22 |
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In a message dated 6/3/2004 3:00:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
mark@POLYMATHIX.COM writes:
>The verb 'impact' is neologistic in my lifetime, for example.
You must be older than I thought.
The OED has these citations:
1935: "For there was about them an air of eagerness and of shuddering
expectation which impacted on his consciousness and fascinated even while it repelled
him."
1929: "Something impacted with a soft thud against Lingard's temple."
1791: "Impact fire into iron, by hammering it when red hot."
Doug
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