[Publib] preventive not preventative, disrespect is not a verb

[Roger Carswell]

OK, here are my two.

Apropos used to mean "appropriate".
Gift used as a verb in place of give or gave  ("They gifted the land 
to the college")


At 03:36 PM 8/12/2008, Tom Cooper wrote:

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>That's funny. It reminds me of this article about the seven worst 
>words book reviewers use. He's pretty dead on, especially on the 
>weird verbs reviewers use instead of just writing 
>'write.' 
><http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/25/seven-deadly-words-of-book-reviewing/>http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/25/seven-deadly-words-of-book-reviewing/
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>The one that really bugs me is "author" used as a verb.
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