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Whilst watching the celebrities climb Kilamanjaro on TV last night, I got riled when the narrator turned a noun into a nonsensical verb.
As opposed reaching the summit, they were "summiting".
Mind you, I also got annoyed during the Olympics last year when commentators kept on referring to Team GB as "medaling".
Surely I can't be the only one that finds this annoying, can I?
Whilst watching the celebrities climb Kilamanjaro on TV last night, I got riled when the narrator turned a noun into a nonsensical verb.
As opposed reaching the summit, they were "summiting".
Mind you, I also got annoyed during the Olympics last year when commentators kept on referring to Team GB as "medaling".
Surely I can't be the only one that finds this annoying, can I?
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No, Avatar, what I said was that (quote) "much the same" had happened with orange. That started life in Sanskrit as naranga - which it still is in Hindi - before coming to us via Arabic and Spanish as naranja. Theoretically, we would have shortened that to a naranj before making it an orange.
As a matter of interest, orange as the name of the fruit has existed in English since the 14th century, but there is no record of the word as a colour until two centuries later.
As a matter of interest, orange as the name of the fruit has existed in English since the 14th century, but there is no record of the word as a colour until two centuries later.
