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INGRID | 03:39 Tue 14th Sep 2004 | Phrases & Sayings
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who came up with the word dating? where did the word dating come from?
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'Date', as in "She's my date for tonight" first appeared in the USA in the 1920s in a publication examining Ameerican speech. 'Dating', to mean the process of meeting/going out with one's 'date' did not appear until the late 1930s.
07:50 Tue 14th Sep 2004
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I assumed in my earlier response that you did not mean the process of 'dating' such as is used by archaeologists to place an item in its historical context!
07:51 Tue 14th Sep 2004
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It's one of the features of English that nouns, like "a date", can readily be turned into verbs, like "dating" -- or the other way round. People complain about it, but Shakespeare did it a lot... When it really rankles is when there's a perfectly good verb already. Why use burglarise instead of burgle, or leveraging instead of levering?
09:51 Thu 16th Sep 2004

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