How sad am I?

[flip_flop]

On a scale of 1 to 10, how sad am 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?

[another-view]

Language constantly evolves as has been pointed out.

What did you expect them to say? "Verily yea, thou hast climbeth thy mountain". Time moves on, move with it.

[Quizmonster]

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.