RE: Spend the noun

[David Barber <David -dot- Barber -at- ptgrey -dot- com>]

And now for an adjective-to-verb conversion: I was on the bus the other day, when the driver suddenly announced, "This bus is being mechanicaled out of service." 

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Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 3:46 PM
To: Bartels, Mary; Peter Neilson; TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: Spend the noun

Mary,

Thanks for "the reveal" on this one. :)  (My favorite verb-to-noun conversion of the last few years.  Too much reality TV.:)

Steve 

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Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 3:12 PM
To: Peter Neilson; TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: Spend the noun

Peter,

This topic came up just a coupla months ago and IIRC the consensus was that spend, used this way, is acceptable. I think this use of it came out of accounting/finance.

I have no idea whether or not you were asleep. 


Mary Bartels   |   Lead Technical Writer   |   E. & J. Gallo Winery

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Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 3:06 PM
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Subject: Spend the noun

I'm probably going to spend too much effort worrying about this one.

An article published by TechRepublic through its e-mail subscription uses the phrace, "reduce your annual spend" rather than "reduce your annual expense" or "reduce your annual expenditure."

Since when? Was I asleep?

Or am I efforting too much spend?
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