[ChrisGeorge]

Prepare to cringe.

In an article in today's Washington Post about the Queen's upcoming Jubilee:

"The daughter of George VI, who became king only after his brother abdicated to marry a divorced American socialite, the queen was coronated June 2, 1953."

[Janice D. Soderling]

Horrors! Report them to the Word Nerd Society.

[Tim Murphy]

What can you expect of Colonists?

[Bill Carpenter]

From Wiki Answers: "Where was Washington inaugurationed at?"

[David Landrum]

Reminds me of the days I was in academia and the President of our school would get up and say, "Someone gifted $500,000.00 to our school." As Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes would say, "Another word just got verbed." Verbing weirds language.

dwl

[Jerome Betts]

It out-Herods Herod, perhaps, as somebody said. Funny how you could 'motor through France' but not 'car through France'. Could AE speakers 'auto through France' or 'automobile through France' ? I wonder why some nouns don't seem verbable.

[John Beaton]

It's in the OED as a transitive verb, with etymological citations back to 1623. I like it, and will look for ways to conversate it.

[Carol Taylor]

I was just trying to stay with the syntax long enough to find out who got coronated.

[David Anthony]

Originally Posted by Tim Murphy

What can you expect of Colonists?

I thought we were Colonists, since we colonisted you, and you were Colonials.

[John Beaton]

Originally Posted by Tim Murphy

What can you expect of Colonists?

A lot of digests.