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When did "spend" become a noun?
by monochromatic 9y ago
When did "spend" become a noun?
- twic 9y agoIn the 1930s: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=average%20spend%2Caverage%20spending&year_start=1900&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Caverage%20spend%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Caverage%20spending%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=average%20spen... Via: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/336478/is-it-really-ok-to-use-spend-as-a-noun https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/336478/is-it-rea... EDIT: lies, first use is 1688: http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2012/04/spend.html http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2012/04/spend.html