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AmE speaker here. I have never heard anyone use "spot out" as a verb, but on the other hand, prepositions seem to pretty frequently attach themselves to new ver
by jgwil2 7y ago
AmE speaker here. I have never heard anyone use "spot out" as a verb, but on the other hand, prepositions seem to pretty frequently attach themselves to new verbs or drop from common phrases. It still bugs me a little to hear colleagues talking about "building out" a new feature instead of simply building it, for example.
- OJFord 7y agoThat is a weird one, yes. I think it comes from 'flesh out', which, if similar, is at least old enough that it doesn't sound strange to me. Wiktionary sort of suggests it should sound similarly odd - it doesn't discuss it on the flesh out page [0], but for flesh vb. [1] it does give '5. To put flesh on; to fatten'. [0] - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flesh_out#Verb https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flesh_out#Verb [1] - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flesh#Verb https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flesh#Verb