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"leverage" used as a verb bugs me the most. The "-age" suffix is clearly established as a way to form a noun, in this case with the base verb "lever". If we tr

• gweinberg 6y ago
  "Lever" is already a noun."Lever" is the tool, "leverage" is what you get by using the tool.
  • pushrax 6y ago
    You can debate whether "leverage" comes from the noun or verb form of "lever" (which both exist, and the "-age" pattern is used for both nouns and verbs), but the main point is that "leverage" used as a verb breaks prior usage of "-age" in exactly the way I described. "leverage" has been used as a noun for centuries, but as a verb for only decades. It's a recent neologism.
    • ncmncm 6y ago
      I.e. a neologism.