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> I would go old school and use "understands it intuitively" I wonder if this is a regional difference. The OED claims that intuit as a verb has been in contin
by vulcan01 2y ago
> I would go old school and use "understands it intuitively"
I wonder if this is a regional difference. The OED claims that intuit as a verb has been in continuous use since the 1860s (at least) and I've heard it used as a verb my entire life (various areas in the US).
- gerdesj 2y ago"The OED claims that intuit as a verb has been in continuous use since the 1860s" That's a fair source but I went to a pretty posh school in Oxfordshire! Oxford was about 90p return away by bus from Abingdon in the mid to late 1980s. I studied English to O (Ordinary) level (both language and literature) and bagged a pair of Bs. I might also point out that I also attended schools in Devon, Manchester and multiple places in West Germany (UK Army brat). Obviously, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence and I have only my own recollections to go by but I have never knowingly heard intuit as a verb. I have only ever seen it written by Americans (for a given value of America)! I do like it and will fall in line forthwith!