The Verbing Of Nouns

It seems these days that just about any noun can be verbed. If you don't faith that, audience me while I illustration my point:
  1. . . . the world of an architected application . . .
    anonymous
  2. We were arsoned.
    abortion clinic employee
  3. These procedures were authored by Farrell Wilson
    The Russler
  4. After we're done communication with the banks . . .
    anonymous
  5. They will conference in the Dayton IPC.
    Josh_Strasner
  6. Please distribution to your teams.
    Tony_Hendrix
  7. This process is used to envelope outbound EDI document.
    EDI manual
  8. Create an exception for each bank that errored off.
    anonymous
  9. A census poll was released evidencing the fact that . . .
    anonymous
  10. You can join thousands of Americans in spreading the word about our campaign by tabling, flyering, or putting downloadable Dean posters in your yard or window.
    Tana_Berry
  11. She keyed my car.
    many victims
  12. Does not leverage his or her SE experience.
    SSG Performance Appraisal Workbook
  13. We are responsible for liaisoning with you guys.
    Glen_Fisher
  14. Instead of you having to maintenance this . . .
    Diane_Scovill
  15. His goal is to matrix out everything that can be.
    anonymous
  16. Ellen Daniels will need more training and mentoring.
    The Russler
  17. That was multipled by two.
    anonymous
  18. Henderson now offices at his home in Canyon.
    Richardson News
  19. . . . 23 personnel awaiting interviews, 14 now on-boarding . . .
    someone in an all-hand meeting
  20. The purchase is in the 1994 budget and has been outlooked.
    anonymous
  21. Parenting is hard labor.
    The Russler
  22. The SEs then ported the data into Incase.
    anonymous
  23. You may procedure to the court yard, or the parking garage.
    Brent_Kern
  24. Give me a call or PROFS me with your thoughts. (PRofessional OFfice System)
    Kenneth_McDaniel
  25. Do you have any experience in prototyping?
    anonymous
  26. I'm in the process of provisioning the hardware and software.
    Carlos
  27. I have received . . . messages regarding the ranking and quartiling process.
    Dick Brown
  28. You will have to recovery the files from the backup.
    anonymous
  29. Reference the start-up instructions on page 9.
    anonymous
  30. Time is one of the most seminarred-about topics.
    Keith_Mask
  31. Breakfast is now being servered.
    Aaron Colwick
  32. The development of the . . . Model coupled with the solution-ing process has been approved . . .
    Vicki_Laurie
  33. . . . through the statusing of the order.
    Technical Products Division
  34. We are going to sunset the Dallas Plan.
    Elaine_Agather
  35. A lot of people suspicion we're going to the capital.
    Tom The Trucker
  36. Anne, I'm going to task you with a deliverable.
    pointy-haired boss
  37. We saw large clouds moving rapidly, and we knew they were going to start tornadoing.
    reporter on "Good Morning America"
  38. It's hard when you have to transition to a new work group.
    anonymous
  39. You're going to be trending that.
    Craig_Bilodeaux
  40. We are trialing some new varieties.
    scientist on a PBS show
  41. Version it over to the new environment.
    anonymous

The opposite thing also happens. We take a verb and pretend it's a noun.
  1. Somewhere there is a disconnect.
    Jay_Scholten
  2. The first step is to do a read on the database.
    anonymous

I apologize for all the anonymous quotes. Many of them were written down before I started recording credit, but in other cases I was trying to avoid embarrassing someone (and/or getting myself into trouble).
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