That's because people don't know the difference between affect and effect.
They also don't know the difference between further and farther.

Of course, the great irony is that "verb" is a noun. :)

It doesn't matter anyway, we're about 30 years late but we will all be
speaking Newspeak soon enough. :)
(the funny thing is I think Orwell used metric in "1984")

Phil

On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Carleton MacDonald <[email protected]>wrote:

> Two particular annoyances:
>
> An impact is what happens when one thing strikes another.  It has now been
> "verbed" and is the new trendy business buzzword for "affect".
>
> "Leverage" is a financial term involving using borrowed money for a
> purpose.
> It too has become THE new trendy word as both a noun and, unspeakably, a
> verb.
>
> I edit documents at work and have a rather notorious reputation at editing
> out both words whenever I see them used inappropriately.
>
> Carleton
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
> Of [email protected]
> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 14:56
> To: U.S. Metric Association
> Subject: [USMA:52464] Re: Use of the Word "Metric"
>
> Re: [USMA:52457] Reuse of Word
>
> An interesting point.  The venerable Webster's Unabridged Second Edition,
> which is still used by careful writers, does not list "metric" as a noun.
> The Third Edition does, so the word gained recognition after 1960.
> Accurate writers now use "SI Metric" to designate the Modern Metric System.
>
> The usage that really bugs me is the run-away usage of "vouns," that is,
> verbs used as nouns.  We are commonly hearing now, except from the most
> careful broadcasters, "the sequester" instead of "the sequestration."  We
> have long heard in recent decades about doing "an install" instead of "an
> installation."  This confusing peculiarity of English works the other way
> too.  For example, some would "mustard" their hot dog, using the noun as a
> verb.
>
>

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