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Verb Oten

John Rentoul

Number 53 on The Banned List is toilet used as a verb.

Thank you to Tania Kindersley, who heard a woman on the radio talking of “toileting, feeding, etc”.

No thanks to Simon Gardner, who says that the full Oxford English Dictionary has: toilet, v. “To perform one’s toilet, to wash and attire oneself” * First use of ppt. 1864.

And thanks to Arieh Kovler, who drew my attention to this:

verbing weirds language1 Verb Oten

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