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Is the verb usage of ladle considered verbing? From ladle to ladle, From verb to verb It was verbing verbification when it was verbed verbified The noun ladle was verbed to the verb ladle long time ago, as early as 1525 per OED1; thus, any use of the verb ladle after the first usage of the verb is not verbing verbification anymore
Is it ladle or laddle? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The author of a book I'm working on insists that a ladle, a serving spoon for soup or stew, is spelled laddle A quick Google search pulled results of ladle, but most shopping sites and Youtube vi
How is the ending -le or -el determined? - English Language Usage . . . Words that in Modern English are written ending with -le derive from words ending in -el, -el- or are related with such words candle Old English candel cattle Anglo-Norman catel ladle Old English hlædel paddle Low German paddeln rattle Low German ratelen The spelling of those words is changed, but the pronunciation was keep closer to the original related word
I would like to ask you a favour vs. I would like to ask you for a . . . According to this Google NGram, all of the following forms are in use: ask you a favo (u)r ask you for a favo (u)r As you can see, the forms without the preposition for are more common (with "ask you a favor" generating the highest results) In common use, one may conclude that this is the preferred form
etymology - Origin of the wrong end of the stick - English Language . . . Before toilet paper and Sears catalogs, there was a wooden spatula called the stick If you were in the outhouse after dark and you had to find the stick in the dark, you had a good chance of finding the wrong, dirty, shitty end of the stick Not everyone could afford candles or lanterns, and sometimes the wind would blow them out anyway