Nouns As Verbs

rogersgeorge on July 26th, 2020

Special because in this case all the nouns are proper nouns.

Pearls Before Swine Comic Strip for May 27, 2020 — https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2020/05/27

In case you don’t know, the character on the right is named “Rat.” And the technical name for this is “back-formation.”

So how’s your name? Could it be a verb? Mention it in the comments.

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