Mignon Fogarty on Nostr: In my poll from a few days ago, nearly all of you thought it was not wrong to use the ...
In my poll from a few days ago, nearly all of you thought it was not wrong to use the verb "contacted" in the sentence "She immediately called an officer at the Naval Intelligence Service, who in turn contacted the FBI."
I was surprised to learn that decades ago, people objected heartily to using the word "contact" as a verb.
This came up when I interviewed Steve Kleinedler, formerly of the American Heritage Dictionary for the Grammar Girl podcast this week. 1/X
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