No, I think what we're talking about is admitting the homonym.
Straight up Steven Pinker:
http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/books/tli/index.html
On Jul 21, 2009, at 3:43 PM, Robert Hoekman Jr wrote:
People always get irritated about nouns becoming verbs and yet we all
"google" things.
Language lives! Evolve! Their! Theirs! ;)
I'm all for the evolution of language, and yes, nouns become verbs
frequently these days, but in this case, you're talking about making a
plural form singular. It's the equivalent of referring to a single
Google
employee as "Googlers".
-r-
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