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	What is anthimeria? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Anthimeria is the use of a member of one word class as if it were a member of another, thus altering its meaning.
		In the following example, unhair is an example of anthimeria.
		This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003.
	www.sil.org /linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsAnthimeria.htm (105 words)

	Fabulous Adventures In Coding : Anthimeria weirds languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The 'rules' were back-formed by scholars trying to emulate Rome and therefore attempting to apply the alleged rules of Latin (themselves probably guesswork by Latin scholars, and only very high-class patrician Latin at that) onto the bastardised tongue we speak.
		Raymond, I note with delight that "mean", "see" and "stop" are all already nouns, though of course not usually used in the senses you mention.
		I see that you've already admitted that it was a poor choice of examples, but I felt compelled to pile on with one more reason.
	blogs.msdn.com /ericlippert/archive/2004/10/01/236740.aspx (1728 words)

	Figures of Speech
		Many word-persons view anthimeria with fear and loathing, especially when a noun replaces a perfectly good verb of the same root, as in "solution" for "solve." That is an example of verbing, or creating a verb from a noun.
		Creating nouns from verbs is equally decried: "I'll feel better after a good aerobicize." But the same people who would leap from a high place rather than solution a problem may be quite content to smoke a cigar, paper a wall, or run a program.
		Anthimeria is a powerful evolutionary force in English --- it's just that we hate to watch it in progress.
	www-unix.oit.umass.edu /~melanief/RhetoricalFigures.html (3224 words)

	Uncle Jazzbeau's Gallimaufrey: anthimeria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Though anthimeria is a neologism, it describes linguistic processes that are common to many languages.
		Who could complain of "denominative verbal forms?" But the "verbing of nouns" is a horror.
		Anthimeria can be done by adding derivational morphological dessinences, e.g., the -ize in "productize" above, or via a process known as zero derivation: using "architect" as a verb without any suffix.
	www.bisso.com /blarch/000010.html (158 words)

	Workshop in a Column
		The title comes from a Bill Waterston “Calvin and Hobbes” cartoon, and demonstrates the technique of Anthimeria – the colorful use of one part of speech as if it were another part of speech.
		Anthimeria works best when used sparingly, but here the relentless repetition of “green” is balanced by the word’s changing form, just as spring’s trademark color is balanced in its myriad different hues.
		Most literary dictionaries define free verse as poetry having the cadence, tone, and word choice of speech, but it is not that easy.
	pages.prodigy.net /sol.magazine/workshop.htm (3635 words)

	Encyclopedia: Anthimeria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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		Look up word in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Word may mean: Word (linguistics), a unit of language that symbolizes or communicates a meaning Microsoft Word, a word processor Word (computer science), a small group of bits Word may also be: In hip hop slang, an exclamation indicating deep and complete...
		Verbing is a common form of etymology and neologism in English, as well as a type of wordplay and a form of anthimeria, in which words other than verbs are used as verbs.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Anthimeria (434 words)

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