please won't you neighbor me?
From an article in today's Trib on how Biosphere is up for sale:
At first I was shocked that the Tribune (tho a well-known spelling innovator) would use "neighbor" this way. But apparently it can be used as a verb, according to Merriam-Webster and the American Heritage. This struck me as a modern usage (kind of like "friend me" from the facebook world), but the OED records similar usages going back to the 16th century (plus a bunch of obsolete ones meaning something like "to behave in a neighborly way.") Whodathunkit?
A sprawling new retirement community now neighbors the facility to the south, and developers would love to snag the Biosphere 2 property for residential use
At first I was shocked that the Tribune (tho a well-known spelling innovator) would use "neighbor" this way. But apparently it can be used as a verb, according to Merriam-Webster and the American Heritage. This struck me as a modern usage (kind of like "friend me" from the facebook world), but the OED records similar usages going back to the 16th century (plus a bunch of obsolete ones meaning something like "to behave in a neighborly way.") Whodathunkit?
posted by Andrew @ 2:31 PM
4 Comments:
At 10:16 AM,
Mary said…
The question is, is the more common "neighboring" (as in "residents of a neighboring apartment building...") an adjectivation of "neighbor" the verb, or vice versa?
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