that the BBC should offer a transitive verb an object?

[Alliwantisaroomsomewhere]

News at 10 tonight: Bolt did not disappoint.

Disappoint WHAT or WHOM!

AIBU?

Oh god I read it as transvestite verb and clicked looking forwards to a truly bonkers thread.

think it's common use now and might be becoming 'acceptable' usage, especially when used as a headline or similar.

Popular usage does not make it grammatically correct, innit?

Surely it's ambitransitive.
Disappoint can also be intransitive.

I don't wish to disappoint but I think it's acceptable usage.

Usage of it in intransitive form can be found in the King James Bible and ever since.

I find Bolt's medalliing far more worrying.

It's common usage, so YABU - prescriptive grammar is very Victorian era, dontcha know.

oh alright. I concede defeat. Just sounded wrong to me!

Clearly IABU!!

Byron used "medal" as a verb.

And look what became of Byron.

First sporting usage seems to be in 1966 by a Californian.

"medal"as a verb is on the same level as "parent" as a verb, and as far as levels go, i am almost horizontal on my sofa, with notebook on the arm of the sofa, so i will not be using capitals for the time being.

A Californian? Dear Lord.

It depends whether you favour prescriptive or descriptive grammar surely?

(Even bigger pedant than OP...)

clemette is my new hero :)

It is law of MN that every picky grammar thread title has to have a mistake in it.

YANBU.

I'm still cross with McDonalds for validating 'I'm loving it'...

"In terms of nouns used as verbs, "medal" is vile but "podium" is a greater abomination.

I fear the London Olympics may not "inspire a generation" to clutter their young heads with grammar.

Artexmonkey: Planet Pass Me Another Glass of Wine Please.

sorry to be ignorant but what is wrong with "podium"?

In the sense of 'to podium' it's a bit shit.

'Will the British boy podium again tonight?!' etc