that the BBC should offer a transitive verb an object?

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News at 10 tonight: Bolt did not disappoint.

Disappoint WHAT or WHOM!

AIBU?

Yep, no reputable recorded uses of "podium" as a verb.

I shuddered at the 'verbing' of podium - I thought 'to medal' was bad enough (if only because I misheard that Tweddle was meddling)...

I think there is an implied object with disappoint (the viewers, the world, BBC commentators etc) and therefore it's now accepted use.

Ah, I hadn't heard it used as a verb. Yup, medalling is almost libellous (slanderous? )if you hear it and aren't concentrating

I don't like the lack of adverbs that I now hear from 'educated' people being interviewed or by newsreaders. For instance, 'He ran quicker' instead of 'he ran more quickly'.

Zara Phillips said of her horse, 'He did amazing.'

Bless her, she doesn't come from intelligent stock does she?

Never mind intelligent she should at least have been educated!

She had a very expensive education. Just goes to show you don't always get what you pay for.