May I use the word ‘marketing’...

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... to mean going around shops or stalls to pick up my daily necessities, in the manner of a French housewife from the pages of Elizabeth David?

Depends.

Do you wish to confuse people?

Rather you didn't turn a noun into a verb. Going shopping would surely cover it?

It’s not a verb as such - another noun - ‘she’s doing her marketing’.

In Scotland it’s “doing your messsages” isn’t it?

Rather you didn't turn a noun into a verb. Going shopping would surely cover it?

@missmouse101 - so you object to making a verb of market out of the noun, but you happily use the verb shop (particple form shopping) that similarly came from the noun?

I've never understood the blanket objection to verbing nouns, as it happens all the time in language and is quite unremarkable. After all you used the verb turn which comes from a Latin verbisation of a noun meaning lathe.

On the other hand, cover started as a verb and the noun was later derived from it, so I'll let you off that one.

(All info gleaned from www.etymonline.com
eg www.etymonline.com/word/shop#etymonline_v_24203 )

Ha Fire you’ve found me out. I am indeed Scottish!