When did heart become a verb instead of a noun?

[Donk]

A hate it! (Must be an old fuddy duddy)

[hatwoman]

just to make clear dhat = hat's dh. he's going to have to get his own name

[hatwoman]

Staying with the general abuse of language theme, but digressing a little from the "verb"/pedant topic, I was most disconcerted when I saw the banner sign on the telly that is hanging outside the labour party conference in Birmingham:

"Welcome to Conference"

Why no article? Not even the definite?

I don't know exactly what this particular linguistic foible is attempting to communicate, but my instinct is to want to fucking disembowel the labour party apparatchik who came up with it.

dhat

[UnquietDad]

I hate it. Did it start with that Huckabees film?

[thumbwitch]

Donk, I'm with you - can't be doing with it. Can't be doing with a lot of other "verbed" words either, such as diarise, burglarise (it's burgle, you unlearned types!).

Pan, if you've ever suffered from real heartache then you'd know that wasn't in the stomach... it's where it says it is. Not nice.

[Tinker]

Hmm, I quite like it though. Has to be said quite camply though, I think.

[ClairePO]

like this you mean?

[LadyGlencoraPalliser]

I expect it did, Tinker, but does that not make it even more annoying? The suspicion that the slogan was misread accidentally rather than deliberately IYSWIM?

[Tinker]

Did it not come from those I Heart NY ads of the 70s?? Just said as seen, as it were?

[hatwoman]

but I'm sure dh got there first

[Donk]

at Mrs. Badger's link!

[MrsBadger]

[rummages for Calvin & Hobbs cartoon]

finds it

[Pan]

as we know, emotions are felt first and most strongly in the stomach region - excitement (butterflies), anxiety ( churning knots)..so perhaps to be true pedants we should be using "I stomach you".....??? Not the same ring, eh?

[hatwoman]

did you know that this process is called verbing? "to verb" means to turn a noun into a verb. at least, according to dh, who is not a pedant but, on the basis of this rather beautiful point, I think deserves honorary status.

[BoysAreLikeDogs]

I heart this phrase.

And I am a pedant to boot.

Embrace the changing nature of the english language.

[Donk]

Apparently its one of the words that the Collins dictionary has threatened to drop. I love it too, so I thought I would use it! - I first met it in 'Nine Taylors' by Dorothy Sayers.

[PootyApplewater]

i heart them doing words

[mrsbabookaloo]

Ooh, I love "embrangled!"

[Donk]

I do generally embrace language change, but for some reason this use of 'heart' really grates...
( I must have got my fingers all embrangled on the first post!)

[mrsbabookaloo]

Donk: I heart using heart as a verb. It's adorable.

It's possible to be a pedant and still embrace language change, y'know!

Also, it's obligatory to have a typo in any posts on pedants' corner. Almost nobody can avoid it.

[cthea]

When did "birth" become a verb? When did "parent" become a verb?

[Donk]

Oh no! A typo in a Pedants' Corner thread. The shame.

That should of course read 'I hate it!'