Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 10:41:29 -0400
From: "Peter L. Patrick" PPATRICK[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GUVAX.BITNET
Subject: Re: names to nouns
I'm pretty certain I've heard "nouned", "noun8ing" in linguistic
discussion before. Though as proper nouns are already nouns (not to
mention words), that doesn't quite address the case. I don't know what
does. My sense of the verb "coin", as applied to words, excludes
proper names, so maybe "coining a noun from a proper name" would work.
(The original idea being that coins are interchangeable, as are common
but not proper nouns?)
--plp