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