New words for you

So at dinner today, Angela brought up the brilliant point that if a fisher can fish and a runner can run, then obviously, a finger can fing. After great discussion, we agreed that in fact all nouns ending in -er must have a verb form, which is the noun without the -er. A finger fings, a danger danges, a corner corns, a dinner dins, and so on. As in all types of grammar, there are exceptions to this rule, of course. A deer, for example, durs, and a career can carur. A seer, however, sees, because it is a two-syllable word.

So then we got to thinking: why would -er nouns be the only ones able to do this? -Or and -ar nouns should be able to be converted in this way as well. But first, we needed a precedent to prove that it can be done. After great thought, we realized that a jailor jails and a sailor sails; therefore, a monitor monits, a pastor pasts, and a chancellor chancells. The hardest to come up with was an -ar noun, but finally we found one in burglar, because burglars burgle and pulsars pulse. The difference here is that -ar nouns must be followed by an e in their verb form. Thus, a quasar can quase, a pear can pee, etc.

So in the interest of promoting these little-used words, we are going to use them in daily conversation now with the hope that they will in fact catch on. Feel free to do so yourselves!

New words for you

So at dinner today, Angela brought up the brilliant point that if a fisher can fish and a runner can run, then obviously, a finger can fing. After great discussion, we agreed that in fact all nouns ending in -er must have a verb form, which is the noun without the -er. A finger fings, a danger danges, a corner corns, a dinner dins, and so on. As in all types of grammar, there are exceptions to this rule, of course. A deer, for example, durs, and a career can carur. A seer, however, sees, because it is a two-syllable word.

So then we got to thinking: why would -er nouns be the only ones able to do this? -Or and -ar nouns should be able to be converted in this way as well. But first, we needed a precedent to prove that it can be done. After great thought, we realized that a jailor jails and a sailor sails; therefore, a monitor monits, a pastor pasts, and a chancellor chancells. The hardest to come up with was an -ar noun, but finally we found one in burglar, because burglars burgle and pulsars pulse. The difference here is that -ar nouns must be followed by an e in their verb form. Thus, a quasar can quase, a pear can pee, etc.

So in the interest of promoting these little-used words, we are going to use them in daily conversation now with the hope that they will in fact catch on. Feel free to do so yourselves!