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dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

Is pm a verb? I read that 'google' has now been accepted by OED as a verb. Is the same true for pm? 'pm me' 'I pmed you yesterday' Is it a regular verb?

High Plains Drifter · Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 127 Location: Way Out There

If OK, KO, ID and 86 can be used as verbs, why not pm? Is it regular? Just as regular as "sneak".

Deconstructor · Joined: 30 Dec 2003 Posts: 775 Location: Montreal

If we use it as a verb, then it's a verb. We at dave's are English language trend setters after all. Cool

Alex42 · Joined: 14 Jun 2004 Posts: 77 Location: Salta, Argentina

How on earth could "86" be used as a verb?! Shocked

zaneth · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 3:28 pm Post subject:

Try googling "86ed"

pm'd would seem better for the spelling.

High Plains Drifter · Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 127 Location: Way Out There

Alex42, you clearly didn't work your way through college as a waiter, waitress, bartender or cook. To 86 something is American restaurant lingo. It means to cancel something that has already been ordered or remove it from the menu, perhaps because the restaurant has run out of it or because it's gone bad. The origin is something of a mystery, but here are some links:

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-eig1.htm

http://www.restaurantreport.com/qa/86d.html

http://muse.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/access.cgi?uri=/journals/american_speech/v076/76.4dundes.html&session=49204373

Alex42 · Joined: 14 Jun 2004 Posts: 77 Location: Salta, Argentina