[Magdalen] A brighter note?

ME Michaud michaudme at gmail.com
Tue Jun 8 20:06:04 UTC 2021


I know librarians who will clamber up the barricades over borrow, lend and
loan.
<grin>
-M


On Tuesday, June 8, 2021, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com> wrote:

> lend lent lent
>
> ....seems to be replaced by loan loaned loaned. Nobody lends money anymore;
> they loan it. Ugh.
>
> A work colleague years ago asked some of us if we'd like to go out to eat
> and fellowship (verb). I was confused. I thought "fellowship" was a fancy
> way of saying chat, but apparently it's to talk about faith. Just a new
> usage for me. I don't think we ever did it. Other colleagues probably
> looked blank about it as I did.
>
>


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