Verbs are a key part of speech. But our ability to verb nouns is a necessary function of language, so much so that verbing has become a habitual, if sometimes humorous pastime—to such an extent that I’ve been verbing, participling, and gerunding this whole paragraph. Continue reading

Recently, I’ve come to love the idiom “put your money where your mouth is.” It means “do what you say you will,” but I like to think of it in terms of stated preference vs. revealed preference. Continue reading