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Caveat orator

On the Lehrer News Hour, Sen. Saxby Chambliss was talking about CIA stuff. He said (approximately), " You have to take the best information you have. Some of it's caveated, some of it isn't caveated."
Verbing a verb, although I guess it went through a noun phase too.

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[nq:1]On the Lehrer News Hour, Sen. Saxby Chambliss was talking about CIA stuff. He said (approximately), " You have to ...

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  • [nq:1]On the Lehrer News Hour, Sen.
  • Saxby Chambliss was talking about CIA stuff.
  • He said (approximately), " You have to ...
  • [/nq] He was just verbing a noun.
  • That "you have to take the best information you have" is not exactly an elegant expression either.
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[nq:1]On the Lehrer News Hour, Sen. Saxby Chambliss was talking about CIA stuff. He said (approximately), " You have to ... it's caveated, some of it isn't caveated." Verbing a verb, although I guess it went through a noun phase too.[/nq]
He was just verbing a noun. That "you have to take the best information you have" is not exactly an elegant expression either.
Skitt (in Hayward, Califo
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[nq:2]On the Lehrer News Hour, Sen. Saxby Chambliss was talking ... although I guess it went through a noun phase too.[/nq]
[nq:1]He was just verbing a noun. That "you have to take the best information you have" is not exactly an elegant expression either.[/nq]
Now that I've checked it, I see that AHD gives the verbed form as well as the noun.

john
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[nq:2]He was just verbing a noun. That "you have to take the best information you have" is not exactly an elegant expression either.[/nq]
[nq:1]Now that I've checked it, I see that AHD gives the verbed form as well as the noun.[/nq]
So does OED - dating back to C17.
Interesting use in fencing -

John Dean
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[nq:2]On the Lehrer News Hour, Sen. Saxby Chambliss was talking ... although I guess it went through a noun phase too.[/nq]
[nq:1]He was just verbing a noun. That "you have to take the best information you have" is not exactly an elegant expression either.[/nq]
"Caveat" the verb is sufficiently common to have been discovered by AHD: . Hang around the American military, as I do for a living
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[nq:1]"Caveat" the verb is sufficiently common to have been discovered by AHD: . Hang around the American military, as I do for a living, and you'll hear it frequently.[/nq]
We'll also remember that the Latin word itself is a verb: http://catholic.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?ste
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[nq:1]On the Lehrer News Hour, Sen. Saxby Chambliss was talking about CIA stuff. He said (approximately), " You have to ... it's caveated, some of it isn't caveated." Verbing a verb, although I guess it went through a noun phase too.[/nq]
Would it have been verbing a verb if he had said "warninged" instead?

Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
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[nq:2]He was just verbing a noun. That "you have to take the best information you have" is not exactly an elegant expression either.[/nq]
[nq:1]"Caveat" the verb is sufficiently common to have been discovered by AHD: . Hang around the American military, as I do for a living, and you'll hear it frequently.[/nq]
You're a camp follower?!?!

John Dean
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