I was the one who brought up Shakespeare because your etymology is wrong too, as we can see in how he used it - to mean gossip as we define it today way before 1811 (he lived in the mid 1500s to early 1600s).
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Intransitive verb isn't a noun. Still desperate to be right without being able to give a source. We're referring to the noun version of the word. Even so, that's not a link.
Woah, it's almost like the opening post was talking about the NOUN and not the verb, daft fool. You still insisting you are right while being entirely wrong? You should see yourself out, because you can't tell the difference between nouns and verbs. Noun refers to a WHAT? A verb refers to a WHAT?
It was talking about the linguistic shift from godsib to gossip we have today, that is gossip as both a verb and a noun. I’m entirely right here. Her etymology is wrong.
But of course, you say, a woman is an action, clearly she's actioning by existing. lol C'mon, you are just digging yourself further down the line. Midwife is a VERB~ You're crying. God Sibling is a VERB. You're daft.
I mean if the linguistic shifts actually happened then yeah, that could be true. Linguistics and etymology views language as descriptive, not prescriptive. But no one uses the language the way you use it so you’re wrong.
Since you are slow at this... there are instances in English where two words sound similar and then start to mean the other, or where words once meant the same thing and the deviated into new words. e.g. Curtsy and Courtesy used to be the same word, but due to some linguistics, became different.
There have only been two sources listed so far, the etymology dictionary and Shakespeare. None of those had a sources’ source, and given that we’ve been talking about usages of gossip since 1300 the screenshot is incorrect.
Still, a transitive verb isn't a noun, so, you still unfortunately lose this one, since the earliest source is for the transitive verb is 1611. Shakespeare died in 1616, BTW.
No? Shakespeare used gossip as we use it today, which is a verb “they like to gossip” or “they gossiped about stuff.” This is very much the same meaning as we have it today. To be fair Shakespeare used it as both a transitive or intransitive verb, but whatever you probably just googled it.
This still goes to show very squarely that you do not know how to do basic searches, which is why you resort to sea lioning. You can copy-paste sources, or you can put in images. You can add screen captures. There is a Blue Sky tutorial on how to add images. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIEIkoFwN38
I haven’t sea lioned anything (god you are so fucking terminally online). I posted images that showed that your own source contradicted OP, what more do you want?
BUT if you find a source, like they taught you in elementary/grade school, you need to verify the source. With the internet this is very easy. Your source said it was Shakespeare and then cited the OED. So then you look up the OED website, and then type in gossip, the click on the TRANSITIVE VERB.
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