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Is office a doing word?
Posted by Hoops McCann on 20 August 2010 - 9:08am.
Company memo arrives this morning about some bod's promotion.
Allan (natch) will now office in Aberdeen.
HaaRUUMPH!!!
*loads Beano style blunderbuss*
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Be
officed. No?
The way it's written it sounds like Allan is some kind of farm animal that's been retired to an animal sanctuary.
Indeed
You sure it's not
orifice?
Promotion to Aberdeen?
What do they reserve for demotions?
Disclaimer
I lived in Aberdeen for 6 months and apart from quite a lot of fog and rain it was fine really. Particulalry the 80\- beer. I dimly recall a bar there called (I think) The Grill which had no ladies toilets.
The Grill
is still there (I was in there a week ago)
As for the ladies toilets, I believe they moved into the 20th Century a few years ago. Cheap beer, mind.
The Grill would be correct
And a fine pub it is too, although it does have ladies toilets these days. The Bridge Bar is another pub that didn't have ladies toilets, I although I presume it does now.
Ah, The Grill
Great bar... The Council were gonna shut them down, sex discrimation and all that, so they had to install one. Funnily enuff, the bar was allways a Saturday Night "must visit" for Ladies on hen nights etc. When they needed to go, they just left by the back door and headed across the street to the toilet in The Rose And Crown. The RAC must have had the worst "drink sold/toilet rolls used" ratio in the UK.
tense
I assume you're eagerly awaiting the first use of officing which is also, even more clearly made up! The example that seems to annoy me most for some reason is scrapbooking. Craft warehouses are the best places for getting hot under the collar as just about any noun can become a verb with very little obvious effort.
Office in Aberdeen?
If he feel comfortable officing with Aberdeen, well.... let him be.
Ignorance is not a paradigm shift.
Not sure who I'm quoting, but a big up arrow to them.
Did the person writing that appalling sentence actually proof read their memo, or just run spell-check over it?
2/10. Must do better.
Headquartered
As Alan is now officed in Aberdeen is that where the company is headquartered? A word which is the bain of anyone who has had to sub business pages on regional newspapers.
Headquartered is how I would like to leave reporters who use this abomination.
It's not THAT bad
After all, "headquarters" is a borrowing from military terminology, where "being quartered" has long been a standard usage.
As for "officing", it does have one thing going for it. If it catches on, it'll make the ridiculous "operating out of Carlisle" obsolete.
What irritates me about this is...
not so much that the word 'office' in now being used as a verb, more that I suspect that the writer of the e-mail thinks he/she is at the cutting edge of business language by using the word in this way and so must be really cool and 'down' with the young people in the office.
The English language, of course, is constantly developing, with 'verbing' being an obvious current trend, jarring as it sounds to most of us.
Dreadful
Let's all pen letters of complaint. Someone should action this, or it will impact us all
Quite
It needs to be gifted a rest before it virals.
Sod that
Its 12:20 and I should be lunching.
Great
Here's a fabulous example of 'verbing' from one of our own this very day:
I've decided to charity shop it out of my life.
Now that's just great!
One assumes
Allan homes near Aberdeen.
And hopefully
Pubs in The Grill....