Nouns used as verb, part 9,097. I have long since realised that I’m losing the battle with this particular horror and usually now pass on by. But last week I was reading a report about Prince Harry’s continuing battle with the Mail on Sunday and was halted in my tracks. “Andrew Caldecott KC, representing Associated Newspapers, told the High Court on Friday that in fact the publisher’s case was a ‘strong’ one and called the stance of Harry’s legal team on multiple aspects ‘wholly unreasonable’... Caldecott also claimed Harry’s legal team had ‘fundamentally distort[ed]’ the meaning given by the judge last year in its arguments, having the ‘effect of straitjacketing the newspaper’s right to comment’.”
