[Gllug] levering/Leveraging - Use of English

[Andrew Halliwell]

And verily, didst Alain Williams announce to the hordes:
> > The word for which you're looking is "levering". "Leveraging"
> > only exists in managementspeak. "Lever" is both a verb and a
> > noun. "Leverage" is only a noun (for now, at least).
> >=20
> > Sorry, this is one of my pet peeves.
> 
> Ahah - someone else who got & enjoyed a copy of 'eats, shoots & leaves' a y=
> ear ago :-)

Nope, it's been a gripe (for me at least) a lot longer than that.

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