[Gllug] levering/Leveraging - Use of English

[Dr. B. Whalley]

Andrew Halliwell wrote:
> 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.
>

...and don't even get started on 'impact'....grrrrr!

Ben
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