Is the word "google" as in
'I googled it."
"If you don't know just google it."
"What results do you get if you google it?"
now established as a koscher verb in the English Language?
I say yes but some of my colleagues say no and I shouldn't teach it as a verb as it represents slang or grammatically incorrect English.
So what do you, the cogniscenti, think?
Yes (in American English). If unsure, just google it. lol
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For better or for worse, it's definitely a verb in UK English.
IME "Google" has been used as a verb for quite some time....4 years or so.
I don't see what's wrong with teaching your students slang (and I'm not entirely certain that the term applies here), and I'd be interested to know how it is "grammatically incorrect".Originally Posted by Doc
OK, I googled it.
Google joins Xerox as a verb - CNET News.comThough you may have been "googling" people for years, the verb you were using was technically slang, until recently.
In fact, many regularly used tech words are just now getting the official stamp of approval from English-language dictionaries.
On Thursday, Merriam-Webster announced its latest update, and the new science and technology words added to the venerable dictionary include agritourism, biodiesel, mouse potato, ringtone and spyware.
And google is defined as a transitive verb meaning "to use the Google search engine to obtain information about (as a person) on the World Wide Web." While the entry retains capitalization in explaining the word's etymology--"Google, trademark for a search engine"--the verb google is lowercase.
BTW, the Firefox spell check doesn't recognize any of the new words listed above.
And here's the MW link...
google - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
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I'd say so. In the same way that the brand name 'hoover' came to be a verb meaning to vacuum.
Languages evolve. If they didn't we'd still be teaching that mad Chaucer style shit!
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If it's in the dictionary it's a word. (Words are never deleted from the dictionary by the way, once it's in, it's in.)
How can it be 'wrong' to teach slang words anyway? Knowledge is knowledge.
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Quick pass me some Kleenex I cut myself. I need a band aid too. I'll fax the facts later.
Shakespeare frequently changed a words grammatical form.
This is one of the features that makes English an international language. The ability to adapt to change, incorporate new usages, borrow from other languages, etc.
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It's not a question of slang; it's a question of contemporary use of the English language.
I don't particularly like My bad! or Let's party! but given that my students are likely to hear / come across such expressions when watching American movies or surfing the internet, I would be remiss not to familiarize them.
Apparently Google is trying to prevent the name "google" to become an official verb, (as far as I know it's still not in any dictionaries) because then they can't protect their name properly anymore, anyone could start using google in a slogan, because it would be a common verb.
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Interesting. They should be able to protect their copyrighted and trademarked proper noun and keep it out of the dictionaries then.
More than a couple Christmases ago my sister was talking smack about something she didn't know about and I blurted out "don't make me put a Google on your ass" to prove I'm right. That was the moment that the word evolved for me.
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It is an interesting perspective, but surely Xerox and Kleenex have been able to protect their name.
Sorry?
Examples please.
Would like some links to that too, please.
(A polite way of saying 'what a pile of bull crap')
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Google was a math word before Google latched on to it. 1 followed by 100 zeros. A very large number.
A "google" is the number 10^100. A "googleplex" is an even larger number-- internet sources. I already knew this but just looked it up to be certain.
So Google corp. has tradmarked or copied the word related to computers and search engines. Like "Apple".
They might be able to limit trade mark infringments from another company, but they cannot regulate the use in gereral language. But Yahoo for example would not be able to use ads that say "come and google it here".
None come to mind. I remember this from English Lit Class. That was 30+ years ago. And I am not that pedantic.
Lit majors "Start your engines!!!! Give him examples.
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Wasn't that a googol?
googol - Google Search
Yes it was - I just googled it!
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