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To: The Philosopher who wrote (3187)	7/22/1999 12:05:00 AM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) of 4711

Over on the Feelings thread I used dialogue as a verb and got shot at by Steven and CobaltBlue. I shot back with the OED acceptance of dialogue as a verb, with citations going back to Shakespeare (multiple citations), Richardson (in Pamela), Coleridge, and Carlyle. Not bad company! And citations go up as late as the 1880s and 1890s (including uses in America), so it wasn't just an English word or a medieval usage that died out. It's not a common usage today, though. So, why not? What happened to it? Why, if it was good enough for quality writers for centuries, is it suddenly considered not good usage?

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