Fox weirds verbing: Double downed
Looks like we have enough data points for a trend here: Fox moving the inflection from the verb to the preposition, as in the earlier "water-downed." (Alas, it's been fixed in the text online, but the screen grab doesn't lie.)
I haven't seen a slightly different version, in which the inflection in a VP moves from verb to object ("Trump lower booms"), for a bit. Hope it's still out there.
I haven't seen a slightly different version, in which the inflection in a VP moves from verb to object ("Trump lower booms"), for a bit. Hope it's still out there.
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