On 11/25/98, Michael Scarpitti <mscarpit[_at_]asnt.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Laura N. Gasaway <laura_gasaway[_at_]unc.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Congress has restricted the first sale doctrine for two types of
> > works: records and computer software. Even for those restrictions,
> > there exemptions for nonprofit libraries that loan copies of these
> > works to users for nonprofit purposes.
>
> 1. "Loan" is not a verb; use "lend".
Loan is indeed a verb.
"The verb loan is one of the words English settlers brought to America and continued to use after it had died out in Britain. Its use was soon noticed by British visitors and somewhat later by the New England literati, who considered it a bit provincial. It was flatly declared wrong in 1870 by a popular commentator, who based his objection on etymology. A later scholar showed that the commentator was ignorant of Old English and thus unsound in his objection, but by then it was too late, as the condemnation had been picked up by many other commentators. Although a surprising number of critics still voice objections, loan is entirely standard as a verb."
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