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though: \u201celbow\u201d already existed as a noun. What Shakespeare did was use it as a verb, as in \u201cto elbow someone aside\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>Which is still important, because this is part of how language grows: we recognize the usefulness of an existing word in serving a different function. This is how \u201cfun\u201d became an adjective, after \u201cfunny\u201d (the adjective form of \u201cfun\u201d) grew to mean something else.<\/p>\n<p>I know this because the last time this came around, I wondered what the context for Elizabethan England was where people would recognize \u201celbow\u201d as meaning \u201cthe bendy bit of the arm\u201d and decided to look it up.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>blue-author: your-lies-ruin-lives: My response to people who are ignorant enough to think that language doesn\u2019t change, and that eventually \u201cableism\u201d \u201cclassism\u201d and other similar words won\u2019t eventually be part of a recognized lexicon.\u00a0 As a point of order, though: \u201celbow\u201d already existed as a noun. 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