Good morning and welcome to episode 709 of Effectively Wild with a daily podcast from

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Not sure. Someone just used calendar as a verb to me. Someone just said my brother and I are calendared to go on a certain date.

I've never heard calendar as I think that's using it incorrectly. I calendar is a verb I've definitely heard in workplaces. Yeah it's very much a workplace word.

But you calendar the event you don't calendar the participant so the wedding is you might say it or was it a wedding I can't remember.

This is not a wedding no. But you might calendar a meeting but you wouldn't calendar the participants of the meeting.

And so I think he's used it wrong and so I everyone is using it wrong in a sense so there is no wrong.

I don't think so. Why what would be wrong with using it? I mean words nouns become verbs all the time. They are only a prop if you don't know.

That's what I'm saying. So he can use it this way. Yeah but he's using it wrong.

Why is that way wrong? Technically they're both wrong right? In the dictionary it's not a verb. Yeah no but one of them I said is okay and the other one I said is not.

So you are being a prescriptivist? I am. Well I am being a prescriptivist but mostly I just I'm the prescriptor.

I guess it is in dictionary or it's in dictionary.com. I'm not totally clear on. Really you're just letting me get away with calling myself a prescriptor instead of a presiber?

I was looking something up in the dictionary so I wasn't listening. But dictionary.com says two calendars to enter in a calendar or to register.

Yeah there you go to enter into a calendar so he didn't enter himself into a calendar. Maybe he did.

No it's not like the event. No he did. Maybe the event is that he's coming.

I know. I just want to call. Who are we talking about?

Friend who's coming to see a stoppersky? Oh okay good so it is baseball. I was worried we were talking about something off-top.

No we stick to baseball here. When is he coming? August 5th. So you can put that on your calendar.

You can calendar that. Okay.

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