Verbification, Verbing Nouns: Using Nouns as Verbs

English language lovers and purists tend to be very prescriptive when it comes to grammar even when they shouldn’t be because our language is in constant evolution as it devises more efficient structures.   Many native English speakers convert nouns and proper nouns into verbs (by changing the position of the noun in a sentence) and like the fact English gives them the freedom to ‘verb’ nouns and ‘noun’ verbs and feel it allows them to communicate more efficiently. According to Steven Pinker, verbing nouns makes our language more sophisticated.

There are hundreds of nouns and acronyms covering a wide variety of professions, hobbies and sports that have become verbs: access, ambulance, arrow, author, beverage, breakfast, blunt-object, bunt, chip, club, fly, garage, gift, ground, gun, impact, input, knife, lance, parent, polymerase chain reaction (PCR),  rat, ring, spear, tree, torch, torpedo,

1. I don’t want to consens (consensus) on something the boss won’t agree to.
2. She went Paris Hilton shopping and Paris Hiltoned an astronomical amount of merchandise.
3. He was ambulanced (take by ambulance) to the emergency room.
4. Thieves accessed (gain access) the bank accounts.
5. The neighbor’s dog treed (tree for chased it so it climbed a tree) our kitten.
6. Would you garage (put in the garage) the car before it rains?
7. He has a milk allergy and doesn’t want the pizza cheesed. (put cheese on)
8. How many were impacted (impact for affect) by the blackout?
9. These women who were incested (incest) were given new identities.
10. They’ll NFA the proposal (no further action) if you send it.
11. Families who parent too many children should pay more tax.
12. The victims were funeralized (funeral) on the weekend.
13. Her husband broomed (broom for sweep) the steps.
14. She weirded /weirdoed (weird, weirdo) herself past the authorities.
15. This Friday will be bookended by two oil spill reports from British Petroleum.
16. Samantha Power felt that certain behavior could not be legitimated (legitimate for legitimize).
17. They’re shoeing (put shoes on) their son.
18. An arrow may be flighted (flight for fletch) with feathers.
19. Sects incentivize (insensitive) their followers to mainstream society.
20. The author was akaing (also known as) as John Doe.

To complicate matters there are about 180 irregular verbs (almost all are monosyllables (one syllable) or monosyllables with a prefix. e.g. become, forget, understand) and unlike the many hundreds of other verbs that take –ed to form the past tense, the irregular ones are completely unpredictable so they have to be memorized. The 10 most common verbs in English (be, have, do, say, make, go, take, come, see, get) are all irregular, and  about  70%  of the time we use a verb, it is an irregular one.

Some irregular verbs do allow –ed in certain situations when they are based on nouns or noun roots. 
1. Police ringed (ring for formed a ring around) the demonstrators.
2. The hitter flew out (fly for a hit ball that gets caught) to left field.