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Originally Posted by Mr Whippy
In the US there is a habit of making nouns into verbs, for example to 'summit' a mountain. There's nothing incorrect about it, it's just a new usage. Yet it sounds clumsy if you're not used to it. It happens in British English too, but I can't think of examples now.
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One fairly recent example in British English is the use of "access" as a verb, as in "I accessed the file".