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Latest comment: 17 years ago by 83.253.36.136 in topic Usage as a noun

RfV passed – sense of a house

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Sense of a house (rental vs. residential.) How could you say "deconvert" and not mention the house or the appartment, yet arrive at this meaning? --Connel MacKenzie 21:05, 21 December 2006 (UTC)Reply

I'm not sure what you're getting at. I have certainly heard the phrase in London, and know that a deconverted house is one that started life as a house, had been converted to flats, and has since been made back into a single house (thus does not have the ambiguity of reconverted, which is also used). Are you saying that it is obvious what it means even if you haven't come across it before? Perhaps so. --Enginear 22:08, 26 December 2006 (UTC)Reply
Ahhh, a British idiom then? It isn't listed in other dictionaries online. --Connel MacKenzie 06:39, 28 December 2006 (UTC)Reply
Have cited this and the other verbal senses (couldn't find any cites as a noun). It seems from b.g.c. that the first 40 yrs of this usage (perhaps developed from wartime usage re commandeered ships, and moving to buildings in 1963) was by the US government, with wider usage only in 21st century. However, I've found this trend on a sufficient number of semi-technical words to believe it may be b.g.c.'s 20th century non-fiction corpus which is skewed, rather than necessarily a reflection of actual usage. --Enginear 02:04, 29 December 2006 (UTC)Reply
Thanks...obviously, I never would have guessed. --Connel MacKenzie 17:22, 3 January 2007 (UTC)Reply
Rfvpassed. --Connel MacKenzie 17:22, 3 January 2007 (UTC)Reply


convert

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Not very important, but I could mention that the deconvert article was originally created[1] (by a non-linguist) using the convert article as a template (but simplified). --83.253.36.136 16:30, 19 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Usage as a noun

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For what it's worth, usage examples from Google. --83.253.36.136 17:13, 11 May 2007 (UTC)Reply