We have a new verb this year: "early vote"

A backwards formation from the noun "early voting," it's being used widely in the media this year for the first time.

Purists will pooh-pooh, but it's certainly a verb in a good cause.

The 2016 Presidential Election Has Created a New Verb
As Liz Nagy reported for Chicago’s ABC 7 News, “A record-breaking 29,968 people early voted in Cook County on Friday, surpassing a single-day turnout r …

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What's wrong with "voted early"?

+Scott Randel Nothing. But as a backwards formation, it also makes sense. We talk about "early voting" so referring to the action that leads us there as "early voting / early vote" seems natural as well.

I think we're about to invent a whole lot more words starting tomorrow…

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