Paul,

"Quote" for "quotation" is listed in the AHD as informal, but I hear it used widely in academic contexts, so I suspect it's more widely accepted than AHD would suggest.  As to "feel", I wonder what the sense is.  Is it "feel" as in "to have a feel for", in the sense of aptitude for or good knowledge of something?  Or is it in reference to feelings of voters?

Herb 



 
Here's a small, but interesting issue that I sometimes deal with:

I was struck by this comment as, news junkie that I am, I heard a pundit on TV discussing the election, who said, "The feel in Ohio is ... ."  Hearing this, I was reminded of the number of times my students write like this, using verbs for nouns. In addition to 'feel' for 'feeling', I often get 'quote' for 'quotation'.

Do you think it's too fussy of me to insist that, in FORMAL writing, they use the noun form for these and similar words? I'm interested in your experiences and opinions.

Thanks,

Paul


"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction" (_Twelfth Night_ 3.4.127-128).

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