While flipping through some twitter-provided political news, I saw someone use government as a verb. I couldn’t tell if it was intended – there was a sic attached to it by some editor.

I think that government as a verb should be allowed. It takes the concept of to govern a bit further. It is more about the institution than about the leadership/stewardship. To government is to flex political muscle and knowledge of the system to achieve a result. It will probably be a transitive verb – act on something like a policy or an entity.

To use it in a sentence:

With a deadline fast approaching, the councilors governmented a plan that removed striking from the union’s list of options.

A previous tennant of the apartment that I live in seems to have left a lot of postal references unchanged. I receive a lot of mail for him. On this particular occassion, I wrote ‘No longer at this address’ on the appointment notice and dropped it back into a nearby delivery box. It arrived again two days later. It seems as if I wrote the note on the wrong side of the card and the postal system accepted it a second time – on the same stamp. I wonder if NZ Post realises that they’ve stolen 50 cents from themselves.