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2:56Now PlayingPrescriptivists dislike the use of “impact” as a verb, preferring “have an impact.” Mary wishes we could influence the rampant popularity of “to impact,” but in English nouns have a way of verbing.
This pet peeve was recorded on location at C. W. Pencil Enterprise, the pencilophiliac’s nirvana on the Lower East Side. Caroline Weaver, the proprietor of New York's only pencil boutique, joins us with some graphite goodies.
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