morpheme enthusiast @anderswo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026i find it wild how the verb "to escalate" was backformed from "escalator" and didn't exist in English before the year 1900en.wiktionary.orgescalate - Wiktionary, the free dictionary 271
morpheme enthusiast @anderswo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026escalator itself is neo-Latin, hence why escalate has that old timey feel. but nope, barely more than a century old 010
