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If you’re a user of the language, you’ll need a
\nverb<\/a> sooner
\nor later.\n<\/p>\n

Evidently, today’s Friday Leather Punch Edition is concerned with
\nevidenced<\/i>. As in,<\/p>\n

The strong odor in the office evidenced<\/i> Yoki’s sick stomach.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here
\nit comes: I really don’t like the verb evidenced. I know it’s a
\nlegitimate word, but it always sounds<\/i> wrong to me, no matter the context.
\nA faint hunch tells me it’s a rip-off of evinced (that one, a verb of verbs!).
\nI doubt I would be stating it too strongly to say that this is the real dividing
\nline in the academy and, yes, all of humanity: those who use evidenced, and those who do not. <\/p>\n

I checked it against the only corpus of texts I have on my trusty laptop
\ncomputer–the last nineteen years of CCC<\/i> articles. Thirty-one out
\nof 414 articles put to good and proper use the verb evidenced. More than
\nseven percent! But the distribution isn’t even across the years. Just nine articles use evidenced from 1989-1999; twenty-two articles use evidenced <\/i>since the turn of the century. <\/p>\n

What does this evidence evidence? The question is too fresh to return a
\ndecisive answer. And in the mean time, I will stick with suggested<\/i>,
\nindicated<\/i>, and proved<\/i> as ready-to-verbalize ahead of evidenced.
\nMake room for evidenced, if you must, in one of the deep pouches on the
\nexpanding belt of verbs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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