Kernel Mustard

Maybe blogging about pet peeves will make me realize how nit-picky I am. Probably not.

set⋅up |ˈsetˌəp|
noun [usu. in sing. ] informal

Repeatedly in the last few days, I have read the word setup used as a verb. It’s not. It’s a noun. The verb form is two words: set up. You can set up a setup, or you can set a setup up, or this can be a setup, but you never setup a user’s computer.

In computerese, setup can also be the name of a program, in which case you can run setup, or run the setup program, but it’s still not a verb.

There, I feel better now. Back to solving more important problems.

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