Just received an e-mail from a publisher (name withheld to protect the guilty) offering me a free book on current topics in my field.

One part of the advertisement remarked that the book would be a great way to bring "currentness" to my classes.

ARRRRGGGGHHHH! No no no no no. "Currentness" is not a word. Whoever wrote that e-mail should be made to write "'Currentness' is not a word and it is not cute for me to make up words that do not exist and then send them in advertisements to professors who already have to deal with too many grammatical and vocabulary errors from students as it is." five hundred times.

I am not going to request the book. I can't quite trust a publisher that uses such a hideous, clunky neologism.

Verbing may weird nouns (as Calvin was known to say) but adverbizing adjectives is a sin.