“Hatred” used to be a noun several centuries ago (when I was a kid), and “hate” was the associated verb. More and more people today use “hate” for both the verb and the noun.
Oh, and don’t forget the adjective form, as in “hate crime”.
So I’m going to start my own campaign to push back with my own twisting of our language. I’m going to start using the word “hatred” as a verb. So here’s a poem I wrote to kick off my campaign.
Please join in with me as I seek to change the world.
THINGS I HATRED
by Jack Pelham
I hatred lots of things, starting with mosquitoes.
I hatred screaming from kids who are just playing.
I hatred how Q-tips bend.
I hatred poems that don’t rhyme
And I hatred being out of time.
I hatred the loss of distinctions between meanings—and between the words that represent those meanings.
And if you hatred these things, too, you can join with me and be a hatreder, too!
