Letting down the side again

Ever unable to help myself, I responded to an online post in which someone was carping about the use of loan as a verb. You may have been taught that loan is only a noun, lend the verb, and the Associated Press Stylebook , bless its heart, continues to prefer that distinction. But like many simple, clear distinctions, it's not so. Even the Blessed Henry Watson Fowler said in 1926 (a century ago,…