Telephone companies refer to an entry in a telephone book as a “listing”.<\/p>\n
Real-estate agents refer to an item in a list of for-sale properties as a “listing”.<\/p>\n
But the noun “listing” describes the process of creating a list.<\/p>\n
I wonder why such an entry in a list is not called a “listed” instead.<\/p>\n
The word “listed” makes as much sense as the word “listing” to refer to an entry in a list.<\/p>\n
Perhaps the use of “listing” in place of “listed” is consistent with my “Devolution toward Simpler” linguistic hypothesis.<\/p>\n
After all, it is simpler to say “listing” than it is to say “listed”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Telephone companies refer to an entry in a telephone book as a “listing”. Real-estate agents refer to an item in a list of for-sale properties as a “listing”. But the noun “listing” describes the process of creating a list. I wonder why such an entry in a list is not called a “listed” instead. The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devolution-toward-simpler","category-nouns"],"yoast_head":"\n