@gailcalled Wouldn’t use it in formal composition. Of course, people care (I am one of them) about style and usage manuals. My first job was at TV Guide magazine where a bunch of us tried for years to stem the use of the word host as verb. That ship has now sailed. I agree with you about journal, but I used it, SEO whore that I now am, in a recent article about keeping a journal to relieve stress, because it scores so high on Google searches.
On the other hand, you would have been in a world of hurt as Shakespeare’s editor since he coined words all the time. If language was considered static then, we would not have what we have now.
@susanc Thanks. That’s why it came about and I have never had one person ask what it meant.