And most importantly, "contact" is not now and will never be a verb.
Surely you jest?
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Not at all. Both versions that you quoted are dictionaries containing the more recent, corrupted versions of the English language. "Contact" has only recently been accepted by people as a verb- and I don't accept it. Every time we compromise the meaning of a word by utilizing it improperly, our ability to communicate as a people goes down. I, for one, refuse to tolerate it.
No, losing one word here, another there isn't a big deal in and of itself. But over time, over the course of centuries, our abilities to communicate have been highly degraded. Latin and Hebrew have something in common: they have both been dead for a thousand years. I speak Hebrew fluently- and know Latin fairly well- and am often extraordinarily frustrated at my inability to communicate what I have to say without writing a paragraph that, inevitably, nobody will read. Especially when I could do it in Hebrew with, perhaps, a single word or a single sentence.