"Exhale" as a Noun

[labingi]

Silly question but when did "exhale" become a noun? I've been seeing it everywhere in fan fic lately, everywhere an "exhale," not one fic with an "exhalation"--or a "he exhaled." I figured it was a fan fic thing.

Then I saw an "exhale" in the poem "Forgotten Portraits," on my son's AP test study list.

The dictionaries are pretty much still telling me "exhale" is a verb.

This is, of course, all my language snobbery and utterly irrelevant, but when did this happen? What memo did I miss?

Comments

[labingi]

Interesting. I'm pondering my students' discourse, and it may be that I just don't see many sentences discussing two pronouns as a subject: "Him and me went...." I do get a lot of "Me and my sister went...."

Language, it's a funny old thing, huh?

[vilakins]

Actually it would be "me and him" because the first person comes first these days, instead of the polite second I was taught at school (he and I, her and me) - another big difference. It makes me feel a bit obsolete. I enjoy language innovation and neologisms, but object/subject swap is just wrong and illogical.