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"Access - The ability to make use of information stored in a computer system. Used frequently as a verb, to the horror of grammarians."<p>Access can be used as either a noun or a transitive verb. The first known reference as verb was in 1962 in computing, over a decade prior to the article/paper. Grammarians may wince, but most languages change with patterns of use. Thus come the saying that the many exceptions of English are impossible to learn.<p>After all, in Middle English access meant "sudden attack of illness".