Access Verbiage

I happen to be fond of language and trivia--one thing I like to point out from time to time is that the word access was not always a verb. It used to be only a noun--at least that is what my 1970 edition of Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary says:

So I was surprised to see this Calvin and Hobbs on The Curious Jews blog:

Vindication!

OK, so some people are more easily vindicated than others...