Rex Kerr
Aug 25, 2023

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By "you" I don't mean only you personally, but rather the collective "you who wish to change it".

Websters, which is in the business of descriptive rather than prescriptive definition of language, has indeed picked up on the reality that the prescriptive change has spread enough to be one definition.

Other definitions remain in dictionaries because they continue to be used, and dictionaries are (typically) descriptive.

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Rex Kerr
Rex Kerr

Written by Rex Kerr

One who rejoices when everything is made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Sayer of things that may be wrong, but not so bad that they're not even wrong.

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