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Old 04-20-2009, 12:02 PM   #96
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Originally Posted by DaleDe View Post
Dictionaries have abdicated the responsibility to define proper usage, at least in the US. They now just document usage without regard to proper.

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But real-world usage is what is "proper". The role of most dictionaries is to document how language is used, not to act as an "arbitor" of how it "should" be used.
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