Sigh, the "dictionary" concept stopped being a supposed guardian of word use to being just a reinforcer of popular usage the second "ain't" was accepted as a word.
Someone referred me to "the dictionary" to prove that 'irregardless' is an actual word. Because of course they include it. Another claimed that the fact that "the dictionary" defines gender in a way that he finds congenial, proves that his view was scientific.
Sigh, the "dictionary" concept stopped being a supposed guardian of word use to being just a reinforcer of popular usage the second "ain't" was accepted as a word.
Someone referred me to "the dictionary" to prove that 'irregardless' is an actual word. Because of course they include it. Another claimed that the fact that "the dictionary" defines gender in a way that he finds congenial, proves that his view was scientific.
It is too bad "definitionary" lost the format war.