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You make a good point about the subjective annoyance of certain usages, but as a professional I try to be objective …

“Attacks” on the language are greatly misunderstood 2009

And I ought to have clarified that I'm most interested in English usages of the word, from about 1580 through the Civil War though I'm also interested in any changes prior to or after that, when applied to other Englishmen/women.

Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2009

But despite all of your "search hits" for some of the phrase usages he cites, you ignore the cumulative nature of all of these likeness occurring, individually dismissing them out of hand a priori.

Acephalous 2009

Instead, it’s largely a series of unsupported statements from Partridge that this or that is unacceptable and dismissals of certain usages out of hand.

The pot calling the kettle illogical « Motivated Grammar 2009

I suspect Humphrys will have trouble seeing this difference, because he’s expecting to find a cut-and-dried prescription that marks certain usages as completely unacceptable, rather than merely a bit odd.

2008 June « Motivated Grammar 2008

I suspect Humphrys will have trouble seeing this difference, because he’s expecting to find a cut-and-dried prescription that marks certain usages as completely unacceptable, rather than merely a bit odd.

In which I earn a bottle of champagne « Motivated Grammar 2008

I could see their word usages were merely false-to-facts: a conflation of metaphor for reality.

MIND MELD: Books That Hold Special Places in Our Hearts and On Our Shelves 2009

Dictionaries are, after all, giant databases of words compiled by lexicographers who investigate word usages ...

Lee Schneider: Return of My Google Self 2009

All kinds of strange words and word usages show up on individual student papers, usually the result of haste, personal idiosyncrasy, or an imperfectly developed critical vocabulary.

Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2009

All kinds of strange words and word usages show up on individual student papers, usually the result of haste, personal idiosyncrasy, or an imperfectly developed critical vocabulary.

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