Paul G. Allen wrote:
DJA wrote:
In summation: CD's right, CDs wrong.
In summary to your summary, Webster is wrong. ... I think the
only reason we see it so often today (and the reason Webster says to use
it) is because of the confusion about it. The masses started using it,
so it stuck.
...
PGA
Yes, yes. At one time the earth was populated only with dumbasses.
Everyone was an idiot, and no one knew anything. Then someone decided to
come up with rules to help all the dumbasses understand each other.
Webster's and others' dictionaries are compendiums of some of those rules.
While it's a two-way process, most of the time dictionaries define the
rules, and not the masses.
There was never confusion about the rules before the rules existed,
because...well...there were no rules.
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