> No other dictionary provides a definition that even remotely comes close. Shorter OED: > Myth (miþ). Also †mythe. 1830 [- mod. L. MYTHUS, late L. mythos - G

> No other dictionary provides a definition that even remotely comes close. Shorter OED: > Myth (miþ). Also †mythe. 1830 [- mod. L. MYTHUS, late L. mythos - Gr. μῦθος.] 1. A purely fictitious narrative usually involving supernatural persons, actions or events, and embodying some popular idea concerning natural or historical pheononema. Often used vaguely to include any narrative having fictitious elements. 2. A fictitious or imaginary person or object 1849. >1. It is chronicled in an old Armenian m. that the wise men of the East were none other than the three sons of Noe 1899. 2. Parliamentary control was a m. 1888. The second example is exactly the usage you're objecting to.