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Yeah, I'm good with that OED explanation. It's hard to get the nuance, but that's not bad. M-W is just incomprehensible - it's hard to understand how a lexicogr
by denton-scratch 5y ago
Yeah, I'm good with that OED explanation. It's hard to get the nuance, but that's not bad. M-W is just incomprehensible - it's hard to understand how a lexicographer can make such a mess of defining a word.
I mean, that's the core business.
- School-Cotton 5y agoThe editors of the OED are “hardcore descriptivists”, too. They’re just more complete and accurate than M-W, in this case.