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Not at all a nonsense word situation, as you said above, though. Also not sure I would say cgel > oed for authoritative sources of meanings of words in English.
by sdenton4 5y ago
Not at all a nonsense word situation, as you said above, though. Also not sure I would say cgel > oed for authoritative sources of meanings of words in English... But you do you.
- thaumasiotes 5y ago> Not at all a nonsense word situation, as you said above, though. Where did I say that? > Also not sure I would say cgel > oed for authoritative sources of meanings of words in English... But you do you. There are a couple of problems with this: - CGEL is not a source for the meaning of words; it's a description of the grammar of English. But that's fine here, because "how many words is let's?" is a grammatical question. - The OED is a source for the meaning of words, making it a bad choice for grammatical questions, which are tangential to its purpose. - The OED also deals extensively with the historical usage of words, even when that usage is not possible in the modern language. You have to be careful. - You haven't cited the OED. Your link goes to the unrelated "Oxford Learner's Dictionaries". The OED is at least a name with immense prestige; the Oxford Learner's Dictionaries is not at all the same thing.