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Sorry to be 'that guy', but it's "jibe."
by mayormcmatt 3y ago
Sorry to be 'that guy', but it's "jibe."
- bregma 3y agoHey, home', I can dig it. He ain't gonna lay no mo' big rap-up on you, man. [Subtitle: Yes, he is wrong for doing that]
- duderific 3y agoLay 'em down, and smack-em yack-em. COLD got to be!
- paphillips 3y agoHey, you know what they say.
- belval 3y agoSeems very pedantic considering that people have been saying jive since the 40s according to Merriam-Webster[1]. [1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/jive-jibe-gibe https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/jive-jibe-gibe
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- Karellen 3y agoYes, but people haven't been using it incorrectly for long enough for it to be considered acceptable, by the very citation you've given: > This does raise the question of why we don't enter this sense of jive, even though we have evidence of its use since the 1940s. [...] So far, neither jive nor gibe as substitutions for jibe has this kind of record [literally hundreds of years], but it seems possible that this use of jive will increase in the future, and if it does dictionaries will likely add it to the definition.
- manderley 3y agoApparently, many English speakers consider it to be acceptable, and have done so for more than half a century.
- karaterobot 3y agoAn upvote to you, fellow pedant. We stand together.
- fknorangesite 3y agoNot sorry enough, apparently.