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Seems 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-p

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• Karellen 3y ago
  Yes, 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 ago
    Apparently, many English speakers consider it to be acceptable, and have done so for more than half a century.
    • Akronymus 3y ago
      As a non-native english speaker, I didn't even know about jibe, while knowing about jive.
    • Karellen 3y ago
      Lots of English speakers consider "could of" to be acceptable, and have similarly done so for a few decades now. That doesn't make them right ;-)