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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
by 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 agoApparently, many English speakers consider it to be acceptable, and have done so for more than half a century.