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My bias is to doubt that, but I could be convinced by data. Do you have any evidence that such usage is deliberate?
by sqs 12y ago
My bias is to doubt that, but I could be convinced by data. Do you have any evidence that such usage is deliberate?
- baddox 12y agoNo, I do not have any evidence on the portion of uses that are deliberate. But it doesn't have to be deliberate in the sense that the writer is consciously trying to change the trend. Trends change slowly and "naturally," sometimes even due to misunderstandings of the earlier usages. For example, the word "apron" is widely considered correct and standard, but it arose from a misunderstanding of the phrase "a napron" (from Old French "napperon") as "an apron."