I almost typed "acceptable" in both the first and second usages, which is why I avoided it as equally ambiguous. It's also worth noting that ~99.9% of the Engl

I almost typed "acceptable" in both the first and second usages, which is why I avoided it as equally ambiguous. It's also worth noting that ~99.9% of the English speaking world doesn't have a copy of Merrian-Webster and, frankly, wouldn't care what it said even if they did. I'm no doubt biased, but the OED is a much better dictionary anyway, though I wish they'd reduce the prices on their personnal subscription: they'd get 100 times the number if they'd reduce the price by 1/10th!