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This reminds me of those insisting that drones are not drones, but quad-copters (what about those with 6 propellers?)

Language is defined by it's usage.

Taken to extreme, I've seen serious linguists argue that if a lot of different background non-native speakers make the same mistake when speaking English, maybe they are right and the native speakers are wrong.

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