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I also like how several linguists attempt to call out this usage as wrong:

> deemed prescriptively incorrect (Routledge 1864:579 in D. Ross 2013a:120; Partridge 1947:338, Crews et al. 1989:656 in Brook & Tagliamonte 2016:320).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_prescription

You can't really reign in language.

parent echelon 1 year ago

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