While (a) I agree with Webster's in this case, and (b) I'm usually a prescriptivist jackass and I *still* agree with M-W here, I should point out that since the 1960s M-W has been a descriptive and not a prescriptive dictionary, and therefore its usage rules reflect common usage, not grammatical correctness.
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Re: Hopefully, we've moved beyond pendantry
Date: 2006-06-28 02:54 am (UTC)