I don’t bow to your elitist “authorities on usage”. Our forces have already gained a foothold in wiktionary. How long can your precious Oxford English Dictionary last?
I know I’m responding seriously to a joke, but as a huge OED fanboy, I feel I must point out that they are exceptionally broad and non-elitist in deciding what words and usages to include, and, although they point out what usages are considered nonstandard or neologistic, they never pretend to be legislators of language.
I don’t bow to your elitist “authorities on usage”. Our forces have already gained a foothold in wiktionary. How long can your precious Oxford English Dictionary last?
BWAHAHAHA!
I know I’m responding seriously to a joke, but as a huge OED fanboy, I feel I must point out that they are exceptionally broad and non-elitist in deciding what words and usages to include, and, although they point out what usages are considered nonstandard or neologistic, they never pretend to be legislators of language.
(And yes, it includes that sense of “peruse”!)