Manalto wrote:OK, if you feel that strongly. I'm putting away the grill.
Now that kind of rare I can stomach.... literally! Yum!
vvzz wrote:I don't think anyone owns the language though. Just because some bigwigs at Oxford say words should be spelled certain way or have a certain meaning, doesn't make it so. Language is a living thing that is constantly evolving.
Of course that doesn't apply to examples of dyslexia or stupidity .
Olson185 wrote:Language does evolve but at a glacial pace so one can't claim "evolution" to excuse ignorance. The OED is much more likely to add a widely used, recently coined word than it is to add a new meaning to an old word; and it will never eliminate what already exists (it will just refer to it as "archaic").