In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
George Neuner <gneuner2/@comcast.net> wrote:
>On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 09:36:40 +0000 (UTC), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bent C
>Dalager) wrote:
>
>>
>>Only if you're being exceedingly pedantic and probably not even
>>then. Webster 1913 lists, among other meanings,
>>
>>Free
>>(...)
>>"Liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the control
>>of parents, guardian, or master."
>>
>>The point presumably being that having been "liberated", you are now
>>"free".
>
> (...)
>
>The English language has degenerated significantly in the last 30
>years.
> (...)
>
>Dictionaries used to be the arbiters of the language - any word or
>meaning of a word not found in the dictionary was considered a
>colloquial (slang) use. Since the 1980's, an entry in the dictionary
>has become little more than evidence of popularity as the major
>dictionaries (OED, Webster, Cambridge, etc.) will now consider any
>word they can find used in print.
Apparantly, you missed the part where I referred to the 1913 edition
of Webster. I have kept it in the quoted text above for your
convenience. I can assure you that 1913 is both more than 30 years ago
/and/ it is before 1980, in case that was in doubt.
Cheers
Bent D
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