The Harper's usage dictionary has the same problem.
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In its 200 years of use, conclude the editors of Merriam-Webster's usage dictionary, the likes of has been both positive and negative all along.
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The Oxford University Press sees the same trend : " Some speakers and writers have come to shun it, " to avoid misunderstandings, says its 1998 usage dictionary.
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This project had long been advocated by another pinyin proponent, Victor H . Mair in his The Need for an Alphabetically Arranged General Usage Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese ( 1986 ).
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This reasoning is firmly rejected by the editors of Merriam-Webster's usage dictionary, who note that both idioms are time-tested and cause no confusion in everyday life.
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Ted Bernstein, whose 1965 " Careful Writer " is still a useful usage dictionary, is not spinning in his grave : he knew that all usage diktats are snapshots in time.
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As recently as 1985, the M-W usage dictionary can point to an English teacher _ albeit in a German classroom _ who was insisting that students use I have finished, and marking I'm finished wrong.
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Other usage mavens argued that aftermath should denote only the true consequences of an event : " To use it to mean merely anything that follows is to use it loosely, " scolded Bergen Evans in his 1957 usage dictionary.
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In 1989, Merriam-Webster's usage dictionary came closer : " In recent years, we have seen the development of a new sense of salad days, ` an early flourishing period; heyday . "'
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""'Garner's Modern English Usage " "'( GMEU ), written by Bryan Garner and published by Oxford University Press, is a usage dictionary and style guide for contemporary Modern English.
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