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Topic: What's in your newspaper today?
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| American dictionaries encourage faster changes in the language, since they change according to popular usage at a faster rate, which would influence Americans to change even faster. |
This is precisely what's wrong. In fact, British dictionaries are encouraging ever more rapid changes in English and the Oxford boasts about the role it plays in this. Language once evolved slowly, which was a more sensible way to enrich it over time. Nowadays, trend is dictating which words go in the book and new entries are added every day.
You might think that's fine, so long as new words are allowed into the club. But what about existing ones, whose definitions are changed simply because society is misusing them? (Even American writers have seen the problem.) For example, to have said "I'm nauseous" not so long ago may have got you laughed at. After all, how often does one cause others to vomit?
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 I don't think I was the one who veered off-track as someone chose to criticize a word I made up. To make Clive and Evjen happier I will tell you the main news in North Dakota. BRACE YOURSELVES FOR YET ANOTHER BLIZZARD. 
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Audrey, I think you sent Detroit your first blizzard. I used my snowblower this morning on about 6 inches, and the last 4 hours have given us another 3 or 4 inches. My friend, Ronco (on this site at my invitation), said he just worked on 9 inches of snow - he lives around 10 miles from me.
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No such word 
Perhaps we should blame the algae
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You can have all Christmas
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