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| use of supposedly good or correct English |
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| person inclined to regulate English as he or she believes it should be, rather than describe what it is, has been, or will be |
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| person inclined to describe language as it is, has been, or will be, rather than to regulate language according to what he or she believes it should be |
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| any collection of texts from which linguistic information can be extracted |
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| contradiction expressed within a sentence or at least part of that sentence’s meaning, accomplished by the use of "not." |
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| art and craft of writing dictionaries |
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